Citizencon 2019 May 2026

“We’re not going to keep giving you dates we can’t keep. We want to be transparent. This is hard.”

(We’re still waiting for its full release years later, but the announcement in 2019 sent the crowd into a frenzy. The demo footage—a Valkyrie dropship hot-dropping troops into a firefight—looked like a movie.) The most memorable moment wasn’t a spaceship. It was Chris Roberts walking onto the stage, looking tired, and saying: citizencon 2019

was announced as a standalone, 20v20 FPS/vehicle hybrid mode. Think Battlefield meets Star Citizen’s sandbox. Capture points, call in a tank, dogfight overhead. “We’re not going to keep giving you dates

Here’s why that November weekend still matters. Prior to 2019, we had Hurston—a polluted, corporate hellscape. It was impressive, but grim. Then CIG pulled back the curtain on MicroTech . Capture points, call in a tank, dogfight overhead