Elite: Dangerous Dev Tracker

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!

It's time for the latest of our Issue Reports. Below you'll find the latest Top 20 table, based on your most voted issues in the Issue Tracker.

Note: the status and planned release of each issue is subject to change as various factors affect the ongoing development schedule.



Top 20 Issues

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[*]Tiling Planetary Features - As before - would require a large overhaul so no short term plans.
[*]Automated accounts are ... Read more

Greetings Commanders! Happy Tuesday.

It's time, once again, for the latest installment of our Issue Report fly-overs.

Below you'll find the latest Top 20 table, based on your most voted issues in the Issue Tracker. Below that you'll find a bit of a status summary on where we're at with each to set expectations as best possible.

Note: The status and planned release of each issue is subject to change as various factors affect the ongoing development schedule.

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Top 20 Issues
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[*]Tiling Planetary Features - Investigation remains ongoing. This is proving to be quite an undertaking to plan and aim toward solving, but the team are still keeping it in their sights... Read more

Greetings Commanders!

It's time to sit back and enjoy another round of brilliant creations from our very own community! Remember, if you would like a chance to be featured, just post your creation on Twitter using the hashtag #CommanderCreations, or link it below! Without further ado:

Exploration Montage By Lana Hyugatha

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Lana Hyugatha recorded their recent exploration trip and cut it together into this wonderful montage that highlights many different... Read more

"angusmadmac1, post: 9628592, member: 140550"

Hi [USER=188830]@sallymorganmoore[/USER] , just a fyi i landed on this planet this morning and had some rendering issues , floating srv and rocks sunken srv and rock . EDH xbox series x[ATTACH type="full" alt="tile line.jpg"]277653[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="through the ground.jpg"]277654[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="floaty.jpg"]277656[/ATTACH]

Oh gosh, Angus...how do I find this particular planet? I'm a little bit ok at my job but....

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:
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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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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:
[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.
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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.

Welcoming in today an update to Elite Dangerous: Horizons for Console Players, to tackle a couple of issues that fell out of the recent update, alongside Odyssey Update 7.

Servers will flick offline at approximately 10:00 UTC / 11:00 BST (give or take several minutes) and will be expected to be down for no longer than 10 minutes for the update to deploy.


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Updates Of Note:
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[*]A fix has been implemented for engineered weapons dealing extreme amounts of damage.
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[*]Console players can no longer go Supersize for an extra 'X credits' (McDonald's references? Come on, Sally...).
[*]Other issues with values/damage multipliers across regular weapons have also been addressed.
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[*]A fix has been implemented to address an issue whereby extremely large... Read more

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

Greetings Commanders.

Thanks for all of the discussion today following the release of Update 9 for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey.

There are naturally many of you wondering what I've been doing with the conversations we've been having throughout the day, so just to summarise things here's a current list of 'Issues of Note' under internal investigation right now.

These issues are currently in internal investigation phase, so I cannot provide an ETA of addressing currently or fix schedule. We'll keep you posted on any specific developments.

PLEASE REMEMBER: These issues in the below list do not negate other issues reported. These ones either immediately impact gameplay following Update 9 or are previously reported issues which require a further look into, to see why they remain in game following the update, after having had some prior attention.

For other information regarding general known i... Read more

"Sbirch123, post: 9609348, member: 248135"

[USER=188830]@sallymorganmoore[/USER] any update on this please

https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/44922

"Sbirch123, post: 9609750, member: 248135"

CG Fsds ticket link
https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/44922

I'm here, I'm here, I'm chasing this.
Sorry, with Update 9 moivng ever faster toward us and all of the other bits that need doing back here I'd LOVE to be able to come runn... Read more

"Kzak, post: 9603001, member: 56644"

[USER=188830]@sallymorganmoore[/USER] - is this something you could take a look at, please? Happens in both Horizons and Odyssey.

Got this now, so so so sorry for the delay on this - it's been an entire month rolled into a few days.
So sorry. Chasing.

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, hope you're doing well this fine Wednesday.

So first up, apologies that this may be coming in a little on the late side following your reports from the end of last week, but after catching up today and with further discussion held, I'm here with some clarity on the issue you've been facing with attempts to modify the newly rewarded FSD module as part of a recent Community Goal.

To recap the discussion:
Lots of discussion and confusion around since the release of the CG FSD last week, with many of you attempting to modify/apply experimentals once aquired, only to find you were hitting a 'server error'.

Some clarification:
I can confirm that it is by design that pre-engineered modules cannot be further modified.
As this FSD is a pre-engineered, this falls into the 'cannot further modify/add experimentals category of module.

The Issue ("Server Er... Read more

Greetings Commanders,  
 
As we reach the end of another month, we are delighted to share the latest development progress from the team.

Last week saw the release of Odyssey Update 7 which brings big changes to Conflict Zones such as anti-air defences, rocket troopers, and dogfighting. If you missed last month’s Development Update, you can check out the turrets in action here or you can jump into Odyssey right now to try it for yourself!
 
Issue Watch
We’ve had a lot of feedback since our August post and have been hard at work tackling your most pressing issues: not just from the Issue Tracker, but from all corners of our community. We’re pleased to report that with Update 7 we tackled a number of pe... Read more

Greetings Commanders.

Regarding the latest post on addressing confusion around the inability to add further modification/experimentals to the latest CG FSD reward: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-community-goal-fsd-reward-and-modification-application-of-experimentals.593774/

I thought this information below would be better in a new post for you, just incase this statement got drowned out in the original post.

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Greetings Commanders!

As we're at the start of a new week, let's look ahead to what the Elite Dangerous galaxy holds for us in the coming days:



Tuesday
Community Highlights: Bruce & Zac will be sharing the best bits from the Elite Dangerous community this Tuesday.

Wednesday
Stellar Screenshots: The competition rolls on as we approach the end of the year, there's still a chance to get your shots in this year's Hall of Fame!

Thursday
Odyssey Missions Stream: Arthur & Sally will be taking on some more Odyssey missions on stream this week!

Community Goal: Make sure to set aside some time to dive into Elite this Thursday!

Friday
Commander Creations: From artwo... Read more

"ADAMtheWELSHMANz, post: 9629735, member: 164411"

Fell asleep during stream (not an uncommon occurrence).

Did they ever respond to the many people in chat asking if the MLC's were coming to all versions or EDO only?

Glad to hear you find the shows so relaxing! We did confirm that MLCs will be coming to Horizons too.

"Inhibited, post: 9629696, member: 143154"

The article is an obvious propaganda piece by an "independent journalist". There has been no statement by any actual lore figures so far... Its an attempt to further illustrate and display another knee-jerk reaction along the lines of GRR BUGS BAD.

People who know the history of the Thargoid war know we caused this conflict, politicians and the industrial military complex deepened it to profit from it - what about the trade money from repairs? The pilots federation bounties that are magicked up by the bank of Zaonce - where do they come from? The whole economic system in this game is fiction much like present day economics.

The astuteness of this post is not lost on me for one. It is a deliberate cultural comment by the narrative team on in game culture - that mirrors populist media we have come to know and love in present day. ...

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Really interesting conversation, thanks for raising this one. I'll throw in my two cents.

I can't see a version of Open where PvP can be toggled off, even if there are many who would like to play that way. IMO, it would go against the spirit of Elite and certainly against the idea of "Dangerous". It's also not easily explained through in-game lore.

However, I do sympathise with those who would like to encounter and interact with other players during their sessions without getting killed. Obviously there are private groups for that, but it's understandably not quite same since you could only meet people you already know.

Overall, I think the solution to this would be better coming from adjustments to the crime and punishment system to make sure there are meaningful risks/deterrents in place for non-consensual PvP encounters rather than from a binary PvP on/off toggle.