We've just been treated to a very exciting Elite Dangerous roadmap in February's Frontier Unlocked stream. As well as exploring Trailblazers, we were treated to sneak peeks of the rest of the year's updates. As you'll see in the cover image for this reward, that includes the Gutamaya Corsair in April, the Vanguards update to Squadrons in summer, as well as three other new ships and one other major new feature. Now we want you to read between the lines and theorise what these additions might include. Here are some prompts to get you started:
Concept art for the newly announced Gutamaya Corsair
We know the Gutamaya Corsair will be a medium, multirole ship with an impressive maximum cargo and hardpoint capacity. What other features might it have and what do you think players will use it for? What do you think the wider community will make of its sleek, sharp design? What ship kits do you want to see for it? Will it become the new hooners' choice?
Frontier Brand Manager Zac Cocken promised that 2025 would be "another very, very exciting year for ships". What do you think the ships due in phases three, four, and five will be? What roles do you think they'll play and which manufacturers will be producing them?
We know that summer's Vanguards feature will be the "spiritual successor" to Squadrons, allowing small teams of players to set rewardable objectives, communicate better, guide new players, and (potentially) have a shared "bank" for credits, modules, or ships. How do you think this will work? What objectives would you like to set for your fellow commanders?
What do you think the winter 'Phase 5' feature will be?
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LiquidMorkite3/13/2025
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The Gutamaya Corsair
We have already known that every time a "multipurpose" ship is introduced, it opens up a vast options for our creative community to use with different purposes. Would it be an upgraded Krait Phantom/Mk II or Python, or the "medium" version of the Imperial Clipper?
Lastest ship introduced being the Cobra Mk V, which is a fantastic small multi-purpose ship, can be used in combat for cmdrs that don't have enough credits to purchase a combat rig yet, or someone who just want to do "everything" on the same ship, but this time with SCO optimized. Being a small ship, it sometimes works as a small hauler for settlements with small pad only, but by being small, it misses out a lot of features that a medium ship might hold, this time the Corsair might be able to cover it:
Proper anti-xeno combat ship: the best-in-slot vessels for AX combats including the Krait Mk II and the Anaconda, medium-sized and large-sized respectively, both are categorized as multi-purpose ships with decent hardpoints, would the Corsair be able to compete with the Krait Mk II? It all depends on its hardpoints size.
Exploration: As soon as the Cobra Mk V was released, a large number of cmdrs had already switched from the Mandalay to it for a change, and by it being small, it works very well for exobiology. In fact, the most favorited Exploration ships, the AspX, Anaconda, and Krait Phantom are all "multi-purposed" ship.
Hauler/Mining ship: It might have some optional spaces for cargo, but maybe the T8 will still keep its place as the best medium-sized mining ship. If it's faster than the Python or the T8, it might be the new best core-ming ship.
Racer: the ImpEagle, ImpCourier, and the Viper MkIII all have very fast normal space travel speed, with the Viper Mk III being the fastest, but I still prefer the Courier because of its sick cockpit, the Corsair gives me a feeling that it might be very fast, but by being medium, it still might not be able to beat the small ships speed, given that we still have Enhanced Thrusters Module up to size 3, who knows, maybe our beloved engineer Felicity Farseer release some bigger thrusters this year!
Maybe just a nice bubble jumper: I have my Imperial Courier for the exact same purpose, nothing else, sometimes a bit of short range exploration, but having a fast ship that save your time going in/out of a station is always a good thing, and the corsair could totally that next ship that I'd use for it.
Talking about shipkits, I wouldn't say no to something that makes the wings/thrusters look better. I'm talking about maybe something like the Naboo Royal Starship. I'm totally would get the Chromed paintjob for this ship when I have it!
The Naboo Royal Starship, that the Corsair reminds me of
Upcoming ships
I'm excited for another Core Dynamics combat ship, can be of any size, I just want a CD combat ship!
Another ship could be a large hauling ship, given how painful it is to only be able to transfer 792T of commodities on a shieldless Cutter in this newly featured Colonisation, we want a Lakon/Gutamaya with 1000T cargo space! I like how FDev are making their updates connected, maybe then it's time for a bigger hauler ship.
The third ship to be released might be something that could help you with the new features, hauling, something with the Vanguard feature, or the last feature that we don't know what it would be yet. Speaking of which, maybe another Kruger ship? A cruiser but actually you can put some guns on it to fight off some terrorists/Thargoids that want to take over our passengers?
New "Vanguard" Feature
Meanwhile I am excited with the Vanguards feature, we have yet known much about what it is about. I am happy with current squadron feature, though I wish it could use some improvements, maybe this upcoming feature has something to do with colonisation? You can build a "Squadron" headquarter? Maybe it has something with BGS and minor factions too! Or maybe better co-op activities, I can tell that the latest contents are very co-op oriented, from those AX events to this new colonisation feature, I like how they try to bring the players closer to each others.
It could be a fast wing making for certain activities, like Thargoid invasion respond, powerplay stronghold raid respond, or gankers respond, it would be so much more immersive.
What if Vanguard features a fast wing-making in Open play to respond to gankers?
Phase 5 feature
I wonder if it's a large scale feature like Colonisation, or maybe a better update for it, in both cases it would be fun. Maybe it has something to do with the new ships, as I mentioned maybe a new Kruger ship above, maybe it has something with transfering passengers but on a larger scale with new gameplay mechanics?
Or maybe it marks the return of the Thargoid? Odyssey-related Thargoid content that is better thought than the Banshees and Scavengers? They've already made them, they better make some good uses for them right?
Odyssey Thargoid should get a better chance
We're certainly looking forward to a year full of contents and excitement, way more than we can ask for a 10-year-old game! I also hope they focus on fixing some small bugs along the way, it's an old game with some very old issues that have yet to be fixed.
yan574364/7/2025
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Speculating on the roadmap of elite dangerous, I think that today the game is moving towards a vibe of bringing the galaxy as a character and your interaction with it, so I would speculate on something geared towards that, such as mechanisms geared towards colonization and exploration, even reminiscent of some submission ideas I've seen now in just about itself, with massive ideas of structures and integrations between colonies.
The ships turn out to be the highlight, and I'd bet money that this year we'll probably have a large new ship, which will also be related to what I said earlier, with the inclusion of new planets and which will be part of the new feature.
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RPGEmmaB4/7/2025
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Bluesky has a very limited letter count to write a post, so... A couple other possibilities could be... a guardian ship perhaps??? We have guardian fighters, so why not a complete guardian ship?! The new feature could start going on a completely different line to what's been added recently, so maybe something like adding new species of animals/aliens to the galaxy. Or ship interiors... lol. I'd love if we got ship interiors.
Sturmer4/3/2025
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Duraj4/2/2025
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This! I think I've said all I think in the post. Future is looking really bright for Elite!
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Added a new tweet! Also, I got limited by X/Tweeter, but it would be cool if ship manufacturing in your systems was a thing! And I am also curious about the whole economy aspect too, there were some talks about it working on a level-up basis, so we'll see how it will work out
