Update 11 - Release Date Change

[thistle]

The idea is: it should be ready, and on time. This is not unreasonable.

It will be on time, because it's fdev that are making it and releasing it. We're not owed anything for today.

 

[aRJay]

At least we can play F1 Mananger 2022 in summer!

Delaying a delayed release date without giving a new release date is like giving a release date without a date. You know?

Never had a taste for management games which is why FCs and base building don’t really appeal in ED.
After the debacle at the end of last season the only way to win in F1 will be if you can play race director.

 

[HRDiagram]

I think I'd actually pop a brain cell if that happens after all this build-up and hype!

THAT would be a masterstroke!

 

[Northpin]

Just perfect!

 

[Darrack]

Star Citizen looks absolutely brilliant. I've been resisting because I think I'm only going to have time for one or the other. But I think I'm going to have to go for it.

Sure Elite will get Fleet Carrier interiors, but every ship within Star Citizen has ship interiors. All of them!

A lot of the streamers who used to play Elite now stream Star Citizen since Odyssey failed and due to continuing lack of content from Elite. Most say they could never go back to Elite now they've played Star Citizen and I just feel like I'm losing out. I've got to be honest.

I absolutely love Drew Wagers streams on it. As well as D2EA and Citizen Kate. Well worth a watch.

Good luck surviving SC getting out of bed, walking, running and the list goes on.
I honestly wish you luck but i only pop in there once a month to remind me how good EDO actually is.

O7

 

[londonx]

check if you in the preset "High" have amd fsr in "performance" mode (theres a current bug with that presset) makes your fps tank .. set amd fsr to high quality or ultra quality"

you should be able to run the game on ultra tbh if not set it to high quality preset and change the fsr to high quality dont leave it in perfromance (its bugged)

dont evne know how no one reported that issue yet tbh

eddit .. that perfromance thingy in the fsr thing has been bugged since it was added to the game btw ..........

The bug (which I have reported) is if you change between different presets while also relying on AMD FSR for performance boost at high resolutions, sometimes AMD FSR deactivates and defaults to normal scaling and you then see your performance tank, even though it shows AMD FSR as still being selected in the graphic options. To kick AMD FSR back into life you just have to go back in and select a new AMD FSR setting ie balanced or quality, to reactivate it.

 

[Phoenix_Dfire]

Yes it's weird but the people who play it don't care about any of that. Everyone knows it's in perpetual alpha. Yet it still looks amazing. I don't care either if I'm honest. I feel I'm missing out.

One final thing. You know, I'm an old git. I played Elite Dangerous since 1984 starting on a BBC Micro. And when you invest a lot of your time in Elite you get this sense of loyalty. The thing is, FDev realise this and they take you for granted. (WIth the exception of Sally who is an absolute gem. I miss her). But I don't want to be taken for granted anymore.

Apart from the better eye candy, Odyssey is not for me in its present form. I don't do FPS and they cut too many corners (a la fading in and out of your ship). And I don't trust FDev one bit to introduce more content at any rate of pace. And even then, they will cut more corners. The game is virtually static and almost always without exception, everything they say they are going to introduce gets pushed further and further back from their original deadline. You end up waiting forever.

The more I think and talk about it, it's making it more likely I am to switch. Not that anyone should care. I don't expect FDev will.

It's not in perpetual alpha. This is an MMO. You wouldn't call SWTOR or WOW in constant alpha, they're just evolving. I don't know why everyone get's so wound up about FPS, because there's more to Odyssey than just running around CZs. Now that they've started to add space activities to on-foot missions ( a few were added in update 10 and more were promised in future updates), it's making the whole experience feel more integrated. Where Odyssey works best is where the game mechanics require FPS and the in-cockpit gameplay to work together to complete a task.

As far as things like ship transitions ( i.e. walking up the access ramp, getting in a turbo lift and then sitting down in your chair), those were the first things we turned off in the old wing commander games. You need to do the whole Star Citizen thing with ship interiors. That's at least a couple of years work and you can forget ED running on consoles for good.

The Galaxy is not static, the ongoing storyline has been quite intriguing and, although the colonia bridge stuff has been a bit of a lull, it has kept my triple elite commander playing, despite no C&P update, no powerplay update, no CQC update or any new ships.

 

[BurglarOfBanff_ff]

I think I figured out what caused the delay... they read this thread and realized they need to really dumb the game down.

 

[Bigmaec]

Valheim?

Icarus

 

[Raxiel]

Since one cannot disembark in Horizons, how exactly is someone in Horizons supposed to walk up to the bridge to watch?

How does one walk down to the SRV?

 

[gooddoc]

Switch, it is the only way you can have first-hand experience of the offering - assuming you have not tried any of the 'free-fly' weeks.
I tried it during 2 of those weeks, the 2nd time just to see if things were any different.

I don't think anyone, bar yourself, will care what you do either, for what it is worth.

Perhaps you might be kind enough to return, once you have 'pledged' to give us your honest impression of the software.

I tried the free-fly before xmas, after the one before was a b...ch to get to run.....................frankly it made my mind up not to bother with it anymore

 

[CMDR KCalo]

but that's the current plan

 

[BigBANGtheory [VR]]

I have a theory that these delays are simply caused by the testing team trying to validate engineers are still working. It just takes them a very long time to complete their scripts

 

[Frop]

Hey all, we're aiming for later this week for U11 - not concrete but that's the current plan.

Yeah, it's probably a good idea to stop committing to dates altogether. Just let it flow naturally.

 

[gooddoc]

Update comes when update comes............I can wait

 

[Rubbernuke]

Maybe post the 'broad strokes' update notes, with the issues causing the hold up left off?

That, or have a livestream showing off the goodies in a hot build situation?

Or perhaps take out a small ad in a paper and tell us?

 

[Ebel]

 

[Frop]

That, or have a livestream showing off the goodies in a hot build situation?

We could just massively tune in to Jens Erik playing JW2 and have him name all the dinosaurs after Elite stuff.

 

[The Lawful]

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(I don't think it's the war)

Frontier released two revenue corrections (warnings?) in Nov. 2021 and Jan. 2022 that each mark a sharp drop in stock price. Major cause seems to be JWE 2 which seems to have failed expectations so far, but is expected to take up speed over time. Plus Warhammer will be released later than hoped for. Or that's what I got at least.

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O7,

 

[WeComeInPeace]

Frontier released two revenue corrections (warnings?) in Nov. 2021 and Jan. 2022 that each mark a sharp drop in stock price. Major cause seems to be JWE 2 which seems to have failed expectations so far, but is expected to take up speed during time. Or that's what I got at least.

O7,

So not the war then To quote JTC, I digress