Elite: Odyssey

AH
today, 8:32am
Salmonea


Absolutely awesome. Thanks for the laugh.
Rawnu
today, 9:18am
Talking 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.
Indy
today, 1:51pm
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?

It completes the experience for me. I can BE in the game. I love the ground options for missions and visits.


Rawnu (2) What Odyssey content is your favorite?

Two answers tied for first: ExoBio and Ground CZs.
Restore missions are a close second and covert missions get third place.


Rawnu (3) What would you love to see improved?

I... WANT... GROUND... AX... COMBAT!!!
Saying it again for those in the back: I want to fight thargoids on ground with new special suits and weapons. I want the combat to be brutal in difficulty.
My suggestion: AX Ground Low = Human Ground Med/High, etc.
Meowers
today, 2:55pm
There's a lot of stuff I can write about how undercooked, half-arsed on-foot content is, and most of it is public knowledge. But I'd like to stress out how awful the gunplay is. Those gun-shaped objects are much likely made by people who think a gun is a magic box bullets come out of. Performance is way worse than even low-quality modern day weapons. No diversity at all, just one gun of every type. Even the models are made without any regard to real firearm functioning and sometimes ergonomics. This is just a piece of crap.

Those plasma weapon 'magazines', glass jars with purple goop inside, are better grenades than ammo storage lol, imagine dropping one while reloading.

p.s. And Ody doesn't have machineguns.

Last edit: 11 Oct 2024, 7:07pm
Miseri
today, 6:56pm
I can enjoy the on foot stuff , and even love the exo bio, but i concur with meowers in the sense that the on foot combat is not a highlight of the ODY content, it is enjoyable in doses for ground combat, and i do actually enjoy trying to STEALTH my way thru settlements more then fight my way thru them and I think there is something to that, we arent supposed to be the reavers of space most of the time we shouldnt be fighting on the ground outside of controlled CZ's
I do not hate the ground combat but I also dont go out of my way to engage in it often.
Salmonea
today, 7:24pm
AH
Salmonea



Absolutely awesome. Thanks for the laugh.

:D
Indy
today, 7:46pm
To each their own, I guess. Most, if not all, content in the game is "easy" once you know how it works and/or have the right gear/setup. As far as engagement and story, I think it's fair not to do the activities that don't fit with one's character (both in-game and player). For example, I don't do a lot of theft and illegal killing; yes, it's just a game, but I don't like simulating that kind of thought-process. Contrary to that example is the fact that my in-game persona is a mercenary and explorer, so contracts for criminals is fair game.

The constant influx of new soldiers at a CZ for countless engagements is a stretch, but suspension of disbelief is necessary in a small dose to be able to actually enjoy the game as a game. Basically, I can understand that when I crash my ship and respawn somewhere, I can choose to accept that "respawn" as reality or to pretend the crash never happened.

The reality of the CZs is certainly a stretch, but so is it for other games like Halo where a capital could just glass a whole continent rather than sending hordes of enemies to die. Same is true for Elite, so I just kinda take what I can with the "fun of it" and enjoy life outside the game for the rest of it.

One thing I like most about this game is the diversity in the opinions, approaches, and playerbase. Which is why I admire the tenacity and combat acumen of Meowers and others, especially when it comes to ships, while maybe not sharing the opinion on Ody stuff. I still have a LOT to learn and achieve in Elite and I'm glad to have so many guides here (on Inara) for it all.

Circling back to the start of this long reply: To each their own.

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