Greetings Commanders.
And so, Salvation is nigh…Update 13 and the conclusion of the Azimuth Saga are only a short number of hours away and we’re on the edge of our cockpit seats.
Before we get down to the business of update notes ahead of downtime and deployment, let’s recap today’s release deployment schedule.
We are still very much on track with server downtime due to being at 09:00 (BST) and Update 13 being ready at approx 13:00 (BST).
The update notes will be delivered here in two segments. The first will be specific to Odyssey only, with the second specific to Horizons only.
Great! So without further ado, please see below for Update 13’s release notes, starting with Elite Dangerous Odyssey.
Features Of Note
- Scenarios and features added to reflect the finale of the Azimuth Saga in game
Issues Of Note Addressed:
- An issue has been fixed whereby Commanders have been unable to access ship functions/panels whilst Station Services is open.
- An issue has been fixed whereby attempting to play CQC would cause a crash.
- An issue has been fixed whereby the frameshift countdown would hang at 00.00
- An issue has been fixed whereby severe shadow flickering would occur, most notably at settlements during sunrises and sunsets. This was also noted as being an issue from in ship too.
- Pioneer suits have now been reinstated and will be available to adorn your wonderful selves with once again.
- An issue has been fixed whereby covert theft missions failed to count toward Terra Velasquez's prerequisite.
- An issue has been fixed whereby some mission related cargo types could not be transferred or purchased from Fleet Carriers.
- An issue has been fixed whereby Guardian Sentinels were failing to fire their missiles.
- An issue has been fixed whereby players could find themselves being stopped from disembarking from a Frontline Solutions ship after landing at a Starport. For example once completing a combat zone on foot, there was no option to disembark from the ship. The only way it was possible to do so was via the lower panel.
- An issue has been fixed whereby Terra Velasquez/Rascal's Choice's bookmark appeared in Systems instead of Settlements.
- An issue has been fixed whereby ship kit pieces were blocking weapons from firing. This was in relation to the Cutter and Corvette Raider Shipkits specifically, blocking Gauss railguns (on the Corvetter) and beamlaser (on the Cutter).
- An issue has been fixed whereby the transaction tab did not accurately represent what mission cargo you have on your ship in Odyssey like it would in Horizons.
- An issue has been fixed whereby commodities would not transfer from a Commander’s Fleet Carrier to the their ship. A player example of this was when a Commander reported being unable to unload Food Cartridges and Uranium from their Fleet Carrier to their cargo racks.
- Issues have been fixed in relation to the BGS, caused by mission antagonists being part of the mission giving faction in salvage and illegal defense missions. For more details, please see the corresponding Issue Tracker ticket.
- An issue has been fixed whereby mining fragments/materials were continuing to become stuck to asteroids result in limpets being unable to collect them.
- The free camera now moves smoothly even when the ship is moving rapidly in Supercruise.
- Resolved an issue where players could erroneously be assigned bounties when other ships were destroyed around them.
- An issue has been fixed whereby on-foot inbox notifications were incorrectly displaying. The display of the number of outstanding messages on the inbox itself was missing and only updated on receiving a new message.
- An issue has been fixed with the Proximity Warning lights on the Anaconda incorrectly triggering. For example, they would remain active even in Supercruise and when the landing gear is raised.
Update General
AI
- Updated the ambient traffic system to broaden the range of ships that can spawn.
- Thargoid Interceptors no longer drift off target whilst scanning player ships.
- Thargoid Scavengers at Thargoid Surface sites now require line of sight before going hostile.
- Removed exploit that allowed more than one NPC ship launched fighter to enter combat at a time.
- Landed ships can now only be scanned by one NPC ship at a time.
- On-foot assassination missions no longer fail as soon as the target boards a ship.
- Guardian Sentinels are no longer impeded from using their missile launchers.
- Ship launched fighters inform their mothership of their target to ensure kills get correctly attributed.
- Hostility between teammates can no longer be affected by other combatants.
- NPC crew in SLFs can now use Guardian weapons against Thargoids.
Multiplayer
- An issue has been fixed whereby Commanders part of a multicrew session would sometimes become stuck in the Supercruise warp tunnel.
- Inconsistencies within the Thargon swarm behaviour between Commanders engaged in the same instance combat have been addressed.
Audio
- Fixed Missing audio of the Taipan Fighter deploy and stow Animations.
- Fixed Missing Reverb on Thargoid Sensors.
- Fixed Fire sounds from rapidly turning on and off at Thargoid wrecks.
Character
- Improved NPC eye movement as their head moves.
Ships/SRV
- Players can no longer access impounded ships.
- When viewing a passenger lounge, the player info panel now highlights available passenger seats.
- Docking can no longer be requested if the docking service is not available.
- Ships in Supercruise toward a planet's tourist beacon will no longer skip the glide decent phase.
Server
- A fix has been implemented to address a "Yellow Adder" server error when converting a legacy engineering modification.
- Added Exobiology ship decals
- Players in training simulations are displayed as such in friends and Squadron member lists.
- An issues has been fixed whereby attempting to take control of a fighter that had been deployed then abandoned by another team member would cause the game to soft lock aka become unresponsive (but not crash).
Rendering
- Fixed lights sometimes jittering when attached to moving objects.
- This was noticed mildly with the new Hazard kit lighting as an example.
- Fixed occlusion geometry trailing behind moving objects. This was causing a black outline to appear around some objects.
- Fixes added to address some visual effects and UI dropping in brightness for a frame when transitioning to/from Supercruise or Hyperspace
- Some shadows appeared to flicker on approach to settlements. Instances where this would occur have been addressed.
- Fixed visual disturbances occurring in fog when entirely in shadow.
Interactions
- A reputation update will now trigger when an engineer unlocks, rather than waiting until later.
Engineers
- Engineers will now offer non-Engineering services to all Commanders when they have invited status.
- Commanders will no longer need to unlock the Engineer Workshop to gain access to other services.
Fleet Carriers
- Fleet Carrier livery options are now available whilst on foot.
- The fade to black is transition has been improved for when moving players to the Bridge for Fleet
- Carrier jumps.
Stability
- Commanders were experiencing a high frequency of crashes and stability issues around planetary surface settlements and POIs. The issue behind these stability problems have now been addressed.
- An instance of an occasional crash has been fixed which could be encountered when exiting to main menu after joining a team in an on foot conflict zone.
- An instance of an occasional crash has been fixed which could be encountered when multicrew members would use the FSS.
Art
- Fixed some spurious extra lights which were appearing on the Scorpion SRV when the vehicle was positioned near a Commander’s ship.
- Fixed an issue with oversized light-blocking geometry protruding through the hull of the dockable Megaship.
- Fixed some cases of visual errors/flickering on several Agricultural buildings.
- Areas of collision have been improved around Thargoid Surface sites.
- Textures have been improved around Thargoid Surface sites.
- Further improvements have been made to the Azure paintjobs for Odyssey to better reflect their visual in Horizons.
- Further improvements have been made to Razor paintjobs, to be more metallic and a closer match to those in Horizons.
- Improvements have been made to the Type 9 ship model, where some paintjobs were experiencing visual issues.
- Fixed two holes that appeared on the underside of the DiamondBackXL
- Improvements made to the Hazard shipkit bumper for the Cobra Mk III, namely preventing the front bumper from protruding into the cockpit.
- Improved elements of the Anaconda ship model to further improve the look of paint jobs.
- Improvements made to the Imperial Courier model in regards to collision.
- Improvements made to damage on Empire Capital ships.
- Improved elements of the Python ship model to further improve the look of paint jobs.
- Improved the Thargoid Device at Surface Sites as it was sometimes prone to losing detail.
- Fixed a number of flickering decals seen at entrances to Thargoid Surface Sites.
- Improved elements of the Imperial Clipper ship’s heatvents so that they are more predictably coloured for paintjobs.
- Improved elements of FerDeLance ship kit pieces to prevent some paintjob smearing.
- Improvements made to prevent floating objects further at Guardian sites.
- Some adjustments have been made to the Python Hazard ship kit, as nameplates were being obscured.
- Improved elements of the Imperial Cutter ship model, which caused some visual issues on paintjobs.
- Improvements made to the Imperial Cutter debris.
- Improvements made to the Type 9 Hazard ship kit and fixed whereby some kit pieces would protrude into the cockpit.
UI
- New conflict zone panel added to the top right info panel in the cockpit, for the purpose of anti-Xeno conflict zones
- UI during pre-jump sequence now provides destination information.
- Cockpit nav panel filters no longer carry over to on-foot nav panel.
- Interaction markers now show a mission icon for mission relevant micro resources.
- Missions that involve transporting cargo now display the amount collected and the amount delivered.
- The Galaxy map now uses the correct plotting method when system connectors are disabled.
- Refuel, repair and restock buttons in the service panel now animate whilst waiting for a server response.
- Avatar thumbnails no longer appear unlit or blurry.
- Improvements have been made to the social menu search bar.
- Improvements made to the System Map to prevent it from potentially getting stuck when loading details of systems with unexplored, non-landable planets.
- Combat bond notifications can now be received by crew members and players in ship launched fighters.
- The duplicate key binding popup for the semicolon key now displays text correctly.
- The nameplate and icon above a vendor's head in social spaces will no longer overlap.
- Settlement bookmarks added from the nav panel or system map are no longer misclassified as Systems.
- On-foot missions will now show the destination in the mission journal and will update it when relevant events occur.
- Commander names are no longer able to start or end with whitespace characters.
- A garbled container keycode will no longer be provided in cases when no keycode is required.
- Added the text glitch effect back into the station services UI when a station is burning.
- Added missing settlement icons to the Squadron Faction viewer UI so there are no longer empty boxes in some places.
- Added missing tooltips and icons to the comms panel inbox message buttons, these should now always have both an icon and a tooltip.
VFX
- Fix implemented for missing VFX on damaged Imperial Couriers.
- Fix implemented for visual artefacts that could appear in large hangars.
Key Known Issues
This list is a selection of top noted issues for Commanders following previous updates, as well as some new we wish to alert you of. By no means is this list considered the final list of issues to address moving forward, this is simply a top selection.
- [NEW!] Skimmer movement audio currently fails to sound.
- Navlock is currently not working as expected in Odyssey as it does for Horizons players.
- Ship Lateral and Vertical thrusters are reported weaker. Issue tracker link for more details.
- CG Galaxy Map icons fail to appear.
- Settlement raid and massacre missions require more targets than are present. Issue tracker link for more details.
- Some missions reported as giving incorrect rewards. Issue tracker link for more details.
- [NEW!] When a system enters Incursion from Incursion Pending, Star ports are not currently catching fire.
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons Update Notes
Issues of note addressed:
- An issue has been fixed whereby attempting to play CQC would cause a crash.
- An issue has been fixed whereby Guardian Sentinels were failing to fire their missiles.
Audio
- Fix implemented for fire sounds turning on and off at burning Stations.
- Fix implemented to stop fire sounds from rapidly turning on and off at Thargoid wrecks.
Art
- Improvements made to the Type 9 Hazard ship kit to stop some pieces protruding into the cockpit, as well as fixed visual flickering.
- Fix implemented to stop the Hazard ship kit bumper for the Cobra Mk III from protruding into the cockpit.
- Fixed visual flickering present on the Python Hazard ship kit.
- Fixed some visual flickering on various decals used on the damaged Empire Capital ship.
- Made improvements to the Anaconda ship model to better represent paintjobs.
- Made improvements to the FerDeLance ship kit pieces to prevent some paintjob smearing.
- Made some adjustments to the Python Industrial ship kit as nameplates were being obscured.
- Made some improvements to Imperial Cutter debris so that they work correctly, as intended.
Server
- Fixed players being unable to request to join private groups.
UI
- Added better protection from malformed strings entered into the social menu search bar.
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And with that, Commanders, here's to an exciting release of Update 13 and the finale of The Azimuth Saga as it draws to a close.
We're excited to share these moments with you!
See you in the black o7