Month: June 2021

Odyssey Update: #4.0

At 8:04am on the 17th June 2021 Frontier announced the release of the fourth main patch update to Odyssey. Details can be seen below, on the official forum here as well as being linked to on the patch notes section of this website, here.

Greetings Commanders!

At approximately 07:00 UTC / 08:00 BST today, we have deployed ‘Update 4’ to address a number of issues and implement some quality tweaks and improvements to Elite Dangerous: Odyssey. Patch notes reflecting such can be found down below for you.

As always – A huge ‘thank you’ for your continued support and feedback, as we continue working hard to improve the Elite Dangerous player experience.

AI

  • Warning behaviors have been adapted for when the player is out of sight, to prevent AI escalating while the player is out of view.
  • Added a short grace period between AI warnings to prevent AI escalating to combat too quickly, if multiple warnings trigger at the same time.
  • Suppressed various “heard a noise” voice lines when the AI can see the cause.
  • Adapted the way some trespassing voice lines work to make them trigger more reliably.
  • AI that are criminals in the local system will now always be assigned to the ‘Pirate’ faction, to stop criminal factions being adversely affected within the BGS.
  • Fixed Hyperspace break not working for Supercruise Assist Module.

Audio

  • A fix for the Guardian knowledge base articles using TTS rather than the correct voice actor has been implemented.
  • Improved responsiveness of audio obstruction behaviors.
  • Small mix improvements have been made on some social space music details.
  • The classical music in Social Spaces now has a more consistent volume, so shouldn’t have a tendency to go very quiet as much.
  • Streaming mode music cues now have a more consistent volume.
  • A fix for foley sounds continuously playing throughout certain humanoid animations has been implemented.
  • More optimisations have been made to weapon sounds.
  • Hopeful fix for spamming heatsink sound when a pulse laser or medium multicannon is cooling down.

Controls

  • A fix for clipping issues at Ram Tah’s base has been implemented.
  • Kit Fowler’s invitation requirement has been reduced from 40 Opinion Polls sold at bartenders to 20.

Cosmetics

  • Fixed an issue where changing suit cosmetics or holo-me would not cause the loadout thumbnails to update.
  • The Bandages on the ‘Raider Suit’ liveries no longer appear to be glossy.

Crashes/Stability

  • Fix for a crash that triggered when jumping into a Lagrange Cloud.
  • Fixed a crash occasionally encountered on the main menu.
  • Fixed a crash which occurred when trying to view pinned engineer recipes.

Engineers

  • Fix for clipping issues at RamTah’s base.

Interactions

  • An issue has been fixed whereby powered down doors and airlocks, when overloaded, would open for the primary player but remain closed for other players in the instance.
  • Implemented the ability to sell stored modules on rebuy.
  • Added icons and information about engineered modules to the module rebuy and stored modules screen.
  • An issue has been fixed whereby deselecting a module on the module rebuy screen would have no effect.
  • Limited “distance travelled on foot” statistic to horizontal motion.
  • All Ship Launched Fighter commands have been corrected and should work properly now.
  • Fixed Super Power promotions not always being reported in the UI at the same time as the inbox message arrived.

Lighting & VFX

  • Lighting improvements have been made to the Megaship fighter launchbay.
  • A fix has been implemented to correct artifacts that could appear in bright explosions.
  • A fix has been implemented to correct artifacts that could appear in bright VFX within Thargoid Scenarios.
  • Explosions have been scaled down over distance to prevent some appearing to be over-sized.
  • A fix has been implemented for Steam sometimes appearing excessively at the main menu.
  • Thargoid Fog has been fixed/improved.
  • Visual improvements have been made to the Dropboxes.
  • Visual improvements have been made to emissive textures on installations.
  • A fix has been implemented to correct reflections sometimes flickering within a Settlement Room.

Missions

  • Fixed Larceny missions not being completable in systems without a criminal faction.
  • Fixed Ram Tah’s Guardian missions displaying the transaction panel information incorrectly.
  • Secondary players will now be able to open completed missions directly from a terminal, instead of having to enter the mission board first.
  • The delivery mission flow has been updated to automatically transition to the depot on acceptance.
  • The delivery mission flow has been updated to automatically transition to reward selection on completion.
  • An issue has been fixed whereby on occassion, mission loot was being overwritten by a second joining client.

Optimisation

  • Occlusion culling performance optimisations have been made.
  • Optimisations to the scatter system have been made.
  • Optimisations to terrain rendering have been made.
  • Reduced occasional frame spikes caused by AI.
  • Fixed culling of ships between room geometry islands.

Planets

  • A fix has been implemented for fine textures sometimes not loading on planet surfaces.

Rendering

  • A fix to the FSS Scanner has been implemented – this includes improvement to both lighting and any missing render elements on stars and atmospheres.
  • A fix has been implemented for the mouse cursor bounds when in cinema HMD mode.
  • Skybox and Galaxy Background has been updated to be more vibrant, and to closer match Horizons.
  • Texture and Visual Improvements to the Guardian Beacon have been made.

Server

  • Fixed some bookmarks not always being tagged as favourite.
  • Fixed some superpower bounties not always increasing correctly.
  • Fixed some Galnet audio files not being available.
  • Balanced more faction simulation consequences to have less extreme effects on faction Economy & Security and the overall rate of change for a star system.
  • Fixed a transaction server error that occurred when disembarking wearing a customised flight suit.

Settlements (new for Odyssey)

  • A fix has been implemented to bring a slightly floating terminal in an Outpost Concourse back down to its rightful position at ground level.
  • A fix has been implemented for a LOD on a sloped wall piece.
  • FUI screens added to Settlement lobby.
  • A fix has been implemented to bring a floating turret gun down to ground level.
  • A fix has been implemented for terrain clipping through the back of a room in an industrial settlement.
  • A fix has been implemented for terrain clipping through the the corner of a room in an Agricultural Settlement.
  • A fix has been implemented for a panel that displayed upside down.
  • A fix has been implemented for z-fighting that could be seen on a Chemical prop.
  • A fix has been implemented for atmospheric control panels disappearing when approached in an Industrial Building.
  • A fix has been implemented for production units sometimes not appearing in an Agricultural building.
  • Fixed misaligned windows in a couple of buildings.
  • Corrected windows being used in place of walls in an Extraction Building.

Settlements (legacy)

  • A fix has been implemented to return a floating crate to the ground on a small landing pad surround – materials also improved.
  • Improvements have been made for emissive materials on lampposts.
  • A fix has been implemented to ground some floating gas tanks at various locations.
  • Further fixes to some floating props at Legacy base locations have been implemented.
  • Multiple fixes to the planet port city dome have been implemented, including some to materials and decals.
  • A fix has been implemented for incorrectly sized stripes on a small modular hangar.
  • A fix has been implemented to ground unintentionally floating structures at various legacy settlements.

Social Spaces

  • Damaged and Under Repair Stations will contain concourses with opaque shutters, as they are not accessible under these conditions.
  • Fixed placement of various NPCs in the starport concourse.
  • Made players invulnerable in non-combat environments (ie: hangars and social spaces).

System Map

  • A fix has been implemented for an artefact that appeared on the Apex radar UI screen.
  • The stored hyperspace route is now cleared when switching between ships at the Shipyard or Inter Astra Vendor.
  • Fixed the next destination on the plotted hyperspace route not being auto-targeted when entering supercruise.

Thargoid

  • A fix has been implemented for an issue that prevented players accessing the Thargoid imprint on foot.



UI

  • Livery UI – New Packs category added which is created whenever the store data has packs available.
    • Livery UI – The Packs category is now the only place we display packs as “packs” i.e. something you select to open up and browse inside.
    • Livery UI – In the Packs category you can equip multiple owned items without having to select a specific slot (it finds the first compatible & available one).
    • Livery UI – In the Packs category we have the concept of “sticky” previews allowing you to maintain a preview, even after moving focus and multiple of these can be set at once, if they affect different slots e.g. sticky previewing a full suit or ship kit set.
    • Livery UI – Slots still exist for livery (apart from weapons) and this flow is largely the same except that items inside the slots are extracted out of their packs and displayed at the top level, avoiding the players having to get in or out of packs to see compatible items.
  • Livery UI – The slots item browser no longer exits automatically after equipping an item.
  • Livery UI – Added player notifications for ‘livery equip’ and remove transactions.
  • Livery UI – Refreshing the commander loadout data resets the thumbnail data to ensure accuracy of representation.
  • Livery UI – When customising a weapon, the player will go straight to the paintjob browser without having to select a (unique) paintjob slot.
  • MapUI – If a bookmarked object is selected, then the “Add to Bookmarks” button will now turn into a “Remove Bookmark” button.
  • MapUI – When renaming a bookmark in Bookmark Management, the edit field now contains the name of the bookmark.
  • MapUI – Bookmark Notifications will now show a bookmark-specific icon, and includes the name of the bookmark.
  • MapUI – Fixed an issue in the Bookmark Management popup that would allow the camera to be moved while the popup was on.
  • MapUI – Fixed an issue that would cause the Bookmark Management popup to close almost immediately after it was opened.
  • MapUI – Added a new “Favourites” tab in the bookmarks.
  • MapUI – The “Hold to Plot Route” tooltip for bookmarks/missions/ships will now appear when the button is focused, instead of when being selected.
  • MapUI – POI buttons in the system map now have the “Hold to plot route” mechanic.
  • MapUI – When using ‘QuickRoute’ to a location in the system you are currently in, it will now target that location.
  • MapUI – Added a notification for when a plot is routed and when a plot is cancelled.
  • MapUI – POIs are now sorted alphabetically.
  • MapUI – Odyssey POI buttons are now HUD-Blue.
  • MapUI – “Set Destination” has been renamed to “Plot Route”. The Plot Route button is now gold.
  • MapUI – The System Information panel will now be opened by default when opening the system map.
  • MapUI – If there is only one result found in the search bar, pressing select will then take you straight to the location, closing the search bar.
  • MapUI – Pressing the “Next” button in the galaxy search bar will now hide the item list. An issue here has been fixed involving returning from the System Map and using the search bar.
  • MapUI – Fixed the “Next” button (search bar) remaining unselectable even when the player would select an item from earlier on in the list. Focus issues have also been fixed here for when focusing the search bar with controller input.
  • MapUI – When closing the market information panel on the right hand side panel (or switching to a different panel), the map view filter will revert to the previously chosen filter, instead of remaining on the commodity filter.
  • MapUI – Fixed scrollbar interactions in the Market panels, the checkbox filter panels and the Options panel.
  • MapUI – The Powerplay Info Panel in the Galaxy Map will now show a string displaying the current powerplay state (exploited, controlled, contested, etc).
  • MapUI – Fixed an issue where clicking underneath a panel would not deselect/select an object in some cases.
  • MapUI – Holding a directional input will no longer stop at the separators on the left and right hand sides.
  • MapUI – When in the system map using the mouse, you no longer need to click off the UI to unfocus it – you can now hover/select objects immediately.
  • MapUI – Added a “Trade Data” section for Market objects in the right hand side Features panel.
  • MapUI – Fixed a general localisation issue.
  • MapUI – Updated the Planet Details icon in the Planetary Map UI
  • MapUI – Added a new button to the filter panels to toggle all of the items, apart from the “Apply Filter to Route” toggle.
  • MapUI – Improved the visibility of the focused star labels in the Galaxy Map.
  • MapUI – Improved mouse focus input in the Galaxy Map.
  • MapUI – Fixed Astronomical Information from popping when selecting a new system.
  • MapUI – Updated labels for the titles when viewing squadron bookmarks.
  • MapUI – Added a notification for when the Trending Trade Data is acquired.
  • MapUI – When opening the planetary map, the planet info panel (on the left hand side) now opens by default.
  • MapUI – The galaxy map services filters now correctly listens to the hide server configuration flag.
  • MapUI – Missions that do not have a specified location in the system map will no longer focus the system’s star / an invisible object.
  • MapUI – Improvements to the stability of the System Map have been made.
  • MapUI – Fixed an issue whereby planetary information buttons appeared disabled/greyed out.
  • MapUI – Fixed Nebulas not appearing in search results.
  • MapUI – Selecting a nebula in the galaxy map search results will now move the camera to the location, without trying to display it’s details as a star system.
  • MissionUI – Updated Community-Goal related icons to use a higher fidelity icon.
  • Adjusted location and size of discard/abandon iconography in transactions entries, both for the on-foot transactions panel as well as cockpit transaction panel.
  • On-Foot Engineer UI – Upgraded Mod images are now tinted yellow instead of green.
  • Added credits balance to on-foot engineer mod browser screen and fixed an issue where the credits balance wouldn’t update.
  • Implemented minor layout changes in on-foot engineer UI.
  • Removed weapon DPS from on-foot engineer UI, which is no longer used and was disrupting the mod info layout.
  • Fixed “mod applied” box not being displayed after installing a mod in on-foot engineer UI.
  • Fixed mod slot status not being set in the weapon menu item renderer in on-foot engineer UI.
  • Updated item button state in the livery to be gold when equipped. Also added the preview mode icon to the item renderers.
  • Added a new ‘buy pack’ button when browsing a pack in livery/cosmetic store.
  • Added the following to Livery
    • A new category enum for packs
    • Ability for gameplay to grey out categories.
    • Updated previewing icons for items and universal icon for owned ships/suits/weapons.
  • Added sticky preview and focus preview icons to Livery.
  • Fixed an issue with an area of the Livery interface that was causing an assert.
  • Fixed date label in TradeCargoMenu.
  • Fixed spacing in Crew Lounge so crew are not cut off at the bottom anymore.
  • Fixed “CQC Matchmaking” entry being brighter than other entries in Comms panel.
  • Set default focus to “starport services” on docking menu.
  • Fixed flow for searching CQC matches through on-foot comms panel side popup.
  • Updated on-foot comms panel to improve the categories list and chat notification, in order to have it work closer to that of the cockpit comms panel and avoid receiving messages from blocked players.
  • Added icon to the vitals in the “human” HUD to indicate when the player is taking cold/heat damage (unlike the HUD temperature warnings, which are based on the external temperature, this is based on the human temperature, as this determines if damage is being taken).
  • The galaxy map button and help button on the depot screen have been hidden, as they are not required here.
  • The “Drive Assist” toggle in the SRV right hand panel will now be correctly greyed out if the drive assist input is set to hold instead of toggle, matching the behaviour of Flight Assist for ships.
  • Fixed legality icons for multicrew matchmaking in on foot and cockpit comms UI.
  • Implemented a back button on the commander screen.
  • Added player notifications for livery equip and remove transactions.
  • Localised ‘battery at 20%’ notification.
  • Component icons have now been matched in the inventory to those in the bartender UI.
  • Control prompts now display the most appropriate bound input only, rather than all possible inputs.

Known Issues

  • Bookmarking settlements (odyssey or legacy) seem to not be working as intended anymore – bookmarked settlements appearing under systems.
  • Wanted status isn’t displayed anymore in system map.

Odyssey Update: #3.0.1

At 10:45am on the 11th June 2021 Frontier released a small update to Odyssey. This can be seen below, on the official forum here or in the patch notes section of this page.

“Greetings Commanders.

“At approximately 9:45 UTC/ 10:45 BST we deployed updates for both Elite Dangerous: Odyssey and Elite Dangerous: Horizons (all platforms), to address a number of priority issues.

“Information on both updates can be found below.“


Elite Dangerous: Horizons

  • General fixes to improve stability of the game have been implemented.
  • A moon has been reinstated in the Sharur system, which disappeared in Update 2 and caused issues for players trying to log into game whilst present in Sharur.

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey

  • General fixes to improve stability of the game have been implemented.
  • A fix has been implemented so that the scope of the manticore oppressor is no longer obscured.
  • A fix for a softlock when entering the CMDR panel via the access UI (due to the player being unable to back out) has been implemented.
  • A fix for the shuttle becoming stuck in a loop of docking requests when trying to land at a hostile settlement has been implemented.

Odyssey: Update #3

At 8:34am on the 10th June 2021 Frontier released the third update patch for Odyssey. You can see the patch notes below or on the official forum here. All release patch notes can be found on this website, here with the main release patch notes first, and subsequent ones at the bottom of each section.

Greetings Commanders!

Today at approximately 07:30 UTC / 08:30 BST, we released ‘Update 3’ to address a number of issues in Elite Dangerous: Odyssey.

Patch notes reflecting fixes and changes are listed out down below for you.

As always – A huge ‘thank you’ for your continued support and constructive feedback, as the teams continue working hard to improve the Elite Dangerous player experience.



Crashes/Stability

  • A fix has been implemented to address a crash related to occlusion culling.
  • A fix has been implemented to address a crash relating to Settlement data.
  • A fix has been implemented to address crashes encountered during fleet carrier jumps.
  • MapUI – A fix has been implemented to address a random crash when exiting the system map.
  • A fix has been implemented to address a crash with the kinematics system.
  • A fix has been implemented to address a crash during Multi Crew caused by vessel handling.
  • A fix has been implemented to address the turbolift becoming unusable if a player is dropped from the session while using it.
  • A fix has been implemented to address a crash if the current vessel is “docked” but not allocated a landing pad (i.e. its being swapped to or from).
  • A fix has been implemented to address issues where the player can become desycned with their server inventory when donating fuel.
  • A fix has been implemented to address a crash if a control bindings preset file is empty.

Optimisation

  • Interior shadow optimisations have been implemented.
  • A fix has been implemented to address an issue whereby cockpit environment maps sometimes stalled updates when using the Camera Suite.
  • Terrain optimisations have been made.
  • An issue has been fixed whereby the bounding sphere used for culling was not central to the object.

UI

  • Fixed mod slot data not being set for fully upgraded suits in Loadouts.
  • Split off ‘Create Loadout screen’ from ‘Edit Loadout screen’
  • The new loadout flow now starts without a suit selected, requiring the player to select the “add suit” button. Now presented in the same way as the weapon slots.
  • When a suit or weapon is selected in loadout creation, there are now options to equip or customise.
  • Added silhouette to ‘Create Loadout’ screen, displayed until a suit is selected.
  • “Use loadout” is now focused by default in the Edit Loadout screen
  • Added toast notification when loadout is equipped
  • Various text changes have been made.
  • In the loadout browser, the equipped loadout is now always shown as the first item, and focused on after being equipped.
  • The loadout title has been made multiline to prevent name clipping in Role Panel.
  • Suit/Weapon browser: Added “percentage change” as a type of stat display, and converted to enum (with existing “value” and “bar” types)
  • Suit/Weapon browser: Improved and fixed the way stats are displayed and how stat comparison is calculated before being passed to the UI
  • Suit/Weapon browser: cleaned up deprecated stats that are no longer displayed
  • Suit/Weapon browser: Fixed the weapon reload stat to use the correct weapon data value
  • Suit/Weapon browser: Changed damage multiplier stats to damage resistances, which are percentages to match the suit stats
  • Suit/Weapon browser: Renamed “reload time” stat to “reload speed” to match value
  • Suit/Weapon browser: Fixed some layout issues with the stat item renderer
  • Sampling tool results text on the humanoid HUD has been enabled to be split across multiple lines
  • Fixed FSS UI jitters when in fullscreen mode
  • TransactionPanel – Fixed visual error when going from an empty category to one with items
  • TransactionPanel – Fixed the community goals icon not showing.
  • NavigationPanel – The navigation panel will now add the next route destination to the list of destinations, allowing you to untarget that destination, enter Supercruise, and target it again.
  • Fixed alignment issues in on-foot Navigation Panel layout.
  • MapUI – In Carrier mode, an issue has been fixed whereby the cancel jump button did not work
  • MapUI – Fixed an issue which set the stored ships counter to 0 in the system map
  • MapUI – The Mission Threat icon will now only display when the surface mission threat is 7 or higher
  • MapUI – Opening the galaxy map from the commodities market should now show the correct item selected in the material list (previously this showed the correct information but showed the wrong item)
  • MapUI – Fixed centering and opacity of icons
  • MissionUI – Fixed a visual bug in the transaction panel details. The mission threat icon will only display when the mission has a threat level of 7 or higher
  • MissionUI – Illegal Mission text has been moved in various panels and a new label has been created to contain the mission type.
  • The font size has been adjusted in the rewards item boxes, on mission completion in the mission board.
  • Missing mission hub popup button backgrounds have now been added
  • Fixed a focus/select issue in the mission hub popup
  • Fixed a focusing issue with the bartender selling panel
  • Fixed issues with Tech Brokers whereby requirements were showing when they shouldnt have been. The layout has been made more dynamic to account for this.
  • Added pledge indicator to station services hud
  • Unlocked focus manager when hiding social panel popup in cockpit chat panel
  • Fixed icons in buttons of social panel popup
  • Fixed an issue in the starport menu where the wrong jurisdiction logo would appear (homepage + welcome animation)
  • Fixed missing audio cues for installing carrier services
  • Added starport menu banner UI streams for Default & Engineer
  • Made the ‘transfer all’ buttons wider in transfer UI for on foot Commanders
  • Added modifications tab to the shop / stored modules browser in the outfitting UI, in the same style as the ship loadout slots display.
  • A UI element will only be displayed when you have engineered modules stored at the current location/station
  • An icon will now appear next to module name when modified.
  • Fixed the modifications tab not appearing when selecting a slot for a modified modules, when the currently installed items in the group are not modified.
  • Fixed an issue with the settlement terminal mission board returning to the social space terminal UI
  • Added notifications when a shuttle/dropship is about to leave without the player
  • Disabled direct access to the comms panel in the tutorial
  • Removed a step in the weapon customisation UI flow for selecting weapon paintjobs category
  • Fixed an issue whereby the passenger lounge icon on the mission board remained highlighted blue after handing in completed missions
  • Added mission rewards to the transaction panel
  • Fixed the preset text on the controls menu screen on the pause menu
  • Added a ‘resupply’ button to the Boarding UI that restocks consumables and weapon ammo
  • NPCs highlighted on the staff list in settlement terminals should no longer show up on the radar
  • When comparing suit stats, mods are now taken into account

AI

  • AI no longer become hostile to players targeted by settlement defences, if the settlement defences are not hostile towards the thing they are targeting.
  • Fixes to AI ships docking and launching have been implemented, so that AI ships should no longer get stuck waiting to dock or launch, including player taxis.

Audio

  • When at a social space, your suit voice will now mention when your shuttle is about to depart or depart without you
  • During transitions between vessels (foot, SRV, ship), the audio perspective orientation will no longer shift randomly, so in turn will sound smoother.
  • Issues with doors and airlocks sometimes sounding too quiet or muffled will now be fixed.
  • A fix has been implemented for broken power pip sounds on non-helm crew-mate after a supercruise journey.
  • Audio optimisations on weapons have been made.
  • Sounds have been implemented for when sliding down steep inclines.
  • Missing sounds in shipyard, when accessed from a social space, have now been added.
  • Fixedissues around system map sounds when using apex and frontline solution maps.
  • The landing pad barrier raising now has a sound. This occurs after a shuttle drops you off at a social space.
  • Fixed ship malfunction audio returning the wrong result in multicrew vessels after system jumps.
  • Fixed issues with audio code so that existing voice lines and notifications appear at the same time.
  • Fixed a voice line playing incorrectly for dropships and erroneously when the player had already reached the hangar.

Character

  • Updates made to some engineer’s faces.

Controls

  • Reload and Switch Tool Mode bindings can now be custom bound to the same button.
  • Changed ‘and’ in keyboard and mouse control scheme names to now use ‘&’ so that ‘Control Pad Yaw with Keyboard & Mouse’ can fit in the drop down list.

Cosmetics

  • SRV paintjobs have been rebalanced for the new lighting and PBR system.
  • Fixed incorrect previews being shown in holo-me.
  • Fixed an issue where saving or creating a new avatar could result in it getting the emergency background and thus have very red lighting occur.
  • The Helmet is now always on for the Loadouts.

Interactions

  • An issue has been fixed whereby players could prematurely reactivate the reactor shutdown process before it had fully powered back up, which would then prevent it from powering down.
  • Fires have been updated so that AI will no longer accidentally walk into them during gun fights.
  • A number of fixes have been implemented to address some building/room lights not turning off when a reactor is shut down.
  • A fix has been implemented for an issue where airlocks would become stuck closed after the alarms had been decativated (also resulting in AI getting stuck).
  • A fix has been implemented for an issue whereby at POIs, AI sometimes spawned under the ground.
  • A number of fixes have been implemented to address exterior terminals not powering down at offline settlements.
  • A fix has been implemented to address an issue where the arc cutter would get stuck in the corners of panels during a cut
  • Fixed an issue with player’s getting docking crimes at an offline settlement.
  • Stopped the powerlink from being able to charge when not remaining directed at the recharge port.

Lighting & VFX

  • Improvements to spotlights on damaged station doors have been implemented.
  • a fix for the De-pressurisation VFX has been made – it should now trigger correctly on de-pressurising a building or room
  • Visual improvements to station exteriors have been made.
  • Visual improvements and fixes to spotlights and lensflares in planet port hangars have been made.
  • Visual improvements to under repair and damaged hangars floodlights have been made.
  • Visual improvements to Fleet Carrier floodlights and lensflares have been made.
  • Visual improvements to Capital Ship lighting have been made.

Missions

  • Salvage missions (and others with required micro resources) will no longer include non-mission micro resources in their count of the mission related micro-resources.

POIs

  • Filled in the gap in the underside of a wreckage in the Thargoid Crash Site POI.
  • Fixed POIs spawning all over the galaxy.

Rendering

  • A fix has been implemented whereby lensflares were sometimes being captured in the avatar portrait captures.
  • Fixes for artefacts seen on the Wanderer Outfit have been implemented.
  • All bobbleheads have been updated to the PBR pipeline.
  • Hair will no longer change colour at different distances.

Server

  • Improvements to matchmaking when in wings have been made.
  • Fixed error occurring when deleting flight suit loadout.
  • Fixed black adder transaction error when donating fuel to fleet carriers.
  • Redistributed weapon and suit vendor allocations.
  • Fixed some unlocalised text in the known engineer UI.
  • An issue has been fixed with the referral request for Hero Ferrari incorrectly stating 5 settlement defence plans are required, rather than 15.
  • Fixed some combat bonds for destroying Thargoids being lower on Odyssey than Horizons.
  • Multiple fleet carrier jump optimisations and stability improvements have been made.
  • An issue has been fixed whereby dying in SRV caused players to enter the ship rebuy flow when they relog.
  • Fixed an issue whereby non carrier modules could be equipped onto a fleet carrier.
  • A fix has been implemented whereby some Commander and NPC crew and skill rank progress notifications were not triggering correctly.
  • Some server optimisation and stability improvements have been made.

Settlements (new for Odyssey)

  • Corrected an upside-down decorative screen attached to a shelving unit.
  • Corrected an interior pillar which was disappearing at a short distance
  • Corrected bunk bed details disappearing at a short distance
  • Updated the grille behind the fan in the Industrial/Power building exterior to fix a LOD issue
  • Fixed floating explosive canisters
  • Fixed some bad start positions for settlement AI
  • Improved patrols in Large research building
  • Corrected misaligned window shutters in the Medium-sized Extraction building
  • Fixed z-fighting seen on the stairs in a Power building
  • Added missing room geometry portal to the roof of smaller buildings
  • Corrected various areas with missing or incorrectly aligned portals
  • Updated mining drill room geometry to cover the entire room
  • Correcte a gap in the room geometry in the industrial loading bay
  • Cleaned up duplicated portals in engineer base, adding a missing portal to a window
  • Made certain curved window portals match the bounds of the window
  • Edited culling on turbo lifts.
  • Terrain texture quality is only reduced when not in a room adjacent to the outside. This stops the aggressive texture pop-in when walking out of airlocks.
  • Added room geometry to all spawn cupboards to stop them being culled incorrectly.
  • Fixed a culling issue around research building exterior.

Settlements (legacy)

  • Corrected the offset pipes outside Ram Tah’s Engineer Base
  • Corrected the wall blocking the hangar bay doors at Pads 6 and 7 of Selene Jean’s Engineer Base
  • Removed errant pipe in Large hangars

Social Spaces

  • Added some extra details to the Frontline signage surround, seen behind desks and in the turbolift lobby
  • Fixed emissive light lodding out on lift surround and added occlusion geometry to lift doors and surround
  • Fixed a spot where the player could get stuck down the back of the furniture

Arx

  • Arx will now be awarded for Odyssey gameplay, including –
    • First footfall
    • Organic sample
    • Organic analysis
    • Suit/Weapon buy/sell/upgrade
    • Suit/Weapon modify
    • Selling goods/assets/data
    • Combat zones on foot – winning and capturing point
    • Shuttle travel

Known Issues

  • The scope of the manticore oppressor is currently obscured.
  • When entering the CMDR panel via the access UI, the player will be unable to back out, causing a soft-lock

Odyssey: Roadmap

At 6:22pm on the 4th June 2021 Frontier released a roadmap for fixing the issues associated with the Odyssey release. These can be seen below or here on the offical forum.

Greetings Commanders,

As mentioned in David’s forum post on 25th May, we would like to share our immediate roadmap for Odyssey and talk a little more about performance and improvements as we move towards the console release later this year.

We’d like to take a moment to thank everyone for their patience and understanding while we review your reports and feedback. We’ve been working hard to address critical issues – Update 2 went live yesterday, which followed Update 1, the previous 2 hotfix updates and server and stability fixes deployed in May. We have been seeing some awesome content shining through from Odyssey, but we know there’s still work to be done to make the experience as good as it can and to further address feedback.

To that end, here’s a short summary of our immediate roadmap of updates and the key focuses within them.

  • Update 3 – Thursday 10th June
    • Many improvements and fixes, including
    • Loadout UI flow changes
    • Adding earned ARX for on-foot gameplay
  • Update 4 – Thursday 17th June
    • Many improvements and fixes, including
    • Suit Livery UI flow changes
    • Codex CMDR stats
  • Update 5 – Thursday 24th June

Each of Updates 3 to 5 will be of a similar size to Updates 1 and 2, and contain fixes and enhancements to the overall Odyssey player experience, including incremental performance issues for specific circumstances and/or system configurations.

Planetary geometry and lighting is a topic that we know is close to the hearts of many of our explorers, and is something we are looking carefully at. We will of course, continue to update you over the coming weeks as those investigations progress.

While we are expecting to see specific and targeted performance improvements in the upcoming June updates, we are also aware that development work for console will allow for even larger performance optimisations and enhancements for PC too. Therefore, we feel the best approach for all our Commanders will be to focus our development efforts after Update 5 on performance and the console release, and to bring our multi-platform community together once more, which will also allow us to bring even more global optimisation changes and updates to all Elite Dangerous Commanders.

Finally, we would also like to address the topic of communication. We are aware that many of you have been asking about greater communication, visibility and a change on how we share and update Elite Dangerous moving forward. While we do always try to give as clear a vision for the future as possible, such as Horizons or Beyond season roadmaps, we also must accept that this alone has not hit the mark. Our community have always been the beating heart of Elite Dangerous and we take the feedback very seriously. We are going to be working on new plans and initiatives that we can do to bring you even more in touch with our development progress. Starting with a monthly community update, we will highlight and share the progress that the development team have been making over that month. We will be sharing more details around this, and other initiatives, over the coming weeks.

Once again, we would like to thank you all for your patience, understanding and support as we continue to work hard to unlock the great potential of Odyssey for all Commanders.

Odyssey & Horizons: Updates #2.0 & 2.01

At 9am on the 3rd June 2021, Frontier released a significant patch update for the Odysset release. This can be seen here on the official forum, below this post or in time via a link on the Patch Notes section of this website.

This was later followed by a small update, 2.01 which can be seen here on the forum.

Greetings Commanders,

Today at 08:00 UTC / 09:00 BST, we released ‘Update 2’ to address a number of issues in Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, as well as an update for Elite Dangerous: Horizons PC and Console players.

Patch notes for issues addressed are listed below.

Thank you once again for your continued support and constructive feedback, as the teams continue working hard to improve the Elite Dangerous player experience.

Elite Dangerous: Horizons [PC & Console]​

  • A number of stability improvements have been made.
  • The Alphekka system has been updated to contain an eclipsing binary of Class A and Class G stars.
  • Corrected erroneous planet names in Sharur and Tau Ceti.

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey​

AI

  • Ranged AI will now draw their pistol when investigating, rather than their rifle.
  • An issue has been fixed whereby AI would be watching the player for an extended time after reckless discharge warning.
  • AI reinforcements will no longer appear at Offline settlements if the power is restored and the alarms raised.
  • An issue has been fixed whereby turrets were functioning improperly.

Audio

  • Organics ambiences have been fixed so they attenuate correctly over distance.
  • Mix tweaks for Helmet radio comms effect and suit voice have been made – softened harsh high frequencies
  • Mix improvements and fix for impressionistic layers being audible outside of the concourse have been made – Will only be audible when in a Concourse.
  • A reduction to reverb for self-hit notification sounds has been made.
  • Mining rigs audio now switches off correctly when a settlement is unpowered.
  • In game music will now dip when close to a grenade explosion.
  • A reduction to how much the tutorial voice over dips in relation to the in game music has been made.
  • Mix tweaks on ship launch/land have been made.
  • Mix tweaks to radio chatter when on foot have been made.
  • SRV scanner sounds now remain audible when in turret mode.
  • A fix for missing ambience when hovering over a metal planet in the System Map has been made.
  • Improvements to landing audio have been made – when docked, the powering down audio will synchronise better with touching down.
  • Taxi pilots will now say ‘goodbye’ at more sensible times instead of 15 seconds of awkward silence prior to being able to disembark.
  • A fix for suit audio which informs you that ‘recharge is complete’ when you run out of suit energy has been made.
  • A fix for engine landing sounds not playing as a passenger in a team after being in supercruise has been made.
  • Some foley has been added when switching tool mode for Powerlink and Scanner tools.

Character

  • An issue has been fixed which caused third person reload and melee animations on certain weapons to never complete.
  • An issue has been fixed which was present when firing the shotgun in ADS.
  • An issue has been fixed whereby an incorrect emissive value was present on certain NPC shoulders.
  • An issue has been fixed whereby certain suits were missing a backpack and torch.

Controls

  • Bound ‘Select Next Grenade Type’ for presets that use keyboard inputs ( Tab ).
  • New controls with bindings for presets that use keyboard inputs have been added:
    • Use Medkit ( 6 )
    • Use Energy Cells ( 7 )
    • Select Frag Grenade ( 8 )
    • Select EMP Grenade ( 9 )
    • Select Shield Grenade ( 0 )
    • Clear Stolen Profile ( – )

Cosmetics

  • Emissive paintjobs have been re-balanced for ships, to bring them closer to how they looked before the Odyssey update.
  • Emissive paintjobs have also been balanced for the SRV.
  • Mining decals for ships (CG rewards) have been visually improved.
  • Various inconsistencies have been fixed with some paintjobs for the Federal Corvette.
  • Cockpit string lights have been rebalanced to make them appear to glow in light and dark environments.
  • Added fixed items for flight suit helmet.
  • Fixed issues with decals not working on shoulder pads.

Crashes/Stability

  • Fixed an issue seen with saved games and flight suit livery.
  • Fixed user crashes associated to mission object location spawning.
  • Fixed quitting on foot tutorial for an existing Horizons player, causing the main menu to get stuck and unable to enter the game or tutorial.

Exploration

  • Players will now be able to plot hyperspace routes involving neutron boosts.
  • Fixed an issue whereby the genus filter would show when a planet has nothing to filter.

Interactions

  • Fixed an issue whereby Landing Pad lights did not turn off at offline and offline damaged settlements.
  • Fixed an issue whereby AI were being spawned incorrectly at offline and offline damaged settlements.

Lighting & VFX

  • A fix has been made for the brightness discrepancy of the galaxy background when the Player is in the cockpit vs when they are viewing it externally (e.g. 3rd person/vanity camera)
  • A fix has been made for the prismatic shields displaying as the wrong colour (they were previously blue, and will now appear green once again)
  • Lights now correctly turn off on the landing pad when a Settlement is offline.
  • A fix has been added for Lagrange clouds sometimes appearing black.
  • Additional improvements and fixes to all fog volumes including Megaship, Thargoid, Thargoid Barnacle, Guardian Listening Post and Planet Port Fog have been made.
  • A fix has been made for incorrect steam VFX placement in a room.
  • A fix has been made for odd visual trails that could appear when breaking a motherlode asteroid.
  • The addition of a de-pressurisation VFX has been made for when the Player de-pressurises a building or room.
  • Visual improvements to floodlight cones in hangars have been made.
  • Visual improvements to the Thargoid Imprint Lighting have been made.
  • Visual improvements to the Lighting at Legacy Elite Bases have been made.

Menus

  • Fixed humanoid outfitting store saying ‘select vehicle’.
  • Added rotate, zoom and cycle controls to livery.
  • Fixed crime icons persisting after the fine is paid off.
  • Fixed issues with the contacts pop-up being active on returning from outfitting, accessed via tech broker and it not providing functionality. Now on returning you are taken to base station services.
  • Fixed the quick access wheel being usable while using the Camera Suite.
  • Fixed an issue where the transaction panel wouldn’t update when opening it.

Missions

  • Fixed a number of instances where missions wouldn’t display some of their useful information. This primarily affected Horizons missions. This information should now be present once again.
    • Information that is generally similar across the same type of mission, such as the tips and hints on how to complete it, will now be found in the dedicated help pop-up. This can be accessed via the question mark button in all mission contract views, or accessed via a keybinding when talking to a mission provider.
  • More robust mission settings for menus, to ensure that settings that should not persist, do not.
  • Fixed an issue preventing players from handing in missions
  • Mission providers will stop requesting missions, unless you are on foot.
  • Fixed an issue whereby the second player to join an instance would be unable to start their mission.

Multicrew/Teams

  • Fixed an issue whereby if the host player created/joined a team while in an SRV or Fighter, they would be have an extra multicrew power pip when they returned to the mothership.
  • Fixed an issue whereby if a guest player deployed into or boarded an SRV, they would get a power pip in the mothership.
  • Powerpips are now only granted to guest players in the mothership or fighters and are rescinded when players leave the ship by any means.

Organics/Geologicals and Scatter

  • An addition has been made to the Electricae shader to ensure it has an emissive core.
  • Microresource and rock shaders have been updated to new PBR ones.
  • A fix has been made for Crystalline Shard mineable assets not spawning.
  • A fix has been made for Mineables on Legacy organics/geologicals spawning in incorrect locations/with incorrect rotations.
  • Visual improvements have been made to the Electricae organic and it’s emissive core.

Optimisation

  • Optimisations for Vendors and NPCs in Social Spaces have been made.
  • Optimisations for Miner and Scientist NPCs in Settlements have been made.
  • Optimisations for hair styles for all characters have been made.
  • Optimisations for suits for all characters have been made.
  • Optimisation of fire VFX in rooms has been made.
  • A small optimisation pass has been made to remove unused fog volumes.
  • Additional fixes and improvements have been made to the occlusion culling system.
  • Fixed the station body schematic being misaligned with the station.
  • Updated culling for interior spaces improving performance around settlements and stations.

POIs

  • Improved LOD popping on some wreckage props at POIs.
  • Fixed missing medium and high threat difficult values for the abandoned SRV salvage POI, which would prevent the salvage mission from being completable.

Rendering

  • A fix has been made for sorting issues seen with glass and character hair
  • A fix has been made for SRV dust appearing black – correct colour is now applied
  • A fix has been made for the occlusion volumes not processing correctly in the social space at certain times
  • A fix has been made for the occlusion volumes on assets, such as the airlock not updating correctly at certain times
  • The ability to create softer blends between surfaces has been added
  • An update has been made to long and thin rectangle lights, to have specular highlights that are more consistent with their shape
  • A fix has been made for some particle effects occasionally obtaining a visual hard edge
  • A fix has been made for the Player flashlight flickering in varying degrees based on graphics setting
  • A fix has been made for “puddle” material at the Thargoid Imprint not displaying correctly
  • Visual improvements and shader updates to the cockpit lights have been made
  • A fix has been made for incorrect lighting of some planets in the system map

Server

  • A fix has been made for players being able to take shuttles to ports on high gravity planets
  • Added stricter checks for validity of shuttle destinations to prevent players becoming stranded
  • A fix has been made to allow reaching Mercenary or Exo-Biologist Elite rank to grant permit access to Shinrarta Dezhra
  • FA fix has been made to address an issue with some conflict zones prompting a relog error
  • The faction impact of NPC on foot murder events has been adjusted to balance against other player actions
  • A fix has been made for missing helmet options for flight suits
  • Suit packs will now all show the overview icon rather than specific components
  • Rank unlock suit components will now have the correct icons
  • Shuttle names will now persist when relogging
  • An issue has been fixed which was causing some players to be unable to hand in missions at mission boards
  • Certain settings were previously not including players sat on the CZ respawn screen within the BGS event at the end of a conflict zone, which may have been affecting people’s ability to unlock the engineer Hero Ferrari
  • Additional telemetry for disconnections to assist with diagnostics have been added
  • Faction conflicts have been fixed so that control of the asset at stake is correctly awarded to the faction that won the conflict.

Settlements (new for Odyssey)

  • Fixed a gap present on the exterior of a Research building
  • Fixed a gap present on the exterior of a Power building, and a LOD issue on the PWR decal
  • Fix for collect missions at Human_Small_Extraction_02 sometimes requiring the player to enter an authority 1 building making it impossible to complete it lawfully
  • Removed unnecessary trespass volume at the large mining rig
  • Removed the ’02’ decal from drill rigs at Mining Settlements, so that not all drills are labelled 02
  • Further occlusion improvements around doors
  • Corrected Room Geometry around the exterior of Industrial buildings that caused errors with culling

Settlements (legacy)

  • Fixed offset ramps at Legacy Settlements
  • Engineer bases now have scatter rocks spawning nearer to them (but not intersecting with buildings/structures)
  • Added emergency stairwells to the Engineer Base landing pads, so players cannot get themselves trapped
  • Fixed a building intersection issue at Colonel Bris Dekker’s Engineer Base
  • Fixed a wall texture issue at some hangars in various Engineer Bases
  • Fixed a black cube appearing at Zacariah Nemo’s Engineer Base
  • Removed errant rock from Felicity Farseer’s Engineer Base
  • Rebalanced materials for INRA sites
  • Fixed z-fighting present on the building next to the generator in the SRV training mission

Ships

  • Fixed emissive values on Alliance ships engines causing them to turn black
  • Fixed a typo on the back door of the Cobra MkIII and Cobra MkIV
  • Various hitcheck improvements have been made for the Type-9 Heavy
  • Fixed low resolution textures present in the Viper MkIV cockpit
  • Camera suite camera orientation fixes have been made for the Viper Mk IV

Social Spaces

  • Core Dynamics/Federation Corvette and Gutamaya/Imperial Cutter now only advertise in their respective superpower social areas
  • Fixed graphic alpha issue with the vertical Santi advert

Terrain & Planets

  • Fixed an issue that would cause some distant planet terrain to get darker and shinier

Thargoids

  • Thargoid probe shaders have been updated to new PBR ones

UI

  • Map UI – A new panel to display Organic Data has been added. This is available in the System Map and Planetary Map.
  • In the outfitting UI, when equipping a stored module into an empty slot, the transactions pop-up does not now show (except when installing a clean module onto a hot ship’s empty slot).
  • In Loadouts UI, old stats which were wrongly being left visible when the stat data changes has been fixed.
  • In Loadouts UI, we have changed the way that engineer mod information is updated, to avoid flickering when browsing mods.
  • The humanoid mod stat ranges for jump assist stats have been changed to reflect the actual maximum values.
  • Exhaustion time multiplier value into rate [0,1] for “exhaustion rate” mod stat has been converted.
  • Map UI – Fixed misalignment and jitter issues of the focused/current/selected object markers
  • Loadout UI – The title in the respawn flow can now fill the screen, so will not go multiline and prevent the loadout from being cutoff.
  • Mission UI – Added “showIllegal” to the mission board mission listings, which tints the icon purple.
  • An issue has been fixed whereby the setting for the rolepanel was not being read and so would always appear, even when it was not intended to.
  • Boarding Panel – Storage status now displays new strings and icons.
  • Boarding Panel – Added a third button to be used for restocking supplies.
  • Map UI – Fixed ab issue which stopped the faction state from updating with the selected system’s info.
  • Mission UI – Fixed the header always using the mission board header.
  • Mission UI – Fixed an issue whereby the starport service will remember the last board selection, so you could open passenger lounge / community goals in the social space.
  • Map UI – Selecting a bookmark and then plotting a route will now plot a route to that bookmark location, instead of just the system it is in.
  • Map UI – Selection and Quick Select input scheme has been updated to allow targeting with mouse, then using controller/keyboard held input.
  • Map UI – Added ability to hold down on a location button (bookmarks, mission, ships) to plot a route to the location. This only works on normal galaxy and system map modes (not apex/conflict/carrier)
  • Map UI – Updated the bookmark empty state.
  • Map UI – The bookmark empty state will no longer change position based on the category title.
  • Map UI – Players can now hold down left click on lists (filters, marker display etc) in the map modes to quickly toggle them on/off. This only works with mouse control.
  • Map UI – When a filter is updated, the datastore is updated instead of recreated, fixing a visual bug when selecting them.
  • Map UI – Fixed issue with commodities closing the LHS if the player would pick an option that is too far down in the list.
  • Cargo Transfer – Fixed text truncation in German version of the cargo transfer popups.
  • Fixed avatar in On-foot Commander panel, so that it now displays a full body image of the Commander instead of an incredibly uncomfortable close-up mugshot.
  • The ‘Back’ input button functionality will no longer be missing from various UIs
  • The player should now be able to use the Back/Cancel button (B on gamepad) to back out of power contact and fleet carrier vendor contact in the station services UI.
  • Fixed an issue with large combat bond voucher values not displaying properly because of uint32 cap
  • Fixed an issue where the incorrect markers were being displayed in the terminal facility list
  • Added UI data store properties to create the extra column in the humanoid inventory panel to display storage values
  • Fixed text strings for replacing vehicle filter with suits/weapons in store UI
  • Fixed icons for item filter/owned item for humanoid store so that it doesn’t display the ship vector icon
  • Fixed the clock icon misaligned with estimated departure in fleet carrier navigation menu
  • Fixed missing icons states indicating that the player Commander was muted/talking/unmuted
  • Removed watermark icons from the dropship information in the ‘Conflict Zone Vendor Summary Panel’ and centred the faction name text.
  • Removed icons from pick up and drop off location for Apex Shuttle in the Access UI to match those of Frontline Solutions.
  • Fixed alignment issues with background visuals for mission hub UI popup
  • Planetary Level Organics UI is now functional.
  • Fixed the no-battery warning message text to be more in line with humanoid terminology. Power Limit Exceeded -> Battery Depleted
  • Fixed the DSS view to use the same camera transform as the probe launcher, so that the UI does not go out of sync
  • A fix for the Gamma slider not updating in-game gamma values has been implemented

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Known Issues​

  • An issue with chest, upper arm and shoulder suit parts not appearing for female avatars is currently being investigated.
  • An issue with some environmental assets being culled incorrectly around the exterior of 2 specific buildings is being investigated.

Odyssey – BGS Balancing

On the 28th May 2021 Frontier made a bried update regarding the background simulation since Odyssey’s release. It can be seen below on on the offical forum, here.

“Greetings Commanders.

“With the launch of Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, we have been monitoring the effects it has had in relation to the Background Simulation.

“We have been collating Commander gameplay data throughout the last week. Using this data, we will be making changes today to balance out the effects Odyssey missions have on the Background Simulation This will bring them in line with existing mission effects in Horizons.

“We are aware of a number of concerns raised from player communities around the impact Odyssey has had on the Background Simulation. We will continue to monitor this closely going forwards.

“These changes will take effect as of 15:00 UTC / 16:00 BST today.“