Cloud Imperium Games today released Star Citizen – Alpha 3.17.2, bringing new content and features to the expanding ‘verse. Alpha 3.17.2 introduces the all-new Siege of Orison dynamic event, expands explorable derelict ships and outposts, implements the first iteration of AI Planetary Nav Mesh, adds the drivable Anvil Centurion anti-aircraft vehicle, and more.
Furthermore, this update also doubles the capacity of servers from 50 to 100 players per server. This will allow more pilots to participate in large-scale dynamic events, tournaments, and PvP encounters.
Siege of Orison is a dynamic event, featuring an entirely new location in the atmosphere of the Crusader gas giant. Players will join the fight against Nine Tails pirate forces and engage in fast-paced FPS and vehicular combat to gain control of significant new floating platforms, requiring teamwork and creative strategies to achieve victory.
The update also introduces more solo-focused criminal activities with the addition of illegal delivery missions. Players can access them once they have earned a reputation as a trustworthy business partner for outlaw factions.
Star Citizen Alpha 3.17.2 also has the first iteration of AI Planetary Nav Mesh. According to the team, this will allow NPCs to navigate planetary surfaces outside of major cities and even land ships to drop off other NPCs such as troop reinforcements to defend an outpost.
Not only that, but this update expands explorable derelicts considerably with a new Reclaimer Point Of Interest (POI) on microTech, a new wreck-site in space including new mission types, and the introduction of five derelict colonial outposts throughout the Stanton system.
Lastly, Cloud Imperium released the following two trailers. The first trailer highlights the new features of this alpha build whereas the second focuses on Siege of Orison.
Enjoy!
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Now if they’d just implement a way to turn off the thrice-damned TAA, and implement a way for the game to run at a reasonable FPS…
Star Citizen is pitiful because it’s still in Alpha 10 years after development started and where is news about Squadron 42? It will probably be many years before we see Squadron 42 if ever.
The game is on track to make 500 million dollars total by the end of 2022. Where did all of that money go to?
imo it’s not a scam but it is a good example of the Peter Principle which states that in a hierarchy people tend to rise to “a level of respective incompetence”.
Roberts doesn’t have a Publisher pushing him to complete the game this time and he needs to be pushed. He has backers but it seems they just perpetually buy new ships and other items.
Either way whether it is a scam or Roberts is incompetent to complete the game it produces the same results. The game doesn’t get finished.
Wow the revelations! No one ever said that!
Cool, just 30 more years to release!
Jesus, man, don’t say that….24 – 25 maybe, but 30 is a stretch.
Seems the game has a release date around my grandson’s grandson’s birthdate!
That screenshot looks like a futuristic Call of Duty game.
Hows that microinstanced giant fleet battle coming along? XD
No bending bedsheets? Shame!
Played it at a friend’s house, and honestly I was surprised how much game was there, always assumed it was a scam. What’s there is good though, still a long way to go, obviously,
Cant wait til 2050!!