STAR CITIZEN GAME UPDATE
STAR CITIZEN GAME PATCH

It has been said that Star Citizen would release in November 2014.

Chris Roberts and Cloud Imperium Games assumed their game’s development would finish two years later. Will CIG and their lead developer Chris Roberts ever finish what they’ve promised or is it nothing but a very elaborate scam? The Origins of Star Citizenīack in October 2012, the Kickstarter campaign for Star Citizen started. The game is still in the “Alpha”-stage of development. And yet, Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) receives more and more funding - both from individual players as well as “large scale investors”.įive years ago, people said “Star Citizen would finish in two years” yet, that goal has been moved and indefinitely postponed. Many promises have been made, but most haven’t been fulfilled so far. This feature will be included in alpha 3.18 together with salvaging, the revamped physical Cargo system, and the bulk of the “Gen 12” render (full Vulkan implementation will come “a little later” and hopefully by the end of the year).Computer-generated image of Star Citizen concept art, by Eduardo-Silva from Pixabayĭelays are common. Roberts mentioned that a working build with Persistent Entity Streaming has been demonstrated internally last week. That means that you could drop a gun or a med pen in a forested area on Microtech and return several days later after logging out to find the gun or med pen still there (assuming another player didn’t grab them!). With PES we are recording the state of every dynamic object in the game, irrelevant of whether it is “owned” or held by a player. So, when you log out (or if the server crashes), the item will not be there when logging on or re-joining. However, if you drop or place something loosely, even inside a ship you own, it won’t be associated with any player inventory. If you’ve physically attached an item inside your vehicle, say a rifle to a weapons rack, when you log out or stow the vehicle it will remember all the attached items and anything in that vehicle’s virtual inventory. Up until now, all persistence in the game has been tied to a player’s inventory ships you own or items you hold physically or in the virtual inventories of items you own. It fundamentally changes how we record state in the Universe and delivers a level of persistence that you just don’t see in other games, whether they are MMOs or even single-player experiences.

PES is the hardest part of the work needed for SM and is the one that has required the most engineering. The first of these is what we are calling Persistent Entity Streaming (PES) which is the foundational tech that enables Server Meshing (SM). “This year, we find ourselves on a similar path with three huge technology initiatives that will fundamentally change the experience and immersion into Star Citizen. Speaking of the “road to 4.0” Roberts laid out the plans for future updates, starting with the explanation of the concept of Persistent Entity Streaming (PES), which is a major stepping stone for the implementation of server meshing. We are on track this year to break 4 million total accounts, over 1 million unique logins this year, and more than $500 million in lifetime revenue. And this week, we had our 2 millionth unique player log in to play Star Citizen. And we have had nearly 1 million New Accounts created since then, and more than half a million New Pledging Players join the game. We are enjoying MAU (Monthly Active Users) which is well beyond the highs of 2020.

STAR CITIZEN GAME PATCH

Our DAU (Daily Active Users) has grown by over 50% since the numbers I shared in my last Letter from the Chairman in December 2020, and with this latest patch, we are enjoying double the daily login traffic of our last April patch launch. In fact, this year, we have more than doubled our rate of New User acquisition, and with the recent launch of Alpha 3.17: Fueling Fortunes, we are seeing over two thousand new players a day joining the ‘verse. So far, we have blown past all our projections on new players joining the ‘verse. Our wins in 2021 set us up for an absolutely historic start to 2022.

STAR CITIZEN GAME UPDATE

Today Star Citizen creative director Chris Roberts shared a long post on the game’s official website, explaining Cloud Imperium Games’ plans for 2022 and beyond.įirst of all, Roberts provided an update about the player base of the growing space game, which appears to be more and more active.

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