Development Update 1 - June
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Caves confirmed!
At this rate we will have hollow planets!
Really want ship interiors. Roadmap for that feature to be implemented?Greetings Commanders,
We would like to share with you our first monthly development update since the launch of Elite Dangerous Odyssey. The purpose of these monthly news articles is to give a regular, moment in time, updates on how development within Elite Dangerous is progressing. The aim is to a provide a factual look at community requested features, issues, and a look forward at what the team are working on next.
Please note: the nature of these updates will be ‘warts-and-all’; you will likely see work in progress screenshots and content taken from WIP builds. That means that all information and assets shared are subject to change.
We will be looking to share more information on development challenges as well as talking about progress that has been made in other areas. Making games requires a large number of people working closely and in sync. There will always be a need to prioritise and focus development efforts on specific features and content for the biggest benefit of our wider community. Despite an incredible team, we simply wouldn’t ever have enough time to add all the awesome things that are requested by the community. As such, we hope that by being open about these requests, we can avoid giving the wrong expectations and everyone can be informed and up to date with where development is at that time.
So let’s get started…
June Update
Since this launch we have had to adjust our focus and the development team have been working incredibly hard to review and address as many reports and issues as possible. We have done this through a number of early hotfixes and a subsequent series of five game updates, including the one that will be deployed tomorrow.
Throughout these five updates we have made over a thousand changes, fixes, and additions to Odyssey based on your feedback, including in key areas such as:
So, what is next for Odyssey?
- Lighting, brightness and gamma
- Character and Outfitting UI
- Galaxy Map navigation and found organic data tracking
- Performance – We know there is more to do here, but we are pleased to see some players reporting notable improvements for particular configurations
As previously stated, Update Five will be deployed tomorrow and will deliver on more key areas of focus and feedback that we have received. These include:
- Shared missions – allowing you to work together with other Commanders on the ground and share mission rewards
- Overhauled cockpit lighting
Issue Tracker
- Visual improvements for neutron stars
- Redesign of ship outfitting interface
- Rebalanced drop rates for rare items
Another area we like to keep an eye on is our Issue Tracker. This allows us to see and measure the key issues within the community, as voted for by you. We know that many of you are keen to have an update on the top issues. So we’ve listed out the top five items below and given some direct thoughts and feedback on each one of them.
Current Top Five:
Future Progress: The Longer Roadmap
- Improvements to lighting (https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/33174)
- Many of the lighting issues have been improved across previous updates, the last major set relate to the update of ship cockpits which will be in Update 5. We will continue to monitor your feedback.
- Degraded terrain textures compared to Horizons (https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/32854)
- Pathways have been identified to improve this and a team is actively working on this area.
- Planetary features that appear to repeat (https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/34834)
- We understand this is an important topic within the community. As mentioned at the start of the article, we want to share the challenges as well as the positives. Investigations are still ongoing, however, it must be said that this is proving to be a very significant technical challenge. At the current time we do not have a workable solution. BUT, investigations will continue and we will keep you updated.
- Anarchy factions and the BGS (https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/35479)
- After extensive investigation we found that missions against anarchy factions were too impactful and this has been addressed. We are making further tweaks with Update 5 and will continue to monitor this issue closely to see if further action is required.
- FPS performance in Odyssey
- Pathways have also been identified with performance and the team are actively working on this area.
As mentioned in our previous post, our aim was to focus on the initial set of updates and then turn our attention back onto console. There’s no doubt that the additional development work on these updates and community requests pose a challenge on our previous plans and timelines. We are actively investigating, reviewing, and remeasuring the further roadmap but these things will take a little time. We understand that this may not be as much information as people may have wished for, but we hope that the open and transparent nature of this update means that you’ll bear with us while we pull those together. What we can say, is that through these monthly updates, we will be able to share and keep you informed every step of the way.
Livestream
As you may have seen from the weekly schedule, I will be jumping into Elite Dangerous tomorrow and playing through the most recent update with Bruce. Please come along and join us where we can discuss today’s update.
o7
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Yeah I mean I always boot into EDO (though loading up Horizons a couple of times, in order to outfit my ships, did sting a little because everything felt so smooth and clean) - I paid for it so may as well try to enjoy it - as you say, warts & all, but when I ask myself "would I miss EDO the expansion" the answer would be a "no, not really" because of the little meat on the bone ... I like walking around new planet tech planets, but the actual gameplay is minimal (plants) I could do the same in the SRV later when Horizons gets the up/downgrade treatment.
Likewise for settlements; they're ok but as someone said before, they feel like they're made for NPCs, not for the player, so it does have a sense of pointlessness to visiting them because the only in-game reason is to upgrade your EDO gear. Concourse, nope. And I know the scale of ships now (that was a major draw for me for legs, but the novelty has worn off by having to run between ship and concourse constantly).
But yes, the OP has not filled me with confidence, just... resignation really - we'll be stuck with the performance issues, we'll be stuck with the wonky planet tech, no idea if the renderer issues get addressed at all beyond cockpits (doubt it now having seen Arf's post). Looking pretty bleak with a long content/update drought ahead of us by the looks of it.
And just to add, I'm still very salty about the main trunk line. I feel I've been had, proper. Not happy about this but there's obvs nothing I can do about now but to remember this for the future.
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Lame.Greetings Commanders,
We would like to share with you our first monthly development update since the launch of Elite Dangerous Odyssey. The purpose of these monthly news articles is to give a regular, moment in time, updates on how development within Elite Dangerous is progressing. The aim is to a provide a factual look at community requested features, issues, and a look forward at what the team are working on next.
Please note: the nature of these updates will be ‘warts-and-all’; you will likely see work in progress screenshots and content taken from WIP builds. That means that all information and assets shared are subject to change.
We will be looking to share more information on development challenges as well as talking about progress that has been made in other areas. Making games requires a large number of people working closely and in sync. There will always be a need to prioritise and focus development efforts on specific features and content for the biggest benefit of our wider community. Despite an incredible team, we simply wouldn’t ever have enough time to add all the awesome things that are requested by the community. As such, we hope that by being open about these requests, we can avoid giving the wrong expectations and everyone can be informed and up to date with where development is at that time.
So let’s get started…
June Update
Since this launch we have had to adjust our focus and the development team have been working incredibly hard to review and address as many reports and issues as possible. We have done this through a number of early hotfixes and a subsequent series of five game updates, including the one that will be deployed tomorrow.
Throughout these five updates we have made over a thousand changes, fixes, and additions to Odyssey based on your feedback, including in key areas such as:
So, what is next for Odyssey?
- Lighting, brightness and gamma
- Character and Outfitting UI
- Galaxy Map navigation and found organic data tracking
- Performance – We know there is more to do here, but we are pleased to see some players reporting notable improvements for particular configurations
As previously stated, Update Five will be deployed tomorrow and will deliver on more key areas of focus and feedback that we have received. These include:
- Shared missions – allowing you to work together with other Commanders on the ground and share mission rewards
- Overhauled cockpit lighting
Issue Tracker
- Visual improvements for neutron stars
- Redesign of ship outfitting interface
- Rebalanced drop rates for rare items
Another area we like to keep an eye on is our Issue Tracker. This allows us to see and measure the key issues within the community, as voted for by you. We know that many of you are keen to have an update on the top issues. So we’ve listed out the top five items below and given some direct thoughts and feedback on each one of them.
Current Top Five:
Future Progress: The Longer Roadmap
- Improvements to lighting (https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/33174)
- Many of the lighting issues have been improved across previous updates, the last major set relate to the update of ship cockpits which will be in Update 5. We will continue to monitor your feedback.
- Degraded terrain textures compared to Horizons (https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/32854)
- Pathways have been identified to improve this and a team is actively working on this area.
- Planetary features that appear to repeat (https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/34834)
- We understand this is an important topic within the community. As mentioned at the start of the article, we want to share the challenges as well as the positives. Investigations are still ongoing, however, it must be said that this is proving to be a very significant technical challenge. At the current time we do not have a workable solution. BUT, investigations will continue and we will keep you updated.
- Anarchy factions and the BGS (https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/35479)
- After extensive investigation we found that missions against anarchy factions were too impactful and this has been addressed. We are making further tweaks with Update 5 and will continue to monitor this issue closely to see if further action is required.
- FPS performance in Odyssey
- Pathways have also been identified with performance and the team are actively working on this area.
As mentioned in our previous post, our aim was to focus on the initial set of updates and then turn our attention back onto console. There’s no doubt that the additional development work on these updates and community requests pose a challenge on our previous plans and timelines. We are actively investigating, reviewing, and remeasuring the further roadmap but these things will take a little time. We understand that this may not be as much information as people may have wished for, but we hope that the open and transparent nature of this update means that you’ll bear with us while we pull those together. What we can say, is that through these monthly updates, we will be able to share and keep you informed every step of the way.
Livestream
As you may have seen from the weekly schedule, I will be jumping into Elite Dangerous tomorrow and playing through the most recent update with Bruce. Please come along and join us where we can discuss today’s update.
o7
Basically this development "update" is a monthly review:
- We released five patches since launch to fix bugs we knew about in the alpha
- We have a five player issues, all of which are not issues in Horizon but were added to Odyssey
And now work begins on the Console version?
Get use to an Extremely Negative rating on Steam with this kind of progress.
Well that was short and to the point, but sadly not covering a lot of the real issues at present.
Looking forward to the patch notes - "It was dark. It is now a little bit lighter."
A joke to finish I think:
After reading that quite short post, I may have now discovered that the middle name of Arthur is a biblical one - Job.
Looking forward to the patch notes - "It was dark. It is now a little bit lighter."
A joke to finish I think:
After reading that quite short post, I may have now discovered that the middle name of Arthur is a biblical one - Job.
They spoke of that on the roadmap. The biggest improvement will come when they work on the console release.
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The FDev developer goes to finish the last edits and push the changes to production for release
I believe some fun can be had at settlements without the duress of engineering mats...
I'm moving my other account back to Colonia in a week or so, so if you are ever in the area and fancy doing some foot stuff 'just because', I'd be glad to team up and visit the odd settlement with my freshly engineered suits & guns
The CMs were having some fun last night when their mission didn't work so were just killing the citizens for sport - just not very efficient at it
With respect, I don't fully agree with this. While I appreciate the fact that he is taking instructions from the higher-ups, he isn't a mindless automaton and as the Lead CM, he can question and challenge as it's his credibility on the line as well as FDevs. Certainly if I was in his shoes I wouldn't just regurgitate what I was told to an unhappy baying mob and would most definitely push-back on using such language as "promise", "we will", etc Then of course we are back to the mumbled woolly language - if anything at all - which tells us nothing and guarantees us even less.
I appreciate it's a difficult set of circumstances at the moment, but it's one of their own making - and one they have to fix with appropriate communications.
Deleted member 182079
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Thanks for the offer, might take you up on it if I'm in the neighborhood again.I believe some fun can be had at settlements without the duress of engineering mats...
I'm moving my other account back to Colonia in a week or so, so if you are ever in the area and fancy doing some foot stuff 'just because', I'd be glad to team up and visit the odd settlement with my freshly engineered suits & guns
The CMs were having some fun last night when their mission didn't work so were just killing the citizens for sport - just not very efficient at it
Yeah I did something like that last night, tried to shoot up a settlement with a view to raid it for mats (i.e. brute force scavenging), got swarmed and ended up 100Ly in detention, followed by 10 minutes Apex ride back alt tabbed out of the game. Twice. Still learning the AI response, bit of a drag that the game flow is getting interrupted by the unwieldy C&P design though.
THE feature I want.
the business world sees your impotent rage and "have to's" and raises you the cable tv/internet industry, airlines, oil companies, walmart, car dealerships, and basically any other company in existence or has existed.
Fdev should turn off the forums.
