Star Citizen Presents: CitizenCon 2948 | Keynote 10/10 @ 2PM EDT

WHERE, WHEN, WHAT?

• The keynote begins on Wednesday October 10th @ 1 PM CDT (11 AM PDT, 12 PM MDT, 2 PM EDT, 6 PM UCT, 7 PM BST, 8 PM CEST). Timezone converter : LINK
• The keynote will probably show off Hurston, ArcCorp and maybe a few surprises! They've kept us in the dark.
• A discord specifically to talk about this event can be found here :
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• MAIN STAGE STREAM : https://www.twitch.tv/starcitizen
• SECOND STAGE STREAM : https://www.twitch.tv/starcitizenbts
• Keynote is up on YouTube : https://youtu.be/PfXB5jnGXBQ

blastprocessor said:

Will we see more of the single player campaign? Squadron 42? I'd finally buy the game just for that if they ever release it.

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Almeister said:

Was last year's con where they released an hour or so of Squadron 42 footage? I remember that being awesome. I hope we see an update on that cool city planet as well. Every year it feels like they show really exciting and innovative stuff but the overall progress of the PTU year to year is fairly slim. I hope to see the pace ramp up a bit.

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The way they did it last year was that CitzenCon was mostly about Star Citizen and the Persistent Universe, and in December during the holiday livestream they released the Squadron 42 playthrough. There's no word on if we will or won't see Squadron 42 on the 10th, but I imagine if not on the 10th then somewhere around Christmas.

Olaf said:

Is it anywhere close to releasing?

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Nope, but they're releasing patches every 3 months or so.

Almeister said:

Sounds like you folks who follow the game closer than I do are fairly happy with the pace picking up recently then? I've stopped watching AtV and checking the site the last couple of years largely but whenever I checked in it looked like more ships were added but no massive leaps forward. Would certainly be pleased to find that's not the case.

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Ships will always be added because that's how they make money to make the game, it's just an unfortunate nature of the beast. It's a bit more difficult to focus on massive leaps when running a live environment because you have to make sure those leaps don't break the game, and end up spending a lot of time on bug fixing. That being said 3.0 was a huge leap, this patch and 3.3.5 should be a huge leap, so far they've added mining, a lot of quality of life improvements, reworked the UI, added player-generated missions. The people keeping up to date with this stuff have been pleased by the pace, we would all love for the game to be fully finished ASAP though. There's a long way to go!

borntoulouselautrec said:

Can you mine stuff when you only paid for the base game or do you have to buy a Prospector?

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borntoulouselautrec said:

Is there any way to get the ship for less than $160?

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Born already knows the answers to these questions, but for anyone reading them who doesn't know:

Of course you'll be able to mine when you buy the game, it doesn't matter if you spend $45 or thousands, everyone will have the same game to play infront of them. We are in an alpha still, so not all of the features are in the game yet like being able to rent or purchase ships with in game money. Right now only those who have graciously helped fund the game by purchasing the Prospector are able to mine, or whoever they lend their ships to. During the PTU phases they do offer a wide list of ships to test so many people can try out mining if the Prospector is on the list. The broader SC community has been pushing hard to get in-game ship renting, everyone here in the Era community wants it in as fast as possible (we have a lot of people here who only have the base package), and the last we've heard the feature should be coming this year. All of us want this feature online as quickly as can be done, and are disappointed it's not in yet. That doesn't change the fact that the mining feature works well in the PU right now and they've successfully developed it and added it in the game. We are all hoping that we get the ship renting/buying feature in soon and I will continue to advocate strongly for it, I want my friends who bought the base package to have the same experience as anyone who's helped fund the game by buying ships.

Galava said:

I'm hyped. Really wanna know more about SQ42 (a proper trailer and release date would be ideal) and ofc the 3.3 PTU with OCS.

Also, ready to melt stuff to get some nice packages.

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Based off last year, I'd say Squadron 42 stuff will be handled by the Holiday Livestream in December, but you never know what they'll show! That's why CitCon is so exciting.

borntoulouselautrec said:

But it seems that unless they allow buying ships with the in-game currency you have to pay $160 for mining DLC.

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The last thread got locked for posts like these, but to wrap again to anyone wondering:

Yes, if you don't want to wait for the game to come out, or at least wait longer for more features to come in place like buying/renting ships with in-game currency you can help fund the game and buy the Prospector now for real money and have permanent access forever. If you like the game, want to help fund it and have disposable income you're not afraid of risking, do it, otherwise I always suggest just waiting it out and not buying anything and seeing how development goes. Games do need money to be made, and the broader Star Citizen community has been fine with buying ships for real money, so that we all have a better game in the end. Other people might have very valid concerns, and if you're concerned enough then you don't need to play or care about this game, there are many other great games being made. Otherwise you have other options like, waiting for a PTU phase and checking out the Prospector until the PTU ends, or ask someone in the chat or in this community. There is no DLC, and also no subscription for this MMO. As said before, this is an alpha and the game is still in production, some features are being completed quicker than others.

Speaking for myself, I've been following this game for a long time, bought a lot of ships, and I'm not concerned at all. I'm very much looking forward to CitizenCon 2948!

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Vash63 said:

I'm a bit sad that right after I move to Europe they finally do a Citizencon in Austin... was hoping it'd be in Germany again so I could visit.

Still looking forward to it though. OCS being back in 3.3 is pretty huge for performance, and 3.2 fixed most of the progress saving bugs. With those two out of the way it should finally be pretty playable without horrible performance and having to start again from scratch every time you boot it up.

I think they have 3 fully acted mission givers now too with 3.3 right? With a fourth in 3.3.5? On top of all the mobiglas-based missions there should actually be some stuff to do now. Too bad I have to wait until 3.4 before I can get cargo into my 325a...

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Yeah, I'm hoping once they add Hurston and the first major city with Lorville, now have FPS missions, plus a few more mission givers and performance will finally be good enough to do those missions without getting a headache it'll start feeling like a real universe. Hopefully it's only up from here in terms of things to do, meaningful missions, gameplay, careers, believable characters and environments around us.

I'm really excited for the 300 series rework, hopefully it really feels like the luxurious ship it should be.

NuMiQ said:

Just to chime in on this concern: I only have a starter package and have been able to test just about every ship and mechanic extensively during the various PTU phases.
This includes bigger ships and mining ships etc.

The new patch includes the first rental mechanics for Arena Commander, which are supposed to flow into ship buying in the larger Universe.
Hopefully they'll be able to iterate on this first design quickly, but personally I don't see this appearing this year. Maybe early next year in the first quarterly patch.

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I do remember us scouting Yela for those high yield rocks and you having a lot more trouble than me keeping that power level under control, you can blame performance but I think it was something else ;) . Starts with S ends with L and has the letters "kil" in the middle.

Sir Swish said:

Yeah like I posted in the thread that got locked, I've been watching people play a VR game called Vox Machinae and in that when some one uses VOIP their face appears on a small screen but whilst it doesn't track their eyes/mouth it does track their head/hand, its pretty cool to see.

Im also excited to see the changes to the Mustang, i'm hoping their good.

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The Mustang looks awesome, they did an RTV not long ago showing off all the variants.

sandboxgod said:

I'll be going to the con with some friends. Hopefully it'll be fun.

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That's awesome! I hope you have a great time.