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If you have beta access for Frontier’s massive space sim game, get ready – the beta for the next big update is going up next week.
Update 2.2, The Guardians, will be available for beta testers to try out from September 20th. It will bring along the new features teased at Gamescom, including a new ship the Beluga liner, ship-launched fighters to protect your larger less combat-worthy ships (which you can choose to control or leave for the NPC to do so), passengers and passenger missions and more besides.
One of the new updates will be a much asked-for ship transfer option. The community voted on how they wanted that to work last week, choosing to let transfer take a little while to complete in a bid not to ruin immersion of the world Elite is set in. If you already have the PC exclusive beta access all you need to do is download the beta and select it from the launcher as you usually would. Otherwise you can get access by paying £6.99, provided you own Horizons already.
The next big update after this one (2.3) has already had some big details revealed at this stage, including a customisable avatar for our pilot and the long-awaited multi-crew option for ships that will allow us to travel with a friend.
Right now, the Elder Scrolls virtual card game The Elder Scrolls: Legends is in a very stable state. In fact, Bethesda’s cive-president of PR and Marketing has come out and said that the game is basically already ready for release. However they’re holding off on exiting beta for a bit.
Talking about the game to PCGamer on the PAX show floor Bethesa’s Pete Hines said “We could call it launched right now, if we wanted,” about the card game, but said that they were waiting for a tablet version of the game to be greenlit before they would take the PC version of the game out of beta and into full release. However he also said that the tablet version isn’t “far off”.
It seems that Autumn is still the studio’s target for a release and that besides a few UI tweaks to menus, Legends is pretty much feature-complete and ready to be bumped up to version 1.0 whenever they get the tablet greenlight.
Warner Bros have announced that they are planning to release the remastered versions of the first two Batman Arkham games during the next month of the year.
The Batman: Return to Arkham set will include both Batman: Arkham Asylum and its sequel, Batman: Arkham City in remastered versions which will include all of the Game of the Year content and downloadable content ever released for both games. The games have apparently been done with improved graphics, shaders, updated models, environments, lighting and more through the use of Unreal Engine 4 and will retail at a suggested price of £39.99 with a PEGI-16 rating.
The game will release on both Xbox One and Playstation 4 and the date has been set for an October 21st 2016 release.
Previous Bethesda games have seen releases of special editions that included all the DLC packs in a game alongside the base game, including Skyrim – so in a way it’s not a surprise that the game that was billed at first as “Skyrim but with friends” is also getting one.
The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Edition is a release for PC, Xbox One and Playstation 4 that will see the base game as well as all four of its current DLC packs put together into one package to attract new players into the world, with players venturing across all corners of Tamriel in a search for quests, loot and adventures with friends. Costing £49.99 for the console versions and £39.99 for the PC version, Gold Edition will have all of the content from Imperial City, Orsinium, Thieves Guild & Dark Brotherhood from the start, as well as including a Palomino horse mount and 500 of the game’s in-game currency, Crowns, for all new accounts.
As well, existing players of the base game will be able to acquire the four DLC packs through the in-game Crown Store. The Guilds and Glory DLC pack is new and will be available for a discounted price of 5,500 Crowns – when the Crowns price of buying them all separately is 9,500 that’s quite a discount.
Bethesda kind of made some history when they allowed for user-made mods to be used on their Xbox One version of Fallout 4 months ago. Sure, the implementation had some teething issues (mainly centred around the lack of checks that allowed for some unscrupulous people to upload other people’s PC mods as their own content), but all in all most people were pleased that the console was finally getting to use something that had been a PC mainstay for a while.
Bethesda had planned to allow for their Skyrim remaster to follow suit, saying that they intended to allow for mods on both their Xbox One version as well as the Playstation 4 version. Only now it seems like that won’t be happening; at least for the Playstation 4 version owing to the fact that Sony aren’t going to allow Bethesda to enable the modding in a way that Bethesda really needs to make it a thing.
In a post on their site entitled “PS4 Mod Update” Bethesda wrote the following:
“After months of discussion with Sony, we regret to say that while we have long been ready to offer mod support on PlayStation 4, Sony has informed us they will not approve user mods the way they should work: where users can do anything they want for either Fallout 4 or Skyrim Special Edition.
Like you, we are disappointed by Sony’s decision given the considerable time and effort we have put into this project, and the amount of time our fans have waited for mod support to arrive. We consider this an important initiative and we hope to find other ways user mods can be available for our PlayStation audience. However, until Sony will allow us to offer proper mod support for PS4, that content for Fallout 4 and Skyrim on PlayStation 4 will not be available.
We will provide an update if and when this situation changes.”
Obviously this is going to be a huge disappointment to Bethesda fans on the Sony console. So far it seems like this is going to be the only version without mod support, something that has arguably kept the Skyrim scene alive long past the time when the 2011 released game should have faded a little.
What are your thoughts on this? Tell us in the comments.
