Last week, subscribers received a pair of new Squadron 42 wallpapers created as part of the design process for last month’s Jump Point magazine. Now, as promised, they’re available for everyone! Please enjoy these two stunning 2880×1800 images of the Bengal carrier in action and remember that they wouldn’t have been possible without our subscribers!

We’d also like to share some of the results of the recent Star Citizen player survey (below), the same data we’ll be using to help build the game! The results, from 8,111 users, were very interesting… we were especially surprised by how much of our audience builds their own PCs! You can also download a full survey export here.

As we study this data, we’ve determined four additional questions we’d like to poll the community on, mostly relating to potential system requirements. Please note that this is not an announcement of these requirements, just something we’re curious about at this stage. Comments are encouraged below!

Survey Results

Combat Preference –



PVE – 53%

– 53% PVP – 20%

– 20% Both – 26%



Multi-Player PvE (co-op) – 51%

Single Player – 24%

PvP – 24%

Self hosted – 3%



Wing Commander fan – 43%

Privateer Fan – 29%

Freelancer Fan – 49%

Fan of other CR game – 15%

Fan of Space Sims – 83%

Want to back a game specifically for PC – 66%

Wanted to be part of a community during dev – 41%



67% first person – detailed cockpit

15% third person – behind the ship

13% first person – partial cockpit

4% first person – no cockpit



Explorer – 68%

Trader – 50%

Mercenary – 44%

Bounty Hunger – 42%

Smuggler – 33%

Miner – 29%

Industrialist – 28%

Pirate – 22%



90% Desktop

10% Laptop



82% self made

Asus next highest at just under 5%



Windows 7 – 80.9%

Windows 8 – 11.3%

Linux – 2.4%

Windows Vista – 2.3%

Windows XP – 1.6%

Macintosh OS X – 1.5%



pre i5/i7 Intel CPU – 10.8%

– 10.8% Core i5-2500K – 9.40%

Core i7-2600K – 8.10%

AMD Phenom II X4 – 7.90%

Phenom II X4 – 7.90% Core i5-3570K – 5.70%

Core i7-920 – 5.60%

Core i7-3770K – 5.10%

AMD Phenom II X6 – 4.30%

Phenom II X6 – 4.30% Core i7-2600 – 3.10%

Core i7-2700K – 2.40%

AMD FX 8-Core – 2.20%

FX 8-Core – 2.20% Core i5-750 – 2.00%

Core i7-3930K – 2.00%

Core i7-930 – 2.00%

Core i7-3770 – 1.90%

Core i7-950 – 1.80%

Core i7-860 – 1.70%

Core i7-960 – 1.60%

Core i5-2500 – 1.50%



1920 × 1080 – 47.30%

1920 × 1200 – 14.30%

1680 × 1050 – 10.80%

1280 × 1024 – 4.70%

1600 × 900 – 2.60%

1440 × 900 – 2.40%

2560 × 1440 – 2.30%

1366 × 768 – 1.70%

1600 × 1200 – 1.50%

5760 × 1080 – 1.50%



87% use single graphics card

92% do not use 3D Interface

42% do not have a console system



It’ll be a big one.