Lave Radio Episode 322 Christmas 3306 – 22/12/2020

Position	Crew Member	CMDR Name
Head of Health and Safety	Ben Moss-Woodward	Eid LeWeise
Chief Archivist	Colin Ford	Phoenix_Dfire
(in)Human Resources Director	Shan	Shan
Deputy Trade Attaché	Souv	Souvarine
Tech Monkey	Norman MacArthur	Ventura_
Chief Friend Bringer	John Virgo	Kerrash

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Development News – what have the devs said this week?

1. Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Questions and Answers
   1. Further Obsidian Ant clarified that “going prone and leaning out from cover” will not be in game after a discussion with the Devs
2. Christmas Stream
   1. Twitch Drops (frontierstore.net) to reclaim etc
   2. Also other stuff up to and including an Elgato Stream Deck
3. Main Main topic
   1. FD’s 2020 Year in Review
      1. Operation hot mess
      2. Virtual ECM and Lave radio
      3. Fuel Rats 100K
      4. DSSA initiative (deep space support array)
      5. Fleet carriers
      6. Free Elite via epic store
      7. The return of the CG and Galnet
      8. Kow Racing with Scorb
      9. SPVFA This years Stellar Screenshots
   2. Triathlon with the Bucky Ball Racing Club – SRV, SLF and Keelbacks
   3. 07 News
4. Main Main Main topic.. Odyssey combat reveal
   1. The Sphere of Combat
   2. Interview with Arf and Lead Designer Gareth Hughes
      1. Use smaller or medium ships?
      2. We can hack terminals or Scan people (and their credentials) to gain access levels
      3. Suits
         1. Remloc maverick with the arc cutter (like cutting tool) – The Scavenger Suit
         2. Manticore dominator combat suit. high armor, and can equip 2 primary weapons
         3. Supratech artemis. explorer suit, has dyson multi tool.
         4. flight suit basic “space suit”
      4. Damage Types
         1. Laser
         2. Plasma
         3. Kinetic
         4. Explosive
      5. Grenades
         1. Explosive
         2. EMP
         3. Shield Grenade
      6. You can run someone over in a Combat Zone (and I assume elsewhere)
         1. 4 or so NPCs will make short work of an SRV
         2. Stock sidey would last ~ 30 seconds
      7. There will more new Engineers in Odyssey
      8. We can visit existing Engineers
      9. There WILL be ‘grind’ to fully customise a suit / weapon, but the entry level to try suits and weapons is quite a low barrier.
      10. Road to Odyssey: Lead Designer Q&A – Notes – by Golgot on the Forums

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. 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. 
4. Thanks to those who have chipped in on Twitch chat and in-game commanders