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'''Elite Dangerous: Odyssey''' is the second paid expansion for ''[[Elite Dangerous]]''. [[Frontier Developments]] has described it as the biggest update yet and a defining moment in the history of the game.<ref name=":5" /> Development of ''Odyssey'' started in August 2018, and was officially announced on June 3, 2020.<ref name="Odyssey">[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-odyssey-announcement.546389/ Frontier Forums: Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Announcement]</ref>
''Odyssey'' was originally scheduled to release in December 2020 on all platforms, but was delayed to early 2021 due to the [[wikipedia:COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom|COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name="Delay1">[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/community-update-01-05.543730/ Frontier Forums: Community Update (01/05)]</ref> It was then delayed a second time as COVID-19 restrictions in the United Kingdom were renewed. ''Odyssey'' finally released on PC on May 19,
== Features ==
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=== Post-launch fixes ===
Frontier Developments released a series of updates and hotfixes in the weeks after the ''Odyssey'' launch to correct the large number of issues reported by players, and address feedback about ways to improve ''Odyssey'' features and changes.<ref>[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/odyssey-optimisation-performance-and-ui-galaxy-system-map-feedback.578093/ Frontier Forums: Optimisation/Performance and UI Feedback]</ref><ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/npcz7y/what_obsidian_ants_video_gets_right_and_this/ r/EliteDangerous: What Obsidian Ant's Video Gets Right, and this community gets wrong.]</ref> A roadmap of patches was provided for the month of June 2021, ending with Update 5.<ref>[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-odyssey-roadmap.580527/ Frontier Forums: Elite Dangerous | Odyssey: Roadmap]</ref> From there, Frontier planned to turn its focus to the rollout of ''Odyssey'' on consoles, but would continue to provide improvements to the PC version.<ref>[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/development-update-1.584162/ Frontier Forums: Development Update 1]</ref> On July 12, 2021, Frontier reiterated its post-launch priorities for ''Odyssey'', explaining that they had decided to focus on further improvements to the PC version, and push the console release back indefinitely until the PC version had reached an acceptable state. More patches for the PC version were planned for the remainder of 2021, beginning with Update 6.<ref name="Forwards" />
* [https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-odyssey-hotfix-1.576023/ 4.0.0 Hotfix 1]
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