Category: Elite: Dangerous News

Frontier Development has responded to a question about whether or not Oculus Rift will be supported as a VR device for Elite: Dangerous. According to the reply, SteamVR is currently the only unit supported by Frontier, though it is still in talks with Oculus about Rift support. According to reports, however, E:D devs stopped working with Rift builds after v0.6.

Frontier Developments has announced that 1.4M units of Elite: Dangerous have been sold across PC/Mac/XBox One platforms. In addition, the team revealed that the average play time for each player is about sixty hours, an amazing 84M player hours so far in the game’s life.

The latest Elite: Dangerous newsletter has been sent out and gives players a bit of a peek at some of the forthcoming additions to the Horizons expansions throughout 2016. Players will be able to add much more details to the look of their Commander through the Creator Tool. In the future, large ships will also be able to function something like an aircraft carrier with the ability to launch short-range fighters to take part in space battles.

Frontier Development the first part of the Elite: Dangerous epic expansion, Horizons, is ready for deployment today. Players will be able to land on planets and rove around exploring in Planetary Exploration. During 2016, more components of Horizons will be launched.

Frontier Developments has sent out the minimum PC specifications needed to run the Elite: Dangerous expansion, Horizons, on SteamVR. The first part of Horizons, Planetary Landings, is already in its beta testing phase of development.

Frontier has announced that the first part of the Elite: Dangerous expansion, Horizons – Planetary Exploration, is now in beta. Players in Horizons will be able to fly to, land on and explore planets all throughout the galaxy, both solo and with friends.

Elite: Dangerous developer Dave Braben is on YouTube right now with a live Q&A with fans and players. In addition, Braben is expected to make an exclusive announcement about the game.

With the Elite: Dangerous: Horizons expansion coming soon, players will be able to land ships on planets as they roam through the universe. Reaching the planet surface allows for exploration and the whiff of danger. Check out this hour-long stream video with all the planetary exploration your heart desires.

Horizons is the first announced expansion for Elite: Dangerous. In a recent 23-second video, Dave Braben wrote that "this is a quick-and-dirty un-edited capture from Horizons from a debug build on one of our dev machines…just zooming out ever faster from a crash site…"

During this past weekend’s EGX, the Elite: Dangerous team revealed several interesting tidbits of information including the first portion of the Horizons ‘season of expansions’ that is set to arrive during the 2015 holiday season.