Developer Cloud Imperium Games has rolled out the Star Citizen Public Test Universe (PTU) to select backers outside their NDA-bound Evocati testers. This means that members of the public (Starting with concierge and subscriber supporters) can log in and check out everything Alpha 3.14 has to offer. As someone who, for better or worse, fell into the former category of new additions to the PTU universe, this afternoon, I got my chance to brave the lag of many others logging in to see what is new.
This time around, the big-ticket item is the gas giant Crusader and the floating landing zone and hub Orison that resides within its clouds. Lacking the bustling city or indoors vibes of other landing zones and instead favouring open-space, nature-filled areas, Orison features a very different design language to all other areas in the game.
If you are awaiting the chance to dive into Orison yourself or just want a few sneak peeks rather than downloading the PTU client – please enjoy a few screenshots I took in-game, below:
In development by Cloud Imperium Games and their studios across North America and Europe, Star Citizen is being helmed by Wing Commander (1990s) creator Chris Roberts. The game has currently been in a long-term alpha phase with no confirmed release date. Despite this, the studio has raised more than $265 million USD through on-going crowdfunding. Please keep in mind should you decide to purchase towards Star Citizen, that this is an incomplete project and that you are pledging towards an extended crowdfunding campaign with no 100% guarantee of a finished product.
Take That (In-Game) Snap Daily Photo is an off-shoot of the Take That (In-Game) Snap article series, in which the first article focusing on Final Fantasy XIV was published in 2020. This looks at, celebrates and critiques how video game developers have implemented professional photography-like systems into their games. It will cover how the systems handle, just how accessible they are and, where applicable, how a modding community might be making these tools even better. With this Daily Photo spin-off series, I will be sharing individual photos from the games either covered or soon-to-be-covered in the series.
