The Best Features of Star Citizen Patch 3.23

Star Citizen's biggest patch ever has arrived, packed full of new feature updates, good new content, and a pivotal piece of technology that's the last step before server meshing. Dive in then with me as I comprehensively break down what's new.
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0:00 Cinematic Teaser
2:06 Tech Advancements
3:26 Visual Enhancements, DLSS, FSR, TSR
5:50 First Person Experience Overhaul
6:46 New Mobiglas
8:22 New Starmap
10:51 Other UI
11:11 FPS Combat
13:55 EVA 2.0
14:25 New Character Creator
15:59 Arena Commander
17:06 New Flightmodel
21:00 New Content
22:49 Aliens
23:40 Ship Updates
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[@gabzsy4924]

Cinematography is always on point.

[@SnowTerebi]

You know it's a great video when the first 40+ sec is nothing but pure cinematic beauty.

[@KyleBlagg]

I always watch a morphologist Star Citizen video when one is available because I know the cinematography is going to be amazing.

[@M_I_A_]

Yep, his video-style is really cool!

[@geerstyresoil3136]

yaasss, love that you embraced 21:9 aspect ratio.

[@Commander_Jack]

Can always trust Morph to bring the most cinematic footage for Star Citizen!

[@LevelCapGaming]

Whew some nice camera work here sir!

[@kristophersouza8104]

Thank you 🙏

[@Voltuss5]

you've always made some of the best Star Citizen Video's. Ill keep tuning in because of your quality. Thank you.

[@cheemsdoge]

The best updates are the ones that show the dev team really cares about their game. Making the game run smoother will easily make more people play it.

[@Aki-ow9hd]

Changing stuff up, optimizing, then changing it up later on and optimizing them again... there's no reason to optimize it now when it's not even on beta yet

[@mdhrechka]

@@Aki-ow9hd yeah I agree. Although adding in DLSS does make fps alot more playable and less vertigo headachy after playing for awhile. I'm not a fan of this update, a few core things I enjoy in the game are abit too buggy for a stressfree playthrough. not being able to fire a gun after reloading, or dropping a gun after reloading is a huge oopsie. plus i have an error with all my drake ships, none of them are usable/cant fly them

[@marcohorodnichev9489]

@@Aki-ow9hd Yeah, but implementing new technologies that will be helpful in the future is still handy.

[@spartan_gainz4198]

Don't know about you guys but since coming back the game runs way worse for me now, even with all the right settings, it drops frame more and freeze for seconds even in places that shouldn't, like a VRT mission iver a mining facility

[@marcohorodnichev9489]

@@spartan_gainz4198 honestly, this has been one of the, if not the, best patch launch for me.

[@NullFront]

You know, I really underestimated how much the updated water physics would do for me. The wake when flying low in a cutter gives the tingles in all the right places. A niche but nice feature

[@Asgar1205]

3.23 has been a dream so far! It’s been literally game changing and I’m looking forward to the personal hangars and the road to 4.0

[@mimosenherkules7287]

As always, a beautiful video! This patch feels so much better. The new Maps app is for me one the best changes/updates of 3.23.

[@vepp.animat]

Honestly i love your cinematics. But also the fact you make positive yet critical reviews. That nuance makes it really enjoyable to watch. Good Job.

[@adrianihle3017]

Star Citzen and your cinematography is always a wonderful combo

[@uhavekrabs]

Small correction, the reference version isnt about houdini, it just means its not upscaled textures. The planetary clouds arent the same as the gas clouds as they are dynamic and not static volumetric shapes. The planetary clouds are made by using a series of textures to define coverage and shape (they go over this in a previous citcon). The gas clouds are from houdini which is imported using VDBs and are static (they could be animated, but it'd be a cached animation). They both use the ray marching to render which is done in engine and has nothing to do with houdini.

[@mattzter3]

Thanks for helping us returning players learn what’s new! Love this stuff and the new features.

[@TennysonEStead]

That opening montage was REALLY compelling, Morph. Gorgeous camera work! I especially loved the shots of the new EVA gameplay, and the tracking shot of the Ursa in the distribution center. Fantastic stuff.

[@RadioactiveLobster]

Someone linked this video to me, really well done. Love that fact your videos are in 21:9 so I can watch in full-screen properly without bars. You got a new subscriber and hell, maybe I'll win the giveaway on my first comment. You never know.

[@extremepsych]

Beautifully done, sir. Thank you for creating this for us. 😎👍

[@Vanatorul_GR-te2hh]

The new FPS is indeed a whole new experience but the cinematography and the graphics with the Vulcan activated to me look like something new and awesome. Every time I approach a space station I really feel as if I am inside a Star Trek episode. And the view from inside the monitor of a Reclaimer's beam turret also looks great...I feel that the game is getting to its paces and catching up to what will eventually be...bugs are there but compared to two years ago this like a new game (like when I played Mass Effect 2 after playing ME1). Great work on the video as always. Really quality montage and narrative

[@walkingawayagain]

Even after playing this new patch, I was really looking forward to your take on things, as well as all of your cinematics! Never a let down.

[@roadogsc]

Been getting into star citizen thanks to a friend as of .22. Love that I am able to see improvements like the interaction so soon after starting.

[@AycesWild]

The camera work and shots you get are always so beautiful, unparalleled by anything I've seen and makes me jump into the PU right after every video lol

[@Jacbotarrentino]

3.23 looks great, can't wait to see what comes next! Thanks for all your work in bringing knowledge of the 'verse to the masses!

[@nevmo]

I absolutely adore your cinematography work! I had to send this video to a friend who hasn't looked at SC in a while purely because of how well it shows off the visuals.

[@Fanunic]

Welp, you've sold me on it -- time to hop back in after a two-year break!

[@ancogaming]

How's it going, so far? I'm late to the party, I know, but I'm also thinking about messing around in the test builds again, after one of those breaks I like to take now and then, and maybe even have some fun with new stuff to look at or play around with. New QoL features, better interfaces here and there, as well as performance/stability upgrades sound promising as well, if this video actually portraits somewhat of a gameplay reality that I might find myself in experiencing, and not the singular best-case scenario that tends to happen to almost no one. That's why I am always skeptical of SC Bread-Tubers and rather ask the folks who actually go out there and test the damn thing for weeks.

[@Fanunic]

@@ancogaming Well, there have definitely been a number of QoL improvements -- the map especially is really nice. That being said, Star Citizen is still the poorly optimized, clunky, buggy mess that it always was. To be fair, I think a lot of it has to do with which server you get yourself onto -- some are "good" servers and some are "bad," but there's no way to tell which is which and no way to choose -- it's very luck of the draw. I never understand how Morphologis makes his videos look so good -- the average SC experience is NOT represented AT ALL by his videos. There are hints of greatness, but the current state of the game is a mess. I have a 3080ti + Ryzen 5800x and the game runs like shit on medium settings. While the inventory system has definitely been improved, it only works like 80% of the time -- you'll press a button or try to shift an item from one inventory to another (looting) and it just won't work, like the game isn't registering your inputs. Same thing goes for turning on the engines on your ship, calling elevators, etc. I think that's all serverside stuff, and to be fair it might be particularly bad now since there are a ton of players online due to Invictus, but yeah. Bottom line is, the game is objectively better than it was, but still a buggy, laggy mess.

[@ancogaming]

@@Fanunic Thanks so much for your response, I highly appreciate you taking the time and write an honest review of the overall experience. The fact that there is still server degradation, lag, server-side performance issues and package loss (i.e. the server-instances that run the longest with the most players leaving data/objects behind to trace run the shittiest) basically tells me all I need to know. Replication Layer - Database Exchange from persistently saved states and places that entities/objects are at still can't be streamed consistently, lossless and fast enough to clients, is what it tells me. So, they're not past this brick wall of technical debt and probably still have no idea how the hell to overcome it. Which isn't as bad as it sounds, honestly, don't get me wrong, it's just how it is until they can finally find a way to tackle these problems successfully as they did with dozens of others before, and by sheer determination that "that's not possible at this scale and in this detail" is not an acceptable answer. It's important that they push out new content, ships, meta changes in combat design and in-game assets to play around with in the meantime to keep us occupied, or else most of us can't be arsed to "test" what has gotten old over a year ago, and way longer than that in many ways.

[@onetrueone]

I think I'll get back to playing this game when 4.0 comes out and I'll probably have more free time then, awesome updates always

[@Thepapeman]

Great Video, Always enjoy your cinematography!

[@jonanderazumendi5075]

I mean, watching this video no one would expect to have as bad a experience as you did in your recent streams…

[@Limeonal]

I love the b-roll!

[@noot1254]

love that you make these videos in ultrawide... watching them on an ultrawide is really great

[@havocstriker9732]

I feel like master modes will become big after we get a little more used to the flight characteristics, and the fights will seem more cinematic

[@thedognextdoor4329]

The new master modes make space combat a lot more interesting

[@StopYTShorts]

great for people with low skill and not alot of effort! bad for people who sunk thousands of hours mastering down the drain.

[@MacMuirTravis]

​@@StopYTShorts Master Modes is still being balanced. The devs have even said they are not happy where it is at. I suspect as they balance it out. Many of those old skills will be useful again. That being said it makes the barrier to entry easier, and that's what they want.

[@draghn]

Yes. very happy. The hours and hours of work learning and mastering will be better with this, I think. Worth the time investment!

[@SaraH-ph4qm]

Master modes is garbage

[@KiithnarasAshaa]

Honestly, Master Modes is one of the worst additions to this version of SC. I might look good, but it feels bad. Every space fight is either boring or tedious and frustrating. The vast majority of in-game discussions I've had with people are at best a mixed reception in aggregate. A good number of people I've spoken to are inclined just to shelve the game while this combat model exists.

[@briangueringer3673]

I haven't encountered anyone that "likes" it...

[@dickhead2285]

I like it

[@jamesgale9722]

@@briangueringer3673 I really Like it. Plenty of people do. We are just not as a vocal as the moaners as we are getting on and playing it.

[@briangueringer3673]

@jamesgale9722 so people who don't like it are "moaners"?? Funny but to me I would rather play the flight model in Elite Dangerous. The sense of speed is what made SC stand out and now it's gone...

[@dickhead2285]

I like it, but my comments get removed no matter what

[@mettwasser]

Feels like a high quality documentation. Every. Single. Time. Keep it up ❤

[@MichaelDukesShow]

Love what you do! The cinematics are awesome.

[@thexlonewolf671]

No views in 24 seconds, bro fell off. 💀

[@Thatblackid]

Naw thats crazy

[@OceanicEstate]

Or the bros fell off.

[@Milosh312]

Lol

[@Hitsugaea]

This shit is so old . Please give it up 🙏🏼

[@tiestofalljays]

The only thing that’s fallen off is your creativity.

[@leonardomondada9617]

Love those videos, you're following the development like a lot of people should, by loving the game for what it is while being very realistic and criticising what has to be criticised without being unusefuly aggressive. Really good coverage. Thanks :)

[@alaric375]

Last time i played was 3.16. This patch is what is bringing me back. Unfortunately i still didn't have the chance to try it, but we'll see in the weekend

[@thorn2808]

I’m always amazed at the beauty of the game you show in every single video you make on SC

[@stefanvanvuuren3931]

Morph, this is some of the highest quality recordings of this game I have ever seen. Not even CIG's own footage looks this good. That intro dude (Mind Blown Emoji)!!!

[@dreadnautical9]

Cinematic shots are on top as always. Amazing video.

[@munchies333]

amazing shots! great video :D

[@cyborghunter5933]

Morph, like the others here, I must complement you on the cinematics in this video. You have a great eye for combining visuals to make your videos enjoyable to watch. The opening scenes in this video are attention-grabbing and make the game look fantastic. Great job!

[@emcmanamna]

Excellent overview--thank you! :)

[@chrisrivera2532]

Thank you for consistently posting the most beautiful and thought out footage. Really see the effort you take in your videos

[@Mbburn42]

3.23 looks amazing! Waiting for that server meshing before I upgrade my PC and get really back into. I love watching your videos to stay informed.

[@Paulunatr]

one of these days this game will be complete enough for me to come back to. I hope you're still making great content when that day comes!

[@SquidZillaPainting]

Incredible, not played for a few months and this looks refreshed enough it's worth coming back!

[@talifurn]

You content looks so clear and crispy ! :D

[@michaelbaltezore747]

Always love your style of editing and the to the on topic communication. Keep it up, Morphologis.

[@friedzombie4]

You have such an eye for photography, the intro was so striking; I was memorized.

[@tingil8439]

Wow! Beautiful video, Morph! :) I had a lot of fun in 3.23 so far, when the server was performing well. - Now, IMHO, we really need server meshing, to reduce the load on each individual server, to give us an overall better experience. :)

[@fiveofknives]

What an amazing video dude, well done! Cinematography is top shelf!

[@dangercopperfield]

Thanks for the guide Morph. 3.23 has got me back into the game after a long time away. So far, it's been a stable and enjoyable experience!

[@TheRealKenobi]

You always make your videos feel like movies rather than gameplay, I love it!

[@danielcates13]

Thanks for the overview!

[@lllKRENDELLLlll]

I think many people will agree with me that patch 3.23 is one of the best (if not the best) patches of all time (except 3.0, of course 😁), because for me personally, 3.23 is also a landmark moment - now I have seen almost the final image of the game, according to which the game will be implemented further and these I like the plans 90%!

[@ravu7]

Thx for the patch review. I was doubtfull about this game but its looking up it seems..

[@rjsampsonjr]

Thanks for the new video Morph! I always look forward to them.

[@kanascastle4097]

Excellent video summary, thank you!

[@Silveraga]

damn dude, your videos are so well made. there’s parts it looks like a trailer CIG would’ve made. keep it up , love the quality

[@Uhhuhok434]

Thanks for the quality videos, it's always a pleasure

[@strikermax]

The map changes are really well done!! I have been waiting for this!!! Game looks great! Thanks for the video!!!

[@josh11374265]

Freelancer has to be one of my all time favorite ships. Love the versatility of still carrying a good amount of cargo, yet having the ability for major firepower when needed. And love your videos! Been a long time fan and quality is only going up

[@guldandawarlock]

I finally jumped back in with 3.23 after a long hiatus, and I'm loving the updates so far. Especially the map, which was sorely needed.

[@Lloyd.B]

Great video! Looking forward to the next one 😎

[@richardsmallhill905]

Great stuff! thanks for the detailed report.

[@DertyHard]

Thanks for the rundown

[@bladewolling4947]

Another great overview by Morphologis! I love your videos. Thank you for the information.

[@jesterchester]

Great video! Especially the scenematics.

[@babylonicawisp]

I only just got into Star Citizen a few weeks ago and I am so glad I did. I clearly joined at a wonderful time.

[@cesarmorales4230]

That was gorgeous to watch, may i ask. Do you use someone else for the shots if not, how do you get the in place camera as you fly in view?

[@StopYTShorts]

MasterModes is the dumbest thing they could have done.

[@AnymMusic]

It's an understandable addition, but absolutely needs further tweaking

[@ObiWeebKenobi]

​@@AnymMusic100%

[@ToitleInTime]

Yeah it’s garbo

[@themetabaron8722]

Always appreciate your videos!

[@ACDC-1FAN]

Just got my first PC and I can’t wait to try this during free fly!! Been waiting for this moment for a long time.

[@VitaFireLL]

This cinematics in the begining - just mindblowing!

[@starcinema2846]

Not only visually…your point of view on this project for me is the most valuable one👍

[@zeer0squared]

Thanks, Morph! Great vid, as always.

[@Rialtacity]

Love the quality of your videos. Not only visual, the quality of the content itself. 10/10

[@KylerBushman]

the visuals this patch are mind blowing, im constantly mind blown at every corner by the newfound beauty

[@blitzgaming1145]

Everytime I have a friend that wants to potentially get into star citizen I always send them here. You highlight the beauty and fundamental nature of the game without bias or too much theory crafting. Because of this, I absolutely love your videos

[@yomigaeru4486]

Amazing content as always! Thank you!

[@ardeshirrohbanie2909]

Your videos are pure ART! Thank you for the effort, time and joy! 🙏🏼😎👌🏼

[@TG777GT]

I’m so glad resources are being shifted from squadron to the PU. So much progress is being made! Can’t wait for new cargo and salvage gameplay down the line too

[@emmettcolon1966]

The amazing cinematics never fail to show how beautiful star citizen is! Great video

[@T2rx6]

Beautiful Footage! i'm really looking forward to playing more Sc.. I got tired in 3.22 with how much money I had thanks to the reclaimer.. so it was time to play some backlog games! This is a tough patch so far but i'm excited to be playing again!

[@Mr.Riojas]

Great, well laid out video. Thank you.

[@jfernandes8y6]

Nice video learned a few new things I wasn't aware of. Thank you.

[@besserwizard]

After not playing for half a year I have to learn the game anew. And I love it. This exploring a "new game"

[@TrySpy]

The most stunning Star Citizen views on KZbin, no contest. Naturally, I go on vacation as this releases. Can't wait to give 3.23 a play😃

[@willreaver1425]

Your coverage is always commendable and welcomed

[@tungsten242]

3.23 is what got me back in to SC. lot to look forward to in 3.23.x patches as well.

[@sramstrand]

Super nice video, fantastic production!

[@iDOLtm]

Your content is not just a video, it’s a piece of art. The way that you make all the shots are insane. I still watch your 890 Jump review.

[@rydercarter4924]

Just getting back into the game after about a year absent, and because of your video! Fantastic job and thank you for re-igniting that flame in me.

[@Extinct77]

Incredible showcase as usual. You have a cinematic eye that so few can even come close to.

[@aphelion2902]

great vid, its been fun coming back to this game

[@AfroMocha]

Man it's cool to be part of a the progress of this game and see where it was to where it is now

[@MrLife10e]

My favorite Star Citizen creator. So cinematic and thought out. Judo's to you and your artistic eye.

[@bladioYT]

Kinda wild that they're targeting 4.0 for September. I hope that they can deliver

[@Scrypture13]

Thanks for the great overview!

[@sheepjustgotreal]

Didnt even know about some of this stuff! Nice work

[@LIF3nOOb]

Thanks for covering these exciting infos in a beatiful way!