What changed in Elite Dangerous in 2015

Acknowledgment to the Spanish community for their hard effort.

Thanks to the Spanish community for their hard effort!

Now aware of FOV to prevent scaling during FOV zooms from death cam.

Fix crash for a rarely reported issue when a ship is docked to a station that is not in a state to provide interfaces.

Prevents starting backfill matchmaking when not in a game session.

Fix crash for a rarely reported issue ship being docked to a station that is not in a state to provide interfaces.

Small chance of instant destruction, otherwise malfunctions and halved power output.

Small chance of instant destruction, otherwise malfunctions and halved power output.

CQC stats should start tracking credits earned through CQC and only count offensive weapons towards ‘favourite weapon’.

To account for larger text strings.

Multiple fixes for OSX related crashes.

Prevent a crash when drones hit shields after recent changes to damage.

Fix for player name turning white when not highlighted.

HTC Vive support is coming as a free update to Elite Dangerous this holiday season.

A week-long sale on Elite Dangerous until Monday 28 September.

Elite Dangerous will support HTC Vive as a free update this holiday season.

Make sure a machine is released from the server if they have disconnected

Request routing data from the server as soon as we receive a sync letter from an unknown machine, may fix some connection issues

Fix crash on drones when changing authority fails

Allow recognition of a LAN-connected machine in cases where Turn had failed to initialize

Various telemetry fixes

Fix crash on drones when changing authority fails

Players can use the SRV to explore planetary surfaces at high speed.

A new season of major gameplay expansions for Elite Dangerous, starting with Planetary Landings.

Fixed issue with mission cargo generation not storing the starport type on its destinations, allowing players to accept delivery missions to outposts with large ships

Existing players will unlock the exclusive Cobra Mk IV ship as a loyalty reward.

Improved invalidation of client-side caching of Powerplay cycle changes

Request routing data from the server as soon as we receive a sync letter from an unknown machine, may fix some connection issues

Low level thread affinities change, possible fix for some stuttering seen on some machines

Existing players will unlock the exclusive Cobra Mk IV ship in Elite Dangerous: Horizons.

Another config setting affecting UPnP has also been renamed to avoid ambiguity

The lifetime expansion pass will be available for a limited time in the store.

Add a new appconfig option, RouterPort, to tell the game that a port has been explicitly mapped on the router

Players will be able to land on airless, rocky worlds and explore new gameplay opportunities.

Add a new appconfig option, RouterPort, to tell the game that a port has been explicitly mapped on the router

Players will be able to land on airless, rocky worlds, exploring new environments and gameplay.

Improved invalidation of client-side caching of Powerplay cycle changes

Make sure a machine is released from the server if they have disconnected

Fix crash trying to update a drones location post physics when attached to a target ship which has no longer got any attach points

Add shader warming option to the graphic options

Avoid deadlock when a machine (re)connects and the machine also has a pending routing query from a different machine

Allow recognition of a LAN-connected machine in cases where Turn had failed to initialize

Add shader warming option to the graphic options

Fix for LAN connection issues after connecting over LAN, if both players had UPnP enabled, it was switching back to WAN connection

Fixed issue with mission cargo generation not storing the starport type on its destinations, allowing players to accept delivery missions to outposts with large ships

Players can use the SRV to explore planetary surfaces at high speed and engage in combat.

Fix for LAN connection issues after connecting over LAN if both players had UPnP enabled, it was switching back to WAN connection

Avoid deadlock when a machine (re)connects and the machine also has a pending routing query from a different machine

Fix for merging islands in supercruise

Due to popular demand, the lifetime expansion pass will be available for a limited time.

Fix crash trying to update a drones location post physics when attached to a target ship which has no longer got any attach points

Another config setting affecting UPnP has also been renamed to avoid ambiguity

Low level thread affinities change - possible fix for some stuttering seen on some machines

A new season of major gameplay expansions for Elite Dangerous, starting with Planetary Landings.

Galnet's network of economists and experts have started publishing their predictions for how each of the Powers likely to perform this cycle!

Simplified Powerplay overheads calculation to be based upon number of control (& turmoil!) systems instead of number of exploited systems.

Powerplay powers should automatically fail any expansion attempts if that attempt would push that power into a Command Capital deficit.

Galnet's network of economists and experts have started publishing their predictions for how each of the Powers likely to perform this cycle!

Various reliability fixes implemented.

Various reliability fixes implemented.

Powerplay powers should automatically fail any expansion attempts if that attempt would push that power into a Command Capital deficit.

Simplified Powerplay overheads calculation to be based upon number of control (& turmoil!) systems instead of number of exploited systems.

Allows all permit systems to be within range of at least one system that can give the permit.

Resolved a crash issue in GalaxyRenderManager on OSX.

Resolved an issue where clipboard contents were pasted when typing 'V' in the galaxy map search box on OSX.

Resolved a crash issue related to PlanetNoiseTextures on OSX.

Near starports or scenarios limit stays at 20.

Player received rank up message, but rank stayed the same.

The radius for generating missions has been increased from 10ly to 15ly, ensuring all permit systems are within range of at least one system that can provide the permit.

Resolved cases where players received a rank up message but their rank remained the same.

Resolved an issue where discovering and scanning new stellar bodies did not always appear on the system map.

The limit of cargo that can be dumped before being culled has been increased to 100 in deep space, while it remains at 20 near starports or scenarios.

Changes made to prohibited lists by System Authorities

Changes to prohibited lists informed to System Authorities.

Occurs when launching or returning to flight

Addresses 'scroll wheel' issues

Fewer shipyards should be left empty across the galaxy

Cursor remains visible when it shouldn't after OSX 'auto-shows' the dock

Ensure they match the graph status

Includes minor faction symbols missing hashes

Fewer shipyards should be left empty across the galaxy.

Encourages more tactical play.

Encourages more tactical play

Screen was feeling too cluttered

Prevent them spinning in circles when trying to collect.

The starport kills the ship for another, unrelated offense.

High, normal and low now mean high skill, medium skill and low skill.

The starport kills the ship for another, unrelated offense.

High, normal and low now mean high skill, medium skill and low skill.

Prevent them spinning in circles when trying to collect.

Introduces an ongoing battle for interstellar conquest and control, allowing players to ally with a galactic Power.

Prevent docking after the police 'notice' that a player is wanted, similar to committing a violent crime near the station.

When getting close to a capital ship while neutral, it will warn you at ~1KM away and then turn hostile at a few hundred metres.

When getting close to a capital ship while neutral, it will warn you at ~1KM away and then turn hostile at a few hundred metres

Various text fixes implemented

Prevent docking after the police 'notice' that a player is wanted, similar reaction to committing a violent crime near the station

Fixed a crash issue related to star system generation

Added vibrant paint jobs for all ships except Anaconda (available for purchase from the store soon)

Don’t allow NPCs to kill steal by them hitting the powerplant.

Fixed Commander Stats for selling level 2 and level 3 survey scans

Implemented various performance and reliability improvements.

Adjusted Type 7 and Viper collision mesh to make them harder to get stuck in the starport entrance cage

Various text fixes.

Adjusted terraforming meta data to prevent server error

Don’t allow NPCs to kill steal by them hitting the powerplant

Adjusted terraforming meta data to prevent server error.

Fixed a case where a ship with damage regions and no shields could try to save a game before its defense data has been initialized, showing as unrepairable at 0% health

Server-side change to decriminalise limpets

Network fix to catch some messages delivery bugs.

Fixed Commander Stats for selling level 2 and level 3 survey scans.

Treat capital ships like players for assigning kills

Fixed a case where a ship with damage regions and no shields could try to save a game before its defense data has been initialised, resulting in showing in the GUI as a ship that's unrepairable at 0% health.

When changing station ownership after a conflict, always treat system controlling stations as more valuable than anything else.

When changing station ownership after a conflict, always treat system controlling stations as more valuable than anything else

Fixed a crash in TrackIR caused by the disconnect function incorrectly handling the case when TrackIR is in an error state. Also applied the same fix to FreeTrack.

Various performance and reliability improvements made

Network fix to catch some messages delivery bugs

Fixed crash in TrackIR caused by the disconnect function incorrectly handling error state, also applied to FreeTrack

Server-side change to decriminalise limpets.

Treat capital ships like players for assigning kills.

Added vibrant paint jobs for all ships except Anaconda (available for purchase from the store soon)

Adjusted Type 7 and Viper collision mesh to make them a bit harder to get stuck in the starport entrance cage.

Fixed a crash issue related to star system generation