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Update 18.07 | Friday 5th July 2024

Greetings Commanders,

A new update will be available for Elite Dangerous Live/4.0 on Friday 5th July. This update focuses on improvements to the Thargoid War experience.

Release Schedule - Friday 5th July 2024
7AM UTC/8AM BST - Servers offline
11AM UTC/12PM BST - Servers back online

Please be aware that these are approximate timings and as such are subject to change.

Features of Note:
  • Ram Tah has been hard at work continuing his investigations of the Anti-Guardian Zone deployed by Thargoids. His most recent breakthrough now allows all Guardian Modules to have the Anti-Guardian Zone Resistance modification applied to them, without penalty.
    • The reduction to Guardian weapon damage has been removed
      • All weapons previously modified with the damage reducing modification have automatically received the improved modification
      • The AX Chieftain prebuilt ship is now delivered with the improved modification


Titan Multiplayer Improvements
  • A number of improvements to Titan instance stability & improvements to the Titan venting cycle
  • Reduced maximum number of Thargoid Ships within Titan instances