really dont get that sentiment Ive seen mentioned a few times, anyone interested in getting their first footfall name on a planet are going to be CMDRs trying exploration, even after 5 years of the game we have barely visted what 0.04 % of systems or something ridiculous. The idea that they are going to be left out of exploration is ridiculous. I think the far bigger victim/headache will be the story arc revealing new content.
ANNOUNCEMENT Odyssey Update 2021
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really dont get that sentiment Ive seen mentioned a few times, anyone interested in getting their first footfall name on a planet are going to be CMDRs trying exploration, even after 5 years of the game we have barely visted what 0.04 % of systems or something ridiculous. The idea that they are going to be left out of exploration is ridiculous. I think the far bigger victim/headache will be the story arc revealing new content.
Ouch.....
With so much going on in the world nowadays, I kept telling myself "at least you'll have Odyssey to look forward to in early 2021". Now, that'll only be in the autumn (I play on Xbox). That's a real kick in the teeth, I don't mind telling you.
BUT!!!! I understand. Of course I do. We all do. Make it great. Take the time it needs.
....and maybe throw us some cool content every so often, just to keep us going? A new ship, perhaps?
With so much going on in the world nowadays, I kept telling myself "at least you'll have Odyssey to look forward to in early 2021". Now, that'll only be in the autumn (I play on Xbox). That's a real kick in the teeth, I don't mind telling you.
BUT!!!! I understand. Of course I do. We all do. Make it great. Take the time it needs.
....and maybe throw us some cool content every so often, just to keep us going? A new ship, perhaps?
FDev starts doing a monthly segment called "From the Chairman" as an offering....
5. FDev begins ship sales, as an added means for profit...
6. ED is somehow reverted to Alpha state...
But seriously, jumping to release state obviously exposes issues that may have not been there before. The announcement, now, may mean they were very close to releasing this but did their test, things broke, and now the delay is needed to fix that stuff. I suspect something like this happened when they were going to release the new terrain stuff before, because it was really close to that release (wasn't it within a month?) when they had to pull the plug on that. It's great they're able to just be straight up with us and thanks for the heads up FDev!
No, if we get any new kinda tags at all for few Odyssey planets there will be more for landing, I bet (because of experiences from previous major updates) that all tags in the colonized bubble will be removed finally even at those systems that still have them (mostly at edge of the bubble), because it feels silly that system and planets can be unexplored even though there are people living there, stations/bases and npc´s flying around...
Huh, that was (un)expected.
Ah well, glad I got plenty of other stuff to play with until then.
Tbh, I reckon they should release the Alpha now, let the player base test what's finished, have a play and feel, it would just give them more time for feedback and fixes.
Look at Star Citizen. It's been in Alpha for how many years? And players are still throwing 100s and 1000s of $$$ at it.
ED is way ahead of that curve, except it would get a solid test from the players.
Just my 2 cents.
Ah well, glad I got plenty of other stuff to play with until then.
Tbh, I reckon they should release the Alpha now, let the player base test what's finished, have a play and feel, it would just give them more time for feedback and fixes.
Look at Star Citizen. It's been in Alpha for how many years? And players are still throwing 100s and 1000s of $$$ at it.
ED is way ahead of that curve, except it would get a solid test from the players.
Just my 2 cents.
Almost everyone has been working from home for the past 10 months. It's worked so well for many companies that many are considering keeping it as a permanent arrangement even after the pandemic to save on office rental costs.
Seriously, this is not an excuse that flies.
I think you will find that is mainly coming from the typical corporate heirarchy of team silos following the same beaurocratic business "strategy" year in year out. Or the ones that have outsourced most of their high cost technical teams to cheap offshore areas where the loss in productivity and creativity is easily balanced on the accounts. The pressure for working from home here has always been from those who have to commute long distances and who have young families to look after. The young innovative tech industry that has sprung up in the inner cities in the last couple of decades following in the foot steps of media companies who spear-headed the urban regeneration of the 80s has basically thrived on flexibile, fun shared internal space. The office aint going to go away, people and businesses will get bored of work from home just as they got bored of the uninspired office-factory. We are barely a year into a once in a century pandemic and people are already talking about the end of the city, completely ridiculous but obviously the wet dream of the likes of "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells".
Why would you get a first footfall in Sol?!?!
Well I dont know about you but I know exactly what the word "pre-order" means!
As a long term player of Elite on console i feel this is a sure fire way to alienate your console player base. Not so long back we were promised parity on the updates. Now the length of this delay sends a clear message of the value that you place on us versus the PC players! Global situation aside, by the time we finally get Odyssey there will be nothing new to give that Neil Armstrong wow factor you continually mention. Completely dismayed by this announcement which makes me question whether to continue to support this game. It is also equally disappointing that you have made no mention of optimising the game for the next gen consoles which will be vitually 12 months old if and when you finally release this xbox one/ps4 update.
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TBH I'm perfectly fine with the delay.
FDev please learn from the success of Obsidian's The Outer Worlds. Which was their public redemption for Fallout New Vegas. The Outer Worlds was the epitome of what a polished, bug free and optimized gaming experience is supposed to be from a professional gaming industry dev. Obsidian never put out a release date UNITL THE GAME WAS TRULY DONE.
Please take all the time you need to release a functional, stable game. Learn from the tragic mistakes of White Horse Studio's Kingdom Come Deliverance. And CDPR's ongoing horrific nightmare and PR fallout.
The absolute last thing we need to experience in 2021 is another overhyped CP 2077 time bomb.
FDev please learn from the success of Obsidian's The Outer Worlds. Which was their public redemption for Fallout New Vegas. The Outer Worlds was the epitome of what a polished, bug free and optimized gaming experience is supposed to be from a professional gaming industry dev. Obsidian never put out a release date UNITL THE GAME WAS TRULY DONE.
Please take all the time you need to release a functional, stable game. Learn from the tragic mistakes of White Horse Studio's Kingdom Come Deliverance. And CDPR's ongoing horrific nightmare and PR fallout.
The absolute last thing we need to experience in 2021 is another overhyped CP 2077 time bomb.
I really do believe this is the end of the road for the game on consoles(ps4 and xbox1 anyway) the huge gap between releases says to me the complications getting it too console are greater than expected and at some point before the Autumn date set we'll get another update stating as much. I also feel a little sorry for PC users who have clearly been used with pre orders to boost the financial numbers. There's no way this news has just become evident to them today or yesterday, this announcement has clearly been in the pipeline for a while possibly even while releasing dev diaries which would explain the real lack of details in those diaries and the lack of proper answers to some of the AMA questions
Meh. Everything Frontier releases is Cyberpunk 2077-tier no matter how long they delay, and they're much worse about fixing things than CDPR has been so far. It's never a scandal or catastrophe for Elite because nobody expects much in the first place. There's no foaming-at-the-mouth games journalists covering the game (seriously the game basically doesn't exist in the popular consciousness), and the audience is way smaller so it's never gonna be that big of an issue.
They're delaying because they have to, not because they've committed to somehow release a stable, feature complete, bug-free product for the first time ever.
One ray of good news for consolites waiting for Distant Worlds 3;
"@EliteDangerous @TheBenedetti @drewwagar
Quick update re: DW3. With today's news, we want to let people know DW3 won't leave console players behind. The expedition will only launch once all platforms have full access to Odyssey"
"@EliteDangerous @TheBenedetti @drewwagar
Quick update re: DW3. With today's news, we want to let people know DW3 won't leave console players behind. The expedition will only launch once all platforms have full access to Odyssey"
Well, we'll see what happens I suppose. I know of several companies who have been strongly swayed by the notion of abandoning office space entirely (one told me that they're paying £120K per month for them and they lie vacant) and moving to a 'work-from-home' model. Also, before I left my last position, when restrictions were being lifted in the UK, they did a survey amongst all staff members on how they wanted to manage the "return-to-work" and something like 90% were happy to continue as is. I certainly was.
I don't think things will ever go quite back to the way they were pre-pandemic. Just don't see it.
2022 it is thenOne ray of good news for consolites waiting for Distant Worlds 3;
"@EliteDangerous @TheBenedetti @drewwagar
Quick update re: DW3. With today's news, we want to let people know DW3 won't leave console players behind. The expedition will only launch once all platforms have full access to Odyssey"
We deserve a high quality experience, David says so
Well, as far as I can see, Elite Dangerous runs at a smooth 30 fps on last gen consoles. It booted up just fine for one, didn't crash, and had little texture pop in among other things that plagues CP 2077 on last gen consoles. To say this isn't a fair comparison is a massive understatement. Elite Dangerous was always playable, CP 2077 wasn't.