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Qualityoflife

Qualityoflife
The panther clipper is missing?

Whose going to answer for that...its egregious!?

Hit that switch And turn it on! I don't understand how this keeps missing quality assurance.
 

Juniper

Juniper
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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Not read this threadnaut, only the OP and a few sycophantic replies... so I don't know if any of this has been said (probably has, but after 7 years I need to get this off my chest).

But...

Where is the apology for releasing it 6 months too early to meet an arbitrary financial year end, at full price, and not even having the courtesy to call it early access or beta? Do you have so little respect for your customers and "the Elite Dangerous community [that] has always been at the heart of the game"? People who have spent countless hours in your game, promoted it, evangelised it to their friends, bought ARX, skins, cosmetics, extra accounts, backed it on Kickstarter, etc etc?

And after almost three years of no updates - with much trumpeting and hype about your "new era" - you release this with a straight face? It beggars belief. Even after two patches, I still can't even launch the game from Steam - I have to manually go into the folder, play "hunt the .exe", and launch from there. It's amateurish. At best. However, I don't blame the developers for this one bit - they've been hung out to dry here.

Your Blessed Shareholders need to stop calling the shots. The game is more important than your Q2 bottom line. It's time you actually stepped up and actually showed that.

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Cmdr Aos_Si

Cmdr Aos_Si
There are loads of bugs and issues, I hope to see these fixed asap. However, despite all the shortcomings I am really enjoying Odyssey. It's a big learning curve, like learning a new game but that's part of the fun. I actually find many of the minor bugs quite funny. Hope to see on foot VR in future, even just with the normal controller no need for VR controllers
 

Mogen Teras

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Juniper said:
Not read this threadnaut, only the OP and a few sycophantic replies... so I don't know if any of this has been said (probably has, but after 7 years I need to get this off my chest).

But...

Where is the apology for releasing it 6 months too early to meet an arbitrary financial year end, at full price, and not even having the courtesy to call it early access or beta? Do you have so little respect for your customers and "the Elite Dangerous community [that] has always been at the heart of the game"? People who have spent countless hours in your game, promoted it, evangelised it to their friends, bought ARX, skins, cosmetics, extra accounts, backed it on Kickstarter, etc etc?

And after almost three years of no updates - with much trumpeting and hype about your "new era" - you release this with a straight face? It beggars belief. Even after two patches, I still can't even launch the game from Steam - I have to manually go into the folder, play "hunt the .exe", and launch from there. It's amateurish. At best.

Your Blessed Shareholders need to stop calling the shots. The game is more important than your Q2 bottom line. It's time you actually stepped up and actually showed that.

:mad:
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Hear Hear!

Not that Braben is ever gonna read this thread; his secretary did his posting and that's about all Braben intends to do.
 

Muzz UK

Muzz UK
Thanks for the message David. Very much needed to reassure the community from the very top you are doing something. The performance is disappointing but has improved from first alpha. I can still run the game in ultra in space on a 1080 gpu with 7th gen i7 and 16gb ram. The planet on foot performance and in stations is annoying. Sometimes stable at 50fps or more other times drops and spikes regardless of ultra or low settings. This is a big big addon to Elite but I am sure you guys at Frontier will fix it. That said i may avoid doing anything serious on Elite for a few weeks which when you have a squadron and minor faction is frustrating. I cannot say ive seen any other bugs in short time i have played.
 

Skizomeuh

Skizomeuh
[PS4]Cmdr ArrowRiver said:
3 Days & Fleet Carriers still can't jump?? It cost me 20mil to transfer my ax corvette 397lys! Turn FC jumping ON! 😑
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If this is just a money problem, I totally see FDEV compensate for the induced losses post fix.

UseLessUK said:
Well I was gutted to find on my first visit to Dav's Hope in Odyssey the mountain to the right of the settlement is now no longer there, so some places have been smoothed.
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Sad, but what would be utterly worrying is that everything is smoothed. If awesome landscapes still exist but somewhere else, I'm good.
 

eqinox

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Please make sure the game runs properly before releasing it for consoles. Sony pulling the game like they did for cp2077 would be another disaster.
 

amigacooke

amigacooke
Cocalarix said:
I do love David's recent increased interaction with the community. Reminds me of the early days of Elite. Thank you for the update o7
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David does tend to pop up when there's something to be sold, I hope that's not unduly cynical or false.

He didn't pop up to say bye bye and thanks to the macOS commanders when they were shut out of the game, even though some had contributed to the KickStarter (yes, I know, I should let it go).

However. it's always good to hear from DBOBE :) (it's a bit like a visit from the Queen).
 
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