Elite Dangerous: Odyssey

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey
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$29.99
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19 May 2021
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Disembark, Commander, and leave your mark on the galaxy in Elite Dangerous: Odyssey. Explore distant worlds on foot and expand the frontier of known space.

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Elite Dangerous: Odyssey system requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows 7 (SP1+)/8.1/10 64bit
  • Processor: Intel i5-4590 / AMD FX 8350
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 780 / AMD R9 280x (3 GB VRAM)
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 75 GB available space
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rickyt11010
rickyt11010

If you are like me and love every detail of your ships, well now you can walk around them in the hangar while jerking off, Or on a planet skeeting into the wind.

ThePVTCharlieS
ThePVTCharlieS

This DLC has singlehandedly ruined planets for me

besides sitting in the middle of nowhere, settlements are a minefield of bad missions, dumb AI, and ridiculous crime and punishment systems that will not hesitate to make an entire settlement cry for your blood when all you did was walk a little too much or god forbid, loiter. Once they've rid you of your life, you get fined, thrown several systems away to a prison ship, and if you're unlucky they'll also blow your ship up as you're leaving the prison ship. Dont waste your time

eayoung1995
eayoung1995

Adding a new dimension to a game that offers thousands of hours of gameplay to the majority of it's player base, Odyssey is the beginning of a new phase for the game and community as a whole. The ground missions are simple to understand if a bit diffcult to master, and the consequences for death for new players are much easier to deal with than the standard ship rebuy consequence of horizons. Stick to the Apex taxis until you're rich enough to afford to rebuy your ship a few times over. I have played Elite on xbox for years, and have tested Odyssey on PC and found it thoroughly enjoyable as an enhancement to the existing gameplay loops and experience.

FrostyLoads
FrostyLoads

It's fun and I enjoy it, but of course some parts need to be fixed.

Biggest issue in my opinion is the detection function when you're doing on foot stealth missions and the game automatically gives you a 1000 cr bounty for killing a npc with no witnesses (even the npcs who you are required to kill to access a part of a building), but if you leave the npc alive and get risk getting caught you'll still get that bounty put on you. And everyone knows clearing a bounty/the bounty system in general in this game is a time consuming pain in the ass.

Makes stealth missions so not worth it.

KatTheCake
KatTheCake

Still runs like complete crap, even after a year of "bugfixing and optimization."
New content after release? Emotes, Scarab 2.0 and on-foot in big pew pew ships. Lmao what?
It's a really grindy DLC also, and it doesn't feel rewarding. Do yourself a favour and wait for the free 4.0 Oddysey upgrade if you want the pretty graphics.

Moopy
Moopy

game runs perfectly fine on all high settings on my laptop

but the bad stuff is

no content, on foot is absolute garbage
the combat is boring if you're an explore type of players there's nothing new for you to look at
this DLC is not worth it even while on sale just get a key from a third party site for like a dollar or something if you do want to try this mess

Officer Chad Sexton
Officer Chad Sexton

I don't have kids of my own, but this game and by extension FDEV are like a child that repeatedly just ends up being disappointing, wasting years of hard work that you put in and finding new ways to make it worse that you never would have even thought of.

Daemon McGrumpypants
Daemon McGrumpypants

Let's get this out of the way immediately: Odyssey was absolute, total, unquestionable garbage at release, mostly because the devs were apparently testing on 4090Tis years before they were even announced.

But now? It's honestly really good. Frontier did a lot of work tightening things up. As an explorer, landing on an as-yet-undiscovered planet and watching the sun of a system rise over the mountains feels pretty darn close to meatspace. Walking around feels right - like you're a human, as opposed to Master Sergeant. The stuff that's happening with the Thargoids feels like an entirely new chapter unfolding, and I'm hauling ass back to the bubble from Sag A* to be a part of it.

It took far longer than it should have, but Odyssey feels to me like it should have on release, and I'm really happy that this game is staying alive.

GeorgeKaplan
GeorgeKaplan

I've a few hours in this game, so just my recent observations:

Performance in Odyssey has improved since launch, but IMO the bare minimum specs are the "recommended specs". I wouldn't recommend trying with less than a 1050gtx and i7. If you do, the in-space bit will be fine and fantastic as usual, but on-foot busy settlements you will experience low FPS at times. Not unplayable, but anything below 30fps can be difficult. The game is processor, memory and GPU heavy at times.

The grind. You don't have to. Honestly, level 3 suits and weapons are available to buy every Thursday at mostly military ground settlements. You don't NEED G5 gear to play the FPS game effectively. I have decided not to grind for anything and I haven't regretted it.

The state of the game. It's receiving a lot more attention recently. More involvement and communications from DEVs on Discord and storylines are being progressed to a crescendo with the alien threat. More community events are evident. Merging of horizons and console migration is imminent.

Bugs; Yes, there are a few annoying bugs where settlements are empty, or targets are missing but a quick relog or return to supercruise usually clears that and anyway, you get the opportunity to loot the place if it's empty! I've never had a game breaking bug and in the past two years. I've had two crashes. The issues that caused these crashes are now resolved.

Overall, it's been an improving picture. I don't do much first person shooting, but do mostly stealth and settlement restore missions. The best part of Elite is when you can get together in tha same instance with other commanders to achieve a common goal (like HIP22460) or take part in a community events (as organised by Discord groups like the Buur pit).

It's a thumbs up from me. It's the game I keep coming back to.

NathanAnjack
NathanAnjack

Shockingly good. The shooter implementation is surprisingly smooth and snappy. It was rough at launch (hence all the negative reviews), but in my opinion it is really solid at this point. It's fun walking planet-side, studying exobiology, seeing how big your ship is by walking around it, and more.

The only disappointment for me is that they haven't added ship interiors. It's a small thing, but would add to the immersion and enjoy-ability of owning a ship. Other than that, Odyssey is a great expansion.

SpruceFeathers6
SpruceFeathers6

20 minutes of ground work for the same cash as 1hr of ship combat

10/10 would gun down innocents again

Dark Spark
Dark Spark

The game is great in all but it has lots of bugs and needs patching up like the ship looping when i try to get out i cant even get out am stuck like am in a black screen, I recommend the game when its all done and great!

Fr0stW0lves
Fr0stW0lves

Performs better than Star Citizen, on-foot stuff runs with TrackIR (cheaper than VR) but isn't that fun with it, so don't let the bad reviews of the VR people complaining that they can't run Odyssey on-foot stuff in VR drag you away from this fantastic addition to Elite.

This DLC is amazing and, after waiting for years to get it, I am not disappointed in any way. Most of this community seems to be complete and utter cry babies when it comes to some of the features of Odyssey and don't look at the overall greatness that this DLC is. People here love to complain so much and never have something good to say, but c'mon guys. We have space legs now. People don't seem to understand that absurdity. Back in 2016, it was something we never expected to actually get, and come today, we actually have it.

Downsides: Loading into stations too quickly does cause buggy stations that require a relog since you become stuck. Guns do too little damage in my opinion, but I haven't engineered them much yet.
Pros: Still less buggy than SC (NPC's actually sit in chairs correctly), game loads 100x quicker and doesn't require a supercomputer to play. Plus you get to stare at your ship in the hanger for hours on end, in person, instead of using the camera suite.

boredom
boredom

i don't get why almost everyone hates this,sure it can be buggy,but still,i love it,and i can't wait for future updates that make it less buggy and full atmospheric landings if frontier does add it

Mattem Ignorum
Mattem Ignorum

You might see the negative reviews for Odyssey and wonder, why? Well, the reason is that the game is still quite janky, other users have some errors, and things are still unoptimized some time after launch. It's getting better over time, but that's just it, it's taking time. However, looking past that, Odyssey is an expansion that allows you to leave your spaceship on foot and do just about whatever you want in the milky way galaxy. No ship interiors yet but you can raid settlements, look at your ship from the outside, and sit at a bar and listen to Ziggy Stardust on shuffle. Personally, I love all of that, it's rad. And if you support the devs, they'll be able to add more stuff to it. I firmly recommend it.

TSRC2Short
TSRC2Short

i have 266 hrs in this game and was kicked the game will not load contacted support over 20 hrs ago still nothing loved the game but now its just a waste of money cant play it and no support to fix issues

leoliam
leoliam

A cautious recommendation.

Actually good, I'm very glad I avoided the horrible launch but now jumping in it's just more elite. I'm not really a grinder so I'm not going to get as many hours as others, and I think that's a good thing for this because it's just more fun (this will differ but hey it's more than other titles atm). Performance wise: check out horizons 4.0 and land on a settlement, adjust settings and this is pretty much this dlc, I'm glad I did this and I recommend it to anyone considering this dlc. As for the graphics, they're great. Objectively speaking the game has more data (A LOT, look at file sizes), but subjectively is up to interpretation (look around in 4.0 Horizons). If you installed horizons 4.0 and get this dlc, warning the file size is larger, you need to go into the files and delete the folder with 4.0 horizons in it as it is as large as the dlc file size and non-useable after getting this (thanks FDev :/).

And for those interested in performance atm: I'm running an NVidia GTX 1060 6gb,a 6 core intel i5 @ 4.2 GHz (weird overclocking stuff it's actually labeled as 3.7 GHz) and have 32 GB's of RAM, although this is kinda overkill but is useful for other things. I run the game at decent, mid range graphics at fps ranging from 50-60 fps (on foot) and constantly have other applications and YT videos open, however this is a 1080p display so go ahead and extrapolate for higher pixel counts.

I hope this helps someone make their mind up about whether or not to get this (either way, not just my cautious recommendation)

Anonymous
Anonymous

Years ago, I purchased Elite Dangerous. I hated it. So about 4 or 5 years later I came back to check the new DLC. The new DLC really isn't that bad. The main issue is the bad mechanics that make Elite Dangerous so awful to play are still there. Do you enjoy watching hours of YouTube videos to use Supercruise so you don't constantly overshoot your target? Do you enjoy flying for 10 minutes because you can't get a lock on Supercruise assist because although humanity can now fly faster than light it can't create a computer that will fly you around large objects with ease?

How stupid. It just kills itself with dumb stuff like this constantly and it makes the game just not fun. After a few hours, I am putting this game back in storage and will not be playing further. I want a game to grab me and make me be curious about all the different mechanics and hidden features that are in the game - NOT to be super annoyed at just travelling between two space stations which should be the most basic thing in the game. Why is this so hard? Why do the game designers think that I'll be amused by constantly overshooting a target? THIS SHOULD BE SIMPLE, PEOPLE. THIS SHOULD BE BASIC. And the fact that it isn't tells you all you need to know about the people designing the game.

Star Citizen suffers from this although not as badly. Just try going to another point on a planet. Just try rotating that planet just right on your star map and then try setting that route only to have the map reset on you. It's idiotic. Maybe that new Starfield game will learn from this and just make travelling around a star system easy. Probley not, though. I bet that design team is as dumb as the teams behind ED and SC. Game designers - if in your game you can travel FTL then it also should be super simple to travel between two places. This isn't rocket science. And the fact that it is rocket science to the two teams is just sad, pathetic, and an absolute waste of what might be good games if they could just get over their clunky, stupid, and poorly designed methods of transportation.

MajorCrom
MajorCrom

Gonna give this a shot again someday. Haven’t played in a long time, but when I did it felt years from being done. Im keeping it though, confident they’ll eventually make something of it. Just Star Citizen definitely feels more immersive at the moment.

LavenderFox2430
LavenderFox2430

Horizons 4.0 released alongside Odyssey 4.0.
No instancing between the two, so I can't play with my friends.
I'm refunding this.

A_Dude
A_Dude

I've been playing elite for a few years now off and on (formally on ps4 and now pc) and I gotta say even though this dlc is FAR from perfect and still needs work I can't not recommend it. Being able to explore around and engage in on foot missions really adds something that just feels really nice, especially when you're in a group of friends having fun playing missions or just goofing around on low gravity planets and for me that's what it all about so IMHO I'd have to recommend this.

Bartello
Bartello

Honestly thought it will an easy as pressing play, like Horizons. Honestly if you can get into the server, you are in. i have been trying to get into the game for three days strait, its a waste of my time. I wish I can refund this.

Fecal Treacle
Fecal Treacle

No idea if this was even worth buying, because after three days I still don't have access to it. So I got it refunded, I will only download games for free from this point on I think.

MONSTER.DONG
MONSTER.DONG

Though buggy at launch, the development team have been working tirelessly on fixing and improving the game.
They regularly communicate with the playerbase and the improvements implemented into the game show this.

Istarias
Istarias

I honestly think a lot of the trash posted by the 'reviewers' here was either posted by over-excitable children or those paid to post it. The game and the DLC are brilliant. Sure, the DLC was absolutely shocking on release, but that was a year ago now and a lot has changed.

If you want to play a proper space game and want to be able to do every kind of action possible, including move about on foot, this one is it. Unlike others, this one has actually been released, the galaxy is as big as it should be and the ships fly like they should. Then there's first person shooter action on top of that with this DLC. There's also some exploration stuff to be done on foot. What's not to like?

Jawnee Towers
Jawnee Towers

They have definitely worked hard on improving the game. I do think they rushed the Odyssey release. However now that consoles aren't holding them back I think we can move into a better direction sooner than later.

Jem
Jem

It's all First-Person Shooter, something I REALLY wish I knew before spending the money as I have no ability to play FPS games or any interest in it...

AceDAJ
AceDAJ

I delayed getting this due to all of the negative reviews. It's not perfect, but I am having a blast. Being able to land and just travel on foot completes the Space Sim experience. It's not halo, but the FPS combat on the ground is still enjoyable. The graphical improvements were pretty noticeable as well. Although, that is accessible to the base game now.

Anonymous
Anonymous

BOUGHT THE GAME IT WAS GOOD ON MY PS4 (SOMETIMES)
TRYED TO MOVE OVER TO PC TO GO ON ODY. MY PS4 GOT COPYED AND I LOST MY FILE FOR ODY....
HAVE I COMPLETELY GONE NUTS?....

Short'nCurlies
Short'nCurlies

DO NOT BUY Odyssey! The worst experience I've ever had with a video game! It's plagued with bugs and performance is terrible. Don't let Frontier beguile you with "Update 13" crap. I bought the game a week ago and I'm giving up on it as of tonight. Numerous crashes, missions not spawning correctly, several-minute-long "hangs" during play. And don't bother trying to contact their support team. They don't respond!

Wish I could get my money back ...

mindblast
mindblast

I want my money back!
This has to be the worst DLC i've ever played.
I had extreme performance issues right in the first introduction mission. My PC specs are Ryzen 2700X, 32GB Ram, 2070RTX.
I have played Horizons in VR with a Quest 2 with absolutely no problems. On Odyssey i had to seriously tone down quality settings and still get occasional stutter that makes the mission pretty much unplayable.

But the worst thing happened just now: I was doing my third FPS mission. Landed in the colony, some dude started to scan me and as i didn't stand still right away he opened fire and killed me. I wake up 57 Lightyears away and try to respawn but the game just gives me an error message "Yellow Adder" and i have to shut down. I log back in, get to the same screen again, try to respawn and get the same error again. So to get unstuck i restarted in Horizon which led to my active ship now being destroyed so i had to pay the insurance cost for that too. At least i'm unstuck now. :-/

Seriously this DLC has been released 15 months ago? I feel like a beta tester!

Also i'm sad that they have dropped real VR Support in the DLC. Elite Dangerous was one of the reasons why i got the Quest 2 in the first place. However this is something i could live with, but bugs like the above really ruin it for me.

solohelion
solohelion

Honestly, I haven't played Odyssey all that much, and I'm not very good at FPS games. I think it's pretty cool though! Not quite as impressive as Star Citizen however. I liked Elite Dangerous itself quite a bit and played it for a while. Lately everyone is very negative about the game and it isn't as fun to play when the community isn't excited. Star Citizen has an in-game community chat. I'm basically comparing it to Star Citizen.

The keyboard and mouse controls aren't great -- this is best played with a joystick and custom bindings. I also use VoiceAttack with HCS Voicepacks. This really really helps me out -- I can tell the computer to do things without remembering the key combinations, or while looking at something else. I also use EDFX with reshade to improve the graphics. It's too bad they dropped VR support for the Odyssey expansion, that was a pretty huge selling point for me -- I first came across the game browsing the Oculus store. I mostly played in VR for quite a while.

This game isn't perfect and it's for a certain kind of player -- one that likes immersion, space trucking, and the particular combat model employed. And for the on-foot aspects, I admit I was ambushed and killed when I tried to do missions at first (until I stopped trying) -- I don't know whether by players or NPCs. I also accidentally drew my gun and was arrested because I didn't know how to stow it. That hurt my 100% rep with the faction who controlled the space I was in, and I was frustrated.

I would recommend this game though. These days there's a lot of negativity around it, but you'll still find it as fun as it ever was, especially as a new player.

SpartanCinC
SpartanCinC

Wow, was apprehensive about buying but its great. The gfx overhaul looks amazing (Geforce 3050). The gameplay seems like a nice add. Got it on sale and very happy. Looks great, plays great.

Cpt. Spaulding
Cpt. Spaulding

Much higher requirements than the base game, even when my computer is a lot better than the recommended settings. Runs in single digits FPS if you maintain the same settings you use in the base game.

blueeagle69
blueeagle69

Love it.

It is not without it's issues in places, but nothing comes close to the atmosphere Elite Dangerous and Odyssey gives you.

I only wish it would utilise my CPU and GPU a little more.

Flymo5678
Flymo5678

I recommend Odyssey as it is fun to play and runs decently, however, when I first installed it it was really running poor.
I spent the next few days messing around with settings rather than actually playing the game and in the end I got it to where I was happy playing it without too many frame drops and without murdering too much of the graphics.

If you are to get this I highly recommend if you are having performance issues to use x0.85 super-scaling. For me this really helped.

Overall if you have the spare time to go through the settings for a while and look online for tips on how to optimise it odyssey is really fun and enjoyable and I am currently enjoying every minute of it.

Have fun out there CMDR!

Xinshadow
Xinshadow

It was pretty rough at release, but nowadays (as of patch 13) it runs pretty well and is mostly bug-free, even on my fairly ancient PC hardware. With the recent additions of stuff like expanded assassination missions (NPC targets being able to transition from ground to space to avoid you) and fleet carrier interiors, it's very much FINALLY what was supposed to be delivered out out of projects like Star Citizen. Flying with HOSAS adds that extra bit of immersion that makes ED:O king of the immersive space sims at the moment.

If you were on the fence or put off by the abysmal launch, now just might be the time to jump in!

KeelungMusk
KeelungMusk

It feels like a FPS from 2000ish, Idiotic AI, boring missions, grindy AF, lack of build/equipment variety while it follows the "laser for shield, kinetic for HP" directly from the base game. It works for ship combat, but it's stupid to apply to on-foot combat.

It's also inconsistent with ED base game. Your billion-worth ship can tanks tens of shells in the space combat and still airworthy or even able to fight back. But it can be shoot into colander by a bunch of ground NPCs with handheld guns. What the f*** is that.

Just don't buy it. ED Base game is good enough, don't let Odyssey to kill the good impression.

kabama
kabama

It's the classic Elite Dangerous grind but even worse and with less room for error.

Buy it on sale or not at all.

Primotter
Primotter

It had a rough start, yes. But they have improved on it. The lightning rework is astonishing, the views while exploring atmospheric planets and how each type of atmosphere changes the lighting to create amazing views. Combat is pretty decent. I'm not into FPS games, but I find easy to have fun with their implementation of ground combat.

_kilt_
_kilt_

Been playing this for a few years now, bought it first on PS4 then Xbox then PC because of the third party apps available.
Odyssey has had a rough time but it's a great game, hard to learn but worth the time if you want a good space sim.
Only thing that annoyed me was the devs ditching VR in any meaningful sense for Odyssey as that was one reason I bought it for PC.
You can still use VR in space but for planetary foot gaming it turns into a horrible screen like you're watching a movie in a crap theatre.

Don't know what the complaints on performance are about because I run this with a Ryzen 5 5600x 16gb of ram and a GTX 1070 with very little issue although a busy planet conflict zone might be a bit scary.
Overall it's the best space sim available and you can have intense fun or relaxed fun depending on your mood.

Hardluck
Hardluck

I bought this DLC mid-septemper of 2022 and this is the first time I feel scammed. I really like the base game, but this DLC features no expansion of to the things you can do in the base game, atrocious game design and enough bugs to make them a constant detriment to gameplay.

After spending considerable time (about 10 hours, over multiple days) tracking down the equipment, I tried doing some easy missions. Either I went in, grabbed the mission item and got out, making getting to and from the mission the majority of the time spent, or I stayed and looked around trying to loot and got a connection error. All but one of the missions were on the dark side of the planet, which isn't a problem in the base game since everything comes with night vision as a standard, but not in this content.
What little combat there was, was awful. Enemies get dropped right on top of you as a scripted event. If you're close enough to one of them, all of them know exactly where you are. Enemies don't seem to suffer from restriction to ammo, grenades or battery, all of which are extremely limited for the player. Enemies are capable of dodging maneuvers the player isn't and their light completely obscures them preventing aiming. Guns do damage to either shields or health, which means you are constantly waiting for the weapon swap animation to finish, or their projectiles travel so slow the you can outrun them with the SRV. This isn't a problem for the NPCs, since they come in groups of 6 and, if one of them can melt your shield, the others can damage your health. And when the one you just stripped of their shield gets blocked by their friends, it's back to the weapon swap animation with you, while you get punished with impunity. And don't let the low ammo capacity the player has fool you, it took 3 hits from a plasma pistol (tier 3 out of possible 5) to take down an unshielded, unarmored technician, enemies are definitely bullet spongy.

Outside the missions things aren't that much better. Where in the base game, you can dock with a station and access all the station services from the popup menu, it takes, not one, but TWO loading screens to access the menus for this DLC. And that's coming and going. My computer is capable of 60-90fps in the base game, but I'm glad to get 30 in the DLC content and while there were connection errors in the base game, they were a rarity, in this DLC spending over 30 minutes in a mission, a disconnect is all but guaranteed.

What eventually made me quit playing this DLC, was a base assault mission, which combined all the problems the DLC has. A defence drone that took over a thousand hits from the SRV to take down. Shooting at amorphous blobs of light, which can dodge faster than the projectiles I'm shooting can travel the around 50m distance the combat takes place in the the perpetual darkness. The unbelievably fiddly action wheels, that seemingly cannot be cancelled out of without selecting something while locking your mouse to them. An enemy that started hovering few inches off the ground, thus becoming completely immune to damage, until I ran into the gaggle of enemies with my SRV in desperation, fortunately dislodging him. All this only to find that the prize at the end was that the last enemy was clipped into the ground and could not be damaged. A limitation he did not suffer from, by the way. Thus making the mission uncompletable and as I returned to my SRV, you guessed it, a connection error. Everything reset except the resources I had used. I though, screw this, drove out from the base area and recalled my ship to leave. This was a mistake. Immediately 2 system authority vessels spawned in and started attacking my SRV and my ship. I committed no crime and had no fines. I relogged, but 10 seconds after the ships were back attacking me. It took 10 minutes of driving away, while trying to survive to the weapons from 2 spaceships, abandoning the mission and relogging again to allow me to leave the planet.

Until a major rework on how nearly everything in this DLC works and several stability and bug fixes, I have no desire to engage with this content ever again and I, wholeheartedly, advise anyone thinking about purchasing this to do the same.

Dark Lord of the Buffs
Dark Lord of t…

This expansion adds a taxi service that can take you places while you go take a piss, 10/10.

Oh, I guess it also added some other features, but the taxi really sells it for me.

Thunderous71
Thunderous71

On release this expansion was a mess. Now its still has its features but on an average gaming system its a viable game.
Now that said does the fps part add a lot to the game ? No and yes, fps combat is a bit like a capture the flag style of game play from the 90s. Fps missions are deadly, still an item that's instant death to you! It is a bit daft the way shoot to kill it dealt out by the police for nabbing a USB stick.
Exploring on food also known as scavenging and gardening. Yea crash sites on planets can be explored on foot and items and materials can be scavenged, its a neat feature but not cost or time efficient.
Gardening sorry scanning the nature found on planets is erm well wtf?
Can you roam around inside your ship ? No.
Can you roam around inside space stations?
Yes, in a limited way and unless your interested in doing fps missions its pointless. Why this wasn't used to add extra / special missions for both for and space flight?
The fps part of the game and the space flight sim seem very disconnected, its getting better though.

The UI has had a big overhaul for the better I would say but it will drive you nuts out of frustration at first.

Planet generation, is much better but I can understand some liking the old generation system as it did produce some funky if unrealistic planets. The new system can justifiable be called a little bland, but realistic.

Would I still buy, YES but only when on sale.

Veni Vidi Vicious
Veni Vidi Vicious

Not so good at release, hence the bad evaluations, now very good indeed. ED is a great space simulation, in which you can decide what you want to do. Trading, mining, exploring the galaxy, space combat, even ground combat now... many possibilities. Write your own space history!
I really enjoy this game, I hope you do too.

Miracle_Whip
Miracle_Whip

hard beginning. You'll need a fairly good GPU to run it on VR but i does give you an awesome feel.
I really enjoy this game and after 500h in game I still have a lot to explore and to understand! love it

Sparrow
Sparrow

This product was review bombed, so the overall score is inaccurate. The DLC was released too soon in development and was poorly optimised and teeming with bugs. This is no longer the case. Bugs still exist like in any game, but for the most part they aren't game-breaking. The improvements to the games graphical engine, UI, and the additions Odyssey brings to the game are well worth the purchase.

You will still need a fairly powerful computer to run this game at an acceptable framerate while on planets, however. I'd recommend a 7th gen intel (or AMD equivalent) CPU or better and a GTX 1070 or better to run the game on low-mid settings at 1080p.

Torflurch
Torflurch

Today, after nearly 1.5 years without playing Horizon, I tried to start a session in Odyssey, but I got a server error. Then I switched to Horizon and could start a private session, but a soon as I tried to land on a planet, I got a server error. Then I deleted my old save file and started a complete new character, but I got a server error.
Tried a fresh install, restarting my computer, switching settings in the firewall, but after 340h I must abandon this game for good. Cannot recommend it at the current state!

SobleskeyK
SobleskeyK

Everybody taking about bad performance, but even if it ran perfectly this is still a criminally overpriced dlc. How low have standards gotten? Zero effort went into to this. It's a big nothing burger. I knew it wasn't amazing, but wow is it bad. Ugly guns and awful gun play, can't even walk around your ship, glitchy graphics, models missing arms and wearing blurry clothes, blurry signs and screens, empty environments, no voice acting, and no real point to be on foot because it's much quicker and easier to make money in your ship. It's not even worth it for immersion, it's actually immersion shattering because it reinforces how empty the world is in Elite. Stations should be bustling, not almost desolate with 3-5 silent npcs awkwardly walking around. It genuinely isn't worth $5, much less $40. Why FDev, why did you waste time making this? Just to be able to make more cosmetics to sell with the outfits? This isn't even the launch! It's been over a year! Horizons 4.0 was a great release, that's the best version of this game. All the good changes that odyssey made top the UI and graphics, with none of the horrible on-foot additions. But get this, buying odyssey removes the option for you to play 4.0! I mean what is going on!? Immediately refunding. This should not be for sale, it should be either a quarter of the price, or removed entirely. Nobody would miss it

SeñorButtPlug
SeñorButtPlug

Alright, I understand the on-foot gameplay, I have a 1050 Ti and was prepared for low/unstable FPS. But there is no excuse for my FPS to drop from ~120 to ~40 in freaking space (literally a black skybox with dots and textures on it) when switching from Horizons to this crap. And the graphical upgrade is also not an excuse anymore, as it's been applied to Horizons with 0 impact to my average FPS. Fix your goddamn game already. Or better yet, smother this DLC with a pillow, refund us in ARX or something, and act like Odyssey never existed.

Trooper1023
Trooper1023

See my overall review for this game and its "expansion" on the base games review page. This expansion is only worth it for the improvements to the base game. The "new gameplay additions" are anything but. Wait until FDEV gives up the ghost and merges Odyssey into the base game, like it merged in Horizons before it.

James72
James72

The bad reviews are right about Odyssey. All the problems I had with Odyssey outweighed what's good about it. I thought everyone was just exaggerating about how bad it is and boy was I wrong. I'm just glad I got it on sale and I still feel like I paid too much for it.

*****2
*****2

I really enjoyed Odyssey from launch. There were a lot of initial frustrations but its a great update to an epic game.

Devastator
Devastator

The Framerates got vastly improved, the groundcombat is actually fun, so the only downside I see for Odyssey is the price that is a bit too high. For me, it was absolutely worth it.

R.I.K.U.
R.I.K.U.

its ok
the functionality is there, the graphics and interiors are there (not the ship interiors tho major L when your competitor has been doing that since they started) but the combat balance is so punishing that it's not fun. the way weapons handle is less fun that what I made in little big planet, the every gun is balanced to be able to compete with the other guns but the problem is that all the guns do dog-sh^t damage compared to the damage output from any npc holding anything larger than an LWS .380.

but aside from questionable balancing decisions on the part of FDev, the environments are really well made, and I've run into no game breaking bugs, only some weird shadow flickering. the interiors we do get to see (again please add ship interiors!) are fabulously crafted and the technical detail is really well thought out, something I really appreciate. in fact, the technical detail in elite dangerous has always been incredible and very imaginative, which is why I want those ship interiors so fucking bad!

would I reccomend this? for people who are dedicated to the lore of elite dangerous, yes. for people who just want to explore this galaxy a little closer, yes. for people who are looking for a satisfying and fun fps experience, no.

Volknir
Volknir

this is still a buggy mess. it needs alot of fixes before this is worth a buy. stay clear for now

Kr1mz0nHaze
Kr1mz0nHaze

this game is so big and it has so much to due in it that it can get overwhelming but there are such good people in the community that help out with so much its hard not to love the game

Sabor
Sabor

Get it for $20 or less. It doesn't add anything substantial to the game to justify anywhere near a $40 price tag. It does add a lot of performance issues, which as of today have mostly been worked out, but not fully, and the performance will never be as good as Horizons. Not that that matters, the 4.0 update will merge the two games so Horizon players are using the same upgrades to the lighting and graphics. Which are more like side grades, but again with a performance hit. Walking is the same as driving the SRV around, but slower. You can rootie tootie aim and shootie some weapons at NPCs, but that will get old fast.

The only things to write home about is terrain detail can go up to Ultra+ with the new planet tech, which ALL players are getting in the 4.0 update anyway, and landable planets with thin atmospheres, which are pretty, but not any different than planets without them when it comes to gameplay

Only recommended if it's on heavy sale.

mag
mag

Nice graphic upgrade
Cool moving around with 2 leg
Boring FPS gameplay
Bad performance
Still kinda worth (if it's sale)

Biddaman
Biddaman

I enjoy it. Honestly, my biggest gripe with the Odyssey is that you gain a bounty when you stealth kill someone. Nobody will see it happen and you'll still catch a bounty. Other than that, I really like it. I've gotten slowdown here and there, but it doesn't bother me too much. The shooting isn't Doom Eternal smooth, but it's a space game with FPS moments, not a shooter with space game moments. I have fun, and IMO that's what important. I like to land outside of settlements and sneak in a raise all sorts of hell.

VaporZ
VaporZ

Don't buy this game. You won't even be able to play it most of the time. Getting Server connecting issue preventing you from even playing the game. (Error Orange Sidewinder) Go play Star Citizen if you are craving a good space game. At least this one works.

Nullify
Nullify

Great game, awesome graphics and multiplayer implementation, just poor perfomance.

KingLucario
KingLucario

I bought it on sale just to try and "be safe" but even the 40% I got doesn't seem like enough. This game is barely worth $1.99 let alone the $23.99 I paid. It's not even a Beta, there's too many bugs to call it that - What it IS, is a steaming pile of hot garbage. It's said to see a game with so much potential fall from grace so quickly like this. Elite has been a big part of my life and I'm sad to see it go but at least I'll always have Stellaris.

Patriarch
Patriarch

Not worth. Doesnt add very much value to the base game.
Pros:
- Planet graphics are great
Cons:
- Ground missions are boring and not worth your time
- Exobiology is spend 2 hours on a planet looking for a pond of goo and click.
- UI had some improvements in some parts, and downgrades on others.
- Suit grind fest
- Bugs

I would love to love this game and the new perspective... but the game doesnt help.

Fly safe CMDRs

Hosaki
Hosaki

Been two hours and Ive found two game breaking bugs. Its been over a year since this expansion launched.

blastedoff55
blastedoff55

This is just more stupid grind to pay for.

Juneberries
Juneberries

I purchased odyssey around two weeks ago, and i have some things to say about.

First off is the framerate. i have a decent PC that's powerful enough to run the dlc, and although i get great, to good fps in almost all locations, it will often dip severely for several seconds in certain circumstances such as entering/exiting supercruise, hyperspace, and orbital glide.

Second is the bugs. In my time playing the dlc, I have had few bugs, and of those bugs, only one was really a problem. I had been doing a legal mission, and upon death by defending myself, i was arrested and forced to pay a fee for doing something "illegal" to the point where i lost all my credits, and had to take out a loan. i was able to pay it off quickly however, as i was on-foot when i died, so i didn't have to rebuy my ship.

Last is an issue where the textures for planets, and moons repeat themselves. I have only encountered this one time, and it was because it was very obvious.

Overall, I've really enjoyed the gameplay that odyssey introduces. It has issues, but it also has a lot of fun to be had. As for who i would recommend this dlc to, it would be to anyone who is okay with playing the dlc, EVEN with the the issues and bugs it brings.

Anotaros
Anotaros

I really, really wanted to love this.

I tried it with friends, without friends, after waiting for bugs to be patched. I hoped against all hope that Frontier wouldn't mess this up because how could they, its exactly what fans have been asking for. But here we are.

At first glance I found the on foot gameplay to be enjoyable, there were features and simulated depth that made it look like it was finally something to do that wouldnt feel like another grind, but that was a facade. From the downgrades to planet generation that; while defendable; add to the pile of crap, to bugs and terrible decisions from a gameplay point of view like having next to no cross-type (On foot to ship ship to on foot etc) gameplay. I really just cant recommend spending even 10$ on Odyssey, much less 40.

But the big thing that really killed me was the devs here. When their fans ask about a feature and say they want it they (LIVE ON STREAM) said "Theres no demand" to the very people asking for it in mass. Without ship interiors I am unsure how much I want to continue investing my time or money into this; as a result I have moved on.

If you want more of the same ELITE gameplay, but skinned as FPS, Odyssey is for you. Theres plenty more grind and engineering and monotonous gameplay. I am just tired of the same old.

TL:DR More of the same, not what I expected or wanted really.

ELS6662
ELS6662

I am really enjoying the odyssey dlc, i held off getting the dlc because of the reviews
i do not regret getting the dlc really enjoying so far.

Devin
Devin

I have dabbled in Elite for years now but never really been able to get into it fully. I think that final level of immersion that Odyssey has now provided is what I needed. I didn't try playing it at its launch so I don't know of the issues that were present. But I can say in its current state its fun. It's worth it to me and makes the universe actually feel alive and not just a bunch of disembodied entities occupying ships throughout the universe. No it's not perfect but it really helps add some immersion to the rest of the game.

dEAdOnE77
dEAdOnE77

The Game has grown and all the "On Foot" parts have increase the sense of present drasticly.

Erxandale
Erxandale

It freezes and goes to a black screen every 5 minutes and have a pretty beefy laptop. Horizon runs an easy 120 fps on maximum graphics but Odyssey can't run even 40. I wanted to get the expansion to walk around station and see my ship in its scale but its way to buggy to even be playable.

the_mule
the_mule

I started the Odyssey version on 2022-07-30.
I only played the tutorial and looked around the base a bit.
No bugs so far.
Both on foot and in the ship.
The switch between ship and foot takes a minute.
I payed only 23 euro for it, and for now it looks much more worth than that.
I will update this review if that changes.
I play on Linux Fedora 35.
About the Horizon version, it is amazing, and now is seamlessly connected to Odyssey, as if they were a single game.
In the beginning Horizon requires much time and commitment.
Some say you need to grind, but after 735 hours in it, I don't agree.
It's much fun.
You need to gather resources and do other repetitive things, but I consider that an exercise to know and handle my ship and my land vehicle, which makes me better at fighting and explore.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The plus side is that the planets go an overhaul, and those landscapes are far prettier than before. Also, the new fauna is fun to investigate. It's probably worth buying the upgrade for that.

The on foot missions seem very unbalanced, in rewards, the repetitiveness, the limited game play, and the risk involved. This is in particularly painful, as Elite Dangerous punishes you by having to wait to leave a penal colony, rather effectively wasting a player's time, which I consider an insult, especially when trying to understand the nuances of the new form of combat, which the tutorial covers very inadequately.

The ground combat is playable, but feels distinctly laggy, yet convoluted. To be honest, I don't think I will play that mode as a solo player. It really isn't worth it, and you will find much better looter/shooter games elsewhere.

If you are fine with mainly receiving a graphics update for the landable planets, you might be just fine.

applebaps
applebaps

The new DLC erased all my existing missions, so I took a new one specific to the DLC. I did the mission and died at the first whisper of aggression from NPCs, respawned at a prison hundreds of lightyears away, had to pay half a million to get my ship out of impound, then as I took off from the prison station, I was immediately shot down by the station turrets.

As much as I appreciate what walking around in stations does for immersion, and I like how it's now possible to make your way in the universe without a ship at all, I really just have no patience for bugs that cost me millions of credits at a go.

Mr. Neutral
Mr. Neutral

REFRAIN FROM BUYING.

This "DLC" is not worth it. They attempted to do a graphical update and it looks more jarring than anything. Ground combat is clunky and while there are SOME quality of life improvements, the sum total is an overall negative compared to Horizons (base game).

OH and you can NOT play with your friends if you're in Odyssey and they're in Horizons. I bought this cause I wanted to walk around my fleet carrier and even that was pretty lackluster.

I attempted to refund it, but Steam did not tell a difference between my time in Horizons vs Odyssey, so no refund for me. Don't make the same mistake I did.

Milkman
Milkman

Great concept in non-working form. Each screenshot shows people doing missions together, which in my experience is impossible to accomplish by any means. Missions can now be shared, and that's good, except the objectives are often not even there, team members become non team members at random and lose all benefits of mission rewards. As so many of the group dynamics are not functional you wind up paying more in "fines" so Odyssey Ground missions wind up costing you credits in (as a failed mission incurs a monetary penalty) instead of providing group content to enjoy with friends. Its fine for the solo player and actually adds some interesting content. But at this time its an overpriced promise that never delivered even a year after launch for those looking to do group content.

sh4pm
sh4pm

very good but need update to be better , its like star citizen very good game

Desmond Wyght (Abyssal_Wolf)
Desmond Wyght …

I think it's been long enough after release, and enough hours put into it, for me to really say anything about this expansion? I have a little bit of a love-hate relationship with it. On the one hand, I love that I can finally step off my ship and wander around it, get the sense of scale. I will never get tired of adoring the cuteness of my tiny Sidewinder, the Kombat Kouch, or standing in awe of the sheer size of my Exploraconda, the I.E.S. Intrepid. Wandering around surface outposts where my RPG Klepto self can quietly pocket little bits and bobs when no one is looking is pretty fun too. I just wish there was a better and more fleshed-out stealth mechanic to make it more interesting. As it is, it's a little bare bones. It's functional enough as is, but I feel like they could have done more with it if they weren't held back by their Engine and their codebase being put together in such a way that it's going every direction at once and tying itself into a Gordian Knot.

I can't really say too much about wandering around Concourses for Orbital stations and outposts. If you've seen one, then you've pretty much seen it all. Same with the Fleet Carrier interiors, even if those are "modular" and technically change depending on which functions have been unlocked for that individual carrier. The Interiors are nice enough to look at, if you don't mind a lack of anti-aliasing (I don't mind it. Yeah, makes things look smoother, but I usually play without it in games just to boost performance a little bit anyway, so I'm used to that.)

Exobiology is a good addition to the game, though I can't offer much insight for it, I haven't done all that much because it's just not my cup of tea. I tried a little bit of it, and it has its issues of course. I feel the distance you have to travel from one specimen to another viable specimen is a little excessive in size, but it's not crippling to the gameplay. Just not what I'm into. I wish we could have gotten a mining feature along a similar vein though, feel like that would have been a much better and more interesting feature given the abundance of rocky, metallic, and metal-rich worlds you can land on and walk around on.

Coming to one of the real issues though...the actual FPS combat aspect. Like much of the rest of Odyssey content, it's pretty bare-bones, and while they surely put a lot of time and effort into making it function...it's still just a bit lacking in polish and execution in my opinion. I like it well enough, but it's a little tedious sometimes with how slow weapon-switching can be. Like with ship combat, lasers for shields, kinetics for armor, and plasma does decent enough against both. But balancing is still a little bit of an issue, and I feel like it would have been better to go a different route. Or at least have more options. Maybe a gun that can shoot both energy and kinetic, switching between the two with a firemode select button the same way you can switch between the scanner's scanning and cloning modes. Ammo for the kinetic setting, and maybe a battery of some sort for the energy. Or a kinetic weapon with an undermounted energy projector a la Beam Lasers that will overheat your gun if you use it too much? Just a few thoughts. Either way, FPS combat in the game is a bit lackluster, and held back just a bit by the way they executed it.

The biggest issue is still the grind, doubling up on it with both suit and weapon upgrade grinds, which just artificially inflates gameplay. I don't really mess with the grind too much myself, but that also means that I'm often going to be falling short when I start doing higher-tier missions and content, since I'm usually a solo player. (Hence why I'd love them to flesh out the stealth system a little more if they eventually can, I prefer sneaky tactics to direct combat anyway)

Overall, despite what a lot of people say, and even some of what I say, I don't think Odyssey is a bad expansion for Elite Dangerous. At least not compared to some other game expansions I've seen...Oblivion Horse Armor DLC, anyone?...It's not great, but it's good enough in some respects that I still enjoy it. I like wandering planet surfaces, checking out surface installations and awkwardly staring into NPC's eyes while imagining their discomforted thoughts from some random bastich just standing there staring them in the face. I like raiding their lockers and containers and pocketing their stuff, and it's a fun little prank sometimes to mess with external life support modules on their buildings and venting their atmospheres. I may not find all of the content fun, and may be disappointed at the lack of polish and certain features hinted at or promised from the very beginning (I'm one of those people who desperately wants to switch to on-foot and wander around inside my own ships). But I don't think Odyssey is all that bad in all honesty. I still feel that I could recommend it, but just barely.

Elite Dangerous is vast ocean...that's only two feet deep, maximum. Odyssey adds maybe another foot of depth at most? But I don't mind about half of what we got with it, and I can still recommend what I call the Creepy Space Klepto simulator expansion, as long as you don't care that it's all just kind of bare-bones...for the time being? Hopefully? Maybe future actual content that doesn't rely so much on grind?

Point is, I can still recommend it. Not whole-heartedly mind you. More like a..."Eh, wait for it to maybe go on sale for a little bit, and get it then? Maybe you'll enjoy something in it?" kind of way. it's not the worst expansion, not even much of a contender for the title in my opinion, compared to some other expansions and DLCs I've seen. It's just...good enough to get the job done. "Good enough for government work". I just hope that further Updates continue to fix issues, and maybe add more new stuff down the line, even if it's just little things.

CodyProductions
CodyProductions

So far my only issues were with the ui and optimizations. I only really recommend this because I do not believe it's as bad as everyone says, because overall it's not that deep. Most of the on-foot missions just aren't that deep, not too sure about xenobiology though.

Heavy
Heavy

Even after one year it's still garbage ...

aeternvm
aeternvm

Years after, and this is what they've come up with.
Can't even play above 23fps, empty dangling animations and bugs, unnecessary mechanics while necessary ones are missing lmao. Could this ever be released worse than its current situation?

Sky
Sky

Waste of time and money. There are better FPS games that are free to play.

El Gato
El Gato

Got shafted by the HIP 22460 in game event that mostly revolved around Odyssey, even though it could have been done in the base game without problem, so I bought it. Works like shit, refunded.

Smerplash
Smerplash

A long time player left disappointed and underwhelmed. Played for two days after launch and stopped due to bugs, performance and woefully worsened planet generation compared to Horizons. Jumped back in with the release of update 13 - still runs like a dog when on foot and the on foot gameplay is still the weakest element. Sadly this is the end of a great game.

Hawk Eye
Hawk Eye

A score of 6/10 would be more fair than the mostly negative reviews left on Steam. However negative passions against Odyssey on Steam are understandably high. Frontier delivered what no-one really asked for thus the disappointment. Most people asked for something else. Frontier didn't listen. Many people wanted something else and they got this instead. Thus the strong negativity. Which is fair. In my opinion.

Anyways, on to my review. I'll start with the negatives.
I say 6/10 because of bad optimizations, bad performance, a quite lean amount of content, and a sad integration into the base game. The On-Foot agent A.I. is fairly stupid and easy to defeat. Fighting the A.I. on-foot gets pretty boring and repetitive.
The core base game and this expansion don't really mix. Odyssey feels more like a stand-alone game far removed and separated from the base experience. A combined arms experience is expected considering the effort to develop and integrate this expansion into the base game but is sorely missed. On-Foot is On-Foot and In-A-Ship is In-A-Ship, the two experiences are not involved without the player going out of their way to do so and even if they do it's weak experience as of now.
Odyssey also suffers from all of the same shortcomings of the base game experience----> A complete disrespect and disregard for the player's time. Quality of life features are non-existent. Without proper research and constant alt-tabbing you won't have a good time or a frustrating one at least. In typical Elite fashion: Figuring out what to do and how can be very frustrating without first searching the forums and external sites.

On the bright side you can expect the same high quality presentation, high quality graphics and sounds. And In Frontier's defense if you watch any of the videos on Odyssey's store page; you see exactly what you are getting. And in my opinion the first person combat ain't terrible. The FPS combat reminds me of old-school Halo. Odyssey is at it's core a first person shooter and not much else. If you watch the videos and expect nothing else from this game you won't be disappointed. Which is why I'm recommending this game. What you see is what you get. If you think what's in the store page's videos and pics is worth the price tag buy it. If not that's a fair call too. You're going to get the most from this expansion if you enjoy first person shooters. If not you'll probably be disappointed.

pseudo_science
pseudo_science

Nice addition to the space flying

Darth_Lopez
Darth_Lopez

I enjoy it. It had a rocky start but I think its rounding out pretty well. Very nice addition to exploration and other ground activities if you ask me and Loving the narrative advance so far.

Crafter_215
Crafter_215

I think that all the hate this expansion is receiving is not deserved. In my opinion Elite Dangerous: Odyssey makes a great and fun addition to the base game. Also had no performance problems, although you can't run the game with a low-end pc.

RadStandard
RadStandard

IF YOU WANT SPACE GAME THEN GET HORIZON AND STAY AWAY FROM ODYSSEY:

IN SUMMARY, I HAVE OVER 1200hrs IN HORIZON AND GOT ODYSSEY FOR SPACE LEGS BUT IT IS A COMPLETE DOWNGRADE.

1- ABSOLUTELY ZERO GAME OPTIMISATION, THE UPDATED GRAPHICS IS COMPLETELY OVERSHADOWED BY POOR PERFORMANCE SO YOU HAVE TO LOWER SETTINGS DRAMATICALLY TO GET A PLAYABLE FRAME RATE ON FOOT, LOOKUP ODYSSEY GRAPHICS RENDER PROBLEM, IN SHORT GAME RENDERS ENTIRE SCENE EVEN INSIDE BUILDINGS WHILE YOU ARE OUTSIDE A SETTLEMENT, THEY ADDED AMD FSR TO LITERALLY DUCT TAPE THE ISSUE BUT THAT DOESN'T ADDRESS THE REAL ISSUE! FRONTIER KNOWS VERY WELL WHAT THE PROBLEM IS BUT ARE UNWILLING TO FIX IT, THAT'S ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS WHY THEY TRASHED SUPPORT FOR CONSOLE, EVEN MY SYSTEM IS STRUGGLING TO GET DECENT FPS WITH GOOD GRAPHICS ON FOOT: 3080TI AND 5900X, 3440 X 1440P !!!!! MY COMPUTER SHREDS ANY OTHER GAME TITLE i THROW AT IT BUT ODYSSEY IS GARBAGE !!!

2- ON FOOT GAMEPLAY IS BASICALLY A THEFT AND FETCH SIMULATOR IF YOU WANT TO UPGRADE SUIT AND WEAPONS, IT FORCES YOU TO USE EXPLOITS IN ORDER TO GET MATERIALS AND SCHEMATICS BECAUSE THE GRIND IS INCREDIBLY STEEP, I HAVE DONE MY FAIR SHARE OF GRIND IN HORIZON BUT AT LEAST THERE YOU ARE FLYING A SHIP WHICH MAKES TIME SPENT FARMING WORTHWHILE, HERE YOU ARE FORCED TO STARE AT PATHETIC GRAPHICS WITH TERRIBLE FPS PERFORMANCE WHILE RUNNING BACK AND FORTH FROM LOCATION TO EITHER SRV OR SHIP TO UNLOAD MATERIALS !!! HOW DID FRONTIER THINK THIS WOULD ACTUALLY BE FUN GAMEPLAY !!!

3- COMBAT GAMEPLAY IS THE WORST I HAVE SEEN IN YEARS, LITERARY ANY OTHER FAST PACED SCY-FY FPS GAME IS MORE THOUGHT OUT COMPARED TO THIS, THE DEVS HAVE IMPLEMENTED SHIP COMBAT PRINCIPLES FOR ON FOOT PEW-PEW, SHOOT UNTIL SHIELD GO DOWN THEN SHOOT SOME MORE, FYI FRONTIER VEHICLE BASED COMBAT SHOULD BE VERY DIFFERENT FROM ON FOOT FPS, TAKE A PAGE OUT OF ANY OTHER FPS TITLE OR JUST COPY THEM, ie: BATTLEFIELD, COD, COUNTERSTRIKE, HALO TO NAME A FEW!!!

4- FRONTIER DEVS DON'T LISTEN TO COMMUNITY FEEDBACK AT ALL, THEY SAY THEY ARE BUT EVERYBODY IS SCREAMING BLOODY HELL TO FIX THE ABOVE ISSUES, IN RETURN ABSOLUTE BLANK RESPONSE!!! BUT WE ARE GETTING SO CALLED NARRATIVE UPDATE. FIX THE GAME THEN GET NEW CONTENT FOR GOD SAKE !!!

I KNOW IT FEELS LIKE I AM A HATER BUT IN CONTRARY I THINK HORIZON IS BY FAR THE BEST SPACE GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED BUT ODYSSEY MANAGED TO ERASE EVERY GOOD ASPECT OF YEARS OF DEVELOPING HORIZON, ALL THAT TO RUSH WITH ODYSSEY RELEASE FOR A QUICK RETURN ON INVESTMENT CASHOUT, THEY ARE LITERALLY SELF MUTILATING THIS TITLE, JUST LOOK AT THE DRASTIC REDUCTION IN PLAYER COUNT!!
UPDATE 13 BROUGHT NEW THARGOID NARRATIVE THAT IS ACTUALLY VERY EXCITING BUT TO MY POINT THE ENTIRE UPDATE COULD BE PLAYED IN HORIZON.

SO DON'T BOTHER WITH ODYSSEY, GET HORIZON AND FLY DANGEROUSLY COMMANDERS!!!

PS: FRONTIER YOU ARE KILLING THIS BEAUTIFUL GAME, LISTEN TO US OR YOU WILL HAVE A DEAD TITLE ON YOUR HANDS AND THAT'S ON YOU !!!!! SHAME !!!

CountAsh80
CountAsh80

Listen to me people. I have owned Elite Dangerous from the start and I have been putting off buying this DLC because all the negative reviews. All I can say is what are you talking about?. I cannot believe this negative reviews. This DLC is by far the best DLC this game has offered. Lets begin, is not just the cool on foot missions and extra landing planets, call of duty type combat on bases blah blah. the whole game has changed. The combat is crisper explosions bigger, graphics much better, maps look insane, panels on ships and stations have changed. you can walk around stations, see you ship from the outside. New vehicles and More more and more features, what is the problem?. My only issue has been after 6 hours of play one crash..big deal i was back in the game in 30 seconds, the other is more of COME ON frontier lets walk inside the darn ship already I can embark and walk around my space craft but what everyone wants is not there. May be in the future, whatever. GO buy the DLC trust me this angry reviews are nothing but frustrated limbs...well I better not say.

Evergloam
Evergloam

beautiful absolutely beautiful

James Korvin
James Korvin

Just because there is no other game like it.
Go Frontier, I hope you'll make the same miraculous recovery as Hello Games did.

enthusiasticGeek
enthusiasticGeek

It's not bad. The game definitely takes a hit in performance, and the UI kind of looks trash (looks more pixelated and "light" than Horizons). VR support goes out the window.

However, the on-foot missions are quite fun, and I'm looking forward to future narrative expansions.

Apathetic Owl
Apathetic Owl

As with the base game, this shows huge potential, but is held back by dev insisting on you having to grind for hundreds of hours to achieve anything. No Engineering shared storage is why I stopped playing, I have no idea what materials I will need in the fututre, no idea what to save and what to dump. No thanks. Until shared storage (the one that already exsist in the base game!) is added I won't even bother reinstalling.

Also god awful UI that everyone hated is still there and wasn't fixed. At least performance is betten than at launch, but is this really an achievement after so much time?

PlutosWrath
PlutosWrath

With recent updates this DLC is getting close to recommendable for anyone. right now performance is still an issue with ground settlements but everywhere else it is pretty good actually, I dare say even better in space. If you love exploring, this DLC is a must, but if you love combat, it may disappoint. Its not COD level combat, but its good enough that an average player will have a thrill but also not have to try their hardest every time.

digitaldreamer81
digitaldreamer81

I got the expansion when it first released. Yes, they had to go through several rounds of performance tweaks. That said, from the beginning it has been a joy to play. Settlements make Elite Dangerous feel lively. The game presently works great even for those who play in VR despite the VR compromise to get the game play to work well. Mercenary and Exobiology ranks are well thought additions to the game and on-foot conflict zones fit well with the existing background simulation. If you play with an Xbox controller you can use it seamlessly between ship/SRV/on-foot gameplay. The sound as with all Frontier Developments games is top-notch.

Faraboot
Faraboot

Easily one of if not THE most beautiful space sim game I've ever played. Been a fan of Elite since I saw the 1st one back in the 90's, on a Commodore 64, and wishing for a 'remake' ever since. Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is a kind of natural progression of a game that needed just that, ability to land your cmdr on a planet's surface, and enjoy some of the most beautiful atmosfere ever created in a game while on foot. I know there were lots of pain when Oddywent online, but most of them have been ironed out - I can't recomend this game enough. If you're in to space sim, immersive, gorgeous scenes of distant stars, planets, nebulae, asteroid fields, rings, space ships and space stations - this is the only game that you'll love to play.

junkrig
junkrig

Just a few thoughts on my experience if you're on the fence or thinking of picking it up.

Coming to Odyssey newly about a year after initial release, from a lot of hours in Elite prior to Odyssey a few years ago. It sounds like the initial release was pretty buggy and poorly optimized. I haven't had any issues with those things on modern equipment (3000 series NVIDIA graphics / Alder Lake series CPU) since I started playing Odyssey this summer. In about 80+ hours I've had one bug that prevented me from getting my ship out from impound and that's it, which I was able to work around. Game runs very smoothly with good FPS. TrackIR works great but VR does not apply to Odyssey unfortunately.

Game looks way better than it did with Horizons. Lighting and planet terrain generation is improved.

The FPS aspects are pretty fun and expands on the universe in a lot of ways that I could see them continuing to expand it further. It's amazing to land your ship planet side, get out, arc cutter open crates and steal spare parts off crashed ships, or sneak into a base to take off a daring heist before blasting back off into space on another adventure. If you've held off on trying it due to the bad press, keep an open mind and give it a try.

Unfortunately they've kept the "engineering" style grind for equipment upgrades with the on foot gear, similar to with ships. It's not my favorite having separate "material" currency that is not exchangeable for regular currency, but it also seems like unless you do PVP, the engineering grind is not necessarily required. I am running high risk combat zones on foot with just the store bought gear without doing any engineering to it, and I'm not big FPS player, but it's tactical enough that if you are smart in your choices you won't get obliterated.

The other thing to note is, the Odyssey expansion seems highly balanced toward new players. So if you've got a billion+ credits already or measure your fun in "credits per hour", doing Odyssey missions for low pay may seem pointless. I started a new commander with the DLC after trying it initially with my old save, and it's way more fun from a fresh start even if it means building your empire up again from scratch. I had played almost strictly trader / explorer before, and now I'm focusing more on combat as a bounty hunter / mercenary, and it's definitely a new and cool experience. It seems like the Odyssey playstyles are more geared toward combat and subterfuge, with some sort of stamp collecting xeno-biology aspect that I haven't really gotten into but might try out eventually.

Overall recommended. Good expansion framework for what is really the only game quite like it out there, that I hope they continue to expand on.

ProKing117
ProKing117

More then most 14 really fixed it

Anden Beliam
Anden Beliam

This game has given me thousands of hours of incredible game play, both in solo and mmo experience. Elite has been my main game time go to since 2019 and I see it continuing in this role for a long time. It's a great time to bea commander in game.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Do not listen to these people posting these ridiculously negative reviews with their little talking point hit list of the disaster that odyssey is. Are you kidding me? This is the best DLC ever released for ED. Let me tell you something the vast majority of the people that put this expansion down are traditionalists that never wanted FPS to intrude on their classic elite or Verizon’s game versions. The other thing people need to keep in mind is that elite dangerous is not for everybody because it is a game that requires a lot from players and there are many people who simply lack the ability to focus concentrate or have the endurance and perseverance and stamina needed to thrive in this game. Odyssey has beautiful graphics that are intended as stylized artistic representations, not meant to be photo realistic. It is way better in terms of user interface and workflow mechanics than classic or horizons ever was. A fantastic game with a fantastic expansion it’s only getting more and more interesting. By the way how is it that none of these obviously frustrated people that seem to have panic attacks when they actually have to do work in the game, never present something that they deem as something that elite Odyssey should be aspiring to that they currently play?

aWh1TeDuD3
aWh1TeDuD3

I have been with Elite ever since the beta back in 2014. The Odyssey release was a letdown for sure. Bugs and poor performance even with higher end specs even though the minimum recommended specs were well below what I have. I was ready to give up a game that I have played for 7 years and not look back.

That being said, I stuck around and have seen the studio put forth effort into a game that I thought was on a downward spiral into "maintenance mode." Seeing/playing this latest update, and somewhat of a roadmap (a way forward) with this game has given me new hope that Elite still has potential. I'm not saying it is perfect, but I can only surmise that the reviews are still "mostly negative" because those that wrote a review when Odyssey first came out either: a) had legitimate complaints about the performance and have not YET updated a review OR b) never were a fan of Elite in the first place and hopped on the negative review bandwagon when it was a thing.

If Odyssey goes on sale, I highly recommend playing and seeing for yourselves how it is. It is nowhere near the quality of the initial release anymore

Wanderer742
Wanderer742

I would like this to be VR compatible, but I enjoy being able to see the scale of things from a human perspective.

jo-29749248
jo-29749248

Good expansion for Elite Dangerous, some nice additions

Good things:
* the addition of atmospheric planets adds a lot of variety and they've also added a lot of plant life to find.
* Settlements with varied missions that take a while to get the hang of - they're actually better if you don't just reach for a gun ASAP, but the game allows you just to run in shooting.
* The UI is much improved, outfitting and the various maps are better and the mission / passenger selectors are much smoother
* Engineering is better thought out than Ships - it's less important to engineer everything than it seems on ships.

Bad things:
* Performance isn't as good as the base game, even after a year - but it now mostly runs fine on recent hardware. Really needs (better) Anti-aliasing.
* The On-foot and Ship gameplay still feel pretty disjointed - I tend to play one or the other, it's rare to mix'n'match
* Once you have upgraded all your odyssey gear it still lacks much reason to do the Odyssey missions, the Ship missions have more effect on the galaxy so are still the go-to for most situations (excepting foot combat zones, which work well).

Hark
Hark

1600 VR hours in ED and probably a little less than half of that in Odyssey. I was a naysayer in the beginning but it has gotten much, much better. I haven't had any significant issues as far back as I can remember. I play it every night and will continue to. I don't really have time for an emotional rant on all the pros and cons but I will say my mind gets blown (in a good way) at least once a week.

Aceprojectx
Aceprojectx

First, I would like to say that I saw the reviews at the beginning of launch and chose not to get this content, however following update 13, I gave in.

First all, graphics, effects, planet generation is very much improved over horizons. You will find it easier to transverse and land on many planets with Odyssey. I have not noticed many bugs that did not exist in horizons. I suppose some people do not like the graphical changes in Odyssey but to me they seem more realistic, give or take a small amount of contrast and shading.

For the main content, the ability to walk on stations and planets is pretty cool. Do not expect a AAA shooter or stealth game type mechanics though, it is acceptable for it being primarily a space RPG and adds something else to do with your time. It does change the UI on almost everything (Most stations will be similar to fleet carriers) and it does take time to get used to but I can say I enjoyed horizon's map UI more (simple and tells you the important stuff) but there are more tools for it in odyssey so it is give and take in my perspective.

Personally I believe Odyssey is worth it, and I very much enjoy it.

Brooa
Brooa

While a rocky start might have been had, it continues to get better and better. The lead up to update 13 was some of the best gameplay I have ever had, period. If you want to shoot stuff in a ship, or fly into the black and explore the universe there is something for everyone. Absolutely recommend this to everyone who enjoys space sims. The 1:1 universe is incredible and the sound design is the best in any game ever.

Diores
Diores

I see all criticism and completely disagree.

Yeah some might not want a FPS shooter inside a space sim. I really enjoy it for a change.

It just feels so nice, after long hyperjumps, space trucking and exploring to land on a planet and loot a chrashed ship wreck (with a flashlight and nice audio features > you can feel the helmet on)

Please dont fall for all the hate-first-responders - the DLC is updated since and if you watch youtubers EVERYONE prefers Odyssey over the former version.
And I see great potential connecting that further to the awesome spaceflight (walk inside ships ...)

Koffiato
Koffiato

It started horrible, and it got better. Now it's just bad. Many many bugs, AI as intelligent as rocks and really bad performance still. Oh, also we can't walk inside our ships, because reasons.

MicroBug
MicroBug

Can't even land on a planetside station without the game crashing, so can't do anything this expansion introduced. I have tried lowering graphics, verifying integrity of game files, running game as admin, deleting AppData folders, updated driver... nothing works. And this has been out over a year? Comments enabled if you think you can get my game to not crash.

Ham McG
Ham McG

After completing about everything I could in Horizons, owning, every ship, triple Elite, 10 billion, was either buy a station or try Odyssey. Figured a year on it would work Ok. I was surprised to see I still had my money and my ships, so that made starting out easy. For a while the new gameplay seemed interesting. I would recommend anyone whose spent 1000+ hours on the earlier versions to try this. First time walking on a planet I was killed and sent to detention, Yes I did stand still immediately. I suspect its rigged so the first time you have to die. Like Elden Ring in space. Tried exo biology and realised Odyssey just takes grinding to lows I did not think possible. I doubt if it gets any better than roaming aound kms of desolate planet just to find biological diversity. Diversity - wouldn't that make a change.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The devs cant be bothered, basically no content for your money and just gives the devs even more reason to ignore the space game (which is what most of us cared about) due to their time being wasted on this crap. Still not fixed over a year after release, minimal effort with occasional carrot dangling is the only effort Frontier puts into Elite Dangerous nowadays.

Happyllama25
Happyllama25

Not worth it, poorly optimized, does not add any more fun experience to the game, if anything, it makes menu navigation worse to do the same thing as base game.

El General
El General

Amazing game!

Odyssey had a rough start but the commander legs are a much needed update that complete the experience on many levels. The performance issues are mostly solved and the mission variety has increased. The end game content remains ship-based but there is no denying that the ability to walk on stations and planet surfaces on this game makes it the best released full game sci-fi space simulator in existence.

CMDR Steven
CMDR Steven

Getting better. At launch it was bad. Many optimization problems. Only real thing to be added and fixed at least for me is the farming of materials on planet surfaces. Due to the change of the formation of planets all the old locations marked on Horizons are no longer feasible for Odyssey in terms of farming. Raw materials for example. Would also very much like to see interiors for ships and be able to move around inside your own ship. I believe many people want this. All in all though the DLC is getting better and I am hoping to see more big updates.

M4XXB0
M4XXB0

Game is basically unplayable. I never write Steam reviews, but I think of this one as a public service announcement.

Persevered with it for 500+ hours, and still can make no sense of the UI inconsistencies, let alone the gameplay illogicality.

Why is it so absurdly difficult to pick up cargo or ore from a planetary surface? Why only four cargo bay slots in a scarab, when you want to pick up 15 things? Why does the scarab jag on some rock every time you want to do something, like transfer your cargo to the ship, or even just drive forward? What's with the weird throttle that either roars off forward or backward, or hardly moves? And why does the scanner thing make no sense at all for finding precious stuff?

That's just the maddening planetary exploring, which all looks the same wherever you go. But more widely: what makes it necessary to mine or salvage some things when you can buy others? The distinction is nonsensically arbitrary. And why do sellers of stuff needed for 'engineers' live hundreds of light years from engineers? Has no one thought it might be smart to sell the stuff from next door?

And, how is it that I lose all survey discoveries from 200+ systems, when my ship blows up from heastroke because it randomly would not thrust away from a star after a game reload that magically put it on the star's surface, and the heatsink hotkey is un-findable when you are in a panic, even though it is on the HUD and mapped to a mouse button, yet all mining inventory is inexplicably on board on respawn thousands of light years away?

Why a permit that needs some weird bunch of hoopla, just to enter Sol? Why all the fines, which can't be paid anyway when the station bugs up and won't give you access to anything, except the fine paying dude, who does not think you have a fine to pay? Why is docking permission hidden three deep in a menu unrelated to all other comms?

I am not even going to start on the 'missions' or the asteroid mining grind.

Stay well clear. It's like the UK's internal revenue has infested the galaxy, everywhere, and you have no choice but to fathom its impenetrable weirdness at every turn, and get utterly punished, thrashed, beaten and destroyed if you make the tiniest error.

Unfavourited, uninstalled, hidden, and never again.

Eckee
Eckee

I bought the DLC but can't play it, it doesn't show and the support won't help. Refunding it.

Zhoul
Zhoul

I didn't have expectations set by the community of what I wanted this to be so I wasn't disappointed like those that wanted that but got this. Instead, I see another well-thought-out aspect to this game that I'm enjoying and happy to say I highly recommend it. Let's see if this holds up over time but overall this new DLC is an amazing addition. There is always more work to do and many games take years to game-balance FPS combat so let's give this a chance to evolve, and enjoy it for what it is today.

LamboMods
LamboMods

Well I loved the first version, but after downloading and being able to play for a few last night. The game kept crashing, this was reduced when I lowered the Resolution to LOW, But why do that? I can play horizons at Ultra, ZERO issues.
Then today, cant log in. Sends me a capcha code that when entered, says, you do not own the game!
Refunded...

sesshomaru641
sesshomaru641

One week in and I was honestly going to leave a positive review. Sure it had some stutter and minor issues but nothing super serious. That was until a few days ago, now it's a constant tug-of-war with whether or not you can complete a mission without the game doing one of multiple things.

1) kill missions may end with your "targets" deciding to no clip through the surface and begin the infinite voyage towards the core of whatever planet you are on. IE you will no longer be able to complete this mission until you relog *coin flip* it doesn't happen again.
2)Your target settlement will have nobody there, no bodies to scan, no targets to kill to fill the counter, nothing. Solution 1 of the relog/pray is your only ticket.
3) crash site recovery missions don't spawn the item you need. Solution 1 again.
4)You actually manage to complete a mission with friends but on your way back you get a connection error thus everyone you shared that mission with will no longer get credit for it. No current fix weeeeeee!
5)surface conflict zone bugs and you get dropped in unable to legally combat anyone despite enlisting from the station npc and sitting through a shuttle ride all the way there. Solution 1 half works although where you relog to is up to chance.

These are all major game issues that you would expect to be ironed out a few months into launch and yet Fdev can only seem to type up Galnet lore and fluff in game news over a year later. I Don't need ship interiors. VR would be a mess for the fps section, all I hoped for was a "functional" game....that's literally it. I want to love Elite, hell I loved it back when even engineering was a mess but at least it still worked at it's core. This current state of the game is frankly a joke and is nearly up there with cyberpunk levels of broken.

Sorry/not sorry Fdev, you had over a year and still don't have a what many would consider a functional game.

Slayer
Slayer

After all updates this is bugging pile of shit.

Eddie Krueger
Eddie Krueger

I bought it when I had an RX580 card. Up until then I could play on High settings with a steady 60 FPS, even when landing on planets. With Odyssey I had to change the settings to Low, and even then, in settlements the framerate mostly was around 40, sometimes lower.

A week ago I got me a 6700XT. Wow, High settings, 60 FPS everywhere! Except on planets, because since then whenever I try to land on one I get disconnected. Open or solo play, Low, Medium or High settings, verifying game cache or delete/reinstall, doesn't matter: disconnect, right about reaching the glide phase of landing. So, after a week of futile troubleshooting I bid farewell to ED. It was fun until it lasted, but I'm off to games I can play with my new card.

Atomic Punk
Atomic Punk

Odyssey expansion is buggy. They have bugs that haven't been resolved for years such as "error code: Orange Sidewinder" where the game fails to communicate with the server when coming out of super cruise or entering orbital flight. Horizons was much more stable, stick with that.

VentureChicken
VentureChicken

played elite dangerous for years with Horizons. Loaded Odyssey and now both Horizons and Odyssey get the "Orange SIdewinder" error and i cannot even load into either game. what a joke.

CAL
CAL

TL:DR -
1) Is it fun? I think so.
2) Does it run well? I have lots of problems running this expansion, on any setting, though Horizons runs smoothly on maximum settings
3) Is it worth the price? I don't think so. What is here I enjoy, however I think there should be much more for the asking price.
4) Play time (ED)? About 699 hours of experience in Elite Dangerous at the time of this review.
5) Do I recommend buying it? No.
***
Full -

I find the expansion enjoyable for the most part. I enjoy being able to walk around the small station areas, ground bases, and planets. I enjoy the infantry combat, and the new features that come along with it. I think that the systems on ground bases are quite fun- being able to cut into access panels, cut power, sneak around, fight, etc.

The worst parts for me are how poorly this expansion runs, and the amount of content that comes with the price. I can run Horizons on maximum settings with no problems; it is smooth and fun. With this expansion however, no matter how I adjust my settings I have so many issues:
1) Jittery, low frame rate on foot
2) Freezing, followed by black loading screens when ever I transition from ship to walking
3) Freezing, and sometimes crash to desktop, when ever entering & exiting super cruise
4) Freezing, and sometimes crash to desktop, when ever jumping between systems
5) Freezing when ever transitioning into atmosphere
6) Freezing when ever entering glide
7) Freezing when exiting glide
8) Freezing when entering a star base elevator
9) Freezing when ground AI enter combat
10) Freeze when ever disabling settlement power
11) Freeze when ever enabling settlement power
12) Ground AI skate, spasm, and teleport around
This is such a problem, that for anything where I am going to be just using my ship I exit the game and load up horizons instead.

Now, lets look at the new equipment and AI. I feel that the number of weapons and suits are really lacking for this price point. There are more suit cosmetic options available on top of the base 3, but they are in the cash shop which does not make a whole lot of ethical sense since this expansion costs more than the base game and has only a fraction of the content already.
As far as weapons go, there are only 3 rifles, 3 pistols, 2 smgs, 1 shotgun, 1 sniper rifle, and 1 rocket launcher; these are broken down into kinetic damage, thermal, and plasma. There so little variety here, and so little content that I wonder if the devs were not just lazy. For some variety, why not implement multiple in each category and adjust fire rate, accuracy, etc which has been an industry standard at this price point for a very long time.

The AI are their own issue. Sometimes they roam around, and other times just stand in place spasming and jittering in 360 degree arcs. Full stealth game play is a waste of your time, because the AI will sometimes detect your activity through obstacles, and even if you remain undetected the moment you take any action towards an AI you will receive a bounty for that AI's entire faction; regardless of witnesses.
There are also times where AI just teleport around while fighting; they zip here, there, and everywhere. Generally speaking, the AI spasm so much in combat that I rarely have to even turn on my shields because they are spasming too much to hit me with their own shots; unless I am in my ship, at which point they become laser-guided death machines (more on this later). Most times, the AI is so problematic with teleportation that fighting them outside is just a waste of time; not difficult, it just takes forever. Fighting inside is still a pain, as the spasming character model hit boxes make the AI hard to hit, so I find that just walking right up to any AI and blasting them with the shotgun is just the most prudent thing to do - which if they were working properly I would not be able to do. On a very rare occasion, the AI works well and they are fun to fight but most of the time they are just janky nonsense.

Now let's talk balance. The balancing between ground and ship combat makes no sense at all. Those little AI can take out the most well equipped ships in the entire game, but good luck using your ship to kill the ground AI; a futile act. You can kill the ground AI with your ship, that is not off the table, but those little infantry with their little laser guns can also take you out really easily which makes me think that the damage models either treat your ship as infantry or infantry as ships in this scenario, which is just awful. Either don't let me attack the ground units with a ship, or balance it property; its not like settlements don't have anti-ship weapon emplacements.

This expansion is also really missing the two major desires from the community, to be able to have your friends join you on your ship & to be able to walk around your own ship. There's no new ships either, and merely one new SRV.

This is a full priced expansion, that costs more than the original game, adds very little content, and has so many issues that are not present without the expansion. Overall, I do not believe it is worth the current price and while it can be enjoyable for me at times, I still always go back to Horizons for anything to do with the actual ship component of the game; this defeats the point of an expansion.

Insert Name
Insert Name

First off, some of the positive reviews seem quite suspect. Guessing FDev has some paid actors around... prove me wrong.

Odyssey was a bad idea from the start. All people wanted was to be able to walk around their ship. FDev took this as "lEt'S mAkE a SpAcE sHoOtEr!" yarz hrr drr

Complete debacle from the concept phase. Fdev did not listen to it's customers, they still don't. Every update they put forth has a game breaking bug somewhere. Usually we find out in the first few minutes of people playing the game after a patch. With such actions, one can only come to the logical conclusion that FDev just does not give a shit about putting out a viable product.

A YEAR LATER! And the product is perhaps minimally viable. No VR, no AA, graphics setting don't work for shit, it is just there to make you feel like it is your fault. IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT THAT FDEV CAN NOT DO ANYTHING RIGHT!!

Mission bugs, sound issues (STILL), graphical issues, performance issues, game play issues, technical issues, multi crew has NEVER worked properly since it's inception... it goes on and on. Things that have been problems for YEARS!!

Beware the false positive reviews, you know they are there and if you are half intelligent you can spot them.

DO NOT BUY THIS TRASH!!

☆Cirtdan☆
☆Cirtdan☆

This DLC makes the planet textures/graphics hideous compared to Horizons it totally breaks the wonder of space exploration by "upgrading" the graphics to a bland gray comparable to a look of a dead coral, after realizing it I advice to only explore the galaxy while not playing Odyssey. There's also the fact that the so called FPS game play is horrible all enemies are literal sponges taking 2-3 gun magazines or even moooore to die, not to mention that it's mechanics are extremely far from being even considered skill based, don't even make me mention the sheer amount of grind to upgrade ONE piece of equipment adding up to as much as ~120 hours to max level every piece!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mr-Wild
Mr-Wild

theres so many problems with this like lagging crashes low fps even tho my pc is not weak at all the idea of dlc is not bad. being able to get off on foot in this massive world and explore it is awesome but theres just so many issues with this.i do not recommend this dlc.

Warhawk
Warhawk

This DLC split the open world multiplayer into two, with no plan to merge them or better integrate Odyssey gameplay into the core experience (even a full year after release). As a result, the game world in either mode feels barren and empty, with a fraction of the online multiplayer encounters that defined this game's unique niche.

tl;dr: Frontier ruined my favorite game. :(

Deekith
Deekith

very awesome! most of the reviews haven't got a clue

fishy1954
fishy1954

would give a review of the gameplay if i could... entire first hour was spent installing/ uninstalling. reinstalling, unlinking and relinking account, restarting again. now an hour into this dlc and i cant even create a character due to server connection issues, about to refund at this point.

EDIT/WARNING: IF YOU TRY TO GET A REFUND DO NOT AND I REPEAT DO NOT PLAY THE BASE GAME WHILE WAITING FOR REFUND. ELITE DANGEROUS TRACKS GAMEPLAY AS WHATEVER THE MOST RECENT DLC YOU OWN AS YOUR TIME. despite having less than 2 hours attempted gameplay on the dlc, steam counted the base game (elite dangerous) as playing the dlc instead, so after selling a defective product the developers run to the bank laughing all the way.

HyPoBaricRobi
HyPoBaricRobi

great game ! but needs some improvments

HANDSOMExJAN
HANDSOMExJAN

I love Elite Dangerous (also own this on the XBox Series X and PS4 Pro): But this DLC is a disaster. 1. The *DLC is badly optimized even for higher-end PCs like mine. 2. Feels unfinished and empty - like a work in progress. However the overall game concept and idea is great but the implementation of this doesn't hold up. Buyer beware !!!!

=FN=Fluidman
=FN=Fluidman

Odyssey did not started well, but after several updates it now have acceptable performance, even in medium gaming PCs.
The new narrative initiative is very fun and brought me back to ED.
I think that if FD can implement "on-foot" VR and full atmospheric planets this game would every Spacehead dream.

Lord Gimpsbury
Lord Gimpsbury

Hate it. everyone not on stations treats you like a rabid hobo. im a god damned rear admiral, i outrank 99% of the people i see, why am i getting shit talked by some nerd lab worker named fuckin "Gregory" cause i walked near him? and why the fuck do i have to play freeze tag with all the guards any time they catch a glimpse of me from accross the room. ive lost quite a bit of money cause they cant path their way to me when im on a roof, and im not allowed to move and get down where they can actually scan me. why cant i just do the skyrim thing and equip-unequip a weapon to get them to break aggro and realize im not a terrorist for walking around? so much potential wasted on shitty mechanics, i feel like im playing RDR2 with negative honor. And the god forsaken mat-farming to get decent gear, ALL on foot. also why cant i pick up materials on foot if they take up no space? why?

Darkmart
Darkmart

As a long-standing player of elite, I had reservations about upgrading to Odyssey, especially with all the negative reviews. Tempted by the half-price sale I decided it was now or never and took the plunge. I was pleasantly surprised at how smooth the transmission between the two was. I had no problems with frame rate drops and I found that the improved graphics and darker starfield created a greater sense of immersion. The update has opened up many new avenues to explore and has rekindled my interest in the game which to a point had become stagnated. I'm not sure if I would have bought this at full price but for me, it was well worth the investment

Phoenix_Dfire
Phoenix_Dfire

I've got three copies of this game and played it since alpha with a combined number of hours pushing 4000. I would agree that Odyssey deserved its negative reviews when it was launched last year.

However, as of update 12, this game has vastly improved from its original state. They have;-
1) Reworked the planetary tech with new art assets to make the planets feel more unique.
2) Added a new SRV.
3) Added Anti Ship turrets in On-foot combat zones.
4) Added Emotes.
5) Added Mega-ship interiors.
6) Player Fleet Carrier Interiors with optional facilities and interior jump animations
7) Added space encounters to on-foot missions.
8) Multi-limpet controllers
9) Settlement Mission Givers.
10) Four crew Multi-crew on the bigger ships
11) Enforcer Units.
12) Added Sharing missions with your wing / crew.

The most important is the Improved performance, which actually allows you to play Odyssey properly. i.e. I had a fps of 15-25 around on foot CZ on Launch, it's now 60 fps (my maximum), occasionally dropping down to 55.

Odyssey still has performance issues with some setups, there are still some annoying bugs or two but they don't detract from the experience and some design decisions make you scratch you head but from now on, I can recommend it

TinyLesbianRobot
TinyLesbianRobot

This is an extremely tentative recommend. It scratches an itch for me personally, but if you're waiting for Odyssey to be in solid shape before you commit, it is absolutely not ready yet. More info to follow.

For me, Odyssey pushes a specific button within the context of Elite that makes the world feel more real somehow - being able to walk places, sit in bars, just exist in the setting without having to be inside a ship or an SRV kinda blew my mind, and the addition has me feeling more immersed in the game than I ever have been before. Maybe because I feel like a person now, someone inhabiting the world, not just a disembodied face in a starship.

The on foot content is pretty fun mechanically, there's a lot of interesting granularity in terms of how it simulates enemies, settlements, and your suit that presents a lot of slightly different ways you can approach your objective, not to mention the gunplay is shockingly solid considering this is fundamentally a flight simulator, with decent sound effects and great animations. It's particularly fun to do on foot content with a friend, sharing a settlement raid mission, rolling up in the same multi-crew ship, and becoming an absolute menace. It's enjoyable in a different way solo though, setting down somewhere quiet then dismissing your ship and watching it fly away is a uniquely lonely feeling. The scale and grandeur of it all is captured very well.

That said, it's still in unacceptably rough shape, so if you're waiting to hear it's all fixed, keep waiting. Key issues I've had with Odyssey since picking the game up again:
-Performance is still abysmal relative to content in space. It's playable, but on foot combat zones and settlements that are on fire in particular tank the fps.
-Salvage missions are a mess, spawning in a way that makes them impossible to complete more often than not, with objectives buried under rocks, concealed behind a physics object that fell the wrong way, or just failing to spawn altogether.
-Elite has always explained itself poorly but it's doubly so the case for Odyssey, the tutorial illustrates the very basics but leaves you floundering in the game proper. It's not immediately clear what will set off alarms in a settlement, or what will make the guards hostile, and sometimes it's not even consistent; for example, depending on where you are, guards will either ignore a shorted door, or become hostile after seeing it. The game doesn't even tell you that the overcharge zapper can be used to stealth kill unshielded enemies. As a consequence there's a lot of learning by experimentation, which means failing a lot of contracts, because you die quick and a single death will void settlement raid jobs.
-Multicrew seems to have weird desync issues that originate with Odyssey content as far as I can tell, when my friend and I are in my ship after leaving a station or a settlement, sometimes she'll 'soft DC', seeing the ship in supercruise forever, and will have to log out and back in again, which will, occasionally, respawn her in a very inconvenient position.
-Not a bug or an oversight per se, but it's definitely weird that you can only share on foot missions. I'd like to see that extended to space contracts, so two people with unengineered ships can just poke around, have fun, and make some money, without needing to brave wing contracts.

The TLDR is that I'm giving this a recommend because I think there's something truly special in here, and it's got me playing the game through entirely new eyes - but it's still a mess. Hopefully in the coming months the remaining potholes will get sorted and I can stop being hesitant with the recommend.

BODWON
BODWON

Bought, Installed 50gb. Game doesn't even recognise I have it...

DavianQ
DavianQ

It's a work in progress for sure, but it adds some really nice immersion. Glad I picked it up and decided for myself.

Stryder
Stryder

At this point in time the expansion is where it should have been at launch. There are still some issues but on a sale this gives an extra layer of immersion.

Try to avoid grinding and play how you want to play.

Enji
Enji

Odyssey brings a coolness factor to Elite Dangerous with its updated graphics, social locations, and new mission types, but that's all it brings to the expansive space sim. After the initial wonderment of seeing the additions to the game, you begin to get frustrated with how long it takes to turn in On-Foot missions at the concourse with mission timers that are massively reduced compared to ship missions. That is, if you can complete a mission without accidentally causing a riot at one of the settlements where your mission is located and the local defense units obliterate you, causing you to fail the mission.

Odyseey could be great, but it feels like they added a bunch of things that they thought would be fun, but didn't test to make sure that the systems in place functioned well enough together to assure it would be fun. Excluding engineering, which somehow got more grindy than Horizon for Odyssey's engineers for personal weapons and armor.

emixaMus28
emixaMus28

Clearly this DLC sucks,
- Bugs,
- Performance,
- Useless missions with low rewards,
- No clues to find items
- No ship interiors, no immersion, just a blue area

Demonsmind
Demonsmind

*Edit: After a rough first day with constant crashes, I decided to play with some settings to see if I could solve the issue. I ran the game as admin through the launcher instead of steam. Lowered the resolution down to 1080p, set the max fps to 60, and have only crashed once since* :)

Review: The space legs, walking around space stations, fighting on the ground, and good payouts for ground combat missions are all great additions to the game. It's a lot more fun than being a space trucker all of the time.

After a little tinkering, the dlc seems to run just fine now. Maybe others that have these issues should try the same thing.

Dezrath
Dezrath

Stay away from this pile of garbage. They broke their own graphics, you cant have an opaque visor anymore for some reason, and the gameplay "added" by the ground missions is buggy, simple to the point of being boring, yet frustratingly difficult to figure out. Not in the fun challenging way, but in the where the fuck am I going and what am I doing because I don't have a log book kind of way.

Somehow the older version of the game, Horizons, looks infinitely better than this does. I can't even read the menus anymore because they're all blurry and the graphics "Settings" are so basic that I can't try any meaningful fixes in game.

Complete crap. Buy horizons if you want to play ED.

Higsby
Higsby

Can't walk around ships. Almost had Star Citizen beat, but you got too lazy.

Honza-_
Honza-_

one big NOPE. this game is not worthy of anyones time (with the exeption of the devs, who need to spend ethernity with it).
Long story short: its not optimized empty marketing shell, with no content at all and majority of game mechanics not working or not implemented

TheGamingVampire
TheGamingVampire

Don't get this. Save yourself the trouble, don't make the same mistake as I did. I'm going to keep the dlc for now in whatever glimmer of hope may remain for this game. If it ends up still being absolute trash, I'll cut my losses and maybe get Star Citizen or something idk.

Drango The Mighty
Drango The Mighty

Its quite fun. Elite is about immersion and the cons here are I where I feel it loses some of this.

Pros:
- Covert missions are quite hard (most ended in failure, the odd success was gratifying).
- Conflict zones feel like battles, frame rates between 45 to 60 fps at 4K resolution and graphics settings set to "high", so I found no issues there.
- Space stations look pretty.
- Spaceship battle visuals feel like they've had an upgrade.
- Time between ship and on foot is almost seamless (no delay).
- Settlements in missions have a good variety.
- Plenty of planets to explore on foot.

Cons:
- Cannot walk around inside own ship (except carriers - effectively very expensive mobile space stations).
- Space stations are very samey and feel a little static (Interaction with NPCs here is largely just for services and missions).
- Whilst there is some limited flora on some worlds that you can walk on, I don't think there is any indigenous fauna or aqua on any of them yet.

KptnKMan360
KptnKMan360

I purchased this, not so that I can play it yet, but because I want to support the developers to improve this DLC.
Please add and fix VR support. I have faith in the devs on this game, I've had a lot of fun with Elite Dangerous.

rgamer70
rgamer70

just installed and played for maybe an hour or so.. the graphics are terrible... Played this on the xbox several years ago and the graphics are were way better than this back then... dont know where they might have gone wrong but.. they broke it.

Tanuki00
Tanuki00

I can recommend Elite Dangerous Horizons for VR players. I cannot recommend Odyssey to VR players in its current disappointing state.

Spork
Spork

Stay away from Odyssey!

WARNING THIS CONTENT EXPANSION IS NOT AS ADVERTISED!

Odyssey is obviously the direct result of community uproar about not having on foot, fps dynamics in the game. What we ended up getting instead of what the community wanted was a broken, unfinished, grindy, buggy, and completely and utterly bland FPS and gameplay loop. If you were a fan of Horizons, you will hate this expansion. The new graphical advancements are just eye candy to make up for lack of actual content. They did not deliver on most things they advertised, have not made any optimizations, abandoned the console port of Odyssey, and basically abandoned the game. This is the agonal breathing of this game, and it is dying. Without something to either fix Odyssey, or another expansion there is no hope for the future, and given the company's notorious history of making a subpar product, that is broken and unplayable, stay clear of this.

TL:DR

FPS is bad
Gameplay is bad
Clunky controls
VR not supported
Not as advertised/ not what you get in video trailers
Buggy mess that has yet to be fixed
Devs abandoned their mess to rot

telwellian
telwellian

If you have a really nice graphics card I guess it's no big deal, but this game is broken if not.

I have a 4gb GTX 1650 Super, it ran horizons beautifully @1440, I even got decent frames. I can run Star Citizen fairly well on this card, but nothing I try can get Odyssey to perform even close. It's a slideshow at every station, landing zone, fleet carrier, etc.

But besides the performance tanking, the graphics overhaul ruined all the cool mountains and canyons. The planets look a little nicer from a distance I suppose, but it's too dark to see anything now anyway. The ship combat effects overhaul now makes fighting look like a fireworks show seen through dirty glass. I hoped for an update to black-holes, shadows cast from rings, or maybe cool things like comets.

I can't help feeling sad. Horizons still works and I've been playing that a bit, but updates aren't coming anymore and I'm not really interested in what Odyssey has to offer. The galaxy I have spent so many hours enjoying is being shelved until graphics cards become reasonable again. But Star Citizen has been fantastic so i think it will be hard to come back to ships without interiors and half-baked on foot combat.

NotTheMedic
NotTheMedic

Used to love this game, no update offers nothing new, just more of the same grind and a huge lack of actual content. They even dropped VR support which was my main love of this game. Go buy something else

Snow
Snow

Honestly with all the negative reviews for this DLC, I put it off for quite sometime.

However after many hours of combat gameplay and running around on planets just for the fun of it, I do recommend it for anyone who plays the game just to have fun. It adds a nice aspect to the immersion.

Plus playing the missions and general combat I've made more money faster in this DLC than anything else I've done.

GibiPoolside
GibiPoolside

There are not games better than this one.
There are not expansions better than this one.

I cannot imagine how hollow life must be for the sort of shriveled, pickled chunks of leather who complain about it.

I couldn't be happier with this game except for if the devs were not being constantly hounded with indefensible abuse and venom.

Tam
Tam

Sure are a lot of angry reviews with 0 hours played of Elite Dangerous recently. Weird. :hmmmx:

It's fine. It's not perfect, it has some issues. If Elite's core gameplay bores you, this isn't going to change your mind on the game as a whole. It's unpolished, but I saw nowhere NEAR the issues that people were claiming in the negative reviews. Turning down shadows and a few other settings yielded generally smooth performance on an 8-9 year old GPU.

This was worth buying on sale just to be able to get out of my ship and look at it on foot.

osher7
osher7

Not recommended right now, I thought this DLC will be the best thing but is not, A lot of things are missing in this DLC.

Tsavo
Tsavo

Should've burnt my money instead.

moroni
moroni

Does the game even work :o
I am getting connection error
Could not connect to server.
Error Code: Orange Sidewinder.

Press OK to return to the main menu.
Have not even been able to play the game so can't really say anything. But this is not a good start.

Joey Jay (SWE)
Joey Jay (SWE)

Noticed the playtime tracker doesn't work, so FYI, 50.9h (in the latest 2 weeks) :)

As of Update 11, I'm starting to fall back to ED even after playing Star Citizen, and even new Vampire the Masquerade Swansong. Before this DLC, I only had Horizon. It was... intresting, to see you could land on planets in a moon lander, but it still felt like you explored the vast emptiness of space

With Odessey and new stealth mechanics, I quit out of the Thieves play through I was doing and resumed it on ED instead. The tutorial mission was nice as it provided some actual story content and make me feel more connected to the game. I can only hope they'll build upon that and designs campaign missions like that in the future.

frank2351
frank2351

Apart from performance issues with high shadow settings it's a decent expansion. Turn shadow effects to medium if you suffer performance issues.

This deserves positive or mixed rating right now i think.

Dead
Dead

Somewhat improved from release but still very barebones, unoptimized and grindy.

1/5

Stupendous Inc.
Stupendous Inc.

This game is actually good. If you go in without high expectations you wont be dissapointed.

Holeypaladin
Holeypaladin

I saw that this expansion had a lot of bad reviews, but decided to give it a chance anyway.

However, when I received a bounty on my head for completing a legal assassination mission and killing an outlaw, who had a bounty on her head.... I decided this was the last straw in my judgment.

I'm no stranger to shooters, but this one is garbage. And that's basically what it is... a garbage shooter with poor balance, unreasonably difficult enemies, and way, way too many bugs and game-breaking inconsistencies.

Aside from the "Bounty for killing a wanted criminal" problem, I had a mission to kill all 21 inhabitants of a certain outlaw settlement... and did so. But the mission only registered 20/21 kills... one of my kills didn't count for no good reason at all. And when I left the settlement and returned, everyone had respawned and I had to begin again from scratch.

Previously, I had taken a mission to restore power to a settlement and got a message that hostile scavengers were inbound... so I figured I'd destroy the ship they were coming in on. Well, this caused me to incur a bounty as well, from the same faction I was trying to protect, and the settlement revoked its landing access and began to shoot at me! For shooting trying to defend it from scavengers! How could the developers not have figured that we'd try to destroy their ship before they landed and made this a viable option???

The "lasers vs shields, bullets vs armor" mechanic is stupid. All armor suits have the damage resistance of "Mirrrored Surface Composite" ship armor... you know, the absolute worst armor type which no one ever uses. Supposedly plasma weapons are the only weapons that don't require you to constantly switch between lasers and guns... except the Manticore Oppressor has the lowest damage of any weapon in the game, and the Executioner, while designed to one-shot enemies, is unable to do so as all enemies have shield gating and you have to double tap them.

If you get this expansion, the only viable combat method I've found is to go to the settlement of an Anarchy faction (where you don't get bounty'd as the settlement is lawless) and use the Scarab SRV to shoot all the guards to death. Then use a Maverick suit with double storage to loot everything from the settlement and leave. Don't bother with most of the missions at all... the pay is absolutely awful, and most of them are criminal, including the ones that say they are legal (assassinate this outlaw only to have a bounty placed on your head is categorized legal. but isn't... unlike the assassinate pirate ship missions which actually ARE legal). In fact, the only mission you should bother with is the elusive "restore power" mission that only spawns in systems with Civil Unrest. For this mission, restore the power, loot everything in the settlement, and then deactivate the power again to steal the power regulator before leaving.

Crime has never been worth it in this game due to the ability of stations to instantly kill you if you have a bounty, and all these missions do is place unnecessary bounties on your head. Tried a few scavenger missions... only to have the item you're scavenging for not appear at the highlighted locations. Bounties require you to scan every kill individually, but the pay is so low that it's nowhere near worth it. Perhaps the payout increases as your mercenary rank does, but I see no point in grinding it in the expansion's current state.

They also broke the legal system. I can no longer pay fines in the systems that issue them, the way they are supposed to be paid. At least not unless I switch to Horizons to pay them off.

Oh, and I also tried out Exobiology. The pay is worse than biowaste delivery missions (They literally pay worse than crap) for a whole lot of work. I made several hundred times more money from selling exploration data (surface scans of terraformable worlds) than I made from selling Exobiology data, in a much shorter time period. So once again... absolutely not worth it at all, but at least Exobiology doesn't cost more to invest in than you'll ever see in returns like on-foot missions do.

The one and only good thing I've seen is that your ship's remaining shield strength now appear as a percentage so you no longer have to guess. But you shouldn't need to buy an entirely new expansion to see this.

HerrSpray™
HerrSpray™

If your comments are disabled for your review, you're a coward that doesn't accept criticism and what you're saying is probably a flat freakin' lie or you're following an old hype train that's stopped a while ago. If your complaint is about performance, the game's absolute minimum requirement to even play is computer technology from about ten years ago while its optimum performance is technology from four years ago, and with Odyssey that demand is obviously going to increase and that's just gonna happen when you add more stuff, which demands better hardware- don't criticize the game just because YOU'RE the one that's poor and incapable of running it stably.
If your complaint is about the lack of new ships and playable content, you actually have a platform to stand on, especially for the cost of the expansion to begin with, but that's a topic for another day.
If your complaint is "i haven't seen this kind of planet" then it sucks to suck, sorry that you're just not dedicated enough to explore a little further than your comfort zone but they exist, look up screenshots.
If your complaint is VR support, get over yourself. Just cuz you can't play the FPS aspect of it in VR is not anyone's problem but your own, and you're flagrantly putting a stain on an entire company's reputation just because you spent an absurd amount of money for a piece of plastic you stuff onto your face and in your hands and expect it to work with darn well near every game you play. There's a reason its a niche market and not many people care to do extra dev work for little gain just to cater to your "1% of the 10%" self.

I fall into the lack of new ships and actually playable content realm, sure there's more stuff to do on the surfaces of planets but I'd have liked to see new types of spacefaring missions, new types of combat missions that aren't just res/conflict zones or nav beacon farming, new ships of all three size classes or even the new addition of Huge ships such as Destroyers, Frigates, Light Cruisers, and whatnot that would actually make up the majority of a superpower's fleet. I'll wait another day for Capital Ships because those would be extremely painful to balance, but something that's larger and more heavier duty than a silly little Corvette would be nice, along with the Starports or remodeling current starports to be able to work with them.

Would I recommend this expansion for everyone? No, if you're doing just fine in Horizons you'll be doing quite the same in Odyssey, not much has really changed, especially in the way of balancing ship weapons and whatnot because I feel a large caliber cannon firing shots that outright penetrate and explode should probably do a lot more damage than a plasma accelerator, but that's just me, and the latter should probably have gimballed mounts at a ridiculously inflated cost.

GrumpyPlok616
GrumpyPlok616

steam needs to start policing reviews

the game was never as buggy as people thought

BloodyDBunny
BloodyDBunny

the most useless dlc there is, every mission is illegal activity, its a waste of your money, sure being able to get out of your ship is nice, but there is not one mission you can do without being a criminal

FeralKitty
FeralKitty

While Horizons has been a positive experience, Odyssey has started off terrible.

After the tutorial, I tried three missions. In the first, I couldn't get my Maverick flashlight to work, and had to do the entire Restore mission in the dark. The second and third missions ended in me being one-hit killed, and sent to detention, where I was forced to pay some fine*, then take a fifteen-minute taxi ride back to my ship.

This is such a waste of time. Instead of being able to do something fun, I'm stuck sitting around and waiting to be able to resume playing.

*Frankly, I don't understand why it cost me 100k, when I was sent to some settlement to get it operational, but the scavengers (who weren't authorized to be there) killed me, and I get penalized. "Oh, an unconscious person. They must have been up to no good!" You'd think they could have checked with the person who gave me the local mission, but no.

EDIT: It gets worse! In addition to the detention center crimes, I also now have minor faction fines from the failed on-foot missions. However, in Odyssey, you can't pay fines off locally. You have to fly to an Interstellar Factors agent outside of the faction's influence area. More wasted time!

Arlen
Arlen

Ultimately disappointing.

While it does add some nice new on-foot locations and let you walk around in them, this expansion does very little to add new gameplay elements to the game. It's all superficial. Hollow. As others have said, "a skeleton."

They add the ability to walk around in space stations, and on planets and settlements, but they don't let you walk around in your ship.

They add missions you can take on-foot in settlements, but it's ultimately just the same copy/paste missions that you do in ships. Fetch quests. Deliveries.

We have loadouts, on-foot weapons, scanners and other neat things, but have very few opportunities to use them. Or when you do use them, it's no more exciting than doing the same thing from your ship. Scan this, collect money. Great.

The on-foot combat is okay (hope you enjoy being an outlaw), but stealth is nearly impossible. You have a razor thin line between not being seen, and having your ship blown up before you even get back to it (and then you end up 300 ly away on a capital ship, and have to spend hours getting back to where you were).

There's so much to work with, here. So much potential. But for $40? It's just not worth it.

woman obliterater
woman obliterater

This DLC is fine, everyone who complains about performance issues has a potato, never had any issues on modern hardware. Unfortunately the odyssey content is not worth playing atm, however all that has to be changed is not putting bounties on players heads any time they do combat missions, if they are legal or not. The 1000 credits doesnt hurt, but moving to a random detention center does. Also make the rewards worth it. The core game play is there though

LastShenanigan
LastShenanigan

This has been released for about a year and still amounts to a $40 Alpha.

Rayz
Rayz

Just want to say that this expansion is not that bad at all. I've played around 300 hrs in Horizons all in VR. When i heard no VR for odyssey I was surely disappointed. However after finally breaking down and picking it up during the last sale I must say I do enjoy it. Even though I long for true VR when on foot , the giant screen does work. and of course you can switch to the camera suite just to see things in true VR but not during any action scenes effectively. Also I use an xbox controller when on foot and a hotas otherwise. It probably also helps that I had about 300 mil in credits so i can buy all i need to get started on foot pretty easily. So if you're an elite VR fan who's hesitant on this expansion I'd say give it a shot without the highest expectations and you may enjoy it. It's not perfect but that doesn't mean it's a horrible game.
i7 7700k 3080, valve index

DramalıTüfek
DramalıTüfek

1 year later i'm still regretting this purchase.

Fjølkunnigr
Fjølkunnigr

NO.

Just NO.
It killed my favorite game and its existing alone makes sure the game is still in its grave. Devs aren't going to do anything about it though. I regret I bought it and gave them a chance - I did no refund.

Extremecheese
Extremecheese

Thinking about it, this release is comparable with the ET game for the Atari 2600.
It should have been so simple, all everyone wanted to do, was to be able to walk around their ships, do a bit of maintenance, and then walk through an air lock to whatever is outside.
Instead we got one of the most buttock-clenchingly, cringy, hammy, limp wristed bolt on FPS games that absolutely no-one wants to play.
The best thing for the game is to be put into a land fill, and forgotten about, thank heavens for electronic downloads I suppose.
So sad.

Aerys
Aerys

Frontier must've taken tips from Bethesda on how to ruin a franchise.

Nicky Bagga Donuts
Nicky Bagga Donuts

Unfortunately, Frontier flew a little too close to the sun.

Billy6guns
Billy6guns

This expansion in my opinion has been mispriced. I actually enjoy it, but at the same time i don't think it's worth the $40. Get it at 50% off steam sale or something.

E17
E17

The planets look better in Odyssey and those with a thin atmosphere look stunning during sunset/rise and the colour relates to its chemical composition. The onfoot perspective really adds a unique feel and gives a more intimate feeling when on a planet looking for the interesting new plants to find.

The planets and space stations feel more alive with the small Settlements and onfoot "services/mission" areas and the on foot missions make more sense than the planet based missions in Horizons.

The new Scorpion SRV is really good while the onfoot combat feels varied enough (especially if you try and combine it with Stealth) but its not like an entire new game.

It basically adds more stuff to do to the base game and you can mix and match the new content with the old space stuff as your mood takes you.

Whether that is worth the asking price depends on your level disposable cash but I have mostly played the new Odyssey missions for past year and mostly visited the new planet types when exploring so its been worth it for me personally.

iendsl
iendsl

Being able to walk around in the stations, on the planets adds a lot. Joining battles or taking a shuttle down to a planet from a station is really fun. I don't think the shooting or any real first-person activities are more important than just the immersion of being able to walk around, though I do like the immersion of joining a battle in some random war and drop-shipping down.

Walking around ships and boarding / getting off ship not with just a fade to black would be #1 priority for me. Maybe being able to sit in different parts of ships when taking a shuttle.

moswalt
moswalt

I bought this so I could instance with others since they split the playerbase with the expansion. I play in VR on a 3070 and I had to spend a whole night messing with settings to get it to run at an acceptable framerate in open space. On the lowest settings with horrible aliasing and other hiccups. When I landed on one of these "amazing" new planets it was like looking at a GBC texture from 20 years ago. And this is the state a year and 12 updates after Odyssey was released.

Works fine on flat mode if you're into mediocre fps gameplay that has nothing to do with the spaceship sim

Swedge
Swedge

Elite Dangerous Oddysey is not prefect. Things could have been done alot better. Preformance is not as it used to be. The developers could be a lot more in tune with the players ect. etc.. all agree. I am also annoyed by some of the directions they took. But why do I still find myself logging in to this game almost every single day?

Elite Dangerous Oddysey has the same appeal to me that it always had: Its a deeply atmospheric game. Simply walking around my fleet carrier, the settlements, the stations, the planets and "being in that gameworld" is somehow already enough to keep me coming back. The idea that you are in a Galaxy that is so vast, you only have to travel a bit outside of the inhabited bubble to find places no one has ever been before, and the chance to see sights that are stunning after every jump. The appeal to discover it the main one for me. The fact you can now walk around on foot in all of this added greatly to that experience compared to before. On top of that is the nearly endless amount of content that has been added to the game since it launched.. so yeah, I would still call this my favorite game to play.

I hope they will continue to expand the galaxy without paying to much attention to the noise. Elite has always had a vocal community, too toxic in some cases as well. But I want more of this.

Fabricator Theddius
Fabricator Theddius

Did anyone really expect frontier to figure out walking inside a ship when Star Citizen hasn't made it to run stably for the past 10 years?

DLC is fine but very overpriced for what it is, Performance in some areas is now very low like stations and very crowded on foot areas. Planets look more boring and some flat out look worse. Although the updated visuals for everything else up in space are better. Especially the explosions, they feel better now.

The on foot combat is very mediocre the AI is about as intelligent as Borderlands 2 AI and about as powerful as well. Blame yourself for jumping straight into high difficulty cz's unprepared and then dying constantly not the game. As if the space combat didn't teach you that already. Speaking of they balanced damage the same way they did with space combat.

This DLC also does fix missions a lot. Never before have i seen so many 50 mil paying missions to kill 20 ships. Like holy shit.

More on performance. On average i get around 30-50fps when there are 24 people fighting it out on a medium cz. So good job on frontier for hiring the planetside 2 devs. Hell they even got the Gauss SAW in which is the best kinetic "LMG" there is. They only renamed it to the Karma AR-50 and call it an assault rifle.
As to everyone getting headaches from the fps. Please for the love of god do something else except playing video games. After a while you'll stop noticing.

NastyNate
NastyNate

Recent updates have really stabilized performance, many bugs fixed, and I've been able to get immersed in the new content than Odyssey brings.

For me, one of the biggest changes that Odyssey brings over Horizons is the ease of doing co-op. With Horizons you had to choose between multi-crew and wings. Those two modes are now unified to just "team" in Odyssey. It makes playing with friends a lot easier. I love being able to board somebody else's ship to pilot their fighters, and then be able to hop off to pilot my own ship again. All without having to switch between being in a wing vs. multi-crew.

Agi
Agi

I didn't have any performance issues and I like it. Adds a lot of extra gameplay and features that makes the base game a lot richer.

LedgersPill
LedgersPill

I would love to write a review, but I can't. I can't even access odyssey at all despite paying for it. logging off and on and verifying my email multiple times. Just don't get odyssey, you'll just pay for something they won't let you access anyway.

Chanelkin
Chanelkin

Lag, black screen, lag, stuttering, lag, stuttering, black screen, crash report, back to game, lag, black screen, lag, punch PC monitor, back to game, log in to horizon, bored, regrets wasting money

underd0g
underd0g

A maybe from me. There's at least some more things to do in this vast, thin ocean of a univers that Frontier Developments created with Elite: Dangerous. I still await being able to land on planets with thicker atmospheres than what is in this DLC. Maybe they'll sell those as another DLC just for fun, who knows. I've yet to find a plent with as thick an atmosphere as what some of these screenshots tell you they have.

And it's all fiscal year sales numbers for the guys behind the Elite and the Jurassic & other theme park games. And so far Odyssey has been a failure for Frontier Developments. So keep that in mind, this DLC is quite heavily on the back-burner when it comes to further development and refinement.

The performance is something I am confused about. They sell this as a FPS module and there are combat zones that has just earth shattering bad FPS snags and stutters, beyond the fact that it is ridiculously low even on pretty high end hardware.

Also the grind is real with this one too, even compared to its parent, Elite: Dangerous. But at least it isn't needed to deal with the on foot stuff as their implementation of ground combat 'AI' is beyond lazy.

Kraegan Epsilon
Kraegan Epsilon

Unplayable, laggy, just overall bad

ComplexGhost
ComplexGhost

I know that there is a lot of negative reviews, but this is actually good

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R E S P A W N
R E S P A W N

The respawning in this mode is so bad, you can get wanted and end up 25-50 systems away from your ship, so you have no way other than to use apex interstellar. Thats my only complaint. 7.5/10

LittleRadar
LittleRadar

I love this game. But, devs, can you add a customizable skirmish mode with bots? It would be great for those who don't want to fly between stations for some credits or so, just for quick fun with customizable battles with bots. Really hope you can do it for Elite fans who dont have enough time for grind.
Thank you for your work, Frontier's devs!
o7

P.S. It would be great if onfoot bots will try to keep distance for firefights, now they are too frequently try to move very close for shooting at you, I think it would be nice to see some distant firefights in galactic battlefields and missions in near future.

Cop_Ra
Cop_Ra

bug overwhelming,shit display and ugly UI
mother fucker

Lynn my beloved
Lynn my beloved

just no, i got stuck when i'm landed somewhere on planetary station, save your money for Star Citizen instead

dave-robinson
dave-robinson

Yet more grind! Simply boring!

DefinitelynotNIrvana
DefinitelynotNIrvana

Sort of a slap in the face the first time you're in VR and a 2D screen pops up for the foot portions of elite dangerous. As if a big part of their player base weren't VR enthusiasts. Just disappointed.

A­³goriStL
A­³goriStL

Be me:
Install and launch ED:O
Without thinking, click 'start' as it's where continue normally is
Start Ody tutorial, go to keymapping, take way to long realizing I can switch from controller preset to a kbm preset with typical fps style layout
Panik thinking I may have restarted my profile by doing the Ody tutorial
Kalm when I finish and am able to continue my original profile
Get confused by new gui and kind of not like the new map ui
Realize my potato is now on the bottom end of the specs GPU wise and redo settings to make it not terrible looking or laggy
Check missions in ship and can't figure out which are Ody missions
Google it, oh, have to leave ship in station and find a console or degenerate to get Ody missions
Buy gear without having any idea what's what
Buy max consumables
Grab mission without noting the threat level because the damn new gui seems not to show rank rec and I'm nothing
Land a click away thinking I need to avoid trespassing at a non-station base, leave ship and run the wrong way for a bit, then turn around
Get to base gun drawn, chick yells at me to holster it, don't know how, she shoots, I kill her, her buddies show up with shields on
Get my ass kicked into a corner of the Hab
Revived in ship, still unclear what would happen if I die with my ship dismissed
Go to another station, disembark, go to console, get kill mission
Try to land on pad, apparently I'm loitering, move next to the pad and land
Find not-guard with clearance 3
Try to sneak clone their profile, they freak and start shooting
Fight my way out with shielded guards popping snipes at me shredding my shield
Get in ship, ship is getting attacked, finish loading, ship has lost 6% of hull
Fly far enough to not get shot at
Target escapes
Fuck this, I'm looting the place Elder Scroll style
Land far away, run in, almost out of energy
Cut and overload warehouse door
Kill all non-guard types
Guard types show up, play hide and seek until they go away
Loot warehouse
Loot computer, alarm brings them back
Hide and wait it out
Go to cmd, rinse, repeat
Go to sec room and shut down turrets, doors, alarms, everthing
DIsmiss and return ship just far enough from base
Dump bag, go back
Now the guards seem to know when I'm sneaking around in the complex and won't leave me the hell alone

It's not perfect, but I do not regret wasting the last 2 hours accomplishing nothing but some murder and petty larceny.
Get it on sale though. It's not worth the price of a full tripA game, no offense Frontier

QuickLook
QuickLook

Its like paying to make more Grind in the game. The graphics look worse in the ships than before this DLC and Wow the missions pay almost nothing for credits. Can't even walk around in your own ship... This is really dissapointing... asking for a refund now.

rkeach
rkeach

I am new player that played horizons the last few weeks and loved playing it. Then just bought odyssey on sale. Once I tweaked the graphic settings based on some user videos especially from exigeous, and changed the setting to normal upscaling to fix the text, it runs and looks great on my windows machine Ryzen 5 3600 GTX 1660 super with 2560 x 1440 Cinema Display and looks better to me than horizons. UI takes a short adjustment to get used to from horizons. Controlled expectations are needed for planet excursions. But most of my time is in space doing missions and exploration in my two ships. I enjoy it more than most of my other simulations and games. YMMV of course. But I really am enjoying it.

lordAugustus
lordAugustus

No,,, just no.

Do something else instead, like knitting. It will be more fun than this, promise.

Lord Derpington
Lord Derpington

Unplayable, even after I nuked the graphics settings. Horizons plays just fine.

KillaQuito
KillaQuito

It's still got some bugs, but its a lot better then when it first released and adds a lot of new mechanics, including ground battles for systems in war and they are surprisingly lucrative.

ExoSage
ExoSage

Thats actually cool dlc and much stable now.

CosmicSpaceGoat
CosmicSpaceGoat

Odyssey had a rocky start during the 2020 pandemic. But with the recent stability improvements, bug fixes, and optimisation, it's now a great upgrade to an already amazing game. The atmospheric planets look amazing, the gameplay is enjoyable, and the graphic and UI improvements were a nice addition. Ignore the jesters that complain. Odyssey is the best way to play Elite Dangerous, even if it doesn't add that much content yet until the next major update.

Cuck Commander
Cuck Commander

When it works it's great.
However after a 6 month hiatus, I come back and even more things are broken.
This is frustrating as this is a large span of time, enough to fix the large issues IMO.

Constant issues with Team invites. If I log out and back in, my friend I was JUST in Open with, JUST in a team with, is somehow in Solo Play. He never logged out of Open and into Solo. He will restart the game and the issue persists. Initially I figured he was just new and confusing the modes. However I remoted in and confirmed he was never moving out of Open play. This is a glaring issue. We have to have every member of our Team restart their game when they display as in Solo mode.

Literally had to revert back to Horizon for any type of play involving multiplayer between us. Disappointing...

The voice chat doesn't work either. We move back to horizon and all of the sudden it's spot on with Discord.

Oh and when you do get frustrated, and move back to Horizon, any missions you had don't transfer either...

Why were so many things updated? Things from Horizon were completely changed, texture packs, tons of extra graphics work, so much unnecessary change when things really did look fine how they were. This time should have been put into the functional mechanics of the game, making sure new features worked correctly, not that they looked good.

Frontier, whatever you're doing that has differed from the development process of Horizons, please just stop. Fire them, go back to old ways, whatever it takes, or you're going to drive this game and company into the ground.

I recommend Horizon but at this point, not Odyssey. Odyssey has become a hassle. We don't clock out and log in to deal with this, not by choice.

My Main Squeeze
My Main Squeeze

(5/20/2021) - Elite Dangerous: Odyssey

This is my full honest opinion. Odyssey sucks, this DLC should still be in beta because of how often it crashes.

I can't get any better than 10-fps on foot and 55-fps in space. FYI I'm running the recommended specs for Odyssey and my settings are all on medium. Next, don't even get me started on the lame excuse for not adding ship interiors. Just because the devs believe that adding them would make walking in and out of the ship dull after a while is unfair to the community when more than half wanted it to be added. Odyssey was such a letdown that avg player count went down from 20K to now only 3k per day. This is what happens when you don't listen to your community, this DLC HAD potential.

Siberian Frontier
Siberian Frontier

I bought this DLC to see if people talking about performance is thrash is real. They are. Don't buy it till they fix it!

Badkarma
Badkarma

A lot of the hate is geared toward bugs and performance which is certainly a mixed bag for everyone. It's a solid expansion for those who wanted space legs.

DrShepard'sEmpire
DrShepard'sEmpire

How could you take a basic concept like this and destroy it completely? My first opening into this DLC was horrible to say the least, I've never had so many problems getting this to run before and horizons worked fine for me. Yes, my computer isn't a monster nor high range but Elite since the beginning has always been able to run the game really well and I've enjoyed my time with this game. Am against the direction of the developers on this one, more improvement before I picked this up back again. Also, I don't like the fact that I can't really explore the ship I've worked hard to get just so it can got to a dark screen and onto the surface of a planet in deep space none have step on. I think Armstrong didn't have that problem there.

Wait for this one to be improved or pick up Star Citizen.

TOXICGHOST
TOXICGHOST

I held off on buying this DLC for a LONG time, I finally decided to give it a shot because I saw one of the YouTubers I watch played it, and seemed to have a good time with it.

What a mistake. This whole DLC is full of half baked ideas and absolutely garbage combat. You'll be hard pressed to find any combat missions that are legal, so good luck with that. Generally combat missions will consist of go here, kill this person, get a bounty, run away away from the settlement, rinse and repeat.

Stealth is practically impossible. You can sneak around fine enough, I guess... but the moment someone wants to scan you, you're screwed. If you try to run away from a scan, they will kill you. Did you steal an item without the AI seeing? Too bad, now they know, and you will die. Did you copy security access? Now they know, and you will die. Did you scan the AI figuring they wouldn't get crybaby piss mad about it because they're allowed to scan you? No, you upset them and now you will die.

I have well over 1 Billion credits, these missions do not bring in enough money for how boring they are, and I found myself hopping back in my ship to collect bounties at RES sites or NAV beacons. These missions aren't interesting when they go well, when the AI doesn't break. They'll bum rush you as a pack with reckless abandon, but it DOES work. They'll murder you. But nonstrategic AI doesn't make for fun, engaging combat.

Elite Dangerous with Horizons is a good game, this just sucks.

TheEvilSocks
TheEvilSocks

This dlc has been out for over a year, and they somehow managed to introduce more bugs than during the testing phase.
During co-op, missions will just refuse to advance, even after restarts.
If you manage to get a missions that's completable, high chance your partner will crash, resetting the mission progress to 0.

Framerate on foot is absolute dogshit, even in high end devices. You won't get higher than 45FPS.

This dlc is not worth it, not even during sales.

PhoenixMidnight
PhoenixMidnight

Released over a year ago and it still is borderline unplayable.

samus390
samus390

I left this review while autodocking.

Edit: I am actually in shock. This is fucking horrible. This is not even worth 5 dollars. Changes a lot of things that already worked, removed features, introduced bugs. I cannot believe that the new on-foot mechanics are not integrated with multi-crew. I genuinely expected to be able to take my Alliance Crusader and 3 other people, and do on foot missions where people could be in a mix between ship/fighters/SRVs/footing. You cannot do this. You can share missions that involve on-foot activities with your wing (now renamed to teams for some fucking reason) but that's it. They still need their own ship and you need your own. If you both want to be on foot you both have to land your individual ships and disembark. I actually cannot believe Frontier fumbled this hard, especially when they charge 40$ for this. Don't even get it on sale, they truly don't deserve your money.

Fuso Derpy
Fuso Derpy

uh looks to age like milk. I wish i did not pay full price for this but i like the ability to petty steal and run away.

Radio
Radio

this dlc sucks, please dont buy it. even if its on sale, just not worth it at all.

Ol' Uncle Sheo[Gurren]
Ol' Uncle Sheo…

I find the content here extremely lacking for the amount I paid for it, but I think that's mostly because I(and virtually everyone else) was expecting something completely different. I don't want an FPS module for Elite: Dangerous, I just want to be able to get up and fucking walk around like a normal human being. Not on planets, but in my ship, and ideally on stations too. the X series has been doing it for fucking years! And they have half the budget, none of the hype, and cost a quarter of this!

Also the guns kinda suck. They lack variety and feel unsatisfying for the most part. This is only worth your time if you're a superfan.

ganzuul
ganzuul

It's still downloading but I want skiing like in Tribes or similar. Supercruise on foot!

Pink Pariah
Pink Pariah

I personally expected more from station interiors than just a tiny hub, it serves a purpose but ultimately I think it would have been better to be able to access all missions (on foot or otherwise) from your ship and all missions from inside. As it stands the disconnect makes it seem like the interiors were tacked on rather that woven into the game as a whole.

Not having ship interiors is dumb. But they weren't promised so I guess it's hard to complain about some thing that was never planned. That being said; it really makes the disconnect I mentioned earlier obvious. I personally would have made ship interiors a major priority to make the switch more of a smooth transition. Also would have allowed more NPC crew members and with those members they should actually appear on your ship rather than just the picture in your HUD.

Atmosphere landings don't look or feel any different than normal landings and I'm convinced that they just added a hue to the border of the planet and called it an atmosphere. Because of this I find it hard to even consider it a feature. Ultimately I think this system could have been a patch rather than a DLC feature since I don't actually feel like the planets you can land on are any different aside from the atmosphere. I would have liked to see us be able to land on volcanic worlds.

Not being able to pick up materials on foot is really REALLY dumb and again makes odyssey a real tack on rather than an integrated new game mechanic.

Cursed Horus
Cursed Horus

There's a lot of bad press on this DLC, and YES there are currently A LOT of bugs in the game, of which there shouldn't, but this is due to lots of internal pressures on how Frontier work and it is a problem that almost all game developers are suffering from at the moment (Playground - Forza, DICE / EA - Battlefield, Respawn - Apex Legends - to name a few that i know off that the games on release and/or even now are unplayable) and it stems from the business models to make as much money as possible and pressuring the development of a product that is not ready (this is again the same as soo many companies even outside of the gaming world - car manufactures recalling cars, phone manufactures recalling phones and discontinuing the models).

The amount of updates this game has had to attempt to resolve all of the bugs, naturally makes it seem like it is beyond repair but this game is huge in the content and the amount of programming and algorithms used must be astronomical (see what I did there) - and I truly believe that this game is still playable despite the current list of bugs ( https://issues.frontierstore.net/reported-issues/elite-dangerous - if interested). Having Odyssey definitely re-ignited my love for this game and I would definitely recommend this game when it is on sale (i don't believe in paying full price for anything when there are issues with it - you pay for a product at full price when it does not have major issues).

The views in the game, the way it captures your curiosity, the open world abilities are amazing and for the most part the open play and player on player interaction is amazing. The amount of player base that is still there and people willing to help new players and even existing players in the new content or new area's of the game is beyond none I have ever come across (reddit forums / Discord servers / frontier forums / INARA / Elite fandom and all the other elite dangerous bespoke third party developments designed to educate and aid in the game).

Frontier do fix their bugs, while it may take some time on some they do, and i trust in the FDev and their drive to keep the game developing and as amazing as it is.

You should buy this game with the DLC, if you don't want to get the DLC at full price but want the game i recommend buying Horizons as this is a great starting place and you will still love everything about the game, then when the bugs (in the link above) have been sorted as much as possible or when the DLc is on sale i recommend buying it.

This is a true and honest review, not a whinge on all the issues or a big up on how it is amazing.

Medikage
Medikage

Odyssey is what a DLC should be, aside from the additional content, it also enhances the player experience and takes Elite Dangerous to the next level. The updated UI is clean and easy to use. You can tell a lot of thought has gone into the Map UI specifically.

Yes it is still a little buggy but these will be ironed out over time.

Highly recommended.

Arnthor
Arnthor

A year ago I would not have recommend this game however they've got a lot fixed with it and it's honestly quite fun now.

It gives me an excuse to get out of the larger ships and use the small ones as I'm zooming around a system completing combat, assassination, and theft missions. The stealth mechanics make it a challenge and provides satisfaction after your driving away in your SRV having just stolen that settlements power regulator without raising any alarms.

The grind is still there but you have a load more fun if you ignore it.

Deathreel
Deathreel

Awesome, Mega Extension! I love it! Its a very large extension for the game, and turns the game from being a 1 dimensional game - to a 4 dimensional game easily! So it adds 3 more dimensions to the original at least.... I didn't want to play the base game, due to it being very dull and boring, that is why at the time of this review I don't have many hrs up. Now that I have this Massive Extension, I don't want to go to work anymore, all I want to do is play THIS GAME!!! ITS AWESOME!!!!

Worth a score of 25/10 easily and worth every cent paid for it. Being a 49 gig download and approx 75gig extension, you know its gonna be a big change. And it is and it dramatically improves every aspect of Elite Dangerous. Why others give negative reviews? ? ? They don't want you to know how FRIGGING AWESOME THIS REALLY IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sebby
Sebby

Space legs, finally what we've been waiting for!!

There are def some performance issues & there are no ship interiors yet but I like the ground missions & the inside of space stations is really cool! I think its a solid foundation for what Frontier plans to do with the game in the future.

Overall I recommend it 8.3/10, better & more stable than Star Citizen.

cliveinoz
cliveinoz

I held off buying this DLC for a long time, having read the many negative reviews and fearing my 2015 laptop may not be up to the challenge (spec below). I bought it impulsively in a rush of blood to the head when it was on sale (45% off).

I have definitely not regretted it so far. It really adds a huge amount to the game (which I've played and loved for 7 years now). It has run almost perfectly on my laptop apart from some audio distortion when I'm in a station concourse and moving - audio is fine when I stand still.

Very happy so far.
o7

Spec:
MSI Dominator Pro
16GB memory
i7-5700HQ
SSDs
Nvidia GTX980M 8GB VRAM

A Glowing Thing
A Glowing Thing

There is a lot of confusion around this product. As someone who didn't follow external game news. I'll tell you with absolute certainty this doesn't harm the experience at all. The anger has most to due with people’s false assumptions/expectations. Plus, the release state of performance and missing features. It should be noted that all advertised features have been added. So here are some points based on date of review state of the game.

Here is a sort of Summary of changes to pre-existing content. It is super important to know that if you don't like or don't care about walking you don't even have to touch it at all. Planetary changes sited as resulting in common terrain are exaggerated and not easy to notice without looking for them. The grind is only technically "worse" because Odyssey features are now involved, but it fits right in with the standard design of horizons so that's to be predicted. Ship interiors were never actually listed as being a feature only stations, settlements and fleet carriers. They are finished now.

The following is Odyssey specific.

- Performance. Barely serviceable. Depending on hardware, settings, and location. VR has been sadly screwed in settlements as performance requirements are too much. On my old system a i7-7700k and GTX 1070 at max settings(1440p) things run at ~60fps in most settlements. My new system (i9-10850k and RX 6800XT) has almost no problems. Anywhere that has a lot of glass I've noticed brutally affects performance like farming settlements probably because of more objects have to be rendered than if there were walls.
- Terrain generation. The terrain generation system for all planets has been changed to account for the fact you can walk on the surface. Sadly, this has resulted in the terrain generated being more moderate. Some of the more extreme terrains/planets are gone. This has also resulted in more common areas being generated. However, as I stated it is very hard to notice. Most examples are specific excerpts and are extremely rare to come across.
- New Planets. Barren planets with light atmospheres were added. These are great and the graphics work is really nice. In case you’re wondering why its so few planets its because ONLY barren planets with atmospheres were added and this a minor margin when it comes down to it. Unfortunately, the cost of getting the terrain to account for walking was the restructuring in terrain generation so nothing major in difference was added.
- Station interiors. Are okay and mostly traditional in design theory. Their appearance is unique and determined by station type and faction. The quality of work is fine. This was in a questionable state at release, but its finished now.
- Carrier interiors. Same as stations. This was a missing feature at release. It is finished now.
- Movement Mechanics. As a first attempt into first person movement systems its actually pretty good. You have physical weight and each step you take feels good. You have a jet pack that varies in performance based on the planet’s gravity. Its the simple jump and create upward/weak lateral thrust design. It is possible to face in different directions. So, you can turn any direction and continue moving in a different direction. A nice balance was struck between weightless smooth movement and realistic movement.
- FPS mechanics. For the most part its a simple implementation of shooting from the hip and ADS. Weapons feel good to use. Nothing is really new or notable in the grand scheme of things, but it is good. This is where things take a rough turn. The problems lie in implementation of damage. Weapons are classed between energy and kinetic. Players have shields. Energy damages shields, but kinetic does practically nothing. The opposite applies to your health. This results in a near requirement of changing weapons during combat. Technically there is nothing inherently wrong with this mechanic, but this is a sim style game so it feels super out of place and extreme in its form. It doesn't bother me that much personally, but I totally get why it pisses others off.

My problem would be determining what this is worth. Sadly, they need to fund the time for development, but a lot of what we got included reworking things that aren't new features. Ultimately i don't have a problem paying full price for Elite, but because the continued development of the game is now under heavy threat. You’re paying for very little in features. This is at best worth 25% of the asking price for literal value.

The state of release was awful and the hype in false features created by peoples hopes resulted in an extremely negative reaction that may have ended the games future. As it is. Its still a great game well worth your time even if this is the end. Stop being a consumer and enjoy the good parts we have now.

Brock
Brock

I had been hesitating getting this due to bad reviews. But its ace! Yes its not a AAA FPS, but it adds a new dimension to ED gameplay and I'm having a lot of fun with it. o7

Dangel
Dangel

Uplayable, extremelly laggy. Even 50% discount is too much for such unprepared product.

Null24
Null24

I wish we had access to the alpha of this DLC again because at least I could get a solid 60 fps anywhere I went.
Thats not even because I have a crappy PC. I have an i7-9700k, RTX 2080 SUPER, 48gb ram, and a 1TB samsung SSD.

Performance needs more work, as far as features go dont buy this if you want an exploration addon but if you like fps games then I guess go for it. NPC health pool is bullet spongy unless you upgrade your equipment to G5(takes around ~30 hours to get the materials to do so for a single piece of equipment, even longer just to get access to the engineers)

The exploration can be summed up as "Go here, hold left click, move a few hundred meters to the side, hold left click, do it again, and now you can go sell it for a measly ~1,000 credits an hour."

Combat is basically just domination from COD but everyone takes 20 seconds to kill.

And dont get me STARTED on the multiplayer. DO NOT BUY THIS FOR MULTIPLAYER GAMEPLAY. It is bugged to hell and back, particularly fleet carrier (and station)interiors. With just me and a friend, I managed to get sent to some weird demonic shadow realm where all the room were disconnected, doors chairs tables and people were floating, the elevators were just boxes and you couldn't interact with them, and terminals just refused to work.

Overall its hard to recommend this expansion at the current price. I say it warrants a 10 dollar price tag at most, and you only get 5 dollars of experience on a good day.
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TL;DR
Too many bugs and performance issues as of update 12 to warrant price tag, wait for a sale to 15 to 10 dollars and MAYBE its worth it
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Best features are that I can see the number percentage my shield health is at and it also automatically turns on my wing beacon.

6/10, Star Citizen unironically performs better and is more enjoyable with more content for only 5 bucks more.

Katiff
Katiff

This expansion has received overwhelmingly bad reviews, out of proportion to what it should have received. I will admit it had a pretty rough roll-out a year ago. It clearly was not finished and full of game breaking bugs and unreasonably bad performance, even on high end machines.

Ok, this is true and Frontier should NEVER have released it in such a state, but we have to acknowledge the progress made since then. It's still not perfect, but they have admitted as much. The way the game plays and performs now compared to a year ago is night and day. I had a modest machine, GTX 1080, 2.4GHz Xeon, and I was able to play most parts of the game on ultra settings.

Odyssey is a real treat now, a joy to play, and a pleasure on the eyes. The immersion it adds is amazing. Being able to get out on these newly generated planets and going up to plants and scanning for exobiology just adds so much for me, an explorer. In the year since release it has gotten better and better with each update.

Did it deserve to be torn apart in the beginning? YES. Developers have to be held accountable when not making good on promises and also not communicating with the community. I think this was a corporate blunder, the decision makers looking at fiscal charts, rather than a decision from the ones MAKING the game, but it was still a bad one.

But now after a year of updates, the Odyssey experience is amazing and it deserves a fresh look. It still has a bit to go, but it seems Frontier is up for it finally.

Pr1meOne
Pr1meOne

It's release was unacceptable but now its sorta good. If you are used to the negatives and positives about normal elite dangerous, odyssey is worth a buy at a discount.

OOster
OOster

My honest review over a year later.

It's got some good parts, but the bad parts are pretty bad.

Whats good:

Adds another layer on to the otherwise monotonous/boring exploration grind. I traveled to Colonia a few months ago and yeah looking for space plants and logging biological data makes landing on random balls of dirt more worthwhile. Before I left I did plenty of on foot combat which was actually enjoyable when it ran good. Going to abandoned outposts is pretty neat as well hacking open access to doors and locks to find salvage and what not. The visual effects for light atmosphere are pretty when they work as well, however that's just the thing, these things look and function nice only part of the time STILL.

What's Bad:

It's certainly not my hardware causing the visual effects to be pretty lack luster. (rtx3080, r9 3950x, 32 gigs of ram). Often times everything is still way too dark, and dark in a way that's kinda buggy. For example rings around a planet can completely disappear in the void even if you are on the light side of the planet, if you're on a planet with black soil near a red dwarf good luck, your high beams won't even help you. Then other certain details for other parts of this dlc can also get kinda funky too. It's honestly too much to list but to describe a few, sometimes you get stuck in loading screens when you're on your way to a combat zone, forcing you to relog into the game, walk half a mile to the combat zone then you're forced to call a taxi to get back home. Happened to me quite frequently even recently. Frames are not predictable if i get near a settlement sometimes i just drop to 10 or the combat zones drop to 30-40fps in general. The balance between ground and ship combat feels neglected, weapons are either useless (anything fully automatic), or completely op (shotgun, sniper, rocket launcher). Upgrading and engineering your suits is even more complex than ship engineering.

Engineering is the tipping point for me though and mostly at fault for my negative review. Cause honestly the other things to me are fairly minor inconveniences but the engineering for weapons and suits is just awful.

Some engineers are locked behind loot that's extremely rare and time consuming to find, then upgrades require loads of rare salvage that's time consuming and frustrating to find for a simple meager upgrade. Not to mention now all of your salvage/on foot loot is piled into one inventory. It's not like ship engineering where you just grab everything you can because each individual material for ship engineering has its own slot, nope you get 1000 item capacity that everything you pick up goes into. So you have to be careful what salvage you pick up because if you pick up everything its going to take your time away with basically no reward since there is salvage that is utterly useless. Half the salvage is literal garbage that cannot be used for upgrades/engineering and can only be sold for 1000 credits which is not even worth pennies when you consider my ship is nearly worth a billion credits. So your inventory becomes an overwhelming mess of crap that you're trying to use for an overwhelming task to mildly improve your guns and suits.

Ultimately its just poorly optimized, and flawed game mechanics. There is some fun to be had with the gun play, and there is a lot of wonder to be had once you see the scale of your ship and explore planets more in depth. But the bad parts are extremely bad.

veracsthane
veracsthane

ill be blunt. i understand why most of the people reviewing are giving it a negative review. i was able to play 4-5 days before this post and now i cant for a reason i will never understand. it just wont even start. if you see that i still played it after this post its because i like the game and if you want to know why people give it negative reviews is a "empty" world and constant technical issues like this. the tech issues are the worst. no error codes or anything just click play and the luncher goes nope.

Neil Old [nosound]
Neil Old [nosound]

As someone who loved Horizons, this is absolute trash. They torpedoed the one decent space MMO game and I guess now we have to wait a decade for someone else to figure it out. I have tried Star Citizen multiple times and am lukewarm on it. I will never trust Frontier ever again, especially for a multiplayer game.

SSG JC_Raiser
SSG JC_Raiser

Sxcks as XXXX
BUGS and low FPS
cannot get my refund is the worst

Anonymous
Anonymous

They’ve improved this so much it’s totally worth playing now. Atmosphere planets look so good.

CombatWombat594
CombatWombat594

DO NOT BUY THIS TRASH. I am SO fucking done with Frontier and the trash they're calling a game at this point. Sure the on foot content isn't the worst in the world, but once you really get into it, it really is that bad. It is basically IMPOSSIBLE to upgrade your on foot gear. Trying to raid settlements with default gear, or even slightly upgraded gear that was bought, is literally IMPOSSIBLE. Can't be stealthy because as soon as you walk onto the base you start getting fines for trespassing. WTF???????? How tf are you supposed to get ANY of the fucking materials required to make your shitty suits and weapons better, IF I CAN'T EVEN GET INTO THE SETTLEMENTS THOSE RESOURCES ARE IN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? FUCK YOU Frontier. Just stop making games now. You clearly don't give a single SHIT about the people who play the games anymore. So just do everyone a favor and go bankrupt