Our latest coverage of Elite: Dangerous.
Now that the Elite Dangerous dev team is back from their holiday break, they’re making good on their promise to fix at least some of the more glaring issues with Update 14. The fixes are expected to go live at the end of the month and will focus on addressing the “core problems” that have been plaguing the sci-fi MMO [...]
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Frontier Developments has pushed out its last Discover Scanner newsletter of the year which offers a brief look at the new things that came to Elite Dangerous this year and what’s coming early next year. The headliners for 2022 include Frontier’s decision to stop development on the console version of the sci-fi MMO to focus exclusively on the PC version [...]
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The Thargoid offensive begins in Elite: Dangerous with the release of the space simulation MMO’s latest major update – Update 14. The official patch notes are mum on what exactly is going to happen but invites players to investigate and experience the new content and gameplay features for themselves. “We’re being a little bit deliberate with vagueness on this one, [...]
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Unlike most MMO’s who’ve already kicked off their respective Halloween events, Elite Dangerous won’t be having one per se but Frontier Developments will be giving away several themed skins for those who want to dress up their ships for the occasion. Players and fans will have the chance to score four Malevolent Ghoul skins for the Anaconda, Asp Explorer, Cobra [...]
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It’s the beginning of a new chapter in Elite Dangerous as the Aftermath saga officially begins alongside the promised 4.0 codebase merge for PC. Aftermath follows the events that started with the destruction of a superweapon that was meant to wipe out the Thargoids once and for all. Thargoids have now set their sights on inhabited systems and multiple Thargoid [...]
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The max exodus from the console version of Elite Dangerous to PC has begun and Frontier Developments has been immediately swamped by requests. According to the developer, they have been receiving lots of requests since the Console Copy Portal opened earlier today. This has caused delays with some transfer requests, some of which took as long as five hours to [...]
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Elite Dangerous console players will finally get to transfer their accounts to the PC version (assuming that they want to make the switch) starting later today. Frontier Developments revealed the welcome news in their latest Discovery Scanner newsletter and promises to reveal more information on the Console Copy Process prior to the portal’s opening. As previously announced, players will get [...]
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Frontier Developments has some good news for Elite Dangerous players on console in its latest newsletter. The portal and system that console players will use to transfer their accounts and progress over to the PC version is currently undergoing testing and the team is pleased to report that it’s “going well”, which bodes well for its scheduled release sometime this [...]
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Elite Dangerous is moving on to a new saga following the cliff-hanger of a conclusion to its two-year-long story arc with the launch of Update 13 earlier this month. The climactic ending featured the destruction of a superweapon when it failed to destroy the Thargoids allowing the alien insectoid race to launch a quick counterattack. Players were able to watch [...]
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Earlier this month, Frontier Developments announced their plans to merge the Horizons and Odyssey codes for the PC version of Elite Dangerous as they make the move to Version 4.0 sometime next month. Following the merge and the new version release, console players will remain on Version 3.8 and will effectively be in maintenance mode for the foreseeable future as [...]
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