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Update 17 Release Notes



Greetings Commanders.

The Elite Dangerous Live/4.0 servers are now offline in order to accommodate the deployment of Update 17 for you today.

Please find the corresponding Update Notes at the following location for your interest: https://www.elitedangerous.com/update-notes/4-0-17-0

For any tracking of progress, please reference the Update 17 post here in the Elite Dangerous Forum: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/update-17-release-notes.620569/

We remain on schedule with availability of the update targeting 15:00 BST this afternoon.

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Update 17 Release Schedule

Greetings Commanders.

Happy to share with you the release schedule for Update 17, arriving this Monday October 16th.


[h3]RELEASE SCHEDULE[/h3]
  • Update 17 is set to release Monday, October 16th 2023.
  • AT APPROXIMATELY 06:00 BST – In game server downtime warning broadcast will start.
  • AT APPROXIMATELY 08:00 BST – Elite Dangerous 'LIVE/4.0' Servers will go offline and the Update 17 update notes will become available and shared here on Steam.
  • AT APPROXIMATELY 15:00 BST – Elite Dangerous 'LIVE/4.0' Servers will return online and Update 17 will be Live and available for you all.
DOWNLOAD SIZE INFORMATION: - 2.8 GB
  • Approximately
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HALLOWEEN 2023 | Streamer Paintjob Rewards!

Greetings Commanders.

They're back! Halloween treats in the form of exclusive paint job rewards for our Elite Dangerous streamers!



It doesn't just stop at official partners either!

ANYONE who chooses to stream Elite Dangerous on Twitch this Halloween period (beginning Monday, October 16th at 17:00 UTC until November 12th, 17:00 UTC) can offer up not one, but TWO paint job drops for their audience to redeem!

This offering isn't only limited to Twitch streamers of course, as some of your favourite YouTube creators will also have their own stock of perilous paint to give away as they so choose too!

Learn more over here where there's lots more information for you: https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/halloween-2023-streamer-paintjob-rewards

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PlayStation Plus October leak suggests you'll get another opportunity to ignore amazingly unsettling FPS


Another month, another set of PlayStation Plus leaks, this time for the titles that you'll be able to play at the Extra tier.


If you saw Gotham Knights arriving on Xbox Game Pass earlier this month and thought to yourself "gee willickers, I sure do wish one of 2022's biggest disappointments was on PlayStation Plus Extra too," you're in luck! According to dealabs, that's exactly what's happening, alongside a number of other games, all of which are apparently set to arrive October 17. It should be noted that billbil-kun, who reported on the leak, has a very strong record of PlayStation Plus related leaks. As mentioned, the biggest title to be joining this month is Gotham Knights, though given the mediocre reception to it, you might not be all that fussed about it.


Appropriately for the season, though, is the highly underrated Alien Isolation, an excellent little horror game that serves as a sequel to the original 1979 film. It was also made by Creative Assembly, the developers of the recently cancelled Hyenas. It seems like a number of games appropriate for the Halloween season are being added, as both Dead Island Definitive Edition and The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes are also being added to the service.

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