Elite Dangerous News

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...
Read more.

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.

Read more

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.

Read more