The
news post on the Roberts Space Industries website covers the release of a
new version 2.2.alpha patch for
Star Citizen, and announces that another
free fly week is underway to allow folks to check out the current state of the
upcoming space combat game. Here's word:
On the fence about Star Citizen?
Why not give it a try and see what we’re building! For the next week, we’ve
enabled Free Fly access to all accounts… FOR EVERY CURRENTLY FLYABLE SHIP IN THE
GAME OO-AH-AH-AH-AH! This means that anyone can jump in to Star Citizen Alpha
2.2.2 today and fly limited ships like the Scythe, Mustang Omega, and more! The
Free Fly event gives everyone access to three unique parts of the Star Citizen
experience:
- Star Citizen Alpha 2.2.2 – Also known as
Crusader or the “mini-PU,” this is the nucleus of the world we’re building!
Featuring multiple space stations and environments, scripted missions,
places to explore and more, Alpha 2.2.2 is your first look at a much larger
universe!
- Arena Commander – Arena Commander is a
‘game within a game’ that we’ve used to develop our flight mechanics and
ship combat balance. Take on human opponents or an AI swarm in single seat
fighter.
- Social Module – Interact with other players
while you explore our first landing zone, ArcCorp! The Social Module is
intended as a starting point for our world building,
You can register for an
account here to get started. If you already have an account from a previous
Free Fly, you’re all set! Just log in via the Star Citizen launcher. This is the
first Free Fly that includes Crusader, so there’s more to explore than ever
before. For the next week. Free Fly accounts will have access every ship
currently available in the game.
There's a
Personality Test
on the Paradox Plaza to help gauge your sociopathic tendencies, or something.
The odd clues may give a hint about what this leads to, but what we know for now
is that it concludes with a tease of an upcoming announcement from Paradox
Interactive and Obsidian Entertainment. This will happen on the
Paradox Interactive Twitch
channel on Tuesday, March 15th, at 8:00 pm EDT. Thanks nin.
Steam announces they are now in early beta testing of SteamVR Desktop Theater
Mode, which will you allow you to ogle games with your goggles, even if they do
not have inherent virtual reality support. Here's the brief announcement, saying
this will be in display this week at the GDC. Word is: "Desktop Theater Mode
enables users to play non-VR games with VR systems such as the upcoming HTC VIve
and others."
Surprise hit Stardew Valley lands atop this week's list of the 10 bestselling
games on
Steam for last week:
- Stardew Valley
- Tom Clancy’s The Division
- Far Cry Primal
- Tom Clancy’s The Division Gold Edition
- Fallout 4 Season Pass
- Far Cry Primal
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Factorio
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- SUPERHOT
Well, we did the "spring ahead" thing overnight, and sacrificed an hour to the
evil god of Daylight Saving Time, and are now in the throes of EDT in these
parts. I'm actually on record as not minding the current state of the clock,
just the switching, so I guess it's more accurate to say I dislike standard time
rather than DST. This morning I found it particularly rough to adjust to waking
up, so I may start hating this even more going forward.
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