Instancing in Odyssey

[KRONFROMGALVATRON]

Sorry if this is a known issue for folks, but a google search didn't turn up much.

I was playing with a friend who lives on the other side of the globe yesterday and we had a heck of a time getting instanced in Odyssey. We started out both in my Private Group. I could see he was playing from the ED main menu, but in-game, it said "no friends online". He said he saw the same.

We tried various things and the only thing that finally worked was both going physically onto the same concourse inside a coriolis station. After that, we still didn't seem able to get into a Team together, sending an invite just didn't produce the item you can accept in the comms panel, but then later down on a planet surface we somehow became able to invite each other to a Team and get into one.

I found a bug report for instancing but is says "fixed", am I just doing something wrong?

 

[Bottom Hat]

Don't believe anything in the issue tracker that says fixed.

 

[KRONFROMGALVATRON]

Don't believe anything in the issue tracker that says fixed.

So it's a known issue and others are still having trouble? Any workarounds exist? Or did we find the workaround?

 

[Lord Rak]

We started out both in my Private Group. I could see he was playing from the ED main menu, but in-game, it said "no friends online". He said he saw the same.

Did you invite him to privet group ?
in Main Menu when you go to Social, you can create Privet Group that you can invite people in to. Open play you can just Team Up but with a risk of some Bottom Hat can come by and ruin your game.
I don't think it is a bug, I think you guys are missing something.
Let me know..

btw...any team invite will be canceled after you or your body jumps to supercruse and/or hyperjump.

 

[Drelthar]

Erm... Are... Are you new?

 

[KRONFROMGALVATRON]

Did you invite him to privet group ?
in Main Menu when you go to Social, you can create Privet Group that you can invite people in to. Open play you can just Team Up but with a risk of some Bottom Hat can come by and ruin your game.
I don't think it is a bug, I think you guys are missing something.
Let me know..

I have 1200 hrs in game, used to play in PGs and in Open all the time with friends, I remember the early days when you could finally actually form wings.

It seems that it doesn't work like it used to. I wanted to play in my cmdr's private group, which yes we are both members of, and were both playing inside of the PG when we were doing all this. Thing is, in the comms panel in the friends tab in ship, it didn't show that my friend was playing. Normally it will show any friends online and say something like "Playing in Open" or "In Private Group". But all we saw was "no friends online", despite both being online and definitely in the same PG.

Just wanting to confirm this is a bug, and not some new 'feature' that has changed how multiplayer instancing and wings (teams) works.

 

[Lord Rak]

I have 1200 hrs in game, used to play in PGs and in Open all the time with friends, I remember the early days when you could finally actually form wings.

It seems that it doesn't work like it used to. I wanted to play in my cmdr's private group, which yes we are both members of, and were both playing inside of the PG when we were doing all this. Thing is, in the comms panel in the friends tab in ship, it didn't show that my friend was playing. Normally it will show any friends online and say something like "Playing in Open" or "In Private Group". But all we saw was "no friends online", despite both being online and definitely in the same PG.

Just wanting to confirm this is a bug, and not some new 'feature' that has changed how multiplayer instancing and wings (teams) works.

well..there is stuff missing from how it use to be in Horizons, this could be one of them. I hate how you can't see your friends name in Galaxy Map no more, you have to remember a system name the Green Icon (friend icon) is in and then press Esc go to Social and check which of your friends is in that system. Radiculas.

 

[KRONFROMGALVATRON]

Erm... Are... Are you new?

Nope. You?

 

[KRONFROMGALVATRON]

well..there is stuff missing from how it use to be in Horizons, this could be one of them. I hate how you can't see your friends name in Galaxy Map no more, you have to remember system a Green Icon (friend icon) is in and then press Esc go to Social and check which of your friends is in that system. Radiculas.

You mean the ability to instance and then team/wing with friends is missing? Or just buggy right now? Pretty sure they didn't remove that as a feature, they just added Team missions for Odyssey, which is what we were trying to do, but failed epically for many reasons, mostly our own incompetence.

 

[Lord Rak]

I have around 300 friends in-game. So imagine that. Switching between Social and Galaxy Map

 

[Lord Rak]

You mean the ability to instance and then team/wing with friends is missing? Or just buggy right now? Pretty sure they didn't remove that as a feature, they just added Team missions for Odyssey, which is what we were trying to do, but failed epically for many reasons, mostly our own incompetence.

they did try share missions during stream last week and their game crashed. they had to join together in the settlement separately.
they = community managers

I'm not sure how much was done about that..

 

[KRONFROMGALVATRON]

Yeah, OK must be some bugs. I also just realized that the "pick up X from crash site" are all bugged, so now I have to abandon 4 missions for an allied faction and probably lose allied status.

As a developer myself I've been pretty patient with Frontier during the Odyssey launch. And I still don't harbor any ill will. But I think I'm finally ready to just take a break for a while and let more of these issues get worked out. I'd love to play Odyssey as it was intended to be played, I think it's fun. But struggling with basic bugged missions and basic bugged multiplayer is getting a bit old. I'll be back probably in a few weeks, or if I get bored of whatever I go and try next.