Star Citizen

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Star Citizen is an indie-developed crowdfunded sci-fi MMO set in space that allows players to take various roles of merchants, bounty hunters, surveyors, smugglers and more. The game will offer action combat, high-level graphics, first person point of view and realistic space exploration. It is in development by Cloud Imperium Games corporation and Chris Roberts, the designer of Wing Commander and Privateer. Star Citizen is the highest funded video game ever to be raised through crowdfunding in the history of gaming. There is also a single player game set in the same universe as Star Citizen that is being developed.

In Development

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Developer: Cloud Imperium Games
Publisher: Cloud Imperium Games
Type: Space Exploration Sci-fi MMO
Model: Buy-to-play
Platform: PC
Engine: Amazon’s Lumberyard Engine
Release Date: TBD
PvP: TBD
PvE: TBD

Star Citizen Key Features

Ship Customization – Create your own crew of ships from a single decked out vessel to a daunting fleet of ships
Sandbox Decisions – You choose your play-style, whether you play as a bandit, a hero or a member of the galactic organizations
Breath-taking Graphics – High-end graphics with realistic physics

Star Citizen Development

2011 – Development began with CryEngine 3
2012 – Kickstarter Campaign
August 29, 2013 – Hangar Module
June 4, 2014 – Arena Commander
December 11, 2015 – Crusader
December 23, 2016 – Star Marine
December 2016 – Engine switch from CE3 to Lumberyard

Media

Star Citizen Screenshots

Star Citizen Gameplay Videos

System Requirements

Star Citizen System Requirements

Windows 7 (64bit) with Service Pack 1, Windows 8 (64bit), Windows 10 – Anniversary Update (64bit)
DirectX 11 Graphics Card with 2GB RAM (4GB strongly recommended)
Quad Core CPU
16GB+ RAM
SSD strongly recommended

Also recommended:

Drive should be NTFS formatted with at least 47 GB for the RSI Launcher and Star Citizen for install and at least 10GB (SSD) – 20GB (HDD) additional space for the pagefile
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.5.2
Ports opens for TCP 8000 – 8020 and UDP 64090 – 64110