Elite Dangerous [DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here!

[DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here!
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Update 5
Trying my new markers, I'm really enjoying them. More ships coming...
They were not able to use the same font? Seriously?
A Fer-De-Lance named "Chaser" has been chasing me for almost an IRL hour as I deliver data to Weinbaum City which is .14 LY away from the main star
welp. Game crashed out whilst i was disembarked on a guardian site. reloaded and... nothing. Ship gone, rover gone, and stranded on an alien planet. aaaaaaaaa there goes half my day in getting there. Any ideas of how to fix?
So after 5 years, shield percent are here lol :D
The Pleiades needs your help since the Odyssey update
Quick performance "report" on update5 - minimal, if at all, improvement.
Wish we could open this door!
Didn't play any arx for this one
Greetings from the grassy fields of Hawking's Gap!
Hey I'm not an expert but maybe it's time to consider changing how things are done.
Is the game generally full of assholes?
How I felt giving my newbie friend some void opals
So i heard they updated cockpit lighting with Update 5
Odyssey Mission POIs no longer spawning.
They've gone to teal!
Fiery mountains
[Bug or Feature?] Sudden "frame shift" at regular speeds when flying between rings
Oh...hi there.
couple screenshots from 2017
Just got an Anaconda, that is a big boi.
All of this for 800k… what do you keep busy with during long travels?
Friend experienced a bug and is now a sentient shoe
Maybe some localisation problems in the new UI but it's lovely to see it all

[DAILY Q&A] Ask and answer any questions you have about the game here!

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 08:50 AM PDT

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Wiki • Career Chart • Lore (Brief) • Thargoids • Sagittarius Eye Magazine • The Elite Squadron

Game Update Summaries: Core • Horizons • Beyond • 2019-2020

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Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Update 5

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 12:10 AM PDT

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Trying my new markers, I'm really enjoying them. More ships coming...

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 10:07 AM PDT

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They were not able to use the same font? Seriously?

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 06:10 PM PDT

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A Fer-De-Lance named "Chaser" has been chasing me for almost an IRL hour as I deliver data to Weinbaum City which is .14 LY away from the main star

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 09:42 AM PDT

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welp. Game crashed out whilst i was disembarked on a guardian site. reloaded and... nothing. Ship gone, rover gone, and stranded on an alien planet. aaaaaaaaa there goes half my day in getting there. Any ideas of how to fix?

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 03:06 AM PDT

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So after 5 years, shield percent are here lol :D

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 02:22 PM PDT

Five years ago I made a post with a mockup of having shield percentage visible. And today it's finally made it into the game lol. Quite surprising to be honest. Good vibes, although my OCD I is yelling at the not uniform placement of the number, good job fdev 👍

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4bfu2h/shield_percentage_closeup_mockup/

2016 Mockup

2021 - Actual game

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The Pleiades needs your help since the Odyssey update

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 04:24 PM PDT

Hi Everyone. I'll be blunt, we need your help. The Anti-Xeno community and Background Simulation Community need your help. We the fellow players who call the Pleiades home need your help. Anyone who makes their main playground in systems where there are Thargoids, you may have noticed some of this and it will have an effect on you to some degree.

What is happening: Certain Non-Human Signal Sources aren't spawning the correct Thargoids. The higher tier, higher challenge Thargoids that AX Pilots are looking for simply aren't working. So in order to fight the really challenging Thargoids the AX fighters are going to known damaged megaships in the Pleiades to find and kill the Death Daisies.

So What? When going into a damaged megaship instance to kill the battle bugs it starts a mission for the system owner to perform a task. Not doing that task then causes a mission failure and that completely tanks the influence for the system owner. So much so that no matter how much positive action the player group performs can counteract the negative effects for popular systems. Systems owned by the very same faction that are dedicated to killing the Thargoids are hurt by the action of killing the Thargoids at these MegaShip Instances. Factions that win every war for control of the system they have are losing control due to this over represented negative pressure. Factions that are trying to enjoy the Background Simulation and be good neighbors are caught up in a situation that cannot be remedied.

How Can You Help? The Non-Human Signal Sources NEED immediate repair. Head to the Issue Tracker and please upvote these issues:

https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/34705

https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/34188

I want to see every pilot play the game they love the way they see fit. This situation just creates a massively unstable situation for another aspect of gameplay that should be completely unrelated. Thank you for taking the time to read and for your help.

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Quick performance "report" on update5 - minimal, if at all, improvement.

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 05:55 AM PDT

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Wish we could open this door!

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 05:55 PM PDT

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Didn't play any arx for this one

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 11:12 AM PDT

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Greetings from the grassy fields of Hawking's Gap!

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 11:31 AM PDT

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Hey I'm not an expert but maybe it's time to consider changing how things are done.

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 11:07 AM PDT

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Is the game generally full of assholes?

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 07:01 PM PDT

So I'm pretty new to the game, i just got it a few days ago and i thought it was awesome and loved everything about it. Can you guys help me with this? What should i do?

I had been flying around in some star systems, doing lame missions for days, until i finally found some really juicy ones that would have allowed me to finally upgrade my ship to something better. I get the needed recovery item, i'm in a fast and maneuverable ship, so i hightail it back to the mission giver. Upon arriving, i get interdicted, and literally shot in 3 shots. No scan, no message no nothing. I don't even have weapons on the ship because i was being all about maneuverability. The person got 20k credits worth of cargo, i lost a million credit mission and my ship.

Well no matter, i still have some other good missions so i try a different one. Upon returning the same person interdicts me, and i manage to type out a "please don't" before i'm promptly blown up. This time the cargo was worth a whopping 8k

I try again in a nearby system, kindof annoyed by all the lost hours of work tracking down the contracts, but alright. Upon returning guess who waits there again. This time i say i'll pay you, to try and either roleplay a bit or at least give him an incentive not to just gank me. He asks how much, but upon further discussion he says he's "just bored lol" and then tells me he doesn't need my credits, and i should go on and have fun.

Well it's not really roleplay, but hey maybe people aren't so bad, and at least i can now actually play some enjoyable missions and maybe soon get the ship i'm aiming for. So i restart my systems to fix my thrusters, and begin charging the FSD.

Whereupon he promptly blows me up again. And with that all the missions with good pay are gone. But even if i got a new one he'd probably mess it up for me again.

Let me be clear: I have no problem with being blown up, heck some NPCs managed to off me, and i would quite enjoy dealing with pirates and smugglers and whatnot. But you can escape NPC interdictions, and they won't even attack you with an empty hold, and rarely have weapons that can end you in three hits. If people actually play pirates or whatnot, that's at least immersive, and i'd gladly sacrifice some profits or if they can't be reasoned with, even ships for that. But THIS sortof thing is just breaking any roleplay, ruining the immersion with 'i don't want the credits i just want to murder randomly', ruining the effort i put into the game, and the mood of the galaxy.

So is the whole game like this? Should i just stick to single player? Is it just different regions? How can you avoid people like this?

And no i don't give half of a fuck about how 'It's CaLleD ElITe DaNgERouS!!!'Yes and behavior like that is called griefing, ganking noobs, spawncamping, and is generally frowned upon in multiplayer games.

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How I felt giving my newbie friend some void opals

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 10:20 PM PDT

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So i heard they updated cockpit lighting with Update 5

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 02:50 PM PDT

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Odyssey Mission POIs no longer spawning.

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 08:20 PM PDT

I have four "Salvage: From Wreckage" missions from Jameson, to loot items from Impact Site POIs in Shinrarta - AB 2 J, AB 2 H, AB 3 D, and AB 2 F A. All of these planets are highlighted in dark blue, indicating mission objectives. None of the planets actually have the mission POIs.

The POIs don't appear in the Nav Panel. They don't appear on the planet's surface as seen through the canopy. They don't appear after dropping into the atmosphere, or after getting out to walk around on foot and then getting back up into orbit. They don't appear after scanning with a DSS (I have run fresh scans on every planet, regardless of them having been previously scanned.) They don't appear after logging out to the main menu, and they don't appear even after a full exit from the launcher and Steam.

Edit: Impact Sites with the mission loot are spawning now, but randomly, not on the planets indicated in the missions.

I don't know if it's related or just poor luck and timing, but I can't find Impact Site POIs on any planet, in any system, even without regards to missions. I really needed those Manufacturing Instructions, too.

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They've gone to teal!

Posted: 01 Jul 2021 07:11 PM PDT