RSI Gives First Look at Life in Space with Arena Commander Pre-Alpha Launch

In gaming news today, Roberts Space Industries, the developing studio and crowdfunding paragon behind the upcoming space combat sim Squadron 42 and perpetual universe Star Citizen, gave their early adopters a taste of what they've been working on.  Late last night, the long anticipated pre-alpha release of Arena Commander, their space flight and combat training module was launched.

Originally dubbed the Dogfight Module, the team at RSI has been working to crush the showstopping bugs in order to get a stable build into the hands of it's fans for additional testing.  As of late last night, the green light was lit, and testers took to the stars.

An interesting stats tidbit from the RSI site regarding the launch.

For now, we’re extremely happy that Citizens everywhere are getting into space. To share a little data about Arena Commander’s launch:. As of 1 PM PST (about twelve hours after launch), 33,813 people have successfully played an Arena Commander match! We’ve served 820 TB of data, which means that in half a day we put out more data than we did in August, September, October and November of last year combined!

Currently the module is a little bare bones, only offering a free-flight mode, or flying against bots in a wave-style survival match.  However, RSI does plan to continue to iterate on the initial build, adding additional ships, as well as additional game modes and player vs player combat as well.

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