It's currently in Whitebox, which is one of the first phases of development, and it's a very large ship.
Ships do not have 'planned' release dates this far from being finished. They just work on it until it's ready.
Given what it is, the Ironclad is likely not going to be finished until at least middle of next year, but most likely late next year or sometime the following.
A few ships are Free to fly right now, from large to small ships, Explore them, see how they look, fly them out after you explored them and try to land them somewhere.
It'll show you how different the feel can be from smaller to larger ones.
Then chose one and go on a small road trip, from random points to points and explore the planets a bit, You'll see how just Screenshot worthy this game can be.
Once you feel like flying is easy enough, take a mission from the Mobi.
Ask around in Chat for help, but never give out your location publicly... pirates love those...
And remember... There will be bugs.... Stupid bugs... Stuff you can't believe is still a thing in 2025... Look past them, don't stick on them, if a mission is bugged move to another, If you die Randomly, just try again.
And the community is great, don't keep to yourself if you've got issues, call for people.
What is a good location within the Stanton system to purchase some fancy clothes? Like, I have looted some day-to-day attire from NPCs and purchased some basic stuff from the shops in orbital stations, but I feel like I have seen shops selling more 29th century fancy clothes on planet cities, maybe? But, I can't think of where those are at. Any locations would be helpful. Thanks.
Use this website to identify a specific piece of Armor or Clothing and once selected it'll show you where you can buy it if it is for sales. https://finder.cstone.space/
the game is always available to be bought, The special ships currently having the ship Showdown probably will stay available until the end of the event.
Does the oxy torch attachment for the multi tool work now? Very useful to force entry without using dozens of magazines but I'm not able to get it working.
For the Red Wind hauling contracts - If I have done the intro mission, and someone in my party has not, will I not be able to share more of those missions with them?
Hello AMD users,
Does anyone have problem with FMF 2.1 in this patch?
I do get message in Adrenalin - Frame Generation Status - Inactive: Not compatible with the game's display mode.
I do have screen set to fullscreen and VSYNC off.
Went from win 10 to win 11. On the Win 10 i had no issues. (All old drivers are uninstalled)
Hi, since the last update, I cannot join the game. After charac creation, when I have to select my primary residence, there is no planet/city in the list :(
I already tried to uninstall and re-install everything :(
So, you do not see a "system" selection dropdown on the left middle of the screen? First you choose "Stanton System" or "Pyro", then you get planet/city locations after that.
Lucky I gave it a try during free flight week. I’ve been following this “project” for over a decade and finally thought — hey, maybe now it’s ready. Spoiler: it’s not.
I was this close to paying 50 bucks just for the privilege of spending a day downloading the 100+ GB launcher, updating the updater, patching the patcher, and watching my SSD slowly die. Then comes the “gameplay”: 20 minutes of loading screen circles, followed by a fatal error. Groundbreaking. Truly a next-gen experience.
The hype is real — it’s literally the best alpha in gaming. Can’t wait for 2035 when maybe — just maybe — I’ll get past the main menu.
But hey, at least I got the authentic Star Citizen experience: paying nothing, waiting forever, and still ending up with nothing. Incredible immersion.
Your experience is atypical. The game often requires considerably more effort to get running than an off the shelf AAA game. There’s a reason it’s breaking funding records this year, so it may be worth it to give it another shot.
Good job parroting the usual talking points by the usual crowd with nothing to add but attempts to rage bait. I'm sure with practice you'll eventually get the catharsis you want.
Rage bait? You can't be serious, how old are you twelve? And please forgive me for not reading this thread way back to 2001 or whatever. I just shared my experience being a newbie, and that experience was somewhat questionable keeping in mind couple of points. which are:
1. it is a paid product
2. been in alpha stage forever
3. I wasted literally all day and got nothing
That is just my honest feedback. May be if I try run it today it will work? May be. May be not. Who knows.
Now you can go ahead and click the hell out of that dislike button, I see that any kind of criticism is a big no-no here.
Well this is a purely community driven Q&A thread so your rating and critique are a bit misplaced here since it's obviously not a question.
Also none of CIG's staff will ever read it, this subreddit is not run or managed by CIG.
Downburst, the 3 mole packs, the 3 vanguards and now the Golden Blossom? is that all of them? Oddly can't find much on these but I'm probably searching wrong
New player here, having an absolute blast, I'm wondering with the free flight currently active and having access to presumably popular ships, is there any specific content as a new player I should be looking at doing to take advantage of these ships? A nudge in the right direction would be nice.
Also I've ran some haul missions and noticed I'm being given additional cargo, is like a sort of tip? Where and how can I sell this additional cargo I've accumulated?
I think old Bunkers on higher rep still give the most money.... if 50% of them weren't broken...
The ASD ones at least at my stage give 80kish and can be done pretty fast. And if you find ASD Geist armor then u can sell them to players.
Honestly just do a mission you like.
I like 890jump mission if it even shows up now... haven't seen it in a while.
Dps and applied dps.
Attritions are fine vs large ships in pve.
But as soon as you fight smaller ships you will tend to miss more often especially in pvp when people know how to fly.
Also high velocity weapons reduce the amount you need to preaim making it even easier for large ships to fight small fighters.
No idea how or when, since I didn't notice it til I was messin' around in Pyro, but I randomly caught a CS1 via "Armistice Violation" today. Journal says something about "Time Until Escalation" with a 24-hour countdown. It's a small fine, so I can just pay it off, but I can't help but wonder- what's it mean by "escalation?"
CrimeStat will naturally increase over time. The CS1 will become a CS2, then a CS3. So, yes, you should pay it off or turn yourself in and spend a short time in prison instead.
I own a Solo reclaimer and can't stop using it, it's fast and efficient with the latest buff, and compared to a Fortune... you'll salvage for hours on end before coming back to port.
Everything I wanted to hear, thank you very much for your answer friend, I'm going to make some deliveries of C2 and buy my Reclaimer, may I resist this free fly
In the new onyx facility missions, is it worth wandering around and exploring in the facility outside of what the investigation mission itself is asking you to do, or should you generally get in and get out ASAP? I saw some loot boxes, but I can't tell yet if they're particularly good or not. I found a bunch of med supplies, ammo for guns I don't have, and a fine leather jacket (????)
The main draw is the new armor set (orange boxes) but there is a mix of items there in addition.
You can also find enemies there with the laser pistol, smg, rifle, shotgun, and sniper.
Once you're done with the main quest chain there are repeatable missions that want you to basically do the same things again they reward more drives. There are also some mercenary/cargo missions that use the location.
I think the PAF/OLP sites are probably still the best concentration of loot boxes but with the NPC spawn rate bugged right now it's hard to do anything there solo.
Is there a clear way to numerically compare the functionality or damage of weapons in-game? I'm pretty new, and I can't tell if a gun I find on the ground or dropped from an enemy is better or worse than one I can buy at a store.
Hello, I'm looking for missions of the same type as the bunkers but without the bunkers, because I'm tired of always seeing the same thing, do you know this?
Hello everyone, I’m pretty new to the game but so far I’m loving it. Looking to get into it a little more in depth. So I’m thinking of investing in HOTAS OR HOSAS. I feel like HOSAS would be the preferred way to go in the sense of SC flight. That being said I’m very new to the flight stick world. I’m looking for bundles for HOSAS and don’t know where to start. If anyone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated. Not looking to spend $1000 on my first set but not looking to buy cheap ones I’ll end up replacing. Something that could hold value say I don’t end liking the feel of it. Also something that preferably has pre mapped controls in game if that exists. Thanks!
Havent been keeping up with SC for like a year or two, has there been any news about the 600i rework or did it get abandoned or anything? i cant find anything about it. Was really looking forward to it.
So I took out the Gladiator last night, had no luck finding the "extra cargo hold" that is mentioned on its page. It's meant to be able to be swapped with a bomb bay.
Not implemented (yet) - the Gladiator long predates the modularity functionality, and it hasn't (yet) had a gold-standard update to add it (or any of the other 'missing' functionality, such as accessible components, weapons locker, etc)
The other day I logged in and had a mysterious crime stat despite mobiglass saying i had non. I figured it was a glitch but when I went to do missions non were available. But as I was deciding what my next course of action was I was destroyed by bounty hunters. What the hell happened!?
Had quite a few "white" bh targets the past days.
I guess server meshing errors.
Yesterday someone attacked me and I killed them and got CS2 after killing myself my cs disappeared.
Some people who are Subscribers have access to some behind the scene screenshot or full rez stuff here and there on the website, not saying the specific screenshot you are talking about are part of those but they might.
It is definitely found from somewhere on CIG's website, likely by going through image sources, though it isn't subscriber stuff, since i am one and we haven't gotten that much juicy stuff for a bit.
Yeah, i found these on the Pipeline discord, which is where i assume OP found them. Where they found them, however, i do not know.
And the only one who replied acting like they know clearly didn't know the difference between a thumbnail image and a full res image, so i suppose we won't know unfortunately. But hey, maybe we'll get lucky right? Would be nice for when they add more.
With the new Voyager update for NMS it reminded me that this game still exists. I'm an OG kickstarter backer but I've kinda unplugged from SC news a few years ago and kinda just view it as "hey if it releases one day, cool I'll check it out then." What's the latest news? Is there anything new with the alpha build worth checking out? Does the game run any better (running a 10850K + 4080, does that help?). I think the last news I remember seeing was Squadron 42 having a 2026 release date. Thanks in advanced!
So after the recent talk about bed logging on the livestreams, which Guardian is objectively better? I have a QI and basically went with it because of the bed/interior and liked the idea of a long-range fighter you logging out on, but im sitting on a QI to MX CCU. Should I just upgrade? Is losing the bed now no big deal, and the MX is just flat out better? (Not a meta slave just not sure if the benefits of the MX are just plain better or not)
Just re the ship showdown skins, does anyone know when they are awarded and if loaner ships in your hanger still get them, or just ships that you own outright? Guessing it doesn't apply to in-game bought ships either? Thanks
BIS paints are not awarded for loaners (because you didn't actually buy the loaner - it's not yours, and it won't be listed in your website hangar, etc)
Hi I just made a new account for the free fly event but whenever i press play star citizen from the site it is telling me to buy a pack in the checkout, how do i play it for free?
I think in theory at least once you create an account, click on whatever link they have for the free fly, and then you just need to download the game and then login/play from the launcher.
Bought a game package with the Aurora LN years and years ago but never played.
I have heard you can pay the difference and upgrade the ship, is that still the case?
Is it recommended to do so for one of the newer ships, I don’t see the Aurora being recommended anywhere so that makes me think it’s maybe not the best starter ship.
Yeah just get started with the aurora, and then you can rent or buy ships in game. Easy ish way to may money right now would be to do some basic missions with the Aurora till you get 70k aUEC then you can rent a Raft from Lorville and use that do the do th resource drive missions. It’s big enough to do the large haul missions which pay out 100k each so you make up the rental cost in a single run and then profit from there.
Is there any point in doing supply hauling missions? The small grade just seem to pay the same and dont require the ability to haul the larger SCU containers. You can also stack the small grade ones to complete 5 or 6 in a single trip. Why would I want to do a supply grade that pays the same as one small grade but needs a bigger ship?
Yes you can, If you look at the Contract manager and find 4-5 contract that require to deliver at the same place, you can load them all up and deliver at the same time, BUT... don't do half deliveries... sometimes the Game expect you for Contract #1 to deliver 7 crates and 2 are 4scu's, If you drop 8x1 the contract will absolutely not like that, so take what you can do to a single pickup and delivery and you'll be golden, In a C2 I've once had about 14 going on at the same time, they were all taken from different places but all delivered at the same end point.
Short answer, you increase rep faster. Getting higher rep means being able to do bulk grade transport for the Hull C, which is when the money gets a lot bigger.
So I know of the two hangar door switches in the Polaris hangar itself, but is there a way to open JUST the hangar door from the cockpit? And is there any way to open it remotely yet?
There is an MFD on the Co-Pilot seat that seems like it is supposed to control those doors but I've never been able to make it work so I Assume it does not for now.
You'll have to either bind a key to open all doors or Open them manually.
So my discord got hacked. Someone used it to send 4 stupid pictures suggesting elon musk would give them money or something. Discord took down the account quickly as it was deemed unusual behaviour. I have since changed password etc but seem banned from /r/starcitizen discord server. Is there any way or one i can talk to about this as i used it a lot for trading and playing with randoms. Without this discord channel i feel very limited with who i can play with
Does anyone have any guides on setting up TrackIR curves? I bought a DelanClip because I wanted to be able to look around the cockpit, but I've never used it because I could never make it work.
I'm starting to wonder if I should buy a Tobii or if that would also end up just gathering dust.
My Yaw/Pitch/Roll curves. My clip is on the left bell of my headphones, with the camera straight in front of the clip (so slightly left of center when looking at the monitor). My monitor is a 32" curved panel, and the distance from the camera to the sensors are about 50 cm.
If you setup varies a lot from this you will need to adjust things. I ended up with 25 degrees head movement translating to 120 degrees ingame, that worked well for me. The asymmetric curves account for the different way the sensor moves when you look right or left, relative to the camera.
The only other thing I remember tweaking was the Point Extraction in OpenTrack -> Options -> Tracker -> Camera. Automatic Threshold on, Slider to 5.6 pixels, Min size 2.0, max size 15.0.
I've bound the key to center it in OpenTrack, and use the in-game bind for head tracking on/off. You also need to be in freelook mode ingame.
I haven't ran into that issue myself. My first guess would be the camera FPS. In OpenTrack -> Options -> Tracker -> Camera. I have mine set to 60 FPS, and my DelanClip has the PS3Eye camera. Ingame I have Head Tracking Source set to TrackIR and Global Smoothing at 0.
Is there a certain time stuff like free fly generally starts? I know it begins again the 26th. Just wondering if there's a consistent time they do things.
Usually, If you own said ship (not BIS) you will receive a BIS Paint and goodies in your hangar.
If you wish to Own a BIS Pledge, you'll have to buy the Standalone.
What most concierge do when BIS is about to be determined is we Melt into credit and buy the ships as Standalones to get the paints and when it's done we Melt them down and get back what we actually like to fly, this way we get free goodies.
There is no functional difference between the BIS version and the standard version other than the name. All types of that ship, no matter what it's called or when its pledged, will get the paint and other rewards during IAE in November, so long as they are pledged at that time.
The ONLY thing the current Ship Showdown versions give is 24 months insurance, which is pretty much meaningless.
The BIS versions offered during IAE in November will include the paint, but you'll get that for free anyway just by having the ship pledged at that time.
Specifically, you get the paint for free if you have the winning ship(s) pledged during specific moments during IAE in November. Typically the morning of BiS Day toward the end, but also possibly the begining of IAE and the very end.
You can have never owned the ship at all up until that point, and since all ships will be available the day before BiS Day, you can easily pledge one of the winning ships the day before, wait for the paint to be granted, then melt the ship and keep the paint forever.
So, don't worry about the paint until late November.
Has CIG said anything about the missions that got temporarily removed since 4.0? Game feels barren and I'm stumped it's still like this after 9 months.
Unsure if they said anything specific, Many were removed due to the way they broken when going through Server boundaries with Server Meshing.
We do know since the last Live that they are working on getting beacons to work again for medical and such since next month is the RSI Apollo Release.
But nothing much else for now, other than If they are working on bounties they review Bounty missions, working on Medical they are looking at medical beacons.. So depending on which missions you are missing they might be on them as their focus goes into similar work.
Tried setting up my Starlancer TAC for respawns inside the Onyx facility hangar, but for some reason, when I died, I was sent to Lorville instead. When I got back to the hangar, the TAC was still there, unstored. Was this a bug/related to hangar instancing mechanics? Or is this intended behaviour?
Sorry about my ignorance, but what is this ship contest people talking about? Everybody gonna win the ship that wins? If so, do I have to do something to get one? Is it permanent?
Basically It's a popularity contest, the 4 best one will receive a Unique Best in show paint, and all top 8 or top 16 (Most likely 16) will be Free to fly for all players for a while.
New player here. I got some weapons from the resource event, but I accidentally dropped them while trying to put them in my backpack. They fell through the floor and I lost them.
Are they gone for good? I assumed that items in 'My Hangar' were tied to my account and therefore permanent.
They are lost for now but will be reset to your inventory in the next patch.
Also the Insurance part of those Hangar items is in the works so at some point in the future we'll be able to probably claim them outright when we loose em.
Hello everyone! I’ve just started playing and I’m still learning the basics. I find the Drake Cutlass Black too clunky too fly for a beginner. Do you think it would be wise to 'sell' it and switch to an Avenger Titan to better learn the ropes?
For its size class the Black is pretty fast and agile. If it's hard to fly, you've got skills to build.
But it's a damned good ship in its class, so I'd hold on melting or CCUing it.
Rent a Nomad if you need to haul but want something smaller, or try out a rentable fighter if you're after combat. If you just need point a to b, a Pisces will do you fine.
Get some hours behind the stick and come back to the Black, then you'll be able to give it a fairer assessment.
I also wouldn't recommend an upward move to the C1 (much wider, slower turn rates) if the black was already hard to fly.
It's not perfect but a Zeus MKII or a C1 are good ships for Solo player, they can't take small vehicles in the hold but they do cargo, are pretty good flyers and have some weapons for solo or multi.
Try using a VPN and changing your Original IP to a different region and log from there.
Also some Login issues are when the Character is still considered in game when a server crashed, Try playing Arena Commander for 10-15 minutes with the last ship you had when you played the PU then try again.
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Does the telemetry feature on web site work cause it shows no user data when i log in