News Beyond - Chapter Three Launch Announcement

Delta32x

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beckisback said:
I mean no offence but dude, you're flying across the galaxy shooting aliens...
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Paul_Crowther said:
Greetings Commanders,

Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter Three is launching on August 28, and is the second of our two smaller content updates before the larger update called Chapter Four at the end of the year. Hereā€™s a breakdown of the key features that we talked about at Gamescom:


Guardian Beacons

New Guardian Beacons have been discovered in the galaxy. These will lead you to new discoveries and help you uncover new Guardian secrets. The puzzles you solve at these giant structures will lead you to unlock some incredible new technology.


New Ships ā€“ Hybrid Fighters

The Hybrid fighters combine the best of both standard and Guardian technology to make them hyper-effective combat machines. They come in three variants:

  • The Trident armed with a plasma charger
  • The Javelin with a shard launcher
  • The Lance with a gauss projector

These ships are light, fast and agile with strong shields to let them dart into the fray. The trade-off, as with other smaller fighters, is that they have weaker hulls.

To acquire a Hybrid fighter blueprint you will need to investigate new Guardian beacons which will point you in the direction of the sites to investigate.

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New Ship ā€“ The Alliance Crusader

A new member of the Alliance ship group, the Crusader acts as a midpoint between the Chieftain and the Challenger with one very important difference: A fighter bay!




Engineers in Colonia!

The Engineers have arrived in Colonia! The engineers will be found at planet bases across the Colonia region and will only be available to players who have purchased the Horizons expansion and have done some engineering previously.

The new Engineers will only make contact with Commanders who have interacted with Felicity Farseer, Elvira Martuuk, The Dweller, Liz Ryder and Tod ā€œThe Blasterā€ Mcquinn. As with all existing Engineers, the new additions will all have to be unlocked before they make their services available.

Given that Colonia is a human colony on the fringe of space, not all technology will be available at first. Commanders out in fringe will need to work together with the Engineers to expand the available tech. That means the more a recipe is used the sooner will the improved version be made available.

Each Engineer will start as level 1 and as usual you will need to complete a request to unlock the engineer before you can upgrade any modules. The community can work together to raise the level of these engineers from 1 to 3! The current grade of the Engineers will be show on a local news article.




Wing Missions

Commanders will have the opportunity to take on planetary Wing Missions, further increasing the mission types you can take on with your friends.


More Weapons!

The galaxy grows ever more dangerous, so we've increased the available firepower to help you defend yourselves. The following weapons have been added to outfitting:

  • Large Dumbfire Missile
  • Large Seeking Missile
  • Large Torpedo Launcher
  • Large Multi Cannon (turret)

The following weapons have been added to the human tech broker:

  • Small Shock Cannon (turret)
  • Small Shock Cannon (gimbal)
  • Small Shock Cannon (fixed)

The following weapons have been added to the Guardian tech Broker

  • Small Guardian plasma launcher (turret)
  • Small Guardian plasma launcher (fixed)
  • Small Guardian Shard Cannon (turret)
  • Small Guardian Shard Cannon (fixed)
  • Small Guardian Gauss Cannon (fixed)

Thanks again for your continued support Commanders. We can't wait to see what you think of these new additions! o7
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Any info on when the game will be back up and running for console? I have been looking all morning but the only info I could find was for past updates. People were saying they took about 9 hours.... Is this also true for chapter 3 update? I hope not, but it is what it is.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Delta32x said:
Any info on when the game will be back up and running for console? I have been looking all morning but the only info I could find was for past updates. People were saying they took about 9 hours.... Is this also true for chapter 3 update? I hope not, but it is what it is.
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You didn't look very hard:
Paul_Crowther said:
Greetings Commanders!

The Galaxy Servers will be down from 9AM BST today for approximately 6 hours to allow us to update to Beyond Chapter 3.
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Though now they're saying an extra hour.
 

askavir

askavir
beckisback said:
I mean no offence but dude, you're flying across the galaxy shooting aliens...
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I don't think is that far-fetched that other sentient species exist somewhere else. The galaxy is bloody frikkin enormous, and we can't even tell (yet) what's in the planets on Alpha Centauri, which is the closest star system, so how can we possibly know what's in the billions of others?
 

Delta32x

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Factabulous said:
You didn't look very hard:



Though now they're saying an extra hour.
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Lol. Honestly I looked as best I could, I'm just new to frontier forums and am learning to navigate. Thanks for the info though. šŸ˜Š o7 and that's great news! That means I only have about another 30 minutes to an hour to wait.
 

Delta32x

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EnvidiaPro said:
Agh the wait is killing me. I've been up since the servers went down just waiting. Luckily the live stream is making the wait a little better. Have the day off of work too. Can't wait to grab a Crusader.
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Yes! The only thing that stopped me from getting any of the alliance ships like the chieftan was the lack of a fighter bay. Now I think I may get one. I like the design of them. They remind me of dropships you see in sci-fi movies.
 

Han Zulu

Han Zulu
CMDR_A1R said:
Thought file transfer was fast these days, does'nt take 7 hours to copy files over to main server and if the delays are down to tests, should'nt these have been done before the update.
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I suspect it's not so much copying files that takes time, but updating a very large database. Just considering that there might need modifications to the user records, and they're in the millions alone, but then you have other tables and relational tables, that all needs to tag along properly. And since I used to do these things myself, I know how easy some little problem sneaks in and how many hours it can take to fix. I worked for a company for some years that had to run updates each night that took 4-6 hours, while everyone was logged out. Time quickly adds up.
 

Micha

Micha
"The Engineers have arrived in Colonia! The engineers will be found at planet bases across the Colonia region and will only be available to players who have purchased the Horizons expansion and have done some engineering previously."

Way to go, FDev, great stuff! Fantastic. Finally add new Content to Colonia, but only for people willing to make the round-trip back to the Bubble. .

Also, just got the EMail for Beyond Chapter 3, fired up Steam, downloaded an update, launched the game, but I'm still on v3.2? I had already updated to 3.2 a couple of months back, was there a point update in-between that I missed?
[EDIT]Ah.. nvm, v3.2 -is- Beyond Chapter 3. Kinda figured it'd be v3.3.... but since when have version numbers ever made sense in relation to product names? [Edit2] The last point was NOT a dig at FDev; it's endemic to the software industry in general.

Oh, well, back to Kerbal Space Program... guess I'm going to wait until Chapter4 to see if there's anything actually worthwhile for me in these updates. So far, it's just been more and more pew pew against the Thargoids. What ever happened to being able to interact with them differently? All up personally I'm pretty underwhelmed so far by Season3, but glad to see FDev is still working on the game (emphasis seems to be on their newer titles at present) and really looking forward to the long-promised exploration updates.
 
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Scubadog

Scubadog
Has anyone found where the Crusader is sold in the Colonia region? Having a devil of a time finding a shipyard that has it.
 

Delta32x

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Scubadog said:
Has anyone found where the Crusader is sold in the Colonia region? Having a devil of a time finding a shipyard that has it.
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I downloaded a handy app called "EDcompanion". It has purchase locations of all ships and their prices. Plus it has info about much more than ships. I would recommend it.
 
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