Massive Elite Dangerous Odyssey Update Adds Multi-Crews, New Missions, Emotes And More

Frontier Developments has simply rolled out an enormous patch for Elite Dangerous Odyssey that brings new multiplayer content material, new missions, new social areas, and eventually provides an emoji wheel to the house sci-fi MMO’s growth.

Replace 8 introduces the flexibility to type 4-player crews to man sure spacecraft such because the Alliance Crusader, Anaconda, Beluga, Federal Corvette, Imperial Cutter, Type9, and Type10. Gamers are additionally now in a position to board and discover the inside of Wells-Class Megaships and hand around in designated social areas inside it. They’ll additionally work together with one another utilizing the brand new emotes from the emote wheel which incorporates the salute (a staple in house sci-fi video games), wave, applaud, thumbs up, thumbs down, factors, cease, and go. Undoubtedly a giant step up from the stand-crouch gesture that gamers have been utilizing for ages.

New missions have additionally been added together with new supply and smuggling missions, and missions that can require gamers to satisfy and work together with varied NPCs in settlements. They’ll additionally come throughout AI-controlled murderer and bounty hunter ships in a few of the new missions. As well as, 4 new Engineers have been added to the Colonia area with new weapon and ship mods on supply.

Apart from new content material, Replace 8 additionally introduces a number of backend enhancements that ought to lead to a greater general on-foot expertise. The bottom sport, a.okay.a. Horizons, has additionally been replace with varied enhancements and fixes.

You’ll discover a detailed rundown of Replace 8’s contents here and the Horizons replace here.