Elite Dangerous

Greetings Commanders,

In light of the upcoming bank holidays, Update 12's release date is moving to 7 June. This is to ensure the development team are available to monitor the changes post-launch. Thank you for understanding!

In case you missed it, we discussed some of the expected changes in our latest episode of Frameshift Live:

Greetings Commanders!

Welcome to this week's Discovery Scanner! You'll have no doubt noticed that it now has a new home on our website, so if you're new to the site, make sure to look around the community section to check out everything from Galnet news to the Community Event Calendar! Now, on with this week's post.

Greetings Commanders,

We’d like to thank you all for your patience whilst we’ve been working on our communications and development plans for the remainder of the year.

Following the launch of Odyssey, our primary focus has been on performance, optimisation and bug fixing, along with adding more features. This focus has had a knock-on effect with regards to our plans for this year and beyond and delayed our communications.

Greetings Commanders,

Elite Dangerous is a game close to my heart.

It’s no secret that Odyssey’s launch was less than ideal, including the need to split the PC/console player base to focus on a PC-only launch. Since Odyssey’s release in May 2021, we have worked tirelessly to improve the Odyssey experience on PC, and whilst we have made great progress there is still more to be done. We have been supporting the pre-Odyssey and post-Odyssey codebases since.

Greetings Commanders,

Today we launched Update 11 for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, adding some exciting features for our players, such interior environments to Drake-Class Carriers and a new Protect missions, offering players additional first-person combat challenges to complete.

Fleet Carrier Interiors

Players can now use Fleet Carriers as social hubs, enjoying the breathtaking first-person views of space while inside these mobile bases. Take a seat, have a pleasant ride and experience Fleet Carrier jumps from a completely new perspective.

Greeting Commanders,

Today we have launched Update 9 for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, bringing a number of performance improvements, fixes and additional features including the new Scorpion SRV.

Vodel’s new Scorpion SRV is built to tackle Odyssey’s extensive new on-foot combat action, allowing players to take the fight to both ground and aerial threats with two pieces of weaponry as standard; take care of waves of infantry with the Surge Repeater’s high-powered laser, or protect the skies with the Aculeus Launcher's tracking missiles.