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Frontier has turned the deathmatch mode of Elite Dangerous, formerly called CQC (close quarter championship), into a smaller standalone game called "Elite Dangerous: Arena". The CQC mode was originally added with the 1.4 update last year. This seems only to be available on the PC so far.

People who already own Elite can generate a steam key in Frontier's store or just play "Arena" from the old launcher, as far as I understand it.

Today we are very excited to announce the launch of a new stand-alone product, Elite Dangerous: Arena. Arena is the PVP mode already in Elite Dangerous so all players who own Elite Dangerous or Elite Dangerous: Horizons will already have access to it. Simply select Arena (previously labelled CQC) from the in-game main menu to play.

However, we believe Elite Dangerous: Arena is a compelling game in its own right and want to offer it to players whose main goal is to play fast paced PVP space combat action. This will open Elite Dangerous to a whole new group of players, all of whom you can play against in the Close Quarter Combat Championships (CQC) in Arena mode in Elite Dangerous and Elite Dangerous: Horizons. So if you haven’t played CQC already we have a number of challenges starting today that you can join in with.

Elite Dangerous: Arena is available to new players right now on our store and on steam for £4.99/$7.49.

Click here to learn more about Arena.

This came pretty much out of nowhere for me, but it makes sense. The deathmatch might be interesting for people who are not interestend in the time consuming MMO portion of Elite Dangerous, but don't mind the space ship deathmatch.


Old news - delete please. >.<