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Star Citizen Alpha 3.0 is now available for about 800 Evocati testers.

Star Citizen Patch 3.0.0 (from unknown source so take it with grain of salt)

Here's couple of videos explaining some new features in Alpha 3.0:

Star Citizen: Around the Verse - Flight Plan: Air Traffic Control

Star Citizen: Around the Verse - Usables: The Universe at Your Command

Star Citizen: Around the Verse - Manned Turret

I like how CIG goes details and depth first before amount of size of the universe. Alpha 3.0 looks very detailed already even without many core gameplay features like mining. Mining should be included in Alpha 3.1 and I hope it is much more than just pressing down a mouse button like in many other space games.

@bartok said:

I don't know what "Star Citizen situation" there is but I agree that there is no need to talk about AtVs and other shows. They are meant for people who are interested to follow the development of Star Citizen or game development in general. As a person who is interested about Star Citizen these shows are pretty incredible. I would like to see other companies doing the same.

CIG has submitted two AtV since Gamescom which both contains interesting and important topics.

Stamina and status system seems to improve first person gameplay greatly and will finally bring more tactic gameplay to FPS. Of course it is not just about FPS but affects gameplay in many different areas.

It is also great to see how much effort they put to their mission system. Missions will be hand made and procedurally generated which should make them scalable and make sense in changing game world. Sounds interesting but we will see how it all works out once Alpha 3.0 is out.

Star Citizen: Around the Verse - Stamina and the Actor Status System

Star Citizen: Around the Verse - Choice & Consequences, the Mission System

I'm not huge fan of scripted demos but otherwise I think it was amazing and technically very impressive.

Day 3

CIG has added some new ship commercials - Star Citizen: Ship Commercials

@bane: How do you like a performance of Super Hornet and Freelancer currently in game?

Day 2

Interviews with Chris and Erin Roberts (reddit)

CR Interview live summary and Summary of the interview from Gamestar with Chris Roberts

Erin Roberts Q&A Overview

CIG has "Daymar experience" setup for testing in gamescom 2017.

Here's couple of pictures:

https://twitter.com/Big___JR/status/899991730669453312

https://twitter.com/Xocliw/status/899938260264288256

edit: It was mentioned in stream selbie linked that they are using full Alpha 3.0 but quantum travel is disabled to not let players get far away from Daymar. Additionally the server is rebooted every 15 minutes to keep players near each other, put items and ships to default locations, etc.

CIG will be at Gamescom again this year. They have had usually pretty good presentations there so I assume this year will not be an exception.

What would you like to see at gamescom this year?