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EP 239 | All About Star Citizen’s Engineering Gameplay & Alpha 4.5 Additions

EP 239 | All About Star Citizen’s Engineering Gameplay & Alpha 4.5 Additions

Update: 2025-12-08
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Star Citizen Alpha 4.5 is bringing a surprisingly big close to a surprisingly successful year. Engineering and the Vulkan API are 2 long-term projects finally reaching some level of implementation in this next update. Today I’m joined by TenPoundFortyTwo to discuss how much these additions may shift the game forward, and how much pain they may also bring players in 4.5.


Today’s Guests:

TenPoundFortyTwo

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@tenpoundfortytwo


ToC:

00:00 Introductions

2:00 Performance Improvements and Vulkan

23:40 When Will You Get Better Performance?

43:10 Is Engineering Ruining Star Citizen?

50:30 Ships Still Exploding?

01:04:50 Bullet Penetration and Capital Ships

01:19:40 Is Crafting Missing 2026?

01:26:30 Are We Back to Pre-40 Feature Additions?


Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvpiPXCO7OVJOlBIclW9tbpb2g29gur3I


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EP 239 | All About Star Citizen’s Engineering Gameplay & Alpha 4.5 Additions

EP 239 | All About Star Citizen’s Engineering Gameplay & Alpha 4.5 Additions

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