Elite: Dangerous Getting Multiplayer Ships Next Year

"Multi-Crew lets you fly in the same ship with friends."

Elite: Dangerous developer Frontier has announced that the next DLC, named Horizons will add multi-crew ships and avatar creator in 2016.

"Multi-Crew lets you fly in the same ship with friends, which will up the intensity and camaraderie levels of a joint mission even further!" Frontier wrote in an email on Friday. "You’ll be able to share and alternate control of weapons systems, turrets and flight duties to multiply your effectiveness. Even to the extent of piloting a ship-launched fighter and working in combination with the mothership. It’ll be especially useful in some of the very large trading ships coming in season two."

According to Frontier having recognizable faces designed by players opens up a lot of the personal interaction that Elite: Dangerous has been lacking so far. In a close crew, Frontier writes, players can "identify friends with a quick glance across your ship's bridge."