 This is Witchspace news for Friday the 4th of October 2019 I'm CMDR Buur In this week's news, September patch 2 hits the servers Could cross platform play be coming to elite? CMDR Plater's 24 hour charity live stream smashes through its target and will also have a liberal sprinkling of community news that's caught our eye this week Remember to hit like and subscribe and click the little bell icon to get a notification next time we upload a new video you can also come and join us on the Buur Pit discord server where we organise all our community events and if you want to help support the work of this channel you'll also find us on Patreon. Links to everything you need are in the description below As promised late last week Frontier released September patch 2 to the game The patch comes with quite an array of crash and stability fixes as well as some less serious glitches and oddities affecting the main game as well as the new starter experience again as promised the almost universally disliked station menu blue store icon is now a much more in-game orange and has been moved one slot to the right making it a whole lot less in your face causing the collective forehead blood vessels of the community to also be a lot less visible it's lovely that Frontier clearly listened to that collective cry from the community and took swift action to remedy it despite there being the obvious commercial pressures behind its appearance there are still some bugs off the back of the september update and there's rumblings that some new ones might have crept in off the back of this latest patch so there's every chance we could be getting a patch three sometime soon PlayStation behemoth Sony kind of announced this week that their year-long beta test of cross-platform play has come to an end and that that functionality is now available to all developers to use as they see fit cross-platform play that sees gamers playing together regardless of the platform that they play on has been a creeping desire over the last few years in the gaming world in general let alone elite dangerous and of the three major platform holders Microsoft made probably the most positive noises about cross-platform play of late announcing at this year's games developer conference back in February that it was now a thing and the Nintendo switch has been edging into cross-play pretty much since its inception without all three of the major platform holders being fully on board with the cross-play initiative development for it is a tough sell for a developer financially but now that Sony has finally dragged its heels into the ring that does kick the doors open somewhat so can we expect to see cross-play in elite anytime soon the short answer is nobody except frontier knows that however it would make sense for them they have an interconnected universe already as the background simulation goes across platforms and doesn't care what flavour of controller you have in your hands it's just the nuts and bolts of flying a spaceship that has been closed to them up till this point the prospect of multi-crewing a turret from a tablet device on your sofa or finally flying in a wing with some of our very good community friends on xbox and playstation is almost too exciting to vocalize so is cross-play coming to elite if it is then there's every chance that frontier would have known about it for some significant time and would have been developing it on the choir or at least making allowances for it i certainly think it fits the elite and frontier ethos they are after all a platform agnostic independent developer and publisher you could argue that if they were planning on such a colossal overhaul of the underlying network code of something like elite then it wouldn't make a huge amount of commercial sense to continue to fix and overhaul the existing network code in full and clear knowledge that that work was going to be lost in so many months time you could therefore postulate great word postulate that that is possibly why we haven't seen some of the quirks of instancing multi-crew hacks or cheats fully squashed yet that is of cool utter guesswork wouldn't it be a nice surprise for December or 2020 though commander plate as third annual 24-hour charity live stream dominated the elite community sphere last weekend and was a roaring smashing success the commander was raising money for the British thyroid foundation with a series of two-hour challenges set by elite community content creators the stream kicked off at midday uk time with commander plater being led a merry dance around the bubble by the team here at the burp it across the following 24 hours he was joined by commander harry potter yamaks frontier developments drew wager tado chip down to earth astronomy spatula ghost giraffe mini and exegious and finished the stream as the sun came round our blue marble again with an srv race with a scorpious turgeon gray test and machine over the course of the 24 hours he raised a staggering 8291 pounds a full 414 percent of his original 2,000 pound target it was a stunning staggering hilarious surprising worthy and heartwarming event there's still time for you to donate to what is a very worthwhile charity the just giving link is in the description below this video if you're able to even donate just a pound that can make a huge difference to someone's life and finally here's some stuff from the community that's caught our eye this week our very own expedition the pit trip got underway last sunday night kicking off with a meet-up and mass jump from the toanta system on the first leg of the expedition out to beetle juice and the spirograph nebula burp it community regular and Sagittarius eye video jockey commander eagle 131 put together a stunning video that left us with our collective jaws on the floor here at the pit do give it a look a like and maybe drop the good commander a sub chances are you'll see a lot more pit trip footage there in the coming weeks on the subject of expeditions the fatherhood's lost souls expedition two is forming up and accepting registrations at the moment the expedition is leaving on october the 26th for a christmas stopover in colonia before heading out again to its final destination in april next year i was part of the original lost souls expedition last year suffice to say it was an amazing trip with an amazing community taking in some stunning elite vistas this expedition is likely to be just as engaging and comes highly recommended if you're hungry for more deep black a brilliant piece of fan art surfaced on reddit this week showing off what an atmosphere capable srv could look like off the back of the post reddit has busied itself hotly debating whether or not it's a four by four or an eight by eight and finally frontiers product manager for a leak dangerous and pilot of the famous pink wafer cobra sally morgan moore announced that she is leaving frontier for pastures new on october the 7th a community and livestream regular sally has been a very bright light in the team at frontier and leaves behind some not insignificant shoes to step into you will be sorely missed by everyone here at the pit sally and we wish you nothing but good things in your onward journey thank you for everything you've done for us and the elite community and an extra special thank you from commander reany for the development of the camera suite oh flupin seven that's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then oh seven commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack we very much look forward to seeing you next time