Upgrading from Horizons to Odyssey

[Rockflint]

Accessing the game with a steam account with Horizons installed and running. I have purchased the Odyssey expansion and have been waiting for the worst of the bugs to get dealt with before trying to switch. I click on Upgrade to Odyssey in the lancher, it begins to run but stalls at "Synching Files". I left the upgrade running all weekend but it never moved past the 20%.

PC is i5 2500k CPU @ 3.3Ghz with 16Gb of Ram
Nvidea GForce GTX960
ST1000DM003-1ER162 ATA Hard Drive

Any suggestions.. can't get Frontier to respond to tickets..

 

[tolm]

Upgrade?

 

[Anticon]

Yep, probably. I think your rig is nearly at the bottom limit of EDO playability - it's much more demanding than EDH. That doesn't help much, sorry.

 

[Para Handy]

Yep, probably. I think your rig is nearly at the bottom limit of EDO playability - it's much more demanding than EDH. That doesn't help much, sorry.

I don't think that is quite correct - I have a secondary PC with my old GTX970 in it and that runs Oddy - OK it can't do Ultra (well, it can but very low fps) but dialling back it can manage a playable game. (I wouldn't recommend it though, it doesn't feel great).

@Rockflint - have you tried the Steam support people? The update is being delivered by them in your case so they might be able to help. As for frontier support, I find them to be terrifically helpful, you just have to get your "support request" submitted. I use the following bookmarked page for mine, just changing the drop-down "issue" if required:

Submit a request – Frontier Support

customersupport.frontier.co.uk

 

[Rockflint]

I don't think that is quite correct - I have a secondary PC with my old GTX970 in it and that runs Oddy - OK it can't do Ultra (well, it can but very low fps) but dialling back it can manage a playable game. (I wouldn't recommend it though, it doesn't feel great).

@Rockflint - have you tried the Steam support people? The update is being delivered by them in your case so they might be able to help. As for frontier support, I find them to be terrifically helpful, you just have to get your "support request" submitted. I use the following bookmarked page for mine, just changing the drop-down "issue" if required:

Submit a request – Frontier Support

customersupport.frontier.co.uk

I built this PC ages ago so the motherboard-cpu-memory are about at the end of life for high end games. Frankly, I am not really into twitch shooters, so the PC still works for me.. It runs Horizons and other major titles just fine.. I can't justify upgrading for a broken game. Is the game playable at this point?

 

[Rochester]

Wait it out. The game is broken. Following patches might resolve issues, it’s possible the game may be optimised even further, especially as they approach console release. But I seriously doubt it, much of issues are software based and look to be down to overcooking and over reliance on high end tech to manage the poor infrastructure and the twitch based gameplay. Which frankly is rather poor and out of date in its self.

Right now I would not recommend it at the price it’s marketed at, there really isn’t any content within the game right now apart from FPS and some nice visuals. FD always promise extra content, but experience tells that will just be an extra ship and Thargoids with legs and maybe some Guardian weapons + grind.

I would stick with Horizons and just wait it out until the end of the year.

 

[MickyG1982]

I built this PC ages ago so the motherboard-cpu-memory are about at the end of life for high end games. Frankly, I am not really into twitch shooters, so the PC still works for me.. It runs Horizons and other major titles just fine.. I can't justify upgrading for a broken game. Is the game playable at this point?

Careful mucking about with settings makes it just about playable on my lappy (roughly the same power as your rig).

If course, that depends on what you consider playable.

 

[Para Handy]

... Is the game playable at this point?

Yes I think so, as long as you can accept either lower quality settings or places where frame rates can get a bit juddery (in actuality be prepared for both). I wouldn't like to play Oddity on my GTX970 machine but that is because I have a better one available.

Saying all that, I still play in Horizons most of the time. I don't do FPS games so am not interested in the on-foot combat that quite frankly seems to be the main focus of EDO and there is not much point in wandering the station concourses if one is not going to take on-foot combat missions. (The non-combat missions are either missing, broken or actually involve getting shot up anyway.)

The increased DSS payout in EDO is not exactly an incentive to play in that game since one has lodsamoney and Elite explorer anyway - the biology path could be interesting but again, the lower graphics setting you will need for non-slideshow planet surfaces might be a bummer.

Since you have already paid for it, give it a go and see how you get on - at the very least you will have a baseline to judge if improvements in the future actually are.

 

[GroG79]

With a i5 2500k CPU you will be heavily cpu bottlenecked. This is way below minimum spec. Flying about will be Ok but walking among NPCs will bring down your system to likely single digit FPS.

 

[The Lawful]

Accessing the game with a steam account with Horizons installed and running. I have purchased the Odyssey expansion and have been waiting for the worst of the bugs to get dealt with before trying to switch. I click on Upgrade to Odyssey in the lancher, it begins to run but stalls at "Synching Files". I left the upgrade running all weekend but it never moved past the 20%.

PC is i5 2500k CPU @ 3.3Ghz with 16Gb of Ram
Nvidea GForce GTX960
ST1000DM003-1ER162 ATA Hard Drive

Any suggestions.. can't get Frontier to respond to tickets..

As for the launcher problem, try its 'validate files' option (inside options menu) first. That should resync any broken files with their server version. If it still not works, try the 'disable virtual cache' option. ED keeps an inventory of all assets inside a huge xml file (VirtualStore.xml or something in this direction, but that can get out of sync sometimes). As a last resort, clear Windows' temporary internet files. The launcher uses wininet.dll for downloading and that's where it stores its temporary artifacts. There also should be an FAQ item in their support section. This is the short version from the Alpha, but there also should be a more comprehensive one.

https://customersupport.frontier.co.uk/hc/en-us/articles/360020793039-The-launcher-is-stuck-on-Preparing-for-update-when-I-try-to-install-the-Odyssey-Alpha-

HTH, O7,

 

[Aya Reiko]

Wait it out. The game is broken. Following patches might resolve issues, it’s possible the game may be optimised even further, especially as they approach console release. But I seriously doubt it, much of issues are software based and look to be down to overcooking and over reliance on high end tech to manage the poor infrastructure and the twitch based gameplay. Which frankly is rather poor and out of date in its self.

Right now I would not recommend it at the price it’s marketed at, there really isn’t any content within the game right now apart from FPS and some nice visuals. FD always promise extra content, but experience tells that will just be an extra ship and Thargoids with legs and maybe some Guardian weapons + grind.

I would stick with Horizons and just wait it out until the end of the year.

I'll second this. Even with the bugs, balance, and QoL issues aside, it's not worth the price.

Throw in invisible/missing objects (bacteria colonies are especially prone to this, but are not exclusively so), uninspired FPS gameplay (CoD this is not, not by a mile), SRVs not able to detect xeno-lifeforms (just how did you overlook this, FDev?), and the rediculous grind to do anything with the new engineers (did you not learn anything from the past few years, FDev?), and this becomes a hard pass in its current state.