hello it's ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous odyssey
updates are coming and dev update 7 is due to drop september 2021
and in that quite a few fixes and some quality life improvements let's take a look
so elite dangerous odyssey dev update 3 has
hit and with that has got quite a long look at this how long it is um
list of things they're gonna fix in the next coming months and i don't think it's gonna happen
all of a sudden but hey who knows so what they're going to say is is they're going to talk about
straight off the bat we're going to talk about lighting and illumination in elite dangerous
odyssey so they've said they've made a large number of updates to the game and cut a very long
story short what they're saying is it's fixed um what they're also saying they've made additional
changes to reach just fleet carriers and exterior station lighting which will be deployed in update
seven which is good stuff um they recognize that some people are still not happy with it but
you know there's and they do they use an awful lot of words here to be very polite whereas what
they're saying is yeah we're not gonna do anything unless it jumps out and blatantly breaks the game
all right so they're closing um the lighting illumination for a leak dangerous odyssey
so next up is number two number two please of elite dangerous odyssey dev update 3 degraded
terrain textures compared to what you got on elite dangerous horizon so they've been monitoring
your feedback following update 6 and we're now satisfied now this issue has been largely resolved
and will be marked as fixed with the final changes set to arrive in update seven
great and again you know everything really does break let them know so number three is first you
know frames per second right in the first person shooter aspect um of odyssey now i'm going to say
that it's in the you know the first person shooter aspect of things because you don't get the problem
or i don't get the problem when i'm flying around in the ship so what they're saying is further
improvements be made to this area including optimizations the nav mesh the lighting system
the terrain npcs glass shaders and scatter rock i think it's the glass shaders that for me
they cause the most problems so our core code team is making good progress on more substantial
optimizations good but that'll be coming in update eight so not even in this update
and i've got quite a high-end pc or well it was a couple of months ago and how fast these things go
oh my god you've seen my stream it struggles anyway
number four nothing to do on long shuttle rides yes the old apex shuttle while
update 7 will provide the opportunity for players to redirect apex shuttles in transit
avoiding instances of players feeling trapped into long journeys we will look
to mark this issue as fixed in line with update 7. freeing up your votes to contribute to other
issues ah that's we don't want to hear any more on this subject you're going to be able to
redirect them in the middle stop moaning that's what they're saying
number five invincible thyroid heart they've identified a cause and deploying a fix for this
in update seven to ensure the fix has worked as intended we will leave this issue open for a time
and thank you blah blah blah so yes thyroid hurts invincible
i mean how much thyrogoid shooting do we really do in the game as opposed to moaning about and i moan
a lot about this frames per second that i think anyway whatever it's a quick win they fixed it
job done so frame rate drops post update five so again again you go to the more frame rate than you
um update seven will include changes to the game's nav match which we believe resolves
any potential performance impact from update 5. we will therefore mark this issue as fixed
the following issues will also be resolved in update seven as if they got
sick of writing now when they're grouping them all together um
non-human signal sources the nhs in elite dangerous odyssey are empty
yes they were fleet carrier and module costs not included in overall wealth okay
support missions are not widely available now yes this is a right pain i do like
dropping down to our planet getting the old power regulator out whapping it into the generator
having that nice startup sequence and then getting totally owned by all the other people who turn up
at the base to shoot me so but i do enjoy the support missions i really do great way you'll
get in there the base could be all shut down it could have some scavengers you get your data
you get all your bits and bobs anyway um right missions and rewards are not shared with the team
hmm well the problems we've had with this especially the little crew that
i play with is that when the game crashes you can't re-share the mission
anyway a previously present codex entry is now missing good for them stolen tritium cannot be
donated into a fleet carrier's fuel depot so they resolving it so it can be if it's been stolen okay
too much cc returned when systems revolt cc
you have to help me out there what cc actually means
mission reward material missing deposit fragments
stuck inside the rock yes we've seen that and able to interact with comms panels in headlock
sometimes some rock scatter only visual in the right eye in vr but hang on i thought
they weren't doing any more tweaking about and messing about with the uh
but anyway some rock scatter only visual in the right eye in vr so they have fixed it
seeker and packhound missiles do double damage against shields
so hang on the following issues will be resolved seeker and pack hound missiles do double damage
so are they resolving that so it won't do double damage shame because that's to be
fair one of the best reasons of having a pack own set of missiles really because unless you
have millions of them there's not an awful lot you can really do as spectacular as they look
choosing influence reward for missions gives no influence yes i was moaning about that yesterday
and conflict zone captain defense incorrectly rewards a credit bonus for the enemy faction
in addition to odyssey 7 7's update we are pleased to confirm a number of these
fixes and quality of life improvements will be deployed to horizons players on
both pc and consoles in september we will of course share full watch notes
around both releases so then they go on to talk a bit about them upcoming content and updates
right and this is where it starts to get a little bit interesting and they're at various stage of
development it's not final uh the following items are planned to be included in update
7 which is scheduled for mid-september right so in addition to all these fixes right here's
some new stuff some new shiny stuff to give us right okay what are we gonna get conflict zone
anti-air defense and dogfighting since the launch of odyssey many brave commanders have dropped into
odyssey's conflict zone support their chosen faction blah blah blah blah blah blah blah but
and here's the big bird what do you do what do you do once you're in there right so what they're
going to say now is each active conflict zone will have new anti-air turrets to defend against
airborne attack because we all know you fly in there you let your dumb fire missiles off game
over this game over for them so what stops players doing that you've got to have these turrets and i
think you know having these missions where people defend them or people have to go and take them out
will be great and i think it also will be a good way of having these turrets as well if they do
do this putting them around every settlement so that you can't just fly in there with your ship
lay waste to them with a load of mines or a load of dumb fire missiles um because this thing should
be independent of well the only way it could get it to work it should be independent of the base's
power source shouldn't it um that's how it would work in the first person aspect of the game when
you're doing these these missions like you know shut the power down or you're doing missions like
support missions the turret would have to be independent of the base's power supply
to protect it right otherwise you're just going to fly in lay waste to them with your missiles
in the conflict zones however the bases are gonna have power
so what you're gonna have to do is go in there and hack them and take them offline so that
would be great it's interesting to see if that if there's anti-air defense turrets do actually
move into sort of like the normal mission based bases that we see in the open part
of the game now frontier did put a little video together to showcase what's going on with the new
turret defense aspect of the game and this being gameplay footage god knows what they're playing
this on a craze supercomputer probably um but it does speak to the fact that people have been
quite enamored with the frontier solutions part of the game and that it's been lacking certain
depth and that certain depths all been about the fact that as i've mentioned in in my last rant
that there needs to be a crossover between air support and ground support you know unless
the ships that are dropping troops on the ground are going to start open firing on the ships that
are coming in the own personal players ships for example and other people who are trying to get
quick points by laying race with missiles well then there has to be something done about that
and that comes in the shape of the turrets and turret defenses as we saw there someone's gone
up there they've hacked the panel they've got their little charge device and they've overloaded
and taken that turret offline now whether that's offline for a certain period of time or whether
that's offline indefinitely until someone can perhaps say bring it online who knows and we're
gonna have to wait and see until this part of gameplay modification actually hits the main game
and all this does come as a welcome addition to the first person aspect of elite dangerous
odyssey whereas you know people have pretty much done the missions that came out at launch to death
uh and one little bit more variety as well and if that comes in the form of a new mission in
regards to you know frontier solutions great but i think to make it a success
it also needs to permeate into the more casual game as it were there needs to be more content in
that part of game uh to make the existing missions like support like combat like salvage to be a bit
more engaging have more variety and these needs to keep coming in in regular intervals as well
there's also mention of enforcer units being brought into the game these are going to be
armed with rocket launchers think how much damage they're going to be able to do to the srvs and to
ships as well so no longer will you be able to just rock in and start mowing down an entire
area with your srv and the big guns there on top of that oh no because a guy with a rocket launcher
will certainly thwart your plans something else that's going to be getting some love is station
interiors now don't get too excited just yet it's still going to be the same old interior
but they are going to be dressing it slightly differently what do we mean by this well from
what they say in the notes is that agricultural stations will have an agricultural theme
industrial stations will have an industrial theme you know tourist stations will have a more plush
uh theme as well and by that they're going to be chaining out some railings they'll be
changing some color schemes as well to give that impression that where you're landing
like what we see in the docking bays for the different station will reflect inside as well
to the main station interiors unfortunately there's not going to be any yet there's not
going to be any new places to explore inside the stations which for me is what it's really lacking
it's really lacking more station interior spaces as we also mentioned the following notes uh update
seven is gonna give us apex redirect uh all these people who've been saying oh i'm bored or i can't
cancel it i've gone the wrong way i'm going to the wrong system in their apex shuttle you're going to
be able to get in there and with the new designed user interface either do a local redirect or do a
long distance redirect to a particular part in the bubble and not get stuck in that apex taxi
though worth mentioning is that horizons cosmetics will be now available in odyssey a lot of
commanders went out and modified their commanders with some swanky suits and some decent threads
these have been missing up to now but they'll be brought back into the game four player multi crew
do we really need that i don't know i mean okay so
it's an issue that needs to be fixed there's been three up until now uh more seats need
to be put in as well to accommodate these dual commanders in different ships
great that's what they want to do fantastic um i suppose it really does come into its own if you
have more people in one ship in odyssey when you're going to go out and do your missions
so a welcome addition let me know in the comments on that one and then new engineers in colonia
okay rosetta di or rosa dayette one of overseas new engineers based out of colonia good for her
and you got a little bit of blurb on her as well um so they're still going on they say to expand
mission features for odyssey with the aim to increase mission diversity as we mentioned earlier
on and here's something that caused a little bit of a stir mega ship social spaces now mega ship
not fleet carrier mega ship that's what it says here last but not least we're excited
to share that work is now underway to bring social spaces to mega ships this will allow
us to position a base for on-foot services such as vistagenomics and pioneer supplies anywhere in
the galaxy as with previous development updates what we've shared today is just a snapshot blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah so let me know what you think of dev update 3 or update 7's what it
is really for elite dangerous odyssey i've been ricardo thanks for sticking through this with me
let me know in the comments what you think is it good enough to reignite your passion
of elite dangerous or is it too little too late i don't know what you think let me know thanks
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