Elite Dangerous Odyssey: Update 8.01 Notes

[Northpin]

It has been going on since update 6 or 7 (I don't remember now), but it seems to have become more prevalent in update 8 (since many more have reported it). I have no idea about 8.01 as I have gone out in the black again (for the first time in a few weeks).

Well, i just found another manifestation...
In my first reports, right after 8.00, i did not had any mission objectives for reactivation missions. Disembark and no matter what, no mission objectives

Now i got a digital espionage mission that requires me to power up a station and download something. I have the mission objectives listed in the upper right corner, but engaging the Power Regulator does not powers up the base and it does not trigger the mission objective

oh well

Edit
Scratch that - second attempt was successful

 

[taniwha-qf]

Now i got a digital espionage mission that requires me to power up a station and download something. I have the mission objectives listed in the upper right corner, but engaging the Power Regulator does not powers up the base and it does not trigger the mission objective

This does sound like something else going on, yeah.

 

[[VR] TheBlackCat]

Just curious if anyone can confirm if there's an issue putting in the Guardian Relic to the slot at the Weapons Ruin Sites to get the Weapons Blueprints.
Last night I activated & shot up all the pylons as always (all the triangles show up where the big orb will), grabbed a Relic in my SRV's cargo hold, positioned my SRV on top of the slot (and in front, behind, to the side pointing back, I tried so many positions, even nudging it with a bump) and that thing would not go in the slot.
...unless I missed something obvious, which I could have!

I haven't done this for a couple of years actually, but can't recall any issues. Even looked up a guide to refresh my memory.
Just need a few Weapon Blueprints to get those fancy new Salvation guns... I have so many other Guardian materials stocked up from previous unlocks over the years.

I only mention it here since I'm not sure how many people may have tried to do this since Update 8... (again I haven't done it in a couple of years, so I'm an imperfect source).
Haven't tried switching back to Horizons to do it.

Just wanted to follow up and close this... everything worked fine last night and I was able to relog a few times and get the 4 Guardian Weapons Blueprints I needed.
I don't know why the relic wasn't going into its ground receiver after activating all the pylons 2 nights ago, but it worked first time everything last night!

 

[Parduz]

I took 5 Restore Power missions, all timed out -> abandoned right now, 'cause no mission update after reaching the location. Powering the complex did'nt made the mission update. No objectives in the SRV or Suit HUD.

 

[Mrjupp]

@sallymorganmoore I am messaging to let you know that there are NO crashes with the following providing I keep low settings where possible. My system is capable of far more, but the game does crash with slightly higher settings. It may behoove Frontier to declare computer system by computer system in a downloadable file, what constitutes the best graphics settings for each variation available among PC. This game is way more graphic intensive than many others and Odyssey graphics settings have to be a lot lower than Horizons.
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 19043) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz (8 CPUs), ~4.0GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 32710MB RAM
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

 

[hems303]

Nice fixes, too bad restore missions didnt made in.
Hopefully soon


(edit: typo)

Hi Northpin
I'm not really sure what you actually mean when you say 'too bad restore missions didnt made in.'
If you mean there are no 'Restore Missions' (i.e. Reactivation available I would say that recently they are more prevalent in the stations/platforms with factions in the several different 'negative' states.
I am happily scanning for, and going to systems where one or more of the stations/platforms are in 'BUST' (I'm only bothering with the 'Bust State' ones for the moment) and finding a good selection of the previously rare 'Restore Missions'.
For Example:
Currently I am in the Kaukamal System at both Dingle Port and Wigura Vision, and both have 6 to 8 'Restore/Reactivation Missions' each..... hope this helps. (Obviously faction states can change moment to moment so mission availability will change over time.) o7

If you mean these missions are broken in some way, I have not had a single problem with the ones I've found... and I quite enjoy these so have done a few per day. Just love not knowing if a reception commitee is going to be waiting in the shadows for me...lol

 

[Drelthar]

When are you guys going to address ship skins not showing up in game as they should, either in Horizons and Odyssey? They are advertised to look a certain way in your store, but in game they look completely different. I've raised tickets about this, contacted FD directly and nothing happens. This is false advertising and you guys can't just offer something for sale and give me something completely different in game, especially when i've paid real money for it. Check out your Stygian paint schemes for the Cobra Mk IV. You even display the wrong images in store against the skin names, shouldn't be difficult to fix but for crying out loud, i reported these issues back when Oddity was launched, it's now almost November and they're still not fixed

Well, actually, you bought ARX, not a paint job. The ARX works as described, so, there's no false advertising.

Enjoy.

 

[Northpin]

If you mean these missions are broken in some way,

Yes, at the time that's what i meant. They were broken (for me) between 8.0 and 8.02. Since 8.02 all restore missions i did managed to progress and complete as expected
However, apparently for other people they are still broken

 

[Drelthar]

Wow, that looks fantastic! Why would you get it looking as good as that and then slowly chip away at it until there's barely anything left of the effect? Sorry to say this but I'm tempted to blame it on the need to support consoles. Either that or subsequent generations of dev's showing a lack of care and attention to detail as code changes gradually break old stuff which never then gets reinstated. I feel so sad looking back on Isinona videos and then thinking about the direction the game has gone in since then.

I was very sad the day I logged in and the refraction effect was gone, and the entire thing had been replaced with a very basic alpha channel effect on a texture, rather than using an actual shader with properties.

 

[Parduz]

Hi Northpin
I'm not really sure what you actually mean when you say 'too bad restore missions didnt made in.'
If you mean there are no 'Restore Missions' (i.e. Reactivation available I would say that recently they are more prevalent in the stations/platforms with factions in the several different 'negative' states.
I am happily scanning for, and going to systems where one or more of the stations/platforms are in 'BUST' (I'm only bothering with the 'Bust State' ones for the moment) and finding a good selection of the previously rare 'Restore Missions'.
For Example:
Currently I am in the Kaukamal System at both Dingle Port and Wigura Vision, and both have 6 to 8 'Restore/Reactivation Missions' each..... hope this helps. (Obviously faction states can change moment to moment so mission availability will change over time.) o7
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If you mean these missions are broken in some way, I have not had a single problem with the ones I've found... and I quite enjoy these so have done a few per day. Just love not knowing if a reception commitee is going to be waiting in the shadows for me...lol

Well, none of my missions worked

 

[Parduz]

Also, massive framerate drop when using thrusters over a location,, resulting in a crash on the ground 'cause it freezed horribly for an handful of seconds.

 

[Bier00t]

I wish there was a way for them to show how fixing one thing effects or breaks other things. Like, have a stream with an old version, and see them change something, compile it (is that dated terminology?) and run it, and show how fixing some UI makes the hatch not open. Oh, they could do a time-lapsed video if it takes a long time to show it. I dont do programming or anything, but is that how things typically go? Seems to here.

Last night, I played a ground CZ and about 43 minutes into it (I restart after a CZ is complete, a few times, instead of flying back to station...) I started getting the freezing. It didnt last as long as it did in the last couple updates, and didnt happen again after that. That's so much better than it used to be. Keep it up!

I also did a delivery to an NPC. I walked up to the NPC and nothing happened, so I started checking my backpack, etc, to see if I was supposed to 'drop' it or something. I was about 2.5 feet away from the NPC. Then, I stepped closer...like under 2ft, maybe just a foot away, and then the 'interact' thing showed up. That's really close to get indication of what to do, I think. Especially knowing NPC seem a bit trigger happy in this game, and doing anything wrong gets you wasted. Anyways, it worked! The NPC's mouth didn't move with their words, so...a bit of tidying up needed. But great being able to interact with them.

I get the station not displaying issue. It takes over 10 seconds for it to appear for me. It was an Orbis station, so the section/body furthest away from the spaceport loaded first....then the trunk (not sure what the sections are called) then the wheel, then the docks/spaceport. Each about 1 or 2 seconds apart (that's after the initial 10 seconds of nothing showing). It was fantastic when the wheel popped into existence, for sure. I was in an APEX at the time.

I dont think they are ever going to do such stream as it would reveal the statet of the code. Such things happening that often are indication of spaghetti code. It means there so many things that can break and so many connections between different part of the game that Q&A can not track all of them.

But I think the scariest thing is when you see bugs coming back more than 1-2 times. It might mean that the documentation is so convoluted that new programmers can not easily get into work and help the team until they learn a lot. After a few years in that state the team consists of people that are not aware of many past issues/features that can break and why those can break and what it would affect elsewhere.

 

[Ronzer]

I know other games go through the same 'update then fis for the update' phase, it seems, but I'd like to see how/why that happens.

When I click the hub in a concourse and select 'contacts', the contacts are on the screen. If I rotate my head a bit, the contacts 'window' stays in place on the screen. When I click 'missions', though, it pops up as a window on my face similar to reading Galnet or checking commodities in a ship. Was it always like that, or was there a time the missions were only showing on the screen as well? I wish that kind of thing could be optional. As I get older, sure, have it right in my face with big fonts...but while I can, I prefer it being on the screen.

At some point, as I got into an elevator, I had stuttering, etc. This didnt happen in the starport at all before, for me, but just did. I am guessing some other process must have been happening on my PC at the same time, since it's so rare.

 

[Northpin]

Well, none of my missions worked

Yes, at the time that's what i meant. They were broken (for me) between 8.0 and 8.02. Since 8.02 all restore missions i did managed to progress and complete as expected
However, apparently for other people they are still broken

This does sound like something else going on, yeah.

Aaaand now my Restore missions are broken again.
Last night i did some more Restore missions

Today i picked 3 Restore missions, all 3 in the same System.
First one was ok. Next two - broken. No mission objectives window in the upper right corner. No mission progress when engaging the Power Regulator and powering up the station.

To add insult to the injury, my ship got destroyed on the ground during my second mission, but i shrugged it off and took an aped to the third mission.
After that mission failed to progress i again took an apex, but mid run i decided to do a game restart (hoping that will help with the mission progress)
And now guess what:

 

[Cori]

@sallymorganmoore by the way, the last four Galnet News articles "Resources Boost for Torval Mining Ltd", "Thargoid Fleets Invade Nebula Systems", "The View From Colonia", and "Initial Stage Of Colonia Bridge Operational" are missing the text-to-speech option.

 

[NascentChemist]

@sallymorganmoore

Hope you're seeing this at a reasonable hour on Monday!

Restricted zones are triggering outside their designated areas. This can make NPC's hostile, and ruin stealthy missions. It looks like there is already a post on the issue tracker, and here's a video as well.

 

[rOmiLaYu]

Bit off topic but didn't want to start my own thread about it and engender all sorts of clammering, but I can't help but notice Arf's absence these past few weeks. Bloke hasn't posted in a month and hasn't been on any streams. Is he well? Anybody know anything or did I miss a memo?

 

[Northpin]

Bit off topic but didn't want to start my own thread about it and engender all sorts of clammering, but I can't help but notice Arf's absence these past few weeks. Bloke hasn't posted in a month and hasn't been on any streams. Is he well? Anybody know anything or did I miss a memo?

Guess he can focus on the lead / management part - Sally, Zac and Bruce are doing all the heavy lifting

 

[rOmiLaYu]

Guess he can focus on the lead / management part - Sally, Zac and Bruce are doing all the heavy lifting

Could very well be. I enjoyed him on stream, hope he will come back. And given the state of the world what with the pandemic and whatnot, I can't help be be a little concerned for him. Hope all is well!

 

[Factabulous]

Bit off topic but didn't want to start my own thread about it and engender all sorts of clammering, but I can't help but notice Arf's absence these past few weeks. Bloke hasn't posted in a month and hasn't been on any streams. Is he well? Anybody know anything or did I miss a memo?

Well, other than 10 days ago

Source: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1183014250
- not that long. And IIRC he has been on his hols for the last few days. You can always stalk him on twitter if you want