Frontier Developments announced a major set of updates to space shooting/trading/exploration sim Elite: Dangerous this morning at the 2015 Gamescom conference: more ships, planetary landings, and a simultaneous release of the CQC arena combat module.
The first thing to hit will be CQC, which stands for "close-quarters combat." We had a chance to try out CQC at E3 a couple of months ago, and though the instant-action combat was fun, we weren’t terribly thrilled with the plan to launch CQC as a timed XBox One exclusive. Fortunately, Frontier has dropped that idea: when the CQC expansion launches in September, it will do so simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and XBox One (in fact, the entire game will officially be launched on XBox One at the same time).
Following CQC will be another free expansion, tentatively called Ships, focused on—obviously—ships. The update will raise the number of flyable vessels from the existing 20 to 30; several of the upcoming ships have been name-dropped by Frontier already (including the Panther Clipper, the Federal Corvette, the Imperial Eagle, the Federal Dropship Mk. II, and most recently the Cobra Mk IV). The Ships update is expected to be released this holiday season.
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