Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Video games launched new movies about upcoming options to the rising area simulator.
The primary video focuses on missions, and particularly on the continuing effort to overtake the sport’s mission system to turn into modular. The system will let builders implement many variations of missions that may be mixed collectively to supply gamers with a lot to do whereas additionally being scalable as the sport grows.
By the way, the video begins with an apology for the tough begin with replace 3.18, which launched new expertise aplenty and was positively laborious on the servers, albeit the problems seem like subsiding now and the sport has turn into playable once more.
You’ll be able to watch it beneath.
The second video stars lead techniques designer Thorsten Leimann as he gives extra particulars concerning the Engineering gameplay that was introduced final week. The second a part of the video stars English actress Anna Demetriou, who performs numerous characters in Star Citizen (together with the humorous AI concierge in New Babbage) and the single-player marketing campaign Squadron 42.
You might know her as Sophia in A Plague Story: Requiem and Princess Helle of Volsung within the movie Viking Future.
In the intervening time, Star Citizen‘s rising crowdfunding marketing campaign continues to make progress and the sport has lately hit $557 million ($557,168,231 in the intervening time of this writing) pledged from backers.
The variety of registered customers has additionally lately handed 4.4 million and it is now at 4,444,232 albeit not all of them are paying since many register accounts to entry the favored free fly occasions that provide an opportunity to check the sport with out pledging any cash. Based on the most recent data that inventive director Chris Roberts himself shared in October 2022, 1.7 million gamers are literally paying prospects. After all, that quantity is just a few months outdated, so it may very well be larger now.
Star Citizen lately ended its greatest 12 months ever by way of crowdfunding, with a whopping $113 million pledged in 2022, marking a 31% improve over 2021. The tally has been constantly rising year-on-year since 2018.
The sport simply acquired a substantial replace numbered 3.18, including new tech and loads of new options and content material, together with salvaging and persistence for gadgets positioned within the sport, together with starships, independently from their proprietor.
Full disclosure: the writer of this put up has backed Star Citizen all the best way again when its crowdfunding was first launched in September 2012.
