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Star Citizen Alpha 3.24.2 Brings New Ship, Customization Options, & More Ahead of CitizenCon

Giuseppe Nelvaby Giuseppe Nelva
October 18, 2024
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While fans of Star Citizen are waiting for the big news tomorrow and the next day from CitizenCon 2954 today Cloud Imperium Games released a new update with new content and features.

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Alpha 3.24.2 includes new hairstyles, beards, tattoos, and piercings for the Character Customization, on top of 20 base heads to greatly enhance what players can do when creating their pilot.

On top of that, a new ship in two variants has been added, the RSI Zeus Mk II CL and ES. Speaking of ships, new ones have been added to in-game shops where they can be purchased for credits (alongside Retaliator modules), bypassing the need for real money.

These are the (Argo ATLS, F7C mk2, Mirai Pulse, RSI Ursa Medivac, ARGO MPUV-1T, Aegis Sabre Firebird).

It’s worth noting that, as usual, the Zeus Mk II, so players can either wait until it’s added to in-game stores, or pledge for it starting at $195.20. You can see it in action below.

Weapons have been rebalanced, and there have even been some changes to visuals. You can find a summary below and the full patch notes on the official site.

Characters

  • New Hair, Beards, Tattoos, and Piercings
  • Over 20 new Additional DNA Heads

Locations

  • New Acidic and Rocky Caves
  • New Hangar Spawn Logic

Gameplay

  • Quantum Travel and Fuel Use/Cost Updates
  • Starmap Readability Polish
  • Removed Hauling Mission Reputation Loss on Abandon

Ships & Vehicles

  • New Ships: Zeus Mk II CL and ES
  • Vehicle HUD & MFD Rework
  • In View Marker Decluttering
  • Persistent Ship Settings
  • New Weapon Groupings
  • Additional Ships Added to Ship Shops in-game for Purchase
  • Further Ship Performance, Combat, and Health Balancing

Weapons & Items

  • Multi-tool Tractor Beam Rework and UI Updates
  • FPS Weapon Balancing

Arena Commander Updates

  • Frontend Restyle & Improvements with new 3d hangar display
  • Free Flight: Increased Player Limit and Added Good Doctor FPS Map to Free Flight Mode

Star Citizen is a crowdfunded multiplayer open-world sandbox space simulator that has been in development for several years. It’s directed by Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame.

The game has recently passed $728 million in crowdfunding ($728,619,940 at the moment of this writing) and counts 5,363,642 registered users. Of course, many of them aren’t paying customers, as they register accounts to enjoy Free Fly Events.

Besides its online persistent universe, the game will also have a single-player campaign named Squadron 42 starring an exceptional cast of famous actors including Mark Hamill, Henry Cavill, Gary Oldman, Liam Cunningham, Gillian Anderson, and more.

Full disclosure: the author of this article has backed Star Citizen’s crowdfunding campaign.

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