Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Update 5

[Fixitman]

The first mission I tried after Update 5 was a simple legal fetch mission. I was friendly with the entire settlement, so no worries. I just found a terminal, locked on to chest I needed, and ran off to collect the item. As I reached maximum altitude with my jetpack, a guard decided to scan me. I stopped all forward movement, and tried to land directly in front of the guard. That only made it easier for the guard to turn hostile and open fire just before I landed.

I understand why jumping away shouldn't be a way to avoid scans. It would have made more sense to consider if the player is already in the air before starting the "halt, commander" sequence.

I force-closed the game with 7 missions active. I've got better things to do......

Edit:
I've got alot of money invested in Virpil gear, and a new high-end PC so I could really enjoy gaming again. Elite Dangerous is no longer enjoyable to me. I'll happily return if FDev ever develops a "Quality over Quantity" mindset. Until then, I'm out.

 

[raven9ine]

Deep breath... Sigh! I don't see a single bug fixed I reported, makes me wonder why to report at all. Yet a whole bunch of unimportant things have been changed. Not even performance updates seem to have been made.

But game crashes when launching it... DEEP BREATH... SIGH! SMH. Why , why?

 

[raven9ine]

Me too - I enjoy Odyssey and am willing to forgive some of the bugs and updates. But the last patch has seen my performance drop. time to go and play with my settings again.

Wait what? Again performance drop?

 

[raven9ine]

I'm sorry, but this game is so lost. So much stuff to fix but they instead mess stuff up even more that was just fine. Why , why?

 

[AtomicJuggler]

Wait what? Again performance drop?

Yep, for me too, and huge ones in some settlements.

Edit: Could this issue be related to the presence of larger(/invisible?) rocks in/around(/under?) the plagued settlements ? Anyway there are issues with the new v2 rocky terrains in odyssey (had an NPC shooting at me from inside a rock this afternoon )

Edit: added screenshot and video.

 

[GJ51]

Hmmm...

Thought I'd take look - nothing but a blank screen

Horizons runs fine

EDIT: Options/Validate files fixed it.

 

[raven9ine]

Lighting is worse by the way, now I got again those artefacts all over the screen. Looks really ugly now.

 

[jason 55]

Mission types are BGS based, so make sure you are in the right system.

Not quite sure you understood, Support missions i.e. reactivating bases wouldn't need to come under BGS, all systems would (should) have inactive bases in need of powering up regardless of system status. At least that has always been the case except after an update.

EDIT : Not sure if the smear campaign plans have even been solved yet but according to Fandom :

Classification : Data​

Settlement Type : Military, Tourist​

Building Type : CMD, HAB​

Container Type : Command Data Port Habitat Data Port​

Since the update support missions in every system I have visited are minimal ( 2 at most, usually zero) so working on certain types of settlements are very limited. and missions on certain types of settlements/ installations, such as military are virtually not available. Grinding on tourist sites has yet to reveal one Smear campaign plan and, although it is now halved, collecting 40 opinion polls was more than enough mindless grind for anyone.

 

[raven9ine]

Yep, for me too, and huge ones in some settlements.

Edit: Could this issue be related to the presence of larger(/invisible?) rocks in/around(/under?) the plagued settlements ? Anyway there are issues with the new v2 rocks in odyssey (had an NPC shooting at me from inside a rock this afternoon )

Yeah same here.

 

[raven9ine]

Also, those extreme shadows behind the HUD are extremely ugly. And the entire game looks live it has a sharpening filter on it, with halos around edges. I fiddle around with settings but it doesn't go away.

 

[raven9ine]

And you were seriously not capable to use the same font? Really?

EDIT: Just to make this clear as glass, because we all know haw can interpret things in the most wrong way possible: The old font, in the bottom left, is the right font, not the new one in the shield rings!

 

[Nyres]

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And you were seriously not capable to use the same font? Really?

EDIT: Just to make this clear as glass, because we all know haw can interpret things in the most wrong way possible: The old font, in the bottom left, is the right font, not the new one in the shield rings!

Eh I've been pretty critical of Odyssey while it would be nice if they updated it someday for something that was quickly thrown in there and with how much other stuff is wrong at the moment it feels like an incredibly minor thing.

That said i bumped my resolution back to 1440p, then turned the supersampling to .65, tweaked some settings and did notice a pretty good imporvement in performance without much loss visually. Would rather I not have to do that to make it playable but as a stop gap I guess it works. Feel bad for those it doesn't though.

 

[Encabulator]

Thank you Frontier, for keeping at it.

 

[Encabulator]

VR DSS anyone? As has been pointed out several times, exploring in VR is completely broken without DSS. Was it just missed off the fix list, or is it being completely ignored?

Apparently still waiting for Iridium Gleam too. What fun!

Edit: DSS is working in VR

 

[alexzk]

one more...
"who is there?!"

https://imgur.com/uSu6sHZ

Source: https://i.imgur.com/uSu6sHZ.jpg

 

[Dziadostwo]

Just curious. Did the FDEV rebalance the on-foot rank milestones in this patch?

According to this article:

Exobiologist

Exobiologist is a career that involves On Foot scientific activities. A Genetic Sampler of the Artemis Suit is used to collect samples of alien species. The data can be sold to Vista Genomics. Your ship should be equipped with a Detailed Surface Scanner to find exobiology. This career is...

elite-dangerous.fandom.com

At 150mil total profit, I should get the Geneticst rank. I currently have 167mil and I'm still 46% Ecologist despite having first Codex reports (13 entries total in 4 regions), 86 mil from first discoveries etc.

 

[Nyres]

Funny little thing I noticed ship's shield percent turns with the ship hologram, however the SRV's shield percentage doesn't rotate with the hologram.

 

[SergMx]

I'm sorry I can't keep up with the whole thread. Am I right to understand that after the update 5.2 on NVIDIA cards constantly black screens or everything starts to slow down and not barely distracted by the keyboard. Almost everything is fuzzy and to the point ...
At least for me so.

 

[Dragorion]

Have you validated files?

Yes. But I figured that it mostly happens when I use another PC in the network to view streams, i.e. it seems that the new version is more unstable when it comes to slow connection issues. At least it rarely happens when nothing else uses my network. But I usually stream music or let's players when playing..

 

[Jcarmona]

Greetings!

It would be very nice if you fixed the frequent crashes that happen when using the full spectrum system scanner. As an explorer, I spend a lot of time using it and it is frustrating to have the game crash frequently while using it. I have submitted crash reports and issue trackers.

CMDR Janet