Elite Dangerous: Why Planets Have Suddenly Become Beige

The strange beige planets that appeared in the space online game Elite: Dangerous at the end of last year have now been explained.

When the developer studio Frontier Developments launched Update 2.2 at the end of last year, fans of Elite: Dangerous were a bit surprised. Many of the actually pretty and colorful planets suddenly appeared in a rather dull beige. Now there is also an explanation for this.

The dull coloring of the planets has a simple reason

Developer Michael Brookes apologized for only responding now. The reason for the new coloring of some planets is that a new system for rendering the worlds has been introduced. The look is determined by the chemical properties of the resources found on the planets. However, the developers use a system where the colors correspond to the standard coloring of these materials as they occur on Earth. And this is often a shade of beige or brown.

A new system is supposed to provide more color variety

However, it has been overlooked that the planets can have completely different conditions than Earth, which should make the coloring of the resources more varied. The development team now wants to work on a new system that should make the planets colorful again. However, this will require a greater effort, which is why this change should not be expected in one of the next updates.

Thus, the coloring of the worlds in Elite: Dangerous has a simple explanation, which may disappoint some players. There were already wild speculations within the community about a kind of infection slowly spreading over the planets.

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