Cits and Civs, Captains and Commanders, you’re tuned to episode 553 of Guard Frequency — the best damn space game podcast ever! This episode was recorded on Friday, August 21 and released for streaming and download on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at GuardFrequency.com
[Download this episode]
(Right click, Save As…)
This Week’s Schedule
- Flight Deck
- Elite: Dangerous
- Star Citizen
- Helldivers 2
- Interstellar Frontier
- Guard Frequency Exiles, where the team looks forward to their next adventure: a 19,000 light year road trip.
- Feedback Loop
Links & The Like
Elite: Dangerous
Elite Dangerous showed off their new mining drill SRV, the Rhino. It can carry 3 players and is armored and comes with some sort of resource equipment. It’s too large to fit into the current SRV hangars, so players will have to equip one of the new Vehicle Hangars – the same hangar that deploys the new Nomad explorer ship. MOST importantly, they are releasing a new Operation JUST LIKE WE TOLD THEM TO. Also, Dan Lazarides joins FDEV as Chief Marketing Officer. He previously worked at Sega and Bethesda, which are two companies that we have heard of that make and publish games. So that’s good.
Star Citizen
Star Citizen released Early Access Pre-Alpha Release Candidate Prototype Experimental Test Build 4.10.0-PTU 12497254 to the PTU server. The patch notes for this release are entitled “RC1” – we assume for “release candidate 1,” which is odd because this is the 22nd version of 4.10.0. No, really. Tony counted them. 22 patches over 29 days, and THIS is Release Candidate 1. Anyway, that’s not the real news. The real news is that Star Citizen has gone viral. Once again, we’re going to test the proposition that there is no such thing as bad publicity. And this is going to be a hell of a test.
Helldivers 2 and Interstellar Frontier
Helldivers 2 released their latest update: Devoid of Liberty, and it’s recaptured the lighting in a bottle that was the original game. Horrible creatures, oddball humor, and absolute mayhem. Play it, it’s good. AND ALSO: Interstellar Frontier is a great new game developed by Henry. And he has just a short update for everybody.
Community Questions
- OK… give us your two cents on the whole “Wrap It Up” situation
- Is it kosher for FDev to gate a new operation behind the ARX purchase of a new vehicle?
Patreon Backing
We love bringing you this show each week, but would also love your support? If you enjoy listening and want to contribute to us being the Best Damn Space Sim Podcast Ever, then go to our Patreon page and look at all of the rewards and loot you would be eligible to receive.
Join Us In Game!
- Click here to go to our Star Citizen Organization page and apply today!
- Check out the callsigns we use personally in each game
Leave a Reply