Elite Dangerous Beyond Update

On this page you'll find links to the original live stream recordings from Frontier and links to their live stream notes and beta change logs.

There are also links to my favourite YouTubers who are playing the Elite Dangerous Beyond beta on PC.

Beyond 3.x Changes Log

There's been a LOT of changes in the Beyond series of updates.

You can view all the changes logs on the Frontier forums - https://bit.ly/2GxFS77

Beyond Twitter Announcements

Manufactured by Lakon Spaceways as one of the first Alliance ships, are you looking forward to flying the Chieftain when 3.0 drops?
Artwork by Mat2596 and CMDR Vilachi!

Explorers, grab your SRVs! The Elite Dangerous Beyond season is bringing updated and improved planetary colouration for Rocky, High Metal and Metal Rich planets.
Screenshot by MeNameEsLug!

Coming in Elite Dangerous: Beyond – Chapter One as part of our planetary improvements, planetary colouration now shows more obvious chemical makeup and volcanic activity!
Screenshot from CMDR Ambroza.

With the Beyond update, remote engineering is available from any Starport that has outfitting. You’ll also be able to engineer to your heart’s content with added material storage and double the amount of module storage!

Getting hold of new materials and technology is now easier than ever; with the all new Material Traders and Tech Brokers coming to Elite Dangerous is Season 3!

In Elite Dangerous: Beyond – Chapter One, get together with your friends and take on the galaxy! New Wing Missions have been introduced allowing up to four Commanders to work together for a variety of mission types.

In Season 3 of Elite Dangerous, you’ll be able to interact with Megaships in all new ways! Utilise limpets of various types to activate, deactivate, damage, hack or simply operate an item (like data links), while others can be shot or scanned! 📷 by !

With Elite Dangerous: Beyond – Chapter One, a number of Crime and Punishment changes are being introduced, including hot ships, powerful Advanced Tactical Response ships and Detention Centers! Read more here:

Be sure to check out the Engineering changes coming to Elite Dangerous with the Beyond series of updates. You’re going to need them.

Official Frontier Beta Videos & Notes

Frontier Live Stream Recording

Beyond Update Part One

Frontier Live Stream Notes

Beyond Update Part One

Frontier Live Stream Recording

Beyond Update Part Two

Frontier Live Stream Notes

Beyond Update Part Two

Frontier Live Stream Recording

Beyond Update Part Three

Frontier Live Stream Notes

Beyond Update Part Three

Beta Discussion Livestream with Sandro Sammarco

Sandy Sammarco as he answers questions about the Beyond Chapter One Beta from this forum thread:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread...

Beta Patch Notes

Beyond 3.0 Open Beta 1 Patch Notes

These are the official Frontier patch notes for update 3.0 beta 1

Beyond 3.0 Open Beta 2 Patch Notes

These are the official Frontier patch notes for update 3.0 beta 2

Beyond 3.0 Open Beta 3 Patch Notes

These are the official Frontier patch notes for update 3.0 beta 3

Frontier Forum Posts

Cool Planets In The Beta

Here are several posts of screen shots other commanders have taken of planets they've found whilst playing in beta.

My Beta YouTube Videos

Preparing For The Chieftain

The module configuration is similar to the Federal Assault Ship and the Imperial Clipper, so, you can equip those ships how you would equip the Chieftain and begin engineering them now.

My Frontier Stream Overview

All three Beyond Update streams condensed into 35 minutes.

Elite Dangerous - Beyond 3 0 Beta Part 1 - Dav's Hope & Materials

Me starting to play through the Beyond 3.0 Beta, flying the Chieftain and taking a look at Dav's Hope.

Elite Dangerous - Beyond 3 0 Beta Part 2 - Chieftain, New Traders & Engineering

Playing through the Beyond 3.0 Beta, flying the Chieftain and taking a look at Material Traders, Tech Brokers and Engineering.

Elite Dangerous - Beyond 3 0 Beta Part 3 - New Planet Textures & New Thargoid Scout Ships

Playing through the Beyond 3.0 Beta, flying the Chieftain and taking a look at some of the new Planet Textures and the new Non Human Signal Sources to find the new Thargoid Scout ships.

Elite Dangerous - Beyond 3 0 Beta Part 4 - Mission Changes, Megaships and Crime & Punishment

Playing through the Beyond 3.0 Beta, flying the Chieftain and taking a look at the changes to missions, the megaship interactions and crime & punishment.

Elite Dangerous - Beyond 3 0 Beta Part 5 - Engineering Warning, Notoriety & Trading

Playing through the Beyond 3.0 Beta, taking a look at the new trading features as well as giving you a warning about the new engineering mods.

YouTubers

ObsidianAnt

Famous explorer and Elite Dangerous news anchorman ObsidianAnt with his thoughts on the Beyond beta

Down To Earth Astronomy

Well known Elite Dangerous YouTuber, records tutorials, reviews and his thoughts on all aspects of Elite Dangerous.

CMDR PLATER

Well known Elite Dangerous YouTuber, records videos of Elite Dangerous pretty much every day.

Chaos Wulff

Well known Elite Dangerous YouTuber, records Elite Dangerous tutorials and other videos for both beginners and veterans.

The Yamiks

3.0 Beyond chapter one BETA recap & feedback in 9 minutes

Quick little recap on what is new in the 1st update of the year + some feedback! Chieftain, planet surfaces, quality of life, crime & punishment, engineers, tech broker & material exchange all new for this update, thou it's STILL BETA!!!

Mini

BETA BETA BETA!!!!!

WHAT'S NEW? Do i Still Have Over 250 materials in storage? Can i over god roll what i have now? what's the max FSD range? SO MANY QUESTIONS!?!?!

Scott Manley

Elite: Dangerous - Beyond Chapter 1 - Beta 3.0

While there's been the ongoing Thargoid storyline in the game the developers at Frontier have been working on the 'Beyond' series of updates for 2018. The first beta test of these updates has been made available to players, so let's take a look at these updates.