 This is Witchspace news for Friday the 2nd of June 2023 I'm CMDR Buur And Elite Dangerous news this week the Titan scanner module arrives in-game and fdev Announce an unexpected update for next week As always if you enjoy our videos Please do hit the like button and if you haven't already be sure to subscribe and click the bell So you don't miss any of our Elite Dangerous content You can also join our patreon if you would like to help directly support our work links to that and everything else are below After the successful completion of last week's community goal the experimental pulse wave Xeno scanner module was released into the wild as we reported last week The pulse wave Xeno scanner is a bigger scaled-up version of the regular Xeno scanner That ordinarily allows commanders to scan a Thargoid ship and then select sub targets on the vessel The end result being directly targeting the vulnerable hearts on Thargoid interceptors The pulse wave Xeno scanner essentially does the same thing but on a colossal scale And can as a result be used on Titans Having scanned the offending gigantic invasion inducing capital ship Players can individually identify and target the numerous little greebly knobbly bits on the ship for further investigation And by further investigation what I of course mean is shoot them off of the surface and then steal them That isn't the only way however when you identify a sub target on the Titan be sure to attempt to sub target that also It's possible to find an attach point for a research limpet to lock onto From there you can grab various flavours of no doubt useful in the future tissue samples Upon the release yesterday there was some initial confusion as to where precisely the Titan scanners could be purchased As they weren't showing up for most players We have seen this before with new modules being released on thargsday server ticks It seems to be purely a symptom of the update rolling round to the various servers and locations That Elite is running on across the interwebs and it quickly settles with the module being available everywhere I'm pleased to confirm that the Titan scanning module is available for outfitting from the rescue Megaships dotted near the Thargoid frontline and is available as an experimental unit in a utility Slot for regular in-game credits with no unlocking required precisely what these new mats and Commodities are useful for we don't yet know but I do suspect we won't have to wait too long to find out A surprise arrived this morning when senior community manager Sally Morgan Moore Announced that early on Monday the 5th of June the Elite dangerous live game servers will be going offline for an expected three hours between 7am utc and 10am utc to apply patch 15.02 The announcement makes specific mention of quality of life improvements to the game but there are no more details currently on what precisely the patch contains. That information will be available once the servers go down on Monday. The updates unexpected arrival and associated lengthy downtime has raised some eyebrows of suspicion and no suspicions are compounded further by Sally making specific mention that the patch notes will be quite sizable for what appears to be just a point update it's not unheard of for fdev to sneak new features or content into more innocuous looking patches but there's nothing more at this time to indicate that that's what we're seeing here whatever the case when we know more we will of course bring it to you here on this very channel. Rene and I collectively wrestled with how to end the show this week but honestly there isn't an appropriate or easy way on a day like today. Joe leaves behind a legacy of fundraising education and research and the graceful tenacity with which commander Joe Plater conducted himself through impossibly overwhelming personal trials are difficult to sum up succinctly. He was an inspiration and will be sorely missed by everyone in the community. Our sincere condolences and love go out to Kim and his family. Forever in the stars. Rest well my friend. 07