As many of you are aware, we’ve outlined our plans to enable Commanders the option to launch Horizons and Odyssey version 4.0, available to all PC players.
This means that all Commanders entering into the Galaxy on 4.0 versioning for Horizons and Odyssey will be able to engage in the Aftermath narrative phases, enjoy four-player multicrew, see the graphical and UI improvements and much more!
Our schedule for release of the updated versioning to 4.0 for Horizons and Odyssey is planned for tomorrow.
Exact information on Server Downtime will be available as part of an additional release of information, early tomorrow morning (Approx 9am BST).
We estimate downtime to be approximately 3 hours but this information will be shared more precisely tomorrow.
We're excited for this next step in the Horizons and Odyssey experience!
o7 Commanders.
See you in the black.
Discovery Scanner - 12/09/2022
Greetings Commanders.
Here we go once again with the latest news from the Discovery Scanner. You’re making some incredible discoveries lately and we’re all enjoying the passion and enthusiasm that Commanders are putting into it all.
GAME NEWS The much anticipated rollout of Odyssey and Horizons 4.0, we can now confirm, is scheduled for later this week, following shortly on from the Console Profile Copy portal release tomorrow.
Further information in a standalone post on what to expect in terms of downtime and release scheduling for the 4.0 process will be released in good time of the exact date being shared.
Lots going on this week so do standby for further information as we move, across our Forums, official news website and social channels.
Today we will be releasing a small, client side update containing the following:
Adjustment to lens flares so that they are now appearing on all quality settings and are visible at the correct ranges.
Servers will be offline between the hours of 08:00 BST and 10:00 BST in order for deployment to take place. An update will then be available to you shortly after.
Fly safe o7
Discovery Scanner 05/09/2022
Greetings Commanders.
Another weekend around the Galaxy comes and goes and we’re back in the cockpit seat, ready for another boosted week ahead. Maximum throttle. All pips to engines - Let’s get to it!
Game News.
Console Copy Process.
Last week we released the latest information around this month’s Console Copy Process, which includes an early, high level release plan in mind for the launch. You can find the official post here.
As always, thank you for your feedback and for continuing to support one another with thoughts and suggestions on the official Elite Dangerous Forums in the dedicated post. We will continue to farm open questions and respond accordingly.
Naturally we’ll be back ahead of the week commencing September 12th with even more specifics.
'4.0'.
Additionally, we are preparing information around that of the expected ‘4.0’ process for Elite Dangerous Odyssey and Horizons. Just a little more time on this but we’ll be with you as soon as possible. Thanks, as always, for your patience.
Bringing you a Tuesday edition of Discovery Scanner this week due to the bank holiday here on this side of The Galaxy.
If you shared one with us, we hope you had a great one, be it relaxing amidst the stars or pushing for new discoveries.
Game News. Following your thoughts regarding Elite Dangerous '4.0' access on PC, we released our latest response FAQ which we hope will help add more clarity to key questions that arose from the initial announcement. You can find the official post here. As always, thank you for your feedback and please ask any further questions you may have over in the official Elite Dangerous forums.
Communications Pending...
In light of our expansion on further details regarding access to 4.0, we're happy to confirm that we aim execute the plan to roll this out to all Commanders next month, September 2022.
Our plan also remains in place for the Console migration to PC strategy, to also take place this coming September.
A busy month ahead, for sure.
We will of course issue specific information for both events ahead of their roll out, so do watch out for that as we communicate out across the site, Forum, and official social channels.
For more on this week's Discovery Scanner content, including the current Community Events, head over to the full article here.
o7 Commanders!
Discovery Scanner - 22/08/2022
Greetings Commanders.
Hoping you had a great weekend just passes and are ready to make new discoveries this week in the Galaxy of Elite Dangerous o7
Game News We’re aware than many of you are patiently awaiting follow up responses to your questions regarding the future of Elite Dangerous “versioning”, Console Transfers and updates on known issues. We’re getting close with these now, so thank you for continuing to bear with us. We received a huge response with some very valid and discussion worthy concerns and queries we want to address as accurately as possible.
For the full article about CGs, Events and a change to our livestream schedule this week head over to the official Elite Dangerous post.
Discovery Scanner 15/08/2022
Greetings Commanders.
Last week was quite a one! We're already getting enthusiastically stuck into this one with today's Discovery Scanner for starters.
Here's to a great week ahead for all. ‘Galactical Housekeeping’ time!
Game News
Update 13 Post Release Recap: As many of you are very much aware, Update 13 arrived last week on August 9th. Full review of the update notes which accompanied this release can be found here.
On Friday we released a small supplement update to address a small number of issues, particularly around some unexpected behaviour with fines and bounties applying from erroneously active fire zones. More on this can be recapped here.
As with any aftermath (no pun intended but I’ll use the term anyway) of updates and the wonderful stir of conversation they bring, we are still farming feedback and relaying discussions around remaining, highly talked about issues with the development team to ensure we can provide accurate responses regarding their acknowledgement and progress. We will be with you as soon as we can o7
In the coming week's we plan to offer the option for PC players to launch the game on the 4.0 codebase to try it out. Odyssey will still be an optional upgrade and necessary for on-foot content.
Players will still need to have the same version (Horizons or Odyssey) to instance together in game.
We appreciate there are still a number of questions around this subject matter for us to elaborate on and will answer as many as we can in due course.
To continue reading, head over to the full post on the Official Elite Dangerous News Page, HERE.
o7
Elite Dangerous | Post Update 13 Fixes
Greetings Commanders!
Following feedback collection and bug reports since the launch of Update 13, we're making the following changes which should already be live in game:
Version 3.8 - Horizons Only
Due to the Fire Zones of the Overlook and the Oath of Tyndareus still being erroneously active, as well as the Heart of Taurus and Bright Sentinel still having online Landing Pads the following has been changed:
All "Reckless Weapon Discharge", "Assault" and any violation of a Fire Zone will trigger the standard responses from the Overlook and the Oath of Tyndareus. However they will not apply a Permanent Fine or a Bounty.
Pad Loitering at the Heart of Taurus and the Bright Sentinel is the same. They will respond as normal but the long term fines or Bounties will not be applied. These changes only apply to those locations, Fines and Bounties will be applied normally when committing any other kind of crime, or committing those specific crimes at other locations in HIP 22460
Version 4.0 - Odyssey Only
Players with bounties worth multiple billions of credits will be able to log in again
Thargoids enjoyed playing CQC but have had their fill and will return to the main game mode
As always, thanks for your feedback!
O7
Elite Dangerous | Update 13 Notes
Greetings Commanders.
And so, Salvation is nigh…Update 13 and the conclusion of the Azimuth Saga are only a short number of hours away and we’re on the edge of our cockpit seats.
Before we get down to the business of update notes ahead of downtime and deployment, let’s recap today’s release deployment schedule.
We are still very much on track with server downtime due to being at 09:00 (BST) and Update 13 being ready at approx 13:00 (BST).
The update notes will be delivered here in two segments. The first will be specific to Odyssey only, with the second specific to Horizons only.
Great! So without further ado, please see below for Update 13’s release notes, starting with Elite Dangerous Odyssey.
Features Of Note
Scenarios and features added to reflect the finale of the Azimuth Saga in game
Issues Of Note Addressed:
An issue has been fixed whereby Commanders have been unable to access ship functions/panels whilst Station Services is open.
An issue has been fixed whereby attempting to play CQC would cause a crash.
An issue has been fixed whereby the frameshift countdown would hang at 00.00
An issue has been fixed whereby severe shadow flickering would occur, most notably at settlements during sunrises and sunsets. This was also noted as being an issue from in ship too.
Pioneer suits have now been reinstated and will be available to adorn your wonderful selves with once again.
An issue has been fixed whereby covert theft missions failed to count toward Terra Velasquez's prerequisite.
An issue has been fixed whereby some mission related cargo types could not be transferred or purchased from Fleet Carriers.
An issue has been fixed whereby Guardian Sentinels were failing to fire their missiles.
An issue has been fixed whereby players could find themselves being stopped from disembarking from a Frontline Solutions ship after landing at a Starport. For example once completing a combat zone on foot, there was no option to disembark from the ship. The only way it was possible to do so was via the lower panel.
An issue has been fixed whereby Terra Velasquez/Rascal's Choice's bookmark appeared in Systems instead of Settlements.
An issue has been fixed whereby ship kit pieces were blocking weapons from firing. This was in relation to the Cutter and Corvette Raider Shipkits specifically, blocking Gauss railguns (on the Corvetter) and beamlaser (on the Cutter).
An issue has been fixed whereby the transaction tab did not accurately represent what mission cargo you have on your ship in Odyssey like it would in Horizons.
An issue has been fixed whereby commodities would not transfer from a Commander’s Fleet Carrier to the their ship. A player example of this was when a Commander reported being unable to unload Food Cartridges and Uranium from their Fleet Carrier to their cargo racks.
Issues have been fixed in relation to the BGS, caused by mission antagonists being part of the mission giving faction in salvage and illegal defense missions. For more details, please see the corresponding Issue Tracker ticket.
An issue has been fixed whereby mining fragments/materials were continuing to become stuck to asteroids result in limpets being unable to collect them.
The free camera now moves smoothly even when the ship is moving rapidly in Supercruise.
Resolved an issue where players could erroneously be assigned bounties when other ships were destroyed around them.
An issue has been fixed whereby on-foot inbox notifications were incorrectly displaying. The display of the number of outstanding messages on the inbox itself was missing and only updated on receiving a new message.
An issue has been fixed with the Proximity Warning lights on the Anaconda incorrectly triggering. For example, they would remain active even in Supercruise and when the landing gear is raised.
Update General
AI
Updated the ambient traffic system to broaden the range of ships that can spawn.
Thargoid Interceptors no longer drift off target whilst scanning player ships.
Thargoid Scavengers at Thargoid Surface sites now require line of sight before going hostile.
Removed exploit that allowed more than one NPC ship launched fighter to enter combat at a time.
Landed ships can now only be scanned by one NPC ship at a time.
On-foot assassination missions no longer fail as soon as the target boards a ship.
Guardian Sentinels are no longer impeded from using their missile launchers.
Ship launched fighters inform their mothership of their target to ensure kills get correctly attributed.
Hostility between teammates can no longer be affected by other combatants.
NPC crew in SLFs can now use Guardian weapons against Thargoids.
Multiplayer
An issue has been fixed whereby Commanders part of a multicrew session would sometimes become stuck in the Supercruise warp tunnel.
Inconsistencies within the Thargon swarm behaviour between Commanders engaged in the same instance combat have been addressed.
Audio
Fixed Missing audio of the Taipan Fighter deploy and stow Animations.
Fixed Missing Reverb on Thargoid Sensors.
Fixed Fire sounds from rapidly turning on and off at Thargoid wrecks.
Character
Improved NPC eye movement as their head moves.
Ships/SRV
Players can no longer access impounded ships.
When viewing a passenger lounge, the player info panel now highlights available passenger seats.
Docking can no longer be requested if the docking service is not available.
Ships in Supercruise toward a planet's tourist beacon will no longer skip the glide decent phase.
Server
A fix has been implemented to address a "Yellow Adder" server error when converting a legacy engineering modification.
Added Exobiology ship decals
Players in training simulations are displayed as such in friends and Squadron member lists.
An issues has been fixed whereby attempting to take control of a fighter that had been deployed then abandoned by another team member would cause the game to soft lock aka become unresponsive (but not crash).
Rendering
Fixed lights sometimes jittering when attached to moving objects.
This was noticed mildly with the new Hazard kit lighting as an example.
Fixed occlusion geometry trailing behind moving objects. This was causing a black outline to appear around some objects.
Fixes added to address some visual effects and UI dropping in brightness for a frame when transitioning to/from Supercruise or Hyperspace
Some shadows appeared to flicker on approach to settlements. Instances where this would occur have been addressed.
Fixed visual disturbances occurring in fog when entirely in shadow.
Interactions
A reputation update will now trigger when an engineer unlocks, rather than waiting until later.
Engineers
Engineers will now offer non-Engineering services to all Commanders when they have invited status.
Commanders will no longer need to unlock the Engineer Workshop to gain access to other services.
Fleet Carriers
Fleet Carrier livery options are now available whilst on foot.
The fade to black is transition has been improved for when moving players to the Bridge for Fleet
Carrier jumps.
Stability
Commanders were experiencing a high frequency of crashes and stability issues around planetary surface settlements and POIs. The issue behind these stability problems have now been addressed.
An instance of an occasional crash has been fixed which could be encountered when exiting to main menu after joining a team in an on foot conflict zone.
An instance of an occasional crash has been fixed which could be encountered when multicrew members would use the FSS.
Art
Fixed some spurious extra lights which were appearing on the Scorpion SRV when the vehicle was positioned near a Commander’s ship.
Fixed an issue with oversized light-blocking geometry protruding through the hull of the dockable Megaship.
Fixed some cases of visual errors/flickering on several Agricultural buildings.
Areas of collision have been improved around Thargoid Surface sites.
Textures have been improved around Thargoid Surface sites.
Further improvements have been made to the Azure paintjobs for Odyssey to better reflect their visual in Horizons.
Further improvements have been made to Razor paintjobs, to be more metallic and a closer match to those in Horizons.
Improvements have been made to the Type 9 ship model, where some paintjobs were experiencing visual issues.
Fixed two holes that appeared on the underside of the DiamondBackXL
Improvements made to the Hazard shipkit bumper for the Cobra Mk III, namely preventing the front bumper from protruding into the cockpit.
Improved elements of the Anaconda ship model to further improve the look of paint jobs.
Improvements made to the Imperial Courier model in regards to collision.
Improvements made to damage on Empire Capital ships.
Improved elements of the Python ship model to further improve the look of paint jobs.
Improved the Thargoid Device at Surface Sites as it was sometimes prone to losing detail.
Fixed a number of flickering decals seen at entrances to Thargoid Surface Sites.
Improved elements of the Imperial Clipper ship’s heatvents so that they are more predictably coloured for paintjobs.
Improved elements of FerDeLance ship kit pieces to prevent some paintjob smearing.
Improvements made to prevent floating objects further at Guardian sites.
Some adjustments have been made to the Python Hazard ship kit, as nameplates were being obscured.
Improved elements of the Imperial Cutter ship model, which caused some visual issues on paintjobs.
Improvements made to the Imperial Cutter debris.
Improvements made to the Type 9 Hazard ship kit and fixed whereby some kit pieces would protrude into the cockpit.
UI
New conflict zone panel added to the top right info panel in the cockpit, for the purpose of anti-Xeno conflict zones
UI during pre-jump sequence now provides destination information.
Cockpit nav panel filters no longer carry over to on-foot nav panel.
Interaction markers now show a mission icon for mission relevant micro resources.
Missions that involve transporting cargo now display the amount collected and the amount delivered.
The Galaxy map now uses the correct plotting method when system connectors are disabled.
Refuel, repair and restock buttons in the service panel now animate whilst waiting for a server response.
Avatar thumbnails no longer appear unlit or blurry.
Improvements have been made to the social menu search bar.
Improvements made to the System Map to prevent it from potentially getting stuck when loading details of systems with unexplored, non-landable planets.
Combat bond notifications can now be received by crew members and players in ship launched fighters.
The duplicate key binding popup for the semicolon key now displays text correctly.
The nameplate and icon above a vendor's head in social spaces will no longer overlap.
Settlement bookmarks added from the nav panel or system map are no longer misclassified as Systems.
On-foot missions will now show the destination in the mission journal and will update it when relevant events occur.
Commander names are no longer able to start or end with whitespace characters.
A garbled container keycode will no longer be provided in cases when no keycode is required.
Added the text glitch effect back into the station services UI when a station is burning.
Added missing settlement icons to the Squadron Faction viewer UI so there are no longer empty boxes in some places.
Added missing tooltips and icons to the comms panel inbox message buttons, these should now always have both an icon and a tooltip.
VFX
Fix implemented for missing VFX on damaged Imperial Couriers.
Fix implemented for visual artefacts that could appear in large hangars.
Key Known Issues
This list is a selection of top noted issues for Commanders following previous updates, as well as some new we wish to alert you of. By no means is this list considered the final list of issues to address moving forward, this is simply a top selection.
[NEW!] Skimmer movement audio currently fails to sound.
Navlock is currently not working as expected in Odyssey as it does for Horizons players.
Ship Lateral and Vertical thrusters are reported weaker. Issue tracker link for more details.
CG Galaxy Map icons fail to appear.
Settlement raid and massacre missions require more targets than are present. Issue tracker link for more details.
Some missions reported as giving incorrect rewards. Issue tracker link for more details.
[NEW!] When a system enters Incursion from Incursion Pending, Star ports are not currently catching fire.
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons Update Notes
Issues of note addressed:
An issue has been fixed whereby attempting to play CQC would cause a crash.
An issue has been fixed whereby Guardian Sentinels were failing to fire their missiles.
Audio
Fix implemented for fire sounds turning on and off at burning Stations.
Fix implemented to stop fire sounds from rapidly turning on and off at Thargoid wrecks.
Art
Improvements made to the Type 9 Hazard ship kit to stop some pieces protruding into the cockpit, as well as fixed visual flickering.
Fix implemented to stop the Hazard ship kit bumper for the Cobra Mk III from protruding into the cockpit.
Fixed visual flickering present on the Python Hazard ship kit.
Fixed some visual flickering on various decals used on the damaged Empire Capital ship.
Made improvements to the Anaconda ship model to better represent paintjobs.
Made improvements to the FerDeLance ship kit pieces to prevent some paintjob smearing.
Made some adjustments to the Python Industrial ship kit as nameplates were being obscured.
Made some improvements to Imperial Cutter debris so that they work correctly, as intended.
Server
Fixed players being unable to request to join private groups.
UI
Added better protection from malformed strings entered into the social menu search bar.
------------------ And with that, Commanders, here's to an exciting release of Update 13 and the finale of The Azimuth Saga as it draws to a close.
We're excited to share these moments with you!
See you in the black o7
Discovery Scanner - 08/08/2022
Greetings Commanders!
Rumour has it a certain superweapon is due to fire this week, so let's keep things snappy and give you a quick overview of all the relevant information you may have missed!
UPDATE 13 & THE AZIMUTH SAGA FINALE
Update 13 arrives on Tuesday 9th August 2022, and brings with it the finale of the Azimuth Saga! Salvation is in the final stages of preparation for his Proteus Wave device, and all eyes are on HIP 22460. If you haven't made your way there yet, time is running out!
Here's the release schedule for the update, we'll let you know if things change:
As mentioned in the above schedule, the patch notes are due to be deployed way before the update goes live, giving you enough time to grab a drink and read through the long list of changes whilst you wait for the servers to come back online.
Whether you're a fan of Salvation or not, if you're in the area, you should definitely make your way to HIP 22460 as this is a moment that will go down in the history of Elite Dangerous, and wouldn't it be great to say you were there?
