Star Citizen Beginner's Guide 2024 | Everything You Need To Keep Going

Get up to speed in the Star Citizen basics in 1 hour with this guide! This Star Citizen New Player guide will teach you the basics of getting into the game, getting your gear and ship, taking off into space, and starting your first missions. After this guide, you should have no problem joining an org and starting some group gameplay!

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ToC:
00:00 Introduction
00:41 Getting Started
03:58 Your First Steps
10:56 First Flight
15:04 First Missions
15:51 Simple Mission
17:06 FPS MIssion
18:23 Ship Combat Mission
19:33 What Else Is There?

Music:
Star Citizen OST
Artlist

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[SpaceTomato]

Clarification: Real money urchased ships are NEVER reset, only ships purchased in-game during the alpha.

The messaging may have been confusing in the video. Sorry!

[mrsmith]

Small correction. When you talk about buying ships with real money, you then immediately talk about wipes resetting things and the player needing to rebuy ships.

It's very important that new players know that ships bought with real money are NEVER wiped. It's only ships bought with in game currency that are wiped.

[chrisbensonpdx]

Great to get a new updated beginner's guide. One correction- the radial menu (PIT) now requires f+left&right mouse buttons by default, not just f+right mouse like in the past.

[LuckyForr]

This is a fantastic compilation from so many aspects of the game! That was a lot of ground to cover and I think you did a wonderful job, that looked like a ton of work!

[diegopc]

Ever since Citizencon so many people have been on the servers that it’s caused them to be spotty at best. We need 3.22 and 3.23 asap!

[Ludeo]

Complete beginners guide, "If you don't have a basic understanding of the game, you should probably look elsewhere" >_>

[AgentWashington]

Great video, I recommend people rebind the interaction mode (default F) to one of the thumb buttons if your mouse has it, it’s a lot more efficient imo

[thefixxer]

Thanks man, that was helpful. I'm still trying to talk myself into getting it. Very useful info I don't see often.

[DSyphR]

After hundreds of hours in this game I still learnt a thing or two. Great job on this vid.

[jimmylionstar]

Great Video Tomato, good info for new players. Star Cititzen has also one the most help full community. So dont be afraid to say you are new to the game, people will help you and show you around.

[Just_A_Spork]

As a new player, the thing I noticed about star citizen is that the community is pretty awesome. There’s not much toxic arguments online as far as I know, and I got stranded on a planet earlier today and needed someone to help me bring my stuff home. Multiple people offered and the person that helped me didn’t ask for payment or anything like that.

[StarGlazedDonut]

Hope this video pops up for all the new Citizens in the verse whether you saw the convention or asmond golds reaction video. The verse welcomes you all to the first and only true next gen experience

[electricwolf]

Have my first gaming pc being build right now, should be good to go in a week or so. Been wanting to play this game for years now, happy to be able to now. Good video!

[StatikXero]

I’m just starting to get into this game. Been really enjoying my time so far. May stop by to look around the org. Thank you for this video, it really helped.

[Spidder]

Nice introduction video. Man I am seriously amped to see what the next 12 months bring after watching all the CitCon, even if they only get 50% of what they showed at CitCon i will be over the moon.

The only issue is as much as I love SC myself (been playing since 2014) Its hard to recommend the game in its current state with the amount of game breaking bugs and 30Ks, we need those updates man and sooner rather than later (I know its "Alpha" but still....they really need to treat it like a live game for the PU). Especially more so to keep new players. I am still seeing new players in the ingame chat getting very frustrated with SC in its current state and its breaking issues, which makes me sad as I want new players to play and have a good time.

After watching the CitCon I am finding hard to play it myself in its curreent state now, knowing the updates that are coming.

[MrIcomsic]

Thank you for this video! I started to get into star citizen back in the summer and only played a few days here and there. I going to get back into it soon but forgot so much stuff about the game. This is perfect! Love watching the pods on Space Tomato 2!

[Shindignick]

Hey @SpaceTomato, I manage an Eve streamer/DJ who is dipping his toes into SC. We're all in Karmafleet in Eve (yes goons) and your video is fantastic. I wanted to get your permission to watch this video on stream. Moving forward, I'll be linking this to all of our community members and all the new pilots from our small alliance. Thanks for the awesome content!

[TheOmmadawn]

Fantastic beginners guide that helped me so much. Really appreciated.

[biohazardousbacon]

Just be mindful that there is a really annoying bug in lorville where your character will walk slowly as if they are encountering strong wind, making walking around obnoxious, which can be frustrating since you will die a lot at the start and be respawning back at Lorville.

[setheus]

Good timing mate. Imma watch this just because I appreciate the hussle. New players from an epic citcon and a new players guide. chefs kiss