Elite Dangerous News

Greetings Commanders.

Today we will be releasing a small, client side update containing the following:

• Adjustment to lens flares so that they are now appearing on all quality settings and are visible at the correct ranges.
  

Servers will be offline between the hours of 08:00 BST and 10:00 BST in order for deployment to take place. An update will then be available to you shortly after.


Fly safe o7

Greetings Commanders.

Another weekend around the Galaxy comes and goes and we’re back in the cockpit seat, ready for another boosted week ahead.
Maximum throttle. All pips to engines - Let’s get to it!

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Console Copy Process.

Last week we released the latest information around this month’s Console Copy Process, which includes an early, high level release plan in mind for the launch.
You can find the official post here.

As always, thank you for your feedback and for continuing to support one another with thoughts and suggestions on the official Elite Dangerous Forums in the dedicated post. We will continue to farm open questions and respond accordingly.

Naturally we’ll be back ahead of the week commencing September 12th with even more specifics.

'4.0'.

Additionally, we are preparing information around that of the expected ‘4.0’ process for Elite Dangerous Odyssey and Horizons.
Just a little more time on this but we’ll be with you as soon as possible.
Thanks, as always, for your patience.

For more information from today's Discovery Scanner, including the 2 week long Cosmetics Sale starting today, head on over to the official post! www.elitedangerous.com/news/discovery-scanner-05092022



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Greetings Commanders.

Bringing you a Tuesday edition of Discovery Scanner this week due to the bank holiday here on this side of The Galaxy.

If you shared one with us, we hope you had a great one, be it relaxing amidst the stars or pushing for new discoveries.

Game News.
Following your thoughts regarding Elite Dangerous '4.0' access on PC, we released our latest response FAQ which we hope will help add more clarity to key questions that arose from the initial announcement.  
You can find the official post here.
As always, thank you for your feedback and please ask any further questions you may have over in the official Elite Dangerous forums.

Communications Pending...

In light of our expansion on further details regarding access to 4.0, we're happy to confirm that we aim execute the plan to roll this out to all Commanders next month, September 2022.

Our plan also remains in place for the Console migration to PC strategy, to also take place this coming September.

A busy month ahead, for sure.

We will of course issue specific information for both events ahead of their roll out, so do watch out for that as we communicate out across the site, Forum, and official social channels.

For more on this week's Discovery Scanner content, including the current Community Events, head over to the full article here.

o7 Commanders!

two-year-long storyline in Elite Dangerous ended with a bang this month. Actually, there were two bangs in Update 13: the first was the firing of a superweapon in an attempt to destroy the alien Thargoids… quickly followed by the second bang of the Thargoids totally not being destroyed and blowing that superweapon into space-smithereens...
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Sci-fi space flight sim Elite Dangerous’ director has owned up that the game uses noise from recordings of actual space. David Braben said that Frontier Developments incorporate audio from projects such as the British Antactic Survey’s Halley Research Station, which is where the data was collected that revealed that classic environmental disaster, the hole in the ozone layer. Braben’s revelation was prompted by the recent public acknowledgement from NASA that, yes, people really can hear screams in space. Sort of.

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