Warframe wasn’t the only game to have a fan event this weekend. July Fifth-Seventh was additionally Lavecon, Elite Dangerous‘s smaller fan gathering. To coincide, Frontier revealed details of their coming September and December updates. The former is introducing a new premium currency and a revised start for new players, while a trailer showed the latter’s fleet service ships for the primary time.
Let’s do fleet carriers first, as a result of the trailer is actually only a transient fly-by teaser exhibiting one in all them:
Fleet carriers are supposed to be cellular bases that may be bought and docked upon by teams of gamers, and used for re-stocking themselves with gasoline and area weapons. They can leap between sectors at lightspeed like some other ship, however there will probably be a bigger than regular useful resource price for doing so owing to their dimension.
While that’s all that was proven of December’s replace, there was extra element about what’s to return in September. The revised begin for brand spanking new gamers is designed to show individuals easy methods to do all of the fundamentals, together with piloting ships, navigating, and fascinating in fight. I’ve performed Elite Dangerous for about 20 hours nevertheless it was lengthy sufficient in the past that I don’t bear in mind a lot about what its very first hour was like.
The identical replace may also introduce a brand new foreign money to the PC model of the game, referred to as Arx. The digital foreign money is already current within the console variations, the place it was beforehand referred to as Frontier Points. The foreign money could be earned in-game or purchased with actual cash, and it’s used to purchase paint jobs on your ships, ship kits which modify components of your craft’s design, and bobbleheads. Frontier have additionally put out an Arx FAQ, which solutions a handful of questions together with the obvious: “No, we currently have no plans to change Elite Dangerous over to a free-to-play model.”
There are extra particulars of those and different components of the September replace, together with extra screenshots, at the Elite Dangerous forum.
