Cits and Civs, Captains and Commanders, you’re tuned to episode 518 of Guard Frequency — the best damn space game podcast ever! This episode was recorded on Friday, April 18 and released for streaming and download on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at GuardFrequency.com
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This Week’s Schedule
- Flight Deck
- Elite: Dangerous
- Star Citizen
- Dune: Awakening
- Stellaris
- Guard Frequency Exiles, where guns and axes are friends and neighbors
- Feedback Loop
Links & The Like
Elite: Dangerous
Elite Dangerous is running a fantastic community goal and the good news is that if you download the show on Tuesday, you might still have 24 hours to participate. Unless the community gets to Tier 7 before then. The prize is a set of double engineered Kill Warrant Scanners that are must-have accessories for the fashionable space murderhobo.
Star Citizen
Star Citizen released Early Access Pre-Alpha Release Candidate Prototype Experimental Test Build 4.1.1 PTU 9704633 to the Wave 1 PTU server. Three things are ready for testing, and five things are not. And there’s going to be a stress test this weekend, which will surely bring out the necessary crowds to stress the server. But never fear, it will surely be ready to go live before the Epic Month of May. In other news, well… rumor has it anyway, another round of layoffs and voluntary departures from Manchester and Montreal could lead to vast promotion opportunities and great advancement for everyone! Or a brain drain, really, it could go either way. Finally, and for the last time, can CIG please stop accidentally revealing how bad they are at database management and public relations?
Dune: Awakening and Stellaris
The release of Dune: Awakening has been delayed by a few weeks, with the early access date moved from May 15 to June 5, with the full release now scheduled for June 10. Probably a good idea, I say for reasons I can’t discuss. And Stellaris is releasing yet another DLC on May 5 and I’ll probably just not be available for the whole middle of next month.
Community Questions
- What would bring you back to a game you had walked away from in the past? Special modules? Cosmetics? Story Arcs?
- Is communication with front-line devs worth the chance of a PR-whoopsie for game companies and their communities?
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