Frontier boss David Braben has apologised to fans following Elite Dangerous Odyssey's troubled launch. Since the big update last week, players have struggled with performance issues, server outages, and general bugs. We got a Odyssey hotfix recently, though Braben says that another should be along "very shortly", and that the current problems are the team's "top priority and focus".
"Some of our players are reporting poor performance on machines where we would expect the performance to be good, and others are saying it is fine," he explains in a blog post. "We are trying to get to the bottom of this. I have been playing on my old home machine from 2014, which has an Intel i7 Extreme CPU and a GTX 980 GPU, 16 Gb RAM, playing at 1080p full screen at Ultra.
"I was doing this so I could have a good feel for how the game was playing on older hardware, and I used this same machine during Alpha. I have also been playing on a high spec 2021 dev machine."
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