Beware The Engineers - Coming to Elite Dangerous

You wouldn't normally think of engineers are being dangerous. They seem to be generally pretty docile, working on their hobbies, spending weekends fixing up old cars and generally tinkering with spanners. But then remember that Gordon Freeman was an engineer and you get a whole different perspective. In Elite Dangerous of course, everything is dangerous, the clue is in the name.

The Engineers (2.1) is the second major release in the Elite Dangerous: Horizons season of expansions that started with Planetary Landings. The Engineers adds Loot and Crafting alongside the eponymous Engineers themselves as the headliner features, but also delivers a massive number of new gameplay elements. These elements will all be available to players of the beta by the eighth of May.

The big feature is ship tuning. You'll be able to upgrade and tinker with the stats of every module on your ship, and also add rare weapons. Including this rather nifty shield regen weapon that is the first of the batch to be announced. 

At the same time as the addon, v1.6 of the game will be released to all players (not just those with Horizons) which will see a re-vamped missions system, and a whole host of yet-to-be-revealed enhancements to the gameplay and UI of the game. Frontier have promised more news on what is to come over the coming week so keep your eyes here on GameGrin and we'll make sure you're first to know what's coming.