Elite Dangerous’ massive Distant Worlds 2 expedition is officially underway.
Nearly 11,000 players – and developers! – ultimately signed up for the voyage, which set out yesterday. As we’ve previously reported, the expedition will spend over 20 weeks on an outward bound trip to Beagle Point in an effort to create “the definitive massively multiplayer exploration experience.” In fact, so many people showed up that the first mass jump apparently caused some server instability.
Commanders, thank you for your patience. The Elite Dangerous servers are back online and we apologise for any inconvenience caused. https://t.co/8PBlbdA1Re
— Elite Dangerous (@EliteDangerous) January 13, 2019
Outages aside, not every ship that set out is going to make it. After all, without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that’d end our trip real quick, wouldn’t it?
An Unfortunate Soul ending DWE2 early at The View. RIP CMDR o7 from EliteDangerous
Given that this is Elite Dangerous, with its history of griefers ruining events but also its history of players fighting back to restore order to the game, we expect we’ll be covering this one over and over during the course of the expedition. Bring your space popcorn.
Will and Ed have set off on the Distant Worlds 2 expedition, so head on over and join them for the ride! 12:00 UTC, https://t.co/MgSSLQJ7fa pic.twitter.com/m7wYoBecsS
— Elite Dangerous (@EliteDangerous) January 14, 2019
1st Day down of my journey with the DW2 Expedition. Here is one of the pics I took on the way. from EliteDangerous
