Developer Cloud Imperium Video games is constant to evolve its area sim Star Citizen, with a brand new occasion and a have a look at new upcoming options and content material.
To start with, a brand new occasion has been launched involving the seize of an enormous (242 meters lengthy) Idris Frigate.
Some gamers already acquired a style of this occasion earlier this months when it was examined on a devoted server, however now it is on the stay servers.
The occasion will trigger Idris Frigates to spawn at a sure time on random servers. A few of them will really be manned by builders, whereas others can have an AI crew.
Gamers might be tasked with disabling and capturing them, after which they’ll be capable to management them at will. There’s even a contest concerned that provides folks an opportunity to win an Idris for themselves, alongside different goodies.
I suppose it is also an excellent probability to check the Idris earlier than it lastly will get delivered into the fingers of gamers. The occasion comes with a smaller replace, alpha 3.22.1. You will discover the complete patch notes on the official boards.
The second piece of content material for this week is a brand new video discussing the brand new Grasp Modes, which is able to principally change fight radically. Gamers can have two modes at their disposal, one devoted to fight, and one devoted to navigation.
Once you’re in navigation mode, you fly a lot quicker, however your weapons, shields, and countermeasures are deactivated. Once you enter fight mode, you go a lot slower, which intends to make air battles a lot tighter, extra just like a World Conflict II dogfight.
The opposite new ingredient showcased is precision focusing on, which is able to assist gamers goal particular enemy ships’ components extra precisely. An added bonus is that the zoom included in precision focusing on will let gamers benefit from the seems of outlets extra (earlier than they blow them up).
Lastly, a brand new episode of Star Citizen Reside focuses on the upcoming and large Distribution Facilities, offering extra info on their options through a Q&A with the builders.
The options mentioned in each movies will are available Alpha 3.23, which is at present slated for April.
Star Citizen is a crowdfunded recreation at present in improvement solely for PC and constantly evolving.
Its followers have pledged $666,572,010 in funding with 5,096,023 registered customers. As standard, not all of them are paying gamers, as many accounts are created for Free Fly occasions.
That being stated, Star Citizen acquired over $117.5 million in pledges in 2023, marking the largest yr of its historical past and the sixth of consecutive progress.
A single-player marketing campaign named Squadron 42 can also be within the works, and we lately heard at CitizenCon that it is now feature-complete. We’re nonetheless ready for a launch date, which could be introduced on the subsequent CitizenCon in October 2024.
