Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 gameplay trailer released

Star Citizen Alpha 2.0

Cloud Imperium Games revealed the Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 gameplay trailer and it certainly looks very exciting. It's got first-person shooting, spaceflight, EVA—that's extravehicular activity, which is a fancy way of saying spacewalking.

At the very end of the video, there is a promissory bit of text which has caused a certain amount of confusion and, yes, anger among backers, because Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 is actually not playable at the moment. Developer Ben Lesnick clarified the mistake on the Roberts Space Industries forums, where he said that the studio had to give the trailer to the Game Awards people "a while ago" to get in on the show, and that at the time, the new Alpha release was likely to be open to the public.

"Unfortunately, as folks testing and observing know, we were hit with a slowdown bug that seemed to come out of nowhere. (For those not following the testing chatter, that’s why you haven’t see a PTU build in the last two days.)," he wrote. "Knowing what we do now, we would have liked to have changed the exact wording on the trailer. Unfortunately, it was locked in well before the event."

The idea is to get it live for everybody as quickly as that slowdown bug has been fixed, but for now the game is not actually available outside the test environment. 

Watch Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 trailer here :