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This Week at Bungie - 8/16/18
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This week at Bungie, we’re heading to gamescom.
The away team is all packed up
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Elite Dangerous: Beyond Chapter Three (3.2) Release Date Announcement
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By Edward Lewis (Senior Community Manager)
Greetings Commanders!
Load up your calendars and make sure to mark the 28th August because Elite Dangerous Beyond: Chapter Three is on the way!
This brand new update (3.2) is focused on bringing you some engaging new content in the lead up to the larger Quarter 4 update later this year (Chapter 4). We'll have more information coming out of Gamescom about the next update (Chapter 3) next week, so as usual keep an eye on the forums and our social media channels for the latest official announcements.
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Reverse the Verse LIVE
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Senior Character Concept Artist Jeremiah Lee has been trolling Jared for weeks with amusing concepts and shark costumes, but today will be a reckoning…
To watch Reverse the Verse LIVE each and every week, tune into Twitch.
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Jun
This week at Bungie, we revealed Cayde’s fate.
If you want to remain spoiler-free, you should stop reading now and not look at the internet until September 4. As many of you already know, we gave you a glimpse of beloved Hunter Vanguard Cayde-6’s final moments earlier this week.
We told you that Forsaken is taking a darker tone and has a Western revenge vibe. It looks as if many of you have taken it upon yourselves to avenge Cayde. In September, you'll get your chance to hunt down the Barons, confront Uldren, and make him answer for his crimes.
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Jun
Patch 1.3.0 (Windows, Mac, Linux) / 1.03 (PS4 - Americas) / 1.02 (PS4 - Rest of the world)
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…We've just released another patch on Steam and GOG (v.1.3.0). PS4 will follow shortly with different version numbers (but same content). We're also about to submit this version to Microsoft for certification, so Xbox and Mircosoft Store will most likely get this update some time next week.
Also note that there's a delay for the GOG Linux version, it will most likely be released on Monday.
Here's the list of changes for all versions:
New features- Added the possibility to toggle the visibility of the game logo in Action Freeze mode
- Added a gamma correction option
- Fixed player wreck retrieval not working at all
- Fixed "G&B Container" and "G&B Tech Container" not being localized
- Fixed clipping of localized "no target" text in cockpit
- Fixed Gunship turret shooting at targets after cutscenes although not being activated
- Fixed time still being slowed down if opening compare menu while
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Jun
Info Update 36 - Three Major Releases on Xbox One X | Official Linux Release | Improved HOTAS and VR
Display MoreHello pilots!
Feels like it's been a while since an update, yeah? The team decided to compile all the work through the months since our last info drop, available here:
EVERSPACE by ROCKFISH Games — KickstarterThere has been a TON of progress made to the game. If you've been tracking us every day the changes might have felt a bit more subtle, though looking back now it's clear to see we've come a very long way!
Thank you all for your support.
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Season 3 of Destiny 2
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Season 3 of Destiny 2
May 2 - Destiny Dev Team
Alongside the launch of Warmind, a new season of gameplay updates begins for all players of Destiny 2, including powerful upgrades to Exotic weapons, the introduction of Ranked Crucible play, new Crucible maps, Private Matches, Heroic Strike Modifiers, Multi-Emote, additional Vault Space, and much more.
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Dec
…A BlueSky user named revenant was recently noodling around with the SNES port of Wing Commander and made a pretty exciting discovery and a cool tool for taking a closer look at the game's assets! Revenant turned ROMs of the two surviving SNES ports into in flight object viewers that let you explore the in-game background layers, essentially letting you scroll through the different ships and objects stored in the game! Their first thread starts here.
completely pointless activity of the week: hacking a Mode 7 object viewer into the janky SNES port of wing commander
(d-pad cycles objects/frames, start button exits)
right now this only shows the 'up close' frames for ingame objects (which are background layers rather than the sprites used for distant objects)
also the displayed names of objects come from the list of text strings which doesn't always match the actual object - i.e. unused Venture graphics are -
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Hopefully you were able to secure some great deals over the weekend, but if you're still looking to check things off the list for the Wing Commander fan in your life, here's a rundown of WC items for sale!Print Art - End Run Cover by David Mattingly $20-$100 (search for "Wing Commander")
- Malcolm McDowell Autographed WC3 PSX Print $65 (15% off through December 31)
Movies & TV - Academy DVD: Amazon $10.96 | Walmart $12.86 | Deep Discount $8.16
- Movie Digital: Amazon $9.99 | Fandango $9.99 | Google/YouTube $9.99
Novels ($6.99) Freedom FlightBaen EbookAmazon KindleApple BooksB&N NookKoboGoogle Play End RunBaen EbookAmazon KindleApple BooksB&N NookKoboGoogle Play Fleet ActionBaen EbookAmazon KindleApple -
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The Wing Commander movie club had a good time with Westworld; it's a movie that spends most of its time just explaining its setup... but that's just fine because that setup is delightful. For this week we asked members to select a type of thriller (as defined by the Wikipedia) from our queue and the surprise winner was the 1996 erotic thriller Crash. It's a David Cronenberg movie about people that are sexually attracted to car crashes, so this should be an interesting one! (You know, Star Trek Discovery star David Cronenberg.) You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along. Please note and plan appropriately: Crash is rated NC-17 for "explicit sex scenes" (but not car crashes?).
Crash is another movie that was used to temp track the 1999 Wing Commander movie. A track from Howard Shore's score, Triton, was chosen to play from Blair's fight with Hunter through to his conversation with Angel in
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Dec
Many of you have watched Crossfire evolve from a simple Freelancer extension into a massive, story-rich, visually enhanced universe. Others are only just beginning to explore its new systems, factions, mysteries, and challenges. No matter where you are in that journey, your support has shaped the mod into what it is today. -
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Many of you have watched Crossfire evolve from a simple Freelancer extension into a massive, story-rich, visually enhanced universe. Others are only just beginning to explore its new systems, factions, mysteries, and challenges. No matter where you are in that journey, your support has shaped the mod into what it is today. -
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…Zorgon Peterson has announced the limited release of the Caspian Explorer, a large vessel purpose-built for deep space and planetary exploration.
Designed from the keel up as an exploration platform, the Caspian Explorer forgoes the "jack of all trades" compromise of many large ship options. Zorgon Peterson claims the Caspian Explorer is an elite choice for deep space voyages: "a dedicated large explorer that outpaces competitors in exploration performance, manoeuvrability and planetary operations while offering jump capability to match the needs of far-reaching expeditions."
Key features setting the Caspian Explorer apart include new Mk II exploration modules, improved landing thrusters that halve gravity influence on high-G worlds, and advanced thermal shielding for faster, steeper atmospheric entries. The ship also comes with a Mk II SCO-enabled frame shift drive that increases neutron jump -
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Here's a great story from Privateer 2: The Darkening screenwriter Diane Duane. She posted the entry below as a reply on her Tumblr back in 2013 in response to a social media post about a man being obnoxious about women that play video games. If you aren't familiar with Diane Duane's incredible body of work, she's written for properties ranging from Star Trek (extensively!) to Marvel, Doctor Who, My Little Pony, Gargoyles, X-COM, seaQuest DSV and many others... all in addition to her own original properties like the ongoing Young Wizards. There's a good bet you have something she worked on in your collection right now! Her story has a timeless message and it manages to share some interesting behind-the-screens trivia about our favorite Privateer sequel:
I had to do this once with Privateer II: The Darkening. It gained a bit when he said "I bet you didn't play it through, I bet somebody just told you
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Cpt. Streets is back to kick off another cool Wing Commander 3D print project... and this time it's everyone's favorite heavy gun slug, the CF-105 Scimitar! The model is 11.5cm (4.52") long and Streets promises to share more as painting and detailing happens. We're looking forward to it! You can also see their impressive Hornet here.
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…Zulu was a more interesting film than we expected; certainly closer to Lawrence of Arabia than The Dambusters. The production values are spectacular, the story isn't a familiar one to Americans in 2025 and the acting is great. It's a big, bold movie that suffers less because it's a boring war movie and more because it's about the sort of war we no longer find familiar. Wing Commander movie club member bob was the person that found the Zulu reference in Action Stations in the first place and he noted that it's one of his favorite movies. We asked him if he wanted to say a few words about the film... and here they are!:
It's fitting that the line "because we're here" was the impetus to watch Zulu: it sums up the entirety of the film. William Forstchen may have reused it but the contexts could not have been more different. The pilots in Action Stations are fighting for not only their own lives but those
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Nov
This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that are referenced by Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Westworld (1973) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. The movie will start at 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!
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…Today is Thanksgiving in the United States and so the Wing Commander CIC team would like to wish everyone a happy holiday. Thanksgiving is a time to stop and remember what we're grateful for and in these trying times, that is more and more the love and support of the Wing Commander community. Whether you're posting to the forums or watching movies with us on Discord or chatting back and forth on social media, our old group is still a bright light in my life. Thank you all!
Of course, a big part of Thanksgiving is... Pilgrims! With that in mind, we're reprinting the Confederation Handbook's history of the Pilgrim War, complete with the original illustrations. Did you know that the Pilgrims (or should we say McDanielites?) had this much backstory?
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(Excerpts from The Student's Encyclopedia, 123rd Edition, HarperCollins,
