Elite Dangerous

We're used to the exploits of space-faring adventurers in MMOs, and this pilot has done something worth the record books in Elite Dangerous. One pilot has made a voyage just shy of 85,000 light years. The catch? They did it without a fuel scoop.

Elite Dangerous' Odyssey alpha was scheduled to end on April 30th ahead of the mid-May launch of the expansion. However, thanks to player feedback, that alpha has been extended a few days.

Elite Dangerous Odyssey is currently undergoing alpha testing on PC, and one of the major points of feedback has been in response to the minigame aspect of its major exo-biology feature. The Genetic Sampler minigame will be removed before or around launch time in responnse to the feedback.

Phase 3 of the Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, called Exo-Biology, begins today. With Phase 3, players will be able to test the exploration features that will be implemented when Odyssey goes live fully, such as the First Footfall mechanic and more.

Elite Dangerous' Odyssey Alpha is currently ongoing, and the team has entered phase two of its testing, opening up the ability for players to travel beyond the initial solar system the phase was locked into. To help those players along, the team at Frontier has released a new trailer detailing conflict zones in Odyssey.

Elite: Dangerous Odyssey may have just launched, but plenty of feedback has already been sent to Frontier Developments. The team has provided pretty extensive notes with regards to this feedback on their official forums.

Elite Dangerous' anticipated Odyssey expansion is coming out this year, and PC players can start to check out some of the upcoming content as the Alpha launches today.

Frontier is prepping for its upcoming Alpha for the Elite Dangerous Odyssey expansion next week, and the team took to Twitter to share exactly how that rollout will work when the alpha goes live on Monday.

Frontier have released a recap of a recent Mission Q&A for the upcoming Odyssey expansion of Elite Dangerous. The Q&A piggy-backs on some pre-alpha footage as the dev team showed off last week, explaining in more detail what players can expect in the upcoming Elite Dangerous: Odyssey pre-alpha coming later this month.

Frontier took to their forums to discuss how first-person weapons themselves will work in the upcoming Odyssey expansion. In the Q&A, the developers spoke about anti-vehicle, as well as answered questions about melee weapons in the coming update.

In a post to the Elite Dangerous forums, Frontier has reiterated its stance on how it deals with botting. This seemingly comes in direct response to a new player movement that is forming to combat the problem in the space sim.

Elite Dangerous is gearing up for its most ambitious update yet with the Odyssey expansion coming later this year, and the team has taken to its blog to detail some of the new mechanics around the expansion.

You can get your name immortalized in Elite: Dangerous Odyssey when it releases later this Spring.

If you've been waiting for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey you will have to wait just a little longer as the development team is still pushing through to alpha testing in spring of 2021. Luckily the team at Frontier Developments believes they will launch the update in late spring on PC and on consoles sometime in autumn.

A new Elite Dangerous dev diary takes a look at the first person combat in the upcoming Odyssey expansion.