Hey i played elite dangerous odyssey a bit last year i even bought a joystick/thruster to play the game. I enjoyed it but life happened and i stopped for awhile.

Now i want to come back to the game any good beginners guide out there that will show me how to play again and also help me decide which career I want to pursue?

Willing to help fuel the carrier if I can hitch a ride.

2018-2020 Xbox player here, I finally migrated my account to pc and decided to dive back in with all the new developments in the game. I really hope that we see a bounce in popularity for the game. My main question is what’s the current storyline? Like ik the thargoids were pretty big but im curious what the upcoming storylines appear to be.

So I wanted to do this first mission on a planet, went into orbital flight too soon and obviously too far from the objective. Figured I need to escape the planet and re-enter closer to the objective.

Except I just can't leave this planet. Fliying 90° up, boosting endlessly, it's been 1h now, I'm not moving.

I read something here on reddit about an escape vector, nothing of sort appears on my hud, even after presing G like I read somewhere. I just can't leave this planet and have no clue what to do.

I logged in and back with no more success. Any hint ? I'm a total newcomer..

I’ve been trying to jump to a belt cluster for about 20 minutes now. I lock onto it, press j, ‘supercruise’ (no idea what the terminology is) but it doesn’t lock on to the target and I can never come out on time. Whenever I come out, I’m something ridiculous like 300 days away. Can someone please help? I’ve managed to figure out how to jump and lock onto a system but not a celestial body and I’m at a point where I can’t play the game.

Yeah, it's one of those posts again, and I'll probably get a lot of flame for this (sorry, but I have to tell someone, as this is actually affecting me in ways i never thought possible when talking about gaming)...

I was out in the black discovering bio and systems. Was on my way back and all was going well and I decided to take the scenic route, scanning and cataloguing stuff as i went by - that extra cash would be good, as I am saving up to a Cutter and later on a capital ship. I was flying kind of low on a low-G planet, pretty safe one would think - but suddenly my computer had som kind of glitch, (or perhaps it was me, I honestly have no idea) - but story short, a mountain top graced my wing, my ship altered course into the mountain side and that was the end of my Mandalay, along with ~800.000.000 worth of data...

Honestly, its kid of embarrassing to admit it, but this actually made me cry inside - All that time, all that effort, it feels wasted... I quit the game right away, and now I actually find it hard even thinking about playing it again... How's that even possible? I consider myself an adult, but wow - this hit me like a brick in the face.

I know I'm not the first, and not the last to experience this - I even read stories about it here on Reddit before going on my own expedition and remember thinking how bad that would suck. Well, here I am...

Sorry for the rather personal post, but I had to get it out there - and I suspect no one else but you guys would be remotely capable of understanding my internal struggle right now...

Happy new year commanders, fly safe out there o7

After having no troubles with my Krait Phantom since I built it. Suddenly, after jumping to a neighbouring system, and with my throttle to zero before I get there, I receive a massive heat damage. ship goes spinning wildly and heat goes over 300%.

The ship gets severeley damaged, fuel to less than 5% and the FSD is cooked.

After paying the insurance, I change ships and try to jump. Same thing.

I have lost two ships and I don't have a clue why

What kind of sorcery is this?? First time landing on a beast like this... 4-Arms Coriolis

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Hey CMDRs, returning player here checking out PP 2.0.

On the whole I'm loving the changes. Like most others have written, the new system doesn't handcuff you like the old one did, and I am free to do any activities that interest me now.

My only real criticism is the removal of the preferred governments. I feel like this removes a great deal of flavor from each power. It also homogenizes the gameplay somewhat, and worst of all, it was the 'death blow' to the BGS having any real relevance.

As flawed as the old system was, I really enjoyed carefully mapping out my routes & favoring factions of the appropriate government. I was always sure to deliver my most profitable trade runs to stations belonging to the right government. And I felt compelled to run missions for those factions as well, mixing them into my routes.

But with the removal of government preference for PP 2.0, I don't see much of a reason for interacting with the BGS, or even really acknowledging the controlling factions in each station. I just check economy type, and dump all my cargo on the landing pad without a second thought. The same goes for the mission board, if I can even be bothered to run missions.

It's a shame because the BGS was always one of the most fascinating parts of ED to me, and it has historically been almost completely ignored by every facet of the game. PP 1.0 was one of the very few systems that had any meaningful interaction with it, and now that's gone too.

What features do you think will be added in the colonisation update, will we be able to have full control over what is built in the system?

For anyone who has been googling 'where to buy a federal corvette' it's probably brought you here.

I feel obliged to warn you about this endeavour!

Following a long fruitless search I finally was able to buy a Federal Corvette in the Shinrarta Dezhra system at Jameson Memorial Station last night so I can confirm that you can indeed get one here.

When I arrived in the system and started traveling to Jameson Memorial Station. I was just about there when I was interdicted. When coming out of supercruise I was immediately set upon by three ships which were well equipped to say the least. I was pretty much toast in a few seconds. I lost a fully stacked Python that I had been building for months. I repawned in Jameson Memorial Station but the cost of insurance for the replacement ship was astronomical.

So it appears that this group of bell-ends hang around this busy system preying on unsuspecting commanders looking to buy a new ship (This station has a large selection of ships for sale).

Admittedly, I ignored the warnings about approaching such locations in open play mode but learned a valuable lesson. I hope this saves someone from the same loss.

I used to play ED quite a lot some years ago; I left around the time the Odyssey alpha was in phase 2 when my pc packed up. I now have a new gaming pc, and wondering if I should pick it back up again. I used to play pretty much exclusively in solo, mostly trucking stuff around or very occasionally exploring - generally a very chilled experience. Is that something you can still do? And is it a case of needing to start entirely from scratch now? What's changed since 2021 and is it worth coming back to?

So for the record, I have 900 hours in the game, I never had any major issues.

Now, I booted the game up after a week of not playing. I was landed on a planet when I logged out. First thing to notice was that the top of my screen was space, and the bottom was a weird gold/green-ish haze. Plus I was still landed with my engines off, but according to my HUD I was 500m off the surface.

So okay, I booted up my ship and took off. While leaving I looked behind me, and sure enough the planet was basically just this semi-translucent haze, as if it was only rendering some atmospheric effects without the planet itself. So I flew over to the next planet in the system, and sure enough all I found was a sphere of semi-translucent haze.

So I quit the game, validated through steam, validated through ED launcher, logged back in and everything seemed to look fine now. So I continued, and it was fine for a couple hours, until suddenly the planet rendering bug happened again (for the record, this was within a single gametime: I left a planet that was rendered fine, and arrived to a planet that wasn't). Image of what I found is attached.

Beautiful planetary render that is not terrifying at all

So at this point, I just did a clean reinstall of the game. Logged back in the next day, all good. Then I found a planet with Brain Trees for the first time. So I landed, deployed SRV, scanned the tree, then got out to get an exobio scan. Immediate CTD. I logged back in, got back in the SRV, played for about 5 seconds before another CTD.

So, another validation through the launcher, and that seemed to have solve the issue with crashing around Brain Trees, so I kept going. I landed on lots of planets, did a lot of exobio. Then today I logged in, landed on an atmospheric world, all good. I take off, fly to the next planet over which was my destination all along, because it has a Guardian Structure.

So I go to enter glide above the Guardian Structure. I get stuck in the glide "loading screen" for about 2 minutes, then Orange Sidewinder. I try to rejoin, Orange Sidewinder. I reboot the game, Orange Sidewinder. Apparently this was a big issue with AMD graphics cards at some point, but I have nVidia.

So I go and start validating my game through the launcher again. I leave the PC, and then return to a stack of about eight "Unhandled Exception" errors, before my validating launcher promptly crashes midway through.

So, in the span of less than a week I had rendering issues, I had CTDs, I had Orange Sidewinders. I had to do a clean reinstall the game, I had to validate it three times before and after the clean reinstall, and currently am stuck at 30% into validation with Unhandled Exception. As an astronomy enthusiast I love this game. But at some point, when I'm spending more time fixing it than playing it, (and this is after 900h of smooth gameplay), I have to wonder if maybe I'm just being told that I'm not supposed to play this game ever again.

I myself am going to make a city and a Thargoid Research Station

Hi.

What's the point in having a squadren apart from the RP aspect?

I am new to the game and was watching a video where the developers were talking. At some point, one of them said that they have been putting things into the game for players to find later on. All the things they mention had been found, for example the first contact with Thargoids, however there was a subtle implication that they’ve been doing it so much we haven’t found some of the things they’ve put in.

I know that only 0.05% of systems have been found, and there are probably anomalies out there somewhere where almost impossible planets have been found yet, but I mean codex discoveries. I play on PC Horizons, not Odyssey, however I have seen Odyssey entries on the codex. It’s odd, because both base game and O have quite a limited amount of flora and basically no fauna. I’ve heard a few years back players began seeing crazy space fauna that’s probably still there, but it begs the question, how long were they in before the discovery?

I know that if I was the developer, I would go mad adding hundreds of alien races and fauna and place them on hundreds of planets, but that wouldn’t be that smart of the devs. After all. The galaxy is so big even if they spend a year’s worth of budget making a thousand alien city planets there’s a chance the player base may only find one in the space of a year! However, there could be a motive, a popular game I’ve heard of, Helldivers 2. The idea of a Human-Alien war where your fights actually matter has become a popular idea, and the kind of games that offer that kind of gameplay (Like E:D) have become more popular. Because of this, it may make sense to add a few more alien factions just to spark player’s interest.

All in all, the developers are doing a good job, and they seem to be adding secret features to the game for players to find rather often. The only question is: Is there one right now?

Just for context: I am a dad of 2 kids and husband in my early 40s. I had some free time over Xmas and installed elite on my Xbox.

I got really into it. Bought my first ship, did a bunch of exploring, beat up some space pirates.

The part that I am missing is community. Fly with others, explore together, voice chat while doing some missions together.

Xbox unfortunately doesn’t do that because there is basically no community left (unsupported, unupdated game)

Now, do I buy a PC just for this!? Is it worth it? Will I even play in 2 months?

What are your takes? Have you maybe experienced a similar conundrum in the past?

To start. Was never interested in boots on the ground. Thinking about comming back, have horizons? Looking at new ships, if i get one (honestly want to suppotr the game i guess, have few bilions in a bank) will i be locked from something related to the odyssey or company unlocked all and now will make extra cash from ships?

I feel like I’m missing something here. I plot a route, but nothing happens. When I press J and go to the marker it’s almost impossible to press J in time, I always come out as far away from the system as I started. Once when I did it, it locked my ship in place and took me directly to the system and stopped when I reached the star, but I’m not sure how that happened. Does anyone have any help?

Hello, I am kinda new to the game. I established my home system in Kaukamine and I very rarely come across players. As the galaxy is gigantic it make sense, but I would like to know if there are popular systems where players can gather and meet ? I know that there is Sol but if I am not wrong it requires some grind before unlocking the permit. I kind of miss the MMO aspect in the game so being with other players would help I think.

Thank you!

So i bought the game really really recently only a few days ago, so im very new, im still familiarizing myself with UI and such, i have done only 2 mission with the third one in progress (they both took me a while because the game wasnt very straightforward and it took me a bit of googling to figure out some stuff), so far i know that missions arent very good means of making money but im just trying to get started and get some money to actually do some more decent method, i looked a while on the internet and found out about this strategy called road to riches. I just wanted more in depth advice about it, how it works (preferably i would like to get explanations that include where do i find the exact button to press since as i said im still figuring out the UI kind of), and some recommendations, for example what ship should i use, I've heard hauler is a good starting option so i was saving up money for it. But besides that, what fuel scoop should i get (since i heard i should also get one for this strategy) and how exactly does scanning and like "selling" that information work? What should i avoid and whats optimal? And anything else that would be helpful to know. And as for now i have only 10 000 credits and the started ship, the sidewinder if i remember correctly.

I haven’t played since right before carriers came out. I am wayyyyy out in the black with my anaconda, is it worth heading back in and swapping my stuff over to a Mandalay? I see a ton of posts about how people like it and I do like the idea of a better handling ship for boosted jumps. How much space is available for repair limpets etc cause I usually go on a route 10-15k ly from the bubble

Just discovered you can only buy it for arx :( I’ll wait a month or two for them to actually release it

Citizens, Commanders, Frenemies, it is with great satisfaction that I report to you that this new year brings the successful completion of Princess Aisling Duval's supporter's Humanitarian Mission to Sol. Thank you for your efforts in helping to rebuild and restore some of what was lost by the Thargoid attacks, from the bottom of my heart and on behalf of Citizens of Sol. Ann Nguyen, from Beauchene's Horizon had this to say to all the valiant participants in this daring mission: "Thanks for stopping by" and "An ally like you is always welcome here".

Over the course of the week, our number crunchers estimate over 2,000 settlements were successfully restored back to operation, and our actions embarrassed Federation commanders into action, which, of course they immediately screwed up by attacking our well-meaning convoys instead of actually helping with the rescue missions, but that's to be expected for Archer's PMC goons after all. As hostilities continued to escalate over the week, it became increasingly dangerous for our operations, however despite the odds, some persisted and we are happy to report that System Authorities have let us know that our efforts have been well received and the citizens of Sol don't need further humanitarian assistance. Perhaps it was always a little bit silly to think that the Capital of the Federation, where Felecia Winters presumably is Presidenting and Jerald Archer presumably has a desk job, would prefer to have further ongoing assistance from Aisling Duval than from their own so-called leaders, but it certainly remains within the realm of possibility should those politicians continue enriching themselves and promoting thuggery with no thought to the common citizen.

That said, all the work was not in vain, in addition to all the good humanitarian work done in restoring those settlements back in operation, Citizens of Barnard's Star have been won over by our great work in Alpha Centauri and Sol and decided to join the Federal Association of Citizens Together Supporting Princess Aisling Duval, and from within the Federation increase support for anti-slavery and social welfare programs, especially the influence of programs managed by Unchain.

Our initial review of the system finds massive wealth inequality, unemployment and economic mismanagement, so typical of the warmongering Josiah Archer and his predecessor. To bring an end to the hostilities, and to start 3311 strong, we encourage all Aisling Duval supporters to assist with the economic exploitation and development of the system, specifically the delivery of goods in high demand (asking price 40% above galactic averages) and core mined minerals, which will be put to immediate use in employing those less fortunate in Barnard's Star and ensuring that decades of economic and social mismanagement are corrected.

This message is brought to you by the Federal Association of Citizens Together Supporting Princess Aisling Duval Super PAC. (FACTS PAD) According to Federation Political Campaign Financing regulations, we are obligated to inform you that we do not coordinate with or contribute directly to candidate campaigns or political parties.

Good morning and happy new year CMDR's! I have a couple questions regarding merits.

I've read that mining is the fastest way to obtain merits but it's never really been my cup of tea, I've tried combat zones and whilst it's fun the merit trickle is pretty irrelevant. I'm really wanting to grind out the ranks so I have access to modules as it's the last part of ship building for me, but I hate being inefficient.

I have read that mining platinum is the way forward, however I was wondering if I park my FC nearby a mining system and set my 'buy' prices to extortionate levels to fill up, would it then be possible for me to sell those materials to a Jerome Archer controlled system in order to boost my merit gains at a price?

Thanks in advance for any insight on this!

Have a 16000 where the twist action has broken so I'm looking for a new stick, I can just buy another but I'd like to upgrade.

The VKB sticks are meant to be nice but every time I've looked they have been out of stock.

I like the look of the x52 pro but it's meant to be worse quality than the 16000

Hey guys. Returning commander after a few years. I left sometime after fleet carriers had been added.

Congrats on our latest victory over the Thargoids.

Let me get right to it. Back in the day, I was a part of a few groups/pages/sites that were involved in solving mysteries related to Thargoids, Guardians , Raxxla and things of that nature but they all seem to be inactive now.

I'm looking for the latest places where people are doing the same stuff like trying to decipher audio clues, running spectrography, doing expeditions looks for guardian or thargoid stuff, trying out Raxxla theories ect. Anything like that.

I want to get back into not only playing but being a part of the community that tries to figure out they mysteries of this game, both current and old.

So what pages/sites/groups ect do you guys have for me to check/join/surf?