Elite Dangerous News

Introducing new in to the Elite Dangerous online store today, the Survey Ship Kit!

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​The new 'Survey' ship kit is available for the following ships in a variety of different colours.

• Cobra Mk III
  
• Diamondback Explorer
  
• Asp Explorer
  
• Python
  
• Imperial Cutter
  
• Federal Corvette
  
• Anaconda
  

These are an exciting, new addition to your Elite Dangerous cosmetic experience, with dishes/antenna that rotate, making them our first kits with animated features!​

A pack of 6 Paint Jobs and 1 Kit per ship, yours for 13520 ARX, available now!

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PLEASE NOTE: The additional features of this kit do not in any way provide additional bonuses or gameplay enhancing properties to your ships when equipped. The kit is purely a cosmetic enhancement.
This product also requires the Elite Dangerous: Odyssey expansion And the 4.0 Game Client (PC only)

Greetings Commanders.

Update 16 arrives later today!
Servers are set to return from 16:00 BST with the deployment download ready for you.

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Headline Notes:​

• Added to
  We appreciate the "air of mystery" in comments like this can be a frustration to many of you sometimes, however we do hope that an additional many of you will understand that mystery elements are what can truly make Elite Dangerous an intriguing place to be, especially with evolving narrative elements
• New passenger evacuation missions have been added: Wealthy passengers will now be requesting expedited evacuation from locations affected by the presence of the Thargoids for additional credits (if you can appease their requirements and demands).
  
• As of this Thursday's maintenance 'tick' (August 3) the Thargoids will retreat from any system when their hold on that system is defeated. Previously this would only occur for Invasion systems.
  

In honour of the late Michael Brookes, a new organisation has been added to the game, Brookes Galactic Tours.
You can now find their adverts in most markets and their new megaship, The Legacy, which can be found in Artemis near Freeholm.
Brookes Galactic Tours has also established a new mini-series of tourist beacons to a handful of fantastic locations, the first of this series begins at the beacon at Freeholm. We hope you enjoy exploring and will take a moment to pause and enjoy the wonder that Mike helped bring to the universe of Elite.

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Please find full information on what's included in Update 16, along with notable issue fixes, over at the following article: https://www.elitedangerous.com/update-notes/4-0-16-0

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o7 Commanders.

Greetings Commanders.

Happy to share some much anticipated news and information with you this morning, regarding the release date and schedule for Update 16.

Release Schedule
[PLEASE NOTE A MINOR DATE SHIFT] Update 16 will now be releasing Tuesday, August 1st 2023.

• 06:00 BST – In game server downtime warning broadcast will start.
  
• 08:00 BST – Elite Dangerous 'LIVE/4.0' Servers will go offline and the Update 16 update notes will become available.
  
• 16:00 BST – Elite Dangerous 'LIVE/4.0' Servers will return online and Update 16 will be Live and available for you all.
  

Download Size Information: Approximately 3GB

See you on release day!

o7 and a wonderful day to you.

Greetings Commanders,

At 11am BST today, we will release a new launcher for Elite Dangerous on PC.
This will provide Commanders with easy access to all versions of Elite that they own.

We do not anticipate any major downtime.



The new launcher will be available via Steam shortly, in a prompted, small update to the game once deployment is complete.

If any critical issue technical support is required on first experience of the new launcher deployment, please submit a customer support ticket at the following link.

See you in the black, Commanders o7

Greetings Commanders.

Here with an alert to a number of summer-time savings from Frontier and the Elite Dangerous Gamestore!



FRONTIER STEAM SUMMER SALE!

Get up to 75% off Elite Dangerous products in the Frontier Summer Sale here on Steam until Thursday, July 13th - 18:00 BST!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/359320/Elite_Dangerous/

These reductions are once again offered up to help welcome in new Commanders to the Galaxy of Elite Dangerous or Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, so if you're yet to lift off in Odyssey yourself, or know of any would-be-Commanders out there that'd like to answer that call of the Galaxy at a bargain price, there's no better time than now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1336350/Elite_Dangerous_Odyssey/

Discounts include:

• 75% off Elite Dangerous
  
• 65% off Elite Dangerous: Odyssey
  
• 65% off Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Deluxe Edition
  
• 65% off Elite Dangerous: Commander Premium Edition
  
• 60% off Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Official Soundtrack
  

ELITE DANGEROUS SUMMER LIVERY SALE!

If you're already out in the black and blazing your trail, why not check out additional offerings as part of the 'Elite Dangerous Summer Livery Sale', over in the Elite Dangerous Gamestore?

Discounts include:

• 40% off 'Carapace' Packs.
  
• 30% off Ship Kits, Cockpit Customisation, COVAS, Gear Sets, Weapon Skins, Fleet Carrier Layouts & Fleet Carrier ATCs.
  
• 20% off Paint Jobs, Weapon Colours, Engine Colours, Fleet Carrier Paint Jobs, Fleet Carrier Drive Colours, Fleet Carrier Holo-Markers.
  

The 'Elite Dangerous Summer Livery Sale' starts NOW (as of June 30, 12:30 BST) and ends July 7 2023, at 23:59 BST.

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As always, we love to see you showing off your personalised looks as you set out on your journeys across the Galaxy.

Have a wonderful day, Commanders o7