Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Video games launched new movies about its rising recreation, displaying off upcoming options and developer commentary.
The primary video options an overhaul to mining scheduled to go reside within the upcoming Alpha 3.19 later this yr. The overhaul will convey a number of adjustments to make mining extra fascinating and it’ll encourage cooperative mining on prime of merely carrying across the mining attachment to your multi-tool while you discover a cave.
Talking of updates, the upcoming (and moderately huge) Alpha 3.18 is lastly obtainable for all backers on the PTU, which signifies that it needs 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 prime of the sport’s QA course of.
In the mean 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 lately 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 accordance with the newest data that inventive director Chris Roberts himself shared in October 2022, 1.7 million gamers are literally paying clients. After all, that quantity is a number of months outdated, so it might be increased now.
Star Citizen lately ended its finest yr ever when it comes to crowdfunding, with a staggering $113 million pledged in 2022, marking a 31% improve over 2021. The tally has been constantly growing year-on-year since 2018.
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.