when will we have atmosphere planet landings

[Butchville]

its so over due that we can land on other planets with atmoshere

[Turd Ferguson]

soon [TM]

[Witcher]

A preview for you below.

https://youtu.be/etq7CCCeTvo

Edit: Pls don't complain it's too realistic, else we shall get nothing.

[HairballHacker]

It's on the same delivery schedule as Star Citizen.

[Gropax]

4.0 or higher and at least it will be out before SC 2050 release date.

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

more paid content coming next year isn't there
what are they going to put in it to entice punters?
not more P2W content i'm hoping is all..but i don't trust any of these software companies, and this one has already showed no lack of compunction

[Agony_Aunt]

Not this year for sure. Next year it might be possible we will see the first iteration of atmosphere worlds, but no guarantees. If so, my suspicion it will only be on rocky/icy worlds.

[Witcher]

I believe we shall get more detail textures for rocky and ice planets in 2018 Q4 per the Beyond Roadmap with Mining 4.0 and squadrons.

[Con.RoXP]

There was a similar post a couple days ago and I wrote this:

Originally posted by Evropa✠Aeterna:

Landable Atmospheric Planets
Latest Comments:

2018, January 27th by Sandro Sammarco (Lead Designer):

We are currently working on some pretty exciting things in terms of planetary updates, with a lot of new ideas that we would love to add. But it's impossible to talk and give a time when they will be implemented in the game.

2017, June 27th by David Braben (CEO & Founder):

We are continuously working on each element of the game, and improving it, and it is certainly something we are working on (atmospheric planets).

2017, June 15th by Dale Emasiri (former Community Manager):

Having spoken to our team at E3, atmospheric landings remains something we are still working towards and the whole studio, including David, is very keen to implement. We'd like to be able to give you an idea of the rough timeframe for it, but unfortunately that’s not possible at the moment - we don’t want to make potentially empty promises to you.

2016, May 26th by David Braben (CEO & Founder):

Yes. We have ongoing work on planets, including atmospheres, planetary life, walking about and lots of other very exciting things for the future.

Walking around aka "Space Legs"
Latest Comments:

2018, January 27th by Sandro Sammarco (Lead Designer):

The team and I, we all see Space Legs as a feature that we would love to add and that is at the top of our to-do list, but it's something that certainly won't happen during the Beyond season. We will talk more about it later.

2017, March 10th by Sandro Sammarco (Lead Designer):

Just to set the record straight, Space Legs and EVA gameplay, that's way off in the future. That's a goal. I've talked to David and it's always been part of his core vision for what Elite really is, even from way back in the day, it's always been about you being a person in a real futuristic setting, not just a ship. However, I think it's also fair to say Space Legs is effectively dovetailing a whole new game into Elite. We take steps towards it, it's our end vision, but we're not there yet, it's a long way off. And when it does, by the time, if we get there, if we manage it, I'm sure we'll have the time to sort out any inconsistencies that need to be sorted out.

2016, October 25th by David Braben (CEO & Founder):

It is of course something we have thought about a good deal. The real challenge with walking around, EVA, etc, is not the fact of doing it - walking around is something we have done in many other games - it is what you do while doing it to make it interesting. We have nothing to announce at the moment.

2016, May 26th by David Braben (CEO & Founder):

Yes. We have ongoing work on planets, including atmospheres, planetary life, walking about and lots of other very exciting things for the future.

Taken from: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/397639-Elite-Dangerous-2018-Roadmap-Regularly-Updated

We already have a video about "space storms" which means that they are making progress with weather effects etc. It was that good that for me that could easily look like the outer layers of a gas giant too.