Today, online space flight simulator developer and publisher Frontier Developments announced that the upcoming launch of its Elite Dangerous: Ascendancy update has a release date. It launches next Tuesday, October 29, 2024, with an exact time to be announced in the next few days.
This news follows a post last week about delaying the update game. In that post, Frontier Developments informed fans that Elite Dangerous: Ascendancy would be pushed back until the week starting October 28, 2024, citing an NPC balancing issue and a crash instance as hindering the experience and needing a bit more time to fix things.
Since its release in 2014, Elite Dangerous has found considerable success in the MMO landscape. In the decade since its launch, the game has seen two large expansions, both of which continue the ongoing narrative centered around political intrigue, corporate espionage, and a galaxy-wide war against the extraterrestrial threat of the Thargoids.
Elite Dangerous: Ascendancy was announced earlier this year as the next big update, placing a heavy emphasis on Powerplay 2.0. The new system will improve the role foot activity plays, increase activity influence, and there will even be new powers.
It should be noted that when the update releases, you’ll be unpledged and will lose access to your perks until you repledge and rank up again. You will still keep any modules you brought beforehand, and the State of the Galaxy will also be ported over. For more information on this update and the new features it holds, be sure to check back to Simulation Daily for updates.
Update: some details implying a further delay of the update were originally reported incorrectly and have been amended.
