News Elite Dangerous: Ascendancy | New Release Date and Release Schedule

[The Lawful]

Never happened to me, but... pre-flight checks are nice things to do.

Do you remember Horrible September or did you join later?

It had nothing to do with pre-flight checks, but serialization of JSON structures and such, and besides, whacky UI programming in terms of REST calls and all the like. But FD learned from it, and the game is remarkably stable since they fixed Odyssey (Horrible September was in times of the now-called Legacy game though).

O7,

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Oh thank you so much for the inspiration! Completely forgot that line.

My first Mandalay will be Rudyard Kipling, and the second one will be called The Blockhead

Hah!

You made me think there.

I'm going to call mine "Ian"

 

[Michael Ryan]

Do you remember Horrible September or did you join later?

It had nothing to do with pre-flight checks, but serialization of JSON structures and such, and besides, whacky UI programming in terms of REST calls and all the like. But FD learned from it, and the game is remarkably stable since they fixed Odyssey.

O7,

So, do we need to back to the past?

 

[Lord Goldmane]

Greetings Commanders!

In order to ensure the best possible experience we have made a small change to the release date of Elite Dangerous: Ascendancy, to adjust an issue with NPCs still being more aggressive than intended.

Thursday 31 October sees the eagerly awaited release of Elite Dangerous: Ascendancy, featuring the new Mandalay exploration ship, Powerplay 2.0 and more!

Here's when things kick off:

• 06:00 GMT - Maintenance begins and Elite Dangerous servers offline
• 15:00 GMT - Maintenance complete and Elite Dangerous: Ascendancy is available

Please note that these are approximate times and are subject to change.

Full patch notes will be available alongside the release of Elite Dangerous: Ascendancy.

Things to be aware of

• Powerplay ranks will be reset when Ascendancy is available. You will need to pledge to a Power if you wish to get involved with Powerplay on release.
• The Mandalay will be available as early access via Arx initially. It will be available for credits in the future.

Personally I would have rather had to have waited until November 5th or 12th to allow the greatest amount of people to have money to pay for the Mandalay

 

[Michael Ryan]

Personally I would have rather had to have waited until November 5th or 12th to allow the greatest amount of people to have money to pay for the Mandalay

And no later than 15th, becasue they'll spend it for some stupid things

 

[ubermick]

tired, disappointing and sad.. Chris Roberts may have been hired..

Comparing an update that's delayed by the grand total of a week to the biggest crowdfunding black hole in gaming history that's over a decade late seems a bit extreme?

 

[The Lawful]

Comparing an update that's delayed by the grand total of a week to the biggest crowdfunding black hole in gaming history that's over a decade late seems a bit extreme?

From what I heard, nobody would want Chris Roberts on the team, and given the Wing Commander film, I tend to believe it. Besides, rumours are that SC is running out of money, despite Squadron 42. But what do I know

Spoiler

Golem.de: IT-News für Profis

(sorry, German only)

O7,

 

[Kira Goto]

It could be an absolute bloodbath where most of the powers lose half their systems in a single week if enough players go on the attack and don't let the Powers establish a properly overlapping defensive structure first.

... or if the Thargoids just so happen to strike one of those stronghold/fortified systems in whatever they're going to do to mess with humans while Cocijo is around to serve as a forward base for them. Maybe not as much loss as your scenario but it could happen.

tired, disappointing and sad.. Chris Roberts may have been hired..

No, we actually have a release date.

 

[CMDR Rusty Dog]

The only thing 'ascending' here is the release date.
Come on guys, pull your fingers out, jeez! Stop doing release dates you can't stick to.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

whilst FD have slipped on a number of release dates and content deliveries over the years ... i really do not think a couple of days delay to tone down a few bits and bobs flagged in internal beta is something to fret about.

i hope the big reveal due on wednesday still goes ahead however

 

[ubermick]

Get a grip man.

The amount of toys hurtling forth from prams at such a velocity from apparently grown adults is astonishing to me. Disappointed it's not out already, fair enough, but jeeeebus.

 

[bookmite]

@CMDRRustyDog

You’ve been around long enough to remember what happened the last updates was rushed out.

Personally I would rather wait until it’s ready without game breaking bugs.

Fly safe

 

[CMDR 501 General Venator]

@CMDRRustyDog

You’ve been around long enough to remember what happened the last updates was rushed out.

Personally I would rather wait until it’s ready without game breaking bugs.

Fly safe

You know that it does not matter how many times they delay it? It will be broken and buggy, as it always have been. I dont remember a single update that did not break anything.
Either dont give any release date and try your best to make it right or just release it and fix it later. But delay after delay wont make anything better

 

[Kozerogix]

Maybe in these wars we will awaken salvation(The witch).
The Thargoid Titans have clearly failed.

 

[HeatherG]

Thanks for the update Paul.
This gives me another couple of days to get back to the bubble. Woop woop

 

[Jack Winter]

Including losing all your fire group configurations everywhere, as has been shown several times in the past

We're all better off if they fix the gamestopper bug first, as it is one apparently.

O7,

Maybe, but in the 6 years that I play I've never lost the keybinds. OK I relatively quickly created a custom preset..

 

[Valorin]

 

[HeatherG]

What date does the "new feature" get announced? Is it Wednesday?

Nothing has been mentioned about it, as far as I'm aware.
I'm anxious to know what it is though.

 

[Jack Winter]

AFAIK, it was said that the "new feature" would be revealed in the next FU.

 

[CMDR_Raikkonen]

AFAIK, it was said that the "new feature" would be revealed in the next FU.

Speculation engine has been going BRRRR for far too long. Fdev would be better just announcing it straight away lol instead of saying a brand new feature to elite, and then leaving 10 months for speculation and people to get their hopes up.

• Ship Interiors?
• Player Bases?
• Different Planet Types?
• NPC Crew?
• Vending Machines?

You see, more people will be probably be disappointed now when it finally gets revealed. FDev never manages expectations very well I don't think.