Elite Dangerous NEWS: Exploration New Tool, 2023 Round-Up & More

Elite Dangerous NEWS: Exploration New Tool, 2023 Round-Up & More
In Elite Dangerous News this week…
A new must have tool for explorers and exobiologists is released
The 1st Great Planetary Expedition plans an anniversary celebration
There’s an excellent round up of Elite Dangerous in 2023
And are the alliance lining up for a Thargoid ground war?
o7 CMDRs!
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Links:
Colin Ford’s Review of 2023
• Top Shift 140 Review o...
SRVSurvey Exploration and ExoBio tool from CMDR Grinning2001
github.com/njthomson/SrvSurvey
DCoH Stats on the Thargoid War
dcoh.watch/stats
The First Great Planetary Expedition Discord Server
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Generally Useful Links
The Odyssey Materials Helper App (must have tool for Ody Engineering):
github.com/jixxed/ed-odyssey-...
Quizengines Odyssey Map Guide (O.M.G.)
www.quizengine.co.uk/omg/
CMDR Greybeard Seawolf’s Guardian Site Maps
outlandindustriesorg.wordpres...
CMDR Radiumio’s Guide to Guardian Unlocks
imgur.com/gallery/bJI8t1v
Mechans AX Guides
/ @astyrrean
Thargoid Spire Sites
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
The AXI (Anti Xeno Ops)
www.antixenoinitiative.com/
The Anti-Xeno Academy - AX tutorial video
• Anti-Xeno Academy: Lea...
Defence Council of Humanity Discord (coalition of coalitions)
/ discord
DCoH Overwatch Website
dcoh.watch/
The Post Disaster Evacuation Service Discord (station evac)
/ discord
Operation Ida (station repairs)
www.operationida.com/
EDSM Expeditions Page
www.edsm.net/en/expeditions
The Galactic Exploration Catalogue
edastro.com/poi/
Viajero’s Router Port Forwarding Guide
forums.frontier.co.uk/threads...
Console Copy Portal Details
forums.frontier.co.uk/threads...
Frontiers Elite Dangerous 4.0 FAQ
www.elitedangerous.com/news/e...
Play Odyssey Without A PC - NVIDIA GeForce Now
www.nvidia.com/geforce-now
Operation: Wych Hunt Discord
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Azimuth Biotech Discord Community
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[@JonathanFitt]

Is it cynical to guess that Thargoid mind controlled humans would be a very cheap and easy way to introduce Thargoid on foot CZs. Pair them with some new caustic guns, and those drone fellas and you’ve got a ground invasion without having to develop complicated aliens.

[@TheBuurPit]

I don't think that's cynical at all. Tbh **if it's done right** then I'm totally all on board for that.... If nothing else it gets past what I like to call Dalek syndrome. For many years Dr Who's biggest villain was somewhat of a joke... Until the BBC sfx'd round the problem to escape the daleks all you needed to do was go upstairs as the daleks couldn't traverse them... At least they were never shown doing it. Similarly... From what we know, Thargoid drones are huge insects. All you'd need to do at a human settlement is go indoors and they're screwed.... Unless they themselves can produce or use something smaller that, by "design", works in that environment. I'd still like to see a centralised Thargoid "controller" of some sort... So for want of a better expression a boss that perhaps stays outside the buildings and must be tackled separately. But that boss acts as a puppet master. Also I'd like to see new art assets used for the assimilated humans that makes sense. Some obvious outward sign that they are "turned". Star Treks Borg are a perfect example of something that used to be human but really now isn't. And you can't argue with the positive effect they had on that franchise when they were introduced.

[@thewolfateandthegoatremain2454]

Nah, that's exactly what most people still playing ED expect. Reskinned soldiers.

[@darthhunter69]

I still really want to see an actual thargoid to know how it looks, but everything you guys said makes a lot of sense as well

[@sharkpyro93]

@@TheBuurPit this comment is the reason we can't have nice things

[@friccadyfraccady]

I just wanted to say thanks for making the videos you do. They're brilliant. I'm an alpha backer who fell out of love with Elite a few years ago. Watching your videos is one of the things that made me realize I still love it. Thanks!

[@TheBuurPit]

Wow, thank you so much! o7

[@tigger4000]

There's life in the old dog yet! o7

[@Darklordxannon]

o7

[@friccadyfraccady]

o7

[@raymobula]

Same. I have spent little to no time in the game the last few months. IRL, and the current goid stuff aren’t for me. But watching Buur’s videos remind me how beautiful the game is and wants me to return. Even if just to raid or reactivate a base. I’m more for casual play these days.

[@Uselessnoobcow]

Thank you guys for being a consistent anchor in the Elite community all these years. After a few years break I’ve been dipping my toes back in, it’s so great to have this channel to quickly get back up to speed. Been playing since release, loved every minute of those early days scraping enough credits to get that next FSD or distributor upgrade. Hopefully with the new updates coming some more of the wonderful elite magic is injected back into the game. You guys rock, I don’t know how you’ve kept it up for so long but I thank you :)

[@chilliewhk]

Happy new year everyone! Thanks for keeping us in the loop.

[@CMDRExorcist]

I hope you appreciated this week's spandex selection, Buur. I picked it especially to celebrate a new year of TWSN! ;) Thanks for helping to keep our community awesome!

[@TheBuurPit]

🤢

[@TheBuurPit]

It was kind of a busy room.... What one were you? 😐

[@cmdrrheeney]

Thank you too!! Well apart from the Spandex perhaps, not sure I'm thankful for that 😂

[@CMDRExorcist]

@@TheBuurPit I can confirm that I am nobody with nothing to say. ;) o7

[@crazygolm]

Thanks for the consistently level headed news as usual!

[@TheJingoist]

@7:00 Damn...the rare and elusive committed Asp Scout pilot.

[@ShikkamaruLazyShinobi]

My favorite update was when we flew into those maelstorms and saw the huge Taranis :O Thanks for making awesome videos, love you guys

[@cmdrrheeney]

I will never forget the first time we went to see a titan. I may not engage much with the thargoid story line but that will still go down as one my most incredible gaming moments ever, what a sight!

[@CmdrDjBurp-dr5uy]

Awesome updates and recommendations. o7 cmdr's 😎👊

[@arch_..]

amazing video cmdr Burr. Keep up with the great work!

[@hedcase]

Ooh, just picked up the SRV Survey program, thanks for the heads up. Just about to start exploring and that will be handy.

[@svendtang5432]

I feel totally left behind in the Thargoid focus .. it’s nearly totally focused on combat and battling Thatgoids in engineering ships to be allowed to enjoy any of the new content

[@TheBuurPit]

There's a bunch of non combat contributions that you can make on foot or in a ship that require little to no engineering actually. But I take your point. I'm personally REALLY pleased that the AX players finally have some new content.... They've had nothing new since 2018 before this... but, whilst I enjoy the story and the spectacle of the Thargoid conflict I largely don't participate in it myself... It's not really where my personal game is at.

[@Ploskkky]

Nobody is left behind as far as I am: What's a Thargoid?

[@marsMayflower]

I have an engineered ship that can fight thargoids but I did miss out on visiting the titan because i didn't want to go through the grind of engineering a ship to reach one. I hope we can just buy those modules, eventually.

[@marsMayflower]

I try not to be a logger, but these glaives ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@nbzskontraptions7500]

@@marsMayflower When those things drop you out of supercruise or witchspace, do these 3 things RAPIDLY as soon as your ship lets you: 1. Boost 2. Silent Running 3. Cook a heatsink Keep boosting enthusiastically while charging your drive. Once the heatsink is used up, pop another one. I went from a 100% probability of a rebuy whenever a Glaive showed up, to not losing a ship even once, after having read the above tip somewhere else. Glaives may be able to out-run and out-gun you and me, but only if they can see us. 😎

[@larkshadow5317]

GASP! ASP SCOUT GLORY SHOTS! I'M SO HAPPY! YAY!

[@cmdrdocmaverick829]

o7 Cmdrs

[@optimuskoala]

Nice shoutout for this amazing tool

[@cmdrrheeney]

Happy new year to you too 🎉❤

[@LaserTemplate-lasertemplatepl]

And I just bought an SC and the FC is waiting to be cut into razor blades. The only thing that can change my decision to stop playing ED is some really good news from FDEV

[@prism6]

SrvSurvey sounds like an awesome achievement for a 3rd party tool!

[@elitedangereuse]

Thank you for this marvelous video, great job as usual. Happy new year guys

[@cmdrrheeney]

Happy new year! You lovelies are doing amazing things for the game too, keep up the great work and adventures ❤

[@Larry_Parada]

👀 just in time for my exobio adventure

[@AerodeonThorne]

I’d like to see something that’s not Thargoid-related. Frontier have put all their eggs in a very dull basket.

[@Lucpol1986]

Took the words right out of my mouth so to speak. This direction is bound to limit the title further and reduce its player base even more imho… Hopefully more diversity is coming soon…

[@kuro_neko5863]

Silly me, when I read the title I actually thought FDev had finally given us something new exploration related. I really should know better by now.

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

Here before the Thargoid Sleeper Agents become a problem. I vote we call them Theepers.

[@Dushess]

E. Mahon, I hope you realize what have you done.

[@potteryjoe]

Definitely going to look into the SRV excursion. And interested in trying out the new 3rd party site for exploration

[@menkalinan9736]

Nice video. Could you please write how to install the SRVSurvey?

[@TheBuurPit]

The instructions to install it are on the page linked in the video description.

[@CMDREagle131]

o7 and thank you and rheeney for the weekly updates! Here's to 2024!

[@TheBuurPit]

🐥🔫

[@CMDREagle131]

@@TheBuurPit 😐

[@CMDREagle131]

@@TheBuurPit sir

[@CMDRExorcist]

They do this every week?

[@CMDREagle131]

@@CMDRExorcist i just thought it was a weekly collection of pretty shots. I finally watched it unmuted and realized its actually a news cast.

[@grahamcrabb7714]

Will certainly give the new srv tool for explo a l👀k! Am currently using Explo Buddy and Elite Observatory for my trip. I'm currently roughly halfway through an expedition in the southern parts of the galaxy and am 2 levels away from Elite exobio in my alt and probably near same in my main cmdr having started the explo trip both as totally directionless and clueless🤣 The srv race around a planet sounds interesting. Was Mr Turner a stunt man before he started playing Elite? He's done some amazing feats in game👍🏼👍🏼

[@raymobula]

Oh, the exo biology tool sounds cool.

[@MacVerick]

I’ve just hopped back into ED after four years away!!! It’s a lot of fun!

[@TheBuurPit]

Welcome back to the galaxy :) o7

[@hibiki54]

Damn, that tool is something I needed for the longest time. I hate trying to land on planet using coordinates. I spend too much time trying to get close only to have to fly in atmosphere for 15-20 minutes just to get where I want to be.

[@TheBuurPit]

Great isn't it :)

[@Dushess]

That landing is not that hard.

[@DavidHanniganJr]

Analytics!

[@TheBuurPit]

The almighty algorithm thanks you for your input ;) o7

[@scottterry1659]

As I play occasionally a way to go after thargoids with normal weapons. Or some training in tactics 😊

[@larkshadow5317]

Meanwhile in the alliance: I for one welcome our new thargoid overlords

[@Dushess]

probably we gonna have new Prime Minister after all of this.

[@entilzhar]

Dude i LOVE your screen size for your updates, not quite a G9 odyssey size , cheeky grin, but hey, your getting there, much love and a Happy New Year to you and yours x

[@TheBuurPit]

It's actually my wife's screen... She films and edits 99% of our footage and videos. She's also an explorer but cinematography is a huge part of her game so the screen format makes sense for her :) Glad you like it.

[@sirdee9607]

Great

[@marklyth9336]

Love your videos! SRVSurvey looks very interesting. What is it exactly? Is it part of the game? Is it a third party program? How can we use it? When I click on the link, I see a list of files. I cannot use or download them. I don't understand the purpose of the link. Can someone explain?

[@liquidsodyssey6762]

December 11th 2018 is the date of last ship added to the game. F-dev seems to be doing ANYTHING but adding what people actually want.

[@Dushess]

31.01.3310 4 new AX SpecOps ships were announced.

[@Omni-Man]

Does the new exploration tool work on Horizon's? Or only Odyssey? And can it really guide you to Co-ordinates on a surface without having to Orbit the planet and line the Coords up?

[@kiaraquinn9130]

Yeah I knew it was too good to be true that FDev would add a new exploration tool in game, everything is always for combat and AX combat

[@OmegaPaladin144]

Excellent video,. I don't think the people in quarantine are going to be the big threat. If the murder marigolds wanted the captives rescued, why not place them at spire sites or other more accessible locations. I think we have more a threat from the people still held captive, who may get deployed. Holy Coe, that tool looks incredible!

[@TheBuurPit]

Can't make the rescue too easy though.... It's gotta feel genuine 😉

[@grey5751]

There any potential issues with Frontier and this tool's use?

[@TheBuurPit]

No. Its not touching the games code at all.

[@That_weird_guy_Dragooon]

KEKw cant wait to see new missions of exterminating goid zombies

[@Dushess]

poor Alliance citizens

[@JonathanDastin]

What are the odds of the releasing The Odyssey update for the PS5 and Xbox series I know they stopped console development to focus on PC but man I'm a console exclusive gamer and I just I'm still playing the Horizon update 😢

[@TheBuurPit]

I'm so sorry .. in my honest opinion (which is what I would think you want?) the chances are somewhere between extremely unlikely and zero. Our best guess is that the development cost versus the numbers of active players on consoles don't make sense. If Fdev thought it was going to be suitably profitable they would have pursued it. 😥 O7

[@JonathanDastin]

@@TheBuurPit thanks for your opinion on the situation. I currently have 927 hours I started the elite dangerous on PS4 pro met a bunch of Guys that helped me with transport missions and I grinded fed rank to unlock the Corvette and now I'm sitting on CR:2,558,445,458 and I just do a bunch of random exploration now with my Corvette get it out with a SRV Bay and a fighter Bay and I just go to landable planets with rings and take screenshots

[@lanceobe6801]

Frontier definitely needs to do something with exploration, I've been to thousands of planets and I've seen the same Flora over and over. The only difference is color and name change. I don't think it would be a monumental feat to increase the atmospheric landings to a 0.25 or 0.50 thickness that would allow weather such as dust storms, methane showers, even snow storms. They still have a lot of potential for this game but they seem to only focus on one thing which is the Thatgoids.

[@dennisanderson3286]

Thank you for sharing 🪐

[@TheBuurPit]

Thank you for watching :) o7

[@00CH33TH4M00]

Any hopes of elite dangerous odyssey coming back to console? Or are we permanently forgotten about?

[@TheBuurPit]

I'd love to tell you otherwise but the cold truth is that if it made financial sense for FDEV to bring Odyssey to consoles they'd have done it already. Really sorry.

[@daradacro23]

where raxxla?

[@rafaelpolissperandio4222]

Elite is dead

[@cmdrrheeney]

Yawn

[@CMDREagle131]

@@cmdrrheeney 🤣🤣

[@scharnhorst8316]

Maybe you ought not have 2 HRS of crass commercial messages before your video.

[@TheBuurPit]

We have no control over the adverts. That is entirely in the hands of KZbin and based off of your browsing habits and Google's assessment of your demographic etc.

[@dynghivarn]

Big cheers for your hard work, mate! Keep it going! /CMDR_azkikr

[@TheBuurPit]

Thank you so much, that's really kind of you!

[@eeka_droid]

CMDR grinning2001's effort to develop this tool is amazing, one more incredible tool for our community! We're very grateful