Elite: Dangerous is about to get a lot bigger with the launch of Horizons next Tuesday. Frontier‘s David Braben announced the date on the official game forums earlier today:
We have worked very hard to ensure forward & backward compatibility so that all players of both seasons can play in the same galaxy together. After every Elite Dangerous release we have taken care to listen and reacted to all feedback, and Elite Dangerous: Horizons will follow exactly the same process. Included with Horizons will be multiple expansions of which Planetary Landings will be the first. All going well, we plan to launch Horizons with Planetary Landings on Tuesday (15th December – you heard it here first!). This will initially be termed an ‘Early Access’ release to highlight our normal process to our broad audience, some of whom have been with us since the start, but many have joined our community very recently.
The fifth round of beta is on the way tomorrow. We’ve included the new planetary landing gameplay trailer below.
