Star Citizen Video Shows New Weapons & Trading as Crowdfunding Passes $290 Million

Today Cloud Imperium Games released a brand new video of its upcoming space simulator Star Citizen, while crowdfunding has passed another milestone.
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Today Cloud Imperium Games released a brand new video of its upcoming space simulator Star Citizen.

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The video showcases weapons with a brand new damage type, in the form of a handgun and a sniper rifle dealing “electron” damage.

We hear that eventually, they will also lead to non-lethal weapons like tasers. 

The second part of the video focuses on the upcoming trading feature that will let you us other players currency on the short term and then evolve further in the future (for instance with two-way trading).

In other Star Citizen news the crowdfunding total  has passed $290 million today.

To be more precise, it’s almost at $291 million and it’s sitting on $290,892,451 at the moment of this writing, meaning that it made over 6.5 million during the latest Free Fly event started last Friday.

The number of registered accounts is now well over 2.6 million (currently 2,681,625).

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

Speaking of free fly events, you can try the game for yourself for free, alongside a bunch of its ships, until June 2.

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.


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Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.