Elite Dangerous News

Greetings Commanders!

We're back! It's a Frameshift Live kinda week and we're excited to see those of you who'll be there to join us for it!

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When? : Thursday May 18 at 16:00 BST.

Where? : Elite Dangerous official Twitch and Youtube channels, as well as the Frontier Twitch channel too.

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**PLEASE NOTE: THIS STREAM WILL BE FULL TO THE BRIM WITH SPOILERS AROUND UPDATE 15 CONTENT**

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This week's show is a bumper packed one, set to include all you've come to expect with the usual waffle at the start - sorry - the in game news rundown, Stellar Screenshots highlights and Community content shares, but wait! There's more!

• Special developer guests! That's right, more than the one I said we would have in the last communication you had on this!
  
• All new seasonal Twitch Drops!
  
• Introducing some VERY special COMMUNITY drops!
  
• Elite Dangerous Partner Program drops are back!
  
• A SPECIAL PRIZE for a lucky viewer!
  

There's a lot going on!

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To read a little more information on some of the above, head over to the following article: www.elitedangerous.com/news/frameshift-live-30

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Hope to see you there, Commanders!

Have a great week until then o7

Elite Dangerous finally lets its players inside its mysterious Thargoid Maelstrom clouds today thanks to the arrival of Update 15, but having now seen what's waiting inside thee huge gas giants, you know what? The Thargoids can keep this corner of the galaxy. I'm getting the hell out, because I do not have the space legs to tackle the enormous nasties lurking at the centre of them. But I can tell you about them, though, as Frontier Developments have shared some exclusive sneaky info with us about what players can expect to find when they finally make it in there.

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Update 15 is almost upon us.

The Elite Dangerous 'Live/4.0' Servers are now offline, ready to welcome in newness to the Galaxy.

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Features of Note

• A new mission to restore power to settlements and retrieve data from within Thargoid-controlled territory has been added. This new mission can be found at mission boards in systems in the Alert or Invasion states.
  
• The Thargoid Pulse Neutraliser module has been added to Outfitting and Tech Broker at all rescue ships. Commanders who are entitled to one of these modules for their efforts and prior investigations can find theirs stored at the Orunmilla megaship.
  
• The Revenant seeks you...Take caution when investigating Thargoid controlled territory at abandoned settlements...
  
• What more awaits...?
  

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UI updates.
There have been a number of notable changes made by the UI team. These have been labelled as clearly as possible for you in the update notes provided.

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These are but the surface selection of headline changes for Update 15, however you can find full information on what's included in Update 15, along with notable issue fixes, over at the following article: www.elitedangerous.com/news/elite-dangerous-update-15-release-notes

o7 Commanders.

Greetings Commanders.

The time has come and we're all extremely excited to welcome in Update 15 for you all, this coming Tuesday - May 9th.

Please see below for the planned release schedule.

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05:00 GMT
Downtime warning ahead of server downtime for Elite Dangerous 'Live/4.0' Commanders - in game broadcast.

07:00 GMT
Servers for Elite Dangerous 'Live/4.0' will go down. Elite Dangerous 'Legacy' servers will remain online.

15:00 (approx)
Servers for Elite Dangerous 'Live/4.0' will return, along with deployment download of Update 15.

Approximate Build Size: 10 GB
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Notes:
Update notes will be delivered via web link in a post here on Steam, during server downtime.

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Thank you, as always, for remaining open minded to potential changes we might face when plans such as these are shared ahead of time.

If anything at all impacts the above deployment schedule plan, then we shall be sure to keep you informed.

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o7 Commanders.

After being invaded by Thargoids at the end of last year, Elite Dangerous is now letting its players fight back in its next update. Update 15 introduces a new tool to help players finally get inside the mysterious Thargoid Maelstrom clouds that have been cropping up across the galaxy ever since the invasion began last November. However, there are also new enemy classes and Thargoid vessels to encounter, and one in particular - the Hunter-class Glaive - looks very nasty indeed.

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