Odyssey Progress

Sinhuit

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Had some issues yesterday but the hotfix seemed to fix it. Gonna get loads of hotfixes an hour is nothing I remember having multiply fixes of 8 hours + for Everquest (In the early days).
 

Ozric

Volunteer Moderator
Ozric
Thank you very much for coming on to the forums to give us an update, and thank you for the honest appraisal.

The hotfixes are greatly appreciated, I know there is still a lot of work to be done to make the game truly stable, but given how hard the team have been working in the weeks leading up to release I hope that they do not overwork themselves in the coming weeks.
 

eagle420

eagle420
(Will Odyssey have the same graphic impact as the current engine in terms of performance or will you need to upgrade your video card?
Odyssey will be optimised to run on your current setting for Elite Dangerous.)

I was under the same impression that the game would be optimized to ED Horizons specs ALSO !!! My GPU is maxing out at 100% i get any where from 25-75 fps depend on what im doing at the time ... i5-10400F /GTX1660 Super
 
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Artean

Artean
Thanks for the update. Odyssey is a massive leap for Elite and only imagination puts limitation on where you can go from here. I look forward to follow this new chapter in the history of ED!
 

Thatchinho

Thatchinho
Thanks for the info. Best of luck to you and the team with resolving the current issues. Hope you can get the problems sorted out quickly.

If I might make a general suggestion, if feasible it would be worth considering a different release approach for critical releases.

A couple of options to consider:

  • A quick one day / half day closed Beta as close to release as possible to get player assessments of the state and suitability for release.

  • Have a longer period of downtime for the release, do the server update, and then do a brief closed release of the update to a pilot group of players to assess the status before commencing to the full release to the entire playerbase. (You'd need a good spread of players to cover various RL locations, system specs, and locations and activities in the game. Ideally you'd have them feeding back live to the FD team reporting how it goes.)
There's cons to both of these obviously, and I won't suggest they'd be a panacea for all ills. I also obviously don't even know if they would work in practicality for how things operate at FD, and am just setting them out in general principle for consideration.

On the performance not directly correlating to system spec, this has always been the case in general as far as I can recall. What I can say for me personally, always playing on the same machine is that performance has never been a constant and has directly related to things at, for want of a better term, the server side. For example performance has always dropped when there's been a Beta going on, and I've been playing the main game. (Having rubbish onboard graphics sometimes makes certain things stand out more.)

I'm sure it'd be possible to find players who'd be more than willing to participate in some co-ordinated, focussed testing to try and get to the bottom of things like that.

o7
 

Cetegus Morr

Cetegus Morr
Thank you, David!
David Braben said:
Greetings Commanders,


With our first hotfix now released and another one arriving very shortly, I wanted to take a moment to address the wider community feedback and reports regarding performance issues, server outages, and bug reports within Elite Dangerous Odyssey.  
 
First and foremost, I would like to apologise wholeheartedly to those who have been suffering from these problems. I would like to reassure you that we take these issues very seriously and that they are our top priority and focus.  
 
Our second hotfix will be released very soon, which we hope will address more of the reported bugs and bring further stability improvements into the game.  We will continue to work on updates which will resolve more bugs and improve stability further.
 
Some of our players are reporting poor performance on machines where we would expect the performance to be good, and others are saying it is fine. We are trying to get to the bottom of this. I have been playing on my old home machine from 2014, which has an Intel i7 Extreme CPU and a GTX 980 GPU, 16 Gb RAM, playing at 1080p full screen at Ultra. I was doing this so I could have a good feel for how the game was playing on older hardware, and I used this same machine during Alpha. I have also been playing on a high spec 2021 dev machine.

I would like to thank you all for your patience and support. The Elite Dangerous community has always been at the heart of the game. We understand that there are a number of players who have had problems accessing and playing the game and I can assure you that we are focusing fully on improving this for those affected and communicating with you openly and regularly about how these issues are being addressed.  
 
Thank you all, 



David
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aliensporebomb

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One thing I found: just try to play the game. My FPS readings say I should be experiencing abysmal gameplay but that's not what I'm experiencing. Yes, older gear: i7-4790 at 4.4 ghz with 32 gigs of ram with Radeon R9 M290X with 2 gigs of VRAM. Obviously updating the GPU would make a difference but actually playing the game has been a revelation. It's better than the FPS would have you believe. Could the framerate algorithm be displaying incorrect information?
 

Comandante

Comandante
Thanks for communicating directly with us David - this game is brilliant, keep up the good work with the rest of Frontier.

And, if I may be so cheeky as to say...

---- RIGHT ON, COMMANDER! ----

o7
 

Goose_Few

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Thank you on your feed back, mostly appreciated.

Guess I must feel very lucky, the game is running acceptable, to my standard, in my ancient PC, AMD Phemon ii X6 T1100, ATi Radeon HD 6990, 16Gb Ram DDR3, at 1080p 27" monitor. Costume settings
 
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Vandal71

Vandal71
While the communication is nice, I notice nothing was mentioned of planetary tech that looks nothing like what was presented in the trailers. THAT is my biggest regret from buying this DLC.
 

Jack Wilmslow

Jack Wilmslow
This is huge, Thanks so much David. Very reassuring!

The fact that David's home setup pretty much has the same setup as myself is kinda cool. Almost exactly the same settings as myself in game as well.
 
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