Star Citizen, the space simulation and role-playing game developed by Cloud Imperium Games, has surpassed the $700 million crowdfunding threshold. company’s own according to fund tracking toolAt the time we wrote this article, $701,056,411 had been collected.
The fund tracker’s built-in timeline shows a sharp increase in funds raised in the last few weeks. This was also when the game launched its last free-to-play event. On May 25 alone, the game collected almost 3 million dollars.
The project, which has been ongoing for more than 10 years, has recently reached some important development milestones. In October last year, Cloud Imperium Games announced that the Star Citizen campaign, Squadron 42, had finally achieved “feature complete” status. It is said that the focus of the team working on this single-player scenario is now on “optimizing and fine-tuning” the experience. On the other hand, a release date has still not been given. Additionally, it has also released numerous Alpha updates that include gameplay features and engine improvements to the MMO-centric persistent universe. The latest alpha update 3.23 also brought advanced technologies such as NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR.
The studio’s progress tracker for future updates shows that Star Citizen Alpha 4.0 has a tentative launch schedule for the third quarter of this year. This major update is planned to bring a completely new solar system and explorable planets to the game; players will finally be able to jump into the Pyro system and explore. Additionally, features such as engineering, fire hazard and life support gaming systems, another fauna species, and the first implementation of Server Meshing will be introduced to the ships.
