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To opt into the Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter One Beta on Steam:



1. Open the Steam client and navigate to your Library.

2. Right-click on Elite Dangerous and select Properties.

3. Click on the BETAS tab.

4. Select "Beta" through the drop-down box.

5. You will be prompted to restart your client. After restarting, launch Elite Dangerous to access Beyond - Chapter One Beta.

6. Select the beta from the launcher as usual.



Please note that once the beta build goes live, you may not see the "Beta" option immediately in the Steam client as the build may take some time to propagate. In this case, please restart your Steam client and try again in a few minutes. If you have Elite Dangerous in your Steam Library, you will be able to participate in the Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter One Beta using the Steam client. If you purchased the game from the Frontier Store and would like to add it to your Steam library, please follow the instructions in this support article To opt into the Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter One Beta on Steam:1. Open theclient and navigate to your2. Right-click onand select3. Click on thetab.4. Select "Beta" through the drop-down box.5. You will be prompted to restart your client. After restarting, launch Elite Dangerous to access Beyond - Chapter One Beta.6. Select the beta from the launcher as usual.Please note that once the beta build goes live, you may not see the "Beta" option immediately in the Steam client as the build may take some time to propagate. In this case, please restart your Steam client and try again in a few minutes.

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Hello everyone!Here's a quick list of the most frequently asked questions about the Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter One Beta.The beta can be downloaded in one of two ways. Either via the game launcher as usual or for the first time ever, via Steam! When the beta goes live on January 25, 2018, please follow the instructions below to install the beta via Steam.*EDIT - Please note only PC players are eligible to download the Beta via Steam. Mac players, please download the beta via the launcher as usual.Every PC/Mac player is eligible to take part in the beta. This includes both players who own the Horizons Season Pass and those who do not. Not every part of the beta (and full update) will be available to those without the Season Pass.The Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter One beta is free of charge.Unfortunately, we are currently unable to provide Elite Dangerous betas on consoles.Console players will be able to experience the full Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter One update at the same time as the PC players. Currently, we do not have a date available for the full update, but you'll be able to find out about it here on the forums or on our social channels when it's announced!We don't have a set time for the beta to go live at this time, but we will keep you up to date via our social channels throughout the dayWe wouldn't advise taking time off to play the beta first thing tomorrow, as we don't have an exact time that this will go live!A beta-specific bug forum will be opened on our forums tomorrow, 25 January 2018.No. Your main game saves will have been duplicated within the last few weeks and applied to the beta server. This means you'll be able to play through the beta with most of your current game progress intact.No. Everything you do in the beta will be wiped when the update goes live for the main game, and no progress will be carried across.You can find our beta Livestream recaps here to find out what content will be available in the beta!We will be adding notes to the beta test forums soon, with specific instructions on what would help us testing. Your continued support, feedback and testing is absolutely invaluable - thanks for getting involved! We'll post the link in here, too.1If you're playing theand wish to test the majority of the new features, you can nowand restart with 100,000,000 credits! Choose quick start IN THE BETA to do this.Let us know if you have any further questions regarding the beta!Twitter - https://twitter.com/EliteDangerous Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/EliteDangerousOfficial Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/elitedangerous