Today, Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games released the newest update for the game, alpha 3.22, titled "Wrecks to Riches."
The title indicates one of the major features included in the update, structural salvaging, that will let players completely break down abandoned ships and pretty literally turn them into money.
The update comes with three new vehicles, the alien-designed medium fighter Aopoa San’tok.yai, the Origin X1 series of hoverbikes, and the Drake Cutter Rambler exploration ship.
Further features include 15 new derelict settlements across the Stanton System, new character hairstyles featuring some rather impressive new tech, an updated Jumptown event with a new island location (starting on December 22), personal cargo containers, another update to Arena Commander, and more.
You can read the full patch notes on the official forums, and watch a trailer below.
We also get a dedicated trailer for the Aopoa San’tok.yai, providing a better look at its alien-inspired looks and functionality.
Last, but not least, Cloud Imperium Games also released a new episode of Inside Star Citizen. In the first part of the episode, we hear more from the developers about their creation and the role they fit in the game's universe.
The second part is perhaps even more interesting, showing content that is coming in 2024, including Master Modes, FPS improvements, the new EVA system, visors and lenses, the new galactic map, the new MobiGlas, the overhauled character creation, and much more.
Part of it, we already saw at CitizenCon in much deeper detail. You can watch it below.
Star Citizen is a crowdfunded game born from the creative mind of Wing Commander developer Chris Roberts. Its crowdfunding campaign has recently passed $652 million, and it's now at $652,439,670, with 4,972,164 registered users. Of course, only part of this number represents paying customers.
Recently, we saw an impressive demo showing off the capabilities of the game's engine, and we learned that the single-player campaign Squadron 42 is feature-complete, albeit there is still much work to do and we don't yet have a release date.
Full disclosure: the author of this post backed Star Citizen's crowdfunding campaign.
