Star Citizen's endless development continues, and just before the weekend Cloud Imperium Games pushed out a very substantial update that promises to push the game toward the level of persistence promised since the Kickstarter days.

"In addition to adding an immersive career, engaging locations, and thrilling gameplay, the latest patch holds the key to true in-game persistence.

With Persistent Entity Streaming, the update promises to allow players to leave their mark on the universe, resulting in items remaining after death, cargo being represented and moved in actual physical crates, salvage professions and the associated systems are introduced.

These are all welcome additions, at least for those players who were able to experience them in person. As many people have tried to confirm the updates, the launcher has suffered and become unresponsive for many would-be salvagers. Unfortunately, that was not the only problem; players who failed to log in to the persistent universe saw a variety of error codes.

On Sunday, CIG said it was making progress, but warned that access could not yet be guaranteed." As of 1300 UTC on 2023-03-12, the environment is in the process of recovering from its slow/unresponsive state, but we want to inform you that while this recovery effort is underway, players will experience a very difficult period of time to get into the PU. 19k, 30k and 60k range errors are mixed in It is expected that.

On Monday, the developers escalated the severity of the problem to a "major outage" and took the game offline for the team to make a "series of fixes" to the Persistent Entity Streaming infrastructure.

The maintenance is now complete and the severity has been downgraded to "partial outage" while CGI verifies the "results of the infrastructure maintenance." However, four days after the update was initiated, the problem has not been resolved.

On the official forums and subreddit, players have expressed frustration and shared their failed attempts to play the game. Players who have been able to log in have encountered yet another problem. Star Citizen player dasinternet ( (opens in new tab) stated in the subreddit. [AdmiralGrogan (opens in new tab) wrote on the official forum, "I have tried dozens of times to log in." I succeeded in logging in once for 10 minutes, but could not interact with anything. Terminal did not work, ship control... No missions... There was nothing. Then the 30K crash. Even by Star Citizen standards, this is embarrassingly bad."

Of course, many of these players have already invested huge amounts of time and money into Star Citizen. Admiral Grogan added, "I've been a supporter since day one."

"And," Admiral Grogan added, "I've been a supporter since day one.

Meanwhile, some players are trying to see the silver lining." Surera writes (opens in new tab), "People are whining about not being able to play the game, but paying no attention to the fact that these bugs are here because CIG has pushed out a patch with so much content." That's what I'm looking forward to." In their replies, many seemed to agree.

Indeed, wobbly updates are common, and there is no denying that this one is beefier than usual. Also, CIG is very communicative and the status tracker (opens in new tab) is a good way to show what progress is being made in fixing the problem. Still, a major update on Friday seems ill-advised. Hopefully by the end of the week, the biggest problems will be a thing of the past.