Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Video games launched new movies about its rising recreation, exhibiting off upcoming options and developer commentary.
The primary video options an overhaul to mining scheduled to go dwell within the upcoming Alpha 3.19 later this 12 months. The overhaul will carry a number of modifications to make mining extra attention-grabbing and it’ll encourage cooperative mining on high of merely carrying across the mining attachment on your multi-tool once you discover a cave.
Talking of updates, the upcoming (and slightly large) Alpha 3.18 is lastly out there for all backers on the PTU, which signifies that it ought to be lastly near launch.
You possibly can watch it under.
We additionally get a second video with developer commentary in regards to the river tech on high of the sport’s QA course of.
In the intervening time, Star Citizen’s rising crowdfunding marketing campaign continues to attain new milestones and the sport has handed $550 million ($551,580,224 for the time being of this writing) from backers.
The variety of registered customers has additionally not too long ago handed 4.4 million and it is now at 4,423,158, 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. In keeping with the most recent info that artistic director Chris Roberts himself shared in October 2022, 1.7 million gamers are literally paying clients. In fact, that quantity is just a few months outdated, so it might be larger now.
Star Citizen not too long ago ended its greatest 12 months ever by way of crowdfunding, with a staggering $113 million pledged in 2022, marking a 31% enhance over 2021. The tally has been persistently growing year-on-year since 2018.
Full disclosure: the writer of this submit has backed Star Citizen all the best way again when its crowdfunding was first launched in September 2012.