Elite Dangerous: Odyssey alpha now lets you play with your main game ships and characters

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey's alpha has now entered its fourth and final phase, meaning players finally have access to all their hard-earned toys from the main game - and will continue to do so until the alpha wraps up on its new, later end date of 5th May.

More specifically, phase four of the Odyssey alpha integrates a recent snapshot of Elite Dangerous' base game - taken on 23rd April - so that participants can make use of any Commanders, ships, ship customisations, fighters, SRVs, and so on acquired up to that point. And to make sure players are able to spend more time doing space stuff and less time waiting for their belongings to worm their way from wherever in the galaxy they were left in the main game, Frontier is reducing transportation times and transportation costs.

Additionally, a number of core gameplay features not previously available in the alpha have been brought in for phase four, meaning players will get the clearest idea yet how impactful Odyssey's additions - primarily focussed around on-foot traversal and first-person gunplay - will be on the existing space sim experience.

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