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Odyssey: Release Day

Last Updated: 2:01pm (GMT)

  • At 8.01am GMT (7am UTC) on the 19th May 2021 Frontier announced that the game servers had been taken down for the Odyssey update. This is expected to take 11 hours.
  • If you’re looking at buying Odyssey and want the full breakdown, you can find it here. You can find the schedule of events below and also watch the release trailer.
  • Frontier have also put together a quick guide to Odyssey which might prove useful to some. Frontier have also said that there would be an in game tutorial to guide players through completing a mission on foot. Other FAQs might be found in the Odyssey: Full Breakdown section here.

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Fleet Carriers – Incoming Patch

At 3pm on the 16th June Frontier announced that at 9.30am (UTC) there would be some downtime of the serves and a patch to fix some existing Fleet Carrier issues.

“Greetings Commanders,

“Thank you for sharing your feedback since the launch of Fleet Carriers! As a result, we will be having scheduled maintenance tomorrow at 09:30 (UTC) expected to last approximately an hour.

“This patch will address various bugs and issues that you have reported to us, with the patch notes to come tomorrow.”

Mission Board & Passenger Lounge : Fix

On the 4th October Frontier announced that the servers would be re-started at 2pm UTC time/3pm GMT to fix a known issue with the mission board and passenger lounges.

“Greetings Commanders,

“Today we introduced a workaround to address the issues players have been experiencing with the Mission Boards. These changes will stop commanders experiencing the ‘soft lock’, bringing functionality back to the mission boards. As a side effect of this workaround, each faction will have one mission that players will not be able to access, even though they should meet the requirements. Commanders will be able to access the other missions, and we are continuing to investigate a long term fix. We will update you with any changes as soon as we can.

“The server is back up now, and we thank you for your patience whilst we have been looking into this. If you do have any further issues please let us know on the Issue Tracker.”

Patch Update: 3.3.04

On the 18th February 2019 at 10:19am Frontier announced the 3.3.04 Patch update. Details of it can be seen below or on the Frontier website, here. You can view all links to updates on the Patch Update section of this website, here.

Greetings Commanders,

The Elite Dangerous servers will be offline for all platforms at 11:30 AM (UTC) today for approximately 30 minutes as we apply the 3.3.04 patch. Thank you for your patience and we’ll see you in the black!

Please find the patch notes below:

Comms

  • Fixed an issue where Xbox clients failed to connect to the different comms channels

Controls

Updated ‘Classic Context’ control scheme to allow the SRV boost button to work correctly once again, and to remove the conflict between handbrake and cycle fire groups

  • Note – we have had to reassign and in some cases remove some shortcuts. The full list of changes are:
    • Moved headlights and cargo scoop to the Y/Triangle button and d-pad directions
    • Moved open discovery and camera suite to X/Square button and shoulder buttons
    • Moved cycle fire group to Y/Triangle and right d-pad
    • Removed galaxy map and system map shortcuts (can still be accessed from left hand panel)

Crashes/Stability

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when handing in a wing mission
  • Fixed crash that could occur when destroying skimmers

Exploration

  • Stopped the ‘System Scan Complete’ message spamming the player

General

  • Removed the ability for players being able to incorrectly jump huge distances when their ship was without fuel
  • Fixed some visual artifacts that could occur in Thargoid conflict zones

Mining

  • Fixed motherlode asteroids not spawning the appropriate material chunks when correctly destroyed by a Wing of players

Network

  • Fixed a variety of situations that could cause players to be disconnected whilst playing

Patch Update: 3.3.02

At 5:34pm on the 16th January 2019 Frontier posted the details for the patch notes for the 3.3.02 update that will see the servers coming down for approximately one hour from 9:45am (UTC) tomorrow. You can see the patch notes below or on the official website. They will also be linked on the Patch Notes section of this website.

 

Greetings Commanders,

Thank you so much for your feedback since the launch of Elite Dangerous: Beyond – Chapter Four, we’re thrilled to hear that people are enjoying the new features!

We are planning to release the next Elite Dangerous bug-fixing patch (3.3.02) tomorrow (17 January) at 09:45 UTC. We wanted to identify a few issues that the patch will aim to resolve. Please keep in mind that we’ve worked hard to prioritise problems that affect the largest number of players, and we thank you for your patience while we continue to identify further issues and work to fix bugs that may have received fewer reports or are less severe. The below information does not contain the full list, which you can find here.

We have already released server-side fixes for some of the widely-reported problems including game freezes and lockups.

Here are just some of the issues we’ve addressed:

  • Numerous fixes for game crashes and freezes.
  • Corrected issues where leaving a Conflict Zone and rejoining it could lead to players not being able to choose a side to fight for.
  • Increased ship storage to 40 ships per port.
  • Ongoing efforts to balance the Background Simulation in regards to the way states impact influence, economy and security.
  • And more… which you can find here!

Thanks again for your continued feedback, support and patience. Please keep the bug reports and feedback coming through, as they have been invaluable in creating the smoothest play experience for all.

Background Simulation 

  • Balancing changes to the way that states automatically impact influence, economy, and security (balancing is ongoing)

Codex

  • Removed archive entries that have neither audio nor text log
  • Fixed a bug causing archives to have a blank title and text
  • Added archive entries for some crashed ship logs

Comms

  • Re-implemented ability to use physical keyboards on PS4 to enter text in comms channels without needing to use the software keyboard

Conflict Zones

  • Fixed issue where leaving a Conflict Zone and rejoining it could lead to players not being able to choose a side to fight for

Controls

  • Stop allowing the same button to be bound to HUD switch and open Galaxy map, which was causing conflicts
  • Fixed ‘target my wingman’s target’ binding not working

Crashes/Stability

  • Fixed freezes during gameplay
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when launching from a port
  • Fixed a crash that could happen if player is docked at Cavalieri port in Electra
  • Fixed crash that could occur when destroying skimmers
  • Fixed crash that could occur whilst docking
  • Fixed crash that could occur when opening galaxy or system map
  • Fixed crash that could occur when dropping out of hyperspace
  • Fixed crash that occur when entering the game
  • Fixed a crash that occur when opening FSS mode
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when entering CQC
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when opening the codex
  • Fixed a crash that could occur whilst fighting in a Thargoid Conflict Zone

Crime and Punishment

  • Fixed issue where bounties could be claimed anywhere

Exploration

  • Fixed instances of Notable Stellar Phenomenon not being able to be scanned
  • Fixed various biological sites not scanning correctly
  • Updated ‘% System Bodies Mapped’ to ‘% System Bodies Discovered’ in the FSS mode for clarity
  • Fixed issue that caused planets Lagrange and Alpha Centauri to not be able to be scanned
  • Fixed issue where the motion/speed indicators were still visible whilst in FSS mode

Factions

  • Fixed typo in As One Cooperative Minor Faction name
  • Fixed typo in Terminus Syndicate’s description

Galaxy

  • Renamed a starport in the Havans starsystem to Anita’s Legacy
  • Renamed a starport in the Naren starsystem to Sorcha Abhril
  • Renamed a starport in LFT 37 to Vanessa’s Paradise
  • Renamed a starsystem to Tisdar’s Retreat
  • Override starsystem’s default government label to Dictatorship when its allegiance label is set to Thargoids

Livery

  • Fixed issue where previous ship name would appear in new ship or deployed SRV

Localisation

  • Fixed various missing strings and corrupted characters in non-English languages in the Codex
  • Fixed various typos in the Codex
  • Fixed various typos in Squadron screens
  • Fixed typo in the ‘shared trade profit’ message when in trading in Wings
  • Fixed various pronunciation mistakes in the Codex knowledge base for non-English languages

Mining

  • Fixed missing UI when mining in a wing
  • Fixed issues that caused the seismic charge launcher reticule to not show the correct charge level when selecting a target and charging the weapon
  • Fixed UI staying visible after detonation of a motherlode if watched through the vanity camera
  • Fixed visual issue where the ship cockpit glass would render on top of the motherlode fog
  • Fixed some occurrences where surface deposits couldn’t be mined
  • Fixed issue where players couldn’t scoop material chunks with the Python

Missions

  • Opening the galaxy map from a mission auto centers on the target system
  • Fixed ‘Naval Strike’ mission not being able to be completed
  • Fixed missing targets for follow up Assassination missions
  • Fixed templates for collect mission templates which were able to request items that were not legal at the mission giver’s market.

Outfitting

Allow players without Horizons to purchase the new mining modules in outfitting


Player Journal

  • SquadronStartup event
  • ProspectedAsteroid event
  • ReservoirReplenished event
  • Include station info in Location event, if starting when docked
  • Status.json: more detail on fuel level
  • Status.json: fix GuiFocus value when viewing Codex
  • CodexEntry: fix SystemAddress

Ports

  • Increased ship storage to 40 ships per port

Rendering

  • Stopped shipyard schematics rendering through Codex screens
  • Ice planet rocks now generate again

Server

  • Fixed an issue where player location would no longer show in friends and private groups.
  • Fixed an issue when faction conflict states would sometimes not display on the galaxy map
  • Fix list of systems in Thargoid states would appear all on the same line in GalNet
  • Fix localisation issues in Engineer progress news article
  • Various performance & scalability fixes
  • Fix an issue where conflict zones were being placed around the same body too much
  • Fixed a date issue with the website’s GalNet news feed

Squadrons

  • Added a megaship icon on the Squadrons allegiance screen
  • Fixed Squadron bookmark icon alignment issue in galaxy map
  • Added icon to show the happiest system in the Faction allegiance screen

System Map

  • Fixed typo in Dulos system description

UI

  • Fixed an issue that could cause the share to squadron option in the galaxy/system to become unresponsive

VR

  • Fixed pulse wave scanner effects not rendering correctly

Chapter 4: Dedicated Mission Server

On the 7th September 2018 Frontier announced that Chapter 4 would see the implementation of a dedicated mission server. You can see the details below.

“Greetings Commanders,

“In the next chapter of Beyond (3.3), we will be implementing and migrating mission data to a new separate server. While this mainly affects the back-end of the game, you will see some changes to missions in-game.

“As it currently stands, missions are on a shared server with other elements of the game. This has the risk of problems with missions causing outages and stability issues for the rest of the game if there are technical hiccups.

“So, what benefits will we see by moving missions to their own separate server?

  • Any issue (generated by missions) which can cause a server outage or stability problems will no longer result in players disconnecting. Instead the missions will be unavailable for a period of time.
  • If such issues do occur, the previous servers will be able to act as a back-up, offering better opportunities to recover game content as quickly as possible.
  • We may see a slight decrease in mission board loading times.
  • Missions will now be consistent across game modes (Solo/Open/Private Group).

“It’s also worth noting that, as a result of a dedicated ‘mission server’, there will be a removal/significant reduction of the method of refreshing mission boards by logging in and out of the game (“board flipping”). While we understand that this is a practice utilised by some* players, this was never the intended use of the mission system.

“Even though there is a small number of players doing this, we will increase the credit payout of missions (by 10%) across the board so all players using the mission boards as intended will see a net profit. As a result of this, some mission reward choices will see boosted influence, reputation and rank gains. As always when it comes to missions, we will continually review and balance them where needed.

“Ultimately, this is a healthy step for our overall servers and game experience.

“If you have any questions or would like to share your feedback with us, please post below!”

Patch Update: 3.0.4

At 3:33pm on the 26th March 2018 Frontier announced the release of the 3.0.4 patch update. The servers are expected to be down for up to 2 hours. You can see the patch notes below, on the Elite: Dangerous – Current Features part of this blog or on the offical site, here.

“We are taking the galaxy servers down now for the 3.0.4 update which has a number of bug fixes. It also reverts the changes made to hot ships and access to outfitting in the 3.0.3 update, which means ships can now access outfitting anywhere except Starports controlled by a faction that has issued a bounty or fine against them.

Details about future crime proposals can be found here. Estimated downtime is approximately two hours, and we’ll communicate here and on our social media channels when the servers are back online. Thank you all for your patience. The change log can be found below:

Consoles

  • Fixed a cockpit shadow issue near planets on the PS4
  • Restored the version info text to the main menu on the XB1

Crime

  • Fixed an issue where players couldn’t pay off bounties via the Interstellar Factors Contact when their notoriety was 0
  • Refuelling from the Star port Services screen is now allowed while under Anonymous Access Protocol
  • Power bounties are now cleared when the player leaves or defects from a power
  • Power bounties are now included when cleaning a ship with Interstellar Factors
  • Outfitting service is always open (where available) except when using anonymous access

Installations/POIs/USSs

  • Fixed scans in settlements only giving one data material, apart from Guardian Blueprints which intentionally return one
  • Fixed an issue where police will spawn in anarchy systems at a USS

Local News Reports

  • Fixed the wrong ship name appearing in the top 5 bounty lists if a commander appears in more than one list
  • Fixed ship bounties not being added to the top 5 bounty lists on login
  • Fixed top 5 bounty list entries not expiring after 5 days
  • Fixed superpower bounties not being added to the top 5 bounty list when issued

Missions

  • Long distance passenger missions now properly allow the selection of a mission reward
  • Fixed rank up missions not spawning
  • Fixed some Search and Rescue missions not correctly reflecting the repair state of the Starport
  • Fixed some mission-only cargo types not being available
  • Delivery Wing mission payouts have been increased and the cargo requirement decreased

Multi-crew

  • Crew members now unlock trade data correctly when the helm scans a Nav Beacon

Player Journal

  • Fixed localised strings where the localisation resources redirect to another text symbol
  • Fixed missing “PayBounties” event
  • Ensured commodity names are localised in CargoDepot interactions, and when scooping and dumping from SRV
  • Fixed some factions having their influence displayed incorrectly

Stability Fixes

  • Fixed a rare memory crash
  • Fixed a connection issue that could occur near SYNUEFE VM-D C15-10 2 A
  • Fixed a connection issue that could occur near planet surfaces
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when using the Kill Warrant Scanner
  • Fixed the tourist beacon issue where the beacons became misplaced

Weapons & Modules

  • The damage values displayed for experimental weapons now more accurately represent the damage that they will deal against human vessels

3.0 – Beyond: Beta 2

At 10.51 am on the 30th January 2018 Frontier announced the release of the first update to the Beyond Beta. You can see the changes below, or on on the official website here.

The 3.0 beta galaxy servers will go down shortly in order for us to update to beta 2. We have made some specific changes to Engineers that we’d like to call out. You can read about them here. See the full change log below.


Fixes and Improvements

Audio

  • Fixed an audio issue with Small Fixed Mining Lasers
  • Fixed some clicking that could occur when starting and stopping in the Lakon Type 10
  • Fixed hardpoint scanners being silent after swapping from mothership to fighter and back
  • Fixed a bug where returning from the menu pause screen would resume Galnet audio, even if the audio had been paused beforehand
  • Fixed some missing UI sounds when contributing resources towards a Wing Mission when using a mouse

Controls

  • Added the correct radial menus for the T.Flight Hotas One and T.Flight Hotas 4
  • Reverted a change that renamed ThrustMasterHOTAS4 to TFlightHotas4 to keep backwards compatibility with existing player presets that referenced the old name

Engineers

  • Engineer workshop now displays ‘None’ instead of the currently applied experimental effect if you have a Blueprint selected that is different from the one currently applied to the module
  • Pinning a blueprint will now pin all grades, not just one
  • Higher reputation with an Engineer will increase the speed you’ll progress through the lower grades
  • Initial balance pass on certain blueprint stats. Click spoiler to see all changes, to help test the new tweaks. Also read about this on our post here.

    Drives:
    – Dirty Drives: Speed Increase 30%->40%
    (Max possible increase now 47%, used to be 47% with extreme luck, 43%+ considered very good)
    – Clean Drives: Speed Increase 18%->28%
    (Max possible increase now 34.4%, used to be 33.8%)

    Weapons: 
    – Short Range: Damage increase 65%->75%
    (Max DPS increase 67.5% in live, 70% in beta, now 80% including experimentals)
    – Overcharged: Damage increase 55%->70%
    (Max DPS increase 67.5% in live, 59% in beta, now 75% including experimentals)
    – Rapid Fire: Firing Interval reduction 40%->44% (ROF increase 66%->79%)
    (Max DPS increase 67.5% in live, 63% in beta, now 74.7% including experimentals)
    – Efficient: Damage increase 17%->24%
    (Max DPS increase 26% in live, 20.5% in beta, now 27.7% including experimentals)
    Passive power draw reduction 40%->48%
    WEP draw reduction 35%->45%
    – Focused: Heat increase halved (10%->5%)

    Shield Generator:
    – Enhanced, Low Power: Strength Multiplier: 10%->15%
    – Reinforced: Damage Reduction: 12%->15% (back to where it is in live), also fix a numerical error that resulted it odd results from crafting lvl 1-4 recipes

    FSD:
    – Increased FSD Range: Optimised mass 50%->55%

    Power Plant:
    – Low Emissions: Heat 60%->65%
    – Overcharged: Power 36%->40%

    Hull Reinforcement:
    – Single Resistance blueprints: Off-type penalties reduced 12%->10%
    – Heavy Duty: Damage resistance restored from 8.5%->15%
    – Lightweight: Health Multiplier increase 18%->24%

    Armour:
    – Heavy Duty: Health Multiplier increase 30%->35%

    Power Distributor:
    – High Frequency: Global charge rate increase 40%->45%
    – High Capacity: Global Charge Capacity 40%->42%
    – Priority X blueprints: Increase charge rate on primary capacitor from 30%->36%

    Shield Boosters: 
    – Heavy Duty: Shield health increase 38%->40%
    – Resistance Augmented: Global damage resist 16%->17%

Galaxy Map/System Map

  • Removed Thargoid and Guardian from galaxy map Allegiance filter and added them to a new Civilisation filter
  • Fixed the System Map displaying the current view mode of the Galaxy Map in the top right corner
  • Fixed some incorrect player faction descriptions on the Galaxy Map


General Fixes & Tweaks

  • Increased yield of materials from asteroids
  • Fix for bounty values not always being received correctly
  • Material availability has been restored to its original state on planets
  • Added two new materials – Boron and Lead which can most commonly be found in metal-rich asteroid rings.
  • Choosing the Horizons Fast Start when creating a Commander now includes an initial set of micro resources
  • Initial commodity adjustments to make it more profitable to smuggle goods to a black market
  • Anarchy factions treat smuggling goods at a black market as if they were traded on the open commodities market for the purposes of the Background Sim

Holo-Me Creator

  • Corrected the position of the player’s avatar when using the Holo-Me creator when in an Anaconda

Installations/POIs/USSs

  • Fixed an issue that was preventing Data Uplinks from being targeted on Installations
  • Fixed Capital Ship in Distress USS being surrounded by ‘Clean’ Pirate NPCs
  • Prison ships now carry a stock of Sidewinders

Missions

  • Leftover cargo from a Delivery Wing Mission is now flagged as Stolen for all wing members
  • Adjusted the spawn rate of Skimmers at settlements to better facilitate ‘Kill Skimmer’ missions
  • Increased the variety of Courier missions that can be generated
  • Fixed an issue where kills by Wing members were not always counted towards a Massacre Wing mission
  • Factions will no longer send you to scan their own Data Points for a Planetary Scan mission
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing mission targets from counting towards an Assassination mission after following a target using a Wake Scanner
  • Fixed material rewards from Wing Missions not being added to the Material Inventory
  • Fixed mission rewards not filtering correctly
  • Wing Delivery and Collect missions are now available

Multi-Crew

  • Fixed a disconnect that could occur when attempting to deploy a fighter in Multi-Crew

NPCs

  • Fixed an issue where planetary defences would still attack you while docked after re-spawning
  • ATR fixes – Correct number of ATR ships now arrive and at the correct threshold

Outfitting

  • Fixed Recon Limpet Controllers all having the same stats and description

Planets

  • Fixed some cases of the rocks around Engineer bases being different colours to the planet’s surface

Player Journal

  • Added an event to Player Journal when SRV is destroyed
  • Added info in journal if wanted when docked
  • Added a property in the Journal’s “Location” or “FSDJump” event indicating if the player is wanted locally
  • Fixed the “Loadout” entry written to the Journal at startup (It was sometimes missing)
  • Ensured all ShipType strings written to journal get localisation
  • Added a new “Powerplay” event in the journal to log a player’s powerplay allegiance, rank, merits etc

Ships

Alliance Chieftain

  • Adjusted the Outfitting camera angle for the String Lights Livery Slot

Keelback

  • Adjusted some camera angles in the Keelback and fixed some UI occlusion that could occur with the role switch panel when in the second cockpit seat

Lakon Type 10

  • Fixes to the landing gear animations and positioning

SRV

  • Fixed an issue where the SRV’s seat was not animating in sync with the pilot impact animations

Stability Fixes

  • Fixed a crash when logging in after applying an unsuitable Engineer modification to a module
  • Tentative fix for a render texture crash (the most frequently encountered crash in 3.0 Beta 1)
  • Fixed a disconnect that could occur when using the Technology Broker if trying to remove required materials
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when the mission owner scans a Nav Beacon for an Assassination Wing Mission
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when looking at the Navigation Panel when in CQC
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when opening the Galaxy Map
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when switching to another ship
  • Fixed a crash that could occur on the Insurance Screen

UI

  • Fixed failed Wing Missions not being marked as such in the Transactions Tab
  • When selecting a megaship turret in the contacts panel, it will no longer look like the player is selecting a ship nor have any attributes normally associated with a ship
  • Fixed an issue where weapon mode icons (fixed, gimbal, turret) were appearing incorrectly for modules in outfitting
  • Fixed the icon for Inbox messages that contain audio
  • Fixed some visual issues that could occur with the UI upon unlocking an item from the Technology Broker
  • The Sub-target tab now shows status instead of health when selecting a hackable item
  • Modules tab now updates when taking heat damage to correctly display health values
  • Fixed negative numbers appearing next to invitee’s avatars on Massacre Wing missions
  • Fixed Engineer mod notifications not correctly aligning when changing from one warning to another
  • Fixed an issue that prevented players from scrolling down the module info panel
  • Fixed an issue that could lead you to become stuck on the rewards screen following the completion of a Cargo Depot Wing mission
  • Changed the inbox filter and header from ‘Audio Logs’ to ‘Discovered Logs’
  • Fixed some debug text that could appear when targeting Black Box Canisters
  • Fixed the ‘engineered’ icon incorrectly displaying when selling stored non-engineered modules
  • Fixed a crash in the workshop that could occur when comparing against a Blueprint not available at the current engineer
  • Fixed an issue whereby an NPC’s avatar could appear in the Comms panel instead of a player’s avatar
  • Fixed inbox message not always appearing when gaining an exploration rank after discovering a new micro resource
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when accessing The Dweller’s Starport UI

Server Update: 2.3.02

At 12:37pm on the 17th May, Frontier announced a small server-side update:

We are in the process of rolling out a server side update. The server side update will occur this afternoon. Below are the changes…

  • Fix to make sure mission data and material rewards match between mission boards and transactions panel
  • Fix some players stuck on the main menu with Unable to Load Commander Data errors after launching a Fighter or SRV
  • Fix a transaction server disconnection when failing to restock limpets
  • Fix a transaction server Community Goal issue
  • Stop factions from getting positive effects when selling black market commodities for really low prices
  • Fix some stored ships not being available from the shipyard
  • Fix a transaction server issue when switching to a deployed fighter in multicrew
  • Split faction effects from redeeming superpower bounties based upon current influence percentages.
    • A percentage of the influence change will be left over if there are factions in the system that are not part of the superpower. This remaining amount will be discarded.