News Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter One Beta Announcement

[CMDR Dreamstate]

Finally! An end to the whole "buy beta and test" debacle once and for all!

Here's hoping with equal beta access available to all that the update will be much more bug free than previous ones

Looking forward to the Q1 update - I had no idea it was going to be this early, I was suspecting it was going to be around the end of February till we saw any kind of Beta and then followed by a release somewhen in March - very impressed!

 

[yianniv]

Great news! I can't wait! Thanks!!

 

[SaliVader]

I'm glad you're making the beta open for everybody, and I hope every beta stays open from now on. It never made sense to me to pay to access a beta...

 

[Whitehair]

Someone can analyze star positions to see where it is?

https://image.ibb.co/mR6esR/Desktop_Screenshot_2018_01_12_11_42_09_61.png

Watch it again - the structure is moving..... it won't be there for long!

 

[El Grillo]

Oh god, what are they going to do to mission rewards. Have they talked about it at all? Maybe we'll finally get some kind of sane progression system in the game???

 

[CMDR Dreamstate]

Someone can analyze star positions to see where it is?

https://image.ibb.co/mR6esR/Desktop_Screenshot_2018_01_12_11_42_09_61.png

True... I wouldn't be surprised if it was already in game... lol

 

[THECATISDEAD]

I believe this is just a scout flying in space, not on a planet surface.

 

[racer1]

Great news

I can see the star field triangulators will be busy

 

[dreampage]

This means the public (and console) versions will arrive sometime in March. It's still a long way off but I can't wait to see what the Chieftain can do! Bring it on, Frontier!

 

[Certacito]

RESULT!!!! Thanks FD

 

[Khelthos]

Oh god..please give it to me!

 

[[VR] optimal_909]

I guess this will the first time I'll do beta testing. Can't wait to see the new planets!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Chieftain but no Krait?

 

[milligna]

Nice to see wing missions are in, hopefully those can be expanded on when squadrons get added.

 

[discocat]

I believe this is just a scout flying in space, not on a planet surface.

It's exactly that.

 

[Prorokpl]

FDev will have most likely faked the star positions. I believe that became their practice after players found the Guardian Ruins ahead of time using that trick .

They did not, that's how ppl found second Thargoid Scout ship crash.

 

[ajg74]

Yay am very excited about this, will be straight in there on beta day, well done FDev I think you have (pleasantly) surprised everyone with this so soon!!

 

[Phoenix_Dfire]

Someone can analyze star positions to see where it is?

Unfortunately that's exactly how the second Thargoid scout was found.

;-)

 

[Barking_Mad]

Hooray for everything !

Woot woot.

You're not Flimley!

(you're right though! HURRAY!)

 

[Olivia Vespera]

Heya folks, I've circled some interesting bits of the ships.

It seems to have three visible hardpoints. two on the top, a class 3 and 4 I imagine, and one class 3 on the bottom.

It is a lakon ship as it has a standard lakon landing gear and it does say lakon on the side.

It has two crew member instead of what we had thought there would be 3 (I guess the krait would be our medium 3 person ship)

Spoiler

Original concept:

and it has rear landing gear that seems to come out of the engine like I believed from the first greybox models we've seen. Also there appears to be potential for -64 bits of controllable lighting that seemm controllable. Is white the final colour?

Here's an old thread I did where I've included those images: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/383211-Chieftain-Size-and-perhaps-other-specs/