
I think the majority here follows the development of Star Citizen very closely, but I just wanted to highlight the latest developments so nobody misses out. Rating: 4.00 (8 votes) - Rate this News - Comments (0) If you turn "Coupling" off (Caps Lock button), you will get something similar to "engine kill" in Freelancer, though it is more of a "lock velocity vector" right now.Īlso, check out the Freelancer forum over at Star Citizen: Read more The multiplayer part of the module will be rolled out based on your citizen number, so if you backed Star Citizen early, the higher are your chances to get in.Īlso interesting is the Freelancer-style mouse aiming, where weapons follow your mouse cursor. Posted by w0dk4 on 12:25:58 ( 7507 reads)Īfter many delays, finally the dogfighting module called "Arena Commander" for Star Citizen has been released. Here are the best six Star Citizen ship commercials so far.Arena Commander (Dogfighting Module) released Maybe we can do something like that with two Starfarers." "That's genius, just a classic example of something supercool that went viral. "Another ad I'd love to parody is the Volvo Trucks one with Jean Claude Van Damme doing the splits," says Roberts.


Like, you're hearing an interview with a veteran who saw the ship flying in, and was rescued by it."

"But we thought it would be more fun to do an ad that's like a snippet from a World at War-style documentary, like something you'd see on the History channel. "We could just do something boring, like what General Dynamics would make if they wanted to sell hardware to the Chinese military," says Roberts. What's next for Star Citizen spaceship commercials? Roberts says that an upcoming ad for a multicrew heavy bomber will venture even further afield from standard promotional formats. We wanted some of that kind of fun." Some Star Citizen ads also make tongue-in-cheek pop cultural references to things like Top Gear, Guardians of the Galaxy, and 2001. "Like the one for the 6000 SUX, or the Mutally Assured Destruction board game where the kids are nuking each other. "I loved watching the fake commercials in the original Verhoeven version of Robocop," he says. All this, while also lampooning the conventions of car commercials.

They also give people a compelling glimpse of what they'll be able to do in the finalized version of the game. Roberts says that the purpose of the ads is not just to convince people to pre-purchase ships.
