Episode 085 - We didn't read GalNet

<p>http://loosescrewsed.com</p> <p>Join us on discord! And check out the merch store!&nbsp;</p> <p>https://discord.io/LooseScrews</p> <p><br></p> <p>Headlines for this episode:&nbsp;</p> <p>Odyssey: Ok fine; you can have all your ships but don’t stray far; alpha was played on old code.</p> <p>New machinima webseries</p> <p>A CMDR travels 84,341LY with no scoop</p> <p>Community questions</p> <p><br></p> <p>Squad Update: Quiet, but some things to do.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Galnet Recap:</p> <p>https://community.elitedangerous.com/</p> <p>Tuesday Live stream: https://youtu.be/xZwxgfuqdzk</p> <p>Piers Jackson, game director, talks about the development and Alpha process. &nbsp;w</p> <p>Talks about the “Trunk” and “Branches”. &nbsp;The Alpha was out of date before we started</p> <p>Why didn’t this convo happen before the alpha started? It would have solved so much salt, made things more fun for everyone, and likely lead to better feedback.</p> <p>AI behavior, stealth, and crime has all been reworked but didn’t make it to the alpha</p> <p>9 new on foot engineers for suits/weapons. Scopes, speed, mag size, suppressors, autoloader</p> <p>Dr. Kay Ross, Principal Render Programmer, Talks about what they’ve seen as they watch people play</p> <p>Optimization: particularly occlusion wasn’t happening. Lots of the planet gen was placeholders.</p> <p>The gist of hers was that, again, things in the alpha don’t even really represent where the “trunk” was even as we played the alpha.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Thursday Live stream:</p> <p>Mail slot Mayhem</p> <p>Special ads made by Rendo https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClxxYYvKs-Ih7hhatQHLIeA</p> <p>Odyssey Alpha phase 4 Opened Wednesday, extended to May 5th 8:00 UTC</p> <p>Stored ships are available at reduced transfer cost and time, but reduced to the 50ly bubble.</p> <p>Phase 4 compatibility https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/phase-4-features-fixes-and-known-issues.573451/</p> <p>Thursday Hotfix 1: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/odyssey-alpha-phase-4-hotfix-1.573671/</p> <p>Feedb