Graphics and keybindings both are affected. But here's my PSA: if you also own the game on Epic, use Epic via GFN. I only bought oddy on steam but once got ED free on Epic . There I only own the base game without Odyssey, but since it's the same Frontier account, the game lets me disembark.

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O7, CMDRs

There I was, cruising around massive pieces of shattered titan carapace, my attention divided between scanners and the view through my canopy. I had my heart set on a couple of new, pre-engineered SCO frame shift drives, each of which requires one of those rare treasures known as titan drive components. I had one already, and if there was another floating out here in the wreckage, I was determined to find it.

Preoccupied as I was, I neglected to check my immediate surroundings before applying a hard downward thrust to get around an obstacle, and smacked my ship right into another titan chunk. The impact knocked my shields offline, and damaged the hull as well. Not severely, though, and no enemies had shown up yet. I figured I would be fine continuing my scavenger hunt for the moment. I went back to my search, picking up whatever useful materials I found along the way.

Then, just as I had slowed to a crawl with my cargo hatch open to scoop up some thargoid bits, I noticed another ship getting a little too close for comfort. I hadn't seen any threats or demands on the comms, so I didn't expect a pirate, but it sure looked like it was moving deliberately in my direction. And then, another blip on the scanner. It was a single limpet, zipping along on a direct path to my ship.

I suddenly remembered that this was exactly what an incoming hatch breaker looks like just before it steals your precious cargo. Damn it. My first and only drive component took hours to find, so I didn't want to risk losing it in battle. Maybe I could outrun this thing. As I shut the cargo hatch and reached for my boost button, I noticed an identifying signature on that incoming blip:

Repair Limpet

What?? Was it possible that the would-be thief had hit the wrong limpet button? Surely my scanners wouldn't be wrong about what kind it was. Curiosity got the better of me, so (with my thumb still over the boost button) I checked the nearby contacts. The approaching ship was a Type-9 Heavy. Not quite the typical pirate wagon.

Identification: Rescue Ship

WHAT??

As I sat there in disbelief, the repair limpet diligently sealed up the cracks in my ship, and then... poof ...expired, its job complete. Hull integrity: 100%. The Lakon hulk that brought the little fix-it bot slowly turned toward a new heading, and peacefully lumbered away.

I must have laughed out loud for fifteen or twenty seconds. I have been playing this game for years. I knew it was risky to linger in the flotsam of a dead titan, where nobody ever shows up but pirates, AX teams, and thargoid interceptors. The last thing I would have expected was exactly the encounter I had: a kindly NPC mobile repair service.

Elite Dangerous dev team, I salute you. That was great.

MESSAGE FROM THE AXI

Titan, Down.

3310-12-17

Good morning. Titan Cocijo has entered final meltdown. Those seeking to observe its end are advised to be there at approximately 06:36 UTC A good 10+ minutes before the estimated explosion, allows some time for supercruise, positioning, setting up the camera and so on.

Those who wish to do something in the interim - The conflict zones ceased yesterday, though hyperdiction and drop-in Thargoids if they detected you remained hostile, so, no major fighting left in the bubble.

There are still bio-storage capsules on the titan for those willing to grab the sub-surface extraction missiles. Tens of billions were displaced by the Sol invasion, lets see if we can save some of the more unlucky ones. Recovery/repair efforts will take a while in turn most likely.

Past that... will monitor things when possible. We don't know what'll happen next, so, keeping an eye out for rogue signals, checking on the damaged witch head ports, 22460's glowing whirlpool and so on shall continue over time.

Until something else happens... There's nothing to Defend right this minute. After all the incursions and two years of full-force invasions, we're still here.

Make the most of that. Glory, to Mankind.

Disclaimer: I am not a staff member of AXI

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• Video Link

Featuring multi angle views. And Commander Mechan Radio. Played on Bazzite.

PRIORITY BROADCAST FROM THE ANTI-XENO INITIATIVE:

The Final Battle Begins

AXI CMDRs, Federal/Imperial/Allied/Independent CMDRs,

That's it. The final enemy bastion of Alpha Centauri is about to fall (and the Hutton Mugs rightfully liberated.)

Tomorrow (Thursday) after server downtime (and save major surprises) the final assault on Titan Cocijo will begin, in Earth's orbit no less.

We've made a tutorial on what to expect, as beginners and experienced pilots alike, here: https://youtu.be/AzH-o_Lg--k

As mentioned in the tutorial, Titan Bombing is best done in small groups (vs large instances.)

You CAN fight in the Anti Xeno Initiative Private Group if you want, but we highly discourage it - it will be chaos. You have been warned.

The Maelstrom has darkened our skies. Less us go back together, and light 'em up again.

GLORY, TO MANKIND

AXI Command

Disclaimer: this has been copy/pasted from the AXI discord. I am not a staff member. References to channels in the discord have been removed

Truly love the Mandalay for traveling. It's insanely zippy in supercruise making for quicker transitions between stars, the jump range is bonkers even before engineering, and the thermal efficiency means you don't even need to clear the star before jumping. Also it's unbelievably stable in SCO, and maintains overcharge for way longer before overheating.

I still love the 'conda because it does everything, but it's a fuggin' boat and flies like one.

If anyone needs me, I'll be fighting for humanity in Sol o7

Dear logbook,

Yesterday, after years of abstinence, I finally returned to the cockpit.

When FDevs announced the console banishment I was sad and butthurt until now. Meanwhile I got a new low tier pc and tried this game streaming service, they had a 50% offer for 3 months, and it works nice. I also already owned an epic games account because I grabbed it when it was one of their free games. But then I bought ED & odyssey for 10€ on steam, also on sale. Because the epic version wouldn't update to the newest version of the game on GeForce now, so I couldn't play. I've read that steam does usually quicker. True, it worked instantly. And in the end I have spacelegs now.

I already got one of those new T8s. I love it, thinking about just getting some FSD engineering and taking it to Colonia region. Where my Playstation carrier was. Inara even says it's still in the game? https://inara.cz/elite/station/202283/ lol must be just rotting there, I don't think it could move in oddy if I jump with it on playstation.

Ah and when I left the Thargs where starting their invasion and now they're all dead but 1 remaining ship is going to destroy Earth? That's kinda fun to see. Nice job, mankind..

Edit: this new FSD boost is awesome, kicks ass. But I really miss having access to Shinrarta Dezhra :(

Well that's it for now,

O7, CMDRs

Galnet

• Widespread Panic in Sol

02 DEC 3310

Confirmation that the final Thargoid Titan, Cocijo, is headed for the Sol system has sparked mass panic among inhabitants.

Evacuation efforts in Sol began as a precaution on November 28th, when Titan Cocijo first moved towards the core systems. Once it became clear that Cocijo was on a direct course for Sol, these efforts were swiftly accelerated.

Defence Secretary Conn Montgomery provided the following update to the Federal Times:

“Rescue Ship Cornwallis is acting as our delivery point for most refugees who do not have access to spacecraft. We’re shuttling civilians from Earth to ports within Sol for transport by Federal military craft and freelance pilots. Other rescue megaships are scheduled for arrival in the next few days to systems close to Sol, which will increase our capacity to process refugees and deliver them to temporary holdings in neighbouring systems.”

“We ask for the people of Sol to pack lightly, move to your nearest designated evacuation centre and follow all instructions from Federal authorities. This is an extremely complicated operation, with over 22 billion people in the system that need to be kept safe. The Federation is doing everything it can to prepare for Titan Cocijo’s arrival.”

News of Cocijo’s approach has triggered significant alarm across Earth, Mars and major ports. Riots have occurred at evacuation centres as people clamour to be transported out of the system. There have been two separate attempts to storm a secure medical facility on Mars where citizens rescued from Thargoid abductions are housed, with gathered crowds blaming the abductees for ‘summoning’ Cocijo to Sol. To date, there is no evidence to support such claims.

ICE-cast analysts have also noted an increase in online hostility towards Seo Jin-ae, the Aegis special advisor who recently declared her unique link to the Thargoid hive mind was ‘exploited’ for information. Some prominent political ICE-casters have blamed her for providing the Thargoids with the location of humanity’s original home world, Earth.

Galnet News Digest

• Panic in Sol: Invasion Inevitable

Two days to save SOL or 🙂‍↔️.

The final battle?

Trailer

Found a Video about the new Cobra Mk V, thought i I could share it

So, Powerplay. Its not about 2.0 or something, just about powerplay in its purest Form.

First of all, who is it for? Like, I currently am pretty much just grinding for a new fer de Lance right now, and I found no real way of making worthwhile money while helping my power. So is it like only for people who have money to spare?

Second, is it just about the merits, or do people actually fight for their favourite power? Most tutorials just go over earning merits, so is there even a community actually using powerplay as it was intended?

3. Is there even any way doing what you like and supporting your power in the meantime, or is it just „do these hyper-specific things 50 times”. So, can I like make my power stronger in that system by doing missions or bounties?

I am very New to powerplay, but I did not find any guide to that, so I appreciate your answers

I'm assuming this was a copy/paste mistake, rather than a Frontier employee making subtle commentary about video game publishers.

My question regards those little fighter hangars you get for bigger ships that can deploy small fighters, specifically on the krait mk2. I see the benefit for something like an Anaconda where you turn to the enemy for 90% of the time, but for the krait they have so little damage output that I dont see any benefit from just buying some hull reinforcements. Any suggestions?

Been going to power wreckage to scoop up escape pods for my weekly missions. This pisses off the enemy faction and the start shooting. I shoot back, I get a bounty. What gives?

Edit: I'm a moron. Enemy power system.

This link should skip past the highlights to the detailed update notes:

https://www.elitedangerous.com/update-notes/4-0-19-0#update-notes-detail

To be clear, this is an active event.

We're still gearing up for powerplay 2.0 -- it's a approaching faster than it's moving away!!

We invite you to join the renewed feature: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/1gcp6x1/the_federation_needs_you/

Federal United Command, where Winters and Archer collaborate on common interests, have a new subreddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteFUC/

At Federal Liberal Command, we're commemorating long service records with a personalised recognition item for all our pilots - and all Winters pilots anywhere who want one (you just need to shot your pledge ratings screen before the update!): https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/1gdpwvb/federal_liberal_command_celebrates_winters/

I've been away from the game for a while, and I don't remember this icon that appears on some of my exploration data. Can someone explain it?

Hi all - I'm from the Federal Liberal Command community team, just wanted to heads-up people about out plans for Powerplay 2.0. I'm going to reproduce my colleague Cmdr August Lagrange's post on our subreddit about it. Please come to our server if you want to know more about PP2.0! Or come to our subreddit and check out our weekly strategy update posts.

Introduction

Over the past few months I've been developing and executing a strategy for dealing with the impending arrival of PowerPlay 2.0. I've given it a lot of thought, because I'm an obsessive nerd that can't just enjoy things. I thought it might be good to post about it because others might have their own ways of contributing, so it's worth spreading awareness of (actually there's another reason for posting that I'll mention later).

Software

Our members will know that I'm a programmer, because I never shut up about it. I've developed various programs for the FLC- the most well-known being a web app (at https://flcsheets.azurewebsites.net/) which provides a front-end for our spreadsheets, and has authentication and authorisation using Discord. This is one part of my strategy: to advertise us using good-looking software. What most won't see is that I've developed a community-management program that tracks Discord activity for things like promotion recommendations. This was designed to deal with a potential influx of recruits, which could tax our community department, who will be busy enough as 2.0 comes out.

Post-2.0, I'll obviously be making what changes are needed to adapt this software to whatever changes are made to our sheets.

Diplomacy

I've always been a fan of diplomacy and I've felt that we've often been too reluctant to do it (which could just be because we're gamers, we want to do, not talk, I'm just a gasbag).

To be up-front, Frontier have not been talking to the organised communities involved in PowerPlay. They've been prioritising bringing in new players, which means that we are not being represented. So my plan is to talk to the other powers about the issues they experience post-2.0 and provide a cohesive, as-inarguable-as-possible accounting of who is experiencing what. That way, we can present that to FDev as something that we're all agreed on. I've already presented this plan to each power, who have all agreed on the structure, so we're ready on that front.

Social Media

This is something everyone can help with. Post 2.0 (and to a certain degree right now) we can be active on Reddit, on the Frontier forum, and anywhere else we have a presence to start talking about PowerPlay. Yes, even you stinky imperials! The more people we get into PowerPlay, the better the experience we all have. And when 2.0 comes out, there are going to be a LOT of people curious about it, who will be considering which power to join. We have to make our case, not just for Winters, but for the FLC in particular. I've been trying to increase my usage of social media (I don't normally use it much outside of Discord), and I want to encourage others to do the same.

That's enough wall-of-texting from me. If anyone wants to help with this and isn't in the Discord, get in there. Work with us to make this the best community experience possible.