Star Citizen fans can rejoice as CitizenCon will return on October 9th.

It’s time once again to celebrate all things Star Citizen, most importantly YOU, the community who makes everything in this universe possible. Get ready for a day filled with exciting content, ranging from cosplay to community videos, development deep dives, and more!

A schedule has been posted on the CitizenCon site, but the exact times for each panel are still TBD. All backers will get goodies including a TBF-4 suit and weapon, and a commemorative CitizenCon trophy.

Cloud Imperium Games, the developer behind Star Citizen, has been warned by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority over misleading advertising. The warning comes after a complaint from a player who was misled by the wording in an offer for concept ships.

Ships that are under development and not yet in the game can still be paid for with a promise of delivery at an unspecified time. The Complaint was specifically for the new Gatac Railen, which appeared to be a limited offer.

The player complained that the wording on Cloud Imperium Games’ marketing material was misleading because it didn’t make this clear enough. The ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) agreed with these complaints and has told Cloud Imperium Games to change its ads for future reference.

To prevent similar issues like this from happening again, Cloud Imperium Games have changed the wording of their more recent offers to reflect that ships are “a limited vehicle concept pledge”

Most events these days are going fully digital. This is also true for Star Citizen’s CitizenCon which will be kicking off on October 9th.

“As circumstances continue to keep us from gathering in person, we’re bringing that electric CitizenCon energy to your homes in the form of an online show that’s open and accessible to everyone on Twitch. While we’re not ready to share the details just yet, you can expect a full day of events, panels, and entertainment (and yes, the cosplay contest is coming back!). It promises to be out of this world, or perhaps out of this system.”

Two new videos on weapons have been released this week on the Star Citizen channel. First off was this week’s Inside Star Citizen which takes a look at non-lethal weapons like medical guns, tractor beams, and salvage guns.

If that only left you wanting more weapons action then this year’s first Star Citizen Live Gamedev should be next on your list, where you can watch the Weapons Content Team and how they work when modeling weapons and attachments.

In the latest Star Citizen Live, the VFX team answers questions from the community about everything releated to visual effects.

With a lot of the latest Star Citizen content being about vehicles and ships, this episode is definitely an interesting break with some cool insights from the VFX team.

This week’s Inside Star Citizen takes a look at ground vehicles and the systems and design behind them, most notably the very impressive physics that the systems are buildt on.

The second half of the video gives a short update on a few other works in progress like the mining UI, lighting and hospitals.

In other Star Citizen news, a XenoThreat Postmortem was postedon the SC website with feedback from the developers on how the first dynamic event went.

The latest Star Citizen Live is up on the Star Citizen Youtube channel. This time it’s all about vehicles, and the Vehicle Team talks about what they have been working on lately.

A new Inside Star Citizen was also posted this week which takes a look at caves and mining, and also at mining Vehicles and tools.

In the latest Calling All Devs video on the Star Citizen Youtube Channel, Richard Tyrer talks about the inventory system, going into detail on both your personal inventory and external storing inventories.

Another episode of Inside Star Citizen was also posted which takes a look at big stationary guns and trolleys aka Jackass in space.

A new monthly report for Star Citizen has been posted over at the official site.

The report looks at AI, animations, art and a slew of other topics.

The main topic of the report is the AI systems of the game including Combat, Ship and Social AI, all of which has recieved recent improvements.

Next up is a section on animations which has a promising quote from the animation team:

“We also worked on some shockingly good animations for some new FPS weapons coming soon…” – The Animation Team.

A bunch of other topics is also touched upon, so head over to the official post to check it out.

The latest video on the Star Citizen Youtube channel gives players an insight into how you as a player can interact with the universe around you.

This interface can be used to do pretty much every interaction available to the player like eating and drinking, equip weapons or controlling various aspects of your ship.

The video then goes into more info on some new food stall signs, weapon and creature concepts and more.

See the full video below.