Massive update to controversial space MMO causes chaos after "super rough start"
The latest update for the controversial space MMO Star Citizen has been causing all kinds of chaos for players.
Last week developer Cloud Imperium Games rolled out what it describes as Star Citizen's "biggest update yet". According to the game's website, "Alpha 3.18 throws open the door to the next stage of Star Citizen's groundbreaking universe. Alongside adding immersive careers, stunning locations, and thrilling gameplay, the latest patch holds the key to true in-game persistence". While it all sounds very exciting, unfortunately, fans have been unable to properly try out these new additions due to server outages and other issues.
As reported by VGC (opens in new tab), Star Citizen's server status page (opens in new tab) informed players of "partial" outages due to increased traffic not long after the latest update went live. Over the following days, many players were left unable to log into the game, and those that managed to were met with lengthy queues, error messages, and major bugs.
That brings us to today, where a message on the server status page reads, "The environment has been in the process of recovering from the slow / non-responsive state it was in but we wanted to advise that, while this recovery effort is in-progress, players will experience periods of extreme difficulty getting into the PU."
Over on the Star Citizen subreddit (opens in new tab), players have been sharing their frustration at the situation. "I've never seen it this bad before ever," writes one fan. "Not even when 2.0 came out. I've not been able to login since Saturday morning due to the 19004 error... It's now Monday night and I am still unable to login due to the 19004 error. This is a dumpster fire that is unprecedented in dumpster
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