Elite Dangerous Black Friday Event | Midnight Black Paint Jobs Now In Store!

sallymorganmoore

Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
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Greetings Commanders!

Just a little courtesy message to say that the much anticipated 'Midnight Black' paint jobs are now in stock in the Elite Dangerous Gamestore,
with 20% off!
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As a little recap of the Black Friday Event on a whole:
  • There is currently up to 40% off Ship Kits and Gear Sets.
  • As well as up to 30% off select Paint Jobs, Cockpit Customisation, Detailing and Weapon Colours.
We still haven't forgotten Cyber Monday (November 28th)! Which is set to welcome in the other event favourites, the Stygian Paint Jobs!



FAQ:
Livery Error - Suit Cosmetics. I'm still hitting this issue, is there an update on progress with addressing this? (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...ror-when-equipping-flight-suit-livery.609893/)
  • Thank you so much for your patience in waiting on further information regarding this issue. Happy to confirm that this has a fix in place for Update 14, coming November 29th.
Will Midnight and Stygian be available from the 25th/28th until the end of the sale, or just for their respective days?
  • Yes! Both Midnight and Stygian paint jobs will be available until the end of the Black Friday sale event once released (so the 5th). They will not only be available for their respective days o7
Enough about Black Friday, Sally, when will we know what's happening on Update 14 release day!?*
  • It's a big one! As you know. We're working on all of the fine tuning and full information on the release schedule/plan will be released ahead of the 29th for you. This is looking like it'll be Monday but we'll do the usual and keep you as informed as possible with all the details and expectation we have, once we're sound with it o7



Have a fantastic Friday, Commanders, and weekend ahead.

See you in the Black (Friday Sales) o7
 

Ozric

Volunteer Moderator
Ozric
Thanks a lot Sally, I might look at getting some for my Alt account as I have a couple of ships without any paintjobs. Though as Cmdr X said, I hope they've been fixed in 4.0 so they are Black and not Grey, because with the split on Tuesday you will probably be getting a lot more people commenting about the incorrectly coloured paintjobs.
 

DrinkyBird

DrinkyBird
Thank god I have like 8000 Arx spare, because I just dropped £2600 on a new laptop and now can't afford any more of our beloved tasty blue triangles...
 

sallymorganmoore

Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Ozric said:
I hope they've been fixed in 4.0 so they are Black and not Grey, because with the split on Tuesday you will probably be getting a lot more people commenting about the incorrectly coloured paintjobs.
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Just to add a bit of (I wanted to say, shed some light) topping to this - it's not (as it stands) the paint jobs that are the issue with differences between Horizons and Odyssey, it's the lighting changes and the impact that has on how the paint looks. I've not got anything more on that really but I'll keep spreading the thoughts along.
 

Northpin

Northpin
My wallet right now:

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sallymorganmoore

Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Kimosabe_X said:
Hmm... time to start working on the lighting then ?
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We've been doing little bits here and there on it in Odyssey for a fair old time actually, with one of the biggest issue tracker tickets being all about it before - it's still very much a topic brought...to light...even now. We do hear you all :)

Kimosabe_X said:
Optionally on the paintjobs themselves to let black shine again... ;)
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I'm trying so hard to dodge the puns too, incase you miss any sincerity in what I say but I won't lie, I like 'em hehe.
But seriously, I really really wish it was that easy with development of these things to get it spot on for you all - please do rest assured that all this feedback doesn't end here in this comment o7
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
sallymorganmoore said:
But seriously, I really really wish it was that easy with development of these things to get it spot on for you all - please do rest assured that all this feedback doesn't end here in this comment o7
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Weeeeeell reclines in armchair dev couch

all we want is Midnight black paints, not 1am Black, Thursday Server Downtime Black™, Pantone 6C black, Johnny Nice Painter BLACCKKKK or Bluey-black Caribbean Honeymoon Night Sky black. It just needs to be black, not too shiny, not to blue, and not too black (but it has to be noir) black.

I hope this helps the art guys and makes it clear what We™ want.
 

Go'Gen

Go'Gen
I have MB skin for Corvette for quite some time and it suits it very well.
Now about to get one for Python...
But, imho there are ships which just aren't good for MB ie. the Cutter. It has those big surfaces without any details so that nice black color just looks, well, plain and empty.
(Just an opinion, hope you do enjoy every single ship with MB, it's very cool design in general)
 

Ozric

Volunteer Moderator
Ozric
sallymorganmoore said:
Just to add a bit of (I wanted to say, shed some light) topping to this - it's not (as it stands) the paint jobs that are the issue with differences between Horizons and Odyssey, it's the lighting changes and the impact that has on how the paint looks. I've not got anything more on that really but I'll keep spreading the thoughts along.
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Yes, sorry that would be the obvious thing rather than the actual paint being different. Thanks for passing the thoughts along, some Midnight Black paintjobs are more Black than others.


sallymorganmoore said:
it's still very much a topic brought...to light...even now.
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