Elite dangerous Vanguard is the next big update for elite coming in the summer we've also got a glimpse of the next brand new ship the Corsair which we can see on the screen right here now this is all very surprising news because it comes hot on the hills of the release of elite dangerous Trailblazers which come arrived today this is the biggest update we've seen for a long time for elite it's going to fundamentally change the game it allows for colonization and essentially player ownership of star systems as well as a base building now that
is the current update I'm not going to talk about too much of that today because well unfortunately I'm away from well fortunately for me I'm on holiday and in case you're noticing some difference in the quality of audio that's because I'm not using my regular equipment but that means I'm not able to test the update out but I have seen the news I've got a nice little content creator pack here sent over from Frontier which allowed me to see a bit of a glimpse or hear a little bit of news actually about the summer update
called Elite dangerous Vanguard there's also a road map here for what we can expect to see later this year so let's talk about what this is so vanguards is the spiritual successor to squadrons and front say it's going to build on what the uh well squadrons was all about what they originally tried to achieve with it but weren't able to due to various limitations essentially what this looks to be is to all intents and purposes a guild system now a lot of people were hoping that was what we were going to get with squadrons all
those years ago when that originally released event unfortunately it didn't work out that way but we're getting it now so a big part of this is Building Group features and group functionality that will come with a dedicated UI space for Vanguard a Vanguard members these I guess that's what they're going to be called in calling a squadron it will be your Vanguard and from here you'll be able to communicate with other players set objectives and coordinate various different activities so this basically will allow for easier communication between Vanguard members and nonmembers as well but inviting
others to join now fron have said that Vanguard is going to be a big part for brand new players it will allow them to join vanguards guilds essentially and find a slightly easier way into the game and that can mean at Guidance just joining up with other players and really get into grips with what the game is all about so the idea here is that Vanguard will have a leader who's responsible for setting group goals and objectives that's for example would be organizing mining activities or perhaps going out and organizing a hunting activity completing these
group activities will come with various different rewards such as perks that are provided based on Collective achievement now as I said a big part of this is all about new players and community building so that will facilitate new player integration so something like mentorship you're about to get some assistance if you're a new player from experienced players and that's pretty hard with the way the game stands right now the idea then is for Vanguard to serve as a mechanism for experienced players to really help out those new players and from here at leaders we about
to help new players navigate the game easing the learning curve for everyone but there's also something more going on here it seems there's going to be a banking system of Souls and that means that players should hopefully at least as long as this all goes to plan should be able to uh share credits with other players as well as modules uh or maybe even new ships so there will be a central Hub there where players will be able to withdraw credits take out modules and those ships as well and this will greatly enhance the whole
experience I do feel so front have said this isn't just going to be a standalone system it's also going to connect in with things such as colonization as power and power play and that will really bring the idea of player factions together won't it because not only will you be able to achieve certain objetives with power play but well the whole control and functionality of that will become much easier and yeah on that note player said that yes vanguards will support the idea of player Le factions which will allow those groups to have a impact
on the bgs an overall game progression I think the takeaway message from this then is that Vanguard is basically going to be a guild system it's something that Elite has long needed pretty much since day one and yeah it's nice to see that Frontier finally going towards this direction so there we have it Elite dangerous Vanguard is the big update for the summer it's not the only update coming this year though as you can see on the road map there is another feature update coming towards the end of the year now there's no details on
this whatsoever not even a name but keep in mind that the last road map we got in 2024 also had a feature at the end of the year saying a new gameplay feature and that turned out to be colonization so this unnamed feature at the end of the year could also be a big feature looking forward to seeing what that is and then we come to the brand new ship this is the Corsair it's going to be the first brand new ship of 2025 which does suggest there's going to be a few more as well
so this is a mediumsized ship it's classed as a multi-roll vessel and it's designed to balance all primary ship functions and what that means is this is equally balanced between combat exploration cargo and all the rest of it I think probably one of the only ships that's like that um in terms of Mobility there's something standout here it actually has the seven size seven thrusters so this is the first mediumsized ship that has that size Thruster which means it's probably going to be very very fast and also going to have some pretty good agility for
its class as well so not a whole lot known about the ship at the moment in terms of specification but you can get a bit of an overview of what it looks like on the screen right here and yeah pretty nice design isn't it hopefully we hear more about this one over the coming weeks so that's where we are today with Elite dangerous nice road map here load of content coming throughout the year very impressed to see what Frontier are doing here so yeah let me know what you think about all of this in the
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