With the next beta of the online space game Elite Dangerous, you can customize your heroes and hire other players for your crew.
Players want to stand out in online games. Therefore, having options is important to customize the hero with many details. With the upcoming Beta 2.3, this will also be possible in Elite Dangerous. The Commander Creator allows you to give your pilot a unique appearance. This way, you can also show your face to the players you shoot down.
Control large ships together with other players
The introduction of this capability has another reason. With Beta 2.3, multicrew ships will find their way into the online game. This allows you to search for other players to form a crew with. In this way, you can jointly control the larger ships in the game.
Of course, it’s easier to distinguish crew members if they also look different. This option to control large ships as a team should open up many cooperative opportunities in Elite Dangerous.
How sick will you feel in VR?
It becomes interesting when you play in VR. Elite Dangerous has been fully playable with virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive for some time and is even among the VR games that can be played without (or with little) motion sickness. But will that change if someone else is controlling your ship and you’re just sitting as a passenger next to them?
We will find out at the end of February when the beta update 2.3 “The Commanders” for Elite Dangerous is released.
