Star Citizen: Around the Verse - Grotto You Waiting For?

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   [Music] oh and welcome to another episode of around the verse I'm sandy Gardner and I'm Chris Wallace in this week's update we'll see more of Hurston's moons take another look at scramble races and some recently finished props for squadron 42 but first let's see what our community has been up to yep captains and is all the outer rim protection exploration corporation organized an event last week which they dubbed the desert Hawk join operation players flew today mer to engage in a tense hostage rescue with one team of Marines taking on a bunch of Outlaws in an attempt to liberate two castles as you can see from these highlights

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   captured by director Phoenix a wild time was had by all the players involved yeah it's very cool to sort of see that emergent sandbox gameplay getting prototype by our community and it's something that can help the confluence our mission team going forward now on to what the devs have been up to since our last update the planetary feature team has been working on improvements to moon environments taking polish and blending passes at Aberdeen one of Hurston's four moons particles and more textures are being added to Hurston savanna biome with particular attention being paid to how textures change according to distance the UI team continues to iterate on the

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   rental experience for star Marie as you can see with these updated item selection screens fear not the PU mission team is still working on the scramble races that we've seen in previous updates let's go to loupe Presley for more on how this mission type is coming along recently we had a play test of a scramble race where we pitted buncha Cyclones against two Rovers that had turret Gunners because in previous tests we'd seen that the Cyclones which are faster just raced off and one won the race straight away what we learned from that is that we had to give these slower more combat oriented vehicles a way of winning that isn't just collecting checkpoints what we're trying now is to allow them to kill the

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   leaders or joint leaders of the race and steal their points so it's feasible that they can win without ever collecting a checkpoint even though it's an early play test there was a lot of fun in there that we weren't expecting the props team has been finishing up work on trash props designed for squadron 42 yeah this set of medical equipment will also eventually be used in the PU as well here's a first look at completed versions of the utilitarian halves we've seen them progress from concept images to white box and these fully rendered spaces are the next step in the process it's so cool to see the final artwork

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   match the original concept so closely so pretty sight by that moving on to ships and vehicles we've got the quantum drive to perform according to its power state with power allocation coming online we continue to improve the impact that the system has on your ships performance adding further levels of nuance and realism to the flight experience cool and for a look at what's going on with the ship pipeline let's go once more to charity thanks guys this week we've got updates on two ships for you first off let's take a look at some of the freelancer variants which are currently in grey box phase

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   we'll start with the freelancer max which you can see here getting its super wide cargo bay hashed out the freelancer durer which sacrifices payload space for additional fuel capacity tanks and the freelancer mist which stands for missiles now in addition to the racks that are on the exterior wings the miss is getting retractable launchers from the primary hall this means you'll be able to bring even more ordnance to bear faster than you can say alpha strike remember the freelancer variants are currently scheduled to arrive in the persistent universe with star citizen alpha 3.4 before the end of this year and speaking of style let's take another look at the freelancers partner in grey box the origin 890 jump now last week we showed you the hot tub for the constellation Phoenix and well origin isn't gonna let our si corner the market

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   on rest and relaxation and that's why every 890 jump not only has a hot tub of its own but comes complete with its own grotto you know for the discerning citizen and when the party gets too big for that you and your guests can move to the included swimming pool located just around the corner a hot tub and a swimming pool or if there's a word for that finally join us tomorrow at 12:00 Pacific to reverse the verse life when we'll have lead vehicle artist Owen bachelor jr. on to take us on a guided tour of the newly reworked Mustang variants and discuss his team's process and rebuilding them for the upcoming alpha three-point-three back to you guys Mustang fans will definitely want to tune in to reverse the verse tomorrow remember that's live on twitch at noon Pacific and that does it for this week's

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   episode thank you as always to our backers and also to our subscribers for sponsoring all of our shows yeah thank all you guys and until next time we'll see you around the birds thanks for watching for the latest and greatest in star citizen squadron 42 you can subscribe to our Channel or you can check out some of the other shows and you can also head to our website at www.uvu.edu/library