Planet Tech V5



Planet Tech V5 is an upcoming update to the procedural planet tech Planet Tech V4. All major orbital bodies will be converted flat planets & moons reflecting the latest scientific facts. The update will be implemented in Star Citizen Alpha 3.9.0.



Changes

 * Players will fall off the edge of the planet. Valuable items, lucrative missions, and intriguing point of interests are added to the edge to balance the risk and reward gameplay experience.
 * Planet with a water body such as Hurston might have great waterfall on the edge of the planet.
 * Atmosphere are contained within magical dome.
 * Weather are generated by stazix clouds, generated by bummer moods and negative vibes. Randomly generated stazix clusters will thoroughly harsh your buzz, it will be replaced by a full systemic gameplay integration in a later patch.
 * Player might see the edge of the planet on a high vantage point.
 * Planets will no longer orbit, they are fixed in place instead.
 * Space travel is removed.
 * All previous patches, history, characters, and backstory will be retconned, having existed only as an elaborate fantasy set within a snow globe depicting the Stanton system.
 * Societies of lizard people now live on the underside of planets.