Good evening all,
On Tuesday Frontier release Beyond: Chapter One. This is the next major version of Elite Dangerous and it promises some interesting enhancements.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/408105-Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-One-Release-Date
The Wiki gives more readable release notes: http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite_Dangerous:_Beyond
To highlight a few points:
- Wing Missions and Mission improvements. Chapter 1 of Beyond will give you the chance to take on wing missions with your fellow Commanders, sharing both the efforts and rewards.
- Revised Trade Data. Commanders will now be able to access trade data from systems they have previously visited, in order to make more informed decisions when shipping goods across the Milky Way.
- Planetary Visual Improvements. Chapter 1 also includes the first of the planetary visual improvements coming as part of the Beyond series of updates. More surface level improvements are coming later in the year. It brings a new vibrancy to the Elite Dangerous galaxy and encourages wanderlust explorers to discover far systems and planets.
- Crime & Punishment changes. Crimes are now attached to ships rather than CMDRs. Landing at a station with a wanted ship in a system where that ship is wanted will restrict certain services because the ship is forced to use "Anonymous Access Protocol". Modules in a wanted ship are "hot" and cannot be installed in a clean ship, and clean modules become "hot" once installed in a wanted ship. Wanted ships also cannot be transferred into systems where they are wanted.
- Engineering mechanics and accessibility changes. Modification grades are unlocked on a per module basis. Every module must be modified incrementally through each of the five grades.
- Material Trader. Material Traders are dealers in rare materials. They offer to exchange a small amount of rarer materials for a larger amount of common materials, and vice-versa.Technology Broker
- Technology Brokers are dealers in rare technologies, and are usually found in high-tech systems with high security. CMDRs can exchange certain materials with Tech Brokers to unlock unique modules. Once a module is unlocked, it is available for purchase in Outfitting.
- Additional interactions with Bulk Cruiser Megaships. Bulk Cruisers are now equipped with Automated Defence Turrets, Cargo Bays, Hackable Data Transmitters, and Comms Arrays in addition to the original comms log data points. Data Link Scanners can be used to scan entire Megaships and highlight these points of interest.
- GalNet Audio. GalNet reports can be read aloud by a text-to-speech system that is available in all languages in which Elite Dangerous is localized. Reports can be listened to during normal gameplay, without needing to access and view GalNet itself.
- Other changes
[*=2]COVAS. "Victor", a male voice, will be added as an option alongside the original "Verity" female voice, and more options will be made available in the future. Voice options can be individually selected for any ships, fighters, and SRVs the player owns.
[*=2]Two new options for ship callsigns as spoken by station traffic controllers. Players can now choose between using their CMDR name, ship name, or ship ID as their callsign in the audio settings.
[*=2]Material storage is increased. The general cap is replaced by an individual caps for each material. Common materials will have a higher cap than rare ones: 300 for each G1 material, 250 for G2, 200 for G3, 150 for G4, and 100 for G5. Materials also note whether or not they have been previously discovered when targeted, and can be added to an "ignore list" to simplify resource collecting.
[*=2]Module storage is increased from 60 to 120.
[*=2]A second pilot seat will be added to the Keelback, making the ship Multicrew-compatible.
- New Ship: Alliance Chieftain. Elite Dangerous: Horizons Commanders will be able to take to the stars in the new Alliance Chieftain, designed not only to dish out punishment, but to avoid it. Manufactured by Lakon Spaceways, the Chieftain is more maneuverable than ships of similar size and weight, and its combat profile means it can more than hold its own in a fight.
It'll be interesting to try out the multiplayer missions and check out the mega ship missions.
There is also going to be a significant Thargoid presence with plenty of action and background story to follow as the fight with them is really heating up.
Let's hope ....
Bert
And official release notes: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/409060-Elite-Dangerous-Beyond-Chapter-One-3-0
The multiplayer missions allow each wing member to choose their reward and they get 100% of the spoils. Most of the delivery missions are too large to do in one trip so multiple players can either go back and colelct more units alone and risk ambush or wait and fly as a group:
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Being the considerate game leader that I am I spared you all the hassle for playing 3.0.1 and now today 3.0.2 is released with some stability improvements although the initial release was pretty solid:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/412245-Update-3-0-2
Here are a few screenies of a mission to uncover Guardian data.
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It would be nice to know if anyone is interested in winging up for some missions? I'm on most nights mainly playing with a few of Ranualf's crew or Arithon. Come along and try out the new Galnet voice feature, or buy a Chieftan ship and kit it out. Or battle some Thargoids.
Hey ALbert.. how are the DmW doing? I see you're in civil war. Do you have the manpower to win that?
If you need help.. send in an official request at FLC Discord.. maybe we can spare you some manpower.
EDIT: Never mind.. I see you've won.. but you're way down at 5%.. you guys need to get that built back up :)
Quote from: albert;429968Being the considerate game leader that I am I spared you all the hassle for playing 3.0.1 and now today 3.0.2 is released with some stability improvements although the initial release was pretty solid:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/412245-Update-3-0-2
Here are a few screenies of a mission to uncover Guardian data.
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It would be nice to know if anyone is interested in winging up for some missions? I'm on most nights mainly playing with a few of Ranualf's crew or Arithon. Come along and try out the new Galnet voice feature, or buy a Chieftan ship and kit it out. Or battle some Thargoids.
Quote from: Brantford;429969Hey ALbert.. how are the DmW doing? I see you're in civil war. Do you have the manpower to win that?
If you need help.. send in an official request at FLC Discord.. maybe we can spare you some manpower.
EDIT: Never mind.. I see you've won.. but you're way down at 5%.. you guys need to get that built back up :)
Thanks for having our back Brantford. Building back up is an personal objective. We'll see how that goes ;-)