Odyssey - Steam -> Frontier Launcher

CMDRFlyingmanticore · May 27, 2021

Ok, I have a bit of a tricky question and hope someone might have the right answer for me.
I bought Elite Dangerous on Steam back in 2015 or so and played it via steam for a long while before migrating to the Frontier Launcher which I have used ever since. I bought Horizons via Frontier directly and so that appeared in the Launcher as expected.
Today I have been given a key for Odyssey on steam which I have redeemed and it shows up on steam account. However, I have just loaded the frontier launcher and updated and no sign of Odyssey. Do I need to install and play via steam, with odyssey before it will appear on the frontier launcher?
My steam and frontier accounts are linked.

oblivionmanman 2476 · May 27, 2021

best bet,i bought throgh steam ,no key asked for updated and working,but my accounts are not linked,may not help ,may be hopefully some one will

Anticon · May 28, 2021

If I understand you correctly, then you bought ED on Steam, where you received somehow (purchase? gift?) an upgrade to Odyssey. However if you bought Horizons from Frontier, then you need to buy an upgrade to Odyssey from Frontier. Linking the accounts doesn't mean you buy one upgrade, you get two. They remain separate accounts with separate Commander characters.

crossxfire007 · May 28, 2021

If you buy through steam, you have to play through steam. No way around this, as far as I know.

STRONTIUM DOG · May 28, 2021

not strictly true if you purchased the game b4 april 2019 you are entitled to log in direct http://hosting.zaonce.net/elite/Client-Installer-DX11.exe
or bought odyssey from frontier direct too (cause that's when they had handbags at dawn)
so on that assumption you can use that to play horizons but not odyssey if bought through steam
I play all the above as I bought all direct
hopfully the steam login will be fixed by later on today any hoot methinks

CMDRFlyingmanticore · May 28, 2021

Anticon said:
If I understand you correctly, then you bought ED on Steam, where you received somehow (purchase? gift?) an upgrade to Odyssey. However if you bought Horizons from Frontier, then you need to buy an upgrade to Odyssey from Frontier. Linking the accounts doesn't mean you buy one upgrade, you get two. They remain separate accounts with separate Commander characters.

You are quite wrong.

If I load up Elite Dangerous Horizons from steam, it is my commander I have been using since 2015 in the Frontier Launcher that shows up, not a new commander or even old version of my commander. And remember I never bought Horizons from Steam, I bought that from Frontier directly.

But neither the steam or frontier launchers show Odyssey.

I did dig into the steam install location and found the odyssey folder with a .exe but that will through back a message about using the launcher.

jim25 · May 28, 2021

You don't have to play through steam but you need to get Odyssey from them.
Don't get confused its ED that you need to link EDH will not get you Odyssey remember even if Fev made ED the same as EDH but still have to have ED purchased to get EDH, It you got ED from frontier you can get a CD with Odyssey on it but as far as I can see you can no longer down load from frontier if you want that you will need to link through steam

CMDRFlyingmanticore · May 28, 2021

Just to make sure everyone understands my current situation.

Elite Dangerous was bought from Steam in mid 2015
Horizons was bought from Frontier in late 2015
Odyssey (steam key) given to me yesterday

Load up Frontier Launcher and Odyssey not there (sort of expected)
Install Elite with Odyssey from steam to separate folder.
Load up Steam version of Elite and Odyssey is not there in the Launcher only Horizons

If I load into steam version of Horizons, my existing commander is there with all his ships etc.

As a last try, I have done a full uninstall of frontier client and steam and then resinstalling steam to see if it kicks in.

CMDRFlyingmanticore · May 28, 2021

So just done the fresh and clean install with steam
Odyssey still not showing up.

CMDRFlyingmanticore · May 28, 2021

New update for you all......strap in guys
Just downloaded the Launcher from Frontier which shows as Horizons and when I went to install the game.......Odyssey shows there......
This is not the steam launcher but the Frontier Launcher

And the game runs all ok.
GTX 1060 6gb with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and 16GB installed on an nVme SSD graphics at high
Did the tutorial and it was not perfectly smooth, but it was perfectly playable.