HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHAHA... you serious?
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous | Odyssey: Roadmap
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"Many improvements and fixes"
Yay!
Yay!
“We are gonna fix “stuff” and “things” the next 3 weeks then gotta buckle down on console b/c they have a higher release standard” is the summary of the roadmap.
This was their chance at being specific... and FDev should also be trying to hype up stuff to offset the crap we’ve been given.
Its a simple marketing strategy for customer retention.
...That's it? Just three things with a couple of vague bullet points for each? I see that section about communication, how you want to communicate better. Well, this is not the way you do it by being vague and typing up a few vague paragraphs to go around it about support or whatever. Why don't you tell us what you're focusing on fixing, how well you believe the problem will be improved, or exactly what changes you're making. Something more than a couple of paragraphs with vague statements. There's a whole lot of words that say a whole lot of nothing.
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I'm surprised that you would say that, Ant. You're usually measured and considered but that seems needlessly negative to me. I'm sure you get the majority vote (and you're welcome to it) but I think you've gone overboard, here and on youtube.
My take: Odyssey has some serious problems, although luckily for me, I've found it very playable. FD have unintentionally messed up but have owned up and taken it on the chin, and it seems to me are busting a gut, to make things right. I've never been slow in criticising FD when I think they deserve it, but it seems to me now is the time to recognise their dedication to fixing the problems, and encourage them - it's not the time to put the boot in, like a negativitiy cheerleader.
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More precisely, it's a feature that is broken in the game. It's not some nebulous emotional response by your players.
Secondly, 'many improvements and features' is not a roadmap - it barely functions as a platitude.
Sincerely, I wish you all the very best of luck with your Odyssey (both the players and the developers alike) but it now looks like it really is going to be a long journey to Ithaca, far across the wine-dark sea...
Yeap thats your bloomin lot for this week
I would love to see the blow-back from that
Console release date is supposed to be somewhere in Autumn right ? update 5 is 24 June so I would guess "after update 5" is starting in July, Autumn start in September; so supposedly there is at least 2 full months to work on the optimizations.
So what are you saying exactly ? As you work on the console version, you will also optimize the PC version and release patches during that time ?
Based on your track record and the state of Odyssey, I'm just going to guess and say console version is going to be released within 2 to 7 months, between September 2021 and April 2022; so basically we PC players are forced to wait for the optimizations without actually knowing when it's going to be done.
See, this is pure PR talk, if you actually take the time to read what they say, you need to think and find the pieces, then think again and again, and even after you did that; it's still extremely vague and you realize they actually didn't say much, it's just empty and vague.
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@FrontierDev Can we at least have the ability to turn fire and steam off while you figure the optimizations out. Fire and Steam are killing my FPS hard...
They're currently harvesting opinions on those. There's a thread on map feedback, and they'll implement the suggestions that make sense in patch 5. There's currently a thread for outfitting, I assume those suggestions will be addressed in a future patch.
Think at this point we're looking at weekly patches for the next two months, and then that'll be that while they work on the console side (which HOPEFULLY will have additional improvements, and then this @#$$# beta period will be over)
Agreed! Instead we should be licking their boots for a half-job well done! That'll show em!
That's how I read it. It definitely convinces me to hold off buying Odyssey. If I were still playing on console, I would have to wait anyway.
I'll be watching your X4 tutorial videos in the meantime
No because it’s still in beta.
Not so much a map as 'turn at the fork after Riley's store and you can't miss it'.
What about the removed gameplay for exploration? Do you really expect to get away by removing the spinning wheel and providing nothing instead?
A much nicer way of saying FD need a paddle/ outboard motor as they speed down excrement creek.
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