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Development News – what have the devs said this week?

1. Tuesday 18:00 – Odyssey Progress (2) – By David Braben
2. Tuesday Stream – Supercruise News #34
   1. 1st Patch on Thursday
3. Tuesday 16:00 – Odyssey – Optimisation/Performance and UI (Galaxy & System Map) Feedback
4. Tuesday Livestream. 
   1. Hot Fixes are quick fixes. They’re claiming that they haven’t seen an Orange Sidewinder error since just before 11 am.
   2. First Full patch coming on Thursday.
   3. New Feedback form to help track down the graphical slowdowns.
   4. New Feedback thread about Galaxy Map/ System Map.
   5. They are in the Inti System Blanchet’s Vice – lovely looking settlement
5. Tuesday – 11am – Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Hotfix 3
6. Tuesday – Liberum Financial Report
   1. Last week saw the PC release of Odyssey, the latest major expansion in the Elite Dangerous franchise. Although players suffered server connectivity issues in the first few days, we understand that many of those problems have now been resolved. Despite the challenges, player numbers have been relatively strong – at record levels for Elite Dangerous, as would be expected. Whilst additional concerns around game optimisation may take longer to fix, Frontier are working hard on resolving these through regular updates to ensure that players’ experience improves. We have no doubt that Elite will remain a successful multi-year franchise going forwards, as the company maintains its launch and nurture approach to creating long-lasting games. We keep our forecasts and Target Price unchanged.
   2. Full Version behind paywall…
7. Monday – #CommanderCreations – 4/05/2021
8. Sunday – Hotfix – Fix for Engineering Materials Issue
9. Friday – Evening Odyssey Progress | Frontier Forums
   1. Apology from David Braben
10. Friday – Evening Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Hotfix 2
11. Thursday (Late evening) – Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Hotfix 1
12. Thursday – Elite Dangerous: Odyssey BGS and crime details
13. Thursday – Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Launch Stream
    1. Arf and Bruce hosting – tech snafus at start
    2. Arf Interviews DB OBE
       1. DBOBE’s Prison break Alpha Story
       2. DB OBE Fly an Asp Explorer and he loves the sound of it
    3. Arf and Bruce bring in
       1. Derin – Sr Designer on Ody
       2. Felix – Lead Animator
       3. Dav – Elite Server Team
14. Wednesday – Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Patch Notes | Frontier Forums 
15. Press
    1. Eurogamer – Unhappy players review bomb Elite Dangerous: Odyssey
    2. PC Gamer – Players in uproar over Elite Dangerous: Odyssey’s bugs and poor performance
16. Arf Appears on some streams
    1. Flight Assist with Psykit
    2. Gamer Tagged Media
       1. More general interview, nice stories about Arf and his history etc

In-Game Events – what’s happened this week?

1. 20th May 3307 – Alliance Election Candidates Announce Community Drives – Community Goal to influence the Alliance election.
2. 21st May 3307 – Hadrian Duval Allegations Declared ‘Inconclusive’
3. 21st May 3307 – Thargoids Pursue Aegis Megaship
4. 24th May 3307 – The Fall of the Oracle – Delphi Station almost crashed into the planet.
5. 24th May 3307 – Federation Refuses Entry to ‘Plague Ship’ – ‘Plague’ ships full of Guardian relics is attracting thargoids

Main discussion

1. Your experiences with Odyssey so far

Community Corner

1. Psykit and the Flight Assist Podcast team are raising money for CLIC Sargent on behalf of community member ColicoJac, who is sadly unable to at this time. Please consider donating what you can to help.
   Cancer is shocking, overwhelming, isolating… and completely unfair. Especially when you’re young. It takes over your life. Treatment is gruelling and your ambitions and dreams – education, relationships, career, travel – suddenly seem very far away.
   
   We get that. That’s why CLIC Sargent fights tirelessly to stop cancer destroying young lives.
2. Notable Stellar Phenomena (Elite Dangerous Odyssey animated parody)
   1. Yet another awesome video by The High Wake
3. Odyssey renderer is broken – details : EliteDangerous (reddit.com)
4. The Best Way to Farm Everything in Elite Dangerous Odyssey Materials Farming Guide
   1. By Hawkes Gaming it’s a little bit exploit (i.e. exit to menu to re-farm the instance) but a good guide. Shan’s been trying it.

Shoutouts

1. Our sister station, Hutton Orbital Radio, Broadcasts on Thursdays from 20:30. You can tune in at twitch.tv/huttonorbitaltruckers  or, for just the audio, at radio.forthemug.com/.
2. For the discerning Commander who likes a bit of CQC action, check out the CQC Discord at “discord.me/elitedangerouscqc”.
3. We’re also giving a shout outs to the following Elite Dangerous podcasts which have appeared over the last year or are standard regular contributors;-
   1. Loose Screws
   2. Elite Week
   3. Flight Assist
   4. For Spanish Speakers there is the Elite Cast 
   5. Cannon Podcast
   6. Fatherhood Podcast.
   7. Squeaking Fuel
   8. System Chat
   9. The Guard Frequency (who do other space sims)
   10. Algorab AM: An Elite Dangerous Podcast
4. For those who want a literary discussion about Sci-fi and fantasy books. Please subscribe to the Dataslate podcast created by station commander Allen Stroud. 
5. Following this we have the latest Galnet News Digest as provided by Cmdr Wotherspoon and Cmdr BeatleJude.
6. Thanks to those who have chipped in on Twitch chat and in-game commanders
7. Special Thanks to Cmdr ToCoSo who created the music for the Introduction of the Show