Multiplayer area sim and detailed ship builder Star Citizen will briefly grow to be a free recreation throughout April, as developer Cloud Imperium seeks to resolve points from the current Star Citizen 3.18 replace by bringing in a slew of recent gamers. The developer says it will assist generate an elevated quantity of participant knowledge, which can be utilized to “establish and repair issues [in Star Citizen] extra shortly.”
Launching in March, Star Citizen 3.18, additionally titled Final Legacies, launched new areas, an overhaul to the area recreation’s cargo system, and expanded salvaging mechanics. Regardless of being one in all Star Citizen’s most bold and welcome updates, 3.18 has additionally launched a spread of bugs and technical points, together with disappearing goal markers, in-game terminals not functioning, and the unprovoked lack of sure stock gadgets.
On April 12, Cloud Imperium launched a brand new Star Citizen patch, 3.18.1, supposed to repair a few of these issues. The developer now plans to host a ‘Free Fly’ week between April 13 and April 20 with a purpose to check the patch and the brand new additions from 3.18 with as many gamers as potential.
“In the event you’re one of many ones who has stated ‘that is the worst Star Citizen has ever been,’ then maintain our beer,” the developer writes. “Jokes apart, launching a Free Fly occasion is a useful transfer for us, because it permits us to check the sport’s infrastructure with a bigger variety of gamers. Extra gamers imply extra knowledge, which helps us establish and repair issues extra shortly.
“That is significantly essential as we proceed to enhance the sport, and we wish to make sure that it may possibly deal with the elevated visitors that comes with a rapidly-expanding playerbase. Individually, we wish to give everybody an opportunity to expertise the most recent gameplay additions in Alpha 3.18.”
Nonetheless, Cloud Imperium additionally says that as “issues have been very fluid for us,” there’s a likelihood the April Free Fly week may very well be cancelled.
“We’ve performed days of automated load testing to simulate peak visitors on our login service, and our login and entitlement fixes have held as much as that quantity,” the developer says. “Nonetheless, within the occasion that we expertise catastrophic points upon rolling out 3.18.1 to the dwell servers, we could have to pivot away from the deliberate Free Fly and as an alternative focus all our efforts on addressing and resolving the difficulty at hand. In any case, our high precedence is to maintain you all knowledgeable, and we’ll present updates as quickly as we have now new info to share.”
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