Feature request: Support launching Horizons in 4.0 mode for Odyssey accounts

[Xeeke]

If you own Odyssey the available products list excludes Horizons 4.0, but it's actually still available by appending "SeasonTwo" as a command line argument to EliteDangerous64.exe when launching the Odyssey client.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous\Products\elite-dangerous-odyssey-64\EliteDangerous64.exe" "wseed 00000" "ServerToken bigtokenhere " /language English\\UK SeasonTwo

This would be extremely useful in order for players to be able to instance together on the new codebase and participate in 4.0 content even if not everyone in a group has Odyssey.

[rfvgyhn]

Since I don't have Odyssey, can you confirm for me that the authorized products response doesn't contain an object with product_sku = FORC-FDEV-DO-38-IN-40? This would be in the log file after [DBG] Purchases Response:

{
    "colour": "#f07b05",
    "filter": "ed",
    "directory": "elite-dangerous-odyssey-64",
    "serverargs": "",
    "gameargs": "SeasonTwo",
    "sortkey": "04",
    "product_name": "Elite Dangerous: Horizons (4.0)",
    "product_sku": "FORC-FDEV-DO-38-IN-40",
    "template": "http://hosting.zaonce.net/launcher-steam/elite/en.html"
}

[Xeeke]

Confirmed, no such product listed. The following is the list of products that comes up for an account which owns Odyssey.

[INF] Available Products:
    Elite Dangerous: Odyssey  FORC-FDEV-DO-1000 Up to Date
    Elite Dangerous: Horizons FORC-FDEV-D-1013  Up to Date
    Elite Dangerous           FORC-FDEV-D-1010  Up to Date
    Elite Dangerous: Arena    FORC-FDEV-D-1012  Up to Date

Rather than being a separate sku, the Odyssey sku will just start as Horizons 4.0 if launched with the SeasonTwo argument.

[Xeeke]

The full response from the log-

[DBG] Purchases Response:
{"purchases":[
{
    "colour":"#f07b05",
    "filter":"ed",
    "directory":"elite-dangerous-64",
    "serverargs":"",
    "gameargs":"SeasonOne",
    "sortkey":"06",
    "product_name":"Elite Dangerous",
    "product_sku":"FORC-FDEV-D-1010",
    "template":"http://hosting.zaonce.net/launcher/elite/en.html"
},
{
    "colour":"#f07b05",
    "filter":"eda",
    "directory":"elite-dangerous-64",
    "serverargs":"",
    "gameargs":"CQCArena",
    "sortkey":"20",
    "product_name":"Elite Dangerous: Arena",
    "product_sku":"FORC-FDEV-D-1012",
    "template":"http://hosting.zaonce.net/launcher/elite-dangerous-arena/en.html"
},
{
    "colour":"#f07b05",
    "filter":"ed",
    "directory":"COMBAT_TUTORIAL_DEMO",
    "serverargs":"",
    "gameargs":"",
    "sortkey":"30",
    "product_name":"Single Player Combat Training",
    "product_sku":"COMBAT_TUTORIAL_DEMO",
    "template":"http://hosting.zaonce.net/launcher/elite/en.html"
},
{
    "colour":"#0a8bd6",
    "filter":"edh",
    "directory":"elite-dangerous-64",
    "serverargs":"",
    "gameargs":"",
    "sortkey":"05",
    "product_name":"Elite Dangerous: Horizons",
    "product_sku":"FORC-FDEV-D-1013",
    "template":"http://hosting.zaonce.net/launcher/elite-dangerous-horizons/en.html"
},
{
    "colour":"#0a8bd6",
    "filter":"edh",
    "directory":"elite-dangerous-odyssey-64",
    "serverargs":"",
    "gameargs":"",
    "sortkey":"00",
    "product_name":"Elite Dangerous: Odyssey",
    "product_sku":"FORC-FDEV-DO-1000",
    "template":"http://hosting.zaonce.net/launcher/odyssey/en.html"
}
]}

[rfvgyhn]

So I think this should work now. Can you download the CI build and let me know if it works.

You'll need to update your settings.json file to include

"additionalProducts": [{
    "filter": "edh4",
    "directory": "elite-dangerous-odyssey-64",
    "serverargs": "",
    "gameargs": "SeasonTwo",
    "sortkey": "04",
    "product_name": "Elite Dangerous: Horizons (4.0)",
    "product_sku": "FORC-FDEV-DO-38-IN-40"
}]

If you want the /edo flag to still work, you won't be able to use the Odyssey SKU since the /edh4 flag would be overwritten by the filterOverrides settings. Unfortunately, FDev is still returning edh for Odyssey.

[Xeeke]

That works. With the new build and settings update it launched /edh4 and successfully ran Horizons 4.0.

[rfvgyhn]

Cool. I should have a new release shortly that includes this.