What changed in Elite Dangerous in 2019

Join the community team and developer guests for a livestream celebrating the 5th Anniversary on December 16.

Participate in the Year’s End Festivities by delivering various goods to Davies High in the Reorte system.

Deliver Polymers, CMM Composites, Titanium, Beryllium, and Thallium to the Federation Megaship.

Empire and Federation each pledge to help the Golconda with competing initiatives.

Deliver Polymers, CMM Composites, Titanium, Beryllium, and Thallium to the Empire Megaship.

Rewards for supporting either the Empire or Federation during the initiative have been detailed.

Deliver Bounty vouchers to Fozard Port in the Upaniklis system.

Deliver Basic Medicines, Advanced Medicines, Aluminium, Ceramic Composites, and Semiconductors to Fozard Port.

The independent faction, Upaniklis Vision Incorporated, has initiated a community goal to aid the Golconda's residents.

Players can now browse and purchase cosmetic items without being in the cockpit, accessible from any platform.

The Elite Dangerous Halloween Sale offers 25% off Cockpit Customisation items from October 28 to November 4.

Updates will focus almost exclusively on addressing recent and longstanding issues reported by the community.

Fleet Carriers will now be released in Q2 2020 instead of December 2019 to allow for refinement and focus on existing issues.

The next major paid addition to the game is on schedule for release by the end of next year, with details to be announced in summer 2020.

Each upcoming update will include a public beta to address major issues before the official release.

Fixed issue with players not being able to connect through a VPN

Fixed soft lock when engineering an item

Fixed a crash that could happen when trying to load the game on PlayStation 4

Fixed an Xbox One issue that allowed other users to communicate with a player that they are not friends with

Players can claim a Retro Thargoid Bobblehead in the in-game store until 27 September for 1 ARX.

Celebrating 35 years of the Elite series with special in-game events and giveaways.

35 Cobra MK III Classic Wireframe Paint Jobs are being given away through a competition until 23 September.

Moved headlights and cargo scoop to the Y/Triangle button and d-pad directions, open discovery and camera suite to X/Square button and shoulder buttons, cycle fire group to Y/Triangle and right d-pad, and removed galaxy map and system map shortcuts.

Fixed an issue where Xbox clients failed to connect to the different comms channels

Stopped the 'System Scan Complete' message from spamming the player.

Fixed motherlode asteroids not spawning the appropriate material chunks when correctly destroyed by a Wing of players.

Fixed a crash that could occur when handing in a wing mission.

Fixed crash that could occur when destroying skimmers.

Fixed a variety of situations that could cause players to be disconnected whilst playing.

Updated 'Classic Context' control scheme to allow the SRV boost button to work correctly and removed conflicts between handbrake and cycle fire groups.

Removed the ability for players to incorrectly jump huge distances when their ship was without fuel.

Fixed some visual artifacts that could occur in Thargoid conflict zones.