The Star Citizen crowdfunding campaign will soon be 10 years old, and even before this anniversary there is a milestone to be admired: Because recently the donations raised by fans for the ambitious project exceeded the mark of $500 million. And more news coming in October. You can find out the most important things here.
By the way, if you’re impatiently waiting for a full version of the game or the Squadron 42 single-player campaign, Squadrons might be able to help you pass the time:
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Squadrons has one thing ahead of Star Citizen: It’s done
Hardly any other campaign is that successful
Star Citizen’s crowdfunding campaign has been exceptionally successful. Over four million players have raised the impressive sum of $500 million. The last donation goal of 65 million dollars was reached after about two years. And how the official site shows, the willingness to donate continues: Even today, sums of over 100,000 dollars are collected every day.
Where is Star Citizen right now?
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In the trailer, Star Citizen shows new wrecks and settlements that you can now explore
You can see the trailer for the last update that updated Star Citizen to the alpha version 3.17.2 above. Abandoned ships and settlements were added at the end of July, which invite you to explore. Also new are more spaceships and vehicles as well as additional missions and the event Siege of Orisonin which you free a city flying in the sky from a gang of criminals.
You can find all changes of the update on the official Star Citizen website. By the way, according to editor Alex, the perfect time to start Star Citizen had come before the last update:
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What’s next?
$500 million is all well and good, but any fundraising goal has already been exceeded. Irrespective of this, there will still be news soon: because the will start on October 8, 2022 Citizencon 2952, for which development updates are also promised. Maybe we’ll learn something about Squadron 42 there too.
And a few days before that, on September 30th, Alpha 3.18.0, the next big update with lots of new features and content, is supposed to be released. Among other things, you can look forward to new locations and missions, as well as the long-awaited one Salvage
be happy. This allows you to disassemble the hulls of spaceships. You can also see what’s new on the official site.
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