You will now be required to choose a starting location. After character creation, select STANTON. When you are done, head back out and get into the Universe! GETTING USED TO FLIGHT CONTROLS FIRST (OPTIONAL)-īefore dipping into the Universe gamemode, head to Arena Commander, select Singleplayer -> Free Flight, and launch which will place you in the cockpit of your ship letting you play around and tweak with controls, a no-consequence closed map with a fast respawn. Turning off Hints sound bad but hints are rarely shown at the right timing anyway. Turn off Volumetric Clouds if performance is an issue with them. Setting your graphics to Very High pushes the load more towards your GPU than CPU, and should help in most cases. Not much players.ĪRENA COMMANDER - Ships based instanced match mode. STAR MARINE - A FPS-only instanced match mode. PERSISTENT UNIVERSE - The main game, enter the open world sandbox where the event and players are at. The main menu has three distinct buttons with cool graphics. If it says PTU ('Testing' build) on the left dropdown menu, switch it back to LIVE. This is the current build where you should be joining in. Your launcher should have installed the LIVE build. Usually a site with a code to apply and a link to the download page.ĪFTER DOWNLOADING THE GAME. JOINING THE FREE FLY-Ĭheck this site if the event has started: ĭuring the event, there will be a page and instructions to join and download the game. The code cannot be applied after your account is created! **BEFORE YOU CREATE AN ACCOUNT-**Grab a random referral code from and use it at account creation, this will give you 5,000 UEC (Not active until launch) and a point for someone else towards referral rewards.

Welcome new citizen! If you're coming here from the free fly event looking into the dream that is SC, here are some tips to get you started:

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