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Star Citizen will be free to play November 23-30
Cloud Imperium Games has announced that it will make the Star Citizen Alpha free to download and play for any player to celebrate the launch of Star Citizen’s first habitable planet, Hurston.
Revealed at CitizenCon 2018, on October 10, Hurston is a massive planet encompassing thousands of kilometers of playable space, with more than five distinct biomes including cityscapes, savannahs, frigid tundra’s, mountains and coastal seascapes. Lorville, the planet’s major city hub, will also be available to all players. In Lorville, players can expect to find a densely populated, living city, including the “New Deal” ship shop, the game’s in-game location for the buying of in-game ships with in-game currency. Star Citizen Alpha 3.3.5 is currently available on PTU servers.
To celebrate the release of Hurston, Star Citizen’s first explorable planet, and commemorate our anniversary, we’re launching a Free Fly event of unprecedented magnitude.
From Nov 23 through Dec 1 you’ll have the chance to try out every flyable ship and operable vehicle in the game for free. Here’s how it works:
During the promotion, anyone can join Star Citizen’s Persistent Universe for free. You’ll be able to experience Star Citizen first-hand, but to get out there and start exploring, you’re gonna need a ship.
Starting on November 23rd, every day, a different ship manufacturer in the game will make its entire flyable fleet available for a 24-hour test flight period.
There may also be some surprises in store for those of you who make the trek out to Hurston and see what Lorville’s all about, as well as some fun interactive activities here on the website, so stay tuned.
Star Citizen Alpha 3.3 is now available - 09/29/2018 09:08 AM
Cloud Imperium has released the highly 3.3 alpha version of Star Citizen to its Evocati Test Flight members. Back in August, Cloud Imperium claimed that it targets an October 10th release for Star Cit...
Star Citizen Made a $27,000 DLC Bundle Exclusively for the $1,000+ Concierge Community - 05/29/2018 08:28 AM
Flabberghasted is probably the proper word to use? There now is a $27,000 DLC bundle only available to premium Concierge backers of Star Citizen. I'll repeat that again, $27,000 (!)...
Star Citizen Alpha 3.1.0 Goes Live - 04/03/2018 07:57 AM
Cloud Imperium Games has announced that Star Citizen’s Alpha Patch 3.1.0 is now available for testing. Some of the new features include a character creator, which allows players to customiz...
Star Citizen - How Ships are Made Video - 01/22/2018 09:32 AM
Cloud Imperium Games released a new video of its upcoming space simulator Star Citizen. The video showcases the process of creating ships, also introducing the teams and developers responsible for the...
Star Citizen Alpha 3.0 is available - 12/23/2017 10:23 AM
Some news for Star Citizen backers as Alpha 3.0 is currently available on the Public Test Server to everyone. This basically means that everyone who has backed up this project will be able to test ...
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#5607836 Posted on: 11/16/2018 09:56 AM
They must be desperate, hoping people will like it then spend $10k on a ship
They must be desperate, hoping people will like it then spend $10k on a ship
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#5607839 Posted on: 11/16/2018 10:01 AM
I have a starter pack from the initial announcement of Star Citizen way back. Lost interest as it got bogged down in development.
Is it playable now, or what is the status? Did the alpha start?
Last time I checked it, it was a buggy laggy mess.
I have a starter pack from the initial announcement of Star Citizen way back. Lost interest as it got bogged down in development.
Is it playable now, or what is the status? Did the alpha start?
Last time I checked it, it was a buggy laggy mess.
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#5607840 Posted on: 11/16/2018 10:07 AM
So, I've heard that the performance of SC is absolutely horrible. Did it get better? I have no interest of wasting bandwidth on a game that barely runs.
So, I've heard that the performance of SC is absolutely horrible. Did it get better? I have no interest of wasting bandwidth on a game that barely runs.
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#5607854 Posted on: 11/16/2018 11:19 AM
I'm an early adopter of the game as well, but quickly lost interest in all the patches, as with a mid to high level rig my performance was HORRIBLE.
They've recently introduced a Delta patcher(no more downloading 40gb Everytime) and pushed out some amazing performance patches in the current iteration (3.3.0), to the point that the performance is actually great and it feels like you can actually play the game now.
To give you an example I was getting 50fps in the starter room, and 35ish in the main hall of the station you spawned in.. with the recent patch I'm getting 80-90fps in the starting room, and 60-70 in the main hall!
There are some framerates drop in a couple of places (when you "space jump" with your ship aka QT) and some of the locations(levski) are still using old assets so the performance there is still terrible, but for the rest it actually feels very much playable that I've gotten excited for the game again!
I would recommend not buying it if you can test it first on this free weekend, as it gives you the chance to see if it's something you will like or not.
If you do decide to try it out here is a referall code: STAR-C9FH-M4LZ
It will give you 5k in-game "money" when you register a new account regardless of you buying anything on the store.
I swear this isn't a promotional post, just trying to give all of you an input on my perspective of the game!
I'm an early adopter of the game as well, but quickly lost interest in all the patches, as with a mid to high level rig my performance was HORRIBLE.
They've recently introduced a Delta patcher(no more downloading 40gb Everytime) and pushed out some amazing performance patches in the current iteration (3.3.0), to the point that the performance is actually great and it feels like you can actually play the game now.
To give you an example I was getting 50fps in the starter room, and 35ish in the main hall of the station you spawned in.. with the recent patch I'm getting 80-90fps in the starting room, and 60-70 in the main hall!
There are some framerates drop in a couple of places (when you "space jump" with your ship aka QT) and some of the locations(levski) are still using old assets so the performance there is still terrible, but for the rest it actually feels very much playable that I've gotten excited for the game again!
I would recommend not buying it if you can test it first on this free weekend, as it gives you the chance to see if it's something you will like or not.
If you do decide to try it out here is a referall code: STAR-C9FH-M4LZ
It will give you 5k in-game "money" when you register a new account regardless of you buying anything on the store.
I swear this isn't a promotional post, just trying to give all of you an input on my perspective of the game!
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#5607859 Posted on: 11/16/2018 11:28 AM
I'm starting to tire of ruining the proper experience by playing unfinished titles in development. Usually in development long enough that I lose interest in playing the "full" game when it's finally released. Meanwhile, in early access, we end up suffering through bugs and framerate issues all for the joy of an early peek of a completely unfinished product.
So anyways, no thank you. As a Privateer junkie, this is a game I am very interested in. I'll wait until it's done. Hopefully this means we're starting to get close.
I'm starting to tire of ruining the proper experience by playing unfinished titles in development. Usually in development long enough that I lose interest in playing the "full" game when it's finally released. Meanwhile, in early access, we end up suffering through bugs and framerate issues all for the joy of an early peek of a completely unfinished product.
So anyways, no thank you. As a Privateer junkie, this is a game I am very interested in. I'll wait until it's done. Hopefully this means we're starting to get close.
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#5607861 Posted on: 11/16/2018 11:30 AM
If that day ever comes I'll eat my own PC
I'll wait until it's done.
If that day ever comes I'll eat my own PC
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#5607866 Posted on: 11/16/2018 11:59 AM
Oh dear here we go again with all the ranting. I am looking so much forward to the day that this game is completed, and all of you who bitche'd about, it never getting published, have to eat your own words
Oh dear here we go again with all the ranting.
I am looking so much forward to the day that this game is completed, and all of you who bitche'd about, it never getting published, have to eat your own words
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#5607867 Posted on: 11/16/2018 12:02 PM
2012 kickstarter campaign
2013 game development begins...
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018.....
Oh dear here we go again with all the ranting. I am looking so much forward to the day that this game is completed, and all of you who bitche'd about, it never getting published, have to eat your own words
I am looking so much forward to the day that this game is completed, and all of you who bitche'd about, it never getting published, have to eat your own words 2012 kickstarter campaign
2013 game development begins...
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018.....
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#5607879 Posted on: 11/16/2018 12:30 PM
Oh dear here we go again with all the ranting. I am looking so much forward to the day that this game is completed, and all of you who bitche'd about, it never getting published, have to eat your own words
I am looking so much forward to the day that this game is completed, and all of you who bitche'd about, it never getting published, have to eat your own words
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#5607882 Posted on: 11/16/2018 12:32 PM
Thank you for adding to my post-review forum thread where I get to cash in on the shares I purchased in popcorn and the futures and options markets for agriculture in whichever decade this 'game' gets released for final review.
Oh dear here we go again with all the ranting. I am looking so much forward to the day that this game is completed, and all of you who bitche'd about, it never getting published, have to eat your own words
I am looking so much forward to the day that this game is completed, and all of you who bitche'd about, it never getting published, have to eat your own words Thank you for adding to my post-review forum thread where I get to cash in on the shares I purchased in popcorn and the futures and options markets for agriculture in whichever decade this 'game' gets released for final review.
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#5607884 Posted on: 11/16/2018 12:36 PM
I'm an early adopter of the game as well, but quickly lost interest in all the patches, as with a mid to high level rig my performance was HORRIBLE.
They've recently introduced a Delta patcher(no more downloading 40gb Everytime) and pushed out some amazing performance patches in the current iteration (3.3.0), to the point that the performance is actually great and it feels like you can actually play the game now.
To give you an example I was getting 50fps in the starter room, and 35ish in the main hall of the station you spawned in.. with the recent patch I'm getting 80-90fps in the starting room, and 60-70 in the main hall!
There are some framerates drop in a couple of places (when you "space jump" with your ship aka QT) and some of the locations(levski) are still using old assets so the performance there is still terrible, but for the rest it actually feels very much playable that I've gotten excited for the game again!
I would recommend not buying it if you can test it first on this free weekend, as it gives you the chance to see if it's something you will like or not.
If you do decide to try it out here is a referall code: STAR-C9FH-M4LZ
It will give you 5k in-game "money" when you register a new account regardless of you buying anything on the store.
I swear this isn't a promotional post, just trying to give all of you an input on my perspective of the game!
and you did well!
pretty much sums it up. obviously i wouldn't buy any ships around this years anniversary sale, since the new flight model will be introduced in the nex patches and you might end up with a ship which handles completely differently than you would expect from the free flight week.
but since the introduction of the OCS (object container streaming) the performance has really improved (ok i guess it wasn't that bad for you sitting on RTX 2080 - isuupose you have the CPU and RAM to back it up correctly).
but honestly for all the haters, go give it a try (even more so in 3.3.5). whats the worse that could happen except that you might like it?
regards,
butterwaach
I'm an early adopter of the game as well, but quickly lost interest in all the patches, as with a mid to high level rig my performance was HORRIBLE.
They've recently introduced a Delta patcher(no more downloading 40gb Everytime) and pushed out some amazing performance patches in the current iteration (3.3.0), to the point that the performance is actually great and it feels like you can actually play the game now.
To give you an example I was getting 50fps in the starter room, and 35ish in the main hall of the station you spawned in.. with the recent patch I'm getting 80-90fps in the starting room, and 60-70 in the main hall!
There are some framerates drop in a couple of places (when you "space jump" with your ship aka QT) and some of the locations(levski) are still using old assets so the performance there is still terrible, but for the rest it actually feels very much playable that I've gotten excited for the game again!
I would recommend not buying it if you can test it first on this free weekend, as it gives you the chance to see if it's something you will like or not.
If you do decide to try it out here is a referall code: STAR-C9FH-M4LZ
It will give you 5k in-game "money" when you register a new account regardless of you buying anything on the store.
I swear this isn't a promotional post, just trying to give all of you an input on my perspective of the game!
and you did well!
pretty much sums it up. obviously i wouldn't buy any ships around this years anniversary sale, since the new flight model will be introduced in the nex patches and you might end up with a ship which handles completely differently than you would expect from the free flight week.
but since the introduction of the OCS (object container streaming) the performance has really improved (ok i guess it wasn't that bad for you sitting on RTX 2080 - isuupose you have the CPU and RAM to back it up correctly).
but honestly for all the haters, go give it a try (even more so in 3.3.5). whats the worse that could happen except that you might like it?
regards,
butterwaach
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#5607885 Posted on: 11/16/2018 12:40 PM
2012 kickstarter campaign
2013 game development begins...
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018.....
wow, gta5, rdr2 (and the list could go on for decades) all took longer with established studios, a publisher and an engine...
but let me guess, you're here to rant...
2012 kickstarter campaign
2013 game development begins...
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018.....
wow, gta5, rdr2 (and the list could go on for decades) all took longer with established studios, a publisher and an engine...
but let me guess, you're here to rant...
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#5607886 Posted on: 11/16/2018 12:42 PM
wow, gta5, rdr2 (and the list could go on for decades) all took longer with established studios, a publisher and an engine...
but let me guess, you're here to rant...
So you see me ranting? Or is that you? lol
I stated a fact only
wow, gta5, rdr2 (and the list could go on for decades) all took longer with established studios, a publisher and an engine...
but let me guess, you're here to rant...
So you see me ranting? Or is that you? lol
I stated a fact only
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#5607887 Posted on: 11/16/2018 12:42 PM
Well...apparently what they have is running at a playable framerate now...that's a big step forward from the last Free Fly event.
Well...apparently what they have is running at a playable framerate now...that's a big step forward from the last Free Fly event.
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Hmmm. Is it worth to try this out?