Last week, the developer explained which items players can transfer to PC. Players will retain all their ships, land vehicles, avatars, inventories, reputation, ranks, permits, codex discoveries, engineering progress, guardian tech broker progress, crew progress, and cosmetics. Unfortunately, their squad memberships, friends lists, and mission progress will reset. Players also will have to rename their characters after the transfer.

Notably, fleet carriers won't survive the transfer. Frontier suggests that players decommission the transports before the transfer and then use their refunds to re-buy them on PC. This method can take two weeks and involves transferring billions of in-game credits per player. The game's premium currency, called ARX, also can't move from console to PC. Frontier canceled future console updates for Elite Dangerous in March after spending months trying to improve the performance of its latest expansion — Odyssey — which only launched on PC. Many players will likely take advantage of Frontier's free console-to-PC transfer offer, but many others probably don't have rigs capable of running Elite. Without Odyssey, Elite's system requirements are incredibly light by today's standards, but the game has been Windows-only for years.