Lower than 18 months after clearing the $300 million mark, Star Citizen has now raised over $400 million in crowdfunding. On the time of writing, 3,364,629 gamers have contributed a complete of $402,657,305 in keeping with its funding goals page.
Star Citizen is at present having a free-fly interval, which runs till December 1, coinciding with the in-game Intergalactic Aerospace Expo on the planet microTech. Throughout the expo ships from totally different producers can be found to lease each 48 hours. It is like a automobile present, solely with out a bunch of hoons doing donuts in a area someplace off to the facet. And it coincides with an enormous spike in funding, which went from a mean of underneath $200,000 per day to properly over $700,000 on the occasion’s first day. At the moment’s whole is nearing two million.
For those who’re questioning whether or not that whole will imply we hear extra in regards to the launch of Star Citizen’s singleplayer associate Squadron 42, the reply is “in all probability not”. Close to the top of final yr, in his annual letter from the chairman, Cloud Imperium Video games founder Chris Roberts wrote that, “Squadron 42 might be executed when it’s executed, and won’t be launched simply to make a date, however as an alternative solely when all of the expertise and content material is completed, the sport is polished, and it performs nice.”
Alluding to the then-fresh launch of Cyberpunk 2077, he went on to say, “Over the previous few years, I’ve seen quite a lot of eagerly awaited titles launch earlier than they had been bug free and absolutely polished. This vacation season isn’t any exception. That is simply one other reminder to me of why I’m so fortunate to have such a supportive group, in addition to a growth mannequin that’s funded by people who care about the most effective sport potential, and never about making their quarterly numbers or the large vacation procuring season.”
He went on to conclude that “it’s best to not present Squadron 42 gameplay publicly, nor focus on any launch date till we’re nearer to the house stretch and have excessive confidence within the remaining time wanted to complete the sport to the standard we wish.”
A latest update on Squadron 42’s development from September described progress being made on “very important backend providers, AI behaviors, and cockpit communications.” You possibly can maintain observe of what is being labored on in each Squadron 42 and Star Citizen through the progress tracker. The alpha’s most up-to-date patch added issues like big bombs, and hospitals in which to recover from getting big bombs dropped on you.
