I actually had this really long lengthy review but then deleted it. You only need to know a couple of things.

It is an incredible premise for a game with lots of potential and the devs are still working hard on creating that.

Your goal is to build, whether it be a super awesome extreme fortress on land or the same in space and explore to build more things. If you don't want to build then go to the workshop and get the prefabs. Then your goal is to mine, so that you can build.

You will always be hungry. Sure, go hunt for meat and when you're ready to eat it you'll discover that it has spoiled and you will probably die.

A spider will bite you and you will be poisoned and probably die.
A worm will bite you and you will get a parasite and die.
A scorpion will sting you and will die.
A raptor will give you an open wound and you will die.
When you go back to get your bag with all of the stuff that you desperately need to survive - whatever killed you is corpse camping so you will die, and over and over in an endless loop until you say screw it and forget the bag.

You will spend hours building the simplest of bases and be proud of what you did. Then you go off to explore only to come back to rubble as drones have flown in and destroyed everything and without the stuff in your bag like medicine, you will die.

You manage to get the resources to build a space ship! You get in and load it up with all of your goodies so you don't die and take off to the moon! No atmosphere means no baddies, so you get on your bike to go and scout for rare resources and find a wreckage! So you start taking that apart because awesome heated steel is great for armor. You get a full inven and head back to your ship, only to find that drones have attacked it and everything that was in your cargo holds is gone, your fuel tank was destroyed, your oxygen producer is gone and your suit level is slowly going down. Your "Survival Constructor" only makes a couple of things like steak and ammo, but to build blocks to fix your ship you'll need the next level up...which requires a base to build one. So you go to make a core only to find that you need 5 copper - of which the moon you landed on does not possess. You stand there in shock of wondering what you're going to do. Then the cold sets in and you see frost start to form on the outside of your helmet.

....and then you die

But I can't stop thinking about it. I know I can persevere, I can do this. I've played countless hours of 7 days, the Forest, I got this. I know what I need to do.

So you start over, completely fresh.

This is literally just PVE. Have not ventured into PVP areas yet. I keep telling myself like any other survival game, that the hardest part is the first days. But there was a point where I was 45 hours in with a base on one planet and a ship with warp and settled down on a snow planet to build an outpost and was then slaughtered by a patrol ship equipped with around 30 plasma cannons that could literally snipe me from 500m away. I had a cannon turret....then it CC'd me for an hour before I gave up and left everything there....to go back to my home base that was attacked by drones.

But I'll keep playing, for some reason I find it enjoyable. I want to have a massive floating fortress in a planets orbit and jump in scout vessel and drop orbit to build an outpost and put my mark on it.

....but I'll probably die

So awhile back Epic had ED for free and while on my radar for a long time but pricepoint being the issue I snatched it up. I'm so regretful that I didn't shell out the cash when I wanted it, because ED Horizons has been and is the best space simulatorrs that I've ever played. The sheer magnitude of the universe, the beauty of getting in a ship and traversing the stars and having the openness of doing whatever you want and then donning a VR headset and poking your head outside your cockpit to check out a blue dwarf star is simply breathtaking

When Odyssey was announced I literally gave a squeal of excitement like a giddy 1st grader getting chocolate milk for lunch. Day one was insta - buy thinking I was about to implode with pure space joy. Instead, I didn't get space at all, I got some knock off first person shooter that is so far from what I love about ED:Horizons I was confused at the concept.

Now, I can see that see that almost every single review is just bad, like...really bad. I don't want to just add what everyone else is talking about or simply state it's garbage. Let me try to give you a better understanding of why you should avoid this DLC and why the o7 community is not just angry, they are hurt similar to the ProjektRed community was when CP launched, but even moreso. I'll try to keep this short as I'd rather write a positive review for ED:Horizons:

• Graphically worrse than Horizons (Still is Imo)
  
• No VR Support Continued or Planned
  
• Poor Optimization
  
• Reworked Mechanics That Did Not Improve Over The Previous
  
• Reworked UI That Does Not Improve Over The Previous
  
• Lack Of New Content Such As Ships And Planetside Vehicles
  
• The Dev Team Simply Ignoring Their Playerbase
  
• The Dev Team Playing Streams And Not Knowing How To Play
  
• Dev Team Experiencing The Same Issues As Players And Ignoring Them
  
• Dev Team Rude And Cold If You Aren't White Knighting
  
• THE LACK OF ANY STORY, LORE, OR REASON TO GRIND ENDLESSLY FOR NOTHING

I feel really bad for the playerbase who has been with this game for decades and devoted time, energy, and most importantly boatloads of money given to a game that has endless possiblilites but instead will have you going to the same 1 of 7 base templates landing on a planet and getting a fine for parking and jumping into the ONE SRV available, literally murdering everyone on the base for unknown reasons and looting lockers for useless junk and hoping for the .01% chance of obtaining an 'opinon poll' for upgrading your suit for no reason and you need 20 of them for one simple 1% upgrade in maybe horrible weapon capacity.

And all because you don't care enough to read the mission brief because its the same UI template for each of the 1 of spaceport templates. Only to return from the three hour pointlessness to receive 1 of 3 rewards that are either credits.rep, or more junk for engineering. WIth 0 repurcussions for the murdering of innocents but a parrking ticket that if unpaid will result in becoming a wanted fugitive and being hunted down.

ED needs a story, needs a reason. The FDev team does not appreciated their playerbase and it shows.

o7 Commanders, see you in Horizons.