Greetings Commanders!
Today at approximately 07:30 UTC / 08:30 BST, we released ‘Update 3’ to address a number of issues in Elite Dangerous: Odyssey.
Patch notes reflecting fixes and changes are listed out down below for you.
As always - A huge ‘thank you’ for your continued support and constructive feedback, as the teams continue working hard to improve the Elite Dangerous player experience.
Crashes/Stability
A fix has been implemented to address a crash related to occlusion culling.
A fix has been implemented to address a crash relating to Settlement data.
A fix has been implemented to address crashes encountered during fleet carrier jumps.
MapUI - A fix has been implemented to address a random crash when exiting the system map.
A fix has been implemented to address a crash with the kinematics system.
A fix has been implemented to address a crash during Multi Crew caused by vessel handling.
A fix has been implemented to address the turbolift becoming unusable if a player is dropped from the session while using it.
A fix has been implemented to address a crash if the current vessel is “docked” but not allocated a landing pad (i.e. its being swapped to or from).
A fix has been implemented to address issues where the player can become desycned with their server inventory when donating fuel.
A fix has been implemented to address a crash if a control bindings preset file is empty.
Optimisation
Interior shadow optimisations have been implemented.
A fix has been implemented to address an issue whereby cockpit environment maps sometimes stalled updates when using the Camera Suite.
Terrain optimisations have been made.
An issue has been fixed whereby the bounding sphere used for culling was not central to the object.
UI
Fixed mod slot data not being set for fully upgraded suits in Loadouts.
Split off ‘Create Loadout screen’ from ‘Edit Loadout screen’
The new loadout flow now starts without a suit selected, requiring the player to select the “add suit” button. Now presented in the same way as the weapon slots.
When a suit or weapon is selected in loadout creation, there are now options to equip or customise.
Added silhouette to ‘Create Loadout’ screen, displayed until a suit is selected.
“Use loadout” is now focused by default in the Edit Loadout screen
Added toast notification when loadout is equipped
Various text changes have been made.
In the loadout browser, the equipped loadout is now always shown as the first item, and focused on after being equipped.
The loadout title has been made multiline to prevent name clipping in Role Panel.
Suit/Weapon browser: Added “percentage change” as a type of stat display, and converted to enum (with existing “value” and “bar” types)
Suit/Weapon browser: Improved and fixed the way stats are displayed and how stat comparison is calculated before being passed to the UI
Suit/Weapon browser: cleaned up deprecated stats that are no longer displayed
Suit/Weapon browser: Fixed the weapon reload stat to use the correct weapon data value
Suit/Weapon browser: Changed damage multiplier stats to damage resistances, which are percentages to match the suit stats
Suit/Weapon browser: Renamed “reload time” stat to “reload speed” to match value
Suit/Weapon browser: Fixed some layout issues with the stat item renderer
Sampling tool results text on the humanoid HUD has been enabled to be split across multiple lines
Fixed FSS UI jitters when in fullscreen mode
TransactionPanel - Fixed visual error when going from an empty category to one with items
TransactionPanel - Fixed the community goals icon not showing.
NavigationPanel - The navigation panel will now add the next route destination to the list of destinations, allowing you to untarget that destination, enter Supercruise, and target it again.
Fixed alignment issues in on-foot Navigation Panel layout.
MapUI - In Carrier mode, an issue has been fixed whereby the cancel jump button did not work
MapUI - Fixed an issue which set the stored ships counter to 0 in the system map
MapUI - The Mission Threat icon will now only display when the surface mission threat is 7 or higher
MapUI - Opening the galaxy map from the commodities market should now show the correct item selected in the material list (previously this showed the correct information but showed the wrong item)
MapUI - Fixed centering and opacity of icons
MissionUI - Fixed a visual bug in the transaction panel details. The mission threat icon will only display when the mission has a threat level of 7 or higher
MissionUI - Illegal Mission text has been moved in various panels and a new label has been created to contain the mission type.
The font size has been adjusted in the rewards item boxes, on mission completion in the mission board.
Missing mission hub popup button backgrounds have now been added
Fixed a focus/select issue in the mission hub popup
Fixed a focusing issue with the bartender selling panel
Fixed issues with Tech Brokers whereby requirements were showing when they shouldnt have been. The layout has been made more dynamic to account for this.
Added pledge indicator to station services hud
Unlocked focus manager when hiding social panel popup in cockpit chat panel
Fixed icons in buttons of social panel popup
Fixed an issue in the starport menu where the wrong jurisdiction logo would appear (homepage + welcome animation)
Fixed missing audio cues for installing carrier services
Added starport menu banner UI streams for Default & Engineer
Made the ‘transfer all’ buttons wider in transfer UI for on foot Commanders
Added modifications tab to the shop / stored modules browser in the outfitting UI, in the same style as the ship loadout slots display.
A UI element will only be displayed when you have engineered modules stored at the current location/station
An icon will now appear next to module name when modified.
Fixed the modifications tab not appearing when selecting a slot for a modified modules, when the currently installed items in the group are not modified.
Fixed an issue with the settlement terminal mission board returning to the social space terminal UI
Added notifications when a shuttle/dropship is about to leave without the player
Disabled direct access to the comms panel in the tutorial
Removed a step in the weapon customisation UI flow for selecting weapon paintjobs category
Fixed an issue whereby the passenger lounge icon on the mission board remained highlighted blue after handing in completed missions
Added mission rewards to the transaction panel
Fixed the preset text on the controls menu screen on the pause menu
Added a ‘resupply’ button to the Boarding UI that restocks consumables and weapon ammo
NPCs highlighted on the staff list in settlement terminals should no longer show up on the radar
When comparing suit stats, mods are now taken into account
AI
AI no longer become hostile to players targeted by settlement defences, if the settlement defences are not hostile towards the thing they are targeting.
Fixes to AI ships docking and launching have been implemented, so that AI ships should no longer get stuck waiting to dock or launch, including player taxis.
Audio
When at a social space, your suit voice will now mention when your shuttle is about to depart or depart without you
During transitions between vessels (foot, SRV, ship), the audio perspective orientation will no longer shift randomly, so in turn will sound smoother.
Issues with doors and airlocks sometimes sounding too quiet or muffled will now be fixed.
A fix has been implemented for broken power pip sounds on non-helm crew-mate after a supercruise journey.
Audio optimisations on weapons have been made.
Sounds have been implemented for when sliding down steep inclines.
Missing sounds in shipyard, when accessed from a social space, have now been added.
Fixedissues around system map sounds when using apex and frontline solution maps.
The landing pad barrier raising now has a sound. This occurs after a shuttle drops you off at a social space.
Fixed ship malfunction audio returning the wrong result in multicrew vessels after system jumps.
Fixed issues with audio code so that existing voice lines and notifications appear at the same time.
Fixed a voice line playing incorrectly for dropships and erroneously when the player had already reached the hangar.
Character
Updates made to some engineer’s faces.
Controls
Reload and Switch Tool Mode bindings can now be custom bound to the same button.
Changed ‘and’ in keyboard and mouse control scheme names to now use ‘&’ so that ‘Control Pad Yaw with Keyboard & Mouse’ can fit in the drop down list.
Cosmetics
SRV paintjobs have been rebalanced for the new lighting and PBR system.
Fixed incorrect previews being shown in holo-me.
Fixed an issue where saving or creating a new avatar could result in it getting the emergency background and thus have very red lighting occur.
The Helmet is now always on for the Loadouts.
Interactions
An issue has been fixed whereby players could prematurely reactivate the reactor shutdown process before it had fully powered back up, which would then prevent it from powering down.
Fires have been updated so that AI will no longer accidentally walk into them during gun fights.
A number of fixes have been implemented to address some building/room lights not turning off when a reactor is shut down.
A fix has been implemented for an issue where airlocks would become stuck closed after the alarms had been decativated (also resulting in AI getting stuck).
A fix has been implemented for an issue whereby at POIs, AI sometimes spawned under the ground.
A number of fixes have been implemented to address exterior terminals not powering down at offline settlements.
A fix has been implemented to address an issue where the arc cutter would get stuck in the corners of panels during a cut
Fixed an issue with player’s getting docking crimes at an offline settlement.
Stopped the powerlink from being able to charge when not remaining directed at the recharge port.
Lighting & VFX
Improvements to spotlights on damaged station doors have been implemented.
a fix for the De-pressurisation VFX has been made - it should now trigger correctly on de-pressurising a building or room
Visual improvements to station exteriors have been made.
Visual improvements and fixes to spotlights and lensflares in planet port hangars have been made.
Visual improvements to under repair and damaged hangars floodlights have been made.
Visual improvements to Fleet Carrier floodlights and lensflares have been made.
Visual improvements to Capital Ship lighting have been made.
Missions
Salvage missions (and others with required micro resources) will no longer include non-mission micro resources in their count of the mission related micro-resources.
POIs
Filled in the gap in the underside of a wreckage in the Thargoid Crash Site POI.
Fixed POIs spawning all over the galaxy.
Rendering
A fix has been implemented whereby lensflares were sometimes being captured in the avatar portrait captures.
Fixes for artefacts seen on the Wanderer Outfit have been implemented.
All bobbleheads have been updated to the PBR pipeline.
Hair will no longer change colour at different distances.
Server
Improvements to matchmaking when in wings have been made.
Fixed error occurring when deleting flight suit loadout.
Fixed black adder transaction error when donating fuel to fleet carriers.
Redistributed weapon and suit vendor allocations.
Fixed some unlocalised text in the known engineer UI.
An issue has been fixed with the referral request for Hero Ferrari incorrectly stating 5 settlement defence plans are required, rather than 15.
Fixed some combat bonds for destroying Thargoids being lower on Odyssey than Horizons.
Multiple fleet carrier jump optimisations and stability improvements have been made.
An issue has been fixed whereby dying in SRV caused players to enter the ship rebuy flow when they relog.
Fixed an issue whereby non carrier modules could be equipped onto a fleet carrier.
A fix has been implemented whereby some Commander and NPC crew and skill rank progress notifications were not triggering correctly.
Some server optimisation and stability improvements have been made.
Settlements (new for Odyssey)
Corrected an upside-down decorative screen attached to a shelving unit.
Corrected an interior pillar which was disappearing at a short distance
Corrected bunk bed details disappearing at a short distance
Updated the grille behind the fan in the Industrial/Power building exterior to fix a LOD issue
Fixed floating explosive canisters
Fixed some bad start positions for settlement AI
Improved patrols in Large research building
Corrected misaligned window shutters in the Medium-sized Extraction building
Fixed z-fighting seen on the stairs in a Power building
Added missing room geometry portal to the roof of smaller buildings
Corrected various areas with missing or incorrectly aligned portals
Updated mining drill room geometry to cover the entire room
Correcte a gap in the room geometry in the industrial loading bay
Cleaned up duplicated portals in engineer base, adding a missing portal to a window
Made certain curved window portals match the bounds of the window
Edited culling on turbo lifts.
Terrain texture quality is only reduced when not in a room adjacent to the outside. This stops the aggressive texture pop-in when walking out of airlocks.
Added room geometry to all spawn cupboards to stop them being culled incorrectly.
Fixed a culling issue around research building exterior.
Settlements (legacy)
Corrected the offset pipes outside Ram Tah’s Engineer Base
Corrected the wall blocking the hangar bay doors at Pads 6 and 7 of Selene Jean’s Engineer Base
Removed errant pipe in Large hangars
Social Spaces
Added some extra details to the Frontline signage surround, seen behind desks and in the turbolift lobby
Fixed emissive light lodding out on lift surround and added occlusion geometry to lift doors and surround
Fixed a spot where the player could get stuck down the back of the furniture
Arx
Arx will now be awarded for Odyssey gameplay, including -
First footfall
Organic sample
Organic analysis
Suit/Weapon buy/sell/upgrade
Suit/Weapon modify
Selling goods/assets/data
Combat zones on foot - winning and capturing point
Shuttle travel
Known Issues
The scope of the manticore oppressor is currently obscured.
When entering the CMDR panel via the access UI, the player will be unable to back out, causing a soft-lock
See you in the black, Commanders o7
