New DLC Will Make Elite: Dangerous More Like Star Citizen

Frontier Developments has announced a new expansion for Elite Dangerous, titled Odyssey. According to the devs, it is the most ambitious DLC in the history of the game. It will offer the players the opportunity to explore and fight on the surface of the planets on foot and in FPP.

Frontier Developments announced Elite: Dangerous - Odyssey, another DLC to their space simulator, continuously developed since its official PC version launch in 2014. This is to be the most ambitious expansion in the history of the game, introducing many options and features that the fans have been looking forward to for years. Elite: Dangerous - Odyssey will be coming to PCs, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in early 2021.

The expansion is an extremely important step in the evolution of the title and brings it closer to the shape that devs imagined at the beginning of the development process in 2012, outlining plans for its possible future. In Odyssey, the players will leave the cockpits of their spaceship for the first time and explore the surface of the planets from first-person perspective.

However, it won't stop on the just walking. The developers will offer a variety of missions that will take full advantage of the new featuresy. During these missions, we'll talk to many NPCs and travel through various locations. The players will have diplomatic and trade tasks, as well as those requiring the ability to sneak and fight using a rich arsenal of weapons and equipment. All this will take place in a fully open world, which is also inhabited by other participants. Thanks to the designated hubs/meeting places we will be able to join groups, perform contracts and missions together and form alliances.

During the mission we will also be accompanied by our friends.

It's ironic that Elite: Dangerous - Odyssey will bring the game even closer to what the Star Citizen devs have been promising for years in their development plans, which have attracted tens of thousands of fans of space simulators. Let's remind that both titles started with crowdfunding campaigns at a similar time and with similar ideas, but eventually achieved completely different results.

Although Star Citizen has raised dozens of times more money than the Elite Dangerous's developers (currently the sum has reached a dizzying level of more than $250 million), its devs have so far been able to offer the players only a few impressive yet detached game modules, which still remain in the alpha version. Meanwhile, the team from Frontier Developments, which wasn't captivated by crazy ambition, managed not only to release the game on time, but also to prepare its ports and several additions.