Elite: Dangerous Dev Tracker

Greetings Commanders.

Hoping to do Zac proud today by delivering you this weeks edition of Discovery Scanner.

You can find it here: https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/discovery-scanner-04072022

Have a super week ahead.
If any further news comes in for you as we pass through the days, we'll be here to let you know.

For now though, take care out there.
See you in the black o7

Greetings Commanders,

We’d like to thank you all for your patience whilst we’ve been working on our communications and development plans for the remainder of the year.

Following the launch of Odyssey, our primary focus has been on performance, optimisation and bug fixing, along with adding more features. This focus has had a knock-on effect with regards to our plans for this year and beyond and delayed our communications.

We understand the concern and frustration this has caused and hope this post goes some way to alleviate those feelings. Below we discuss profile transfers for console players and give an overview of the updates coming before the end of 2022.

Console Profile Transfers

We can now confirm that players will be able to copy their profiles from console to PC in light of Odyssey’s cancellation on Xbox and PlayStation. This process will be time limited and optional. We will provide a date for this process once it i... Read more

o7 everyone,

It's time for this week's Discovery Scanner post! Let's talk Elite Dangerous.

Heatsink Module Update
In a GalNet article on the 13th, we mentioned that the megaships in the Coalsack Sector Vu-O B6-6 and Onoros systems will provide pre-engineered heatsinks. However, these were recently offered as a CG reward and we want to extend their exclusivity for a while longer to uphold the importance of CG rewards. Therefore, these megaships will stock the heatsinks, but at a later date.

Non-Damaged Starports
The team have noted that a few starports that you may have expected to be damaged last week were miraculously unharmed. Look out for this to be rectified this week, most likely Thursday. The Thargoids won't give up that easily. Maniacal laughter ensues

Vintage Intrepid Pack
Looking to give your ... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

This week's Discovery Scanner is now live on the website: https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/discovery-scanner-30052022

o7

Hi all,

The latest Discovery Scanner is now live: https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/discovery-scanner-13062022

o7

This is all very much intentional and there have been no errors in testing. The undersuit (and all parts) get their name from the entire pack they belong to, as is convention. I understand on this occasion they are harder to distinguish in the chest pieces but the suits are all correct.

"St0rmFury, post: 9732438, member: 266151"

How do you pronouce SYNUEFE anyway.

Think of the most complicated way of pronouncing it and you'll be close.

Interesting post, thank you! As far as new content goes, the Azimuth saga has been regularly adding new mysteries in the galaxy for players to come together and solve. Similarly we saw the return of Galnet and Community Goals and like you said, the recent CG was a huge success in terms of player participation. There's still plenty more to come in terms of narrative, but as others in the thread have said, a lot of the beauty of Elite comes from the player-created events, which I'm hoping the Community Event Calendar will help support - as well as more frequent shout outs from us in the CM team via streams and weekly posts soon.

Greetings Commanders,

Many of you will be aware that we announced an upcoming process which will allow players to copy progress from their console Commander profiles to PC. If you missed that announcement, you can find more details here. Please note:
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[*]The original console profile will remain playable
[*]Only one profile may be copied per copy of Elite Dangerous
[*]This will be a one-time only process
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We're happy to confirm that this process is scheduled for release in September. The implementation has a lot of m... Read more

"Freyja, post: 9703547, member: 274928"

Is there anyone alive at FDev ?

I find the term 'alive' so very limiting.

Hi all. Just to let you know we are investigating this. If you can, please contribute to this Issue with any details you can provide.

[JUSTIFY]Greetings Commanders,

I want to speak directly about the lack of official streams and reduced communications from our social channels since the start of 2022. I understand the concerns this has caused and hope this statement goes some way to alleviate them.

The whole team are excited to share all of the upcoming content for this year including new updates, content expansions and the next major phase in the ongoing narrative following the Azimuth Saga finale. Beyond this, we also look forward to sharing our new streaming format when the series returns as a weekly show. Changes will include new segments, year-round Twitch Drop campaigns and studio-quality production once we move back into the office.

However, there are several questions that must be answered internally to inform this communication plan. It is important to me that we address key subjects by priority and when we do that the information we provide is clear. The team and I are working incr... Read more

Hey all - I'll chase this with the dev team :)

Thanks for the kind post, [USER=28578]@Vingtetun[/USER], I've passed it along to make sure the praise is received (and noticed).

Your lovely words are also appreciated [USER=132673]@The Lawful[/USER], I'm blessed to work with such a brilliant team. You've also earned the highest respect and admiration from us!

Greetings Commanders,

Some issues have been detected in our final round of checks before the launch of Update 11. Therefore we're taking extra time to apply fixes and moving the release to next week. Apologies for the further delay, but we trust what's coming will have you on the edge of your seat.

O7

Hi there. The sale should not have ended early and is still on until the 11th. Our devs have investigated and it should now be available again.

Greetings Commanders!

Apologies for bringing you your Discovery Scanner a day later than usual this week, but here we are! Let's talk about all things Elite Dangerous.

Fleet Carrier Interiors & Update 11 Feedback

First up this week, I want to talk about Fleet Carriers, specifically, your feedback to the launch of interiors, and Update 11 as a whole. We're very happy to see that the vast majority of Commanders are enjoying the update, and of course the jump sequence that I like to bring up every week because it's just THAT good. Your feedback, however, has been incredibly valuable as we look to improve the experience further moving forward. Of all the feedback, I believe the following are the most prevalent:

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[*]Bartender Service storage cap (already tweaked)
[*]Bartender Service sell pricing cap
[*]You would like to use menus whilst sitting
[*]The panel next to the Commander's chair in ... Read more

Greetings Commanders,

Elite Dangerous is a game close to my heart.

It’s no secret that Odyssey’s launch was less than ideal, including the need to split the PC/console player base to focus on a PC-only launch. Since Odyssey’s release in May 2021, we have worked tirelessly to improve the Odyssey experience on PC, and whilst we have made great progress there is still more to be done. We have been supporting the pre-Odyssey and post-Odyssey codebases since.

Over the last several months, we have been wrestling with the best way to move forward, and it is with a heavy heart we have decided to cancel all console development. We need to be able to move forward with the story of the game, and in order for us to do this we need to focus on a single codebase. Elite Dangerous will continue on console as it is now together with critical updates, but we will focus on new content updates on PC on the post-Odyssey codebase.

We appreciate this news is not what ou... Read more

Greetings Commanders.
Lovely to see you all and end the week here with you today o7

Hope you're having a fantastic Friday so far and here's to an equally fantastic weekend ahead for you all, wherever you are in the Galaxy.
Anyway, coming to you now with news of a number of improvements being released today, in the form of a small update this afternoon for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Commanders only.

Elite Dangerous Odyssey will today receive a small Hotfix for you to deploy, in order to address a number of outstanding issues.

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey servers will not require extended server downtime but will be offline momentarily to receive the deployment from approx 16:45 BST
In game broadcasting will go...around about now!
An update will be available to you imminently thereafter.


Updates of note:
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[*]Typ... Read more