Large Star Citizen patch 3.18, titled Lasting Legacies and pitched by director Chris Roberts as “the largest Star Citizen replace but” for one of the crucial bold area video games on PC, is out now. With an overhaul to the cargo system, the introduction of salvaging, new places and updates to present ones, and lots extra further options together with racetracks, there’s definitely quite a bit to soak up – so let’s go over every little thing in patch 3.18.
Among the many headline options in Star Citizen 3.18 is an entire overhaul to the sport’s ship cargo system. This enables gamers to choose up and transfer particular person cargo of all sorts, and also you’ll now have the ability to manually organise your precise cargo containers in your ship utilizing a tractor beam, with the choice to snap to a grid for fast and simple placement.
A brand new ‘sand cave’ archetype has been added throughout a number of planets and moons in Stanton, with distinctive cave formations to be explored and an lovely creature known as the Stone Bug that lives inside them. Additionally highlighted is the introduction of ‘Persistent entity streaming’ – basically, which means that dynamic objects will now stick round in perpetuity, even when they aren’t presently owned or held by a participant, which ought to make places really feel extra constant.
Salvage, scraping and mushy dying
Salvaging is now absolutely applied, with choices for hull stripping and repairs both by hand (with a brand new Greycat multi-tool attachment) or utilizing programs on the likes of the Aegis Reclaimer and the brand new Drake Vulture ship. You possibly can break down components, convert, and retailer them, and may use the ensuing materials to restore ships or promote it. You possibly can scrape the hulls of ships with out shields, and manually take away their cargo containers utilizing a handheld tractor beam to assert them for your self.
The replace additionally introduces ‘automobile mushy dying,’ a state that ships will fall into if a vital element is broken. These stranded crafts can be left open to salvaging by different events utilizing the Aegis Reclaimer or Drake Vulture. Gamers on board a ship that experiences mushy dying won’t be killed – however, with the multi-function show, weapons, engines, and thrusters all disabled, just about their solely possibility can be to go away the ship till additional discover.
New places and overhauls
A number of new factors of curiosity have been launched, whereas different places are getting huge enhancements. The Daymar crash website is a “giant derelict settlement” that guarantees loads of secrets and techniques to be found alongside the course of a number of missions. Quite a few bounty and assassination missions have been launched on the platforms of Orison.
Safety Submit Kareah will now be taking part in a extra central position, because the Crusader Safety drive have moved in and are storing their confiscated contraband there. The station is off-limits to civilians with out correct authorisation, however you possibly can make use of extra violent technique of entry. Prison gamers can battle their method by the utterly redesigned station and – in the event that they’re in a position to take down a station boss – may have the choice to make use of the station’s contraband machine to dispense a restricted provide of medicine.
That’s not all, nevertheless, as there are over 30 new small derelict outposts to be found throughout Stanton. Together with the introduction of the aforementioned sand caves, dozens of rivers and lakes have been unfold throughout the star system – these include their very own “biome-specific object rulesets” relying on the place they’re discovered.
New ship and time trial race tracks
There’s a brand new Star Citizen ship in 3.18 – the Drake Vulture is a light-weight salvage ship that, as talked about above, may be very useful for stripping down components from stranded or destroyed crafts. In the meantime, there are six new, community-focused racing places launched. These can be unlocked as gamers full time trial missions. There’s additionally a brand new race observe within the Orison Imaginative and prescient Heart that’s particularly constructed for the Greycat PTV.
Elsewhere, the replace consists of new courier supply missions, that are based mostly across the native supply corporations for every particular person system inside Stanton. There’s additionally an overhaul to the legislation system, which developer Cloud Imperium Video games says ought to make issues much less punishing for gamers with lower-level crimes on their file. There’s additionally a raft of auto velocity and fight steadiness tweaks; key amongst these, ballistic weapons will now be higher in opposition to shields however worse versus armour.
The ultimate Star Citizen launch date nonetheless isn’t identified but, however there’s lots to dig into should you’re one of many sport’s many Kickstarter backers. Developer Cloud Imperium has additionally reassured gamers that your Star Citizen ship dimension doesn’t matter as a lot as you suppose. In case you simply can’t get sufficient area exploration in your life, you’ll be happy to know that the Starfield launch date is lastly right here.
