Elite: Dangerous News

Frontier Developments offers an update to assuage the Elite Dangerous community’s concerns about console account transfers and the bare-bones development roadmap for 2022. First up on the docket is console account transfers, which, as the studio previously revealed, will now allow players to transfer most of their in-game possessions and not just their credits. The studio also revealed that players [...]

It’s been a rough year for Frontier Developments ever since the release of Elite Dangerous’ problematic Odyssey expansion. Problems that still haven’t been completely fixed a year after the expansion’s launch. Consequently, the studio has decided to stop all future development on the sci-fi MMORPG’s console version to focus their full undivided attention on the PC version. Console players were [...]

Last month, Frontier Developments made the unfortunate announcement that they’ve stopped development on the console version of Elite Dangerous to focus exclusively on the PC version of the space sci-fi MMORPG. Console users who wanted to continue playing the game would have to start over from scratch but were given a one-time chance to transfer their assets. This only applied [...]

Fixing known issues is usually at the top of a video game developer’s list of things to do, especially when it ruins the gameplay experience for players. Some that aren’t as pressing are, more often than not, placed on the backburner until the team has time or manpower to work on it. One such issue is repetitive surface tiling for [...]

Prior to ceasing development on Elite Dangerous on consoles, Frontier Developments gave players a one-time only chance to transfer their assets to the PC version of the sci-fi MMORPG. Players were only allowed to transfer credits and the credit cost of any ships they owned but not the DLCs or any premium currency that they’d purchased. They’d also have to [...]

Now that Frontier Developments has stopped development of Elite Dangerous on consoles and shifted their focus entirely on PC, the team has had time to work on and release Update 11 which has already been delayed twice since the beginning of March. Headlining the update is the addition of Fleet Carrier interiors that players will be able to explore on [...]

It’s a sad day for Elite Dangerous console players as Frontier Developments announces that they’ve stopped all development on the console versions of the sci-fi MMORPG to focus on solely on the PC version. The console version, however, will continue to run in its current state on PlayStation and Xbox but will be in permanent maintenance mode going forward. Here’s [...]

With video game companies and development studios being bought out left and right in the past few months, the Elite Dangerous community is concerned that Frontier Developments might meet the same fate. Frontier’s CEO and Founder David Braben, however, says that the studio being bought out is highly unlikely. In an interview with Financial Times, Braben said that it won’t [...]

Frontier Developments has rolled out the sixth post-launch update to fix and improve the Elite Dangerous Odyssey expansion that came out in May. Of significant note are the new and improved planetary textures and colors as well as new planet surface types to add variation to on-foot explorations. The update also introduces changes to the camera suite, new rocket-equipped Enforcer [...]