Elite: Dangerous - Odyssey

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3.6

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 55 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 55
  3. Negative: 37 out of 55

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  1. Elebril
    May 23, 2021
    2
    "Elitepunk 3077"
    If it had been released on PS4 and Xbox One too, the PS Store would have another piece of garbage to remove.
    You pay $40 for becoming a free beta tester for a s**t company before they release it on consoles. My first impressions just minutes after release: https://youtu.be/elg5-5-4UwM As of 23.05.2021, 4 days after release: The good: + station interiors look    "Elitepunk 3077"
    If it had been released on PS4 and Xbox One too, the PS Store would have another piece of garbage to remove.
    You pay $40 for becoming a free beta tester for a s**t company before they release it on consoles.

    My first impressions just minutes after release:
    https://youtu.be/elg5-5-4UwM

    As of 23.05.2021, 4 days after release:
    The good:
    + station interiors look nice
    + stations are populated, some short voiced dialogues
    + infantry conflict zones are very basic but fun, check out my vid here:
    https://youtu.be/hqY359KMXRo

    + space legs indeed make the game even more immersive, ships look great from this perspective
    + I personally like some of the guns, and the jetpack is a nice thing to have
    + galaxy map has been improved (imo)
    + good number of new on foot missions
    + cutting stuff with the welding tool is a nice small thing
    + more content for exploration (not speaking about QUALITY, just QUANTITY)
    + not bad on foot animations
    + the short cutscene when you're dropping into a conflict zone on foot is cool, so is the one when you are respawning in a dropship

    The bad:
    - preordered the game? You gave us money in advance? well, s**t, too bad, we won't rent additional servers so you can play it on day 1
    - horrible performance, unoptimized trash, on recommended specs it's a rollercoaster between 20 and 140 FPS without vsync (ryzen 3, 3300x, 1060 GTX 6GB, 16GB RAM) on ultra, and hardly any better on low. You will dip under 30 frames regardless of the settings if you are running a similar rig, but ppl with 3060/70s also report huge performance drops. Just go to reddit.
    - input lag both in menus and when moving, press escape to enter menu, wait 2 sec for it to pop up. Meddling with game files reduces this slightly, but I didn't pay $40 to fix someone's garbage
    - the new graphics are much WORSE in general; the new shadows make everything too dark, Manyt lights almost don't give any light at all. I mean, look at ship interiors, compare the interior of the Cutter between Horizons and Odyssey, you can't see any detail in that ship now. The UI lighting looks way off. The "skybox" for space lacks details, stars, the nebulae are barely visible, there is no awe there anymore. Planets have better textures but they don't look better in many cases, some seem to be seriously bugged, lacking the eye candy,, terrain features, colors or atmosphere. Earth-like worlds are bright af for some reason now, a stark contrast against anything else. Even the brightest neon decals on your ships and SRVs hardly emit any light. The only situation where the new lighting and shadows work nice is during firefights at outposts when running with a flashlight makes sense, and in station interiors. Apart from that - the game looks much worse, and runs like trash in outposts (frames generally nosedive when you are close to "gliding" towards a planet). Minimum viable product in terms of performance.
    - bugs, NPCs stuck in station interiors, crashes
    - no missions for coop
    - weapon and suit engineering, extra grind
    - station interiors are literally ONE ROOM + your hangar + shuttle hangar, compare this to the stations and cities in "the other space game"
    - cannot walk inside ships, you literally get teleported inside and outside
    - I'd argue that most of the AI revamp is worse, but maybe I'm just used to the previous one
    - character models are not for the year 2021, and definitely not with this performance hit
    - right now there is a split of playerbase between Horizons and Odyssey
    - ground troop AI is weak, they often stand in the open and just pew pew, they get hit - single dodge side ways. Sometimes they do take cover, but only sometimes
    - qunatity over quality, the new missions are like any other missions in elite, very basic

    That said, I feel sorry for the frontline developers who worked on this and were obviously forced by Frontier's s**t management to release this. As with Cyberpunk, this needed at least another half a year to be tested and polished.

    If you're still not convinced this add-on is trash, just watch Obsidian Ant's and Yamiks' videos. I'm having more fun playing "the other" space sim that is endlessly in alpha.    … Expand
  2. Schubird
    May 23, 2021
    1
    This release is an insult to everyone who waited for it.

    Game is buggy, performs terribly, cut content we were promised, heck, it includes major bugs from horizons.
  3. taulator
    May 24, 2021
    0
    It is an unfinished and broken mess. Frontier developement is a disingeneous company that is more than happy to release unfinished products that fulfills none of the promises they make.
    Do not waste your time with this DLC. Frontier do not respect your time, so DO NOT BUY!
  4. Cyber_Angel
    May 23, 2021
    3
    The game is simply broken, unfinished and it will take seemingly a long time, if ever, to create a good, functioning product out of it.
    Stay away.
  5. Bufo1966
    Jun 17, 2021
    0
    4 gigantic patches and several hotfixes later:

    Rendering engine, lighting/shadows, planetary tech, and optimization are still broken. Numerous audio and gameplay bugs have been introduced. GPU usage and temperature are still unacceptably high. Frame rate is still erratic and often unacceptably low.

    Odyssey is years away from being in an acceptable state, and may never be.
  6. dmullaney
    Jun 2, 2021
    1
    This would be a bad first build public beta... the fact that fdev released in this state is amazing to me... Its a glorified tech demo, with shallow combat, terrible AI, a completely unthought-out crime/punishment system. It's hard to play for more than an hour without hitting a game breaking but that requires you to relog to get around or results in your death and bunch of hefty penaltiesThis would be a bad first build public beta... the fact that fdev released in this state is amazing to me... Its a glorified tech demo, with shallow combat, terrible AI, a completely unthought-out crime/punishment system. It's hard to play for more than an hour without hitting a game breaking but that requires you to relog to get around or results in your death and bunch of hefty penalties for losing all you stuff and failing missions... even when you get through a mission successfully the rewards are trash so after they fix everything, this game might become a semi-serviceable boring grind fest... I'm a kickstarter backer so I didn't pay for the upgrade from Horizons, but yeeesh, save your money. Don't buy...… Expand
  7. Johnb091986
    May 24, 2021
    1
    Its an insult to there playerbase releasing in this state....and a big insult to console players both xbox and playstation as they will no be able to play for a further 6 months (bgs is shared between all platforms) so consoles miss out on first landfall (steps) on planets
  8. langkwan
    Sep 28, 2021
    0
    Elite Dangerous core game brought me back really good memories of playing Escape Velocity when I was a kid. This expansion basically took all those good memories and stomp it to the ground with the half finished gameplay and features and anything cool about the game was placed behind a even worse grind wall game loop that slowly destroys your motivation to play this game. DO NOT BUY.
  9. Malem
    May 28, 2021
    0
    Broken graphics. Textures, shaders, lights post-processing. All is gone in comparison to Horizons.
    Totally not optimized. The fps is twice or three times lower than in Horizons.
    No need to talk about game-play bugs and issues when the DLC (not the game!) isn't working.
    The state for now is something like pre-Alpha. Don't buy.
  10. OllieBeanz
    Jun 11, 2021
    0
    This is a Beta. There is not way around that fact. Frontier can call it a full expansion if they want, that doesn't make it true. Performance is garbage, many features that were already in horizons are gone, outfitting is a nightmare, conflict zones bug out, missions bug out, getting in your ship glitches, getting out of your ship glitches.
  11. mrbauble
    Jun 13, 2021
    0
    This DLC is Warcraft:Reforge levels of bad.
    This product is an embarrassment at every level.
    I cannot believe they charged money for this train wreck. This DLC is so bad it has f*cked over the people that didn't even buy it. I don't know what they're doing to Fleet Carriers but they can't get anything right with those. They patched out the dupe exploit so yay I guess. Frame rates    This DLC is Warcraft:Reforge levels of bad.
    This product is an embarrassment at every level.
    I cannot believe they charged money for this train wreck.

    This DLC is so bad it has f*cked over the people that didn't even buy it. I don't know what they're doing to Fleet Carriers but they can't get anything right with those. They patched out the dupe exploit so yay I guess.

    Frame rates in the single digits. What used to be a solid 60fps in the worst areas is now regularly running in single digits WHEN IT ACTUALLY RUNS.

    Missions are generated with impossible to complete parameters. You won't even know it's impossible to progress till you arrive on-planet 10 minutes later. Now that you'll be force to abandon the mission, you'll have a 100,000cr bounty on your head. Your only mistake was buying this DLC.

    When you can complete missions they will be disappearing from the mission list to never be seen again with no reward or indication. This has happened during every single session of this game I have attempted since Odyssey has launched.

    Spend 2 hours working on your missions to have them disappear from the quest log as you lang on the station to turn them in

    bugs that make it impossible to log in without getting customer support involved
    Disconnects, crashes, bugs bugs bugs at e v e r y s i n g l e turn I can't even stay connected to the game for longer than 30 minutes at a time. You cannot go 20 minutes without a bug that will have to be circumnavigated (if your lucky) or will just end your play session for that day and you'll need to get customer support involved to be able to play again. Which, at this point, has taken weeks to get a response back.

    Loading times are now through the roof. Not much more to say about that. It's ass.

    This is Alpha Early Access levels of bad. I cannot stress enough what an embarrassment at every level this product is. If I worked at this studio, I would be embarrassed that people looked at this diarrhea they called a program and said "yup, get it out the door, this baby is READY."

    STAY AWAY STAY AWAY STAY AWAY DO NOT BUY THIS STAY A W A Y JESUS I CAN'T SAY THIS ENOUGH

    STAY

    AWAY    … Expand
  12. Saltspyre
    Jul 3, 2021
    0
    This DLC is Warcraft:Reforge levels of bad.
    This product is an embarrassment at every level.
    I cannot believe they charged money for this train wreck. This DLC is so bad it has f*cked over the people that didn't even buy it. I don't know what they're doing to Fleet Carriers but they can't get anything right with those. They patched out the dupe exploit so yay I guess. I used to get    This DLC is Warcraft:Reforge levels of bad.
    This product is an embarrassment at every level.
    I cannot believe they charged money for this train wreck.

    This DLC is so bad it has f*cked over the people that didn't even buy it. I don't know what they're doing to Fleet Carriers but they can't get anything right with those. They patched out the dupe exploit so yay I guess.

    I used to get a pretty solid 60fps in even the most intense of times, but now frame rates in the single digits is the norm. I'm talking you'll spend most of your time at around 10fps in the lighter and more barren areas. Less anywhere else.

    Missions are generated with impossible to complete parameters. You won't even know it's impossible to progress till you arrive on-planet 10 minutes later and find out that the planet they sent you too can't even be disembarked on, or the thing they told you to steal isn't there, or the NPC is hovering 200m under the ground or just flat out not there. Now you'll be force to abandon the mission, you'll have a 100,000cr bounty on your head. Your only mistake was buying this DLC.

    Their promised and vaunted new planetary build tech (which they said during the Alpha was total cool you guys, we just haven't added it yet! It's gonna be so big pinky promise!) flat out doesn't work and they have said they have no idea how to fix it. Which has left every celestial object having blurry, unprocessed landscape smeared with grimy layer of Vaseline.

    When you can complete a mission they will be disappearing from the mission list to never be seen again with no reward or indication. This has happened during every single session of this game I have attempted since Odyssey has launched.

    Spend 2 hours working on your missions to have them disappear from the quest log as you lang on the station to turn them in. These are not quick missions where just walk outside the settlement kill some rats and come back. Traveling is a chore in this game. Each mission will probably take you a half hour to complete.

    bugs that make it impossible to log in without getting customer support involved
    Disconnects, crashes, bugs bugs bugs at e v e r y s i n g l e turn I can't even stay connected to the game for longer than 30 minutes at a time. You cannot go minutes without a bug that will flat out kill you (I've been dropped through floors several times now) or have to be circumnavigated (if you're lucky you can jump into the old version Horizons of the game, move your character to another system, and jump back into Odyssey) or will just end your play session for that WEEK and you'll need to get customer support involved to be able to play again. Which, at this point, has taken weeks to get a response back.

    Loading times are now through the roof. Not much more to say about that. It's ass.

    This is Alpha Early Access levels of bad. I cannot stress enough what an embarrassment at every level this product is. If I worked at this studio, I would be embarrassed that people looked at this diarrhea they called a program and said "yup, get it out the door, this baby is READY."

    STAY AWAY STAY AWAY STAY AWAY DO NOT BUY THIS STAY A W A Y JESUS I CAN'T SAY THIS ENOUGH

    STAY

    AWAY    … Expand
  13. kalioude
    Jul 4, 2021
    1
    i have no words about this mess, this expansion is almost a scam, shame on you frontier
  14. Jamesx0x
    Jun 8, 2021
    1
    I'm a huge fan of Elite: Dangerous. I bought it in 2015 and I've been playing Horizons in VR since buying a Quest 2 and top-end PC recently. However, Odyssey is broken: terrible framerates and major bugs.
    The only reason I rated this a 1 is because Frontier said yes when I demanded a refund. Come on, you can do better than this!
  15. ArtEM-41
    Dec 20, 2021
    0
    Я бы сказал, что мне нравится Одиссея. Всё таки там есть много хорошего. Но оптимизация и само отношение разрабов к проекту - где поддержка игры это разработка игры на глазах у игроков...
  16. tomrollauer
    May 22, 2021
    3
    I can't believe someone gave this DLC a rating of 10. At the moment this is alpha. There are so many aspects to the game broken that I don't know where to start. However, the worst thing is optimization. FPS jumps from 120 to 1 (!). Hardware requirements from space. This DLC is cropped on a computer where CYBERPUNK 2077 ran super smoothly on ultra detail. In that state, you shouldn't spendI can't believe someone gave this DLC a rating of 10. At the moment this is alpha. There are so many aspects to the game broken that I don't know where to start. However, the worst thing is optimization. FPS jumps from 120 to 1 (!). Hardware requirements from space. This DLC is cropped on a computer where CYBERPUNK 2077 ran super smoothly on ultra detail. In that state, you shouldn't spend games and charge money for them. It is even worse because the so far operating HORIZONS has become unstable. Ranks are gone, Fleet Carrier doesn't work and the game crashes all the time.… Expand
  17. Linceo
    May 21, 2021
    1
    De las peores expansiones en cuanto a optimización he visto. Jugar a 20 fps cuando lo hacías a 100 antes del dlc. Sin un impacto visual que lo justifique.
  18. BazookaDog
    May 21, 2021
    1
    Utter disaster of a DLC. Everything is buggy, performance is staggeringly bad, and at it's core, the implemented new ideas are done very lackluster. This should have not been released. At least not as a paid DLC. This should have been free, and even then people would probably choose not to play the new content.
  19. szawel
    Nov 16, 2021
    0
    I spend best time in ED in vr by more then hundreds hours of play time but this piss me off to unspoken level i payed for pre order and i receive worst pc game experience ever in my life ( and I play pc games since 1996 ) I am so angry i cant even look at this game no more. Any think what need to be done was ship interiors and simple walking outside the ship and with vr support, theyI spend best time in ED in vr by more then hundreds hours of play time but this piss me off to unspoken level i payed for pre order and i receive worst pc game experience ever in my life ( and I play pc games since 1996 ) I am so angry i cant even look at this game no more. Any think what need to be done was ship interiors and simple walking outside the ship and with vr support, they bring to life worst pc first person shooter ever made… Expand
  20. OvidiuMe
    May 23, 2021
    0
    Good idea, bad implementation.

    Elite Dangerous was a wonderful game but it has been plagued by bugs and crashes. Now, with the latest expansion the game is literally unplayable. From graphic bugs, to crashes, to losing your inventory and not even delivering what most of the players wanted... Elite Dangerous Odyssey is a wreck, a full payed DLC that is even worse than Cyberpunk was. So    Good idea, bad implementation.

    Elite Dangerous was a wonderful game but it has been plagued by bugs and crashes. Now, with the latest expansion the game is literally unplayable. From graphic bugs, to crashes, to losing your inventory and not even delivering what most of the players wanted...

    Elite Dangerous Odyssey is a wreck, a full payed DLC that is even worse than Cyberpunk was. So many problems and bugs, it might take over a year to fix.
    DO NOT BUY this DLC because it doesn't work.    … Expand
  21. cylentstorm
    Apr 25, 2022
    4
    Odyssey is currently a paid beta being sold as a finished product. It shows promise, but is utterly lacking in optimization and polish. Bugs and major technical issues mean that machines meeting the recommended specs can expect a choppy 30fps on low-mid settings. The mechanics and global changes are a mixed bag, including the wonky UI layout. A high-end rig may be able to brute force itsOdyssey is currently a paid beta being sold as a finished product. It shows promise, but is utterly lacking in optimization and polish. Bugs and major technical issues mean that machines meeting the recommended specs can expect a choppy 30fps on low-mid settings. The mechanics and global changes are a mixed bag, including the wonky UI layout. A high-end rig may be able to brute force its way past some of the technical flaws, but questionable design choices and rough FPS systems aren't going away anytime soon. This could be a huge boon for Elite when its finished, but it just isn't there yet.

    *// FDev pulled a Cyberpunk 2077 with Odyssey. Either wait for incoming updates, or stick with Horizons until after the fall console release. //

    *Frontier has cancelled all further console development--yes, that includes the new 4K boxes--to focus upon the PC version. Probably smart from a business perspective, but from what I've seen of the admittedly improved state of Odyssey, you wouldn't be missing out on anything worth your time unless you're a hardcore Elite fan with an extremely powerful rig.    … Expand
  22. jeffkren
    Sep 10, 2022
    0
    Few years playing on and off and I tried this on a buddy's account and I'm not surprised at how terrible it runs and that none of the constant UI bugs among others are fixed. Literal garbage.
  23. randomchaoz
    Sep 4, 2021
    2
    Pros :Can play high horizon in high texture.
    Cons:Bug like blackscreen and poor gamma tweak and terrible UI torture you when playing new ground base content at 30% FPS drop.
  24. Werni
    Mar 21, 2023
    0
    Лютая срань, а не дополнение! Прошло уже 2 года с выхода этого длс, а оптимизация как у киберпанка на его релизе, если не хуже. ФПС может проседать от места к месту и даже самая мощная система вам не гарантирует стабильные 60 фпс. Разработчики этой игры либо просто не дальновидные, либо они в свою игру и не играют. Не советую играть в эту игру выше чем в версию Horizons.Лютая срань, а не дополнение! Прошло уже 2 года с выхода этого длс, а оптимизация как у киберпанка на его релизе, если не хуже. ФПС может проседать от места к месту и даже самая мощная система вам не гарантирует стабильные 60 фпс. Разработчики этой игры либо просто не дальновидные, либо они в свою игру и не играют. Не советую играть в эту игру выше чем в версию Horizons.

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Metascore
55

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 13
  3. Negative: 3 out of 13
  1. Cubed3
    Nov 29, 2021
    60
    Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is a fundamental shift in how this operates - literally. From space to the ground. Taking those first steps on a planet's surface after having landed there is simply awesome, and is decades in the making for fans of the Frontier franchise. The unfortunate reality however is that the performance is currently letting it down. Serious optimisation work is a necessity to iron out a multitude of issues - albeit it's probably not as bad as some are portraying in the immediate aftermath of release. While the new gameplay mechanics come with some variety for those bored of simple space combat, the shooting on the ground also needs a good deal of attention, with AI, and the general standard of combat, alongside the amount of different locations generated on planets, all in need of work. The thing is, this is a journey; a road map, and this is just the first staging post. Hopefully there's a lot more to come down the line.
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  2. CD-Action
    Jul 23, 2021
    55
    While the base game attracted players with the vastness of space, this add-on narrows down the scale and has you complete missions on foot. Sadly, this pretty exciting idea was executed poorly. New tools (e.g. blowtorches and scanners), cool planetary facilities, and procedurally generated missions won’t prevent you from being swamp with repetitive tasks and samey visuals. Additionally, Odyssey is unstable and poorly optimized. [08/2021, p.67]
  3. TheSixthAxis
    Jul 7, 2021
    50
    Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is an ambitious addition to the Elite formula that doesn’t quite hit the highs it should. It instead serves as a preview of what the game may be like in 6 or 12 months from now, and is hard to recommend as it currently is. Personally? I’d wait and see how Frontier Developments improves the game. Let’s face it, there’s still plenty to explore in Horizons.
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