Star Citizen is free this week to assist dev “repair issues extra rapidly”

Multiplayer area sim and detailed ship builder Star Citizen will quickly grow to be a free sport 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 rapidly.”

Launching in March, Star Citizen 3.18, additionally titled Final Legacies, launched new places, an overhaul to the area sport’s cargo system, and expanded salvaging mechanics. Regardless of being considered one of Star Citizen’s most formidable 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 to be able to check the patch and the brand new additions from 3.18 with as many gamers as attainable.

“Should 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 helpful 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 rapidly.

“That is significantly necessary as we proceed to enhance the sport, and we wish to make certain it may well deal with the elevated visitors that comes with a rapidly-expanding playerbase. Individually, we wish to give everybody an opportunity to expertise the newest 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 might be cancelled.

“We’ve carried out 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 reside servers, we could have to pivot away from the deliberate Free Fly and as a substitute 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 are going to present updates as quickly as now we have new info to share.”

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