Star Citizen Alpha PU / SQ42

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Week 39: Lore:KAIZEN:[/url] Mobilizing Militias Shows:

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Gear Patrol: Meet[/url] the Man Behind ‘Star Citizen,’ the Most Ambitious Video Game Ever Gamers Nexus: Interview[/url] with Chris Roberts and Sean Tracy

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Finally, they have a nice tech demo: 

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Here is the PG planet tech v2 demo (same with Chris's explanations): Just for comparison demo from Gamescom 2016 that used PG planet tech v1. CitizenCon 2946 (2016) was pretty interesting but in my opinion the worst of CIG's demos so far, mainly because of its structure. As far as I know there were suppose to be a SQ42 demo and the omission probably messed up the structure/schedule.The community was pretty upset because CIG decided not to show anything about Squadron 42 yet. There will be two other streams this year (November and December) where we are hopefully going to see one full mission gameplay of SQ42. CitizenCon 2946 highlights:- Spectrum- Slides about upcoming updates- PG planet tech v2 demo- PG planet editor 

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"Following a successful CitizenCon, Eric Kieron Davis hosts a very special edition of Reverse the Verse where an all-star cast of developers answer your questions. See what Chris, Erin Roberts, Tony Zurovec, Brian Chambers, and John Erskine have to say about CitizenCon and the future of Star Citizen’s development. Also, Ben Lesnick provides a post-CitizenCon community update." 

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Kastak Arms' new shotgun: Nice amount of details ...

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Be interesting to see where they go with the planet details as it a step up from the airless world they first showcased although some might say it's just been reskinned as a desert world, but I'm sure I saw some woods at the start of the video. Shame about SQ42 but I guess it was expected.

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This what happened to 1h Squadron 42 demo in CitizenCon: The community seems to be more than happy to get an explanation what happened to long waited SQ42 demo and give CIG full support of their decision.

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Be interesting to see where they go with the planet details as it a step up from the airless world they first showcased although some might say it's just been reskinned as a desert world, but I'm sure I saw some woods at the start of the video. It is definitely interesting to see how far they can push. This second iteration was a big step forward compared to first one in Gamescom. Sand planet had multiple biomes, water, weather (not yet dynamic), etc. We know there will be cities, fauna, dynamic weather, much improved shadows and clouds, etc. in the future. I like the fact all objects in the sky are real and not a skybox, the color of sky depends on atmosphere and scattering of light, etc. It is a bit sad that many websites just concentrated to giant worm and missed all the tech what the demo was all about.