In this tutorial I go through how I personally got started with on foot combat in Elite Dangerous Odyssey ...the methods used may not be for everyone but they definitely worked for me! How did you get started and whats your go-to method? ...has this guide be useful if you've been struggling with Odyssey on foot - sound off below! o7
Please help. I know you have more than one account. I have 2 accounts, do I have to have 2 Twitch Accounts for the drops or can I link both Frontier Accounts to the same Twitch? If you know, it would be great if I didn't have to stream in Chrome and Microsoft Edge at the same time. Thank you (in anticipation) for your help.
I noticed you didn't gain notoriety as I did on my first kill, I saw further in the comments that someone found settlements governed by anarchy factions. Did I miss something in the video? Or do you just gain the notoriety and live it down?
I cannot recommend Stealthboys videos enough. A couple of things to note, if you are close enough to the npc you can hear when they drop their shields, some even call out "resuming patrol" or something like that which can give you a clue. It is worth binding the "drop your security status" to a handy key, if you get a surprise scan from a guard you have a couple of seconds to dump it and play innocent. Another useful bit of info is security levels are only required to pass through a door NOT to be in the area. If you are inside a restricted area your security level is irrelevant, you will either get the warning or attacked. If you are not in a restricted area the guards only care that you do not have a weapon drawn ( the energy tool discharge mode and scanner clone mode count as weapons), have stolen goods or are not wanted they do not care how you got through the doors. If the alarms are sounded sentry skimmers become hostile and can do a lot of damage to you quickly, if the alarms are disabled or you can sneak around they can be ignored.
My preferred method of choosing a settlement to raid is to look for ones owned by anarchy minor factions. This is because killing the people in them doesn't incur a bounty. As for stealthily cloning security profiles, one tip I have is that the profile analyzer works through windows.
Great video and it was your original stream walking Rheeney though these tactics that was the light bulb moment for me to use a more 'wildlands' approach rather than the 'COD' approach :)
Thanks again for the mention 😊 another great video, thanks for sharing. I am actually, as I write, working on my next video. With quite a few exciting (for me at least) new features. You'll be pleased to hear that it will also have an "alamo moment" 😂
That's pretty much the same method that I use! Alarms are the absolute top priority, after which the settlement is a cakewalk. I'm still more of a fan of the scarab for its speed and ease of parking on rooftops, but I agree that having more than 1 is essential. My go-to weapon of choice is a silenced+headshot P-15. At grade 5, it'll take just about any unshielded target out in one shot and is very fast on the draw. Having an Aphelion on hand is good for when shields need to go down. A tip that I would add would be to park your ship and SRV in places that have cover or aren't easily seen, by both the settlement defenses and staff, and definitely put 4 pips to SYS before getting out.
Without Stealthboy's tutorials, i would have never been able to succeed in Odyssey's on foot combat. Great shoutout to Stealthboy for making the game playable for me!!!!
Just turning attention to the FPS 'mini-game' stuff. Been playing ED since day 1 (and the original) and had similar ideas of using stealth. Your excellent video has confirmed my plans. Thank you...I have been touring outposts collecting pre-engineered stuff for my three characters and it is now time to take the plunge (not literally I hope)
Perfect timing! Finally took the plunge and bought Odyssey (steam) DLC last night & will need all the help I can get!!. See you out there & great vid as always.....
So far I've been looking for systems in the Infrastructure Failure state and taking power-on missions. No guards, and free access to the whole place. Of course, this limits what settlements you get, and thus what items you get...I have a long way to go engineering my stuff.
For missions to loot settlements, I prefer to operate from the Scarab SRV until all the outside NPCs are taken care of. Essentially sit in a place with a good field of fire and few obstacles around it, like the landing pad. Start shooting the twin plasma's and the NPCs will run towards the noise and present themselves as targets. If it gets too hot, retire and then return. Then it is time for dismounted action to clear the buildings. Preferred wapon, Karma C-44 as the remaining NPCs should all be unshielded. Much quicker using the SRV and less risky.
Thank you for a great video. I was pretty lost on how to get going with Odyssey despite having played Elite for years. The rooftop sniping strategy was especially helpful.
Nice to see videos about someone playing the game! Every other TH-cam channel seems to be about the dramatic existential crisis caused by development news or the speculative reason behind there being no news (complete with steam stats to prove it) I have no time to grind for suit upgrades, but I do find settlement raids fun with the level 3 stuff I've picked up from pioneer vendors.
Thanks. I do understand the existential crisis stuff tbh. Fdev are pretty terrible at selling themselves and inspiring confidence in their game. Elite requires a degree of commitment from the player to get the most out of it and the existential anxiety is born ultimately out of a desire to believe that the game has a future I think.
Its not really necessary to max out the on-foot engineering. Upgraded stuff bought from Pioneer is plenty good enough for most things. Of course, grab the mats as you go and you'll find that you'll be able to bolt on some engineering from time to time without necessarily having to push for it at all. Don't ignore the data mats though! I foolishly did for the first month and found myself fully loaded with assets and goods, but very short on the data mats needed for any engineering.
Very good. And yes stealthboy was also my lightbulb moment for settlement raids. My only differences are that I tend to sneak around to disable alarms first then unleash havoc. I also prefer the laser pistol for shields and then switch to the AR for quick takedowns. Other than that I followed the same route to quickly gather enough for grade 5 and engineered suits one of each and engineering the weapons I prefer. I still prefer the settlement "special operations" and only occasionally play the CZs just as a benchmark to see if the framerates are acceptable yet. They aren't.
Been eagerly awaiting this one since I watched Cmdr Rheeny take down a settlement with your guidance - this is an area of the game I've "avoided" so far, but not for much longer...
@@chrisdunford2346 It was a stream so may not be available in the history. This video covers everything that happened, sans some of the inimitable banter 😀
PS I'm also a noob at this and the first time I went to a settlement I just got blown away at my own ship. I tried Cmdr Buur's tactics just now and they definitely work - pay attention to the bit where you DON'T take >1 shot though. Sadly I forgot that part - still, I made it out alive.
I've had Odyssey for a couple of months and haven't even tried FPS as it's not really my thing. However, I've come to the stage where I think I should give it a go, but I am completely clueless as to how to go about it. I think this video will be a big help, once I've worked out all the keybinds to put on my controller pad thingy (I've always been a HOTAS user so far but bought a control thing just for this purpose). So once I have landed I leave my ship, and my beloved VR, and pick up the pad. It makes a good separation between 'in space' and 'on foot' and hopefully will make remembering the keybinds easier. Even setting the buttons up seems to be a massive challenge, but once I've got that working I intend to follow your instructions as best I can. Thanks for making this tutorial, and for the pointers to 'Stealthboys'.
I love that you made this guide for everyone, burr, but I mean, I literally accidentally deployed into a high intensity combat zone with nothing but a flight suit and a tormentor and still win without even dying and re-equipping. I do appreciate that you described the NPC patterns though. This, to me, is the most important aspect with learning how to win in any situation.
I wish I had seen this guide before trying my first mission... Cuz i just died hahahahahaha it was a mess, completely fail 🤣 then I decided to look for help so thank you so much for this video
I used a different strategy which I found to be quite a lot of fun. I was in a system with a lot of mining serttlements and I found I could clone an ID through the window of the power centre which also houses the alarms console. Once I had clearance I would just sneak into the building, use the charge overload for silent kills to allow access to the alarms console without raising the alarms. Once the alarms are switched off I would work my way around killing NPCs as I encountered them, usually using the charge overload thingy. Every now and then I'd get into a firefight but as long as the alarms are off its not a huge problem. Unlock extra backpack space asap, this saves going to and from the SRV. Try to get a silenced weapon for indoors and outdoors, it can be the same weapon or one for each. having silent weapons saves battery power because you don't need to use charge overload to do silent kills. Crouch is basically a superpower, use it.
Thanks for another nice guide. The only thing that irritates me is that we decide on a supposedly sniper rifle, but it only has a 100m range and quite slow bullets - the complete opposite of a sniper rifle, which should have a much longer range and high bullet speed.
I cannot agree more: get the alarms off. Everything is so much easier!!! Great advice for new players. I wish I new this 10 months ago. That said I really have enjoyed the upgrading via the missions (because I find them fun).
yes I agree , now that we have shared our intel these missions are fun but the first month or so OMG I wanted to smash things !!!! " how do the NPC's keep hearing me ??? How did that NPC see me ... ect ect "
This is exactly the sort of getting started tutorial that is was hoping someone would put together. I'm not against grinding in a game totally, but I hate grinding only to discover that I am doing it wrong or I've just wasted several hours doing something and have to throw that effort away and redo it later because my storage is full of items I don't need right now, but will need later.
How differently you do things than I do. I always turn off the alarms first, using stealth methods. I really enjoy that part -- getting them off without ever being detected. After that I'm free to do whatever I need to do. Sometimes I continue with stealth throughout the mission/raid. I love to complete the mission without ever being detected, or having anyone fire at me. Of course I don't always perform perfectly, and if I do get noticed then I either go full-Rambo or (more likely) get out of LOS of any NPCs and let them settle back down before continuing. It's a lot of fun. I think the Odyssey missions are very well designed, with lots of different ways they can go, so it's not exactly the same every time. Plus, I use the shotgun mostly. :)
Idk if something has changed in the last nine months, but now if you kill someone you get a bounty. After taking out an entire settlement like this, you're going to have several points of notoriety, which can take hours of in-game time to wear off. So while this method is still pretty efficient, the notoriety is a huge pain in the ass.
My favorite trick is to sneek into the alarms room first, then work through all the guards. Guards will almost always try to scan you if you walk up to them. If the alarms are down their shields will be too and that scan animation sequence traps them while I pull out and discharge my power tool into them. Rinse and repeat until all guards are sleepy.
I played PayDay 2 a few times with friends. I found what I call the "loud and proud" method quite fun. The "cheeky sneaky" method is boring. Also, being a murderhobo for hire...going to try this method as I stopped playing Odyssey right after the alpha ended. Edit (approx 12 hours since original comment). Completed my first settlement raid! Took about 6 failed attempts before I realized I wasn't running away from the scene of the crime (shooting the guards). I was also extremely lucky in that I logged in and went to streight to Pioneer Supplies...Grade 3 Dominator suit! Very, very fun way of getting engineering mats. What ISN'T mentioned is that your notoriety will go up. But...that's part of being a murderhobo in Elite:Dangerous. You also don't have to be on the roof of a building (although that halps in avoiding being seen). There are times when I was on the ground, shot the guard and ran away. Just make sure there's no radar contacts. If the settlement is on the dark side of the planet, look for moving flashlights. 100% of the time, a moving flashlight was a patrolling guard. The highest level guard I've seen in a low security system at a low security settlements is 1. Out of curiosity, I want to a high security system/low security settlement...yeah no. There was a guard that I think may have been and elite+ (5 chevrons and a star). No way was I taking on that settlement.
My only attempts at FPS stuff was the "tutorial" after I had Odyssey installed and running and, much later, a crash site recovery mission that was a few levels too high for me.
Despite what people think I do I’m more stealthy in the early stages of a attack I go right for where the alarm is and don’t kill everyone out right....yet lol
If I'm just doing a settlement raid, I prefer to just light up the place with the Scarab (Scorpion can barely hit the broad side of a barn), back off a bit then let the NPC security team come to me, and pick them off one by one. Once the security team is down, scan them for their credentials, for easy access to the bldgs and the soft targets. I use a Maverick suit in this phase with an Intimidator shotgun as primary weapon, and a Tormentor as the side arm, since they are both plasma weapons and do damage to shields & health; upgrade with extra magazine capacity, and extended range when available. Upgrade the Maverick when possible with night vision, extra backpack capacity (for looting phase), and either reduced tool power usage and/or increased battery life. Final note: Always take the power regulator at the end of the raid as you need those for suit upgrades.
I was lucky enough to find a G3 Executioner with noise suppression already installed so that probably saved me some time, it's at G5 now with indoor and outdoor noise suppression, magazine size and stowed reloading, its pretty much all I use for raiding bases and clearing conflict zones. But yeah StealthBoy's content was what made all the on-foot stuff a lot more manageable for me, can't recommend his channel enough, also Dr Hope Math has some very good EDO content.
Hope Math is hilarious. The deeply inappropriate names of his ships tickles me. He's not so big on the stealth stuff - more of a one man Pogues concert rampaging through settlements.
It does put on showcase the issue that seems to plague Elite: Dangerous's universe - the economy. I don't mean just credits, but rather how you're forced to either play in one or two ways, or be rendered ineffective at getting the desired resources. I have to loot settlements to feel like I'm making any progress in getting engineering materials. (Not to mention the drop in reputation and a fine from taking out people giving bounties even when you're never caught, even with the stun.)
Sorry Commander, sadly I have to file this under "Not For Me Thanks". I didn't want FDev to give us a Third Rate Counterstrike in the first place and the past year has just proven that they have shot their own game firmly in the foot :(. In the course of a year, I have gone from an avid daily player of a mostly well-functioning, well supported (by third parties), merchant trading game, to someone who can't even bear to log in any more. Give me the option to stay with an *un-messed-with* Horizons and happiness might return.
I got lucky and found lots of level 3 pre-engineered the problem is it is so random as to what you find. My best is a level3 Shot gun with increased range and a scope And a level 3 Dom suit with damage reduction and increased combat speed. I agree that the sniper rifle is the best primary weapon. The one thing I had to do before I could enjoy Odyssey combat was upgrade my old GTX 970, 16 FPS is not playable. Love the content thanks for all you do for the game
Thank you for this - although I'm out near Beagle Point, I do intend to do some missions when I eventually return to the Bubble some time later this year. I have no knowledge of the upgrade process. Although all my suits/gear are Grade 3, but not further upgraded. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for the guide. Maybe I’m taking out too many people, but I’ve been steadily gaining notoriety to the point where the ATR have started showing up…
@@TheBuurPit Brilliant. I did check out Stealthboy’s vids and did some stealth runs. They are fun, but they are stressful and take time. This gives me a carefree option for a quick fix (never thought to check for anarchy factions.) Thanks again for the vid :-)
Thank you, thank you Cmdr Buur. This is the sort of thing I was looking for as I have not stepped into Ody yet (pun intended 🤫😉)! I've watched a couple of your livestreams so am getting an idea what to expect, but I will certainly give stealthboy channel a look too. I've heard the best time to search for pre-G3 suits + bits is after the Thargsday tick but if I remember correct can be very random. Cheers🙂
This game eats away at the desire to play because it doesn't give you anything at all. I died because I ran out of fuel and ended up in an area where there was nothing at all. I tried to do some supply task, but I didn't understand at all what I had to take and where. Desperately cumbersome menu systems. I got another mission that ended up on a planet that was number 5C. This particular planet was not there. I came back to the main ship, I looked for the 5 C on the map on the way home, now it was found for some reason. After that I landed some 20 minutes on the planet because of a really poorly designed landing system. After that I found an abandoned building that wasn't abandoned at all but was full of some soldiers. shooting them with just the pistol at home, I didn't get a single life, even though I wasted 100 stakes on one person. The other day I went to see if I could buy a new gun. The price was over 200k, I got 145k. I left the game and realized that I wasted 14 hours of my life on two tasks.
It doesn't sound like it's the game for you... Your either get elite or you don't. Which is fine. But just in case you stick around, this could be useful for the future... :) fuelrats.com/
Lol thanks, i didn,t know that you can do this! I thought that the Guards are raising the alarm when a corpse was found. ^^ well let's See how long this method works. I always looked that i sneaked inside the CMD or Alert Console Building and tasererd all inside with the tool and then alarm off and killed all with the shotgun ^^ (started with full grade 3 thingys and now i have a grade 5 Dominator...) Well with that i can tank every alerted settlemt, when a EMP is coming i learned when to microturn off and in shilelds and then its almost godmode when you not in open field. Use cover or bubblegreanades, the npcs are dumb and dont react to it and standing just outside^^ there is just no AI Algorythm for that.
To help players out, my friend CMDR CeeKay will often post upgraded items on the "Caring/ Sharing" thread on the Frontier forums. We play daily and anything that we often come across that's noteworthy, so bookmark that potion of the forums thread if you want to upgrade nicely. o7 Cmdr Wulfrune
I think the "cannot disembark from my ship docked on a player fleet carrier" bug is behaving backwards. 1. Land on a player fleet carrier. 2. The "Disembark" button is enabled. 3. Click the "Go to hangar" button. 4. Inside the hangar, the "Disembark" button is disabled. I can disembark when docked outside the hanger, but not inside the hangar. 5. If I board my ship from inside the hangar, the disembark button is disabled. 6. When I lift the ship to the outside, the disembark button remains disabled. Unable to disembark has frustrated me since update 11.0; now I see that it is merely backwards implementation of disembark mechanics on a player fleet carrier. Why is software development so difficult for this game?
but most of the planets are without any atmosphere , nothing for sound to travel and bounce around. how can they hear the shots? I can see sound traveling inside pressurized environment, but outside that's just stupid.
The in-universe explanation is that suits are equipped with sensors dedicated to picking up audio cues in the surrounding environment and generating the appropriate noise inside the person's suit.
Are you using a sniper rifle? And if so is it better than grade 1? To avoid the bounty go to an anarchist system and make sure you are attacking an anarchist owned installation... They're not all owned by anarchy factions.
@@TheBuurPit my upgrades require items i dont have, everything is stock, i find it akward to put the sheild on, im dead before i know it! im looking for threat level 1 or 2 looking for lowest but still getting slaughtered, ive got the sniper yes, as soon as i start shooting im struggling to stay alive, ive played battlefield and call of duty im not too bad at first person shooters but this is complicated.
@@TheBuurPit sigh.... i tried to do a delivery mission on foot, had to meet some dude at a planet base, i didnt have any bounties or fines or anything illegal that im aware of, someone scanned me i got told not to resist so i stood still, they opened fire on me must of been drugs in the package i dont know im just the mail man... ended up killing me got sent to detention station then tried to pay my fine, couldnt pay there have to risk going to another station so went to Mcarther station few jumps away paid the fine now im burned out...
It's not for selling! It's used to engineer and upgrade weapons and suits. You can sell at the bar in a starport or also trade it for different materials.
Make sure you choose a base owned by an anarchy faction. The installation I was using during this video is no longer owned by an anarchist faction as the political background simulation ebs and flows ownership as influences change. Use eddb.io to find an anarchist faction near you.
good tutorial! short sweet and full of usefull info for new players who have not started on odyssey yet. I use a mix of this and other different ways depending on how I feel like going about it but in the end, everyone use the way that works for them. o7 cmdrs sweet one Buur o7
Doesn't work. I show up to a Low Sec settlement, and no matter how far away I park my ship, the second I step foot in the settlement I get trespassing fines and everything immediately knows where I am. Tired of the bullshit that Frontier is calling a game at this point... There's basically no way to actually move forward in their bullshit on foot content
I was always interested by this game, but the gameplay doesn't look to be very good so I never bought it and it seems that it still isn't much better yet.
While this video is very well made the truth is, the only winning move in Odyssey is to not play. It looks bad. It runs bad. It plays bad. There's a reason why it has at atrocious review store on Steam, why huge swathes of the dev team left in the wake of this DLC and why most of the community avoids it like the plague.
@@timmccue355 I put a few hundred hours into Elite and did enjoy it for a while but it does get incredibly grindy and repetitive because truth be told, there really isn't that much actual content in the game. But I do understand how a lot of people can love the simulation aspects. Odyssey however is a very different beast and almost everyone I've talked to hates it and the reviews reflect this. It's poorly designed and broken on many levels and even when it works as intended, it's just a subpar FPS mode at best. So if you enjoy the base game that's fine, but if you're calling the problems with Odyssey "trivial" then I think we have wildly different standards for what constitute "trivial" problems.
speak for yourself. im currently having a ton of fun playing odyssey. im playing with a ps5 controller and everything feels so good to control. ship flight and on foot combat are both super fun and the game looks amazing in my opinion. the biggest selling point of the game to me is the in depth button binding system allowing you to bind controls to multi inputs or hold inputs. such a complex game yet because of this i can fit every single bind on my controller. i highly recommend anyone on the fence to try it and see for yourself!
Gd it, youtube and their algorithm, saw the thumbnail in my fresh filter and it said 'On foot thargoid combat guide'............I'm like choking on my sandwich, clickity click click........then '7 months ago' pops up on the screen........!!!!!!!!!!
In this tutorial I go through how I personally got started with on foot combat in Elite Dangerous Odyssey ...the methods used may not be for everyone but they definitely worked for me!
How did you get started and whats your go-to method? ...has this guide be useful if you've been struggling with Odyssey on foot - sound off below! o7
Please help. I know you have more than one account. I have 2 accounts, do I have to have 2 Twitch Accounts for the drops or can I link both Frontier Accounts to the same Twitch? If you know, it would be great if I didn't have to stream in Chrome and Microsoft Edge at the same time. Thank you (in anticipation) for your help.
@@williamvorkosigan5151 you'd need 2 twitch accounts.
@@TheBuurPit Good job I did that. Thank you for confirming that. Love your videos.
I noticed you didn't gain notoriety as I did on my first kill, I saw further in the comments that someone found settlements governed by anarchy factions. Did I miss something in the video? Or do you just gain the notoriety and live it down?
I cannot recommend Stealthboys videos enough. A couple of things to note, if you are close enough to the npc you can hear when they drop their shields, some even call out "resuming patrol" or something like that which can give you a clue. It is worth binding the "drop your security status" to a handy key, if you get a surprise scan from a guard you have a couple of seconds to dump it and play innocent. Another useful bit of info is security levels are only required to pass through a door NOT to be in the area. If you are inside a restricted area your security level is irrelevant, you will either get the warning or attacked. If you are not in a restricted area the guards only care that you do not have a weapon drawn ( the energy tool discharge mode and scanner clone mode count as weapons), have stolen goods or are not wanted they do not care how you got through the doors. If the alarms are sounded sentry skimmers become hostile and can do a lot of damage to you quickly, if the alarms are disabled or you can sneak around they can be ignored.
They got us i the first line, ngl
Handy tip, regarding the dropping of security status.
My preferred method of choosing a settlement to raid is to look for ones owned by anarchy minor factions. This is because killing the people in them doesn't incur a bounty.
As for stealthily cloning security profiles, one tip I have is that the profile analyzer works through windows.
Great video and it was your original stream walking Rheeney though these tactics that was the light bulb moment for me to use a more 'wildlands' approach rather than the 'COD' approach :)
Thanks!
Thanks again for the mention 😊 another great video, thanks for sharing.
I am actually, as I write, working on my next video. With quite a few exciting (for me at least) new features. You'll be pleased to hear that it will also have an "alamo moment" 😂
Ah awesome! - good to hear mate :)
Brilliantly useful, very well explained 👌
This video taught me how to conquer raiding settlements 😎
Thanks!
That's pretty much the same method that I use! Alarms are the absolute top priority, after which the settlement is a cakewalk. I'm still more of a fan of the scarab for its speed and ease of parking on rooftops, but I agree that having more than 1 is essential.
My go-to weapon of choice is a silenced+headshot P-15. At grade 5, it'll take just about any unshielded target out in one shot and is very fast on the draw. Having an Aphelion on hand is good for when shields need to go down.
A tip that I would add would be to park your ship and SRV in places that have cover or aren't easily seen, by both the settlement defenses and staff, and definitely put 4 pips to SYS before getting out.
Good tips!! - thanks for that o7
Cracking guide for any beginner pal.
Thanks buddy o7
Good stuff! Maybe one day I'll make an FPS build.
Without Stealthboy's tutorials, i would have never been able to succeed in Odyssey's on foot combat. Great shoutout to Stealthboy for making the game playable for me!!!!
Nice, comprehensive guide.
The main takeaway I get from this is, however, that CMDR Buur is a heartless monster! 😆
Just turning attention to the FPS 'mini-game' stuff. Been playing ED since day 1 (and the original) and had similar ideas of using stealth. Your excellent video has confirmed my plans. Thank you...I have been touring outposts collecting pre-engineered stuff for my three characters and it is now time to take the plunge (not literally I hope)
Perfect timing! Finally took the plunge and bought Odyssey (steam) DLC last night & will need all the help I can get!!. See you out there & great vid as always.....
So far I've been looking for systems in the Infrastructure Failure state and taking power-on missions. No guards, and free access to the whole place.
Of course, this limits what settlements you get, and thus what items you get...I have a long way to go engineering my stuff.
For missions to loot settlements, I prefer to operate from the Scarab SRV until all the outside NPCs are taken care of. Essentially sit in a place with a good field of fire and few obstacles around it, like the landing pad. Start shooting the twin plasma's and the NPCs will run towards the noise and present themselves as targets. If it gets too hot, retire and then return. Then it is time for dismounted action to clear the buildings. Preferred wapon, Karma C-44 as the remaining NPCs should all be unshielded. Much quicker using the SRV and less risky.
Thank you for a great video. I was pretty lost on how to get going with Odyssey despite having played Elite for years. The rooftop sniping strategy was especially helpful.
Brilliant. Glad it helped 🙂 o7
Nice to see videos about someone playing the game! Every other TH-cam channel seems to be about the dramatic existential crisis caused by development news or the speculative reason behind there being no news (complete with steam stats to prove it)
I have no time to grind for suit upgrades, but I do find settlement raids fun with the level 3 stuff I've picked up from pioneer vendors.
Thanks. I do understand the existential crisis stuff tbh. Fdev are pretty terrible at selling themselves and inspiring confidence in their game. Elite requires a degree of commitment from the player to get the most out of it and the existential anxiety is born ultimately out of a desire to believe that the game has a future I think.
Its not really necessary to max out the on-foot engineering. Upgraded stuff bought from Pioneer is plenty good enough for most things. Of course, grab the mats as you go and you'll find that you'll be able to bolt on some engineering from time to time without necessarily having to push for it at all.
Don't ignore the data mats though! I foolishly did for the first month and found myself fully loaded with assets and goods, but very short on the data mats needed for any engineering.
@@trouvereyork absolutely. Good advice. O7
Very good. And yes stealthboy was also my lightbulb moment for settlement raids.
My only differences are that I tend to sneak around to disable alarms first then unleash havoc. I also prefer the laser pistol for shields and then switch to the AR for quick takedowns.
Other than that I followed the same route to quickly gather enough for grade 5 and engineered suits one of each and engineering the weapons I prefer.
I still prefer the settlement "special operations" and only occasionally play the CZs just as a benchmark to see if the framerates are acceptable yet. They aren't.
thanks for the video I came back a few months ago but haven't done much on foot stuff.
Been eagerly awaiting this one since I watched Cmdr Rheeny take down a settlement with your guidance - this is an area of the game I've "avoided" so far, but not for much longer...
Shout if you need help buddy o7
@@TheBuurPit thanks o7
Where can I find this video. I'm a complete newbie at ground based missions. Don't have a clue where to start
@@chrisdunford2346 It was a stream so may not be available in the history. This video covers everything that happened, sans some of the inimitable banter 😀
PS I'm also a noob at this and the first time I went to a settlement I just got blown away at my own ship. I tried Cmdr Buur's tactics just now and they definitely work - pay attention to the bit where you DON'T take >1 shot though. Sadly I forgot that part - still, I made it out alive.
Great work commander, thank you!
I've had Odyssey for a couple of months and haven't even tried FPS as it's not really my thing. However, I've come to the stage where I think I should give it a go, but I am completely clueless as to how to go about it. I think this video will be a big help, once I've worked out all the keybinds to put on my controller pad thingy (I've always been a HOTAS user so far but bought a control thing just for this purpose). So once I have landed I leave my ship, and my beloved VR, and pick up the pad. It makes a good separation between 'in space' and 'on foot' and hopefully will make remembering the keybinds easier. Even setting the buttons up seems to be a massive challenge, but once I've got that working I intend to follow your instructions as best I can. Thanks for making this tutorial, and for the pointers to 'Stealthboys'.
good video as always. Nice shoutou to stelthboy! the gentleman touch !
Great Video, I currently look for powered down Settlements to loot. Faction Bust and Infrastructure Failure. I might well give this a go. Thank you.
I love that you made this guide for everyone, burr, but I mean, I literally accidentally deployed into a high intensity combat zone with nothing but a flight suit and a tormentor and still win without even dying and re-equipping. I do appreciate that you described the NPC patterns though. This, to me, is the most important aspect with learning how to win in any situation.
Well good for you mate. I'm very happy for you.... Not everyone can do that however ... And for those guys there's this guide! :)
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And all the npcs clapped..
I wish I had seen this guide before trying my first mission... Cuz i just died hahahahahaha it was a mess, completely fail 🤣 then I decided to look for help so thank you so much for this video
I used a different strategy which I found to be quite a lot of fun. I was in a system with a lot of mining serttlements and I found I could clone an ID through the window of the power centre which also houses the alarms console. Once I had clearance I would just sneak into the building, use the charge overload for silent kills to allow access to the alarms console without raising the alarms. Once the alarms are switched off I would work my way around killing NPCs as I encountered them, usually using the charge overload thingy. Every now and then I'd get into a firefight but as long as the alarms are off its not a huge problem.
Unlock extra backpack space asap, this saves going to and from the SRV. Try to get a silenced weapon for indoors and outdoors, it can be the same weapon or one for each. having silent weapons saves battery power because you don't need to use charge overload to do silent kills. Crouch is basically a superpower, use it.
Thanks for another nice guide. The only thing that irritates me is that we decide on a supposedly sniper rifle, but it only has a 100m range and quite slow bullets - the complete opposite of a sniper rifle, which should have a much longer range and high bullet speed.
let's not forget the assassination by grenade, one of my favorites..
I cannot agree more: get the alarms off. Everything is so much easier!!! Great advice for new players. I wish I new this 10 months ago. That said I really have enjoyed the upgrading via the missions (because I find them fun).
yes I agree , now that we have shared our intel these missions are fun but the first month or so OMG I wanted to smash things !!!! " how do the NPC's keep hearing me ??? How did that NPC see me ... ect ect "
This is exactly the sort of getting started tutorial that is was hoping someone would put together. I'm not against grinding in a game totally, but I hate grinding only to discover that I am doing it wrong or I've just wasted several hours doing something and have to throw that effort away and redo it later because my storage is full of items I don't need right now, but will need later.
Excellent! Thanks Cmdr Buur!
How differently you do things than I do. I always turn off the alarms first, using stealth methods. I really enjoy that part -- getting them off without ever being detected. After that I'm free to do whatever I need to do. Sometimes I continue with stealth throughout the mission/raid. I love to complete the mission without ever being detected, or having anyone fire at me. Of course I don't always perform perfectly, and if I do get noticed then I either go full-Rambo or (more likely) get out of LOS of any NPCs and let them settle back down before continuing. It's a lot of fun. I think the Odyssey missions are very well designed, with lots of different ways they can go, so it's not exactly the same every time.
Plus, I use the shotgun mostly. :)
I love that there's different ways to do this stuff ... Very very elite :)
Thanks for the amazing info.
Idk if something has changed in the last nine months, but now if you kill someone you get a bounty. After taking out an entire settlement like this, you're going to have several points of notoriety, which can take hours of in-game time to wear off. So while this method is still pretty efficient, the notoriety is a huge pain in the ass.
Thats always been the case.
You need to pick on an anarchy faction. No fines, no crimes, no notoriety.
My favorite trick is to sneek into the alarms room first, then work through all the guards.
Guards will almost always try to scan you if you walk up to them. If the alarms are down their shields will be too and that scan animation sequence traps them while I pull out and discharge my power tool into them.
Rinse and repeat until all guards are sleepy.
I played PayDay 2 a few times with friends. I found what I call the "loud and proud" method quite fun. The "cheeky sneaky" method is boring. Also, being a murderhobo for hire...going to try this method as I stopped playing Odyssey right after the alpha ended.
Edit (approx 12 hours since original comment). Completed my first settlement raid! Took about 6 failed attempts before I realized I wasn't running away from the scene of the crime (shooting the guards). I was also extremely lucky in that I logged in and went to streight to Pioneer Supplies...Grade 3 Dominator suit! Very, very fun way of getting engineering mats. What ISN'T mentioned is that your notoriety will go up. But...that's part of being a murderhobo in Elite:Dangerous. You also don't have to be on the roof of a building (although that halps in avoiding being seen). There are times when I was on the ground, shot the guard and ran away. Just make sure there's no radar contacts. If the settlement is on the dark side of the planet, look for moving flashlights. 100% of the time, a moving flashlight was a patrolling guard. The highest level guard I've seen in a low security system at a low security settlements is 1. Out of curiosity, I want to a high security system/low security settlement...yeah no. There was a guard that I think may have been and elite+ (5 chevrons and a star). No way was I taking on that settlement.
My only attempts at FPS stuff was the "tutorial" after I had Odyssey installed and running and, much later, a crash site recovery mission that was a few levels too high for me.
Despite what people think I do I’m more stealthy in the early stages of a attack I go right for where the alarm is and don’t kill everyone out right....yet lol
Stealth Boi FTW
you can easily loot settlements by looking for support missions to turn on the power.
If I'm just doing a settlement raid, I prefer to just light up the place with the Scarab (Scorpion can barely hit the broad side of a barn), back off a bit then let the NPC security team come to me, and pick them off one by one. Once the security team is down, scan them for their credentials, for easy access to the bldgs and the soft targets. I use a Maverick suit in this phase with an Intimidator shotgun as primary weapon, and a Tormentor as the side arm, since they are both plasma weapons and do damage to shields & health; upgrade with extra magazine capacity, and extended range when available. Upgrade the Maverick when possible with night vision, extra backpack capacity (for looting phase), and either reduced tool power usage and/or increased battery life. Final note: Always take the power regulator at the end of the raid as you need those for suit upgrades.
I was lucky enough to find a G3 Executioner with noise suppression already installed so that probably saved me some time, it's at G5 now with indoor and outdoor noise suppression, magazine size and stowed reloading, its pretty much all I use for raiding bases and clearing conflict zones. But yeah StealthBoy's content was what made all the on-foot stuff a lot more manageable for me, can't recommend his channel enough, also Dr Hope Math has some very good EDO content.
Hope Math is hilarious. The deeply inappropriate names of his ships tickles me. He's not so big on the stealth stuff - more of a one man Pogues concert rampaging through settlements.
It does put on showcase the issue that seems to plague Elite: Dangerous's universe - the economy. I don't mean just credits, but rather how you're forced to either play in one or two ways, or be rendered ineffective at getting the desired resources. I have to loot settlements to feel like I'm making any progress in getting engineering materials. (Not to mention the drop in reputation and a fine from taking out people giving bounties even when you're never caught, even with the stun.)
cheers
Sorry Commander, sadly I have to file this under "Not For Me Thanks". I didn't want FDev to give us a Third Rate Counterstrike in the first place and the past year has just proven that they have shot their own game firmly in the foot :(. In the course of a year, I have gone from an avid daily player of a mostly well-functioning, well supported (by third parties), merchant trading game, to someone who can't even bear to log in any more. Give me the option to stay with an *un-messed-with* Horizons and happiness might return.
I got lucky and found lots of level 3 pre-engineered the problem is it is so random as to what you find. My best is a level3 Shot gun with increased range and a scope And a level 3 Dom suit with damage reduction and increased combat speed. I agree that the sniper rifle is the best primary weapon. The one thing I had to do before I could enjoy Odyssey combat was upgrade my old GTX 970, 16 FPS is not playable. Love the content thanks for all you do for the game
Welcome buddy o7
Thank you for this - although I'm out near Beagle Point, I do intend to do some missions when I eventually return to the Bubble some time later this year. I have no knowledge of the upgrade process. Although all my suits/gear are Grade 3, but not further upgraded. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
o7 well done, thanks.
Folow yor chanell here in Brazil, thnks for vídeo ...
Thanks. Inspiring.
Thanks for the guide. Maybe I’m taking out too many people, but I’ve been steadily gaining notoriety to the point where the ATR have started showing up…
Hit anarchy settlements in anarchy held systems.
@@TheBuurPit Brilliant. I did check out Stealthboy’s vids and did some stealth runs. They are fun, but they are stressful and take time. This gives me a carefree option for a quick fix (never thought to check for anarchy factions.) Thanks again for the vid :-)
You know. Most of the missions for my experience. Alot of missions are daunting at first.
Thank you, thank you Cmdr Buur. This is the sort of thing I was looking for as I have not stepped into Ody yet (pun intended 🤫😉)! I've watched a couple of your livestreams so am getting an idea what to expect, but I will certainly give stealthboy channel a look too.
I've heard the best time to search for pre-G3 suits + bits is after the Thargsday tick but if I remember correct can be very random. Cheers🙂
Absolutely... After any server bounce in fact.
This game eats away at the desire to play because it doesn't give you anything at all. I died because I ran out of fuel and ended up in an area where there was nothing at all. I tried to do some supply task, but I didn't understand at all what I had to take and where. Desperately cumbersome menu systems. I got another mission that ended up on a planet that was number 5C. This particular planet was not there. I came back to the main ship, I looked for the 5 C on the map on the way home, now it was found for some reason. After that I landed some 20 minutes on the planet because of a really poorly designed landing system. After that I found an abandoned building that wasn't abandoned at all but was full of some soldiers. shooting them with just the pistol at home, I didn't get a single life, even though I wasted 100 stakes on one person. The other day I went to see if I could buy a new gun. The price was over 200k, I got 145k. I left the game and realized that I wasted 14 hours of my life on two tasks.
It doesn't sound like it's the game for you... Your either get elite or you don't. Which is fine.
But just in case you stick around, this could be useful for the future... :)
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There is a easier way
Restore missions
Nobody will notice if you steal everything if there is nobody there
There will be less loot though
Lol thanks, i didn,t know that you can do this! I thought that the Guards are raising the alarm when a corpse was found. ^^ well let's See how long this method works. I always looked that i sneaked inside the CMD or Alert Console Building and tasererd all inside with the tool and then alarm off and killed all with the shotgun ^^ (started with full grade 3 thingys and now i have a grade 5 Dominator...) Well with that i can tank every alerted settlemt, when a EMP is coming i learned when to microturn off and in shilelds and then its almost godmode when you not in open field. Use cover or bubblegreanades, the npcs are dumb and dont react to it and standing just outside^^ there is just no AI Algorythm for that.
But what about notoriety? Or can you only do this in anarchy systems?
Where do I get the Executioner Sniper?
To help players out, my friend CMDR CeeKay will often post upgraded items on the "Caring/ Sharing" thread on the Frontier forums. We play daily and anything that we often come across that's noteworthy, so bookmark that potion of the forums thread if you want to upgrade nicely.
o7 Cmdr Wulfrune
Are we supposed to get higher bounty from doing this?
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o7 ;)
I get on Inara and try to find "Scorpion" under ships, equipment and personal equipment. No results. Help.
Go to a military economy surface port with outfitting.
How on earth do I draw my weapon?
I think the "cannot disembark from my ship docked on a player fleet carrier" bug is behaving backwards.
1. Land on a player fleet carrier.
2. The "Disembark" button is enabled.
3. Click the "Go to hangar" button.
4. Inside the hangar, the "Disembark" button is disabled.
I can disembark when docked outside the hanger, but not inside the hangar.
5. If I board my ship from inside the hangar, the disembark button is disabled.
6. When I lift the ship to the outside, the disembark button remains disabled.
Unable to disembark has frustrated me since update 11.0; now I see that it is merely backwards implementation of disembark mechanics on a player fleet carrier.
Why is software development so difficult for this game?
Have you reported this to FDev support? Might be a good place to do this.
but most of the planets are without any atmosphere , nothing for sound to travel and bounce around. how can they hear the shots? I can see sound traveling inside pressurized environment, but outside that's just stupid.
The in-universe explanation is that suits are equipped with sensors dedicated to picking up audio cues in the surrounding environment and generating the appropriate noise inside the person's suit.
You're ok with it in space ships I assume? ;)
Videogame.
everytime i try this i just get swamped and killed, or i get an annoying bounty on my head!
Are you using a sniper rifle?
And if so is it better than grade 1?
To avoid the bounty go to an anarchist system and make sure you are attacking an anarchist owned installation... They're not all owned by anarchy factions.
@@TheBuurPit my upgrades require items i dont have, everything is stock, i find it akward to put the sheild on, im dead before i know it! im looking for threat level 1 or 2 looking for lowest but still getting slaughtered, ive got the sniper yes, as soon as i start shooting im struggling to stay alive, ive played battlefield and call of duty im not too bad at first person shooters but this is complicated.
@@TheBuurPit sigh.... i tried to do a delivery mission on foot, had to meet some dude at a planet base, i didnt have any bounties or fines or anything illegal that im aware of, someone scanned me i got told not to resist so i stood still, they opened fire on me must of been drugs in the package i dont know im just the mail man... ended up killing me got sent to detention station then tried to pay my fine, couldnt pay there have to risk going to another station so went to Mcarther station few jumps away paid the fine now im burned out...
Where do I sell the loot? It's stolen...Do I just go anywhere?
It's not for selling!
It's used to engineer and upgrade weapons and suits.
You can sell at the bar in a starport or also trade it for different materials.
Is this out of date now? How come you don’t get a bounty?
Make sure you choose a base owned by an anarchy faction. The installation I was using during this video is no longer owned by an anarchist faction as the political background simulation ebs and flows ownership as influences change. Use eddb.io to find an anarchist faction near you.
I got a bounty against me on my first kill. :(
Cool vid :) also i'm on your f.c lol
lol you're in the Witch head sector right now then :)
@@TheBuurPit Yeah Siniang system the mega ship is here now but can't find the heatsinks :(
@@splaff666 yeah no heatsinks.... We're off again now :)
@@TheBuurPit cool i'm at the megaship so you haven't taken me anywhere lol
Can npcs see you in the dark?
Yes, but they have to get significantly closer to do so.
@@Suzduko667 so if their flash light doesn't catch you, you are fine? Or if you turn off yours?
@@ysfsim Yes to both situations.
This game is amazing. Don't know what everyone bitching about.
Can you also play this in vr
Whoa, what a horrible lagging...
good tutorial! short sweet and full of usefull info for new players who have not started on odyssey yet.
I use a mix of this and other different ways depending on how I feel like going about it but in the end, everyone use the way that works for them. o7 cmdrs
sweet one Buur o7
Doesn't work. I show up to a Low Sec settlement, and no matter how far away I park my ship, the second I step foot in the settlement I get trespassing fines and everything immediately knows where I am. Tired of the bullshit that Frontier is calling a game at this point... There's basically no way to actually move forward in their bullshit on foot content
I was always interested by this game, but the gameplay doesn't look to be very good so I never bought it and it seems that it still isn't much better yet.
First Step: Get decent fps 😂
While this video is very well made the truth is, the only winning move in Odyssey is to not play. It looks bad. It runs bad. It plays bad. There's a reason why it has at atrocious review store on Steam, why huge swathes of the dev team left in the wake of this DLC and why most of the community avoids it like the plague.
Why ruin it for people that may not feel the same way. I enjoy Elite and overlook most of the trivial problems.
@@timmccue355 I put a few hundred hours into Elite and did enjoy it for a while but it does get incredibly grindy and repetitive because truth be told, there really isn't that much actual content in the game. But I do understand how a lot of people can love the simulation aspects. Odyssey however is a very different beast and almost everyone I've talked to hates it and the reviews reflect this. It's poorly designed and broken on many levels and even when it works as intended, it's just a subpar FPS mode at best. So if you enjoy the base game that's fine, but if you're calling the problems with Odyssey "trivial" then I think we have wildly different standards for what constitute "trivial" problems.
speak for yourself. im currently having a ton of fun playing odyssey. im playing with a ps5 controller and everything feels so good to control. ship flight and on foot combat are both super fun and the game looks amazing in my opinion. the biggest selling point of the game to me is the in depth button binding system allowing you to bind controls to multi inputs or hold inputs. such a complex game yet because of this i can fit every single bind on my controller. i highly recommend anyone on the fence to try it and see for yourself!
First step: muster the power of the universe to install odyssey on console😂
Step one: Don't do it. It's a shite FPS and it's NOT Elite. Elite is so much better than Oddessy.
Gd it, youtube and their algorithm, saw the thumbnail in my fresh filter and it said 'On foot thargoid combat guide'............I'm like choking on my sandwich, clickity click click........then '7 months ago' pops up on the screen........!!!!!!!!!!