The latest version of the massively ambitious space thing Star Citizen (Star Citizen Alpha 2.1.2) can now be tried for free (for the next week) in what’s being called a Free Fly Event.
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Also known as Crusader or the “mini-PU”, this is the nucleus of the world we’re building!
Star Citizen is an online space sim at its core, but the developers from Roberts Space Industries have said right from the start that they want to have a powerful single-player campaign.
For anyone that has been curious about Star Citizen, the massive crowdfunded space simulator, this week is your chance to try it out.
From the announcement: “On the fence about Star Citizen?”.
To get involved, you just need to register for an account. Arena Commander features a multiplayer mode, played against human players, as well as single player mode where players face off against A.I.
“At the December livestream, we announced that Squadron 42 and Star Citizen will be split into two separate packages in the near future”.
Also in the most recent Star Citizen update bulletin: a list of bugs was fixed that had been reported by testers.
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Social Module – Interact with other players while you explore your first landing zone, ArcCorp! According to the developers, this is the first Free Fly session that includes Crusader, meaning that there’s more to explore than ever. Moving on… Star Citizen has become a crowd-funded behemoth, with people spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars on (admittedly quite sleek) virtual ships, and now, after three years of development, Star Citizen is starting to resembles pieces of something that might, in due time, actually be a game.
