Greetings, From the patch notes: Character selection and creation now uses a DNA face customization system. Initially you will be able to choose a gender, then select from a set of currently...

Greetings, We have updated a number of ship related audio systems include thrusters, audio induced shake, weapons, engine noises, weapon impacts, and more. The goal is to make the feel of flight...

Greetings, We have made some pretty extensive changes to Star Marine including reducing the sizes or significantly altering some of the maps, reducing player cap sizes (elimination), and...

Greetings, We have made a number of balance updates to ship weapons and ship defenses. Shields have had their HP increased and their regen reduced. Cannons have had their damage reworked and all...

Alpha Patch 3.5.0 has been released to PTU, and is now available to test! Patch should now show: PTU-1308388. It is strongly recommended that players delete their USER folder for the Public client after patching, particularly if you start encountering any…

Star Citizen Patch 3.5.0 Alpha Patch 3.5.0 has been released to PTU, and is now available to test! Patch should now show: PTU-1308388. It is strongly recommended that players delete their USER...

Alpha Patch 3.5.0e has been released to Evocati, and is now available to test! Patch should now show: PTU-1301981. It is strongly recommended that players delete their USER folder for the Public client after patching, particularly if you start encountering…

Build: SQ42 Q4 2019 Category: Core Tech Progress: 14/24 (old 11/24) task completed. Status: In Development Implementing a series of improvements to the gas cloud VFX, expanding on the existing data-driven system to allow effects to visually reflect the conditions…

Build: SQ42 Q2 2019 (migration from SQ42 Q1 2019) Category: Gameplay Progress: 3/7 (old 3/7) task completed. Status: In Development Adding NPC behaviors that allow for a player to approach an encounter using stealth tactics. This also allows for the NPC to…

Build: SQ42 Q4 2019 Category: AI Progress: 6/22 (old 5/16) task completed. Status: In Development Core underlying systems for every AI in the game, from combat, to standard NPCs, to ships. This includes optimizing the current system by speeding up the navigation…

Build: SQ42 Q3 2019 Category: Core Tech Progress: 22/43 (old 20/43) task completed. Status: In Development Implementation of the functionalities exposed to the mission system that allow the design team to set up and execute the flow of the different missions…

Build: SQ42 Q3 2019 Category: AI Progress: 17/33 (old 10/20) task completed. Status: In Development Adding the ability for the combat AI to engage the player using a whole arsenal of weaponry, reacting dynamically to both player behavior and the environment…

Build: SQ42 Q3 2019 Category: AI Progress: 1/6 (old 0/6) task completed. Status: In Development Implementation of basic functionality allowing mission designers to impart commands to an AI spaceship crew as a player would. For example, we will implement interfaces…

Build: SQ42 Q2 2019 Category: Core Tech Progress: 1/2 (old 0/2) task completed. Status: In Development Building the foundational technology that allows AI to navigate in 3D space by utilizing the physics grid. The path search will be hierarchical and will…

Build: SQ42 Q2 2019 (migration from SQ42 Q1 2019) Category: Core Tech Progress: 9/12 (old 9/12) task completed. Status: In Development Addition of new shader features to our organic shader which will be used for naturally formed objects such as rocks and…