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Elite Dangerous: Odyssey's planetside missions can now cost shared with friends

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Bounty hunting's e'er been better with friends—and with this week's massive update to Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, you can now share the spoils of your planetside missions with the rest of your crew.

Odyssey's Update 5 brings land missions succeeding with their spacefaring counterparts, letting you share gigs with your wing. Items and objectives will all depend towards the indistinguishable syndicate, with everyone bailable for the unvaried rewards. Concrete items bequeath embody handled by the team loss leader on departure, and items carried by teammates WHO go bad during a mission can be reclaimed.

That you couldn't work party up for heists together in this path at plunge was a startling omission, unmatched whose sterilise should make ground-based adventures a more tempting proposition. But just getting those mates to jet around Odyssey in the first place should like a sho be a bit easier, likewise.

Update 5 comes with a staggering raiment of bug fixes, enough that the darn notes induce been split into two parts on Steam. Major changes admit a complete retuning of ship interior lights, more lenient AI guards, and better terrain detail connected older planetside. But the update covers almost everything, from sound mixing and server improvements to a in truth massive list of UI tweaks.

Odyssey notoriously launched in a beautiful tawdry state of matter, enough thusly that Frontier CEO Jacques Louis David Braben felt compelled to issue an apology. The expansion has received several major bug-fixing updates since, bringing it ever nearer to ship-mould. It's just a shame that 'tween doll-like NPCs and uninspiring missions, Odyssey's biggest problems will involve more another round of bug fixes.

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