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Star Citizen is free to try this week

by Mark Tyson on 1 February 2016, 08:31

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Star Citizen is currently free to try out. If you have never tried the game and have an inkling it may appeal you can actually give it a 'free fly' until Friday. In other Star Citizen news: from 14th February onwards Squadron 42 and Star Citizen will be split into two separate packages. Finally a bug fix focussed patch for Star Citizen Alpha 2.1 was released on Friday.

If you want to play Star Citizen and haven't paid up to jump on board or never taken part in a previous free fly event now is your chance. Just ahead of the weekend The official Star Citizen blog announced a Free Fly week - so it will presumably end on Friday coming.

Those who have enjoyed a free fly before can use previous login credentials. Newcomers are asked to go here, and fill in the requisite details to download and get on board Star Citizen Alpha 2.1.2. Once signed up you will be able to enjoy the Alpha game featuring "multiple space stations and environments, scripted missions, places to explore and more". There will also be Arena Commander 'game within a game' which is focussed upon space flight combat sim high jinks. Last but not least there's the Social Module, meant for interacting with other players.

In December Cloud Imperium announced that it would be splitting Squadron 42 and Star Citizen and thus "Squadron 42 will be available as either a standalone game or an optional addon for Star Citizen". That split will occur on 14th Feb, Valentine's day. It is suggested that to lock in the lowest price for the combo you consider pledging before that date.

Also in the most recent Star Citizen update bulletin: a list of bugs was fixed that had been reported by testers. You can see exactly what was patched in the release notes.

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Posted by kalniel - Mon 01 Feb 2016 08:55
It's sounding like poorer and poorer value for money if they start saying Squadron 42 is a paid extra that requires Star Citizen.

But if they made it a stand alone game I'd be quite happy - will just be able to judge value for money when released and buy it or not, ignoring the ho-hah about Star Citizen stuff I'm not interested in.
Posted by cheesemp - Mon 01 Feb 2016 10:36
kalniel
It's sounding like poorer and poorer value for money if they start saying Squadron 42 is a paid extra that requires Star Citizen.

But if they made it a stand alone game I'd be quite happy - will just be able to judge value for money when released and buy it or not, ignoring the ho-hah about Star Citizen stuff I'm not interested in.

Why would Squadron 42 need star citizen? It's a separate single player game just reusing the assets for star citizen. Both are separate from each other. The only tie in being that you will be able to bring in your character from SQ42 into the star citizen ‘MMO’ giving you some for of credit/reputation boost.

The only split is here is to make them the two games as originally stated. You effectively buy one get one free at the moment.
Posted by kalniel - Mon 01 Feb 2016 10:41
Given same assets it could quite easily be considered a campaign set within a wider MMO, ie you buy an Star Citizen account and then add on whatever campaigns etc. that you want. It would be very nice if Squadron 42 was stand alone though, as I say, especially if it was off-line.
Posted by abaxas - Mon 01 Feb 2016 10:53
Ermm, hasn't everyone given up on this now?
Posted by cheesemp - Mon 01 Feb 2016 11:12
kalniel
Given same assets it could quite easily be considered a campaign set within a wider MMO, ie you buy an Star Citizen account and then add on whatever campaigns etc. that you want. It would be very nice if Squadron 42 was stand alone though, as I say, especially if it was off-line.

But SQ42 is offline? I'm not sure what the confusion is here. Its a standalone game. It doesn't need star citizen. Chris Roberts has stated it will be playable offline. Thats what this split is about. Spliting the single player from the ‘MMO’.

abaxas
Ermm, hasn't everyone given up on this now?

Why? Its already very playable - go try the free fly and see. Sure its taking time (3 years of active dev) but other similar scale games have taken far longer to develop - you just don't see it because its behind close doors. Fallout 4 took far longer to release.

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