Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Update 8 & Horizons Update Release Schedule

[sallymorganmoore]

Greetings Commanders!

Ok, full system checks, throttle...working, view is nice. Things are looking good so let's go:

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At Approximately 13:00 BST (12:00 UTC)
'Servers will be offline in one hour' warning deployed

At Approximately 14:00 BST (13:00 UTC)
Servers will be offline for ALL PLATFORMS (Consoles and PC)

At Approximately 15:00 BST (14:00 UTC)
Update 8 for Odyssey and the Horizons Update will be available to download and then play.
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To recap on the notes and conversation so far, if you've not already had the chance to look over things as they currently stand, we have:

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Update 8 Notes HERE.
Elite Dangerous: Horizons Update Notes HERE.

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Please remember that not all servers will spool up at the same time, on the nose of 15:00 BST. Everything needs to wake up at a healthy pace with one another, so there may be a little turbulence here and there at that time.

We'll be here watching and joining you for the journey, of course o7

So then! Let's go!!!

 

[Vandaahl]

Wait, need to do one more leg of my delivery mission....
AAAAAAAA

edit
Done, you may continue now.
Thx

 

[Factabulous]

there may be a little turbulence here and there at that time.

 

[Rubbernuke]

Fingers and chocolate bars crossed.

 

[sallymorganmoore]

Dunno how many times I wanted to say the word 'Update' in the post title but I've gone ahead and fixed that now, because that was jarring.

 

[Factabulous]

Oh no - wait! Very important!

YOU DIDN'T MENTION CONSOLES!

PANIC!

Edit: Well, in the title. Don't want them feeling left out

 

[Sighman]

I'll keep redirecting my Apex until the driver gets fed up and turfs me out.

 

[Sighman]

One last update 7 screenshot at my test station ;-)

 

[Vandaahl]

I'll keep redirecting my Apex until the driver gets fed up and turfs me out.

You know, it would be cool to be able to do the same stuff as the pax lot do.

Now turn left and get me a pair of shoes

 

[Vandaahl]

One last update 7 screenshot at my test station ;-)

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Did you do the 'pull my finger' mission? Only the frontline worker seems to be left standing...

 

[DragoCubX]

Dunno how many times I wanted to say the word 'Update' in the post title but I've gone ahead and fixed that now, because that was jarring.

Yo dawg, we heard you like updates, so we put an update on your update to update your updates!

 

[zimms]

One last update 7 screenshot at my test station ;-)

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Looks like the NPCs have already left, except the FS soldier standing his ground.

What happens to them when the servers shut down anyway? Are they on their way to Update 8, or do they get replaced? Never to be seen again.

 

[LeoBartlet]

Oh no - wait! Very important!

YOU DIDN'T MENTION CONSOLES!

PANIC!

Edit: Well, in the title. Don't want them feeling left out

Careful now they already took the purple text post as an indication of something substantial coming to consoles.

 

[Sighman]

Dunno how many times I wanted to say the word 'Update' in the post title but I've gone ahead and fixed that now, because that was jarring.

So... you updated your post?

 

[Dragsham]

Perfect timing
.. we've a player faction now. Brand new.
And our credo is...questionable.
Watch your INF

 

[Bigmaec]

Are we there yet?

 

[yianniv]

I'll keep redirecting my Apex until the driver gets fed up and turfs me out.

Make them call the Fuel Rats

 

[avow555]

Trying to be optimistic, 8th time lucky!

 

[taniwha-qf]

Trying to be optimistic, 8th time lucky!

Going by some of the technical details in the optimizations, I'd say there will be some noticeable improvements (though by how much is yet to be seen)

 

[Factabulous]

Where are we at:

• Where are the patch notes?
• What do the patch notes mean?
• Please keep the servers up while I finish a mission
• Why are the servers down?
• How big is the download?
• Why can consoles download the update and I can't?
• Why can Steam download the update and I can't?
• Why did the update stall?
• Why are the servers unstable?
• When is patch 9?

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