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I find the 3.8 to be more crashy and with broken missions, but the game is still expanding rather fast now ...I am still having fun!
I think it tells a lot about the game that we haven't had a 'smooth' patch since 3.5, yet it's still very fun to play. I think having space-legs is what it boils down to; being able to walk around the planets, stations and ships just brings so much more to the game, even at this stage, that other space sims are lacking. :yep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvZ4G7dzvoo
Kongo Otto
01-28-20, 05:34 AM
When I first heared about Chris Roberts and Star Citizen/SQ 42 I was kinda curious but somehow I forgot about it until a few weeks ago when some video popped up in my YouTube recommendations.
TBH, when it is fully released I might give it a try but until that happens I really don't care about all the hype.
Won't get Fallout 76'ed again, that's for sure.
When I first heared about Chris Roberts and Star Citizen/SQ 42 I was kinda curious but somehow I forgot about it until a few weeks ago when some video popped up in my YouTube recommendations.
TBH, when it is fully released I might give it a try but until that happens I really don't care about all the hype.
Won't get Fallout 76'ed again, that's for sure.
I get your caution and respect you want to wait - but this is even today very far from the whole Fallout 76 ;)
It's not always easy being a spacetrucker...
https://i.imgur.com/eVfqw5X.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqXZhnrkBdo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUFcerTa6Ho
Some new stuff from 3.9:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZU0e2viGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH25YYwaPR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25oz9Fp3v4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhTluPy2gtk
Threadfin
05-11-20, 10:11 AM
It's quarter 2, 2020. How do I sign up for the Squadron 42 beta?
If anyone's interested to try out Star Citizen, there will be a Free Fly week from May 22 to June 1. At the same time, there's also an in-game event: the UEE Navy's 'Fleet Week'. Rumour has it that we might see our first capital ship.
Details:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/17611-Invictus-Launch-Week-2950-Details
Loving 3.9 and 3.10!
Its now stable enough for me to actually make money.
Earned 100k moving boxes, bought a Helix mining head and I then made 1,5mill :D
Bought the Prospector and Helix head as well, spending all my in-game money on it. It's great fun and 3.10 seems to be a fairly good patch; really like the new flight model.
I will, of course, lose my prospector very likely since I bought it at a time when they were having backend issues with persistence and the game probably didn't save my purchase, so it's back to hauling cargo in my MAX when 3.10.2 goes live.
3.10.2 is live and I didn't lose my Prospector, hooray!
They've also fixed their LTP backend issue and you should have every ship back you've purchased with in-game money since 3.9. :up:
Btw, add me as friend McBeck if you want, I'm Dowly in SC as well. :yep:
3.10.2 is live and I didn't lose my Prospector, hooray!
They've also fixed their LTP backend issue and you should have every ship back you've purchased with in-game money since 3.9. :up:
Btw, add me as friend McBeck if you want, I'm Dowly in SC as well. :yep:
Cant remember if I added you, but will check :D
I am called Nozferatu in game
zachanscom
12-26-20, 07:17 PM
i wish the ship designs weren't so stupid, otherwise i would have jumped on it years ago. hearing all the internal strife rumors, maybe this is a good thing? star citizens scope+ ship design from infinity battlescape would have been perfect.
Threadfin
02-24-21, 09:07 AM
"By the end of this year, backers will have everything they originally pledged for, plus alot more."- Chris Roberts (2015)
It's coming up on Q2 (checks calendar) 2021. Is anyone signed up for the Squadron 42 Beta?
“This year we will finish [SQ42],” Roberts said in 2017
‘Squadron 42 will be done when it is done, and will not be released just to make a date,’ says Chris Roberts
https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/28/22203055/star-citizen-squadron-42-release-date-beta-delayed-alpha-testing-funding
"I have decided that it is best to not show Squadron 42 gameplay publicly, nor discuss any release date until we are closer to the home stretch and have high confidence in the remaining time needed to finish the game to the quality we want,” Roberts added.
“My hope is that you’ll be so engaged in Star Citizen that Squadron 42 will be here before you know it.”
Nice work if you can get it.
What a mess.
Tony Z talks about the future of all things simulated in the persistent universe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2muGWtX8e7g
Nothing groundbreaking, basically a mix of systems that are used in city-builders and games like X3, but still very impressive. :yep:
With 3.14 the first planetary body introduced to the game - the gas giant Crusader - finally got its... gas clouds and with it came also the absolutely gorgeous Orison landing zone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJCr2TyTdVk
After the less than stellar release of Elite Dangerous Odyssey, the SC community has seen a lot of "Elite refugees" coming to check out the game, many recording their first impressions on various aspects of the game.
Here's BlackMaze's first two videos, first being more of a general view of the basics and the second one of him checking out the various stations in SC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lXy9rEUBhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlZ8HdoW0hk
CMDR Kate also has an on-going, multi-part series on SC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vZh-Zq5oiw
Yeah, I did see some from ED making appearances on the forums :)
Interesting to get their views.
I gave my brother in law SC as a present in 2015 and he still teases me about when it will be ready and recently pointed me to the new version of ED and asked if SC got overtaken in the meantime :D
It looks like Frontier, made a mess with this - I guess the foundation of the game and the tech cant handle it.
It looks like Frontier, made a mess with this - I guess the foundation of the game and the tech cant handle it.
Yes, this is the issue from what I've followed it. Frontier made more of a classic space game and then started to bolt stuff to it, latest being of course space legs, and now they found out the hard way that it's not that simple.
Star Citizen did the opposite; from the very first module (hangar) onwards we've had space legs, and CIG has been adding the rest of what's needed for a space game to that concept.
Can't decide if Star Citizen is something for me.. It looks interesting indeed. It looks like an open game with neverending upgrades/patching. A game that doesn't have a final fixture, like other PC, PS4 games
Markus
Threadfin
04-01-22, 08:11 AM
It's quarter 2, 2020. How do I sign up for the Squadron 42 beta?
It's coming up on Q2 (checks calendar) 2021. Is anyone signed up for the Squadron 42 Beta?
It's now Q2 2022. How's the Squadron 42 beta coming along? How do I sign up?
If you'd be genuinely interested, instead of trolling, you could easily find an answer to your question.
Threadfin
04-02-22, 11:55 AM
No, just pointing out the absurdity of it all. Wasn't it you who assured me everything is on schedule because of roadmaps?
At that time I was assured it would be out in Q2 2020. Well it's now Q2 2022 and?
So yeah, just mocking Star Citizen.
Threadfin
04-02-22, 12:56 PM
So I did search it, and I see this
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/squadron-42-officially-enters-beta-congratulations
But that's the only thing I see saying it started. Did it?
Threadfin
04-02-22, 01:13 PM
If you'd be genuinely interested, instead of trolling, you could easily find an answer to your question.
So it seems that link I posted was just a troll, I got as far as this
"
Well, regardless of what the many "offended on behalf of" crazies in this thread seem to think I enjoyed the post, for about half a second after reading the title I thought...is it really?....then the penny dropped and with it the realisation that this was a well deserved jab at CIG's absolutely failure of a roadmap."
Roadmaps lol. They are useless except to buy more time.
So it's not out?
I know you said Dowly that I "could easily find" this info. Hard to find what doesn't exist.
Wasn't it you who assured me everything is on schedule because of roadmaps?
At that time I was assured it would be out in Q2 2020. Well it's now Q2 2022 and?No one gave you any assurances. Quit lying.
Hey Dowly, I think I saw you on the server the other day, but you didnt see my invite :)
Having a ball in 3.17!
I've taken to ignore the HUD announcements since there's something constantly popping up. I try to pay more attention to them in the future. :)
I've taken to ignore the HUD announcements since there's something constantly popping up. I try to pay more attention to them in the future. :)Just remember my name is NOT McBeck on SC :)
Reviving this a bit :)
Still loving this game - I dont know how to explain it, but it delivers something that other games cannot....
@Dowly - still playing?
Bernardi
04-11-23, 11:28 PM
Didnt expect to see a thread on Star Citizen here, quite the game. It's weird how they can make something so broken also be so fun at times.
Star Citizen is only worth it with a group IMO, think of it as a Sandbox game for now, you kinda have to make your own fun. Right now im in a group and we play once a week.
@McBeck: Yeah, still sticking around. Have taken a break since they still haven't done anything to trading. Might hop back in once 3.18 stabilizes.
And yeah, both you and Bernardi are right in that it can be a buggy mess, but there isn't anything like it out there. I am extremely happy with the state it is even now, no other space game scratches that itch.
Happy to see PES - even if it is a hot mess right now - finally making it into the game. Another great milestone for CIG. :up:
Great year to come. S42 is feature complete and a significant amount of the people working on S42 are now being transitioned to SC :)
Trading is not in a good place. High risk, low reward.
Salvage on the other hand is fund and rewarding.
I can fly to sites where there will often be wrecks of ships and clean up and make money at the same time :)
They also enabled the tractor beam on ships, so ships which were released years ago all the sudden have a new feature.
The game started getting a lot of attention in December due to the video showing S42 and feature complete : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtjzLzs7V8
And due to the Starengine demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWm_OhIKms8
Uh, and I got to try the Pyro system...no security at all. Its a free for all!
The year is off to a flying start with static server meshing testing last weekend, which allowed players to jump between Stanton and the new Pyro system using the jump gate for the first time. Both systems were handled by a single server and the transition between the two happened seamlessly.
Very simple refresher on what server meshing is:
Traditionally, players would connect directly to a server and information would be transferred between the two.
Player <--> Server
With server meshing, another layer (literally called Replication Layer) is added into the mix that handles all the information that traditionally would be stored on the server. The RL acts almost like a backup of the state of the game world, receiving and feeding information between player clients and servers. This way the game world can be divided in to multiple areas each being handled by its own server that receives information from the RL. It also allows for players to seamlessly transfer from one area to another, switching servers without loading screens.
Player <--> Replication Layer <--> Servers
And then we have the upcoming alpha 3.23 which is hands down the biggest patch we've gotten so far in Star Citizen. Some of the larger features planned:
- New EVA system
- New Star Map (Finally!)
- Personal Hangars
- Freight Elevators (used to transfer ground vehicles, cargo etc. to a hangar for loading onto a ship)
- Distribution Centers (Large planet side complexes for various activities)
- New character creator
And a whole lot of smaller stuff.
Yesterday's Inside Star Citizen episode was about the upcoming changes to cargo handling, personal hangars and freight elevators.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IlcWUKV8hs
Can't wait to decorate my hangar
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