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I know for whatever reason F-dev only changed things for just two star types, (Lets hope they do same for the rest) but I happened to run into a really interesting atmospheric in this system. And some great ringed planets. So I took the Cobra for a spin to see how it all comes together. The new Milky way looks very interesting with the increased blues.

I like the new look! Hope they implement on all stars soon. The overal light of the star here seemed still pretty white to me..

I think I found the new look for the Elite Dangerous Exo bio enthousiast ;) Matches the ship perfectly :) Gives that real "researcher" vibe. If F-dev could now make something like a cool robot space dog that talks to you and a cool hoverbike that you can bring inside of you Nomad... ;)

Long ago... an ambitious king spoke to the sun. In the ancient tradition of his people.. speaking only in his mind and with long pauzes between each of his thoughts, choosing his words very carefully.

He asked the sun a question:

'Great one... I swim in the warmth of your waves.

I spiral...the path to your heart

You..who have deemed me worthy to see and know Time.. and rule my people...

I see a mystery..

You..and the other side of Time...

I marvel at how you have made fairness and unfairness...

There is nothing I can do... No way for me to get an edge that will always be sharper then every other...

No matter how sharp I become... There will always be some... who are already sharper or who are my equal.. or who are about to surpass my sharpness...

This is fair... I understand that no one can stand alone above all... but you...

Yet there are those who stand above me in sharpness at such distance... Who were born at such sharpness... That nothing I can do.. will ever make me as sharp as them... This is unfair... to present me with obstacles that cannot be overcome... is cruelty.

Life has showed me that the world is wide and deep...Once.... I was all the stars.. Now... I am human..

Are both fairness and unfairness illusions of now? Limitations that only my small human mind can see..?

As the curious king finished his question, the Sun sat quietly in the sky for a long time. Then she answered him. With a voice that was like music. She spoke...

Fairness is in eternity.. It finds its opposite in the Now... Unfairness can only be in a moment...

To be a single point in time, to be truly a one... One cannot be all.

So neither of them is...

Being all.. while remaining one.. that would be truly unfair... truly a lie...

There is no true all.. and no true one... There is only.. Many...

One is Many.. and all is Many...

Only Many is... Only Many we will always be..

So there is neither fairness nor unfairness...

These two only exist... in a Many.. who believes they are a one... Or in a Many.. who believes they are all...

On hearing the words of the sun... The king was silent and remained in thought for a long time. Then he looked at the Sun with deep reverence and whispered:

I see... thank you... Many...

Like Many other Kings before him, He had every single thing he wanted, and had only one deep desire: to conquer Time and live forever... And like Many other kings before him, he had spent Many hours thinking about this, but he had no real idea on how to achieve it. However, after this conversation with the Sun, he finally understood. So he asked the wisest amongst his advisors: What is the biggest block of stone we can make Many times? and transport and stack Many times...easily..?

Once his advisors had found the answer and told him, The king ordered a monument to Many. It would take Many years and Many people to construct. It was designed to last as Many years as it could, and to hold Many secrets and knowledge of Many things.

The monument to Many that he build, lasted so Many years... that Many people forgot why the king had made it in the first place..

In an age where everything had to be one... They would wonder for Many years why: the King had made so Many blocks? Why he had transported them so Many miles? and had stacked them so Many rows high? Using so Many years and so Many ressources? And why his monument was filled with so Many mysteries?

In their minds, it had to be a monument to one... for one... and by one.. with one meaning... because that was the thinking of their age.

It would confuse Many... and would keep them thinking for Many years.. about Many things..

Until over many: years, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds and even smaller distances... slowly... they discovered the understanding of Many again.. And then they saw, that the kings monument had always been in honor to Many.

And they became happy to be Many again. Many on their own ,and Many with each-other. No more One or All..

And they marveled at the ancient king's wisdom and power and realized he had truly understood the secret of Time...

The power of Many...

The most powerful king in history, who could have anything and everything... Spent the bulk of his time and power on a single monument to the power of Many.

Hello Fellow cmndr's

Very curious on your thoughts on this. Recently F-dev made an update to the ground combat in Odyssey. Though not so much noise was made about the update, it seems to me that quite a lot of work went into it. The speed of movement for our character, but also all of the timing on the weapons and other battle-tools like grenades and personal shields etc were improved.. It seems like the studio did a comprehensive re-balance of all the on-foot battle mechanics. Even the intelligence and group tactics of the npc's was clearly re-worked in a major way. Also some of the sound was re-done.

Since this update, I have found myself actually enjoying these major ground battles very much, and regular ground missions for: infiltration, sabotage or assassinations are all much more fun because of it. Though the upgrading path for the weapons and suits still leaves much to be desired... And it seems many of my squad mates have the same experience. They all seem to agree that ground combat is quite cool to play now.

We are about to get this new "Operations" update, where ground battle will be enlarged into new locations like: on major stations and inside capital ships etc in space. I think this could be very cool. It will be fun seeing some of the iconic ships and stations from the inside. However there is the growing notion among players, based on some of the latest released details, that operations will be more like a separate multi-player game, which we will have to access through Elite. And it is set in the Elite universe, but it will have little-to-no connection to the rest of the game... A lot like the existing CQC that we have now.

Now I will reserve all judgement and just wait for it to come out and see. But I do find it rather interesting that this update appears to me, like something that I have never heard anybody in the wider player community really ask for... There are certainly plenty of player-groups who have been asking/begging for certain updates and re-balances like: Ship interiors, bigger atmospheres, a motor bike, much more new weapons, better multi-player support, VR support, EVA options, ship re-balances, etc.

So I'm just curious. Since Frontier has just posted very good yearly sales and profit numbers and has committed to investing more time and resources into Elite. If it was up to you, what would you want them to prioritize?

To me, the recent re-balance of ground combat inside of the main game, seems like one of the best things they could have done. And I would love it if they did much more in that vain. Before, I simply did not enjoy the ground game, because it was too slow, and all the systems just didn't work very well. But I did love the environments. No two planets are the same. No other game has this much options and variety for battle fields, and the stakes feel real because of the BGS and power-play. And now that they improved how it plays. I really enjoy it.

So if it was up to me, I would say: More of those type of updates.

1: Keep developing the galaxy and making it more realistic and keep adding new stellar phenomena and updates with the latest astronomical info. Add things like star and planet collisions, etc. The more there is to explore the better!

2: Keep adding ways for us to explore and interact with the galaxy. So: interiors, EVA, maybe ships to explore even hotter worlds, thicker atmospheres, go low orbit on gas giants? Getting maybe much closer to stars with special shielding could be spectacular.. Just keep increasing how much we can explore and keep adding new cool details. The ground game and in-station game / in-capital ship game has so much potential. Exo bio can grow and many would love to be able to build a type of house on a planet surface or be able to build things together with friends. Creating our own towns etc.

3: Always have multiple great stories going. The Thargoid War has set THE standard, but there is still so much more to explore. The galaxy is Frontiers playground. How about humanity goes looking for the Thargoid homeworld..? Or will we just wait for them to regroup and invade again..? How about humanities leadership also setting up exploration missions for entire regions of the galaxy..? Where we could discover new aliens..? New mysteries..? Maybe we re-awaken the Guardians and they become like the Borg in the Elite galaxy...? There could be so many different cool stories seeded and developing. How deep does the radicoida rabit hole go...?

4: Keep re-balancing and bug fixing. Perhaps one of the biggest problems with Elite is that it holds some ancient bugs. And the overall challenge of the game has grown strange over the many years. I don't think any of the players would mind at all. If a thorough balance pass was done for both ships and weapons. There are many players who are super knowledgeable on the specific use of some of the ships and weapons and tools, and using that knowledge could help to make ship choices more meaningful and interesting.

Just my two cents on the current state of things. Very curious if you agree? and what you are hoping for?

I had no idea these towers are nearly 7 KM high :). What a Majestic experience to explore in VR on foot.

I was visiting all the titan sites for some mystery research, and you just can't get around how amazing the atmosphere is in these locations. Truly like being inside of an alien scifi movie.

Random play-list on. No cuts. Just straight up VR exploration game-play moment. (RTX 5070) my game is tweaked to render the maximum amount of stars, and in some places near the center of the galaxy, it makes the sky just look sooo damn good! 😄. After a bit of exo bio I was driving back to the good oll Conda.. Nothing special, just taking of... but Elite = Elite 😄

Very curious how the new star colors will affect these. Hope they get even more red 😄.

Lucky I had the VR camera allready locked in place, so I could move fully and feely in VR body mode. I don't think I need to see Steven Spielberg's new movie any more now :)

I'm sure many of you have the same experiences. I cannot count the number of times I'm just spending some time exploring various systems, no exo bio, no mission, just looking for the most awesome views and locations. This time I bumped into a water world while exploring a system with a spectacular view of the Flame nebula and Bernhard's loop, and just as I approach some song comes on that I never heard before, and you just get to sit-back and watch and enjoy perfection happen 😄

#thisgame #ThankyouBraben #milkywaymagic #vibes

This is the song (since I know you are going to ask :) https://youtu.be/HbsbieBog1c?si=qc1Tn8jJw3xqL7O3

I shudder to think what the odds of this are hehe :) I'm calling it Old viking mountain. about 15 km high above everything else in the area.

One of the aspects within ground exploration in Elite that sets this game apart from any other, at least for me, is how it can sometimes just absolutely nail a truly alien atmosphere. Especially in VR as everything just looks to scale and you really get the sense of being on a different world. As the start of a colonization effort I decided to scan all the life forms in my new system. One of the 9 planets is a stunning Ammonia atmosphere world, with very high mountains and giant valleys. I could literally walk around on this planet for an hour, not doing anything, just taking in the views.

I ran into this very mysterious looking row of double standing stones. 10 of them, in a line, almost like a series of gates. With ammonia worlds being the likely birth places of the Goids, It almost made me wonder. Some type of ancient ruin from a time when Goids were perhaps still more human like..? Or just a randomly generated, very interesting looking series of stones...

Who knows ;)

Now I just need to find 7 of 9 and get her on my crew ;)

Since I figured out that it's possible to surf stars, whenever they are big enough and have enough gravity to stop a ship at full SCO overdrive velocity, I've been trying this on many big stars throughout my travels. Being back with DW3 around Sagittarius A* finally gave me the chance to try this with Sag A* and not only does it absolutely work. This as absolutely one of the most spectaculair things you can do in VR Elite for sure. So if you're in the DW3 fleet or close. I highly advise giving it a try :)

For Sag A* the sweet spot seems to be between 7000 and 5000 Ls. So just full throttle SCO overdrive at her, keep full throttle locked at all times, and only drop SCO overdrive as you get just within 7000Ls and keep pointing dead at Sag A*. Her gravity will slow you down. Then you just have to find the exact right angle to keep a fast steady orbit. No matter what you do, eventually she will pull you all the way in S.o once you come almost to a standstill (even while at full throttle) activate overdrive again to blast out of there.

Source 2 is a fuel star and large enough to surf also, so they make for the perfect star surfing binary system actually. Fill up again at Source 2, and your ready to go again :)

Surfs up cmndrs ;)

My fellow VR Cmndr's.

I've been tweaking colors a lot lately using re-shade, to make the game look as good as possible. I'm very happy with how the game looks overal. But there is one persistent bug, specifically in VR, which F-dev seem not to wish to address (or at least this has been known for a long time as far as I could find and it persists). It is really robing the fuel scoop experience and basically anything I do close to stars from its grandeur, as it just looks strange and makes all starts look the same... white...

In VR, when you get close enough to most stars, and you look at them directly, it seems their is something going wrong in the auto-exposure settings. And the beautiful details of the stars get completely washed/blown out by this bright white sheen that suddenly appears and starts to intensify within a few seconds until the star is basically just 95% bright white, and you can barely see the details through it.

As far as I could find info online, this is something to do with the way Elite handles exposure that was perhaps never updated for modern VR headsets or perhaps it never really worked correctly in VR? Sources seem vague on that..

I can mitigate the effect a tiny bit by turning of bloom completely, and in re-shade.. if I lower the exposure all the way to 0, I can get the game to look about 90% of the original intended look while close to a star, but that also lowers exposure everywhere else in the game. So it's not really a good solution.

Do any of you know if there is a way to permanently fix this?

I would very much love it, if this can be solved somehow.