News Development Update - 8th Jan

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Michael Brookes

Game Director
Hi everyone,

As promised in an earlier post we want to provide more visibility on what we have planned for Elite: Dangerous over the coming months. We have some exciting times ahead and while I can’t reveal everything that’s coming we will provide regular updates regarding what we’re working on and what’s coming up. The plans for releases are being finalised now that the team is back from the holidays, but we will share these with you as we progress through the coming year.

Our first commitment is supporting the game with regular updates. This won’t just be the fixes and tweaking we’ve provided since release but will also add new features and content. Examples of this are Wings and associated multiplayer features, as well as the additional ships mentioned in recent newsletters. We’re proud of the fantastic game that we released before Christmas but intend to keep growing and developing it. To make this happen we’re expanding the team working on the game so that we can maintain a regular schedule of updates as well as working on paid expansions.

We’ll also be having beta test periods for these major updates and access to these will be open to players who already have beta access for the game. More details on this will be revealed in the coming weeks.

Regarding Elite: Dangerous on other platforms, as you know we have already been working on putting the native Mac version of the game together and as expected this should enter beta in about three months time. As the beta date is firmed up we’ll keep you updated.

Thanks!

Michael
 
Our first commitment is supporting the game with regular updates. This won’t just be the fixes and tweaking we’ve provided since release but will also add new features and content. Examples of this are Wings and associated multiplayer features, as well as the additional ships mentioned in recent newsletters. We’re proud of the fantastic game that we released before Christmas but intend to keep growing and developing it. To make this happen we’re expanding the team working on the game so that we can maintain a regular schedule of updates as well as working on paid expansions.

We’ll also be having beta test periods for these major updates and access to these will be open to players who already have beta access for the game. More details on this will be revealed in the coming weeks.


This to me is very exciting. Highly looking forward to seeing what's coming. Also surprised to see that beta testers will still get to do their part in trying things out before release, very interesting indeed.
 
Sorry for my english but I am a bit confused about one thing here: is the beta for the expansions or for all these "major changes" even if they don't qualify as a paid expansion?
 

cmbloise

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Thank you for the info! And as a beta backer you can count with me to help make this game the best it can be! :)
 
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@Michael, thanks for the news, it's really great to have some kind of update for the community....I for one, will continue to support the game with paid-for skins, etc, as I see updates and development continuing. i've already got the expansion pass from when I subscribed to the Premium Beta but I'd like to continue to help support with funding.

Just not any more at the moment... ;)
 
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