hello it's Ricardo and welcome back to Elite dangerous it's an exciting day for all you
console commanders out there who have decided to take the leap the leap of faith as it were
and transfer from your console into the PC now as we know and it's widely known throughout the elite
dangerous community that console development has now been stopped and put into maintenance
mode Horizons is it for consoles however a portal is now open on Frontier to transfer
your commander from console to PC so you can play Elite dangerous Horizons on the PC platform
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dangerous but other games as well now I know what you're all saying oh well you
know this console transfer has been coming for an age but now it's finally here they've
done a week of testing and now we finally have the option to transfer from Xbox or
Playstation to PC and that's going to be your commander great it's a point in time transfer
and there are a few caveats the original profile will remain playable and only one profile may be
copied per copy of elite dangerous it's a one-time process and also the portal
is going to remain open for the foreseeable future and there will be advanced notice for
when it closes so with furthermore to do let's strap in and do a console Commander transfer
so here is my console profile so here I've got my game attached my Xbox gamer tag
trying to face 40 days I've got my commander name and I've also got my
Frontier ID now some of these are going to be redacted obviously because they're
personal information however got my current ship which is a Sidewinder where I'm located
and how many credits I've got brilliant also big red box at the bottom telling you that
you're not going to have your arcs copied and spend it before you transfer no problem
selecting on the drop down box next to my commander name also tells me what my ranks
are and I've been pretty much utterly useless because I haven't used this Commander I bought
a cheap copy on Xbox but now I'm going to get a full copy of Horizons on PC for us possibly
fourth account that I've got so at the bottom I've got the confirm box let's get on with that
so here then we've got create a new customer account okay on the frontier store so for those
of you um who have not done this in several years right it's an opportunity to do so straightforward
put your first name middle name and last name on there and a date of birth and an email address
now if you've got multiple commanders probably worthwhile putting in another email address that
you haven't used on the frontier store so got a completely different account if you want to
receive any game news bang There You Go banging a password and tell them that you're not a robot
well that's pretty much straightforward once all this has been done we'll be hitting submit
so I'm going to go ahead and enter all this off camera now and then move on to the next section
now what's going to happen is that Frontier are going to send you an email that you'll have to
click on the link to confirm that you've just registered with them that's fantastic and you
get back to this page eventually so you've got a frontier account ready and now we're going to
start to copy the account so it's time to log in now here when you log in you'll be using the
new frontier account that you've just created all right and the password then you'll say okay you'll
approve this section here to have access to the user portal and then you're going to be prompted
for what everyone's been looking forward to now renaming your commander this is a case of like
well perhaps fancy a change or your commander name might already be in use it's a little time
for reflection as well you type in your commander name is that right it's going to be sticking with
you for a while as we know I mean you can't change your commander name once you've made it
and uh a lot of people have made some mistakes or fallen out of favor with their Commander name
anyway once you've decided on a commander name type it in click on accept new name once you've
clicked on accept new name and it says it's not already in use or inappropriate brilliant you'll
move on to the next section the next section now confirms the information that you've put in as you
can see a new Commander name mine's drunken Badger what your current ship is where you are how many
credits you've got do you want to proceed oh yes I do click yes to proceed and now you wait and it's
going to take a while everyone who is transferring their Commander over is going to be watching this
screen it says copy in progress you are in the queue you haven't got to leave this running now
that's it the process is running and you'll get sent an email to your address with a link to this
page and a confirmation of when it's done what does that email look like well just so happens
here's the email I was sent to say I am in the transfer queue now how long it's going to take
to Panther many commanders and making that transfer the more the better the longer the
better which means hey there's lots of people in the queue on doing this video it's been running
about 45 minutes but I thought I'd get this video out no dramas so and now we wait we'll get a copy
of Horizons as I've already said brilliant then you gotta find a nice cheap version of
Odyssey it's a crack on but Horizons version 4.0 apparently is coming quite soon after this process
so we'll get all the added benefits of that hope you've enjoyed this video I've been Ricardo thanks
very much for watching check back for more videos in the series let me know in the comments how
your console transfer has gone interesting to find out see you in the black see you out there