Here's a brand-new look at Elite Dangerous: Odyssey's on-foot exploration

When Elite Dangerous: Odyssey lands, the space game's exploration will be taken to a whole new level. As announced earlier this year, the expansion will bring on-foot gameplay to the space sim for the very first time - that is, the chance to hop out of your enormous craft and see the vast universe up-close - as well as a whole host of systems to support this. As is true of Elite Dangerous in its current form, exploration will be a key facet of the new expansion, and Frontier Developments has posted a brand-new dev video taking a look at exactly this.

The studio's new dev diary, suitably titled 'One Giant Leap', marks the first in a series of upcoming updates about the expansion, and gives us a good, early peek at the simulation game's atmospheric planets up-close. That includes the beauty of the new worlds' flora and features - but also its hazards. Gulp.

Frontier is "lavishing great care and attention to detail in the authentic recreation of the ice and rocky planets players will be landing on," a press release explains. "Surface pressure, volcanism, atmospheric composition, and other geological agents all play a key part on the structure and natural features of each world, capriciously moulding their appearance and making them unique and distinctive."

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