Elite Dangerous squishing stability bugs in subsequent large replace, due in January

Frontier Developments have detailed the primary of the promised Elite Dangerous patches targeted on fixing bugs, and introduced {that a} quick public beta check of it would begin subsequent week. The sandbox house sim has amassed a good few bugs through the years, with some affecting the game for literal years, and Frontier are lastly taking them significantly. They’ve put content updates on hold for some time and plan to focus the following few updates on fixing bugs earlier than they get again to newness and add the delayed Fleet Carrier ship class.

“For this update, our first and foremost priority is to ensure that everyone is able to have a seamless experience when playing Elite Dangerous, so our focus will be on aiming to resolve game breaking bugs and stability issues that cause disconnects, softlocks and crashes,” Frontier stated in today’s announcement.

They’re additionally planning fixes for a number of bugs gamers voted to prioritise on Elite’s Issues Tracker (and a few that weren’t so highly-voted). These embody not all deliveries to restore stations attacked by Thargoids being counted, high-resolution screenshots having ugly artifacting, the Galaxy Map not all the time choosing and highlighting methods looked for, and keyboards typically stopping working.

See the announcement for extra particulars on every part they hope to repair with this patch.

The replace is because of launch in January 2020. Before then, a public beta check will run from Wednesday the 27th by means of December 2nd. More public testing pf patches was one thing many gamers had requested for as their bug frustrations mounted, earlier than Frontier caved and admitted the game had a significant issue. This is a brief check but it surely’s nonetheless a check.