Elite Dangerous Popwerplay first look

[Lazerbolt]

Greetings pilots! The powerplay beta is available as of today and I had the pleasure to jump in the all-new Diamondback fighter/explorer.

I only had a few minutes to play around with it before I head off to work, but here is a short video of the goodness.

[Travis]

wow. so many new features! hopefully all good things in the new ED:PP update!

[Storm]

David Braben, CEO of Frontier Developments, said today:

"There are two Diamondbacks. The Diamondback Explorer is the ship we showed in concept art back in April, and the Diamondback Scout is a cut-down cheaper ship made by Lakon for the Federal military. ... The two ships are quite different, even though they share some components."

The ship being released in 1.3 Powerplay seems to be the Scout.

[Lazerbolt]

Powerplay launches today!

I guess all those Diamondback parts we delivered last night did the trick!