'Elite Dangerous Odyssey' Is Under Fire For Performance Issues

"Elite Dangerous Odyssey" was recently released, and it's having a pretty rough launch.

PCGamer reports that the latest expansion for "Elite Dangerous" is full of bugs and massive performance issues that's making it almost unplayable for a lot of people. These problems persist through a wide range of hardware configurations, which often means that even the most powerful systems out there can't run the game properly.

Released on May 19, Odyssey was supposed to be one of the most exciting add-ons to "Elite Dangerous" . Its main purpose was to expand the scale of the previous game, which basically confined players inside their spacecraft and land vehicles.

With Odyssey, players are now meant to be able to actually land on planets and explore on foot.

Odyssey is the second major "Elite Dangerous" expansion, but unlike the first expansion titled 'Horizons', it's not getting as much positivity right now.

According to GameRant, most of the complaints from players mostly refer to very basic AI, repetitive mission structures, barely any new content aside from what the base game offers, and an overall lack of stability.

In fact, a lot of fans who tried out the paid Alpha test actually claim that the Alpha version of the expansion was more stable. As a result, "Elite Dangerous Odyssey" is sitting at "mostly negative" reviews on Steam right now.

Upcoming Fixes

Obviously, developer Frontier Developments rushed the DLC to meet its May 19 launch. That's the only reason. And now, they have to contend with working on a variety of fixes for the game.

Right now, there is news of Hotfix 1 that's supposed to bring additional stability and mission structure improvements, as reported on PCGamesN.

Among the biggest issues Hotfix 1 is supposed to fix involves errors in the tutorial, where things like enemy dropships sometimes fail to fly in and drop the bad guys you're supposed to shoot.

Hotfix 1 is also meant to deal with another tutorial bug that prevents players from using the express elevator to the hangar, and by extension, their spaceship. Obviously, the entire premise of "Elite Dangerous" is piloting a spacecraft.

Lastly, the patch also aims to fix several graphical issues that affect the game's organic characters, and an error that causes the game to crash when players try to remap their key bindings.

You can read the full patch notes on the Frontier Developments forum.

'Elite Dangerous Odyssey': What Star Citizen Should Be

Many gamers expected Odyssey to make "Elite Dangerous" a really great game; better than an unreleased game of the same concept: 'Star Citizen.'

'Star Citizen' is a very similar title to "Elite Dangerous" except for one thing: it still hasn't released ever since being announced in 2012. The former Kickstarter campaign is supposed to be the most ambitious game ever created in terms of sheer scope and technicality, offering an experience that, if the game manages to finally launch, will trump every other game that comes before or after it.

The game itself is a topic for another time, but let's just say that Odyssey should've been the DLC that gave gamers a taste of what Star Citizen was supposed to offer. Right now, the game is a broken mess that needs fixing ASAP, if Frontier Developments is to deliver on their initial promise.

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Written by RJ Pierce