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Cargo's getting its next big push. What can you tell us about what's involved there? Freight elevators, obviously.

TL;DR3.23 brings instanced hangars with a freight elevator and kiosk replacing regular inventory storage, letting players pull out their goods and load ships using hover trolleys and the tractor beam.

Jonny JaceviciusAssistant Design Director

Yeah, we've got the freight elevators. We've got basically the instanced hangars. So you're going to be able to go to your own hangar. You're going to have your freight elevator. You're going to be able to spawn your ship. The core part of the experience is that you essentially go to your freight elevator. We'll have a kiosk with a nice new UI on it. You can then interact with that to essentially go, what's in my storage? So the regular inventory area storage is going away. So it's much more physically based in your hangar storage. It's very much more personal. You then go, I want all this stuff, click, click, click, click, click. You fill up, or see the freight elevator filling up, on the UI. You then click a button, and lo and behold, all your stuff's just come out of the ground. And then it's up to you to load it into your ship. So as part of that, we'll also have things like hover trolleys. We've obviously got the tractor beam that's usable in there too. So you can then wheel it over, start loading up your ship. And it's a much more representative feel of what the cargo experience is going to be like long term. It's a lot in 3.23.

Star Citizen Live›All About Alpha 3.23·
Published on this date.2 Feb 2024