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3.3 (late) Brings Nothing New to Development
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SC already gets "naysaying" in like what? 90% of the posts on this site, so it's kinda weird you aim so much at the literal 10% that counters all that.
A guy who was promising SQ42 at the end of 2014 to deliver it at 2015. knowing that they gonna start filming CGI in 2015 summer. He does it again and again, year by year.
What normal behaving forum poster counter points every single negative post for years? Sounds like a job to me. You missed a spot.
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Maybe you want to read my 1st comment, you would actually understand why i created account.
And sadly after reading this shit year after year, i felt as if i had to share my opinion on this shit fest as well.
I know that my time here is limited cause i don't have the patience to speak to sorts like you.
I'm just kindly letting you know whether employee, outsourced rep, or obtuse groupie you're not helping. There's books on marketing and public relations that can help you do better at your job (whether it's fictional or not).
I gave you a free pointer.
I look forward to seeing the same 3 main folks at the next "I tried SC and I didn't like it" or "SC is taking too damned long" post. It is entertaining when you look past the obnoxiousness of the personal investment.
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Playing the game, what will be my perspective? What will I be doing?
As Norse said, that first trailer was people lining their mounts up. I'll even give a little more credit and say it's like Forza where a bunch of players can do donuts around each other in a parking lot somewhere. The minor differences being a truckton of content and a RELEASED FINISHED GAME.
In that grand scene of ships, the reality is there's a bunch of people doing nothing. If you're in one of those cockpits, you are doing next to nothing, and waiting for something to happen, that 8 years into development, is still not built.
I shouldn't really waste time in this because it will most likely fall on deaf ears but I'll indulge anyway:
First things first:
If you want to discuss and not be mistaken by a troll or hater It's important to understand the subject that you want to discuss and the context in which is being discussed if you barge into a 1on1 conversation calling shots.
Op is complaining about "issues" in the Private Test Servers of an unfinished game that is in active development.
The video I posted recorded in one of those PTS's showcasing that things that he was claiming not to be working, actually working.
That video is not me saying "Omg Star Citizen is an amazing finished and polished experience without bugs or glitches how dare you to criticize it, go buy it now!"
The sheer fact that you are reviewing it as such is not insanely idiotic but also cringe-worthy and another great testament of how little you know about the game development stages and what are the priority's when building systems for games as ambitious as Star Citizen is aiming to be. It's one thing to be sceptic or even cynic about things you understand another thing is spiel hateful and trollish remarks missing the point completely.
I had just posted explaining the context, but you probably missed because you were too busy searching for bugs in a bug report video: So in case you don't understand what that means "mesh the servers into a single universe".
Currently servers in Star Citizen are capped at 50 players, as players log they are put in servers with empty spots, as a server fills AWS creates another and so on. What happens in one server doesn't happen in another, only each of the players progression is kept.
When server meshing is done servers will communicate between them becoming essentially a unique universe where the subsumption will be introduced (npc's life-cycle).
Because of that polishing NPC's now would be a complete waste of time because that would all get scraped with the introduction of the unique server system.
To put it shortly you don't start building sand castles while you're still finishing the construction of the sandbox.
And complaining about development time is, again dumb and ignorant remark if you understand the game scene around you. Bigger, more experienced and wealthier studios have been trying to mix ambitious planetary scale and scope with graphical fidelity for literally decades now without even coming close to what Star Citizen alpha already provides.
Vid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil_2
Probably the most alike game in terms of scope and intentions:
Fans make pretty vids and screenshots and you promote them to sell more ships. That's it.
If CIG cared or were competent, how or why, would so many broken things slip through to Live:
Internal build (Dev Sandbox)
Internal QA
Evocati (Qualification: a player that spent more money than you)
Test Server (basically load/stability testing with gradual player invites to increase load/stability)
Finally, after all of that, it goes to the Live Marketing Server. The problems from Test Server gets fixed in later patches. If it's stable, it goes live.
You mean to tell me that nobody in that process noticed ship doors missing or not opening? People falling through the world when walking into an elevator? Etc etc.
Besides Chris Roberts, who is not doing their job? Why are people like me to blame for all of this?
It's because people like you I think even the PTU phase should be put under NDA like with the Evocati, people who have delusional expectations about what they are getting into, I'm sure on all the issues you're whining about that you haven't reported a single one to the devs one or contributed to the issue council.
Stop blaming players and take a crack at the question.
> The doors and OCS are related, as areas are unloaded and load as you move, opening a door does travel between containers.
> Okay then, so is OCS finished on 3.3?!
> Okay it's not. So it's quite potentially the OCS not being finished and the doors bugs as they not opening or areas no loading are very much related.
That said, if the build on testing doesn't have the tech 100% completed yet, and its facing issues, is it or is it not petty to go attack the developers for issues related to it?
They are not claiming it is complete
They are not claiming it is bug-fixed.
They are not claiming it is on a releasable state (for the live alpha at that).
It's not the fault of the players, but if the players, like you, go play one unfinished build that is not releasable yet, and go with the expectations that you will not run into issues like this, then it will be on you, not the devs.
How do missing doors make it past the Dev server build, internal QA, and Evocati? Who should have caught that?
This is why things like the chat, grouping or FOIP/comms system are marked as known issues.
A QA team has things they are required to test, and things are requirements for the build to be passed, and things that are not, the PTU is not the live release they can afford to leave things not fully implemented or just not working. Not sure why is this so hard for you to cope with their workflow.
Is @Babuinix lying or are you?
Also one of the warnings these patches have:
Is exactly what I am trying to explain to you.