Star Citizen clouds looked great at CitizenCon

Cloud Imperium Games held CitizenCon this weekend, an once-a-year electronic party to rejoice all points Star Citizen. Sadly, regardless of staying in improvement for virtually 10 a long time, they nonetheless did not have any news on a release date. They also did not have a shred of info to share on their singleplayer spin-off, Squadron 42. So, what did the devs display? Nicely, some really new clouds.

Though it may be a tiny disappointing for long-time Star Citizen enthusiasts to not see beefier news out of CitizenCon, the clouds are genuinely attractive. At all-around the 1:15:00 mark in the video clip under, the builders get gamers on a ship walkthrough hovering in excess of a planet in the impending Pyro process. They arise into the cockpit to demonstrate an certainly attractive blanket of fluffy clouds, which develop charming minimal droplets of water on your entrance window. (Starshield? Cloudshield? What is the area equivalent of a windshield?)

If you are interested in the tech, the devs speak a little bit about it all at all-around 38:47. They have equipment that allow them alter cloud density, shape and far more. They’ve designed all this to support them make odd and fantastic cloud designs that would not obviously take place on Earth, but could on an unfamiliar alien earth.

All this chat almost created me come to feel like I was watching a science system, alternatively than a video clip activity stream. That didn’t last too long although, since the devs proceeded to display every person a photograph of a cat they’d drawn with all this fancy new tech. Weirdly grounding, that. 

CitizenCon also experienced some new outposts and ships to show off, which include the Origin 400i. My professional belief is that it can be quite shiny, has good round bits, and the trailer is way too equivalent to the sort of vehicle advert you would see on Tv set. Do bear in thoughts even though that this ship fees a helluva good deal of actual-life dollars – £211 for anything that is not really in-recreation but. Cloud Imperium have earlier been in sizzling h2o with the Marketing Standards Agency for not producing these types of microtransactions very clear just before as well.

Other than that, yeah, not an terrible lot of newness I am afraid. The final huge chunk of news we experienced on Squadron 42 was all-around this time final year, when director Chris Roberts explained it “will be performed when it is finished”.

For information on what is to come in Star Citizen, just take a peek at the game’s roadmap. The “tentative” release window for its subsequent update, 3.15, was slated for Q3 2024 (which is supposed to be between July and September, so it can be functioning a tad late).
