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ANNOUNCEMENT - Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement

It's time to disembark, Commander. We are delighted to share with you a glimpse of the Next Era - Elite Dangerous: Odyssey. Explore distant worlds on foot, expand the frontier of known space and leave your mark on the galaxy as you become the first person in history to explore lands...
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Looks like ED just got interesting again(for me).
 
S☼I said:
Hell to the no

As detailed in this thread, I tried it, did the training stuff, then stopped because it was all needlessly complicated. I couldn't even figure out how to check my inventory.
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it's a cliff of a learning curve but it's the best MMO I've ever played. I'm just over 2 years in now. It's not a solo game, get into a corp and ask questions straight away.
 
I just downloaded it and it wants an update which isn't available on the epic store yet it seems :rolleyes: why would you release the game for free, which is obviously going to get a load of installs and not have the latest version for the download or at least make sure any update is ready and waiting for people.
 
BigTom said:
I just downloaded it and it wants an update which isn't available on the epic store yet it seems :rolleyes: why would you release the game for free, which is obviously going to get a load of installs and not have the latest version for the download or at least make sure any update is ready and waiting for people.
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Worked fine for me, not sure what you're referring to. :confused:

Not sure whether I'm going to keep playing, though - it's okay, I guess, the graphics and controls and stuff is all nice, but some of the activities like mining are needlessly fiddly, and I don't know whether just running missions and fighting pirates in a version of space jousting is enough to keep me engaged long-term. It definitely doesn't feel quite as open in terms of possibilities as EVE Online did.
 
Buddy Bradley said:
Worked fine for me, not sure what you're referring to. :confused:

Not sure whether I'm going to keep playing, though - it's okay, I guess, the graphics and controls and stuff is all nice, but some of the activities like mining are needlessly fiddly, and I don't know whether just running missions and fighting pirates in a version of space jousting is enough to keep me engaged long-term. It definitely doesn't feel quite as open in terms of possibilities as EVE Online did.
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I went back to it a couple of days after and it worked.

I played for a few hours and got really bored and quit when I had to sit there for 20 minutes on supercruise assist from the star I'd jumped to to the space station.

I didn't enjoy the combat in the training and the grind loop of missions/trading/exploration -> better ship -> more missions/trading/exploration is not very interesting, especially when you spend the best part of an hour travelling from one station to the next with nothing to do whilst you are travelling.
 
BigTom said:
I went back to it a couple of days after and it worked.

I played for a few hours and got really bored and quit when I had to sit there for 20 minutes on supercruise assist from the star I'd jumped to to the space station.

I didn't enjoy the combat in the training and the grind loop of missions/trading/exploration -> better ship -> more missions/trading/exploration is not very interesting, especially when you spend the best part of an hour travelling from one station to the next with nothing to do whilst you are travelling.
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Tbf it's pretty rare stations are that far away from the main star. Don't be attached to your starting system.
 
S☼I said:
Tbf it's pretty rare stations are that far away from the main star. Don't be attached to your starting system.
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depending on what you mean by the starting system, if you mean the first sun+planets where you start I left that after doing two missions to another nearby system and buying an adder (I think, maybe an asp? an early exploring ship anyway), there was a starting mission to go somewhere else for 100k credits so I did that, then took a mission from that place to another place, and then from the other place to the final place where I had to spend 20minutes on supercruise assist to get to the station. I know I was at least 20ly away from one of the first systems I had cos I sold some exploration data.

If system has a wider meaning here than a sun+planets then I might not have left the starting system obviously.

Even if that's rare to be that far away it still takes time to jump and supercruise with nothing to do, 5-15 minutes of just sitting there waiting, unless I'm missing something?
 
Most systems with stations have them 100-500 light seconds from the jump-in point. I spent a lot of time finding the "perfect" system to settle in, but I dismissed anything with a station further out than 500.

That said when out exploring I've travelled as far as 815,000 light seconds to scan a planet, and the (in)famous Hutton Orbital station is 0.22 light YEARS from the jump in point and takes 90 mins to reach in supercruise. Standing joke is that new pilots get a free Anaconda from there (they don't).
 
S☼I said:
Most systems with stations have them 100-500 light seconds from the jump-in point. I spent a lot of time finding the "perfect" system to settle in, but I dismissed anything with a station further out than 500.

That said when out exploring I've travelled as far as 815,000 light seconds to scan a planet, and the (in)famous Hutton Orbital station is 0.22 light YEARS from the jump in point and takes 90 mins to reach in supercruise. Standing joke is that new pilots get a free Anaconda from there (they don't).
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jesus. Am I right that there's nothing to do in game whilst you are travelling? Other than maybe chatting to other people in the system?
 
S☼I said:
Most systems with stations have them 100-500 light seconds from the jump-in point. I spent a lot of time finding the "perfect" system to settle in, but I dismissed anything with a station further out than 500.

That said when out exploring I've travelled as far as 815,000 light seconds to scan a planet, and the (in)famous Hutton Orbital station is 0.22 light YEARS from the jump in point and takes 90 mins to reach in supercruise. Standing joke is that new pilots get a free Anaconda from there (they don't).
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Just the free mug these days.
 
BigTom said:
jesus. Am I right that there's nothing to do in game whilst you are travelling? Other than maybe chatting to other people in the system?
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Sit and watch the countdown until you get 7 seconds away, than fail to slow down in time before overshooting and having to try again.

It does seem odd to be honest, to play a game where for some of the time, you are literally doing nothing. The joy is in combat and exploration IMO. Get a cobra mkIII and go pirate hunting if you want cheap thrills. There isn't much in the way of rewards apart from seeing something cool or grinding for rank. It's oddly addictive, to me anyway.

I played for the first time in a while last night only to find my HOTAS is broken. Took me ten minutes and a bunch of damage before I could land my ship. I was going to buy a new one but they are all out of stock since FS2020 came out.
 
souljacker said:
Sit and watch the countdown until you get 7 seconds away, than fail to slow down in time before overshooting and having to try again.

It does seem odd to be honest, to play a game where for some of the time, you are literally doing nothing. The joy is in combat and exploration IMO. Get a cobra mkIII and go pirate hunting if you want cheap thrills. There isn't much in the way of rewards apart from seeing something cool or grinding for rank. It's oddly addictive, to me anyway.

I played for the first time in a while last night only to find my HOTAS is broken. Took me ten minutes and a bunch of damage before I could land my ship. I was going to buy a new one but they are all out of stock since FS2020 came out.
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I really didn't enjoy the combat in the training bit and that doesn't appeal to me at all unfortunately. I expected to enjoy an explore/trade -> upgrade ship -> more explore/trade loop but when most of it seems to be spent waiting to get to places it really isn't interesting for me. c'est la vie, it obviously works for a lot of other people.
 
BigTom said:
I really didn't enjoy the combat in the training bit and that doesn't appeal to me at all unfortunately. I expected to enjoy an explore/trade -> upgrade ship -> more explore/trade loop but when most of it seems to be spent waiting to get to places it really isn't interesting for me. c'est la vie, it obviously works for a lot of other people.
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Ignore the training sections. They are way harder than the combat in the game.
 
I'm back playing this again, feel like I might take it a bit more seriously this time around, since I need something long-term to stick with. Just left the starter area and replaced my entire ship, now tooling around to hand in the last few of the free money missions before I pick a proper destination to head for.
 
Buddy Bradley said:
I'm back playing this again, feel like I might take it a bit more seriously this time around, since I need something long-term to stick with. Just left the starter area and replaced my entire ship, now tooling around to hand in the last few of the free money missions before I pick a proper destination to head for.
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I keep meaning to pick it up again before the new update comes out, so if you fancy a wingman let me know
 
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