Elite Dangerous Update 7 Progress

sallymorganmoore

Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
FrogsFriend said:
Are we there yet?... Are we there yet?....
Oh.... wait, it's only Tuesday. Oooops, too keen. Carry on everyone.

p.s. Morning Sally. Keen as mustard at the crack of dawn, spectacular effort 🦢
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Morning!
Yeah I wanted to check in with you all before everything goes into overdrive ahead of exciting times tomorrow.
It's been pretty full few days passed, so sorry for less noise from me personally since last week o7
 

FrogsFriend

FrogsFriend
sallymorganmoore said:
Morning!
Yeah I wanted to check in with you all before everything goes into overdrive ahead of exciting times tomorrow.
It's been pretty full few days passed, so sorry for less noise from me personally since last week o7
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No need to be sorry :)
It's great to be able to talk to people about what's being done, but on the other hand you also need to spend some quiet time actually getting those things done. Just the way it works.
 

drivblack

drivblack
Good morning @sallymorganmoore ...

Returning to the main topic of the thread: Some technical aspect, go ahead (if possible) or something related to the status of the new update ?.

Do you think that from now on we will only have updates of graphic arrangements based on odissey and little else? I speak from the respect, but I am a little disappointed with the current state after 7 updates.

Not only because of the performance problem, but also because of the lack of content, events, initiatives. I really think the odyssey for this game is being devastating.
I must admit that the lack of interiors in the ships made me horrible! Don't you think that there is a great void in the lack of interaction with the environment? (Either repairing the ship by hand, doing spacewalks, or being able to move around the cockpit !!).

Do not take my post the wrong way. It's just that I haven't been able to play well for a few days.

Greetings Sally.

(I apologize for my bad English).
 

LKx

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drivblack said:
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I must admit that the lack of interiors in the ships made me horrible! Don't you think that there is a great void in the lack of interaction with the environment? (Either repairing the ship by hand, doing spacewalks, or being able to move around the cockpit !!).
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To be fair, in an ancient road map those things were planned for a different expansion than the planet legs and stations one.
Of course that doesn't mean much after all this time, but it might still be the plan.
Of course again this still doesn't make the lack of cohesion (with the rest of the game) in Odyssey's gameplay design any less of an issue.
 
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yianniv

yianniv
sallymorganmoore said:
No offence but speaking to you as a human and not just a CM at Frontier, the misconception there of us being lazy too also doesn't make me want to go into massive details and length to support queries as hard as I am doing either, to be honest, but I'll keep trying.

Whatever information we have, you can darn well have it. We WANT to give it to you. If we don't have it, I can keep writing in here that we don't until we do but that'd be really exhausting for you as much as me.
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Sally, I'd really like to thank you for being there. Your enthusiasm and willingness to help go beyond the call of duty. You're like a light in the twilight, and so attract all kinds around you, the good and the less good. Please don't burn out, we need you. Your presence is like a breath of fresh air to us players. Thank you again. No need to reply to this, as I know your time is little and precious. But I had to write it.
 

jimmyeao

jimmyeao
Excited for the update, personally, I'm not seeing that many bugs anymore, a couple of graphical glitches and some odd mission behaviours but other than that, really enjoying the game. Appreciate all the hard work Fdev are putting in to what is possibly one of the largest and most complex games out there.
 

sallymorganmoore

Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
yianniv said:
Sally, I'd really like to thank you for being there. Your enthusiasm and willingness to help go beyond the call of duty. You're like a light in the twilight, and so attract all kinds around you, the good and the less good. Please don't burn out, we need you. Your presence is like a breath of fresh air to us players. Thank you again. No need to reply to this, as I know your time is little and precious. But I had to write it.
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Yianniv I just had my morning coffee before meetings and caught this response out of my side eye...
What...a gorgeous thing to say. You're all treasured by all of us and we remain utterly thankful that so very, very many of you remain as patient as you do.
We can do this!
We're alllll in this together o7 (oh no...oh no no no the song. NO! Don't get stuck...not today...PLEASE!!!!)
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
sallymorganmoore said:
No offence but speaking to you as a human and not just a CM at Frontier, the misconception there of us being lazy too also doesn't make me want to go into massive details and length to support queries as hard as I am doing either, to be honest, but I'll keep trying..
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Devs being 'lazy' is a go-to accusation in gamer-culture in general, and I always wonder what people mean with it. Do they really believe corporate employees in an industry infamous for crunch and such truly go "hmm, we could release the patch this week but meh. Let's do it next week instead so we can now go to the pool and have some cocktails."

I worked in a callcenter for our national IRS, and the number of people who believed we had a literal room filled with tax money on-site was staggering. People's perception of how others work can be wild.
:D
 

sallymorganmoore

Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
drivblack said:
Good morning @sallymorganmoore ...

Returning to the main topic of the thread: Some technical aspect, go ahead (if possible) or something related to the status of the new update ?.

Do you think that from now on we will only have updates of graphic arrangements based on odissey and little else? I speak from the respect, but I am a little disappointed with the current state after 7 updates.

Not only because of the performance problem, but also because of the lack of content, events, initiatives. I really think the odyssey for this game is being devastating.
I must admit that the lack of interiors in the ships made me horrible! Don't you think that there is a great void in the lack of interaction with the environment? (Either repairing the ship by hand, doing spacewalks, or being able to move around the cockpit !!).

Do not take my post the wrong way. It's just that I haven't been able to play well for a few days.

Greetings Sally.

(I apologize for my bad English).
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Sure let me try and give a bit more of an idea as to what these updates are to try and help.

So the updates so far have purely (pretty much) been based on "getting Odyssey good" after issues collapsed in on us at launch (I can say that right? That's no secret).
The team needed to focus HEAVILY on purely addressing these issues which left very little bandwidth for adding the "content, events, initiatives" you are concerned about being lacking (although the guys on narrative side have been trying their best with keeping the wheel turning on fun things like CGs for gameplay flavour).

What I'm trying to say is, allow us to knuckle down and get Odyssey in true shape and then watch the content and fun stuff start to emerge...that's all I can say on that but I wanna be cheeky here and say that...I'm excited for some of the forthcoming updates, honestly....More on those soon(tm).

Your English is great, by the way :) Big o7
 

Dillon Fallon

Dillon Fallon
sallymorganmoore said:
but I wanna be cheeky here and say that...I'm excited for some of the forthcoming updates, honestly....More on those soon(tm).
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Now you're just being a tease!

Hope all does go well when it rolls out because I'm sure that when it comes down to it we're just looking forward to seeing Odyssey as was intended (and of course for the selfish reason that the sooner it's in a good state on PC, the sooner it comes to console).

I'm sure you'll be the first to know if there have been any hiccups! Good luck.
 

sallymorganmoore

Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Dillon Fallon said:
Hope all does go well when it rolls out because I'm sure that when it comes down to it we're just looking forward to seeing Odyssey as was intended (and of course for the selfish reason that the sooner it's in a good state on PC, the sooner it comes to console).
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You and us both! We can all be selfish together on this.
 

CMDR Pradur241

CMDR Pradur241
@sallymorganmoore Hi! I know it's may not be the right time to talk about it, especially when the dev team is working hard on Odyssey. But I really want to know, is it still possible to have Chinese in the game? Chinese players have an elite forum in Baidu Tieba, and the most talked about issue over the years is when this game will be available in Chinese. So, plz, If there is any hope for this, please hurry up！🙂
 

sallymorganmoore

Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
CMDR Pradur241 said:
@sallymorganmoore Hi! I know it's may not be the right time to talk about it, especially when the dev team is working hard on Odyssey. But I really want to know, is it still possible to have Chinese in the game? Chinese players have an elite forum in Baidu Tieba, and the most talked about issue over the years is when this game will be available in Chinese. So, plz, If there is any hope for this, please hurry up！🙂
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Oh gosh we can't hurry up faster I'm afraid because the hurry is massive for so many things right now.
I can hold on to the thought for this! Just need to work down the huge list of things to hurry for at the moment :) o7
 

drivblack

drivblack
sallymorganmoore said:
What I'm trying to say is, allow us to knuckle down and get Odyssey in true shape and then watch the content and fun stuff start to emerge...that's all I can say on that but I wanna be cheeky here and say that...I'm excited for some of the forthcoming updates, honestly....More on those soon(tm).
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Of course!!. The first thing is to finish Odyssey and get him in shape. Strongly agree and I'm glad you said so.

But my point is that after 6 updates, 7 being the next (ok) how many more will it take to consider odyssey 100% functional? 10 updates ?. twenty?. Can you have 20 updates exclusively of graphical optimizations and hope that the player base will keep?

I really appreciate what you have told me about future content, it makes me happy to know that this is moving forward.

Would any information be possible of what is to come? Or at least where do you intend this issue to go?

Thank you very much for your work. I appreciate.
 
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