Elite Dangerous - Player COLONIZATION, Station Construction and New Ship

One of the biggest changes ever to Elite Dangerous will allow for player-led and directed colonization of new star systems. Direct the construction of stations, outpost, planetary bases and more!

Music by Epidemic Sound

[davidwitherow]

If only Frontier had gone down this road six years ago. A journey into the unknown. They could have called it something like, say, Odyssey!

[heyspookyboogie]

It’s weird seeing Frontier starting to care about Elite again. I’d love to know what changed at frontier. I genuinely hope it’s not too late and that we can make elite great again.

[followthewolves]

The idea of putting a space station out in the formidine rift for easier exploration sounds awesome and brings some hope to my little explorers heart.

[psycopt]

Didn't have "Frontier developing something potentially fun for Elite" in my 2024 bingo card, what a pleasant surprise.
Hope they don't screw up making it a player group thing, since there is more than enough space in... space.

[mdruane]

I stopped playing ED when it shut down consoles. But I did migrate my account to PC and I may start playing again with the system colonization update. I've always said they needed a terraforming mechanism for players.

[aden]

This is literally what I have had dreams about back when I was first playing odessey missions! With a couple more large features, elite could make itself the greatest space game without a question!

[bbourgoin]

Maybe I'm jaded, but I smell another grind-fest.

[snoobab_]

I am really pleased to see Elite getting some love this year. A while back I was wondering if the game was ever going to bounce back. I have started playing again recently and I must say, the engineering rebalancing and general optimization improvements have been very welcome. I am having great fun raiding settlements as you no longer need to grind so much in order to upgrade your gear.

[SingularPing]

This will make Deep Space Exploration, tremendously easier. Alot of players already use Fleet Carriers in a web across the galaxy, so having stations dotted in-between will make refueling the carriers easier

[heyspookyboogie]

For me personally these would be very interesting updates IF they’re realistic to do solo and don’t require player groups.

[dimitarivanovski]

I am *cautiously* optimistic. It sounds good on paper, but... it's FDev we are talking about. They would find a way to make eating chocolate a boring grind and call it "gameplay". We have to live and see.

[personaltitanfloroc]

They started selling ships and the money arrived, result:

[TheDontletmedie]

I think its time to go back to Elite. I thought Star Citizen would be my game but I cannot stand the bugs and crashes. Think its time to come home to Elite

[paulbowler]

Sounds promising. I miss ED, and I was sad to leave it when Frontier stopped supporting us console players. Glad to hear new stuff is still being done for the game.

[mikehawk]

Every time I watch an ObsidianAnt video I am reminded of how much better the lighting and graphics are in Horizons and what we've lost and are never getting back.

[justinquisitive]

Heh, you made a video last October asking what players wanted to see in the game and this is very similar to what I and a couple of others hoped for! Very cool to see this and it will definitely bring me back to the game.

[Phaevryn]

That's the first of the new ships that really works for me, just on looks and concept alone. Frontier has been cooking and it's awesome.

[McGoughable]

This is heading in the direction I originally wished for Elite - something like "EVE Online light" background and player economy setup and first person flying ships. I am certainly going to dust off the joystick and pedals and poke my head back into Elite to have a look around.

[Starmastrmusic]

All of this is cool, but I just wanna walk around my ships in VR 😭

[valkig]

it would be really cool if we could colonize far away systems in a middle of nowhere and develop them over time.
Just imagine independent societies of players that you could visit while exploring galaxy.