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Star Citizen: Alpha 3.14 – Welcome to Orison
Cloud Imperium Games has released the new alpha version 3.14 of Star Citizen. The main changes will be in an extensive article presented, whereby the new cloud city Orison stands out in particular.
You can get a visual impression of this in the video embedded above procure. In keeping with the city’s surroundings, the current alpha version also brings a new technology under the name of “Cloud Tech”, which is to be further developed in the future.
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Fancy clouds need a lot of computing power
Cloud Tech is used to display clouds in different colors and shapes in a particularly realistic way. According to a tweet from Digital Foundry employee Alexander Battaglia, this already looks impressive at the current stage, but it also challenges the GPU very much.
This is not surprising at the same time, after all, graphic effects for the most realistic, volumetric representation of clouds are generally known for requiring a lot of computing power.
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As the extensive patch notes in the section »New Features / Core Tech«Show, a suitable graphics option has been added for the new cloud technology in the game. There are also more finely tuned setting options in other areas, for example for the tessellation of the site.
What else will change with Alpha 3.14? You can find a summary of the most important new features with alpha version 3.14 in this overview:
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