News Beyond - Chapter Four - Beta Announcement
Do you have a source for that confirmation multiple times? That's not what I remember from the reports (under NDA) of the Invited 17.
The Thargoids appear to have a symmetry of 8 (8 lobes or petals), the Guardians have a symmetry of 3 .... everything in threes. These 'objects' or 'organisms' appear to be between those two, so they are either some kind of hybrid combination or they are new aliens. Maybe (and this is highly speculative) the type of organisms that some gas giants in the game are said to have in their atmosphere.
Faraday and all that .. could maybe knock out electronics briefly, and certainly knock the ship around ..
Shaped charges.
What are those dark spikey things? I don't know, but you won't see them in the beta (apparently).
Think of it as a shaped charge designed to split a 'roid and not to blow it up - it that helps. (ninja'd)Hashtag eschew those stupid 2D shockwaves though
Last time we had a trailer, I was told multiple times that trailers aren't supposed to be indicative of real gameplay. So I haven't seen anything to get excited about yet. I'll make up my mind when I see the beta.
3 of them on the right?
Babylon 5 shadows confirmed?
It's Brian Blessed and the Hawkmen
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Lightning strikes are dangerous for aircraft, so I assume spacecraft would be vulnerable as well. It would be cool if there's a good reason to go where the lightning is, risk vs reward like eg a neutron star jump.
Now this sounds interesting.
Very much looking forward to the beta...
moarrr bobbleheads, lol!
Every gardener knows you have to prune this year for growth next year.
I just hope it isn't just going to be the same canned explosion every time, cause that would get boring.
I wonder if rain or any sounds will come after the lightning! 
Just keeps getting better and better. A big thanx to FD
The blame for that rests squarely with Apple. Everyone is consolidating with vulkan, but they had to have their own incompatible 3d API. Elite is not an iOS game, so fdev don't have to play Apple's weird platform games.
They closely resemble larger versions of the Guardian SLFs. Guardian ships confirmed!
this does not help, and isn't even really true. apple may be whatever you want, or worse, but frontier did announce support for mac, did cash in a few licenses, later discovered it was not a good idea and backed out. understandable, but both decisions are squarely on frontier, they do not cast a good light on their technical perspective or leadership, they are not good for consumer confidence, and at the very least would merit a refund (which i guess any mac user would get if addressing support to have the license revoked (i.e., not using bootcamp)).
If Elite players on Apple hardware feel entitled to a refund I'd support their claim, but FDev would be nuts to just follow Apple off a cliff. What happens if Apple announce that they're no longer supporting any version of OpenGL?
