FDEV Comms New Era & Speculation on Future Features 

Hopefully Fdev realizes that lack of communication will kill their game far more than missed deadlines, targets, and buggy featuresets.

This is like getting a ping back from a satellite you thought lost power six years ago.

I want more exploration stuff: ruins to be discovered, creepy critters that walk and crawl, derelict ships out in the black.

Last weekend I joined the 1 million LY travelled club - a decade in the making. I hope the recent news brings many players back. May many more join the 1 million LY travelled club.

I been playing non stop for couple weeks now. As a returning player. And its good to be back

Hullo! o7 Gave the game a break, and last week‘s stream motivated me to return. Oh boi - is it beautiful game. I‘m back!

I feel it is promising on this possible new turn for Fdev. If they can keep this pace of news/communication and development - it would be huge. I am hoping for base building. Not so much because I am a big base builder, Im mediocre at best, but I think that implementing this feature would bring more of players to the game. Both old and new. Great overlook and theorizing video. o7 o7 o7

o7 Buur Pit! The most positive source of news in the ED galaxy! Thank you. 😊

This new communication has finally inspired me to dive back in. All the patches have really improved performance for me across the board. Very refreshing to be back once more. I am so very excited to see the new ships in future.

Python Mark 2 Features? Interiors!! What an opportunity to give the new ships interiors. I understand the logistical issues with doing it to current ships, but seems an ideal time to do it to new ships!

I'm cautiously optimistic, will definitely be back to try the new ships and overhauls. :)

This really sounds so much more optimistic than anything I have heard about Elite Dangerous during past 4-5 years ! ED has such huge, almost unbelievable potential and now maybe they are on the right track.... I CERTAINLY HOPE SO !!!

Thanks so much for keeping us in the loop, Buur Pit. Outstanding work!

My answer to all three questions is the same - atmospheric landing.

Me too re returning to the game

Brilliantly done, CMDR! It's like you were reading my mind and posts on the topic. I, too, hope this is a new Frontier that interacts more often with the community. Long live Elite Dangerous!!

I wonder if the graphics engine as such will get an overhaul. Cobra 2024 version - to allow for caves. Less light bleeding, render only things needed. Etc.

Informative, thoughtful and concise as ever - thank you Commanders o7. Fingers crossed that FDev listens to your accurate assessment of long term player sentiment and what is required to maintain the current positive response (which investment will be rewarded with ongoing player engagement - a truly virtuous cycle).

o7 I genuinely wish FDev all the best with their plans and I certainly hope it turns out well. That being said, FDev has a record of making exciting promises, but then fails to deliver. So I remain cautious for now. The announcements sound very promising indeed (FINALLY new ships! and I LOVE the looks of the Python Mk II). Powerplay overhaul sounds interesting. It's something I've only engaged with to get my filthy little fingers on Prismatic Shields and Packhounds. Considering there is zero information about the nature of the changes and we're free to throw some Arx into the wishing well at Sag A*: I'm rooting for EVE Online style player alliances/groups that compete with one another in powerplay. Rather than the old PMF system where you "adopt" a faction, it's player squadrons that can "control" space AND can actually get something out of this. This COULD fit neatly into the "base building" rumors. Bonus Arx if that's not limited to the bubble and players can build bases somewhere out in the black (my favorite retirement home is as far away from other human beings as possible. 40k+ LY should be a good start). But that being said, no need for any speculation and/or hype train until we know even remotely what the powerplay changes are going to look like. On Page 1 in the book "Wisdoms for the intrepid Commander" Rule #1 clearly states: "Manage your expectations".

I would hope its base building over ship interiors. with powerplay and the player factions being stopped I'm going to speculate its some sort of new type of "Player Factions" on a smaller scale.

A nice video as always! 😀🤘 . However dammit, you had my hopes up for s split second when i was reading the description, where it says "content updates", i thought it said "CONSOLE updates" - which we REALLY should have had by now! (Ideally the full live game on next consoles or even "whatever works" on last gen consoles!) 😯😂😀🤘🤞 .

There is nothing like Elite on the market, that's why I hope FDEV can let become that game that was promised in the beginning. I don't want to play another game, I want this one to work. I am looking forward to power play. I really hope they encourage open play gameplay with benefits to playing it in a wing. That way I could bring back my friends who stopped playing. Currently I am feeling the game designers prefer us playing alone. Playing a game together keeps people in the game. I hope FDEV thinks that too.

As someone who was enjoying doing refugee runs but isn't a combat pilot, I did indeed feel locked out by later developments in the Thargoid war, so I'm glad that some thought is now being put into what to do for players who simply don't want to engage with that kind of content. As for new ship capabilities... I'd love them to open up worlds with denser atmospheres, clouds, precipitation. Maybe throw in a new gas mining module, have us skimming gas giants for compounds that don't show up so much on terrestrial bodies. We often say ED is a game about space ships, but the secondary part is it's a game about spaceships visiting places, and I think sometimes FDev don't realise how much more fun it is to have more than just stars outside your canopy. (Side note, more signal sources near planets and less on the distant edges of systems!)

I would like to see the four ships have a dedicated role, combat, exploration, mining and space trucking. I would also like to see cargo on ships stay on that ship when transferring to another ship. No more selling items you want to keep just so you want to use a smaller ship. Bring the game up to date FGS.

I'm so hyped 😮

Until I see it (whatever 'IT' is), I am skeptical of anything FDev announces. If you don't have high expectations, you will not be disappointed. And I want to thank FDev for teaching me this.

I was itching to spend some time in elite just before the announcement of ships and the live stream and your reporting Burr sealed the deal. The up front communication IS to my mind a new Frontier in that regard. HOWEVER! Follow through is key here.

Base Building, if it happens, could really expand the occupation of the Galaxy by humanity. That is supposing that it won't be as expensive as a Fleet Carrier currently is. One would expect that a station platform or planetary base would be self sufficient, or at least potentially so with a reasonable amount of work. I can see small bases springing up on the trail to Colonia first, then branching out to other parts of the so far undiscovered Galaxy as players set out to homestead a system, offering the things that new towns in any frontier have in the past: Food, Lodging, Supplies, and _Adventure._ Fingers crossed...

It's good to be back I got shocked by the new Thargoid Glaives and I got beaten up because im rusty af with the controls again

If they add base building that will be monumental for this game. Then all they'll have to do is continue to increase the atmospheric pressure landings adding weather. And for God's sake please add VR head look to on foot.

Im guessing the new varients will be required for hauling and deploying the new modular mining bases. In the same way you need a fighter bay or SRV bay or a refinery/auto field maintenance. You will need a base factory unit and building schematics. Probably only one building schematic per factory and larger factories needed for bigger bases.

imagen The Buur Pit as a powerplay faction with Buur as its president. I wonder what module, bonuses and such we could get from that 😄

O7 Buur Pit. I'm not giving up hope that we will get ship interiors. I believe we will get them in a future update but it will take time. O7

This is great news for Elite Dangerous. A craft with a double basic range of any current exploration vehicle would be welcomed.

I'm still on my ED break, but I know, I will return. ED is still my number 1 game since 2016; two accounts, both on Odyssey, and way over 1.000 hours in game. But those news make me very excited :D Hope I'll soon find the motivation to get back in the pilot seat. There are materials to gather - new ships require new engineering

I've dusted off the warthog, rudder pedals, and Akai MPKmini controlller, and am well and truly back in Elite Dangerous. Excited about the future! The feature I'd love to see is the seamless switch between on-foot and being in the ship. Namely, walking into the ship, to the cockpit, and sitting down. That'll just make the game feel so much more immersive and alive!

You know, we're going to need the T11 BargeMaster (T9 variant) to move base building materials to the surface from Fleet Carriers, or directly from sources across the galaxy. I'm going to start looking for a nice pretty planet with a beautiful view of a nebula.... o7!

This is crazy and I luv et!

A combat type 7 would be funny to see, it could be fitted with a battering ram like the old greek & Roman ships.

I haven't logged in like 2 or 3 years. Just logged back in again today.

Logged in for the first time in over a year.... Setting up my HOTAS as we speak. As for what features are on my wishlist? Customisable ship interiors, home built bases, atmospheric planets... pretty please.

Finish the game, all planets unlocked, ship interiors, return to console support.

Maybe the ship overhauls will include things like making the making the Type-6 & 7 a size smaller, and making the Asp Scott a little more useful

👀👀

If they bring out a new Vulture all is forgiven.

Would love to see base building, more things to discover doing exploration, better ways for players to connect in game.

Yay!

Wishlist - PP should be mission driven, not shipping pamphlets, etc. - Impact of activity more visible. - logic, when you are with one of the three big ones, you get a bonus/penalty when supporting/undermining a power faction - faction specific, pre-modded ships you can’t buy, but are lended to you

Awesome as ever. o7 cmdr's 😎👍

I will need an Elite refugee re-onboarding guide :D

This really is encouraging. I would like to see more direct engagement with users in the form of surveys or other interactions where FDev can learn more about what users want/need and use that to guide future development. The brand new feature and new ships are certainly a nod in that direction. I'm excited for EDs future more than I've been since before Odyssey's release. Thank you commander Buur! o7

Even just being able to purchase pre-made surface and orbital habitats would be fantastic. Maybe one day Elite will have a real player economy.

I'm really happy that new things are happening, but you won't see me back out there until I can get my hands on the Boa.

I was hoping for base building and manufacturing since Odyssey came out. Supply your base with materials to build commodities and distribute them to profitable markets.

It IS going to be a fascinating year... Of that, we have NO doubt :)

Logged in, doing some Robigo Passenger Missions for some cash, and ready to go for the end of this month. Hoping this means a lot of new stuff, and if they are listening, hoping this will eventually mean ship interiors.

Full atmospheric flight is highly unlikely. But wouldn’t be an amazing surprise?

Finally seems like frontier are making steps on their promise to actually yano... develop their game and communicate properly. I quit after a while due to how the game was handled development wise but I just reinstalled after their recent behaviour.

If they actually choose Base Building over Ship Interiors ... Well that would be rather weird to say the least. Especially since we already have gigantic Fleet Carriers that act as full bases.

As in real estate: exploration exploration exploration. I'll return if and when.

Cautiously optimistic..

I would like FDev to do a balance pass across all ships. Further, I would like them to retune a few ships, especially ships in the same style/class and either a) calibrate them for specific roles (i.e. Combat vs Trade vs Mining vs whatever) or b) put them in different size classes (like the Alliance ships: Chieftain-Sm, Crusader-Md, Challenger-Lg). The medium size class is overcrowded, small size is a bit useless in much of the game, and there aren't enough large ships. Since everything is already modular, if they could figure out how to add shipbuilding like Starfield they would never have to make another ship. Barring that, at least 1 new ship every 6 months (preferably quarter). Add in to that more alien ruins to explore and more alien enemies (left over Guardian AI robot ships, new evil race, etc). Finally, Raxxla.

I love this game. Can't wait to see what they have in store

Basebuilding would make sense because in the end it offers a great opportunity to sell cosmetics for our bases. Same goes for Fleet Carriers. If there was cosmetics for it's interiors, I'd definitely buy, though I'm very rarely there. :D I hope though, that new feature will be something that gets me back into the cockpit, which would be mostly exploration stuff, but well, we'll see. I'm glad those who like it get their Powerplay update, though I couldn't care less, to be honest. :D

I'm pretty sure it will be based building, although I'm guessing it will be modular prefab blocks rather than true custom building like NMS. I really hope it includes a new mining ground vehicle too. I hope also that the base building allows human colonisation outside the already inhabited systems, even if it's tiered so that you can only build science or mining outposts until the system is adopted by a Faction and more advanced bases can be built. I don't want it to be easy, but also I don't want it to require factions or squadrons like they nearly did with Fleet carriers.

Well as always would love to have even limited ship interiors, as in cockpit. But would also like to be able to use multi-crew with wing/team. Wouldn't mind some deep space search and rescue, like 20,000 lyrs or more one way. But above all they keep the lines of communication open!

@TheBuurPit I wouldn't call it "near constant updates" That would mean daily updates because constant = not months/years apart.

Elite currently sits at an interesting position. Even with the massive disappointment of Odyssey, today, people are looking more into space games due to the popularity (weather good or bad) of Starfield and Star Citizen. Elite has the potential of being something different than SC but offer an equal compelling experience. Elite needs, gameplay fixes (the grind), ship interiors (FDEV can suck it saying this feature doesn't have any gameplay value, it is simply a lie), planet atmospheres (enough with rocks, we need forests, snow, real atmospheric planets), new ships, EVA (at least to the level of X4 or StarTrucker). Again, Starfield introduced the general media into space games and those disappointed will look into Elite or Star Citizen. However, given how FDEV worked in the past and their minimum viable product approach, I sincerely doubt it'll reach its full potential. And whatever they are promising now will surely fall short of expectations like it always had these last years. I won't hold my breath, but I hope I get to be proven wrong

A discord post mentioned building schematic prices skyrocketed.

Been back now 3 weeks, been a hoot in amongst the positive news. Trying fast to get up to date with engineers guardian modules and other content as well as having a crack at the Thargoid war. Looking forward to the future now that I know Elite has one. Also all of the performance tweaks have greatly improved my experience with the game. I can turn everything up to full and no frame rate drops!

Been gone for almost 2 years now, but now i installed it again and see what 18/19 updates bring. Lets hope for a bright future for elite o7.

I'm back in the Black :)

Hopefully power play will become worth doing. The current version is a money sink you grind for the ability to buy a few ship parts then switch factions and repeat until you own everything of interest.

Base-building is one of the big things offered by other space games like Starfield and No Man's Sky. It's also a great way to incorporate their expertise at managements sims. They could take steps toward it using fleet carriers, which really need a refresh. Also, if FDev wants to keep the ball rolling, adding smaller updates to fix stuff like on-foot engineering, arena/CQC, racing, and more would keep the ball rolling. In gridiron football, sometimes you can score just by keeping up a steady string of first downs - even if they aren't spectacular, you still keep moving.

Been checking in with the game once a month or so for the past half year after some of the initial momentum of the Thargoid War died down (I respect the AX teams, though after they stopped planetary port invasions, the combat wasn't as fun for me). Came back in a bigger way in the past few days and been having a great time. The simple fact there's a garunteed future of some kind has really helped cure the burnout!

I think it is time to give the game another chance ❤ If I could build my little cottage in a far far gala…. planet, hidden from everyone, then I would deffo consider buying some arx to decorate it

I am very excited they are going to update this game! I just started and still learning so this is amazing news for me. I think ED is a very cool game, I normally play Star Citizen and always wanted to try ED and I am glad I did! Bring this gem back to life!

geez now that the war is ending i should do my part and enlist.

I detect a satisfying hum in my FSD

I Hope these extraordinary news relife an extraordinary game, for this purpose i'm decided to help new players with my recently Elite Explorer grade recently aquired. The truth is Elite never has gone...

hello CMDRs o7, if you can without putting yourself out, buy some arx to show them that we want more. Lets give them a reason to keep on working in this game. normally i wouldn't advocate this but lets show them some reapect for their willingness to push E:D foward considering the age of the game.

I'm happy to see what Frontier does this year with Elite, I really hope we get ship interiors, I'd love to walk around inside my anaconda as that thing is huge. Maybe even do a bit more with Odyssey, I like Odyssey now now that it's actually more optimized than it was, and base building sounds fun, kinda similar to starfield but more fleshed out would be cool.

02:06 This exactly. I'd played Elite since launch (21W) and am a very cautious solo player. I have more ships then rebuys and have only allowed myself one of each type of ship. When I jumped into the Thargoid war, I was looking forward to some new content. I spent many hours (and a few rebuys) fighting outside stations, running passengers, etc...in the name of humanity. I even made it to the point of filling the bar all the way across on one such conflict only to be dismayed at the arrival of two Hydra class vessels as if to say "only the best of the best are allowed in here solo, and you are not them" The arrival of the hunter class vessels (and probably Starfield...if only for a while) convinced me to play other things for now. I updated and played a bit of on-foot exploration the other day. I would love to do some more and even participate in the war if they were willing to make the experience a bit more solo player friendly. Here are a few suggestions: - Random interdictions/hyperdictions in and between Incursion and controlled systems should include a few non-replenishing scouts followed by a Cyclops interceptor. Sometimes that Cyclops, if killed, can bring in a Basilisk or larger. Glaves should only appear in the Maelstrom systems themselves and a single Scythe may instead appear if you are carrying passengers or pods. This means people can outfit passenger vessels to fight just the Scythe and can run from all else. Again, cargo ships will only encounter the initial interdiction/hyperdiction of scouts and can run. - Low-intensity AX conflict zones within an Incursion or controlled system should be scouts bringing in a single Cyclops. The scouts + Cyclops combination (with friendly ships around) should continue to replenish until the bar is complete and the conflict will be over. - Medium-intensity AX conflict zones should be the same as low but with a single Basilisk added to the mix. Once the Basilisk is killed, it should not respawn. Stations should also be of the Medium variety - High-intensity AX conflict zones should be wing-friendly with replenishing Basilisk interceptors culminating in the appearance of a Hydra once the bar is full. - For the on-foot missions, there should not be more than a few waves of Revenants in reactivation sites - maybe with a rare occurrence of a single Banshee. One wave should appear after you reactivate power so that you cannot just wax them all with rockets from your ship. Otherwise, Banshee drones should only consistently appear at Spire sites on the ground as they do. The goal here would be to hike into settlements and hide or take out the defenders so you can recall your ship closer while no more drones are around. These are my recommendations for making Thargoid content challenging but possible for different player groups.

I reckon they might be looking at longer jump distances?

2024's roadmap looks interesting, what would be excellent is if they addressed the major / annoying bugs (SRV exit/board is Russian roulette) and, ideally, get rid of the historic 32 button controller limit!

o7 CMDR Burr! Reading between the lines, trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together I am wondering, whether the ultimate goal is to offer the capability to start your own settlements on planets ran by your own (new version of the ) player faction. If my conclusions are anywhere near FDEV's desired plans, then boy, oh boy, we ARE in for a huge treat.

Will they be nerfing the type 8's invisibility? I'd like to be able to actually see it

What I will be doing; waiting to see what what they’ve done once they release it. What I won’t be doing; assuming it’ll be based on guess work or speculation.

I would like a completely revamped multi crew and ship interiors. I would like the new ships to go/feel faster. Jump further.

Is it possible that the overhaul to Powerplay will involve player made factions in powerplay - faction vs faction; not just superpower vs superpower

Glad we're reaching the culmination of the Thargoid War. Never liked that direction for the game, and participated only briefly before focusing on other aspects of the game. I have paid literally no attention to this apart from avoiding the conflict areas entirely. Glad FDev is moving on from this, and I'm excited for the changes that are ahead.

New Features, new ships, new arx stuff… do it well and i will buy arx… maybe more then i want..

I'll return when there is some indication they intend to build some more onto Ody gameplay.

The Python mk 2 appears to have an armoured cockpit. Which will make it the first ship with a hardened cockpit and hints that it's a dedicated AX design. Very useful and requested feature but not ground breaking.

I never left, started again just before the announcement (oops) so plodding around in eagle, type 6 etc. Enjoying it much more this time round as opposed to grinding butt off in big ships.

Man I just want more exploration content

Players: WE. WANT. SHIP. INTERIORS. FDEV: we hear you and we're giving you base building Every single time. 🤦

Until it all materializes i’m still a pessimist. Frontier has taken us through this same exact song and dance over the years. With a much smaller playerbase and budget i see little reason to keep hope.

Base building in elite.... interesting 😮

I wish they added more content for ground battles