Cloud Imperium announced that it will make Star Citizen Alpha 3.5 free to download and play for any player to celebrate the launch of Star Citizen’s city-covered planet, ArcCorp, later today. First revealed at CitizenCon 2017, ArcCorp is a massive planet almost entirely covered in man-made structures.
Players on ArcCorp will travel the bustling plazas and neon-hued alleys of Area18 (the planet’s main landing zone), uncover local urban culture, meet colorful locals, and find new ways to make in-game credits.
To celebrate, Cloud Imperium Games will launch a “Free Fly” event encompassing five ships that bring the Star Citizen experience to life. During the promotion, it will be free for anyone to join the Star Citizen Persistent Universe and play across Star Citizen’s more than 30 varying mission types, 10 traversable moons, several “rest stops” and more.
Star Citizen Alpha 3.5 includes numerous features new to Star Citizen, including:
- Playable Female Characters – at long last, Star Citizen adds playable female characters. Implementing playable females meant re-working nearly every interactable object in the game for use with an additional player model, from seating to carrying to shooting and piloting.
- ArcCorp – a sprawling urban planet covered by city space, ArcCorp features the new Area 18 Landing Zone, where players will find a neon lit cityscape teeming with life.
- New Flight Model – an all new in-game flight control system that applies to all ships in Star Citizen, incorporating a total overhaul to the entire flight experience and adds gravity to in-atmosphere planetary bodies. This New Flight Model is also applied to all AI controlled pilots in Star Citizen.
- CIG Character Customization Technology – An updated system for customizing your player character in the Persistent Universe, which includes new customization technology empowering players to select from up to three source heads and blend each of their various facial features into a fully customized character. This replaces Star Citizen’s previous 100-plus character permutations with a near-infinite pool of character customizations that is used for both player and NPC characters. All customizations are available for both male and the all-new female player character selections.
- FoIP + VoIP Improvements – New video streaming technology which allows players to participate in video comms calls no matter how far away they are in the Persistent Universe. Previously, as other players were “streamed out” from server clients, they would no longer be eligible as targets for a comms call. This update enables players to call anyone in the Star Citizen Persistent Universe through tech that evaluates your client and streams to the other party’s client as video data.
- New Environmental AI Bounty Hunting – AI bounty hunters will now attack players with bounties placed on their heads, and AI security forces will attack players with high crime stats.
Anyone who plays Star Citizen between May 1st and May 8th will have access to the following five ships:
- Anvil Arrow – Featuring an ultra-aerodynamic frame, slight profile, and the most advanced maneuvering thruster tech available, the Arrow shines in Alpha 3.5’s new flight atmospheric flight model. It’s the most agile ship in its class, and can hold its own in a knock-down-drag-out dogfight with quad missile racks and a full complement of countermeasures.
- MISC Prospector – equipped with a mining laser, the Prospector is Star Citizen’s starter mining ship.
- Drake Cutlass Black – this ship packs real firepower with both piloted guns as well as a manned turret. It is flown by multiple crew members to haul and protect cargo. This is one of our most popular ships for both new and returning players.
- Aegis Avenger Titan – one of our cargo ships, the Titan is a light cargo hauler version of the Avenger specifically kitted out to deliver payloads across the ‘Verse.
- Drake Dragonfly – a two seater hoverbike, the Dragonfly is equipped with a laser cannon and is one of the best ways to navigate surface-side in Star Citizen. The Dragonfly can fit easily in the cargo hold of multiple ships, giving players an on-the-ground option after landing.
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Area 18 looks gorgeous
not even for free . thx
arma in space, no thanks. i’m not that autistic yet.
Nothing to do with Arma at large… But if you mean it is not including FPS with unlimited health (cover 5 seconds and recover 100%), it is not effectively comparable to BF5…. and never intended to be.
No, they mean it’s a game that runs like crap, same as Arma 3, but in space.
Arma 3 is released, SC in development. Now Alpha is not for everyone. Skip it if you want a fully polished game with all bells and whistles because this is not the purposes of such free week.
You can only do so much to educate stupid people.
no i meant it is as boring as arma 3 and it attracts autistic nerds.
stfu you dense kunt.
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damn, I must have missed the level with Mark Hamill and Gary Oldman in Arma.
“call of duty games are each different and unique because call of duty ghost doesn’t have gary oldman”
your 60 iq logic.
you are so dense, it’s unbelievable. how do you survive? how do you know how to eat and drink water?
lmao calls someone low iq for playing a game that is too complicated for them
complicated?where did you get that low iq idea you grade a autist?
I don’t think you understand the meaning of autism.
I tell you what, you may sound rude in your posts but your points are often valid. It does feel like ARMA in some aspects and if you’re bored with it you may easily get bored with Star Citizen.
Really shaping up nicely. The attention to detail is absolutely astounding and nothing else even comes close.
Im looking forward to playing it when its done but at the moment all it ever does is glitch out and piss you off. That city planet is awe-inspiring though.
I still don’t know what this game is about. Installed it the last time it was free to try and it ran like hot garbage so I uninstalled it after 10 minutes.
from 20 fps now i get 90 fps 😀
i would rather play no man’s sky at full price than scam gaming..
So you mean you don’t like to play/test game in Alpha development and flagged as such? Fine, this is not for everyone and those free week or weekend every year just give an opportunity to check for those interested.
Squadron 42 beta is end in 4 quarters. This is progressing pretty well with two dedicated roadmaps :Squadron 42 (solo) and Star Citizen (MMO)
why are you here then?
Oh, but 2 years ago NMS was called a scam but it’s not now because they updated it, you know like star Citizen has had quarterly updates and 0.x patches since 3.0.It’s ok to do the same thing over and over in NMS because all you mostly do is grind for resources just like 2 years ago. NMS was released 2 years ago as Alpha but called a final release.
how do i download the launcher ?
it’s a timezone thing, should be free fly “shortly”. Probably should keep an eye out on the RSI website.
It’s Scam Citizen, I think you misspelled the title.
Worst scam ever, with 500 devs working hard and SQ42 Beta in 5 quarters.
only 500? weak. RE2Remake had 800 people working on it, and RDR2 had 900 devs. I guess Roberts just scammed everyone’s money and isn’t actually using it on the game.
And how long did those 900 devs take to make RDR2?
I didn’t see anyone calling that game a scam while it was still in development, so what makes SC so different?
I think we agree that you can’t educate stupid so let’s not try.
I find it funny how morons say such a thing now, I think there are a hand full of your left, maybe it’s less with more than one account. How can 400+ people across 4 studios be working on a scam, I guess according to you theyr’e fictional and the original 15 people or so people who started SC are scamming? Explain the “scam”.
Only 400? Weak. RDR2 had almost 1000 devs working on it.
R* was founded over 20 years ago, maybe next time think before you post such rubbish.
As you said yourself earlier, you can only do so much to educate stupid people.
Some of these people have stuck their head in the sand and refuse to listen to anything that contradicts their world view making it pointless you argue with them.
I would not be surprised if these people still believe the earth is flat.
You poor soul.
Made an account, activated it. Download page only has two $5 options on it. Is there a separate link to download it for the free week?
Just head to: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/promotions/35-Free-Fly and follow instructions, including the usage of a the free fly code: GETINTOTHEVERSE
There is absolutely zero to pay. Do install on an SSD and keep the game on it till the next free event. Incremental patch will then download probably 15Gb and not the +100 to be downloaded the first time 🙂
This will get you started.
https://youtu.be/BmWaSxLFfUk
https://youtu.be/wCm1VJ6ip44
https://youtu.be/tViTw_dFIrY
https://youtu.be/OiZSRytymDs
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/promotions/35-Free-Fly
it’s no live in the NYC area
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