Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Update 7 Notes

[redacted] due to: doesn't make any difference to FD what we do or what we think, does matter only the free QA testing we do every update
meh, here's hoping for update 8, or a full refund
 
Did you test this jut now because last night on Brother Sabbathias' stream the crystalline fragments were only dropping chromium when he shot at them. I can't test till after work.
I'm now at three for three in finding polonium in needle crystals, have found molybdenum and cadmium in crystal clusters, manganese and vanadium (but not yet zirconium) in crystal fragments, and iron and nickle in cobble (everything on offer on this planet (Domoirine a 2).

[edit] Just found zirconium, exactly where I expected it (fragments).
 
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GREETINGS COMMANDERS:
Very quickly (I'm still in conversations over this, so this is why I'm sending this in an informal way.

I've updated the below patch note:

  • Tweaks added for data port download/upload AI responses.
    • AI now consider any downloading and uploading to be a crime. < This needed writing way better.
    • The act of downloading all data is now considered illegal BUT having data you have then downloaded, is only illegal if the data itself is illegal.
    • The fact that the act of downloading data was not considered illegal before, was an issue.
Working through more conversations following our discussions here yesterday on dev side, so bear with me with more of your tags and comments.

Thanks! o7
Your unofficial yet effective QC tester @ThePaveHawker was getting fined multiple times for one download. Is this intended?
 
Everyone is attaining the gigga-weapon right now btw.. If it's not stopped in a few days the affects on the bgs and all types of combat will be a disaster. Sally if you want to see this in action to assess better there is a stream of it happening right now and it's effects. Let me know if you will permit a link.

@sallymorganmoore
 

sallymorganmoore

Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Everyone is attaining the gigga-weapon right now btw.. If it's not stopped in a few days the affects on the bgs and all types of combat will be a disaster. Sally if you want to see this in action to assess better there is a stream of it happening right now and it's effects. Let me know if you will permit a link.

@sallymorganmoore
Piglet I've literally seen this about 100000000 times in the last 12 hours.
As I say, we're on it. We can't just open the bandaid box and slap it on quick but bear with :)
 
I've had Fleet Carrier Weekly Upkeep receipt in my messages, which I think is the first since EDO dropped. A +1 o7

Just seen scatter rocks (luckily no surface / substrate material) floating inside the landing pad (Eavesdown Docks, White Sun, Odyssey)
 
just throwing this in here.....
something I wrote up for our group, looking through the issue tracker (collecting the 'most confirmed'/best describing ones) and lurking in this thread.
(almost) all of these I have either experienced myself or someone in my group has.

not going into fps and visuals issues, though


Efficient weapon mod doing less damage than it should
<https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/42858>

Beam/Pulse/Burst Laser "Overcharged" Engineering is Broken.
<https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/42859>

SRV COMPASS - Targets appear to be at a great height
<https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/42899>

Getting double the credits for sold commodities
<https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/42853>

Interdiction progress bars not visible
<https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/42828>

Engineer suit/weapon mods can no longer be bought/applied
<https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/42835>

Engineered Plasma Accelerator deals insane damage
<https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/42879>

Cannot interact with Fleet Carrier menu whilst landed at it.
<https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/42880>

Space conflict zones, no ships are spawning
<https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/42886>

PS: again 'personal' selection, not a complete one
 

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Be reasonable boss, this isn't the thread for that and you know it. Contact them thru customer support.
I didn't ask anyone here for a refund - I addressed another poster, who felt the complaining was too much, by suggesting that the complaints from me in particular will continue until I no longer own the product, that is all.

I know exactly what will happen even if I put a request through support - they'll decline it because I own and played EDO for the last few months, I'm well aware that ship has sailed, but I'd still take them up on it if they ever felt to offer a refund as a goodwill gesture.
 
It contunues to amaze me how with every update to Odyssey (Elite Dangerous in general, really) some bugs get fixed while others are added - or are they not bugs, but "features". In random order of appearance here are the ones I observed during a 2hour session the night of the launch:
1. Random stutters while entering stations and docking
2. No progress bars for interdiction - this happens both while one interdicts someone else, or while one is interdicted
3. After killing an NPC vessel in space (after being interdicted) the materials from the defeated ships did spawn, but stayed stationary, all packed together in a neat diamond. Moreover, but I cannot fully confirm this, it was a quick thing while scooping up the materials (no room for limpets in my ship at the time) I had the impression that materials could fly right through the ship. Even hitting them did not move them from the point where they had spawned.
4. While on planet surfaces in an SRV nearing a POI (settlement, hidden cache, irregular markers, you-name-it) target materials in the SRV HUD display as if they were several meters above ground while in fact they are not...

... those are the three main things I observed.... What is going on?!?
Cheers (so to speak)

Dario (CMDR Ubikuitous)
 
Sally, feathers are not 'a bit ruffled' because the game is not 'glorious' but for many people simply fundamentally broken and not working in any meaningful sense. To make it worse, FD has not been trying to 'make things right in as sensible a way possible'. From the first day in Alpha FD has not been communicating properly with their customers, and that is putting it mildly. It started by pretending performance would be fine in a few weeks, pinky swear. When at launch it became obvious virtually zero improvements were made we were told to 'wait till the end of the month'. By then still virtually no improvements were made.

Fast forward months and here we are: for most who couldn't play it it is still completely disfunctional. Some have experienced some minor improvements, for others it even got worse. Meanwhile it is completely unknown what Update8, which supposedly will containt 'parts' of the 'significant progress', will actually do for people. Or when it is supposed to come. Or what the final performance target even is.

Mind you, this is not unknown information about some product to be launched in the future. EDO has been sold, at full price, with explicit promises, many months ago. The time is long gone for vagueness. At this point FD should communicate what they think performance on min and recommended specs should be, and when they think they can deliver upon that. FD was confident enough to sell this product to people, so they should be confident enough about this too. And if FD cannot confidently say when their commercial product is going to function properly, that should have some obvious follow-up consequences.

This is not aimed at you, please do understand that. I know you are working very hard and are doing a wonderful job. I am also not aiming at individual devs or other employees, who I am sure are also doing everything they can. But in the end we are talking about a large corporation intentionally and knowingly continuing to sell a broken product. And while this is only a computer game, if this ape had feathers they would be very, very ruffled about it. Its not even that I dont enjoy EDO despite it all, but on general principle I feel it is important to hold corporations accountable for what are, undoubtedly, disturbing anti-consumerist actions.

Beyond that, thank you again for your work in trying to improve things. :)
You have summed it up perfectly.

It's not a dig at the CMs or Devs (who are doing good work). But there are certainly issues with Frontier as a company.
 
Getting double the credits for sold commodities
<https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/42853>

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Excuse me I have some tapes to return.
 

sallymorganmoore

Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Sure.. sorry wasn't implying it was an easy fix just wanted to know if you needed any extra info.... and (it's actually really funny to watch) :D

Haha no I appreciate it, apologies if I sounded short. I am sweating PREFUSELY (sorry for the image, guys) right now with all the stuff going and what I REALLY wanna make sure happens, so trying to keep my responses tiiiiiight - hahaaa.
 
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