Bramfly

RawnuTalking about Odyssey and on-foot stuff (@Meowers mentioned something about the emptiness of the settlements), let's talk about it:

(1) What do you really like about your space legs?
(2) What Odyssey content is your favorite?
(3) What would you love to see improved?

For me it's:
(1) After playing for long years on console, coming to Odyssey on PC (ok, SteamDeck) made me feel like a real person. Being able to walk around, to see myself as a person, really added to the immersion of the whole Elite experience. Also: fancy suits.
(2) Stealthing and sniping, I love to sneak into stuff and kill people silently from afar.
(3) Settlements are too empty and not varied enough. I want more NPCs doing every day stuff, I want shopping malls and schools and stuff, turning them into real little towns. It would also be cool to have missions combining several vehicle activites, like dogfights with your spaceships, SRV battles, SRV exploring, on-foot exploring etc. And I would love to have more Concourse stuff (see the other post of mine about Carriers). Or to frame it better: something else in a station or a port than a concourse.

Could you help with SRV driving. I can't seem to get the SRV driving. How du you start engines? W doesn't seem to get the vehicle to move? I'm stuck on the surface!

Bramfly

RawnuTalking about Odyssey and on-foot stuff (@Meowers mentioned something about the emptiness of the settlements), let's talk about it:

(1) What do you really like about your space legs?
(2) What Odyssey content is your favorite?
(3) What would you love to see improved?

For me it's:
(1) After playing for long years on console, coming to Odyssey on PC (ok, SteamDeck) made me feel like a real person. Being able to walk around, to see myself as a person, really added to the immersion of the whole Elite experience. Also: fancy suits.
(2) Stealthing and sniping, I love to sneak into stuff and kill people silently from afar.
(3) Settlements are too empty and not varied enough. I want more NPCs doing every day stuff, I want shopping malls and schools and stuff, turning them into real little towns. It would also be cool to have missions combining several vehicle activites, like dogfights with your spaceships, SRV battles, SRV exploring, on-foot exploring etc. And I would love to have more Concourse stuff (see the other post of mine about Carriers). Or to frame it better: something else in a station or a port than a concourse.

Could you help with SRV driving. I can't seem to get the SRV driving. How du you start engines? W does'nt seem to get the vehicle to move? I'm stuck on th surface!

IndyOdd. Apparently, Ground CZs don't impact the reputation with the allegiance significantly. At least from what I'm seeing, doing a bunch of High Intensity Ground CZs to test.

Rawnu Side note: I find it funny that some ground combat earns you Combat rank, while other Mercenary rank. A while back, when I became "Dangerous", this happened while I was shooting down a skimmer. And apparently those threat 5 safeguard missions can really level you up pretty quick in Combat rank compared to all other methods.

Kasumi GotoThey do have a lesser impact on reputation, and also a lesser BGS effect, which is why I presume they don’t hurt rep with a faction/superpower as much.

I noticed this more in a less controlled environment when deliberately lowering Sirius reputation for some funky Odyssey engineer unlock (but I barely engage with its shooty bits now and only would to get the Elite merc rank faster), and it was taking an oddly long amount of time… then I did some space CZs(which count for more in a war’s outcome) and rep drop was a lot faster.

Kasumi GotoWhich is because some genius decided to make merc rank purely credit-based instead of a system like regular combat rank with progress based on kills and the rank of whatever it is (was) you just shot at. And for some reason killing some guy on the ground with a rocket launcher counts the same as taking on an Anaconda in space [for regular combat rank].

SakashiroI actually like the behavior of SCO drives in old ships.

Vasil VasilescuNew annoyance. "Selected resources are no longer available." When attempting to transfer oddesey materials to the carrier.

I can set up and order to buy them at minimum price, then go sell the materials to my bartender. If I do that, there is a "transaction error" and the materials I was selling disappear. They are no longer in storage and not in the bartender.

However, If I go to a bartender on a station, they are perfectly happy to buy and trade materials.

Vasil VasilescuNew annoyance. "Selected resources are no longer available." When attempting to transfer oddesey materials to the carrier.

I can set up and order to buy them at minimum price, then go sell the materials to my bartender. If I do that, there is a "transaction error" and the materials I was selling disappear. They are no longer in storage and not in the bartender.

However, If I go to a bartender on a station, they are perfectly happy to buy and trade materials.

Silver Taffer


Ah, so it's not just me! I have the same problem, which means making Odyssey materials available for Squadron members and friends a bit problematic

I assume it must be an unintended consequence of the last update? In which case perhaps I should log it with Frontier's issue tracker.