It's been a very busy week for Elite

Dangerous. There was an alleged hack on

the game. Meanwhile, the servers were a

bit up and down and a bit flaky over the

weekend. And then there was the core

dynamics community goal. And on top of

that, we've got a little bit of insight

on the new upcoming currency. This would

make three currencies inside of Elite

Dangerous. So, let's start with the

server problems and the alleged hack.

Now, both of these are apparently two

completely separate issues, although

they did coincide with each other and

apparently overlap. So, over the

weekend, there were rumors going around

unconfirmed even now, that a player was

going around the game causing a massive

problems. They somehow managed to get

hold of what appeared to be admin

controls, made themselves into things

such as the Thgoids, and even got into

other people's accounts and trained

their creditors. Now, there is

conflicting reports on all of this, so

it's still even now completely uncertain

exactly what happened. The news itself

broke fairly early on on a wide scale

when Commander Macan, a YouTuber, posted

Elite Dangerous in Crisis, a video

talking about the alleged hack itself.

And around about the same time, there

was a post on the AXI Discord. This is a

massive player run community warning of

the hack. The post was [music] titled

elite hacked brace for possible roll

back. A hacker whose name is known at

this time has managed to break into a

series of administrative functions in

elite. In addition to personally causing

havoc, he has reportedly renaming

carriers, systems, and even impacting

colonization efforts. He has also been

posting the IP addresses of players in

public system chat. If you choose to

play [music] this weekend, mind that any

progress may be subject to a roll back.

We also ask that you do not personally

attack the hacker. Let FDE Justice run

its course. Now, this message was also

posted to the Elite Dangerous Reddit sub

to which Frontier community team did

reply. They said, "We just wanted to

jump in here and say that we are aware

of the ongoing server issues, and the

team have been working hard to get

things working again as they should.

I'll share any further updates as soon

as I can." Now, keep in mind, Frontier,

neither the community team nor the

company themselves have acknowledged or

denied the claims about this hack,

despite the fact that the community team

posted exactly and precisely on the

Reddit sub where this hack was

discussed. They acknowledged the server

issues, but didn't say one word in

either direction about any potential

hack. Although, later the same day, they

did post, "Greeting commanders. The

Elite Dangerous servers are once again

available after today's outage. Thank

you for your patience." Again, just a

mention of the server issues which

people were experiencing and not one

mention about any hack. So what does

that mean? Well, from my point of view,

it means [music] the whole thing is

somewhat ambiguous. [clears throat]

There's certainly in my views enough

disruption here on the various different

communities, whether these are on

Reddit, YouTube or Discord that

something certainly went on beyond just

server [music] issues. But beyond that,

there doesn't appear to be too much in

the way of solid evidence to prove

anything in the way of a hack. Although

that said, there have been some posts

from the alleged hacker describing

exactly what they did do and what they

didn't do. But I guess we can only take

that for what it is, [music] just a post

on the internet. Either way, let me know

your thoughts and feelings about all of

that in the comment section below. Do

you have any more information on whether

this was a hack or not? Did you actually

see anything in game? Did you see

anything that uh you consider evidence

various places on the internet? Would

you feel this is all speculation?

Now, as that aside, what we do know is

that the community that the game itself

did suffer from a variety of different

server issues. These seem to be server

stability issues and affected people

jumping around in the game, connection

issues and that sort of thing. And

Frontier were pretty quick to get on

board with all of this and fix it

despite it being happening over a

weekend. So, I guess good news there on

the fact that they were able to fix it.

A bit of bad news in the sense that the

issues even happened in the first place.

In other news, the game was generally

pretty busy over the weekend [music]

thanks to a new active community goal.

This was called Core Dynamics Combat

Initiative. The tech says to test the

new Kestrel's combat capabilities.

[music]

Core Dynamics has called for independent

pilots to help test the new fighter in

combat situations in and around Jammuta.

I'm not sure if I pronounced that system

name correctly there. Now, on the face

of it, that paragraph would probably

incline you to believe that you can

freely test out the Orchestral M2 if you

get involved with this community goal.

Unfortunately, despite the community

text giving you that impression, that

isn't actually the case. So yeah, that

is a [music] bit misleading and

certainly not in the best way. Either

way, the idea here is that pilots can

support this initiative by first signing

up at the Polov station and then

complete any combat missions accepted

from any station's mission boards within

this system or within a 15 lightyear

range of the system. To contribute,

combat missions must be completed and

handed in at the mission board. So, what

was making this particular community

[music] gold so popular is that if you

do it, players who register at least one

contribution will be receiving the

following rewards. And there's some

pretty decent rewards here, but only if

you've got the Kestrel M2, which is the

brand new ship you would have to

purchase for ARCs at the moment for that

real world money. But the reward is a

Kestrel M2 vapor white paint job and a

core dynamics decal and some credits

depending on the success tier that you

actually achieve through uh getting

involved in this community goal. Now, if

you do have access to the new Kestrel

Mark II, it is a pretty decent combat

ship. It's a small ship, far more

powerful apparently than all the other

combat focused small ships at the

moment. And well, there's a little bit

of a mixed opinion on this. A lot of

people that have the ship have really

enjoyed it. Other people feel it is kind

of throwing the balance of the old ships

completely out of whack because yeah,

why would you want the old ships when

you can have this brand new ship which

completely outperforms the older ships

in all ways that actually matter in all

ways that actually count. So yeah, if

you do have the ship then you might want

to be getting involved in this community

goal because a free paint job is not

really something you might want to turn

down. This is a pretty neat reward. And

elsewhere, we come to a little bit of

information about the new [music]

upcoming currency. Now, when the next

major update arrives, this one's called

operations. This will allow you to get

involved in on foot combat inside of

mega ships. This is a new feature. In

essence, I guess we could look at it as

a form of combined arms because you can

also take on these missions inside a

ship. Some of these missions will be

purely ship focused only. So, you'll be

flying around in your ship, getting

involved in whatever the activity is, or

you'll be able to deploy inside a mega

ship and do your combat there. But some

of the missions will be a multi-staged

minion. You might start off in your

spaceship and then do the next stage of

the mission inside the mega ship. You'd

have to dock up and then deploy on foot.

So, what's new about all of this? Well,

beyond what I've just said, is that a

second or a third currency will be

deployed inside the game. you'll be

doing taking on these operationsbased

missions and one of the rewards will be

a new type of currency. What might be

these currencies before you might ask?

Well, it turns out that you'll be able

to buy new types of things that'll be

usable to purchase modules with unique

effects, mods for on foot weapons, mods

for on foot armor, as well as additional

items and more. These aren't

specifically labeled, so we don't know

[music] quite what those extra things

would be just yet. Either way, we know

that the new currency will be needed to

actually obtain them. Now, here's the

[music] interesting piece of additional

information. With the new casual update

that arrived just recently, this

additional currency is now visible in

game. You can see it here. It's stacked

between the players's arc balance and

your regular credits balance. The

currency itself doesn't have a name just

yet, but it is signified by a red

symbol. And this looks like very much

like the F logo on the front line

solutions. Frontline solutions of course

be where you go to pick up on foot

activities and the space stations the

Odyssey related content. So it looks

like Frontier are laying the groundwork

for this currency already. Some of the

code is apparently in the game already,

although we don't yet know exactly how

much of this you're going to need or

what it's going to be actually applied

to. But, you know, I'm very curious to

see whether these modules and these new

uh items are going to be different to

what we have in the game already. Are

they going to be something completely

different or they just going to be

improved versions of what we've already

got? And that really begs the third

question that if they are different or

if they are better, then how many people

are going to have to be forced into the

operations content to upgrade their

ship, their on weapons or armor in order

to gain these specific modules and items

as opposed to the regular activities

we'll do to get the same. And of course,

the very cynical part of me, this is

only a very small little voice nagging

in the back of my head because I've got

absolutely no reason to think this is

going to be true. Actually makes me

wonder whether or not this could

potentially lead into another

microtransaction currency to buy in-game

modules. But we'll have to see on that

one because like I say, that's just me

being very cynical. Either way, do let

me know your thoughts and feelings in

the comment section below about all of

this because I'd love to hear from you.

I will be checking those comments out.

So that brings us to the end of this

video. Thanks for watching it all the

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take care and I'll catch you next time.