The continuing growth of Star Citizen handed a milestone this week as gamers have been capable of leap between totally different star techniques for the primary time.
In a check server organized to check the function, gamers have been in a position to make use of leap gates to maneuver between the Stanton and Pyro techniques.
Stanton is the system that gamers have been taking part in on for fairly some time on the dwell servers, whereas Pyro is the second star system that will likely be added to the dwell construct of the sport sooner or later sooner or later with alpha 4.0.
Whereas Pyro was examined by itself earlier than, that is the primary time by which gamers can fly their ships between two techniques by flying right into a gate.
The best way journey between techniques works within the Star Citizen universe is by flying into pure wormholes stabilized by Bounce Gates. Technically, every system is dealt with by a special server, and now the handoff of gamers between servers has been examined and is useful.
That is moderately essential, as totally different techniques have totally different traits that replicate on the gameplay expertise. Whereas Stanton is a comparatively safe, corporate-dominate system, Pyro is solely lawless, dominated by gangs, and with frequent photo voltaic flares so as to add to the problem.
Apparently, one other check occurring this weekend will improve the cap of gamers per server to 400 from the present 100.
On high of that, we additionally bought a brand new video by which the builders illustrated a number of the modifications coming to FPS gameplay within the upcoming Alpha 3.23. These embrace an overhaul of recoil, new results for scopes, reloading modifications, and way more.
You possibly can watch the video beneath. Alpha 3.23 is scheduled for April, albeit it isn’t set in stone.
A second video includes a Q&A with the builders on Grasp Modes, a brand new flight function that can immediate gamers to change between a slower fight mode and a a lot quicker navigation mode with the intent of getting tighter, extra cinematic dogfights at extra manageable speeds.
Star Citizen is a crowdfunded sport at present in ongoing growth solely for PC. Its followers have pledged $668,602,747 in funding with 5,107,521 registered customers. As typical, that quantity just isn’t consultant of paying clients, as many simply strive the sport out throughout Free Fly Occasions.
Impressively, Star Citizen simply had the largest 12 months ever in its crowdfunding historical past. Its followers have pledged over $117.5 million in pledges in 2023.
A single-player marketing campaign titled Squadron 42 can also be in growth and we just lately heard that it is now feature-complete. It would not but have a launch date, however many consider that it will be introduced at the subsequent CitizenCon in October. But, that is simply hypothesis, for now.
Full disclosure: the writer of this put up backed Star Citizen’s crowdfunding marketing campaign.
