Just played Odyssey for the first time, my experience

[Underhook]

I have not played Elite for some time. I thought I'd give it another go and decided to buy Odyssey and try it out.

The turorial started me off standing on a planet which I was not expecting. I thoght I would start in a station and have to fly down to a planet.
The tutorial seemed pretty good. Some overly complex tasks and security that is easily overridden with overcharge etc. The typical extremely low tech security in an extremely high tech setting. FDev are not the only ones guilty of that. Anyway it was a lot to take in but it was going well until ze baddies arrived.

The task was to eliminate ze badies: So, I shoot them with what appeared to be a laser assault rifle. I killed about 6 or 7 of them and promptly ran out of ammo. Another task pops up, it says something like "get ammo to reload your gun". So, I try to find ammo. Not finding any boxes, I know, those dead badies had guns and ammo right. So, i'm going up to the bodies and there does not seem to be a way of searching them or getting ammo. Anyway, I kinda gave up and they killed me.

Now its possible the voice over dude told me how to get ammo. I did hear him talking but when I'm in the middle of a gun fight I dont hear some dude chatting in my ear.

So for FDev feedback. The most important things in a shooter are guns and ammo. So, those are the first 2 things you should cover BEFORE you encounter the enemy.

If anybody is still reading this, I dont suppose you could tell me how to get more ammo

 

[Ian Doncaster]

If anybody is still reading this, I dont suppose you could tell me how to get more ammo

The ammo boxes show up on your radar in the top left as a kind of box-of-bullets symbol.

They're generally around the outside of the buildings, or sometimes inside one. Haven't done the tutorial for so long that I can't remember specifically where you should be looking.

 

[PilotB]

If anybody is still reading this, I dont suppose you could tell me how to get more ammo

You need to find a box that looks like a large red? ammo can that probably has rounds hanging out of it randomly placed around the settlements. Or get into a ship or SRV.
For grenades they're in the bright Orange Pelican cases or restock from a ship/srv.

Don't forget to turn your shield on. Batteries are found in boxes usually attached to walls inside buildings.

That's all I can help you with I've given up on on foot combat I couldn't find any fun in it.

 

[Underhook]

The ammo boxes show up on your radar in the top left as a kind of box-of-bullets symbol.

They're generally around the outside of the buildings, or sometimes inside one. Haven't done the tutorial for so long that I can't remember specifically where you should be looking.

Thanks Ian, I'll look for that symbol

 

[Underhook]

You need to find a box that looks like a large red? ammo can that probably has rounds hanging out of it randomly placed around the settlements. Or get into a ship or SRV.
For grenades they're in the bright Orange Pelican cases or restock from a ship/srv.

Don't forget to turn your shield on. Batteries are found in boxes usually attached to walls inside buildings.

That's all I can help you with I've given up on on foot combat I couldn't find any fun in it.

Thanks PilotB. I was not able to find any ammo boxes, I was probably just looking in the wrong place. I turned my shield on as the tutorial did tell me to do that. As far as getting stuff from ships or suv I dont think thats possible in the tutorial as I just spawned on the planet (on foot)

 

[Aashenfox]

Thanks PilotB. I was not able to find any ammo boxes, I was probably just looking in the wrong place. I turned my shield on as the tutorial did tell me to do that. As far as getting stuff from ships or suv I dont think thats possible in the tutorial as I just spawned on the planet (on foot)

Especially with night vision on, even when you're standing right in front of them it's sometimes not easy to see what you need to click on, and you need to stand virtually touching them to make it work (not a complaint, just saying).

To be honest, once you get the hang of the mechanics, you're in for a lot of fun (and I say this as someone who never asked for and never wanted legs), especially with some of the challenging mission types, such as covert assassinations (no alarms) and 'clean' sabotages and thefts (nobody must die, these are particularly difficult depending which layout you get sent to). Eventually you will have done it all, made some credits from exobiology, unlocked the critical engineers (pick up everything you find at every base at first, and prioritise increased backpack storage as your firstt Maverick suit mod), figured out how to dominate conflict zones and then it's back to the ship and only getting out when you want to do something specific. They do need to develop some more activities for Odyssey at some point, but what's there is more than acceptable, I am pleased and slightly surprised to say. As always, it's a VERY long road to Mercenary Elite if you want to go for that. Conflict zones are your best bet for this.

 

[metatheurgist]

There is an ammo box in the very building you're told to dl the data I believe, on the second floor in a corner next to a cabinet if memory serves.

 

[aRJay]

You can skip the tutorial if you want and it is always available to have another go later.

For the moment ignore the comment about Night Vision as it isn’t available to you yet, it’s an engineering/buy a suit with it on mod.

 

[Underhook]

Thanks everybody. I found the ammo crates on the 2nd attempt. Also, this time there was only 5 enemies and once I killed them, no more. For some reason the 1st play through it seemed as though they had reinforcements. Also, I tried shooting the gun in semi auto rather than full auto. The enemis went down much faster and seemed to take more damage from the hits. Which makes me wonder if full auto might be too fast and some of the hits are not registering. My GPU is pretty old (replacing soon) and so maybe, low pweformance might affect the reg due to lag?

 

[PilotB]

Happy hunting. Farm up several million credits then on Thargsday after server reset take an APEX taxi around stations and outposts looking for G3 gear. Get one of each suit and at least an Aphelion. If you find ones with engineering cool but G3 will help you out.

 

[Cmdr. Numa]

It still puzzles me why we can't loot enemies in ED. Peeling some corpse out of it's suit to get that might take a little long, and a suit should be cumbersome. But weapons and ammo ? Come on. It would also be much more fun finding upgraded gear than having to run around Pioneer Supplies to maybe find some G3 stuff to buy.