Elite Dangerous News

Greetings Commanders.

Hoping you had a great weekend just passes and are ready to make new discoveries this week in the Galaxy of Elite Dangerous o7

Game News
We’re aware than many of you are patiently awaiting follow up responses to your questions regarding the future of Elite Dangerous “versioning”, Console Transfers and updates on known issues.
We’re getting close with these now, so thank you for continuing to bear with us.
We received a huge response with some very valid and discussion worthy concerns and queries we want to address as accurately as possible.

For the full article about CGs, Events and a change to our livestream schedule this week head over to the official Elite Dangerous post.

The latest titles to come to Xbox Game Pass have been announced, and while there's some good titles on the way, it's also that time of the month again where we commiserate the great games that are soon to be leaving.

Amongst the titles leaving is NBA 2K22, Two Point Hospital, and Elite: Dangerous. So, I've bad news for both avid space explorers, basketball pros, and hospital managers alike, as all three will be bidding farewell to Xbox Games Pass on August 31.

This isn't all, either. There's truly a cracking line-up of titles leaving in just a couple of weeks, which consists of a few quaint but enjoyable indie titles. These include Spiritfarer, Twelve Minutes, What Remains of Edith Finch, and Signs of the Sojourner.

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Greetings Commanders.

Last week was quite a one! We're already getting enthusiastically stuck into this one with today's Discovery Scanner for starters.

Here's to a great week ahead for all. ‘Galactical Housekeeping’ time!

[h3]Game News[/h3]
Update 13 Post Release Recap:
As many of you are very much aware, Update 13 arrived last week on August 9th. Full review of the update notes which accompanied this release can be found here.

• On Friday we released a small supplement update to address a small number of issues, particularly around some unexpected behaviour with fines and bounties applying from erroneously active fire zones. More on this can be recapped here.
  
  
• As with any aftermath (no pun intended but I’ll use the term anyway) of updates and the wonderful stir of conversation they bring, we are still farming feedback and relaying discussions around remaining, highly talked about issues with the development team to ensure we can provide accurate responses regarding their acknowledgement and progress. We will be with you as soon as we can o7
  
  
• In the coming week's we plan to offer the option for PC players to launch the game on the 4.0 codebase to try it out. Odyssey will still be an optional upgrade and necessary for on-foot content.
  
• Players will still need to have the same version (Horizons or Odyssey) to instance together in game.
  

We appreciate there are still a number of questions around this subject matter for us to elaborate on and will answer as many as we can in due course.

To continue reading, head over to the full post on the Official Elite Dangerous News Page, HERE.

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Greetings Commanders!

Following feedback collection and bug reports since the launch of Update 13, we're making the following changes which should already be live in game:

[h2]Version 3.8 - Horizons Only [/h2]

Due to the Fire Zones of the Overlook and the Oath of Tyndareus still being erroneously active, as well as the Heart of Taurus and Bright Sentinel still having online Landing Pads the following has been changed:

• All "Reckless Weapon Discharge", "Assault" and any violation of a Fire Zone will trigger the standard responses from the Overlook and the Oath of Tyndareus. However they will not apply a Permanent Fine or a Bounty.
  
  
• Pad Loitering at the Heart of Taurus and the Bright Sentinel is the same. They will respond as normal but the long term fines or Bounties will not be applied. These changes only apply to those locations, Fines and Bounties will be applied normally when committing any other kind of crime, or committing those specific crimes at other locations in HIP 22460
  

[h2]Version 4.0 - Odyssey Only [/h2]

• Players with bounties worth multiple billions of credits will be able to log in again
  
• Thargoids enjoyed playing CQC but have had their fill and will return to the main game mode
  

As always, thanks for your feedback!

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Elite Dangerous's Update 13 is live now, bringing an end to the two-year-long Azimuth Saga and laying the groundwork for the space sim's ominously titled next chapter, Aftermath. There's a cinematic video below which reveals the climax of the event, and then I'll dig into the patch notes a little.

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