The Definitive Guide to Stealth - Elite Dangerous Odyssey

One of the key skills in Odyssey, and one aspect I absolutely love about the expansion, is its stealth mechanics. This guide explains it all!

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:58 What you will learn in this guide
1:38 Why use stealth?
2:33 The Rules of Stealth
2:54 Stage 1: Detection
3:11 Stage 2: Reaction
4:15 Prohibited actions (Don't get seen doing them!)
4:44 Stage 3: Escalation or Resolution (and resetting)
6:44 How do you avoid detection?
8:28 Outro

Correction: In the video I explain that scanning anyone will incur an attack. This is only the case when the target has a bounty (if they are clean, they will grumble and protest but will let you scan them).

From a stealth perspective, I'd still strongly discourage openly scanning anyone. If they do have a bounty, it'll put your mission at risk and carries no benefits over scanning without getting detected.

[KesselRunner]

One I'd add: Get good at using the the camsuite.

Think of it like throwing up a mini-spy drone. Find a safe spot, then unlock the camera. You can use it to _fly_ around the settlement, and you can see guard patrols in real time. You won't be able to tag them, of course. But you can at least use your _drone_ to get a bead on their positions and observe their routes.

It has a limited range, so I usually go sector by sector, or get somewhere central to cover an equal area. It's a really handy tool to peek behind walls and larger buildings and find where everyone is so I can tag them. And, if you're really lucky, you can even tailgate someone entering a building and get a peek inside.

[johndowding]

Great breakdown of the mechanics. I'm a fan of this gameplay as well.

EDIT:
I've edited out my original tip here to avoid confusion as it was patched out several patches ago.

[ericblanchi]

Great stuff. One tip, worth sharing, is if a guard starts scanning and you would be in trouble from it, you can interrupt (once) by drawing your weapon, and holstering again. They will forget about the scan.

[Rangermanlv]

This guide is awsome. I am so glad I finally found this. So much info i've seen about how to do Odyssey missions starts with "step 1: Equip your ship with dumbfire missiles step 2: nuke the settlement from orbit. In other words 'lets bypass the whole on foot gameplay mechanic and just cheese the whole thing from my ship' I mean yea that PROBABLY works, MOST of the time. But FFS how bout someone figures out how to do the missions the game way. It's not like it's impossible or anything, as you've proved here. So thank you for this and the other guides on doing Odyssey stuff. :)

[katjaczajkov]

The most important -> disable alarm first! if u dont -> disable alarm first! So u have more time to kill all peoples and do what u want without new enemies at settlement.

[cmdraljaz]

I hear about you and everything I did hear was 100% correct, you make awesome guides and I'm surprised more people didn't recognize this, I'm subscribing, and keep up the good work commander, o7

[doodiezgrandpa]

first usefull video in my search for that topic - thank you very much. I am the man of information and not opinions - this is why i liked it, more data and less rubling. Keep it up!

[cmdrbravozero]

This was an absolute joy to watch and listen to CMDR. I really liked your breakdown at the beginning of "Tell them what you are planning doing", I wonder if you were trained in a professional role? I used to work for the Military and that's exactly how we were trained to Instruct other personnel.
Truly excellent liked and subbed.

[RiminiVirage]

Commander Buur sent me. Excellent guide, I will now watch the rest! Thank you for the time and effort in sharing your knowledge and tactics.

[attlan]

Thanks for this - an excellent guide, very clear and to the point. Now to see if I can be better at stealth than I am at on-foot combat!

[josa]

Sent here by The Buur Pit o7
Great content, subscribed :)

[TheRogue]

If you go to a terminal and target every staff member once, they will automatically be scanned and appear on your radar. Also, as of update 2 you can double click to instantly transfer/overload with the energy link.

[cassieg]

Excellent guide, I love the stealth aspect Odyssey brings.

[jashiinobadii]

Thank you. This was wonderful. I've been doing settlement infiltrations over and over again but I kept on losing.

[hermanvisser]

Congratulations on a great series of videos. Just what the doctor ordered.

[RRRCCCDDD]

I felt that I had squeaky shoes. After seeing this, I now have several power regulators and a few angry settlements. Thanks

[TheBuurPit]

These guides are absolutely brilliant. Well done ...Keep. Them. Coming.

[npuh]

cool tutorial and video sound great 💫💥

[hface]

Great video! Not too fast and easy to understand even for a dummy like me as English is not my native language. Other YouTubers go through tutorials as if it was a speedrun trough the game and are impossible to follow. I'm new to the odyssey part of the game and tutorials are always helpful. Keep up the good work and you'll get my likes and I'll also follow you of course.

[rootsrat]

Great video, thanks! One correction - scanning anyone with legal mode (same as the guards scanning you) does NOT trigger an aggresive reaction.