At this time Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Video games detailed what followers can anticipate from the upcoming Invictus Launch Week 2953 occasion.
The occasion will start on Might 19 and finish on Might 30, and it’ll contain the normal Free Flight Occasion that can let everybody attempt the sport without having to pledge any cash, whereas additionally having fun with the flexibility to check out just about all of the flyable starships.
The occasion can even embrace the expo that can return to Area18 on the Coruscant-like city planet ArcCorp, and the reveal of latest ships. Particularly, we get the tease of a brand new producer, Mirai.
That is attention-grabbing, as Mirai shall be showcased alongside MISC and the brand is comparable. I would not be shocked if it was a tuner model related to MISC devoted to creating racing ships, just about like Nissan’s NISMO model in the true world.
On prime of this, a Javelin-class destroyer shall be obtainable to tour, albeit we have no idea if it will embrace new sections we didn’t see in earlier years.
In the event you’re questioning in regards to the identify “Invictus Launch Week,” it is unrelated to the precise “launch” of the sport. It is really a celebration of the navy fleet of the United Empire of Earth. 2953 is the in-universe date, because it progresses with the real-world calendar, simply 930 years sooner or later.
You possibly can try the trailer of the occasion under and one other video displaying easy methods to attain the expo.
The developer additionally launched an in depth calendar of the occasion, with totally different days devoted to totally different manufacturers. As regular, Drake will have fun its personal separate “Defensecon” occasion, because the model is not actually within the navy’s good graces so it is not invited to the expo correct.
One other video launched yesterday focuses on a brand new racing observe within the works for the sport, for individuals who get pleasure from house Mario Kart.
In the mean time, Star Citizen‘s rising crowdfunding marketing campaign continues to make progress and the general tally has not too long ago handed $568 million ($568,355,6891 in the mean time of this writing) pledged from backers.
The variety of registered customers has additionally not too long ago handed 4.5 million and it is now at 4,562,352 albeit not all of them are paying since many register accounts to entry the free fly occasions. In keeping with the newest info that inventive director Chris Roberts himself shared in October 2022, 1.7 million gamers are literally paying clients. In fact, that quantity is a number of months previous, so it is in all probability increased now.
In the mean time, replace Alpha 3.19 is being examined, more likely to launch forward of Invictus Launch Week.
Full disclosure: the writer of this submit has backed Star Citizen all the best way again when its crowdfunding was first launched in September 2012.
