hello it's ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous time to look at the road map and
console updates the update on transfers if you want to transfer from your console to a pc
and what the year and next year ahead is going to look like for elite dangerous rc players
so it's online let's go to the forum post
hello it's ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous well there's been an announcement oh yes
wednesday the 4th of may may the 4th be with you indeed we've had an announcement
from bull crowther the community manager and it states greetings commanders
we'd like to thank you all for your patience while we've been working on our communications
and development plans for the remainder of the year now let's just just take a moment here
a lot of people a lot of people in the community a lot of content creators have come over as being
quite negative oh the game's dying oh there's no development oh nothing's happening bo is
me let's go to star citizen let's play no man's sky and that's everybody's prerogative
but that's no problem i maintain it i have had fantastic fun in this game and we've been playing
it and live streaming it on saturdays and sundays and we've had a blast let's just get this clear
they continue following the launch of odyssey our primary focus has been on performance
optimization and bug fixing along with adding more features well that's true we've had the fleet
carrier interiors we've had the scorpion we've had the whole odyssey gameplay as bug ridden as it was
let's not forget we went right the way back to the beginning of the launch last april um
when it was in beta and then the release so it's about a year probably around about to the date um
optimization problems high-end pcs not being able to run it but let's face it david braven came in
don't worry we'll fix it personally i think it is head and shoulders above where it was
and here we are so you know by a copa i saw you're going to work a few more times really
before they completely lose it i believe so as they say they focus on performance
optimization bug fixing along with adding more features this focuses on knock-on effect it
says with regards to our plans for this year and beyond so they've realized the game's
been released it wasn't as they wanted it was all different reasons pandemic the code base
and it's delayed them right
they then state we understand the concern and frustration this has caused and hope this post
goes some way to alleviate those feelings like i say i mean i i struggled to find
a positive word when i look through youtube this morning i really struggled right
below we discuss profile transfers for console players and give an overview of the updates coming
before the end of 2022 so as we know elite dangerous odyssey is not coming to consoles
our hearts and minds go out to console players
they were certainly unimpressed as you can imagine a game you've invested so much time
in no longer going to be developed they're going to move forward and continue the narrative
on the pc we're not going to go into all that again that's what they said
so the console profile transfers people who do want to migrate to pc at the moment everyone was
going well i can't migrate i can't go to the pc because i'm going to lose all my in-game stuff
right and and that's taken years to accumulate and you get it you understand you empathize with
players they've come out and what they've said is we can now confirm that players will be able
to copy their profiles from console to pc in light of odyssey's cancellation on xbox and playstation
this process will be time limited and optional we will provide a date for this process once it's
confirmed i've always wondered why not release it on the next gen consoles they seem pretty powerful
enough to me okay the x playstation 4 and the xbox one is getting long in the tooth nearly 10 years
old now if not yeah about 10 years old so i get it anyway the original profile will remain playable
on console so they're leaving everything there they're just going to migrate over
and the new pc profile will be a copy only one profile may be copied over per copy of the game
okay please also be aware that this will be a one-time only process
so you can't copy all over go cop this up it's copy over again from the old xbox
it won't be able to do that elements that they're gonna copy ships the hollow
me which is how you represent yourself in the game which i think for console players
weapons srvs and slf's the fighters including the cobra mark for if owned okay what about the viper
mark iv another cobra mark 4 was for people who had backed it and was given as a gift i'm pretty
sure the viper mark 4 was as well i could be wrong let me know in the comments if i'm wrong anyway
core progression and the chord progression of the core game includes your inventory so that's
a you know what you got in your fleet carrier and all that guff um all your weapons your modules
all that stuff your ships your reputation will be copied over good or bad your permits your codex
discoveries engineering progress guardian tech broker progress mpc crew progress and cosmetics
now cosmetics little asterisks next to it right cosmetic items applied through the library
uh ships and fleet carriers and holo me will remain applied brill absolutely fantastic
so what won't be copied then now here's the humdinger commander name although this could
be a good thing right you can now then choose a different name now you know i've got my commander
name and game it's commander rich owen shouldn't have done that right um play that commander
i typed in commander ricardo so my name is commander commander ricardo so all these things
that you really have to be sort of like weary of okay but hey you know we are where we are um
the arc balance and there's two asterisks next to that one right the arc balances cannot be
transferred we recommend that anyone who submits their account for the transfer process purchases
any desired cosmetics beforehand any unspent arcs post transfer will remain
available on the original console profile so you're not going to lose them right
just spend them buy your stuff that you want and then you know you might get you're probably
going to take a hit for a couple of pound anyway that's what they're not gonna copy
um the squadron membership won't be copied friends list block lists and private groups so you have to
reconfigure all that again that could be a bit of a [ __ ] uh current mission progress
npc crew names and appearances appearances fair enough we can live with that fleet carriers and
their contents fleet carrier ownership cannot be transferred from one commander to another
to players that wish to own a fleet carrier post transfer they advise the following decommission
your fleet carrier ahead of the transfer get your money back wait for the decommissioning
to complete which is two weeks check that all the credits from the decommissioning
have been returned in game complete the profile transfer process and repurchase a
fleet carrier on a pc now you might not have enough you might have to go and grind it up
and again that's a bit of a humdinger so that's all about the console transfers
let's talk about this road map right here we go road map here we present our top level road map
of the remainder of 2022 our three focuses before the year ends and launching the next phase of the
narrative whatever that might be stability and optimization so that would probably go
towards perhaps the azimuth narrative that's been running for two years might be coming to an end
right as it's saying here the azimuth saga will conclude in a grand finale event the consequences
of which will mark the beginning of the next stage of the elite story in update 14. now update 14
is coming in november so we're in may now so may we're going to get you know update 12 fab
let me know update 13 and then update 14 in november anyway i digress meanwhile update 12 and
13 will mainly focus on quality of life changes stability and optimization yeah get it working
let's no longer have any bases where you've got to go in there and shoot 14 people and there's
only 12 there because one's wandered off and one spawned in the middle of a reactor you can't
get it or they lock the doors and all these other problems that we have try and go through that list
you got two updates fix as much as you can hopefully without breaking as much as you can
that's a bit salty in it i didn't mean it to be
workers also began on a major feature overhaul for 2023 that they'll discuss later in the year
a major feature overhaul could this be power play that needs a major feature overhaul because it is
boring right um please know that the details and timings of each release are subject to
change and that any adjustments will be shared ahead of time beyond this we are also discussing
additional game content and reveal it once it's confirmed great let's take a look then
may 2022 update 12 a new mission variant fab can't wait stability and optimization
fantastic august 22 update 13 and lucky for some we're going to get some narrative content
right so we're going gonna drag the old azimuth saga along right um stability and optimization
november 22 coming up to christmas update 14 next major narrative phase so we can expect
around i don't know september october time the azimuth thing starting to come to an apex
and more stability and then early 2023 a key feature overhaul and we got a little graphic down
here of what's going on so development updates and streams following the launch of odyssey in
20 when we started publishing monthly development posts to share our progress on subsequent updates
in light of the remaining updates for 22 being confirmed above these will not continue however
we will still provide detailed patch notes great let's know what you're fixing and we
can help if it goes wrong information and other relevant details around updates and hot fixes
as they are released between each development post regular streams from the community team have
returned although they were cancelled last week anyway going forwards these will be fought nightly
because let's face it there's only so many times you can say there's nothing to report and we watch
a couple of guys playing the game that you could be playing on twitch i mean let's face it they
are releasing twitch drops and that's why a lot of people are watching it let's cut through it that's
where it is so they're going to be fortnightly on a thursday between four and six gmt this
additional time between streams will allow us to put on longer shows and take full advantage of the
in office studio great good stuff we get some good production quality because it's getting better in
it frameshift live has only just started we have many exciting ideas to explore in the future
and if you've not been watching the streams uh blah blah blah you can get twitch drops ambien
by simply watching okay now just something good for me uh we'll also be launching our partnership
program later this year offering content creators their own exclusive twitch drops their communities
can earn by watching them more on this in the coming months and we hope this post clarifies
our continued support and plans for elite so i'll certainly be signing up for that partnership
program for the streams that i do on a saturday and sunday what do we all think about this well
not bad they've come clean they've let you know what it is there's been some damning youtube
videos out there and you got a feel from really right i know the console commanders are going
to be bent out of shape um but there is now the option to transfer your gear to pc should you
be fortunate enough to be able to get a pc and i think prices on graphics cards are coming down to
about pre-pandemic level now as they're getting more and more available so it's not like right
in the height the pandemic you couldn't get any of it because you know all the processes
were being cancelled so what do i think well great that they've come clean we've got these updates
we've got you know the elements that are going to be copied in regards to
fleet carriers and the console elements and all the rest of it great and we know that the
azimuth saga is not going to drag on any longer or certainly not past november because that's when
the next major narrative phase is going to happen we hope and like they say this is all subject to
change but put on our happy faces and let's remain positive i've been ricardo thanks very
much for watching hope you've enjoyed this going through this update on the forums of frontier i'll
put the forum link in there so you can take a look as well and i'll see you soon take care stay safe
you