Category: Star Citizen News

The latest edition of the Star Citizen Happy Hour has been released with much of the discussion centering around customization options in both Star Citizen and Squadron 42. Much of the discussion focused on hair and clothing choices for players.

Chris Roberts has posted the latest weekly newsletter to detail the current plans for Star Citizen v2.6.1 and with the first hints of moving to 3.0. The next update see the game receive a number of performance improvements, balance updates as well as some new features including leaderboards.

Roberts Space Industries has released a brand new Star Citizen video that takes a look at community content created using Director Mode that was released as a part of Alpha 2.6. Players captured some of their experiences in a number of their locations throughout the game.

Chris Robert took to the Star Citizen forums to add a bit of clarification to last week’s announcement that the game had been switched over to Amazon’s Lumberyard engine for the duration of its development. He begins with the simple statement that Lumberyard and the Star Citizen engine up to last week’s announcedment are “both forks from exactly the SAME build of CryEngine”.

Star Citizen is now being built using the Amazon Lumberyard engine after several years in development. Lumberyard is a free AAA cross-platform 3D engine. Both Star Citizen and Squadron 42 will use the engine from now forward.

Roberts Space Industry has released a new trailer from Star Citizen to show off progress in Alpha 2.6. As the description say, the universe has “more ships, more content, and more to explore”.

Chris Roberts has sent out the latest Star Citizen Letter from the Chairman. In it he thanks the community for their support of the game and details what the team has to go through in the development process. Like every game developer, the Star Citizen team has kept much of its development process internalized, particularly with regards to timelines and release dates.

Star Citizen backers will be pleased to know that all flyable ships have been unlocked as a celebratory post scriptum to last weekend’s CitizenCon. Ships will be available from now through October 17th.

Star Citizen backers will be pleased to know that all flyable ships have been unlocked as a celebratory post scriptum to last weekend’s CitizenCon. Ships will be available from now through October 17th.

On Sunday, October 9th, the Star Citizen team took to the stage at CitizenCon to talk about forthcoming plans for upcoming alpha phases, what features will be added at what stage of development and so on. In addition, gameplay footage showing a mission carried out on a procedurally-generated planet.