The launch of Star Citizen's biggest update has been a shambles, and players are frustrated: 'This is embarrassingly bad'
The neverending development of Star Citizen continues, and just before the weekend Cloud Imperium Games pushed out an extremely meaty update that promised to nudge the game towards the level of persistence it's been promising since the Kickstarter days.
«Alongside adding immersive careers, stunning locations, and thrilling gameplay, the latest patch holds the key to true in-game persistence—one of the biggest hurdles in the pursuit of a living universe that evolves alongside its inhabitants,» CIG said before the update's arrival(opens in new tab).
With Persistent Entity Streaming, the update promised to let players leave their mark on the universe, resulting in things like items remaining after death, cargo being represented by actual physical crates that can be moved around, and the introduction of the salvaging profession and its accompanying systems.
All welcome additions, at least for those players who could actually experience them. With so many people wanting to check out the update, the launcher struggled and became unresponsive for many would-be salvagers. Unfortunately that was far from the only issue, with players seeing a variety of error codes as they unsuccessfully attempted to log into the persistent universe.
On Sunday, CIG said it was making progress, but warned that access still couldn't be guaranteed. «As of 1300 UTC on 2023-03-12 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. We expect players to see a mix of errors from the 19k, 30k, and 60k ranges.»
On Monday, the developer escalated the severity
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