Elite: Dangerous Dev Tracker

Greetings Commanders,

Post-Odyssey updates have reached double digits! In this round, we see a series of optimisation improvements and a large batch of fixes. At the time of this post (10:00 GMT/UTC), servers will go offline for approximately two hours while the update deploys.

Changes will come to both Odyssey and Horizons each listed in their own sections below. These will see some overlap in cases where certain changes are happening in both versions.

Odyssey

Optimisation
The following features have received optimisation improvements:
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[*]Looking at/through glass
[*]c*ckpit glass
[*]Galaxy and System Map functionality
[*]Avatar decals
[*]Forward lit VFX
[*]Planet fine textures
[*]Shadows
[*]Emissive rescaling
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Rendering
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[*]An issue causing artifacting on the local view in the System Map was fixed
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Stabili... Read more

Greetings Commanders.

A very happy Monday to you all.
Back in with some 'pre flight checks' again for a fairly sudden and abrupt delivery of news today...It's 'Update Day' soon. By 'Soon', this time we mean...tomorrow.

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Update 10, along with a selection of quality fixes for Horizons players on PC and Console, will be available to all at approximately 12:00 UTC tomorrow, January 25 2022

Approximate (see what I did there?) Deployment Schedule:
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[*]In game broadcasting for pending server downtime shall begin at 9:00am UTC.
[*]All Elite Dangerous servers will be offline from approximately 10:00am UTC to accommodate Update 10 for Odyssey and an update housing a selection of fixes for Horizons players (PC & Console).
[*]S... Read more

Greetings Commanders,

Pilots around the Milky Way recently coalesced for an outstanding contribution to phase 3 of the Colonia Bridge Community Goal. We’d like to thank all the contributors for their patience regarding the rewards.

The reason for the delay is that the uniquely double-engineered Frame Shift Drives currently have an issue preventing them from being modified with experimental effects.

So you can enjoy these modules in the meantime, they will be given out later this week with an in-game inbox message to notify you. They will not be modifiable during this time while we work on a fix to come in a future update.

We apologise for any inconvenience this brings and hope you enjoy the special engineering they still carry in the meantime.

O7

Greetings Commanders!

Apologies that this Discovery Scanner is coming a little later than usual, it's been a busy one but now it's time to round out the day with some Elite Dangerous talk as we approach the one-year anniversary of Odyssey!


Update 12 & Frameshift Live
We're back with a new episode of Frameshift Live this Thursday, and as Update 12 is due later this month, we're going to be having a sneak preview at some of the changes the team have been working on since the last update. Alongside that, we'll have our usual community highlights as well as most-likely chaotic gameplay and Twitch Drops! Make sure to join us on Twitch at 4PM BST on Thursday 19th May for Frameshift Live #8!


Community Event Calendar Spotlight: Operation Warbucks Charity Event

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We usually like to highlight upcoming... Read more

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Greetings Commanders.

We're here again, out in the black but also out in the annual black Friday event, for the Elite Dangerous Gamestore.


Today (November 22) kicks off the Black Friday offerings with:
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[*]40% off Ship Kits and Gear Sets.
[*]30% off Paint Jobs, c*ckpi... Read more

Greetings Commanders

The official Elite Dangerous livestream will not take place this week. We'll post in the future to confirm when they will resume.

Greetings Commanders,

Today at 15:30 UTC, we'll be releasing a small hotfix to Elite Dangerous: Odyssey in order to address some stability issues within the game.

There's no expected downtime associated with the hotfix but it's always wise to give the servers a few minutes to get back up to speed!

o7

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The hotfix is now live!

"d8veh, post: 9857990, member: 107601"

and they're not bloated by countless community managers that do god knows what.

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Greetings Commanders.

Following very many continued conversations throughout present threads here in the Forum after the deployment of the latest updates this week (thank you so much for your time), we're continuing to file through the more pressing, widespread reports of immediate issues that significantly impact gameplay and give you a place of further acknowledgement of them, as oppose to losing responses to pages of discussion, here there and everywhere.
That's not helpful to you.

Right now we are focused on the following issues raised in the last few days since update releases.

PLEASE NOTE: This is not a list to overrule pre-existing issues raised which either didn't make it in to the latest updates or are legacy issues affecting gameplay.

We're still working on updates for you regarding previously raised issues around many areas of the game, not only gameplay, wh... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

I'm back after a week's break so apologies if I'm a little slow to get caught up today! Let's dig into some Elite Dangerous community news.

Community Goals
After a busy week recently with multiple possible community goals, the galaxy is taking a slight breather over the past week! Let's take the opportunity to recognise those Commanders once again who were the top contributors to the most recent CG's:

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I think it's fair to say that Commander Namix is a strong advocate of Salvation, appearing in both lists! Congratulations to all those involved, I'm sure Salvation is most pleased with your efforts.

Now that we've had a recent mining CG, I'm interested to know your ship and outfitting of choice during the event! Any unusual builds on display or was it the tried and tested miners like the Python and Cutter out there last week?

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Greetings Commanders!

Frameshift Live will be back next week on Wednesday 4th May at 16:00 BST where we will be discussing console account transfers, our focus for Elite Dangerous in 2022 and the usual community news!

See you there!

o7

Hi Commanders!

Just to let you know the alarm is raised and the team will be on the case as soon as possible!

I've just set out social comms coverage too o7

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Source: https://twitter.com/EliteDangerous/status/1486814743679619073?t=5htgaWn8G_TlQHa1_vcLWQ&s=19


Apologies for the inconvenience!

"DrinkyBird, post: 9718265, member: 272997"

It's been two days


Just a couple for you:

My Guardian Angel Bird.

Greetings Commanders.

Happy to share some progress with you this afternoon.

After extensive dev side discussion and planning over the course of the last few days following the release of Update 10 for Odyssey, the team are confident in the planned release of a hotfix to address some prominent gameplay issues that have arisen as a result of Update 10 for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Commanders, with a view to deploy early next week (week commencing 31 January).

We are continuing to also discuss exisiting issues present for Console and Horizons only Commanders, with a view to share more on expectation around these as soon as possible.
The same goes for additional issue reports across all versions, including the known issues we've logged and acknowledged as part of previous updates.
These are still VERY valid, but we do want to take whatever opportunity we can in the form of a hotfix like this, to put in (if even a fe... Read more

Hello! These beacons are currently in testing and should be in-game soon.

Greetings Commanders!

We've been incredibly impressed with the amount you've contributed to the CG's that launched yesterday already, so much so that you had almost completed one of them by the time I logged in to work this morning! With that in mind, the team have discussed our options and have decided to add very high extension tiers to the CG's in order to give players a chance to engage with the content over the intended period.

We will of course still count your early efforts in terms of the overall success of the CG, we won't be taking that win away from you. It's been a fantastic combined effort from every Commander involved!

o7

Morning all, team are aware and investigating this one.

Hey there - can you create an Issue Tracker report for this please? :)

https://issues.frontierstore.net/

It was his scouting of railway tracks that really had people worried

Greetings Commanders.

Thank you to many of you for your patience here in the Forum last night following a large scale issue currently present, whereby Xbox Commanders cannot access Horizons content (this includes shipyards, livery, the ability to land on planets, with errors occurring throughout).

I'd like to make this thread a 'catch all' for updates on our progress with investigations where further information will be posted as and when we have it for you.

The team are fully engaged in looking into the matter as I type.

Note:
Please, if possible refrain from using this thread to raise additional issues unrelated to the current entitlements investigation. It really, really helps me to keep strings of information neatly separated out.
When available and able, we will continue to address remaining discussed issues present in game throughout the corresponding open threads and conversations around... Read more