hello it's ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous odyssey
alpha 4. i thought i'd get involved in some of the pew pews
that are going on a few combat missions see how that was stacking up to what it was like
in the previous versions not without its problems however but let's check it out
well straight out the door it's quite obvious that frontier has applied a little bit of extra polish
to the game and that's really good because in some stages it was looking a little bit ropey but
that's not to say this version of the alpha the first iteration of alpha 4 is without its problems
yes we've got the polish we've got the added audio we've got new soundtracks of a busy station and
adverts everywhere but what's it actually like to play well you can see i got my frames per second
racking away down the bottom corner anything between 40 and 60 in the station not a steady
60 but then the graphics card hasn't taken off and gone into orbit the added polish is
much welcomed as well and you know given new graphics capabilities and how the game should
be tuned and they're saying they're going to tune it right the way up to release and let's hopefully
say this hopefully a little bit further as well um we expect to get a really good graphical
representation of the game at the moment it does look absolutely fantastic in true 4k everything
set to ultra i'm quite happy few little drop frames here and there a little bit escaping but
like we're saying and everyone's been saying it's still an alpha although what we're seeing is the
planets at the moment is not the final planetary tech that's going to be in the final game that's
still being tuned and tweaked and we saw quite a bit of this on the recent frontier stream
now with this particular combat mission i'm rocking down there in the old frontline solutions
vulture well this affords you the commander a good chance to look around at where you're going to go
and have your little bit of combat no clipping no skip frames there as far as i could see
things slow down a little bit here in the drop pod but hey everything started to draw come into range
and things started progressing quite nicely when on the ground however an
engaging combat you can see that certain things are indeed broken your opponents
yes they have a shield bar but they haven't got a health bar right so giving them the old pews yeah
you can see them drain their shields but you've got no indication on how much health they have
remaining so hopefully that will be fixed really soon i had a problem as well yesterday when i flew
my own ship my corvette into the system joined the mac during the mission one of these matches
my ship took off great i went out shooting people as you do and then i died again
as you do as is the way of things i then spawned back on the planet via frontline solution vulture
but with no fitted suit all i had was my flight suit and given the fact that i sold my sidearm
i don't know why but i did that caused me to have a little bit of a problem
even going back to the stage where to try and get 400 to 500 meters away from the settlement
only then was i able to like refit the suit and get back into the game such as it was people on
a stream that i was hosting were also saying that the panels to turn off turrets were not working
also panels to turn off the atmosphere were not working in the settlements and people
were saying grandiose statements like settlements are broken and it certainly
does seem that on occasion i've chopped into a combat site such as this and nobody is moving
they're just standing there pointing their guns in general directions from this point of view it
allows you to go around and pick up all these um lovely little items but from a minus point of view
it's not the game we really signed up for is it and hopefully all this will also be fixed quite
soon the weapons still though work quite well don't there's been any tweaking going on there
good old effects with the rocket launchers although i do feel my own personal opinion
that the machine guns you get are a little bit underpowered i think plasma weapons for the time
being when you can get them are going to be the way forward for this sort of engagement
now with this version of the alpha we were fitted out with all our ships although they weren't there
straight away in the game that then got fixed pretty quick by frontier so hats off to them then
that then posed an awful lot of videos of people standing next to their ships and saying
wow look at the size of that and the scale and comparison to your commander model
to things like the corvette as opposed to what we've normally seen which is
the elementary ships that have been in the game can be quite spectacular
alpha 4 launch day there were loads and loads and loads
of connections we had black adders we've had move adders we had scarlet crates we had the
game just freezing and hanging for no apparent reason that's if you could get onto the game
in the first place error messages like hey your launcher is too new
and usually frontier has been pretty good with the communication around when things
are actually launched and live this time i didn't see many notifications going around
everyone knew it was happening but no one really knew when it was going to happen other items
like power play being put into the games and the engineers along with a full complement of ships
but it's your main commander from the main game that was put in place no chance of changing your
commander name however whatever you chose all that time when you were started playing elite dangerous
that's what your commander name is regardless it's a shame that frontier haven't put the option
in to have a one-off change of commander name you know times change people change
change is quite good it's a good opportunity now with odyssey to do that so let's see what
happens so anyway the mission went quite well i was currently doing the ai seemed to be quite good
working around in squads there was more items to pick up as well from cabinets and storage lockers
dotted around and on shelves and everything went really really well resulting in a victory for me
other parts of the game however were thought with a few problems picking up
some massacre missions kill these pirates here kill these pirates there didn't go as smoothly
with not all the people that you required to be in the system that they said they were being in
the systems also getting into hazrat sites as well seemed to be a bit of a problem you
couldn't quite just get close enough to those hazrat sites to drop off without having a two
or three hundred kilometer hike to get there but that's early days and i'm sure all this will be
fixed before release as well if any of you do find any problems make sure you log them on frontiers
help desk and problem page it's the only way it's really going to get fixed in it
anyway i've been ricardo thanks very much for listening and listening to my ramblings about what
i've seen so far with alpha 4 of elite dangerous odyssey let's hope these things get fixed quick
because it is shaping up to look like a really good game see you soon take care stay safe
you