Ready in 3 minutes
- Download & install. Grab the file above and run it. The installer needs no admin rights (per-user install).
- Dismiss the Windows notice (once). On the very first start Windows shows a blue SmartScreen notice, “Unknown publisher”. Click “More info”, then “Run anyway”. This happens only this once — later updates run without a warning.
- Enter your token. On first start you enter the token Lars sent you by DM (it begins with
omc_). The crew is fixed to “Old Mens Club” — there is nothing else to fill in. The client finds the path toGame.logby itself. - Start Star Citizen. Once you are in the game the client recognises your pilot automatically and starts transmitting. Your marker appears on the live map.
Linux: how it works
- Two system packages, once. The client uses your system's display and sound. Arch/CachyOS/Manjaro:
sudo pacman -S webkit2gtk-4.1 gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugin-pipewire· Fedora/Nobara:sudo dnf install webkit2gtk4.1 gstreamer1-plugins-base gstreamer1-plugins-good· Debian/Ubuntu/Mint:sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good - Install – the easy way. One command in the terminal downloads the file, makes it runnable and puts BalduursGATE into your start menu:
After that you start the client from the start menu like any other program. No more terminal.curl -fsSL https://comms.balduur.de/static/omc/balduursgate-linux.sh | bash - Or by hand. Download the file above, in your file manager tick right-click → Properties → Permissions → “Executable”, double-click. On first start the client adds itself to the start menu. Browsers save downloads without that tick – which is why it only worked from the terminal until now.
- Enter your token, start Star Citizen – just like on Windows. The client finds the
Game.logthrough the LUG Helper settings, and on its own for Steam/Proton, Lutris and Bottles. Otherwise enter the path in the settings.
What the client can do
🗺️ Status Board & Map
The new status board shows at a glance who is online, in which ship and where — next to it the live star map and the ship computer (our AI), which you can ask about the org, ops and the Verse without switching to a browser.
📋 Contract Board
Contracts are posted and you take what suits — three at a time. Completing one earns standing; whoever leads the month takes the trophy. The targets are not invented, they come from what the crew has demonstrably flown — and whether something counts as done is decided by comms, not by a checkbox.
🗣️ Voice Control
“Computer, landing gear” — and the gear comes down. Mainly for VR, where you cannot find the keyboard inside the headset. Runs entirely on your own machine, no cloud: a fixed word list that cannot invent anything. It reaches the game through vJoy or F13–F24, with no modification to the game.
👁️ The Scanner
At the press of a key the ship computer reads your loadout manager off the screen and checks what it sees against the leaderboards — so you can tell whether a fitted component is any good without looking up the numbers yourself.
📖 Manual
Everything to look up right in the client: setup, key bindings, what each function does. No more digging through old Discord posts.
🏆 Season
A new comms challenge every week, rotating automatically: Frequent Flyer, Collector, Explorer, Iron Pilot. Live leaderboard — you can watch yourself climb. Only counts while your client is running, so leave it on.
📻 Radio Balduur
All four channels right in the client — Radio Balduur, Mining, PvP and Lounge. Keeps playing even as you switch views.
📍 Quick Pings
Next to the MAYDAY button: rally point, escort and target marked — one click and the crew knows, without setting off a full alert.
📡 Live Comms
Reads along in your Game.log and sends jumps, locations, ships, loot and contracts to the crew in real time — now with readable names instead of cryptic codes. Map, log and statistics update themselves.
🎯 In-Game Pack
Puts numbers straight into the game: weapons, ships and components show fire rate, DPS, shield HP, QD range and the rest in their description. One switch, German or English, off by default — your call, reversible at any time.
💬 Comms Chat
Crew chat right in the client — quick arrangements without leaving the game. If someone writes to you with @name, an overlay flashes. And you can now filter the comms feed (navigation, contracts, combat, loot).
📋 Debrief
One button at the end of a session sums it up: systems visited, ships flown, loot and incidents — and it goes straight into the crew log.
⌨️ Keybind Backup
Backs up your Star Citizen controls and restores them at the press of a button — for when a patch scrambles your key bindings again.
🆘 Send MAYDAY
One button sends a distress call with your current position. Every crew member immediately gets an audible alert — and so does this website.
🔔 Receive MAYDAY & crew calls
Distress calls and announcements from the Command Center appear in the client as a banner with a tone — even while you are in the game.
🚀 Auto-Update
The client installs new versions itself after a quick prompt. You never have to download a file again.
⚙️ Autostart
If you want, the client starts automatically with Windows — one switch, set it once, never think about it again.
🔗 Quick Links
Straight from the client to the Command Center, live map, your pilot profile, statistics and this website.
Game.log and sends game events to the crew server — no keystrokes, no private files. The extra functions keybind backup and in-game pack only touch Star Citizen files when you press the button, always with a backup first and reversible at any time. They are off by default.