The Citizencon 2951 gameplay demo flexes its muscles graphically, but many fans miss concrete date announcements from the Star Citizen developers.
Do you ever wonder what else is out there? I wonder what the planets and worlds far away from our civilisation look like? As soon as we will probably not get any answers to that.
But Star Citizen’s developer Cloud Imperium Games has now taken players to a completely new world at the Citizencon 2951 in-house exhibition, which will make many a science fiction fan smile. But not only the new planets in the actually lifeless star system Pyro look breathtaking. The developers were also visibly proud of the new volumetric clouds in their gameplay presentation. However, there were also dark clouds of the metaphorical kind at the event – and they were met with criticism from fans who had expected a bigger bang.
Among other things, they complained that CIG didn’t show enough new things during the live event on Twitch, which lasted several hours, that the lectures were too technical and that the talks of the developers in front of the camera were not always illustrated with suitable gameplay. And of course, the Squadron 42 single player campaign was once again conspicuous by its absence – but that was no surprise.
Citizencon 2951: Off to a troublesome start
We remember: Citizencon 2949, or to stay in our age, Citizencon from 2019, stopped with a jump to the new Pyro solar system. And that’s where the first talk of Citizencon 2021 began, with a new jump point surrounded by gas clouds, heavily reworked thanks to the tech behind the cloud city Orison recently integrated into Alpha 3.14. But before the new gameplay demo could even be seen, spectators had to be patient.
