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Elite Dangerous: Odyssey’s alpha has new PvP matches called Conflict ZonesSet your sights on some team matches
Set your sights on some team matches
The alpha phase forElite Dangerous: Odysseyis moving right along. After letting players step out onto the surfacefor the first timelast week, Frontier Developments are moving into phase two of the next expansion’s alpha testing. This week they’re dropping alpha testers into a new system and letting them battle it out in the new on foot PvP Conflict Zones. You can spot the new FPS action in a new video the developers have published alongside the launch of phase two.
As part of this phase of the test, Frontier say that the “new starting system and ship ownership should alleviate long travel times,” an inconvenience thatplayers took issue withduring the first phase of the alpha. As for worries about player Commanders being a bit too eager to test out their new guns on fellow alpha players, perhaps the Conflict Zones will help redirect that excitement.
You can catch a look at some of Frontier’s alpha footage for Conflict Zones here, in which they explain the 12 on 12 matches which include a mix of live players and NPCs.
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey | Conflict ZonesWatch on YouTube
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey | Conflict Zones
Aside from the new PvP mode, phase two also adds a new “Dominator” combat suit and expands the explorable area to 20 lightyears. Over intheir announcement postfor phase two, Frontier have outlined some of the known bugs in the alpha, some of which they’ve just releasedanother hotfixfor.
This is phasetwo of fourthat Frontier have planned for the Elite Dangerous: Odyssey alpha. Next up will be the “exploration” phase that will let players actually hop out of their ships to stomp around on undiscovered planets for the first time.
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is expected to launch in late spring this year.
