Star Citizen Video Shows Advanced Shaders; Crowdfunding & Accounts Pass $282 Million & 2.6 Million Respectively

Today Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games released a new video about the growing space simulator.

The first part of the game showcases the advanced shaders that the team has been working on, including realistic hard surface effects on the ships on top of the ability to color different areas with different colors while still retaining detail.

The second part of the video features the new prison system, providing information on how it’ll evolve in following patches.

You can check it out below. 

ncidentally, Star Citizen news is a crowdfunded game and the crowdfunding total  just passed 282 million.

To be more precise, it’s sitting on $282,570,985 at the moment of this writing.

The number of registered accounts has also passed a milestone and it’s now at over 2.6 million (2,600,083).

As usual, it’s known that not all of them are paying players. The number includes free accounts created for a variety of reasons.

If you want to learn more about Star Citizen, you can take a look at the latest update released a little while ago, Alpha 3.9.

For the sake of full disclosure, the author of this article has been a Star Citizen backer since the original Kickstarter campaign several years ago, so you should keep that in mind while reading this article.