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Greetings Commanders!

There's another big week ahead, with the arrival of Update 8. Let's take a look at what's in store for us:




Tuesday
Zac Vs Bruce: They've taken on the community together in CQC, but now it's time for Zac & Bruce to go head-to-head in ship-based PVP!

Wednesday
Odyssey Update 8: Wednesday sees the arrival of Update 8 to Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, bringing with it emotes, megaship interiors, and more. We'll have more information on the deployment schedule of the update tomorrow.

Stellar Screenshots: It's closing in on Halloween, so we're looking for your spookiest shots! Keep your eyes on the forums for another photography competition this week.

Thursday
Halloween Stream: Join us for a fu... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

As promised in last Friday's post, the Elite Dangerous Festive Countdown returns for another year!



Free ARX

Over the next 12 days (until the 25th December 2021), you'll receive free ARX just for logging in to the game!

Golden & Chromed Paintjobs

We'll also be releasing Golden and Chromed paintjobs on the Store, with new ships becoming available each day! There will be new paintjobs up until the 25th December, and those paintjobs will remain on the store for purchase until the 10th January 2022! Let's take a look at a couple of examples of today's paintjobs:

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Greetings Commanders!

This is likely to be the last full Community Schedule of the year, so let's take one last look at the week ahead, shall we?



Monday
Elite Dangerous Patch: We're aiming to deploy a patch later today to address some of the issues discovered since the launch of Odyssey Update 9 and the recent patch to Horizons. This will apply to all platforms.

Festive Countdown Begins: The Elite Festive Countdown is underway! From today, you can receive free ARX just by logging into the game!

Tuesday
Supercruise News #53: We'll be taking a look at the Scorpion SRV and chatting to some of the developers that worked on the new machine on the final Supercruise News show of the year.

Wednesday
Stellar Screenshots:... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

All hands are on deck here at Frontier as we work towards Update 8 (currently due next week). Whilst we work on the next big update to Odyssey, let's see what's in store in this week's schedule:



Tuesday
Colonia Bridge Stream: Arthur & Sally will be sharing all the highlights from the community before helping to finish off the current Community Goal on tomorrow's stream!

Wednesday
Stellar Screenshots: Our weekly photography competition returns to its usual Wednesday slot this week, so make sure to get your entries in within the next two days!

Thursday
Horizons CQC Night: Join Bruce & Zac for another round of CQC! Will they take back their crown? Tune in to find out, or pla... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

At the time of this post (16:15 UTC), our servers have just gone offline while we roll out a hotfix. Downtime is expected to last approximately 30 minutes so feel free to check out which changes are coming while you wait:

Fixes: Odyssey
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[*]A stability issue encountered while cycling through Fire Groups was fixed.
[*]A stability issue when Commanders fly over planetary surfaces was fixed.
[*]A crash while encountering Guardian Sentinels at Guardian Sites was fixed.
[*]A stability issues caused when opening the Orrery View in the System Map was fixed.
[*]An issue preventing Commanders from restocking ammo for the Scorpion SRV after being destroyed was fixed.
[*]An issue affected textures on the Scorpion turret (while being used) was fixed.
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Fixes: Horizons (PC & Console)
[LIST]
[*]A stability issue encountered while cycling t... Read more

Greetings Commanders,

As we approach the end of the year, I thought I would do something different. Instead of the usual Development Update, I would like to show more than tell; specifically around Fleet Carriers! We will have a full Development Update in January 2022, and lay out our plans for communicating with you through updates, streams and social channels.

Update 9

Update 9 is planned for release next week, with full patch notes published on the same day. Once we have a confirmed date and time we will of course let you know! Here are the highlights of what Update 9 will bring:
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[*]New Twin-Seat Combat Multicrew SRV
[*]Mission extensions
[*]Multi Limpet Controller
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This update will also include a plethora of fixes and tweaks, including (but not limited to) the following:
[LIST]
[*]Issues relating to inactive AI at conflict zones will now be resolved.
[*]Issues relating to hatc... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

I'm back to share the best creations of the week from the Elite galaxy! Thanks to Sally for doing a grand job in finding your amazing work last week, but I reckon we've got just as good a selection today! Let's begin:

Elite Ship Dioramas By Phoebia



As featured in our latest Supercruise News show, these dioramas by Phoebia are a true work of art! I can't begin to explain the process in making these, but I do know they all originate from actual in-game screenshots.

Imperial Eagle In Minecraft By GrandBee



It's always fun ... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

Let's take a look at what the week ahead has in store for us in the latest community schedule:




Tuesday
Supercruise News #49: Bruce & Zac will be sharing the latest development insights, as well as the best bits from the community!

Wednesday
Stellar Screenshots: Found a planet you just can't get enough of? Got a new paintjob for your favourite ship? Why not show them off in our weekly photography competition?

Thursday
Odyssey Open Play: Chaos will likely ensue as we embark on another venture into the open galaxy of Elite Dangerous this Thursday!

Community Goal: Prepare for a new CG to kick off this Thursday, more details later this week!

Friday... Read more

Greetings Commanders.

Tomorrow (October 27th 2021) will see the deployment of the much anticipated Update 8 for Elite Dangerous (more on the expected deployment schedule in a later post today, so hang tight. On it o7)

With this update we will be rolling out a fix to address a known issue with capacity readings for Fleet Carriers. This fix is being applied to both Horizons and Odyssey across ALL PLATFORMS.

The Issue:
It's been noted that some Fleet Carriers have been returning negative capacity values for ship & module packs.
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[*]The issue itself lies with the size of the packs being incorrectly initialised within the Carrier, so Commanders will have been able to to install ship/module packs that should have caused their Fleet Carrier to go over capacity, for example purchasing 1 ship or module could remove 1000’s of capacity usage from a pack that the "Carrier thought" used 10’s of capacity, or vice-ver... Read more

Greetings once again, Commanders o7

Big day again tomorrow, right?
Let's make sure we're all on the same page ahead of time to welcome in Update 8 for Odyssey along with an additional update for Horizons players.

See, I mentioned it in the line above but I do bring the additional news today that aside from Update 8 for Odyssey, a select number of issues have been addressed for Horizons Commanders too, which includes Console players.

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Deployment Schedule Chain Of Events:
At approximately 09:00 BST (08:00 UTC)
'Servers will be offline in one hour' warning deployed.
Patch notes lovingly delivered in the form of two forum posts (one for Odyssey: Update 8, one for Horizons).

At approximately 10:00 BST (09:00 UTC)
Servers will be offline for ALL PLATFORMS (Consoles and PC).

At approxim... Read more

Greetings Commanders.

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We're sorry to bring this sad news to you today but due to the current COVID crisis and government updates on the steady spread of the Omicron variant (with cases discovered in Cambridge), we have made the decision to postpone our Festive Community Meet Up, planned originally for December 10th 2021.


All Commanders who have purchased tickets will be entitled to a full refund of their ticket purchases if they wish, or tickets can naturally be carried over to the new planned date, confirmed for February 25th 2022.

Our ... Read more

"Old Duck, post: 9564449, member: 153554"

Frontier (specifically, Sally) has come out and publicly stated that they are focusing on people who currently like Odyssey and rather than those who do not

If you're singling me out there I'm going to feel the need to step in so -
If I have ever said that exact and specific line you're using there amidst all of the many past responses I've given regarding feedback, addressing key issues as part of updates (even those reported in Horizons), understanding player frustrations and giving as much insight as I'm able to into the continued plan for Elite Dangerous then...

Or maybe that's your take on us saying "we need to focus on the quality of Odyssey first before -"?

Greetings Commanders!

Ok, full system checks, throttle...working, view is nice. Things are looking good so let's go:

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At Approximately 13:00 BST (12:00 UTC)
'Servers will be offline in one hour' warning deployed ✅

At Approximately 14:00 BST (13:00 UTC)
Servers will be offline for ALL PLATFORMS (Consoles and PC) ✅

At Approximately 15:00 BST (14:00 UTC) ✅
Update 8 for Odyssey and the Horizons Update will be available to download and then play.

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To recap on the notes and conversation so far, if you've not already had the chance to look over things as they currently stand, we have:

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Update 8 Notes ... Read more

"fod4u2, post: 9558821, member: 104878"

Is you name sallymorganmoore? No its not, are you an employee of fdev? No your not, can you answer this question with accuracy? No you cannot, Can you ask the dev team for the answer to this question? No you cannot!

The thing is...they answered you perfectly.

Greetings Commanders.

Well here we are.

Update 8 for Odyssey is very close right now,
HOWEVER I do need to bring the news of a slight change to the expected deployment schedule.
(Now listen...You all warned me last night, right? I'm here to jinx us...clearly.)

I'll be open with you with what's happened:
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[*]Last night the team discovered one final, nasty issue with the way languages were suddenly displaying (#gamedev). This needed an immediate fix.
[*]When you fix something, you must always run sanity checks against the build set to deploy. These checks will need to happen this morning due to the timing of the fix last night.
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To that end, we now need to formulate a slightly new deployment schedule for today which remains unconfirmed in terms of time specifics right now.
We're looking at releasing the updates 'This Afternoon'. Time s... Read more

Greetings Commanders.

Well here we are. If you've read this as part of the Odyssey Update 8 notes, then forgive me I'm going to repeat myself on the intro again just for the sake of keeping things nice and tidy o7

An update for Elite Dangerous Horizons PC & Console is scheduled for today,
HOWEVER I do need to bring the news of a slight change to the expected deployment schedule.
(Now listen...You all warned me last night, right? I'm here to jinx us...clearly.)

I'll be open with you with what's happened:
[LIST]
[*]Last night the team discovered one final, nasty issue with the way languages were suddenly displaying (#gamedev). This needed an immediate fix.
[*]When you fix something, you must always run sanity checks against the build set to deploy. These checks will need to happen this morning due to the timing of the fix last night.
[/LIST]
... Read more

Greetings Commanders.

Right, listen up!
There are a lot of threads, a lot going on all over the place - let's condense it down to this thread of discussion so all eyes can hopefully be in one spot to farm and gather feedback on today's updates as we go, following deployment.

Today is pretty impactful in terms of what's gone into the game, so here to listen and report around.

Trying to stay out of bloating the update note threads where things dotted about all over the place could get potentially missed and such, so let's see how this works.

Thanks!

o7

Greetings Commanders o7

Hot of the "fix-press", we've got another response update on the way for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Commanders shortly, to address a noticable issue with the game "stuttering" when you're out and about on foot.

Today at approximately 12:30 UTC we will be rolling out a fix for the "Settlement Stutter" in the form of a client update.
This means you will need to install an update to your game once deployment is complete.

Unfortunately it won't be a "stealth rollout" (where the servers don't need to come offline), so...

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey servers (only) will be offline for a brief duration (no more than 10 minutes).

The Issue:
[LIST]
[*]Commanders have been noticing progressively more, that during settlement and general on-foot interactions a sudden "stutter" in performance occurs.
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Results from... Read more

Greetings Commanders.

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I am, today, thrilled to announce that the Elite Dangerous Community Team will be hosting a Community Meetup, this December, here in Cambridge.

Join us for this festive gathering, featuring some of your favourite Elite Dangerous Developers, good food, drinks and an Arthur Tolmie special Pub Quiz in the heart of Cambridge, on December 10th 2021 in collaboration with the incredible Special Effect charity.

Due to the nature of the world today, this will be a limited capacity even... Read more