Elite Dangerous: In Case You Missed It | Update 14 Release Date and More!

sallymorganmoore

Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Greetings Commanders!

In case you missed it, Frameshift Live Episode #21 contained a few exciting hints of what's to come in Update 14, which is now confirmed to release on November 29th!

During the livestream there was talk of:
  • An all new Thargoid Interceptor with unique characteristics.
  • Upgraded AX weaponry to get Commanders into the fight faster!
  • An increase in payout for EXObiology!
Hear all about the above and more by catching up on the show here:



These weeks genuinely are flying by in the Galaxy right now, Commanders but there's still lots to come before the year ends.

Fear not, we will be sharing preparations and walking alongside you throughout Update 14 Launch day, as usual with any update release, right here in the Forums.
I'll be sure to share the expected order of proceedings with you as soon as they're mapped out, ahead of time, and we can make a start on this new journey together!

Thank you for being here! Have a wonderful weekend ahead.

o7



In other News:
What happened to the "Old Galnet" site earlier today?
  • Rest assured, Bruce will be here to take the baton on that shortly and post out separately for you all, to address the sudden appearance of redirects encountered between community.elitedangerous.com/ and www.elitedangerous.com/news/galnet. The redirects are no longer in place and we would personally like to thank you for the conversations shared during the time of this happening this morning. We'll explain in more detail the happenings shortly o7
  • [EDIT] Post is now live and available HERE.
 
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DrinkyBird

DrinkyBird
ED and Splatoon 3 getting updates at the same time… I need to figure out how to play two games at once. Anyone know how to grow another pair of arms?
 

Darth Ender

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does xenobiology involve any gameplay yet? like do the life forms we're scanning react to us ... are some hostile? are there rival pharmaceutical corps taking hits out on anyone getting near certain high value specimens?

I would think that would lead to player involvement more than just upping the profit for what amounts to surface exploration (goto place - stare/honk - goto another place ..repeat forever because none of it means anything as far as the game is concerned)
 

sallymorganmoore

Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Darth Ender said:
does xenobiology involve any gameplay yet? like do the life forms we're scanning react to us ... are some hostile? are there rival pharmaceutical corps taking hits out on anyone getting near certain high value specimens?

I would think that would lead to player involvement more than just upping the profit for what amounts to surface exploration (goto place - stare/honk - goto another place ..repeat forever because none of it means anything as far as the game is concerned)
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These are great ideas for sure :) No harm in sharing them - it's great to hear!
 

CMDR X

CMDR X
YaY!
Are you going to hopefully remove the stupid, stupid, stupid 4 AX weapon limit??
That single-handedly ruins AX combat!

I want a 9 Turret AX MC Type 10 damit!
And speed up the Xeno scanner so we can target the hearts with those turrets!
 
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DrinkyBird

DrinkyBird
sallymorganmoore said:
As an aside, I see how passionate you are about Splatoon on Twitter. It's really wholesome.
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It's wholesome until the netcode falls apart - see the Twitch clip I tweeted last weekend for an example...
And if it's any further consolation, I think I have more playtime in ED than all Splatoon games combined! It's getting closer though...
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Will U14 have (as hinted at in a Galnet News thingy) an economy / commodity tweak as well (as part of the narrative // about balancing things)?
 

marx

marx
sallymorganmoore said:
  • An increase in payout for Xenobiology!
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Are there any plans to include the spaceborne life in Notable Stellar Phenomena in the exobiology (here referred to as xenobiology) rank? It's rather odd that neither scanning nor sampling them contributes to the rank (nor the exploration rank), and that you can only advance that by juicing plants down on the surface. The life up in space is pretty decent content, and much more interactive than the flora down there, so it would be good to "promote" them a bit.
Oh, and the credit values of the samples you can get from the larger ones via research limpets could use a buff too, they only pay tiny amounts.

Also, while we're on the subject: will exobiology samples obtained now also get the payout buff when the update comes, or will the buff only apply to samples gathered after Update 14 goes live? It would be good to know this, so if we find something now, we could decide whether to gather the samples now or to do it later.
 
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Angus

Angus
sallymorganmoore said:
Greetings Commanders!

In case you missed it, Frameshift Live Episode #21 contained a few exciting hints of what's to come in Update 14, which is now confirmed to release on November 29th!

During the livestream there was talk of:
  • An all new Thargoid Interceptor with unique characteristics.
  • Upgraded AX weaponry to get Commanders into the fight faster!
  • An increase in payout for Xenobiology!
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Personally, the pay out doesn't really bother me, I just wish that the act of scanning involved a modicum of skill and some player agency. I know some people are probably content with it, but to me it's something that could potentially be like deep core mining at the molecular level, but instead it's essentially "stain spotting".
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
sallymorganmoore said:
Yess this was the hint setter-upper for the Exobiology payout part o7
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I mean this, underneath the exobiology bit...

“The news has also caused a stir across most financial markets. The main issue is the unpredictability of what this could mean for primary industries and their ability to maintain traditional supply and demand. The cost of goods and services may be impacted across clusters of systems. The Bank of Zaonce has announced it is monitoring the situation and is preparing several potential strategies in the event of an interstellar recession.”
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Is Dav putting on his BGS labcoat? Will the tea burn causing an economic quake?
 

Darth Ender

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I'd settle for them just re-doing the powerplay characters as holo-me generated visages so that we can have new assets involving them that aren't 8 year old portraits when they show up in galnet news and such.

as far as powerplay revamping.

edit: or just pay rubbernuke to license his stuff that's been photoshopped over the last half decade. the galaxy needs some kumo burger ads on those holo projectors and in stations and Utopia needs a banner in their capitol showing General Zaan, so everyone visiting knows that while Utopia is the awesomest, it will put the smack down where it needs to. Dirty dissidents.
 
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