PAX East 2014: Chris Roberts Reveals The First Dogfighting Footage For Star Citizen

<p>Last night Chris Roberts took to the stage at PAX East in Boston with a live demonstration of how combat will work in his newest title&comma; Star Citizen&period; The game is currently in production at Cloud Imperium and has already raised over &dollar;40 million through crowd funding&comma; making it the most successful crowd funding project to date&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;60710" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-60710" style&equals;"width&colon; 1200px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;05114042&sol;chris-roberts&period;jpg"><img class&equals;" wp-image-60710 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;05114042&sol;chris-roberts&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Chris Roberts is most famous for creating the popular Wing Commander series" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"798" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-60710" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Chris Roberts is most famous for creating the popular Wing Commander series<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>In the demonstration which you can see above&comma; Roberts gave exited fans an extended look at the upcoming dogfighting module which is due to be released shortly after PAX is over&period; The module will offer players 5 different modes to chose from including Free Flight&comma; Battle Royale&comma; Squadron Battle&comma; Capture the Core&comma; and Vanduul Swarm&period; Star Citizen runs on Crytek&&num;8217&semi;s Cryengine and visually it looks very impressive&semi; I am especially a fan of the cool lock on animation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Roberts has decided to release parts of the game one at a time to keep fans satisfied whilst work is still ongoing&period; The full game will feature a single player and co-op campaign as well as an open world combat and trading simulator&period; At last count there were 212 developers currently working on the project&period; It is certainly one of the more ambitious titles to attempt crowd funding which perhaps explains its phenomenal success&period; Star Citizen will be a PC exclusive with Roberts ruling out any console release in the future&period; You can watch the entire Star Citizen PAX event <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;KePkk8LXdOg">here<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;massively&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;11&sol;roberts-star-citizen-and-the-dfm-are-more-than-just-pvp&sol;">Massively<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;