Elite Dangerous: Beyond – Chapter Three adds the Alliance Crusader and much more

Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter Three (as wordy a title as that is) is nearly upon us, with the announced release date of August 28 approaching fast. Up to now, we’ve only had a brief teaser trailer to show the way, but at Gamescom Frontier showed plenty more of what to expect. Among other things, we’ll have new weapons, new mission types, and a new ship called the Crusader. The Alliance Crusader is similar in combat ability to the Chieftain and the Challenger - but it adds ship-launched fighters for even more firepower. There are new, space-based locations to explore, which will have you prodding Guardian beacons to find out what they they do and where they lead. Naturally, there’ll be some new tech to uncover, as well as a handful of new Guardian fighters to contend with as well. You can expect new weapons, of course, include a, er, large list of large additions. Large dumbfire missile, large seeking missile, large torpedo launcher, and a large multicannon in turreted configuration. The human tech broker gets a small shock cannon in turret, gimballed, and fixed configs. The Guardian tech broker gets a small plasma launcher, small shard cannon, and small gauss cannon, all available in turret and fixed variations.