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<div><img alt="" src="http://ift.tt/2dyZPLM"></p>
<p>Free spaceship included</p>
<p><i>Star Citizen</i>&#8216;s alpha is <a target="_blank" href="http://ift.tt/2erdyRy">again free to play</a>, this time through Sunday, Oct. 30.</p>
<p>Those interested need to create an account (if they don&#8217;t have one) and enter the promotional code FALL2016 to get in on the free fly. The client will then be available for download.</p>
<p>Free Fly participants get the F7C-M Super Hornet spacefighter, pictured above.</p>
<p><i>Star Citizen</i> has offered free-fly events in the past but the entire game remains incomplete four years into a crowdfunded development that has is <a target="_blank" href="http://ift.tt/17H86gX">nearing $130 million overal</a>l.</p>
<p>The game has released in modules, some of them as betas, giving the whole project multiple deadlines and launch windows that have also been moved and delayed. As such, it&#8217;s impossible to assign a formal launch date for the completed game, which is available on Windows PC.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, creator Chris Roberts announced that <i>Squadron 42</i>, the big-budget, single player campaign module starring Gillian Anderson and Mark Hamill, <a target="_blank" href="http://ift.tt/2dWTdDv">would be delayed once again</a>. <i>Squadron 42</i> was<a target="_blank" href="http://ift.tt/1J8lgZU"> originally promised for fall 2015</a>; it won&#8217;t arrive this year and no launch date or window was given for when it will.</p>
<p><em>Source: <a style="text-decoration:none;" href="http://ift.tt/2euf6gs">Polygon &#8211;  Full</a></em></div>
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