From my understanding, that’s supposed to be part of Odyssey as well, and what I’m more looking forward to. But I believe that will be a later alpha test, from what I’ve read so far.
Nonsense- I think the ability to discuss differences in opinion is a good thing more often than not, especially when it comes to our hobby. 
I’m still trying to get into that one, but I know it’s completely night and day different from how it was at release.
Like @Navynuke99 said you never have to worry to express an opinion that’s borne out of observation.
I admit I sort of dropped the ball here and stopped posting updates in the pure sense of the words- I don’t have a lot of time now, maybe later tonight but the essence is that the fighting is only a part of the Odyssey experience.
Of course a good way to test the robustness of the code (that’s pretty complicated at this point) is to have a lot of things happening together so the emphasis of phase two is combat- but as I said it’s not where the game dies.
More later, I hope.
I haven’t tried Odyssey yet, but I did revisit NMS last year and had a pretty good time with it.
Often the planets could look a bit samey, although I don’t think that would be unrealistic.
But then you’d land on a planet with purple skies and craggy mountains with occasional whipping storms and for just a second you felt like a space explorer.
I know it’s unlikely, but I’d love to see some rudimentary base building. It gave you something to do and was a fun exercise in engineering.
Nice to see that there’s a bit more to Odyssey than just the pew-pew:
I was going to jump on the Odyssey train - what’s the best guess on when the Alpha being over, so the norms can use it?
Undefined.
Allegedly could drop aroubd may/june
This looks a lot more interesting to me. I guess I like the possibility of exploration more than the act of it 
You have to admit Frontier know what they’re doing when it comes to rendering engines:
Here’s a really nice demonstration of ship scale:
Phase three incoming!
The generic plan is as follows:
PHASE THREE: EXPLORATION
Increase playable ‘bubble’ to 50LY
Includes unexplored planets, allowing for First Footfall experience
Supratech Artemis explorer suit available for purchase
Players can analyse organics with the Genetic Sampler tool
Bought the alpha and I am downloading it while I’m at work. Quick question. Does the alpha make you start from scratch or is it a continuation of my normal game?
So far the Alpha is a clear commander. You start with a Cobra Mk.III and a small bunch of credits.
Next phase, or the next-next one- will import your commander.
Awesome. So I can poke around in odyssey without “ruining” my normal game.
Im.assuming once we import it will wipe all odyssey progress away?
Yes, Frontier always kept Game and Beta/Alphas on separated servers.
So literally anything done in Beta/Alpha was ‘a dream’ or a parallel universe, if you prefer.
Smart decision.
Details of this phase:
That’s pretty cool. Really makes it so you have nothing holding you back. Also if I read the road map correct the exo biology is phase 3 then?
“It was all a dream…”
I’ve been living and breathing work for the last 10 days, so I’ve not had much time for anything fun, but I’m hoping I can get back into the alpha, especially for the exploration phase (and especially when I can take my own ship out, and use my own Spacebucks).
Yup, look at the post above yours, there a 60 sec video about Xenobiology in phase 3 and above again a short list of features.
OA seems underwhelmed by the exploration features in Odyssey:
Been messing around with the alpha for a few days now. I love it! However I use HCS voice packs and they aren’t active for flying in the alpha so I had to relearn all my controls lol!
I ended up setting up my xbox controller for the first person stuff and it works great. DId some accidental combat. Was told to stop for a scan but I was on the other side of a wall. I knew it would take the AI forever to get around so I thought I would move towards him. Turns out that isnt good. Got a nice fine and shot. LOL.
Over all I’m impressed and can’t wait to get it into the actual game. I will say this, I have yet to run into a happy human on a planet.