Cloud Imperium has released an early version of Star Citizen 3.0 to all Evocati Test Flight volunteer members. According to the development team, this is a giant step towards getting 3.0 in the hands of all backers. Hopefully we’ll see Star Citizen 3.0 releasing to all backers by the end of this month (or this year).
Here is the message that Evocati members received yesterday.
“This is the news you’ve been waiting for…
We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that an early version of 3.0 is now available for the Evocati Test Flight on PTU!
Also, in addition to all of the new features and updates that 3.0.0 brings, we’re also testing the launcher and patching system. No more daily 20GB+ patches!
Publishing a first build to Evocati is always huge milestone in the development process of Star Citizen. This is a particularly giant step towards getting 3.0 in the hands of all backers. As this update is so massive, we’ll start with modest testing goals today to allow everyone time to get familiar with changes, and then we’ll look to ramp up quickly in the coming days.”
Cloud Imperium targeted a September release for Star Citizen 3.0, however the team obviously could not hit that deadline. Still, it’s good that this major version will be released – again hopefully – to all backers prior to 2018.
Moreover, Cloud Imperium will implement a new patching system which will reduce the enormous size of its patches.
So yeah, great things to look forward to. Here is hoping that Star Citizen will be worth the wait!
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Thanks for having an actual fitting headline, Unlike PC gamer. This is only out to Evocati right now, which are playtesters.
Not sure why this is news worthy, as if you aren’t one of the Evocati this means nothing to you, but eh, we all have slow days at work.
It is news worthy because PTU is very soon.
It’s news because people keep saying he game is some kind of con and this shows their activily working on the game.
Glad to hear it. 3.0 is almost here and that means we are one step closer to completion.
Wow… I just re-installed the game and since yesterday, I’m using optical fiber. Download speed: 108MO/s… Nice job Cloud Imperium… unlike Steam that throttle downloads to 35MO/s…
Yeah, first world problems 🙂
Still half of what I get with Origin so…
might be… I picked another server further away and speeds are faster ( but going from 50MB/s to less than 1MB/s… go figure 🙂
I get around 85-89mB/s on the Charlotte server, I’m near Raleigh (NC). My connection maxes out at 112mB/s. It’s not that bad.
I wonder how many more years until the beta release. Maybe another 40 or 50 million dollars in pledges is needed for that to happen. Chris Roberts isn’t feeling the love people :p
After Alpha 4.0 it is highly likely they will be going into Beta phase.
2018
Alpha 3.1
Alpha 3.2
Alpha 3.3
Alpha 4.0
2019
Beta