STAR CITIZEN PUSHES OUT ALPHA 2.1, PROMISES ‘DATE DRIVEN’ PATCH SCHEDULE

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http://massivelyop.com/2015/12/25/star-citizen-pushes-out-alpha-2-1-promises-date-driven-patch-schedule/

While other studio teams are powering down for the holidays, it looks as though Star Citizen’screw is keeping up the pace. The team just put out Alpha 2.1 today, bringing with it the flyable Freelancer base and Sabre fighter, as well as several fixes for the Crusader region. Alpha 2.0 has seen over 80,000 players explore it since its December 11th release.

Chris Roberts posted an end-of-the-year pep talk for fans, thanking them for their support and helping to raise over $102M for the game. He also promised that future patches would adhere to a tighter schedule than before.

“Going forward we will be changing our patch release strategy to be less feature driven and more date driven. Our goal is to release a new update every month (so January’s would be SC Alpha 2.2),” he wrote. “We feel like this strategy will be better for both development and the community at large. It will ensure constant updates and patches and a good flow of features. But as we’re not defining which features make a particular release, we won’t be in a situation like we were earlier this year where the delays on the FPS development in Star Citizen ended up blocking game updates for the community.”

Source: Star Citizen #1, #2. Thanks to Darkwalker for the tip!

Gloria Victis – Christmas Update released

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Changelog v.0.5.3 Alpha

Greetings!

Following to the latest changes, today’s Gloria Victis update continues to expand the “Valley of Death” tournament – basing on the data gathered since the latest update, the NPC mercenaries have been added to support the losing team. Combined with the recently implemented capture-able flag, it is another great addition allowing us to test in the control environment, gather required data and improve the combat balance, as well as the core gameplay mechanics, such as AI of the NPC guards, capturing the territories, hits detection or synchronization of the characters’ positions.

The update also includes various adjustments to the game balance and resolves various issues occurring in the user interface, as well as greatly improves the synchronization of the characters’ positions. We are also continuously reworking the launcher and successfully fixing the issues reported by the players.

Changelog v.0.5.3

Gameplay:

– Made changes to the balance of the weapons damage and the character’s base damage
– Made changes to the balance of the statistics of the NPC townsmen, guards and enemies
– Added a timer counting the time to start the next “Valley of Death” tournament
– Added the NPC companions to the “Valley of Death” tournament who are supporting a losing team
– Replaced the critical strikes of the NPC enemies with the minimum-maximum damage interval
– Added the names of the capture-able locations on the map

Fixes:

– Optimized the server-side player’s area of interest management system (please report if you will see ghosts or any objects that aren’t being loaded properly)
– Fixed an issue causing that the items icons used to remain on the screen
– Fixed an issue allowing to duplicate items with fast clicking in the NPC shop window
– Improved the visuals of the quick access bar – empty slots are not filled with the black background anymore
– Reworked the characters’ position synchronization system – frequency of the synchronization depends on the speed of the character’s movement

Known issues:

– Some parts of text in the settings window are not being displayed properly; the window will be reworked in the nearest future