Elite Dangerous: Odyssey | Update 12 Update Notes

[WeComeInPeace]

Drop all the negativity, and use that energy on creating false positive thoughts in your mind instead. Imagine if all the work that has been put into Odessey, including more than a year of "fixes and optimizations", had been used at improving the "flying spaceships in space" concept of the original game, instead of a half baked first person shooter, squeezed into the existing game.

If the development of ED back in the early days had been done in the pace the spaceship side of things progress now, the game wouldn't have been finished before the heat death of the Universe.

I'll happily accept that I was a sucker, who should never be given an even break, when I bought a non-finished product on the release day (never pre-order), and I'll happily buy another expansion, if it's about flying spaceships in space (in VR!), but I have no clue if that's gonna happen.

I still play the game occasionally and I still get blown away by the VR experince, but the best game in the galaxy is at a standstill, and "fixing engineering next year" simply won't cut it.

 

[Alec Turner]

Features of Note

• When a player's bounty is claimed whilst they're on foot, their active ship will be impounded at the detention centre they're sent to.

I have questions (prompted by last night's Lave Radio discussion)

1) If I actually wanted to take a taxi back to where I was prior to being sent to prison (e.g. because, after failing a mission and being sent to prison I'm now annoyed and want to go and make a cup of tea and cool off) - will I now have to use ship transfer to get my ship back from the detention center to where it was previously?

2) If I want to transfer a ship with longer range to the prison (because the ship I was in when I got caught was a short range fighter), once I've flown myself back to where I was, will I also then have to transfer the fighter from the prison back to where it was again (I suppose this is the same question really).

I appreciate you probably thought you were doing us a favour with this change but I just wonder if you've thought through all the implications.

 

[Factabulous]

1) If I actually wanted to take a taxi back to where I was prior to being sent to prison (e.g. because, after failing a mission and being sent to prison I'm now annoyed and want to go and make a cup of tea and cool off) - will I now have to use ship transfer to get my ship back from the detention center to where it was previously?

Yes. This is obvious from the patch notes.

2) If I want to transfer a ship with longer range to the prison (because the ship I was in when I got caught was a short range fighter), once I've flown myself back to where I was, will I also then have to transfer the fighter from the prison back to where it was again (I suppose this is the same question really).

Yes. This is obvious from the patch notes.

I appreciate you probably thought you were doing us a favour with this change but I just wonder if you've thought through all the implications.

Yes. Either way works, so they switched which one is in the game. You already worked out how to play in the new system, so it's all good.

(I too wish they hadn't changed it, but hey - we can adapt to change - right?)

 

[Darkman Returns]

Still hoping this get's fixed sooner or later : Autodock is a disaster with a cutter - almost everytime my ships gets destroyed during exit station. A very annoying bug which unattended kills ship and cargo everytime.

Why not fly it yourself? It's faster, safer and you free up that slot. It's also more fun that sitting there watching the autopilot mess it up.

 

[GanYmeD]

Why not fly it yourself? It's faster, safer and you free up that slot. It's also more fun that sitting there watching the autopilot mess it up.

This has not been the question. Errors should be fixed. Why not doing workarounds all the day and wait for patches?

 

[EdzUp]

Cant wait

 

[amigacooke]

Why not fly it yourself? It's faster, safer and you free up that slot. It's also more fun that sitting there watching the autopilot mess it up.

That may well be true, but why should the Cutter be without a module that works in other ships?

'Spare me the cutter' might be the cry

 

[Alec Turner]

Yes. This is obvious from the patch notes.
Yes. This is obvious from the patch notes.

Indeed ... sometimes it's necessary to point out the obvious in order to point out the flaws.

Yes. Either way works, so they switched which one is in the game. You already worked out how to play in the new system, so it's all good.
(I too wish they hadn't changed it, but hey - we can adapt to change - right?)

I guess for some people (who hated having to get a taxi) the game is now easier (although arguably that's bad since prison is supposed to be a penalty), and for others (who wanted their ship left where it was) the game is now harder (which is arguably good since prison is supposed to be a penalty!).

 

[Factabulous]

Indeed ... sometimes it's necessary to point out the obvious in order to point out the flaws.

I pointed it out when this was first mentioned by the CMs - bit late now

But - no biggie - I don't usually get caught

 

[777Driver]

1. If you were never going to let us walk around our cockpit why would you care about it (is this a sign? Cockpit interiors confirmed?)
2.

You can walk around the Cockpit/bridge in VR

 

[yianniv]

Why not fly it yourself? It's faster, safer and you free up that slot. It's also more fun that sitting there watching the autopilot mess it up.

It's not the auto dock. The lateral thrusters in the cutter are weaker since 2-3 patches ago. Manual landing is also tedious.

 

[Darkman Returns]

This has not been the question. Errors should be fixed. Why not doing workarounds all the day and wait for patches?

I didn't write anything about fixing errors, I just asked why not fly it yourself.

You see flying your own ships as a "workaround". I see flying my own ships as the reason I own them.

 

[Oborax]

It's not the auto dock. The lateral thrusters in the cutter are weaker since 2-3 patches ago. Manual landing is also tedious.

Agreed
Sometimes I use a couple of alt-accounts (running on a laptop and older hardware with lowest settings) as my crew members to get the extra pips to engines for the autodock...
which sort of works for most situations...

 

[LaPalma75]

I have already done at least 12 ground combat missions and the Engineer Hero Ferrari is still not unlocked. Has this bug also been fixed?

 

[thistle]

I didn't say it was not what I was expecting.

You did give the impression you were expecting something more than this in the patch notes. Wanting something more in general is fine, I would agree.

 

[Factabulous]

I have already done at least 12 ground combat missions and the Engineer Hero Ferrari is still not unlocked. Has this bug also been fixed?

A year is a long time for them to make the text change to say 'low CZ' isn't it? Not listed so I guess it (and the other ambiguous / misleading unlock text) has not been fixed. And as for SDP drop rates ....

 

[lyzanxia]

It's not the auto dock. The lateral thrusters in the cutter are weaker since 2-3 patches ago. Manual landing is also tedious.

You are right, forgot to say that it worked perfectly few patches ago.

 

[VR Mr Teatime]

Thanks for the update FDev and nice to see some VR fixes making it in

 

[WINGBACON]

Thanks for fixing so many bugs that I wasn't even aware of.

Wait til you play and check how it runs..

 

[Phoenix_Dfire]

[Puts on velcro pants]

[INTENSE FALSETTO SCREAMS]

I can guess I put on the UK ones- when I take them off it saves on waxing costs I suppose [glass half full and that]

That will bring tears to your eyes!