greetings commanders commander ricardo here and i hope you're all doing well
big announcement from frontier today about the transfer of profiles from consoles to pc as
you're all aware this process was announced some weeks ago and now there are more details to fill
in some of the blanks and hopefully answer all the questions that console commanders have for
what would actually be copied from the console to pc so it's about copying elite dangerous horizons
from consoles to elite dangerous horizons on the pc so this is what it's all about
we're going to go through it step by step and examine what they've said
straight out of the docking bay door there's a few things to note in this announcement that came out
from frontier developments today concerning the transfer of profiles from console to pc the first
thing to notice is that the original console profile will remain playable on your console
only one profile may be copied per copy of elite dangerous and this will be a one-time process
there'll be no oh i've really messed it up can someone copy that again
frontier also announced that this process will take place in september 2022 although that may
be subject to change because as they state in their release there are a lot of moving parts
which they hope people will be able to appreciate in copying these profiles from one platform or
another they go in detail into the faq of the profile transfers for consoles as well
your commander name will be copied although it's an asterisk if that name is not ready in use on
another pc account if that commander name has already been taken you'll be given the chance
to choose a new name as part of the console profile transfer process for elite dangerous
all you commanders with a big fleet of ships do not fear because your ships will also be
transferred along with the engineering modules and engineering that you've placed on them so
don't worry about that that'll also include the cobra mark iv if you're one of the fortunate
commanders to have owned that and will also include follow me your weapons srv and slfs so
don't worry about that one of the important things that's also going to be transferred
is that it had earned in-game credits not to be confused with arcs that's a different story we'll
come on to that later but your credit balance will remain intact so don't worry about it all you
billionaires will still remain to be billionaires your in progression in regards to your modules
will also be transferred that includes models that are in storage including all engineered
components on those modules your community goal modules and your power play modules as
well they will all be transferred in this console profile transfer process
for elite so that's really good news so so far you've got your credits you've got your ships
you've got your modules you've got your engineering cool no problem so far so good
oh it's time to talk about your core progression through the game and what's
going to be transferred with this particular process so this is going to include your inventory
i'm not entirely sure what that means and we'll come on to that in a minute because i'm pretty
sure your fleet carrier is not going to be transferred over all right so what do they
mean by inventory i don't know anyway it says inventory will be copied over your reputation
your navy ranks your permits to different systems the codex with all your discoveries and
information gathered your engineering progress your tech broker progress your power play and
you also remain pledged to the power at the same level that you were when you did the transfer okay
brilliant next up any npc crew names appearance and progress will also be transferred good news
for old cedric on my federation corvette then he's elite ranked i don't fancy taking him
all the way through that progress again so mpc crew names in-game customization such as paint
jobs bobble heads ship kits and all the other items that have been purchased with in-game arcs
any applied livery customizations will also remain applied so your pc commander and their
ships will appear exactly as they were on consoles before you did the profile copy
so quite a lot of things are going to be copied over however now here comes the part where we've
all been dreading what's not going to be copied over okay then so as mentioned your commander
name will not be copied over if it's already in use by another pc player you will be given the
chance to choose a new name as part of the process this could actually be a blessing in disguise
you might think don't really want that name anymore i'll change it anyway there you go
frontier do suggest in regards to the ark balance and the fact that it won't be copied
over is that they ensure that you the commander purchase any desired customizations before
you complete the transfer any unspent arcs will remain on the original console profile
so get spending that's the answer i suppose um or you're gonna have a tricked out profile on
the console and the game won't be in any further development other than housekeeping housekeeping
squadron membership will not be transferred or copied over in this profile transfer process
just so it's clear you'll have to go back in
reset your squadron rename your squadron recreate your squadron and then add all your crew to it
friends lists block lists and private groups will also not be copied over from console to
pc and here's the biggest one which i think a lot of people might have some hassle with
your fleet carrier your big old personal mobile base
will not be copied over and their contents won't be copied over which is what made me thought well
hang on your inventory will be copied over but your fleet carrier won't be so where exactly are
you going to keep your inventory unless they refer to the fact that whatever you happen to have in
your cargo hold at the moment will be copied over at the time of the copy other than that
that's it so fleet carriers and their contents will not be
transferred over there's a whole section on this um in regards to the fleet carriers so let's go
into that now there's a whole section on fleet carriers where i see a section there's six lines
what are the options for fleet carriers and their contents they say they're looking at
a number of options to give the best continuity for commanders being copied from console to pc
as soon as we have more information on fleet carriers this page will be updated
but let's face it originally they said you'll have to sell and decommission your fleet carrier
and then once you've done that buy your new one in game they may have a different option for
this but it's worthwhile keeping an eye on this particular section in regards to fleet carriers
now they've gone through on the faq and they've gone through an awful lot of other options as well
you know that have sort of hit i think the top 10 questions that people have been asking on the
forums and they given quite a concise i would say um description of what's going to be what's going
to happen for example um will my community go progress copy from pc with my commander right
community goal progress no it will not if there's a live community goal at the time of copying it
goes live you revise you complete this goal and then claim your rewards before making the move so
it's things like that so it's worthwhile having a good look through and i'll put a link to the post
on the thread in this video hey so i hope this has been a little bit useful also to be passing
this on to the commanders who live in my house who play on console and we've now got their nice
big meaty pcs and be transferring over hopefully it'll alleviate some of their questions hopefully
it's alleviated some of yours don't forget to check out the links and the comments as well uh
let me know if you're going to be transferring from console to pc it'd be quite interesting
to find out and of course there's loads of videos to help the new elite dangerous odyssey commander
on my channel i've been ricardo thanks very much for listening and i'll see you soon
you