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Did you rub your screen with lemon joiuce to unhide the invisible ink used?
Elite: Game talk
28 May 2021, 12:43pm
Did you rub your screen with lemon joiuce to unhide the invisible ink used?
28 May 2021, 8:33pm
28 May 2021, 10:30pm
First of all, is it just me or did we loose squadron chat this evening. The tabbed squadron chat link has actually disappeared!!!
Also just jumped my carrier, except got no countdown info or any of the usual build up and sound effects. It did not take my ship into the hull but when I manually entered the hanger with 2 mins to go, I finally saw the progress bar info and heard some sound effects. It completed its jump ok.
Then I tried to make another jump. Same as before, no sound effects, nothing to indicate a jump happening other than the countdown on the carrier management screen. No securing ship messages and it didnt take me into the hanger. This time when I manually entered the hanger, no progress bar appeared. Time came and went (had to keep checking the carrier management screen. No jump??? Went back to surface. Still in previous system. Definitely not jumped. Cockpit display and Nav panel still showing previous system info.
Went to the carrier management screen. It was in cooldown and saying I was at the destination. Checked Galaxy map, said I was at new destination, Went back to the main cockpit, still showing previous destination??? Returned to surface to see I definitely had not jumped anywhere, the same star at the same distance was right in front of me! Checked Galaxy map. Said I was at my destination.
Eventually gave up and logged out to menu and back in again. Now showing I was at the destination with all the nav panels and cockpit info updated!!! So the game completely missed the whole jump sequence. Thats screwed up big time.
This week I have had numerous kick outs, frame rate drops, glitches, messaging problems, Instancing failures, carrier jumps completely crashing everyone in a wing out of the game entirely, the transfer button on the carrier greying out requiring me to log back in and have to re wing and re-share missions repeatedly. The list of problems goes on and on and I DID NOT EVEN BUY ODDESEY! Are you listening FD? I didn't buy it because I fully expected it to be the mess it reportedly is at this stage. But even I did not think it would ruin the base game as well.
Perhaps the most worrying problem for Frontier is that since Odyssey came out, at least half the player base has disappeared from my squadron initially to play it. Sound like a good thing for FD sales right. Wrong!, most appear to have now abandoned the game altogether as they are not showing up in Odyssey or Horizons. There is hardly anyone left at the moment to wing up with in Horizons and after tonight experience I am having a break too.
The problems with Odyssey are not as bad as the you tube clips, reviews and commentaries suggest, they are in fact considerably worse.
GTA Online, Fallout 76, Cyberpunk, Elite Dangerous. Not good company to be in FD.
28 May 2021, 10:46pm
It was my misfortune to finally afford to buy a carrier on the day Odyssey was released! Since then we were unable to jump at all. After they restored the functionality, I had only made 2 jumps before tonight and on both occasions the game crashed and kicked me right out to a feedback error reporting screen. I suspect that at least was Odyssey related.
Tonight I at least got to sort of see and hear the jump completion experience for 1 jump without being kicked out, but after the second debacle I gave up in frustration.
They probably will get it all fixed eventually, but the damage to the player base might threaten the future of the whole game, and that was unnecessary and unforgivable.
Cheers.
28 May 2021, 10:54pm
29 May 2021, 4:00am
and I confirmed with a squadron member who didnt have it tabbed, that they cant write to the squadron chat and neither did see a message the whole day in said chat
29 May 2021, 1:19pm
29 May 2021, 9:34pm
SyzunaDid anyone find a good station with a lot of industrial data ports yet so I may have a chance to get at least 1 manufacturing instruction?
Find impact sites on planets, level 2 or 3. The impacted satellite has data port and it often has MI.
29 May 2021, 9:38pm
Peter DrakonSyzunaDid anyone find a good station with a lot of industrial data ports yet so I may have a chance to get at least 1 manufacturing instruction?
Find impact sites on planets, level 2 or 3. The impacted satellite has data port and it often has MI.
yeah saw that video^^ thanks tho
30 May 2021, 7:00am
30 May 2021, 7:11am
Players will still be able to play the "core" game without Odyssey - but you'll have to live with seeing Odyssey settlements in your maps, along with other features.
30 May 2021, 10:36am
Ryno1154 maybe more specifically, If your system is way under the Odyssey min sys requirements and you're either happy to keep playing Horizons or by default will have to keep playing the base game, what's going to happen when the drop the console release and bring the new planetary tec and other systems which is at the moment exclusive to the PC DLC, will our systems still run our beloved game to the same FPS that we have been experiencing ?? or will be effectively locked out and unable to enjoy the game as we now do ??
This is my boat - No way my system looks to run Odyssey, and can not see me getting a new system on the table for a while.
I asked this very question during the alpha, but no answer was forthcoming.
It is a concern.
Additional guff: I just found out the fps stuff using Ctrl F - which for me at present runs quite playable at 30 - 40 fps in normal space.
I was very interested to see it drop to 15 fps whenever I drop near my carrier - it is still playable though.
I expect similar on planets etc but not tried it yet...
non computer genius here, and it all looks fine to my old tired eyes in game, so really has no actual meaning to me...
Last edit: 30 May 2021, 10:41am
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