*** This is review of Elite Dangerous Odyssey DLC only ***
*** For my Elite Dangerous Beyond review see apriorate Steam store page ***

And please remember, in space no one can hear you complain...
unless you're an hive minded Thargoid swarm ;)

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First of all be aware that Elite Dangerous isn't easy game and it's definitely demanding huge engagement from player at very beginning of gameplay. And I'm not talking about actual gameplay, but whole understanding of simulation and game mechanics. This is not kind of space shooter, it's simulation of living a space pilot life which idea was first presented by David Braben in 1984. Since than whole game changed a lot and due computer technology improvement made whole idea possible on a scale no one even dreamed off those days.

What most important, Elite Dangerous Beyond (base game) is complete and playable, which i do recommend playing! The low FPS and optimisation problems don't occur there and you may travell among stars, do some space trading, combat or explore new worlds almost without limits!

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So, we have Odyssey Update 15 - and it is a huge dissapointment. All other regular flying missions like trade, exploration, space combat etc. basically works good and you can have a fun. But I've decided to change my recommendation, becase gameplay was drastically degraded with Update 15 and tons of bugs like: levitating NPC's, missing assets, bugged missions, bugged mechanics, and what's crucial, a lot of problems with player instances which have a huge impact at whole gameplay performance. This is propably first MMO in gaming history where you have to play ALONE to keep 60 fps gameplay and acceptable performance. As a former The Winged Hussars member (Players Minor Faction), we played a lot of events with 10 players and more at single locations. With every person going online performance got only worse and worse, frame drops like 15-20 fps are too annoying, and it isn't acceptable on decent computer with AMD 16 core CPU and NVidia RTX 4070Ti GPU. Netcode based on peer to peer is a huge misunderstanding. It looks like Frontier didn't testet new build and it's really hard to say what are they working on right now. I doubt they're working on render code optimisation. IMO, their Cobra Engine simply isn't capable to stand such amount of data to calculate. Too many render culling problems. Too many not fixed mechanics. Too many new bugs. Too many dissapointents. This game became a waste of our preciouss time and money... maybe we should let it die...

If you want to play Odyssey, please be aware that even having decent computer will not guarantee satisfactory gameplay. There's to many performance issues to have fun in its current game state. As agent Fox Mulder from The X-Files said, "I want to believe..." ... unfortunatelly, I've lost my fate in EDO... definetelly...

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