ANNOUNCEMENT Anniversary Stream Announcement

[CMDR Slee Piboi]

Q. Who are the community managers responsible for the console platforms?

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

You can watch via your cellphone. Or keep your PC and the stream on at home to collect the drops.

I'm not watching for the drops and I'm not allowed to have my mobile out at the office.

 

[Wullail]

Aren't the purple paintjobs, lasers, engines, SRV the same as before..?

The previous rewards were a only test of the twitch drop system, so yes..they are the same.

 

[Ydiss]

Q. How will locational damage be handled in first person combat?

 

[Zibadian]

When doing a multiple vehicle assault, is it possible for player crew members to drive a SRVs from the ship, they are not owning? Similar way to launching a SLV is now?

 

[Susanna]

Greetings Commanders!


This Thursday 17 December at 12:00 UTC, we're celebrating the end of the year and Elite Dangerous' 6th anniversary with a very special extended livestream. To make sure the team are ready, there won't be a Supercruise News episode today but here's what you can expect on Thursday:


Twitch Drops
The hugely popular Twitch Drops are making a return for the stream! Here are the prizes which will be available:

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Watch the stream for 30 minutes to get the Festive Sidewinder and Purple Paint Job.

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Watch the stream for 60 minutes to get the Festive Cobra MK III, Alliance Chieftain, and the Purple SRV and Fighter Paint Jobs.

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Watch the stream for 90 minutes to get the Festive Asp Explorer and Festive Krait MK II Paint Jobs, and the Purple Engine and Weapon Colours.

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To Receive Your Drops:

1. Link your Twitch account to your Frontier account here: https://twitch.frontierstore.net/.
   1. Make sure you link the account you wish the Twitch Drops to apply to (console OR PC account).
2. Watch the stream on Twitch for 30, 60 or 90 minutes for each tier.
3. Once you receive a drop:
   1. Click on your Twitch profile
   2. Scroll down to the 'Drops' option
   3. Claim the drop
4. The rewards will now be available the next time you play Elite Dangerous using the account you linked.

Elite Dangerous Odyssey: Combat
We'll also be joined by special guest Garath Hughes from the development team, who will discuss combat in Elite Dangerous: Odyssey. If you have any questions regarding combat in Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, please leave them below for a chance to have them answered on stream.

Please keep your questions as short and concise as possible. We will not be bringing suggestions to the Q&A. Only questions about combat in Elite Dangerous: Odyssey will be used.

...and more!
That's only SOME of what's to come during the stream, so make sure to join us for our final look back at the year!


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Is it possible to link but a main ED account to Twitch Drops and an alt account? If so, how?

 

[Winterwalker]

 

[ShawsideCustoms]

My purple stuff from the test drops last time still aren’t working. Do I need to create a ticket?

 

[ALEX CAOS]

i still got my drops from last time one the never reedemed commander, as it shows redemmed for the commander which should get it i shurely will be unable to get it to the right commander this time

 

[NSR2]

Can we have a hand grenade type of "football", which is a huge round grenade, with an infinite timer on it?
Can there also be a melee "kick" animation?
We can sort out the rest (pitch / spaceships for goalposts etc).


NB: This is only half in jest, played srv football with a guardian orb and it was a lot of fun!

 

[oscarolim]

Is it possible to link but a main ED account to Twitch Drops and an alt account? If so, how?

That's a simple one. Create one twitch account for each Alt account, linked them together, and have multiple windows open for each twitch account on the Fdev stream.

 

[oscarolim]

Q: What's to stop a CMDR from carpet bombing a installation with mines / missiles and kill all on foot CMDRs?

 

[londonx]

Q: Are the once announced new Ice Planets part of Odysee and will they require ownership of DLC?

We already know the new planet tech covers all planets in the game. It is therefore likely that thin atmospheres are feature-locked behind Odyssey not ice planets which is why that type of planet has been in all of the screen shots and trailers so far.

 

[Exania]

Q. will I be able to mine bomb cmdr on the ground or will that be usesless?
here is an example if u not sure what I mean.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9DCNh1AzYE

 

[Pigletslastand]

I have a very important question regarding COMBAT @Stephen Benedetti .. On console we can only currently use one control scheme at a time. As a HOTAS user how have the development team made sure we can play FPS elements?

Please tell me you have finally implemented multi-controller use or Odyssey will be ruined for console HOTAS players.

 

[Grasher21]

Can we have a hand grenade type of "football", which is a huge round grenade, with an infinite timer on it?
Can there also be a melee "kick" animation?
We can sort out the rest (pitch / spaceships for goalposts etc).


NB: This is only half in jest, played srv football with a guardian orb and it was a lot of fun!

PC > Console

 

[Cosmo]

Q: Within Odyssey, thinking of the open air combat zones, what's to stop me from using an Orca, equipped with mines, to carpet bomb a settlement?

Q: What's to stop me from using a DBX, equipped with Pacifier cannons, as an A-10 to blast away ground targets? and close air support?

Q: What's going to be able to stop and SLF with Shard cannons?

Q: What on the ground will be able to kill a ship like a Fully Engineered Cutter?

It should be an open sandbox. So no such limitations on what players can do.

 

[thistle]

I'm not watching for the drops and I'm not allowed to have my mobile out at the office.

Same as me, not bothered about drops, I'll just catch the vod later. After checking the forums for a little chuckle at the inevitable.

 

[nickweb]

Genuine question - have you tested this to make sure it'll work for console users this time? I still haven't received the drops from the last one, and attempting to link Twitch and Frontier accounts still results in an endless loop of going round and round in circles. Whatever the problem was last time, it looks like it's still there.

THIS^^
It's been a source of intense frustration to myself and many others that there was been radio silence regarding this issue, can I ask that we have some recognition of this problem please. o7

 

[dat_innocent_guy]

Combat related questions:
Q: Will Engineering be avaliable for on foot components. Guns etc.?

Q: How will the weapons be split up Category wise. Eg. Class 1-4 Grade E-A

Q: How much weapon variety will we see. SMG's LMG's Assault Rifles. Kinetic, Thermal.

Q: What might a typical Combat mission look like?

Q: What are the consequences for running out of O2/Energy?

Q: How does the energy work? does it recharge?

Non Combat related:
Q: Will the new things avaliable in odyssey still use credits as currency?
-Side Q - With end game assets (Carrier, Billions of credits and lots of engi mats) How fast could i unlock everything

Q: Will there be re-entry effects?

Q: Will every station have an interior location? What about carriers and Outposts?