Today Cloud Imperium Games released a new video of the growing space simulator Star Citizen focusing on the next in-game event coming with Alpha 4.02 which is currently being tested in the PTU.
It’s worth mentioning that if you have not finished the previous event Fight for Pyro, the video may include comments that could be considered as spoilers about its storyline and factions.
The next event “Supply of Die” will have three different kinds of missions, one focusing on purchasing materials from PvPvE-focused areas and delivering them, and another on mining, refining, and supplying different kinds of materials, and the third on salvaging.
The idea is that the event will be enjoyable for players regardless of which aspects of the game they tend to gravitate toward, and possibly there is the option to complete it and get all the rewards without having to fight at all.
This is part of the new content-driven focus that will characterize Star Citizen throughout 2025 alongside polishing and fixing issues.
You can watch the video below.
If you’re unfamiliar with Star Citizen, it’s a crowdfunded project directed by Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame. It’s a multiplayer sandbox space simulator that has been in development for over a decade and in alpha for several years. It will be released exclusively for PC at some point in the future.
The crowdfunding total has just passed $789 million and it’s currently at $789,242,351. The game also has 5,549,286 registered users, albeit not all of them are paid customers. Many simply create an account to enjoy the occasional free-to-play periods.
Incidentally, 2024 was the second-best year ever for Star Citizen’s crowdfunding campaign, missing the record only by roughly one million.
A few months ago, Cloud Imperium Games showcased plenty of features and tech coming to Star Citizen, on top of the overall vision for version 1.0, which will be the full release of the game, albeit it doesn’t yet have a date.
A single-player campaign titled Squadron 42 is also in development, starring an exceptional cast of famous actors including Mark Hamill, Henry Cavill, Gary Oldman, Liam Cunningham, Gillian Anderson, and more. Recently we saw plenty of gameplay and learned that it’ll release in 2026.
Since the project has been in development for over a decade, you can also see how Squadron 42 evolved since its first reveals.
Full disclosure: the author of this article has backed Star Citizen’s crowdfunding campaign.
