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Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Alpha Phase 4

Greetings Commanders!

We're excited to announce that Phase 4 of the alpha is now underway! This time, you can play Odyssey with your existing Commanders and ships, so bring on the Cutters, Corvettes, Cobras and more! To help manage your fleet, delivery times and costs for ship transportation have been reduced, allowing you to easily transfer and use any of your existing ships. The snapshot taken from the base game to duplicate for the alpha was taken on 23 April.

The following features will also be available:

Wing Missions / Ship Depot
Powerplay
Tech Brokers
Search and Rescue contacts
Research Station services contacts

Phase 4 is expected to close on 5 May, continuing as long as necessary for the development team to receive feedback, collect data, and make adjustments. Once the phase ends, the alpha will close so this is your last chance to play Odyssey until launch! Note that any progress made in the alpha will not carry over to the live game.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

Various stability and crash fixes.
Fixed missing mission hand-in icons.
Fixed an issue with mission hand-in not working for some mission types.
Fixed a softlock in the quick comms panel.
Fixed an issue with Conflict Zone scores failing to update.
Fixed a disconnect when recalling a ship at a Conflict Zone.
Fixed a softlock when navigating the Black Market contact's UI using a keyboard.
Fixed an issue with items not appearing in players' inventories correctly.
The Apply and Cancel buttons are no longer partially cut off at the bottom of the screen in the Settings Menu.
Locations on the Galaxy Map can now be selected without plotting a course.
NPCs should no longer mumble/be inaudible.
A connection error when landing at settlements in a Conflict state was fixed.
An issue with the Oculus Rift HMD not displaying Odyssey was fixed.
An issue with the "Complete Mission" button not working at station terminals was fixed.
An issue with Frontline Solutions dropships attempting to dock at Conflict Zones was fixed.
An issue with organics displaying as "Insufficient Diversity" rather than "Already Sampled" was fixed.

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]

Some players are unable to select the alpha test from the launcher.
Maintenance panels can fall backwards into their housing after being cut, blocking power nodes.
The player view is locked after interacting with station terminals, sometimes fixing players' at an awkward angle.
Some information in the Galaxy Map which is present in Horizons is missing.
Planet icons are difficult to see on ship sensors.
Filters in the DSS are not showing.
On-foot momentum mid-air is not preserved when jumping.
Some NPCs do not display facial animation while speaking.
On-foot inventory UI is not accessible.
Apex Interstellar ship landing sound is out of sync.
Conflict Zones are sometimes empty when they initially appear.
The Commander camera suite keybind cannot match ship and SRV camera suite keybinds.
Some Russian letters in station terminals are replaced with squares.
All missions fail when Commanders die on a mission.
Quitting to the main menu just after recalling a ship causes a crash
Setting control options to "keyboard and mouse" doesn't set DSS camera control to mouse.
Physical multicrew members occasionally find an empty hangar when attempting to board their host ship.
An obstructive defect blocks the player visor when performing melee attacks or grenade throws.
Graphical artefacts are present on some assets when the visor is down.
Sometimes players are unable to choose a side at Conflict Zones via the comms panel while on foot.
Collection mission objectives will only update for one player in the instance.
Players encounter a crash at the Conflict Zone at Aster's Escape.
Autodock music is present in Apex Interstellar shuttles.
When using the "Default Context" preset on the Xbox One Controller, the "Hold" button mode for crouch does not work as expected.
Emissive Paint Jobs don't appear correctly under bright lights, so will not be in this phase.
A connection issue while auto-launching as a physical multicrew passenger may cause players to spawn in a glitched hangar.

We hope you enjoy this final phase and would like to take this moment to thank you all for playing! Your feedback and suggestions have helped steer Odyssey's development, ready for launch on 19 May. We hope you enjoy the last chance to play Elite Dangerous on-foot before the big day!

o7

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Alpha Extension

Greetings Commanders,

We have been overwhelmed by your feedback and excitement through the Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Alpha, your support and dedication is vital in completing the most ambitious expansion in Elite Dangerous history.

We can confirm that, as of this morning, our live game snapshot has been completed and phase four is set to begin as planned on 28 April.

We have been listening closely to your feedback and many members of our community have requested longer in the Alpha to experience the content and share your valuable feedback. This is why we are pleased to confirm that we will be extending the window of play for our fourth phase, and therefore the Alpha will now end on Wednesday 5 May at 08:00 UTC / 09:00 BST.

In addition to this, after a number of community requests, all stored ships captured in the snapshot will now be made available during the Alpha with reduced transportation time and cost to bring those ships into the playable bubble.

We would like to use this opportunity to thank you all once again for your help in taking this giant leap forward for Elite Dangerous. The development team have been incredibly busy reviewing your reports, comments and data from this period. Some of these fixes you will have seen through the phases of Alpha, and many more will be going live with the full PC release on 19 May.

Please remember, if you would like to leave feedback during the remainder of the public Alpha you can do this via the issue tracker, where our development team are eagerly awaiting your reports.

o7 Commanders

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Alpha Phase 4 Details

Greetings Commanders!

Following on from the excitement of the Elite Dangerous: Odyssey launch date announcement this afternoon, we're excited to make preparations for the final phase of the Odyssey Alpha, Phase 4, which is due to launch on Wednesday the 28th of April.

The primary focus of Phase 4 will be: Compatibility Testing.

Before Phase 4 can begin, a 'Player Snapshot' of your Elite: Dangerous Commander profile needs to be taken and applied to the Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Alpha.

This snapshot will be taken at 08:00 UTC / 09:00 BST tomorrow, April 23rd.

[h2]About the 'Player Snapshot':[/h2]

The snapshot will include:

The ship your Commander is piloting at the time of the snapshot being taken. No other ships that you own will accompany you to Alpha Phase 4.
Your accumulated credits will transfer across as part of the profile snapshot.
Any players in SRVs at the time the snapshot has been taken will be moved back to their current ship and transferred.
Fleet Carriers that commanders currently own will not be coming to phase 4, however we are aiming to add the ability to purchase Fleet carries during Phase 4

In order to begin Alpha Phase 4 with your profile ready to go, the Elite: Dangerous Alpha servers will be down from approximately 07:00 UTC / 08:00 BST on Monday the 26th of April, returning to order to welcome in Phase 4 on Wednesday the 28th of April.

Full patch notes will follow on Wednesday the 28th along with the start of Phase 4 with a full list of features, fixes and known issues.

On behalf of all teams involved, we want to once again thank you for your hard work and commitment with providing such thorough and thoughtful feedback throughout each phase of the Alpha so far - amazing work.

o7

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey launches next month

The day is finally here, Elite Dangerous fans. The release date for the space flight simulation game's enormous upcoming expansion Odyssey has been announced as May 19 for players on our home platform, with Xbox and PlayStation versions for our friends on console coming later in the year in the autumn.

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey - which was announced back in June last year and has recently seen players getting stuck into its multi-stage alpha - will bring on-foot exploration to the space game for the very first time. Frontier describes it as "the most ambitious Elite Dangerous expansion to-date" in a press release, and alongside this new level of gameplay, it'll bring new missions, "intense tactical combat", and a bunch of other new features to the 2014 game.

Odyssey players will get to customise their characters through various options for specialist gear and spacesuits, which are suited to the different (new) missions and challenges. For salvage missions there's a Remlok Maverick scavenger suit, for example, while others - such as the Supratech Artemis explorer and Manticore Dominator combat suits are ideal for exobiology investigation and Conflict Zone combat, respectively.

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Elite Dangerous: Odyssey will let you stretch your legs on May 19th

Frontier Developments today announced the release date for their next Elite Dangerous expansion, Odyssey. This is the one which lets moonmen roam freely on their own two spacelegs, exploring planets and getting into first-person shooty violence. Star Citizen Lite, kinda.