Cloud Imperium Games rolled out the Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 gameplay trailer during The Game Awards last night, and it certainly looks impressive by just about any reasonable measure. It's got spaceflight, it's got first-person shooting, it's got EVA—that's extravehicular activity, which is a fancy way of saying spacewalking—and, at the very end, it promises that "the first-person universe is just getting started," and invites one and all to try the new alpha release now. Like, right now.
"Unfortunately, as folks testing and observing know, we were hit with a slowdown bug that seemed to come out of nowhere. (For those not following the testing chatter, that’s why you haven’t see a PTU build in the last two days.)," he wrote. "Knowing what we do now, we would have liked to have changed the exact wording on the trailer. Unfortunately, it was locked in well before the event."
The plan is to get it live for everyone as soon as that slowdown bug has been fixed, but for now the game is not actually available outside the test environment. The responses on the RSI forums seem understanding enough for the most part, but there's a little less patience on display on Reddit, although the upset is alleviated somewhat by the fact that the delay will (or at least should) be relatively brief. We'll keep our eyes on things and let you know when the doors swing open.
