Elite: Dangerous Update 1.1 Beta Details

Elite: Dangerous' 1.1 Update has hit the beta stage, and is currently popping up all over reddit's /r/elitedangerous subreddit.

In a forum post, the changes have been documented, and we're passing on the information to you. Read the post for the full list of 193 tweaks & fixes!

NEW FEATURES/CONTENT

- Community Goals added
- Route planning extended to 1,000 ly
- Russian language translations added
- Add 'Discovered by' tag to system map - needs to be surfaced scanned
- Fancy new gas giant shader
- City lights on inhabited planets
- Pilots Federation rank decals
- Parallax shader for cloud layer on terrestrial planets
- Add explored system details on the right hand side of the cartographics shop
- Top benefactors support added to system map

STABILITY FIXES

- Prevent shadow manager trying to unregister view nodes that it never registered
- Fix a crash caused by systems with stations only orbiting non-habitable planets
- In the safety checking of the start location, make sure the body we are trying to load at exists, if it doesn't start around the largest star instead
- Prevent crash when generating star textures on low end hardware
- Prevent crash in the targetting system
- Fix possible crash entering capital ship scenarios
- Fix file load hardlock
- Fix potential crash in tutorials
- Fix a crash where limpet's parent exists but not fully created
- Don't crash when the AI looks up a ship state
- Fix crash selecting decal in livery
- Prevent softlock when a mission is progressing as a location transfer occurs

Tweaks & Fixes (These are only a few of the 193)
- Interdiction can be a crime
- Damage is now calculated at both ends and each apply half, it should no longer be possible for one party to miraculously escape undamaged from a collision
- Turrets will now check if their line of sight is blocked before firing, should drastically reduce accidentaly hits
- Turret weapons set to Target Only will now obey the correct range limit and not waste ammo when out of range

AUDIO

New
- Under construction station has dedicated ambience and spot sound effects.
- Renamed dynamic range modes and further tweaked the volume curves, please keep providing us with feedback as we’re still working on improving these.
- Added a new BOOST dynamic range mode that is intended to offer a good compromise between industry standard reference volume (normal) and louder mixed games.
- Centre channel is now used for some positional audio such as other ships, cockpit blowout, GUI etc.
- Improved audio on Docking Bay Lifts and panels.
- New music added to Exploration.
- “Power Plant Capacity exceeded” - voice and sfx warnings added.
- Support for muting "Engage" ship voice alert.
- New audio for the “First to Discover” notification.
- Landing gear audio re-implemented: now matches each ships’ deploy and stow animation.

Tweaks
- Additional audio for when entering Supercruise/Hyperspace.
- Supercruise engines and music now interact much nicer.
- Improved feedback of engine/masslock in supercruise.
- Brought back the hyperspace tunnel flybys and detail sounds, with new implementation. Previously removed to fix render issues.
- Balanced boost stress noises.
- Cockpit blowout sequence remixed to fix clipping.
- Mixpass on docking sequence audio.
- Remixed force field audio for when using larger ships or flying at lower speed, to fix clipping issues.
- Mixpass on hardpoint stow and deploy animations.
- Increased volume of cargo bay door opening, when launching drones.
- Added more debris and shockwave content to Explosions.
- Reduced fire-rate of the small multicannon to differentiate it from the medium one.
- BeamLaser/PulseLaser on others will change according to energy capacity. Helps in identifying an opponent’s remaining power on weapons.
- Unified volumes and fixed issues on Asp, Cobra, Orca, Empire Clipper, Python, Anaconda, Type6, Type 7 and Type 9.
- Arrival music should be more audible now.
- Mixpass on gui for consistent behaviour across various game areas.
- Mixpass on the Station Menu ambiences.
- Sounds for adding a Sensor or FSD Interdictor in outfitting.
- Sell sound added to outfitting.
- Station menu is positional now to follow head tracking movement.
- Mixpass on Galaxy/System Map for consistent volume and effects.
- Collision and Navigational warnings now better respond to distance and speed and will be more audible in dangerous situations.
- Mixpass on cargo scoop gui.
- More variation added when selling items in Stellar Cartography.
- Galaxymap crossing of the grid is slightly more audible.
- Galaxy and system map musical elements in ambiences are now controlled by music slider and sfx elements by sfx slider.

Bugs
- Fixed many performance and mixing issues.
- Fixed bug that would cut off Exploration music prematurely.
- Fixed clicks in Python assets.
- Fixed an issue with reverbs in the stations.
- Fixed a bug that would spam physics audio on friction, causing drop outs.
- Fixed clicking in the multicannon.
- Fixed clicking in the beam laser.
- Fixed bug in system map on out-of-focus state always playing Jovian Gasgiant ambience.
- Fixed in game music playing during the menus instead of menu music in some situations.
- Fixed medium turreted beam lasers from not stopping correctly.
- Fixed a bug that would double fade the stellar ambiences.
- Fixed several ship voice related bugs.
- Fixed missing Jovian Planet Ambiences in system map.
- Fixed hard-panning of Python engines when wearing headphones.