On Thursday, the Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter Two update was launched, and Frontier Developments shared a trailer on YouTube to announce its release.With this most recent update, the Krait MKII, a reimagining of the Krait Lightspeeder, is now available as seen in a tweet from Elite Dangerous' Twitter.

The Krait MKII is a medium-sized, multi-role ship that trades defensibility for speed, fire-power, and maneuverability. It is capable of carrying a fighter bay, can fit two crew members, and even has a coffee maker. The Alliance Challenger is also available with the update. It is another medium-sized ship based on the Alliance Chieftain that keeps its characteristic agility but comes with stronger armor.

As the game's chapters coincide with its development, Chapter Two's update is quite lengthy. Players will get new missions that will direct them to high threat USS's as well as new wing mining missions. The complete update can be found below the trailer.

You can check out the trailer for Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter Two below. The update is now available for free for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Chapters Three and Four will be released sometime later this year.

Megaship and Installation Interactions

  • Added existing mega-ship interactions to installations
  • Added Escape Hatch interaction points to damaged mega-ships

Crime and Punishment

  • Players can now hand themselves into security contacts if they have outstanding bounties and a zero notoriety rating. Players that hand themselves in will pay off the bounty and be deported to the nearest detention center
  • Relaxed the friendly fire thresholds against NPC ships, to lower the number of erroneous crimes being handed out
  • Notoriety now decays whilst the player is docked
  • Players current notoriety level displayed in the cockpit will no longer be potentially out of date
  • Relaxed the rules for Multicrew gunners so that they are less prone to accidental assault/reckless weapon discharge crimes
Horizons-only Content

Weapons

  • New weapons now available at applicable Tech Brokers:
  • Large Plasma Shock Cannon (Fixed, Gimbal, Turret)
  • Large Guardian Shard Cannon (Fixed, Turret)
  • Large Guardian Plasma Launcher (Fixed, Turret)

Modules

  • The Guardian FSD booster is once again available at the Guardian Tech Broker, now with improved fuel efficiency

Narrative

  • New planetary sites added, with audio logs

Fixes and Improvements

Art

  • Fixed some missing effects on Guardian Artifacts

Audio

  • Fixed audio cutting out in supercruise near neutron stars

Background Simulation

  • Fixed war missions incorrectly offering influence rewards (influence during a war state has no actual effect)
  • Ensure that faction effects are the same from selling exploration data for pages as well as individual star systems, and balance those faction effects to have roughly the same galactic impact as before this release

Controls & Control Devices

  • Prevented Flight Assist from automatically re-enabling after exiting Supercruise

Engineers

  • Fixed an issue with fading text in the Engineers Cost help window

General Fixes & Tweaks

  • Numerous performance optimizations for hangars
  • Resolved some minor typos
  • Fixed some cut off text in material descriptions
  • Local news top 5 bounty list should ignore breaking characters from ship names
  • Fixed situations where 'Last main sequence star' info message can appear incorrectly
  • General stability fix for incorrectly replicated data between players

Holo-Me Creator

  • Fixed an issue that prevented players from saving their avatar with the Frontier Expo suit equipped

Installations/POIs/USSs

  • Implemented a maximum scan time multiplier to prevent excessively long scans on large Mega Ships and Installations
  • Fixed an underground destructible panel at a Guardian Structure

Missions

  • Removed the timed element from assassination missions, so that targets are no longer limited to spawning within a time window. Players can scan the systems local nav beacon to find the target's location.
  • Fixed Mentor missions showing incorrect reward choice upon completion
  • Raised pay-out rate for Elite Rank Mining Missions
  • Updated Salvage missions so that factions cannot be duplicated as both giver and target
  • Updated the mission timer for Massacre Thargoid Wing Missions so it matches the non-Wing variant of this mission
  • Fix wing mission rewards from trade missions to award trade rank to multi crew crew members as well as the helm
  • Colonia factions have started issuing mission tip-offs for the region

NPCs

  • Ramming a guardian sentinel will no longer give you a bounty

Outfitting

  • Fixed long description texts for experimental modules not appearing properly under the "Read More" section in Outfitting

PlayStation 4

  • Fixed an issue that could occur when playing the combat tutorial while background installation is in progress
  • Fix for an issue where the “Put Your Fighters Up” Trophy was not being awarded when fighter ships were launched from your ship by an AI pilot

Powerplay

  • Fixed Powerplay crimes incorrectly affecting notoriety

Ships & SRV

General Ship Fixes and Improvements

  • Fixed cases of Collector Limpets clipping through the top of several ships when returning cargo
  • Fixed some visual problems with short Ship IDs

Alliance Chieftain

  • Addressed a specular highlight in the canopy that could flicker in certain lighting conditions
  • Fixed a small gap in geometry
  • Fixed some clipping on hardpoints 1 and 2
  • Shrank the Shipyard schematic icon slightly to prevent clipping
  • Realigned nameplates
  • Fixed some clipping on the Ship Kit

Anaconda

  • Fixed scratches being present on Ship Kit parts when there is no ship wear and tear
  • The number of internal windows now correctly matches the number of external ones
  • Fixed an instance of Paint Jobs not rendering over a heat vent door
  • Smoothed out some overhead cables in the cockpit
  • Adjusted some internal module target locations
  • Fixed emissive decals on the Anaconda losing detail if the Fusion Paint Job is applied

Asp Explorer

  • Fixed a 2D Cannon alignment issue

Diamondback Explorer

  • Added Ship Kit cameras for outfitting

Dolphin

  • Fixed a texture issue with the Prestige paint job

Federal Corvette

  • Fixed some reflective areas on the Icarus and Prestige paint jobs
  • Lowered glossiness on Precision Paint Jobs
  • Fixed some missing textures on Paint Jobs

SRV

  • Fixed a visual issue that could occur with your commander when colliding in an SRV

Type 9 Heavy

  • Fixed a missing thruster texture
  • Fixed some texture and model position issues

Type 10 Defender

  • Fixed some clipping on certain Ship Kit parts
  • Fixed some texture and model position issues

Vulture

  • Fixed misaligned small lights

Stability Fixes

  • Fixed a crash to desktop that would occur when opening the galaxy map immediately after the game had loaded in a station
  • Fixed a server error that could occur when trying to apply an experimental effect to a module that was originally modified by another Engineer
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when using Collector Limpets

User Interface

  • Fixed an issue in the Systems panel that prevented the module health from updating correctly when repairing a module using an AFMU
  • Fixed legal salvage incorrectly showing as a loss when sold

Weapons & Modules

  • The heatsink launcher no longer has an incomprehensible DPS statistic
  • Human and Guardian Tech Broker blueprint requirements have been reduced

Multicrew

  • Decreased the discrepancy in jump times between Helm and crew members