The continued improvement of Star Citizen handed a milestone this week as gamers had been capable of soar between totally different star methods for the primary time.
In a take a look at server organized to check the characteristic, gamers had been in a position to make use of soar gates to maneuver between the Stanton and Pyro methods.
Stanton is the system that gamers have been enjoying on for fairly some time on the reside servers, whereas Pyro is the second star system that will likely be added to the reside construct of the sport in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later with alpha 4.0.
Whereas Pyro was examined by itself earlier than, that is the primary time during which gamers can fly their ships between two methods by flying right into a gate.
The way in which journey between methods works within the Star Citizen universe is by flying into pure wormholes stabilized by Soar Gates. Technically, every system is dealt with by a distinct server, and now the handoff of gamers between servers has been examined and is useful.
That is somewhat vital, as totally different methods have totally different traits that mirror on the gameplay expertise. Whereas Stanton is a comparatively safe, corporate-dominate system, Pyro is fully lawless, dominated by gangs, and with frequent photo voltaic flares so as to add to the problem.
Curiously, one other take a look at taking place this weekend will improve the cap of gamers per server to 400 from the present 100.
On high of that, we additionally received a brand new video during which the builders illustrated among the modifications coming to FPS gameplay within the upcoming Alpha 3.23. These embody an overhaul of recoil, new results for scopes, reloading modifications, and way more.
You may watch the video beneath. Alpha 3.23 is scheduled for April, albeit it is not set in stone.
A second video contains a Q&A with the builders on Grasp Modes, a brand new flight characteristic that may immediate gamers to modify between a slower fight mode and a a lot sooner navigation mode with the intent of getting tighter, extra cinematic dogfights at extra manageable speeds.
Star Citizen is a crowdfunded recreation at present in ongoing improvement solely for PC. Its followers have pledged $668,602,747 in funding with 5,107,521 registered customers. As ordinary, that quantity is just not consultant of paying clients, as many simply strive the sport out throughout Free Fly Occasions.
Impressively, Star Citizen simply had the most important 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 improvement and we lately heard that it is now feature-complete. It would not but have a launch date, however many imagine that it will be introduced at the following CitizenCon in October. But, that is simply hypothesis, for now.