With Invictus Launch Week starting today, let’s take a look at actual game footage of this alpha release.
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What is Star Citizen?
Bounty Hunter Contractor Evaluation
Yushiro Tomczy was the mission assigned by Hurston’s Bounty division.
Arrow smack down ensues.
Hurston’s jobs don’t pay market, but the 10% bonus at Level 4 works.
Invictus Launch Week 2951
It is that time of year again, the time of year for which we save up all our creds. If you are wondering what to do with all that stimulus money, look no further! For 12 consecutive days you can test drive and buy almost all ships currently in production. You can also take the opportunity to fill any holes in your personal fleet.
We have been promised tours of the UEES War Hammer, a Javelin destroyer!
Ships that are scheduled for delivery this year include the entire Crusader Starlifter series, the long awaited Taurus, and the Ares Starfighter. Also check out the current loaner ship matix.
Hmmm, Perseus? Merchantman? A2 Hercules? Kraken Privateer?
The Liam Lorenzo Affair
A lowly VLRT target, easily handled by my gladius as are most VLRT targets, just a single pass and I am on my way.
Got to love the updated comm chatter, now this is Privateer!
Tracker Training Permit Certification
With the release of the Alpha 3.13 patch all previous reputations and bounty certifications have been reset. One of the first certification you will encounter is the Tracker Training Permit Certification. You can tackle this certification in any nicely equipped light fighter.
I like to keep familiarity with the Gladius, in my case the Valiant, to keep sharp in the fighter that will no doubt be your starter ship in the upcoming Squadron 42 adventure. Best guess is that we will see the release of Squadron 42 sometime next year.
The Akinari Bryce Affair
So it seems some of the live bounties just jump away whenever you get close. So I updated my Eclispe with all Grade A stealth gear and took it for a test drive bounty hunting.
Although the torpedos have 10,000m locking range, they only track for 8000m as demonstrated here. As is typical with the Skyline star map, it fails to work and I manually navigate back to Everus Harbor.
Tracking bounties, the stealth way, in my Eclispe
The Bounty Hunter’s patch 3.13
With the update to the reputation system CIG has filled out the bounty hunters game play with a new UI and mostly all new missions, including some missions which are on the ground in some of the caves – also new for this patch.
An early issue with the insurance claim system failing to insure critical ship component upgrades and the return of the dancing hornets(spoke too soon) are two confirmed IC issues that seem to have been quickly fixed after a hot patch.
There are some notable improvements with the HUD for Quantum Travel as you no longer need to set a way point to jump to various targets and game locations, just point and click. Setting a way point still lays out intermediate jumps automatically for you to follow, but long gone is the pain in the ass by the seat of your pants navigation when the Skyline star map fails to fully function. The star map is still quirky.
Wait time on bounty missions after arriving at your target’s location is a bit too long in most cases. Stealth is working great. There are reports of torpedoes failing to resupply on the Eclipse, but I could not duplicate the problem, instead, noticed rock bottom prices. That stuck ladder on the Eclipse – WTF.
So far the servers have been stable and I have yet to see a dreaded disconnect or crash. So much improved that finally cargo may be an option.
We will be “Yela Yell” with much less frequency!
Maverick and Wootie
Had to chuckle at a recent cartoon I saw as it reminded me of the beavis and butthead of the NSAF.
The epitome of Coronavirus-Denier Ted Nugent tested positive for covid-19. After Ted successfully avoided contracting covid-1 thru covid-18 (LOL) he now thought he was dying. I suspect Ted caught the “nothing but the flu” virus during a mask burning party.
Got my first jab yesterday and other than a sore arm, I feel great. If you believe that wearing a mask to protect those around you, or believe that the covid virus is a hoax, or somehow any of this violates your freedom and liberty, you are a fool that cannot be trusted.
Just a lot of lunacy
For those of you that are not baby-boomers this one takes some splaining. We grew up during the space race with the ruskies and it was not uncommon during the Mercury missions and beyond to have one of your teachers wheel in a boob tube and tune it into one of the three major TV networks of the time to watch the continuous coverage.
One of my teachers noticed, my eyes were glued to the screen, hardly blinking. So yeah, I wanted to be a spaceman. The images in this clip are images that we grew up with. The political race that framed the space race was hidden from public view until much later so many of us had to settle on becoming engineers and computer geeks.
So it is with Star Citizen, at last I can be a spaceman that does more than just go around and around and around…
Star Citizen: 3.9 vs. 3.10 comparison
Do folks still complain about CIG’s failure to release the game? Since I gave up facebook I don’t see many rants so it is easy to assume all the haters disappeared. LOL.
Still, there is quite a bit to do in this alpha release. So much so that it takes a 12 minute vid to cover some of numerous upgrades in the latest patch. Enjoy!
