Greetings Citizens,

We have released a new version of Arena Commander! Version 0.9.2.1 is now available via the Launcher. The big focus of this week’s patch is the release of the Origin 315p, the last of the 300-series variants promised for Arena Commander. This patch also updates ship balance, ESP and makes several fixes. You can find a complete list in the Patch Notes. Finally, it adds the Liquor Cabinet item for development subscribers.

With the entire 300 series now playable, we have updated the default loadout for all ships to match their intended roles and the specifications listed on the website. If you’re a 300i, 315p, 325a or 350r pilot please get out there and try the newly balanced lineup! The team is eager for feedback about all four of the ships, which you can post to the Arena Commander forum.

As you know, we use a number of methods to continue improving Arena Commander. From our internal QA teams to Twitch stream observations to the forum for collecting player feedback, we are always looking for ways to make your space combat experience better. Another tool in our arsenal is statistics collected from the game. We measure everything from CPU type to control preference to Comstab usage… and with this patch, we thought it would be fun to share some of that data with our backers!

You can see graphs for the most recent patch period in this post. A big aspect of this collection process is monitoring how accurate the different control methods are, so we can try and find the “sweet spot” where Star Citizen works well for everyone. Please note that the accuracy and kill/death ratio data reflects only single player; a bug resolved in today’s patch was preventing us from collecting multiplayer numbers. Also note that ‘session numbers’ refers to the number of Arena Commander and not the total Hangar logins.

OPERATING SYSTEM

Windows 7 64 bit SP 1 (build 6.1.7601) 61.1% Windows 8 64 bit (build 6.2.9200) 35.3% Windows 7 64 bit (build 6.1.7600) 3.3%

CPU

i7-4770K CPU 3.50GHz 7.0% i5-3570K CPU 3.40GHz 6.3% i5-2500K CPU 3.30GHz 5.4% i7-3770K CPU 3.50GHz 5.2% i7-2600K CPU 3.40GHz 4.9% i5-4670K CPU 3.40GHz 4.4% FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor 4.0% i7-4790K CPU 4.00GHz 3.3% i7-3770 CPU 3.40GHz 2.5% i7 CPU 2.67GHz 2.2% i7-2600 CPU 3.40GHz 1.9% i7-4770 CPU 3.40GHz 1.8% i7-3820 CPU 3.60GHz 1.7% i7-3930K CPU 3.20GHz 1.6% FX-6300 Six-Core Processor 1.4% FX-8320 Eight-Core Processor 1.3% i7 CPU 3.07GHz 1.3% i5-4690K CPU 3.50GHz 1.3% Phenom™ II X4 965 Processor 1.2% i7-4700MQ CPU 2.40GHz 1.0%

GRAPHICS CARD

AMD Radeon R9 200 Series 12.3% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 8.5% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 6.6% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 5.7% AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series 4.9% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4.2% AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series 3.8% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 3.8% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 3.8% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3.3% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3.3% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2.8% AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series 2.4% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2.0% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 1.8% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1.8% AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series 1.7% Intel® HD Graphics 4600 1.6% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 1.1% AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series 1.1% NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1.0%

AMOUNT OF RAM