Elite: Dangerous Gives You Wings

That's right, with the latest update to Elite Dangerous you can now fly in formation in a Fer-de-Lance, along with 3.65GB of other updates and tweaks.

We'd usually give you the full list of changes and alterations, but this one is HUGE. Head over here to read the full thing, but here are some of the good ones:

New Content/Features:

- Wings functionality added
- Added playable ship:Fer-de-Lance
- Added playable ship: Vulture
- Comms interface overhaul
- Added AI Groups
- Added ability to reboot destroyed sub systems (modules)
- Flyable debug camera with limited range added (CTRL+ALT+SPACE)

Stability Fixes:

- Fix issue in low level animation code
- Prevent crash trying to get kinematic outputs from non live ships when spawning limpet debris
- Prevent crash when shadow lights are being shut down
- Fix crash in beam weapons
- Fix a crash when trying to create asteroids in transition locations
- Prevent crash on Anaconda creation with damage regions not correctly initialised
- Fix for asteroid ring soft-lock
- Fix for unreleased dynamic material set on shutdown
- Crash dereferencing an invalid interface on shutdown fixed
- Fix for crash on entering WOLFPACK TACTICS and SUPPLY STRIKE tutorials
- Prevent crash when there is a null surface for a planet
- Fix for game crashing whenever we mouse-over an AFM in outfitting

Server Changes:

- Added some benefits to stations in systems that need a permit to travel
- Fix the laws being applied when NPCs scan ships
- Changed fines issued for being caught carrying stolen and / or illegal commodities to be a proportion of the cargo's worth
- Increased prices offered for selling stolen commodities at a black market
- Rare goods now remember how far they've travelled from home when scooped from space
- Reputation can now change when NPC ships are destroyed in Anarchies
- Trade dividend vouchers are now awarded to Wing members in the same starsystem, but not necessarily docked at the same station as the Commander selling commodities
- Allow stolen Limpets to be sold
- Redeeming combat bonds now affects the influence of the faction awarding the bond
- Improved import/export data shown on System Map
- Minor performance improvements on selling exploration data
- Minor factions with < 5% influence can no longer start conflicts
- Minor factions with >= 70% influence but do not control the system, automatically trigger a conflict with the controlling minor faction
- Friends list updates improvements
- Various improvements and fixes when showing and selling pages of exploration data
- Various improvements and fixes to Community Goal progression
- Fixed some incorrect data on some space stations' import/export lists
- Fixed the Top 5 Bounties list
- Added a small amount of demand for all illegal goods in black markets. The best prices are still available at markets with strong demand, but anything illegal in modest quantities should now be worth smuggling
- Fix a crash when selling a exploration data for a single starsystem
- Improve distribution of influence from certain mission types so that that influence is applied in the system where the mission was given