Star Citizen Live Stream Highlights

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Here are some things that were announced at the Star Citizen Live Stream tonight. Some details maybe wrong.

Things to expect in the Dog Fighting Module v1

• Cool helmet animation
• G-force simulation on pilot with blackout limits. If you pull too many g's your pilot will pass out.
• Cool missile lock animation
• Newtonian flight mode. Players can rotate your spacecraft while moving in your current vector and shoot behind you
• up/down left right strafing
• Destructible objects like asteroids
• Different systems status readout in HUD
• Cool landing gear animation
• Dying Star map
• Broken Moon map
• Playable Ships: Aurora MR, 300i, and F7C Hornet. Players without these ships will get a equivalent playable ship as a loaner. Example: Freelance => Hornet loaner.

Dog Fighting Module will be rebranded as Arena Commander to be within the Star Citizen Universe fiction. Arena Commander will be a game within SC Persistent Universe

Arena Commander will support leader borders for Ranked and Private Matches. There will be filters for Daily, weekly, monthly and All time rankings.

Five modes in Arena Commander

• Free Flight mode
• Battle Royal (Death Match)
• Squadron (Teams)
• Capture the Core (Capture the flag)
• Vanduul Swarm (Horde mode)

Version 2 of Arena Commander will support:

• Multi-crew ships: Connie, Freelancer, etc
• Single seat variants
• Co-op AI pilots
• Vanduul Scythe

Version 3 of Arena Commander will support:

• More Environments
• FPS boarding
• Capture the Idris mode

Version 4 and beyond will support:

• Planet-side combat
• Travel between limited locations like Terra to somewhere else.

Fun facts about Star Citizen

• Uses 64 bit double precision
• Operation Pitchfork will probably not happen exactly how everyone wants it to happen
• Maybe a future API for Leaderboards so you can have Star Citizen rankings on another site.
• There are plans to release a Star Citizen branded HOTAS controller. No confirmed manufacturer.
• You can free fire missiles without a target. It depends on the type of missile
• 10-11 people in multiplayer matches during testing. They want to increase that number to maybe 50-60???
• Fish are collectible pieces and may not be tradeable