Elite: Dangerous News

It’s been three months since the highly-awaited Odyssey expansion arrived in Elite Dangerous, bringing with it the ability to explore planets on foot and foot-based missions and content. Unfortunately, despite nearly a month of testing, the expansion shipped out with a seemingly endless list of bugs and issues and missing features which didn’t sit well with the game’s community. Since [...]

Frontier Developments has moved on to Phase 2 of the ongoing Elite Dangerous Odyssey alpha test. Phase 2 focuses on combat and will revolve around testing the expansion’s weapons and balancing as well as faction conflicts which take place in ground-based versions of Conflict Zones, the game’s version of battlegrounds. Ground-based Conflict Zones are a new way of influencing the [...]

It’s been ten days since Frontier Developments kicked off Phase 1 of the Elite Dangerous Odyssey alpha test and the team is now ready to move on to Phase 2. The studio announced their plans to start the next phase of testing today at 3am PDT or sometime this week at the latest. The schedule, however, is still subject to [...]

Phase 1 of the Elite Dangerous Odyssey alpha test is still in full swing and the developer Frontier Developments is continuing to gather feedback from participants, most of which point to two issues: long travel times when using the Apex Interstellar shuttle service and dying soon after landing due to hostile NPCs and players. The studio addressed these two concerns [...]

It’s only been a few days since the start of the Elite Dangerous Odyssey alpha test and the developers have already rolled out several hotfixes to sort out pressing issues that popped up during the test. On day 1, the team rolled out a hotfix to address crashes that occurred when using the Galaxy Map search function or when performing [...]

Frontier Developments has just kicked off the first phase of the Elite Dangerous Odyssey alpha test giving Lifetime Expansion pass holders and players who pre-purchased the expansion a chance to test out the expansion’s new first-person exploration features. As announced last week, Phase 1 of the Odyssey alpha will focus on testing core systems and networking. Participants will have access [...]

Frontier Developments is gearing up for the start of the Elite Dangerous Odyssey Alpha next week by revealing the roadmap for the multi-phase test. The expansion will add the ability to explore planets on foot along with a variety of ground-based missions and first-person combat. Phase 1 kicks off on Monday and will be focusing on putting the core systems [...]

Frontier Developments dropped more information about the upcoming Elite Dangerous Odyssey expansion during a Q&A livestream last week. During the stream, the developers talked about the last week’s mission playthrough video and revealed a number of interesting details about settlements, settlement types, factions, mission objectives, equipment loadouts, and more. According to the devs, available ground missions and the variations of [...]

The time for Elite Dangerous players to boldly go where no player has gone before is close at hand as the Odyssey PC alpha test kicks off on March 29. “The Elite Dangerous galaxy’s rich setting and open-ended design reaches a new level of depth thanks to Odyssey’s feet-on-the-ground gameplay,” said Frontier Developments in their latest press release. "Introducing the [...]

The Xbox Game Pass library of sci-fi titles continues to grow as Elite Dangerous joins the next batch of games coming to the video game subscription service on February 25. Do note that the game will only be available on consoles through Xbox Game Pass. Other MMOs available through the service include ARK: Survival Evolved, Destiny 2, Elder Scrolls Online, [...]