Cloud Imperium has shared a new gameplay video for Star Citizen that focuses on its first-person combat mechanics. In this video, the developers highlight many of the FPS combat-related changes that will be coming in Alpha 3.23.
Players will have two types of reloading. On one hand, you’ll have your traditional reloading with magazines that your character has. However, since you’ll be carrying a backpack, the game will also offer backpack reloading. The backpack reloading will take a bit longer, and it will be in real-time (without having to open the UI to equip your magazines).
Star Citizen will also have different types of recoil. Some of them will be very subtle while others may be very wild. In this video, the devs also explained why the laser guns will have recoil. In short, yes, it’s unrealistic. However, recoil can give the players the sense of firing a gun. Removing recoil would make the game boring (or at least that’s what the devs believe).
As we’ve already said, Star Citizen promises to be one of the best-looking PC games when it comes out. The game will have a 64-bit engine that will let you smoothly go from space to the ground without any loading screens. This means you won’t have those annoying loading screens like in Starfield. The game will also feature physically-based atmospheres with multiple light scattering. Not only that but you can expect planet surface generation on the client and server at different levels of detail. StarEngine in Star Citizen also promises to be good at streaming. As such, both Star Citizen and Squadron 42 will have huge outdoor and interior areas. Cloud Imperium also said that there will be real-time transit systems in the city districts.
StarEngine in Star Citizen has even more awesome stuff too. One of them is its stunning volumetric clouds that are like the ones in Microsoft Flight Simulator. And get this – the water in the game will react in real time. There’s also a system where things can break in a way that’s just like real life. It sounds interesting, right? I wonder, though, how much stuff you can break. Can you only smash a few specific things? And what about playing around with smaller objects – like, can you move or shoot them?
Finally, for those wondering, there is still no ETA on when Star Citizen will come out. There is also no ETA on when its Early Access version will get support for Ray Tracing. According to reports, though, its next version will finally allow you to use the Vulkan API.
Enjoy the video and stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
Contact: Email
What the Hell does “64-bit engine” mean? They compiled their game engine into 64-bit binaries? Like every other game studio does these days too? Seriously, even Fallout 4 was 64-bit…
No, 64-bit in this context is talking about the precision of the world coordinates, not the compiled binary size.
Here’s a simple enough explanation I could find, since I don’t have the time to explain it myself:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/44ccc7a66d3b6606a98df62869ba17c7154d68d470977568dc9b830a8a485c76.png
Ah, OK, that makes sense. I learned Java back in the early 2000’s, and I don’t recall any sort of explanation of things like 32-bit floats or 64-bit double precision. I obviously need to learn something a bit more modern, and a bit less tied to a virtual machine at some point. Maybe Rust or C++, but I haven’t decided yet.
contender for the greatest scam of all time
cant believe this scam company is still getting money.
ikr!
Oh look a trailer! Time to donate another $2000!
Nope. everything is available for free several weeks per year and at worst, a 45$ starter package allow you to get all assets with in game credits. haters hate, what else 🙂
the guns look good but i dont like all that floaty features the scopes gave me crysis vibes all over again. same engine i know.
Oh boy Fyre Festival all over again.
They are still young, could be developing that game for 30 more years.
30 years?…very optimistic from you.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d98d87eac83ad954de6e467292c58b8310db4596fd778b78a9dccc0dda755934.jpg
Like 10.000’s people around the world every single year, CR rent a pretty small boat with friend for few days… That become a meme, the guy buying mansion in Caribbeans with backers cash… How stupid are those haters My God 🙂
Lol what a scam, those guys probably leave their mansions and perm vacations to do these videos, hire some starving people to do a bit of coding and such online far away. But don’t go into some of the forums and such, people willing to die on this hill, sad.
A sucker is born everyday
excited to play this game when it comes out, sometime around when the earth is engulfed by the sun (this is an optimistic estimate)
14:28
Nice death animations there, lmao.
ScamCitizen modus operandi ;
when too quiet, throw some breadcrums, show them some faces of “developers” doing and saying Goofy stuff prentending they have fun at the “studio” Then in between show snippits of footage of no longer than 8 seconds “gameplay”.. end with “Thank you for watching”
They are not only scamming innoncent gamers but also are faking themselfs..
So.. here we go again :
lalalallalaa pleaZe gib moneyyyy…
ScamCitizen modus operandi ;
when too quiet, throw some breadcrums, show them some faces of “developers” doing and saying Goofy stuff prentending they have fun at the “studio” Then in between show snippits of footage of no longer than 8 seconds “gameplay”.. end with “Thank you for watching”
They are not only scamming innoncent gamers but also are faking themselfs..
So.. here we go again :
lalalallalaa pleaZe gib moneyyyy…
So exited to read the new alpha road map in 2144 and finally get my hands on open beta in 2468….what a time to be alive!
I was hoping to see Joe Blobers stumping for this game, i am disappoint.
Haters are always first.. They probably keep throwing the same non sense years after release 🙂
Good to know you are well, keep fighting the good fight.
Always do. But I do check less web site as the development is going pretty well, including funding. haters hate and most web sites are just looking for click bait title. 99% of interesting exchange are on SC Reddit, I have better to do than to reply to every single naysayers 🙂 take care
✔️무료 스포트 중계❂【벳모아 betmoa07.com✔️】 [축구] 3월09일 23:30 분데스리가 라이프치히 vs 다름슈타트 +0
ROFL!
As usual, the regular haters gonna hate 🙂 What else. Simple remark: only 45$ is required to get a starter package. All assets can be achieved with in game credits and there is no mandatory subscription, together with several weeks per weeks for free to test the latest patch. Worst scam ever lol
i backed it up back in 2014 thats 10 years ago for €35,- on my birthday.. what happened in those 10 years ?
Well i got married , got 2 kids ( 4 & 7 years old now ), travelled to Tahiti, Bora Bora, Maladives, sang Karaoke in Tokyo, started my own business, bought a motorbike and small boat..
and achieved more in life than their whole developement team building 1 game.. and Squadron42 should be out a long time ago and is the only game i realy cared about when i backed. So many things changed but what didnt change is them not telling when the game will come out… probably when my boys follow in my footsteps.
i backed it up back in 2014 thats 10 years ago for €35,- on my birthday.. what happened in those 10 years ?
Well i got married , got 2 kids ( 4 & 7 years old now ), travelled to Tahiti, Bora Bora, Maladives, sang Karaoke in Tokyo, started my own business, bought a motorbike and small boat..
and achieved more in life than their whole developement team building 1 game.. and Squadron42 should be out a long time ago and is the only game i realy cared about when i backed. So many things changed but what didnt change is them not telling when the game will come out… probably when my boys follow in my footsteps.
The fanbase is totally an indoctrinated cult, it’s both hilarious and sad.
I remember late last year after that Squadron 42 extended gameplay video came out, I was randomly in the Mass Effect remaster Steam forum and there was a thread by a SC cultist preaching about his religion. Everybody was roasting him and he kept doubling down: “I’ll be right about my predictions of S42 releasing in 2024, you’ll see!”
Dude there is fan for every single game released. Now calling 1.7 millions individual backers (end of 2022) cultists is just weird and false. Game is available for free several weeks per years, you do not need to spend more than a starter package at 45$ if you decide so as all assets are available for free with in game credits… The single cultist we saw regularly on such comment section are… cultist of hate 🙂
Dude. CB2077 took 8 years, to be released unfinished and required two extra year. All from a well established company with all resources at day one, for one single game not two, solo + MM from scratch like CIG. Nobody stop to have a life during CB2077 development or any others game. SQ42 is in the polish phase… far to be not never delivered or after 20 years of development lol