Hangar Hands On!

This past Thursday, the Star Citizen team released the pre-alpha Hangar module.  This is a chance for backers (both Kickstarter, and otherwise) a chance to get a very, very, early glimpse at some limited gameplay and assets.  In this case, your pledge purchased ships – well.. some of them anyway.  The Hangar download page lists which models are currently available in game (and, conveniently enough… provides links to purchase any you don’t already own(.  Here’s what it looks like:

Apparently, I need more ships.
Apparently, I need more ships.

There are three tiers of the Hangar, based on ship size.  Discount, Business, and Deluxe.  Smaller ships like the Aurora or 300 series, get a Discount Hangar.  Bigger ships like the Freelancer (up to, but not including the Constellation) get the Business, and Constellation and up get Deluxe.  To really show off the Hangar module… you need video.  So, I jumped into my business hangar and recorded a little something for everyone to watch:

 

 

This is my first attempt at this kind of video, so please do let me know what you think about it.

After the Hangar came out on Thursday…we got a small patch for it on Friday.  Friday’s patch did little things like add a shelf for the Gamescom trophy to all the Hangars (the Trophy was just hanging out on the floor Thursday when I first logged in).  One of the interesting, non bug related tidbits in the first Hangar patch is the CIG servers kicked out 112TB of data between Hangar launch, and first patch (roughly 24 hours).  That’s a ton, and, the impressive part is that (at least for me) they did it at a reasonable speed.  There was a decent amount of the download process that I was able to saturate my 50 megabit cable connection.. so, well done CIG!

There is now also a way to upgrade your Hangar from the Discount to the Business or Deluxe.  In the addon section of the pledge store (where you buy ships, packages, etc..) you can now purchase the Business upgrade for $20, or the Deluxe upgrade for $40.

If you haven’t already done so.. head on over and download your Hangar and take a look at your ships!