Live now a direct 47GB download with no Legacy

[AvonNZ]

I turned my PC on today and fired up Steam only to discover that the updates for "Live" now seem to be direct, i.e. not via the launcher. And Legacy is not automatically updated, it has to be manually downloaded?

Is this the beginning of the end for Legacy ;-) , see below.

I haven't posted for sometime as I haven't played the game for much longer.

 

[Rebel Yell]

I don't know... same it's happening to me

 

[Rebel Yell]

Why this is happening? I had already Odyssey installed?

Didn't press any button, just started the launcher and now it's downloading the full game!

 

[AvonNZ]

I got (had) both EDO and ED, have just updated the "Live" version. Will fire it up and see how difficult Frontier make it to download Legacy :-(

 

[AlSki]

Elite Dangerous Default Download Changes Now Live.

Greetings Commanders. Mentioned last week - as of today, June 19th, Elite Dangerous 'Live' will be the default download version for Steam Commanders. The necessary work required to ensure this happens has now taken place and is complete. You can reference what this means for you, if you are a...

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[VR Davemartin88]

Same here, downloading Legacy now after turning off Virtual Cache so it would start. 2.2 MBS so will be hours. I tried the live version but VR image twitching all over the place even after going to lower VR settings in the game. Looked nice for a while but not stable. Hopefully can get Legacy working again.

 

[Globusdiablo]

Install Live > install Legacy > delete Live.

 

[VR Dextrovix]

VR players being pushed further aside continues I see. Wonderful.