Elite: Dangerous Patches 1.6 and 2.1 Going Live

The first major patch for Elite: Dangerous (1.6) and Elite Dangerous: Horizons (2.1) since Horizons released is going live and Frontier Developments have unveiled the final patch notes. These updates include a couple of major features and a whole slew of quality of life changes for players both with and without the expansion.

For those with the expansion the main addition are the engineers themselves, eccentric secretive individuals that will upgrade your ship modules once you've gained their favour. There are changes that affect planetary missions and graphical surface detail as well.

If you don't own Horizons the rest of the update trickles down to you as Patch 1.6 as well. Missions and outfitting have had massive user interface changes. Missions have been overhauled under the hood and make better use of secondary objectives and the inbox.

You can check out more details about these things in our preview and a lot more in the patch notes on Frontiers forums here.

Patch 1.6 for Elite: Dangerous will be live for both Xbox One and PC once the servers are updated. Patch 2.1 for Elite Dangerous: Horizons will be live on PC at the same time and on Xbox One on 3rd June when Horizons launches.