A new trailer has been released for the space epic Star Citizen . It gives a glimpse of mining.
Star Citizen is impressive in many ways, a game of superlatives. The amount raised by the company through crowdfunding is as massive as the vision behind the project and the virtual chatter in the forums whenever the name “Star Citizen” appears.
Amid all the hustle and bustle, it is easy to forget how visually stunning Star Citizen is. After all, one of the founding ideas behind the sci-fi epic Star Citizen is: “Console hardware often limits what is technically possible. With Star Citizen, we focus solely on PC, make no compromises, and do it as well and as massively as we can.”
And this leads to activities like mining looking spectacular. In a new trailer, Star Citizen showcases the MISC Prospector, a mining craft.
The Prospector is designed for “planetary mining” and can land on asteroids and other objects to dig for resources beneath the surface.
“Planetary Mining” in Star Citizen is supposed to happen in four phases, as outlined in an article from April 2016:
- First, scan for minerals beneath the surface until a location is found that is particularly lucrative: a “mineral pocket”
- Then, the miner finds a safe landing zone on the object and activates the corresponding module to deploy a “mining laser”. During this time, other ship systems are shut down to allocate more power to the laser.
- In the third phase, the resources from the mineral pocket targeted are transported to the cargo hold via tractor beam
- Step 4 is to look for a buyer for the materials – the hard work should pay off. Or store the resources for further processing.
Star Citizen has big plans for 2017. Specifically, version 3.0 is expected to be a milestone:
