hello it's ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous since it was announced that there
was going to be an alignment of versioning within the game between horizons and odyssey and a move
if you wanted from version 3.8 to a more feature-rich version 4. there have been plenty
of questions from the community frontier have heard this and have come up with a frequently
asked questions page to try and answer some of these concerns let's take a look
now there's been a hell of a lot of confusion about this and when they
announced it towards the beginning of or end of july i just say beginning of august
a lot of people had an awful lot of questions they wanted to know well okay there's gonna be
an alignment of versions in elite dangerous version 4 which is what oddity is on
and horizons is on version 3.8 that's two versions of the game engine they've got running
great brilliant so then this announcement came out today and the announcement said
the option to launch elite dangerous in version 4 will allow players on version 3.8 who do not
own the odyssey expansion to experience the improvements that the 4.0 code brace brings
yeah see what i mean it's not straightforward these include enhanced visuals user interface
and a plethora their words not mine of quality of life changes from the updates that have been
announced since may 2021 now why may 2021 well that's when odyssey went live right and
there was all this new planetary tech there was all this new lighting all these tweaks of the
game engine some would say it ran better some would say no depending on the hardware you had
either way elite dangerous is a game that's getting quite long in the tooth and to have a nice
refresh like this it certainly warrants it and the visuals can be absolutely spectacular
so whereas initially it was touted that they only wanted to maintain um a limited code base to do
improvements on which you can see why they wanted to do it now it seems that there will be
elite dangerous horizons version 4 there will be which will share it with elite dangerous odyssey
version 4 but like you can also then remain on elite dangerous horizons 3.8 if you want well
that's three versions of the game so what's it all about then so what they're saying is
like i mentioned there's going to be visuals user interface quality of life changes yes we get it
they also say that this option also provides an on-ramp to experience the new narrative phase
aftermath which will contain content that can only be experienced on version 4 of the game
engine right okay then combined with the console profile migration process coming next month and
you'll recall that in may 2022 it was announced that no more development for consoles and there
is going to be a process to migrate your profile from console onto pc right and they say this means
that xbox and playstation commanders will have the option to join us on this adventure if you migrate
okay so they've come up with this faq here we go how will this affect instancing which
let's face it has been pretty much abysmal since odyssey's launched there was people
hanging around in hyperspace you jump on your ship let's make a quick fast getaway
you got your buddy driving the ship you're laying down the fire you get on you board
and not in a adverse way of doing things i mean it's no armstrong moment as they stated
or reverse armstrong moment where you jump into your cockpit you get onto your ship you
fly away you go into hyperspace next thing you know you're floating around in the void
now i'm not being salty that's what happens since update 13 however we've had
some good experiences it's actually worked i have to try it with a few more commanders on a bigger
ship but it's actually worked so they continue how will this affect instancing players within
these three versions of the game and this is three versions 3.8 4.0 horizons 4.0 odyssey
will be able to instance together right okay but it's not that though is it players within
these versions of the game will be able to instance together what they mean by this is
players will not be able to instance with players outside of their version so if i am on version 4
odyssey i will not be able to instance with commanders who are on 3.8 well naturally
and that seems like common sense okay um however what it also means is is that if someone is on
version four of horizons i'm on version four of odyssey he can't instance there either
well okay fair enough that's where i think the confusion
was coming from if you upgrade to version four of horizons and version four of odyssey and
the way it was worded it inferred perhaps that the two versions you would be able to instance
anyway they've cleared that up you cannot instance outside your version there you go
so will version 3.8 receive any further updates essential maintenance updates will continue on 3.8
although new content and features will only be on the version 4 versions of the game
then it's another question about the background simulation will the background simulation
continue to be shared between 3.8 and 4 yes will 3.8 still receive community goals
yes both of these will continue on 3.8 and contributions will be shared across versions
4 version 4 may receive exclusive community goals and articles which include on put content that's
version 4 of odyssey obviously because there's no on foot horizons so has this cleared it up a
little bit so just to recap if you're on version 3.8 you can't instance with any version four of
the game you can only instance with people who are on your own version that is to say if you're
on version four or verizon's then you and your crew on horizons can instance if you're on version
four of odyssey yes you can instance but you can't instance between the two there will be no loss of
access to version 3.8 you'll retain the option to launch it in that version should you want to i can
imagine that could only be down to perhaps certain elements in the game like say crystal shards and
hardware specifications of the rig you're running it on okay i think that's pretty much fair or
you know i don't know yours might like that particular version of the game
3.8 will receive essential maintenance updates the background simulation will continue and 3.8 will
receive some community goals and gal net articles that don't involve on foot content so there you go
now they say and there's a little note at the bottom please note that these answers reflect
our intentions at the time of releasing the option to launch in 4.0 but may be revised after
implementation standard get out of jail free card but at least you've got a few more answers to the
questions that came out when i first read it i thought well this is about as clear as mud but now
yeah i get it so the versioning great brilliant if you can manage to run it get up to version 4 of
horizons personally if you can run odyssey you get so much more out of odyssey it really is i think
a richer experience than what you get on horizons but i think it's all going to be down to
hardware specifications though saying that the team that i stream with and myself can run it on
a 1050 and less graphics cards now without too much of degradation in
the overall game experience anyway hope you've enjoyed this video i've been ricardo thanks
very much for watching and check back for more videos in the series see you out there
you