If you were looking forward to flying a swish new internet spaceship or trying out “Powerplay 2.0” in Elite: Dangerous’ big October update, we’ve got a bit of bad news: Frontier Developments has confirmed that the patch that was scheduled to bring those features on October 22nd is being being delayed into the following week.
This release window change is being caused to several reasons, including feedback from those in a partner testing program, NPC balancing issues, and a fix for a crash instance. The studio doesn’t give a firm calendar date in the announcement, saying only that the patch will arrive during the week starting October 28th.
source: official forums
