Star Citizen has long been the dream of gamers with a soft spot for simulation games. Indeed, the game was specially designed with the aim of allowing players to access the world in 2952. Dated to this period, the creators of the game believe that it would be quite possible to travel and even live in space. If the project was born in 2012, after 10 years later the release date is still unofficial. So far, the game is still under development. This, in order to offer players a unique and incomparable experience during simulations. For you to have clear ideas, we will state in this article the history of the Star Citizen game. As a result, we will discover the important dates to know.
Star Citizen History
Star Citizen is both a simulation and science fiction game. Currently, the game has not yet reached its latest version including Beta 4.0. However, players can fully enjoy and play the alpha phase of the game's development. The Star Citizen game was developed by "Cloud Imperium Games or CIG", the studio chaired by Chris Roberts. In 2011, the studio was primarily designed for this project. Chris Roberts belongs to the category of popular developer men. For the game to see the light of day, the studio had to launch a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter. In 2012, the launch of the development of the game was possible since the funds reached at that date 6 million dollars. In 2022, quite recently, the game's crowdfunding just passed $500 million. As a result, it can be said that the game comes to the first position on the list of the most funded crowdfunding projects.
Important dates to know
For the game to be marketed, it must be fully developed. To do this, the development of the game must be able to reach version 4.0 including Beta. In any case, this is what explained the creator of the game Chris Roberts. It should be recalled that the release dates of the initial versions were presented as follows:
- Version 3.0 of the alpha had been pushed back 4 times before being published at the end of December 2017.
- Alpha 3.1: March 31, 2018
- Alpha 3.2: June 30, 2018
- Alpha 3.3: November 11, 2018
- Alpha 3.4: December 21, 2018
- Alpha 3.5: May 2019
- Alpha 3.6: July 2019
- Alpha 3.7: October 2019
- Alpha 3.8: November 2019
- Alpha 3.9: December 2019
- Alpha 3.10: August 5, 2020
- Alpha 3.11: October 8, 2020
- Alpha 3.12: December 17, 2020
- Alpha 3.13: April 22, 2021
- Alpha 3.14: August 9, 2021
- Alpha 3.15: November 10, 2021
- Alpha 3.16: December 22, 2021
- Alpha 3.17: April 30, 2022
Currently, professionals are working on the development of the Alpha 3.18 version. Admittedly, the release date of Star Citizen is scheduled for 2023, but this remains uncertain. Indeed, if you remember, once "Squadron 42" (the first episode of the campaign) was scheduled for 2016. However, it was only available to players in 2018. Nevertheless, this does not prevent the excitement of 4 million loyal Star Citizen players to look forward to 2023.
You say nonsense about the release date of Star Citizen.
The only correct answer would be: when the game is ready! but wanting to make buz with this answer is not very efficient…
“but it still remains uncertain”
sorry to disappoint you but the editor in charge of the article took tweezers all along on the release date… There is no affirmation
It is sure at 1000% that SC will not be released in 2023 or 2024
and neither in 2025 at 99.999%.
There is no indication that patch 4.0 will announce the start of the beta,
from what we know patch 4.0 and an Alpha phase patch announcing the server-mesh and the 2nd planetary system: Pyro with the first jump point.
a big step for the development of the game but there will still be a long way to go because it will only be the first version (V1) of server-meshing (SM) which will be static and eventually a dynamic SM.
there is also a lot of gameplay to develop.
Once most or all of the gameplay is deployed at that time CIG will move into beta development.
And I pass over all the features such as fauna, the quantum system, the corporation system (group interactions/loans/exchanges etc).
Star Citizen currently is only the tip of the iceberg there is still a lot of work to do before the Beta phase
Squadron 42 was not accessible to players in 2018 because it is not yet finished and no date is disclosed on this subject.
Chris Roberts announced it himself as said PETIT Jean these games will be released when they are ready because they can afford it not having investors who could rush them, this will avoid releasing an immature game cf: no man's sky, CP 77 (apart from the names of the games mentioned, these are the words of the founder of CIG) .