Cloud Imperium has released the highly 3.3 alpha version of Star Citizen to its Evocati Test Flight members. Back in August, Cloud Imperium claimed that it targets an October 10th release for Star Citizen Alpha 3.3 and from the looks of it the team will be able to meet this deadline.
According to the release notes, Star Citizen Alpha 3.3 offers an OCS build (Object Container Streaming) that focuses on Beacon Travel (Quantum and Service), Mission System, Interdiction and Death/Respawn, and was available for a limited-time testing.
Other than that, the new 3.3 version increases the motion of mineable asteroid chunks after break up, adds “Scramble Race” style missions, adds the Cyclone TR, AA, and RC variants, updates the turret control system and more.
Below you can find the complete changelog for Alpha 3.3. Our guess is that this build will be made available to all backers during CitizenCon 2018, on October 10th!
Star Citizen Alpha 3.3 Release Notes
Feature Updates
Universe
- Increased the motion of mineable asteroid chunks after break up.
Missions
- Added “Scramble Race” style missions. Scramble races are death races using ships in space, orusing vehicles (Ursa/Cyclone) or Gravlev bikes (Nox/Dragonfly) on moons. Races use a checkpoint system with each player who shoots (ships) or moves over/near (vehicles) a checkpoint accruing a point toward victory. Additionally, players can destroy race leaders to gain their points. Note: This system still has pending tasks to complete and may lack functionality.
Ships and Vehicles
- Added the Cyclone TR, AA, and RC variants.
- Updated turret control system: Switched mouse control to 1 to 1 motion system, reduced turret sensitivity, set-up joystick controls for turrets, and numerous minor tweaks and polish.
Bug Fixes
- Accounts should no longer 15006 disconnect on first login.
- Turret power prompts on the Constellations should no longer power on/off the entire ship.
- Miles Eckhart should once again be active and working.
- OM points around moons should no longer show as obstructed when quantum routing tries to plot a route around the moon.
- EVA re-entry for the Mustang Omega should now be in a more accessible location.
- Fixed a missing chunk of the rest stop.
- Logging out in the bed of a ship on a moon should no longer teleport the player to the middle of nowhere on the next login.
- Elevator movement should no longer appear out of sync for some players.
- Elevators at Levski should now take their doors with them properly as they move.
- Players should no longer be able to spool their quantum drive in Arena Commander game modes.
- Transitioning from sprint to walk and back should now play smoothly on the HUD.
- Ruto should be working properly.
Technical
- Fixed 3 server crashes.
- Fixed 2 client crashes.
- Fixed a server deadlock.
Current Ship List
Gladius, Gladius Valiant, Retaliator, Sabre, Sabre Comet, Hornet F7C, Hornet F7C Wildfire, Hornet F7CS, Hurricane, Terrapin, Mustang Alpha, Buccaneer, Cutlass, Dragonfly, Herald, Merlin, Prospector, Reliant, Starfarer, Starfarer Gemini, 300i, 315p, 325a, 350r, 600i, 85x, Aurora CL, Aurora LN, Aurora LX, Aurora MR, Constellation Andromeda, Constellation Aquila, Nox, Khartu-Al, Ursa, Cyclone variants.
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To all the backers. ..
… you guys are the luckiest guys on the planet: you are going to be victims of the biggest scam ever, in the gaming industry 🙂
I still don’t understand how a backer that has already put 1000, 2000, even 20’000 REAL dollars in the game, will ACCEPT to pay TONS OF EXTRA MONEY in order to obtain the slightest item in the game !
With the 200 fukin MILLION DOLLARS people already gave to the studio, All the backers should be able to get ALL the items for free, specially those who spent 1’000 dollars or more.
The game will remain on ALPHA in 2019…2020…2021…2022… and still no beta announced, let alone a release date.
This reminds me of nuke dukem forever… the game took so many years to make, all the assets, textures, 3d objects used at the beginning LOOKED absolutely awful and outdated, several years later.
The day a beta is announced, the game will be running on a 8yo engine, with 8yo assets, textures, etc etc.
By 2019, 2020, the studio will announce:
*dear users and backers, thanks for the 200 millions… we were too ambitious. .. the industry went crazy… our lawyers lied to us….we no longer have enough money to keep making the game… if you can give us another 80-120 millions, we will be able to finish…. bla bla…’,
And there you have, the game will get canceled, game over. OR… backers will not want to lose what they’ve already spent, so… they will donate… more. .. and more… and more…
They will get another bunch of BS, *we will make new ships, new this, bew that, new modes*….
…and 6 months later, money is over. AGAIN.
AND backers will have lost almost 300 million dollars…and will still defend the devs/studio, and will vote for GOTY !
R.I.P STAR CITIZEN
You don’t have to be Derek Smart to see what a mess this game is.
Im a backer, I payed ~£36 for two games. Hardly 1000 – 20,000 whatevers; unless you’re talking about pence then that would make it 3600p I suppose.
They’ve got one package for all the ships in the game for $27,000. That amazes me that someone would spend that kind of money on an unfinished game.
Yeah that amazes me too, the people paying that much obviously have more money than sense. However the comment I replied to was one that suggested you have to pay 1000 to 20000 to play the game and thats a misconception used in the “SC is a scam” narrative that I see a lot from the anti Star Citizen crowd.
The 27K$ package “drama”… was done on request of an Org leader. Which mean the cost epr member is lower than a year or even few months of WOW subscription.
Did you know Org are as big as thousands up to… 10 thousand?
Fact: no single individual is going to buy this package but click bait article don’t care… more advertising for SC 🙂
What the hell is “payed”. Nobody knows the damn grammar?
I didn’t even realise I spelled it that way TBH. I know how you feel, I get the same way when people put “of” instead of “off”. 😀
In other News Star Citizen is the most successful crowd funded game in gaming history…And the budget only seems to be growing larger by the day. That kind of tells me that SC is here to stay..I look forward to more comments from you trying to convince people otherwise…Never the less keyboard warriors will continue the debate because its really just the only way to pass the time while we wait for final release…Exciting times ahead for SC.
There’s only one reason that I don’t think this is a scam. Right now they claim to have around 2 million members. If the game turns out as good as Roberts claims then they could easily sell several million more copies to PC gamers. When it’s finished and reviewed then I will buy the game but not until then and I think there are several million more that will do the same. At $60 a copy that’s around 200 million dollars that they would lose.
You sum up all troll’s cliché man.. Duke Nukem included 🙂 The fact you don’t understand that 2 Triple-A starting from scratch cost even more then 200 M$, the team was made of 12 guys compared to +500 now and that roadmap give clear indication of probable Beta by end of 2019 to anyone following this project.
And all for 45$… not thousands. Those pledging more that starter package are not more stupid than those paying football league ticket thousands for a 3 hours show… They do what ever they want with there cash. Don’t like it? Don’t join Alpha and wait for Beta or release.
But haters hate right so… keep coming while next patch is 2 weeks away from now 🙂
Love all the hate from people who never played it.
Yes, because all the hate Star Citizen gets has to do with the game-play and not that it was supposed to be released already with it seemingly completely and totally stuck in development hell that blew by every single set release date they ever tried to hit, and is still in Alpha phase.
Chris Roberts has good ideas, he how ever can’t manage a budget to save his life and has been fired from the majority of games he has designed and worked on including having to sell off his games to other developers in order to finish.
That’s what I’ve heard as well. He probably would have worked on Wing Commander for a while longer if Origin Systems hadn’t pushed him to complete it. He’s very talented and has great ideas but he doesn’t have anyone to push him this time.
Anyone? A bunch of talented managers including is own Brother who did managed to delivered many games already. CR is not a lone wolf running in all direction and the facts he managed to build such companies with +500 talented devs is staggering.
More gameplay is coming mainly in 2019 (have a look to roadmap).
Well, if they want people to play it, they should release it first
Star Citizen is available several time per year during free weekend. Talk about transparency…
It’s just an alpha, not the real deal
The deal is to download Alpha for free so people can see progress by themselves and decide to join wait until it reach their expectations. Project status is clearly mention…
there is nothing to play . only pay
Theres more in Alpha 3.2 than there is in a lot of games released today. You should try it if you have a capable PC and $45 to spare (thats right $45, not $1000 or $20,000), you might be surprised by how much game is already there.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d42ee61c861aa73e5b1ebf2b87f1f5026de1cb55c262564a38c9ea6ecc766b6b.jpg Still waiting for beta.
What ? Gave it 80usd that’s enough for ANY AAA game.
Tomas… the good old Nay-sayers… collapse 90 days top! 4 years ago already… keep coming 🙂
Troll alert. Thanks for the sign. That tend people to try it at every free weekend. More gameplay and features at every quarter… serve it again during 2019 at your leisure, And thanks for your help 🙂
Why?
Cuz you think its s game
Lets say you were right about that and I really do “think” its a game. Why would that make me retarded Tomas?
I feels bad but not really because I can’t imagine what your ego is going through not getting any likes for this post. End of times!
I do wonder, which is bigger? Your ego or weight? I am going to say ego but damn if I don’t think of you as a really fat guy. Oh well, I guess I will never know. I’m calling you a scam. 😉
I love StarCitizenAndMembers – S.C.A.M.
forever alpha……….lmao.keep buying those ships suckers…..lmao.