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Over 2.5 Hours of Gamescom 2017 Gameplay & Info - Star Citizen - MMORPG.com
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Over 2.5 Hours of Gamescom 2017 Gameplay & Info - Star Citizen - MMORPG.com
Star Citizen News - During last week's Gamescom, Chris Roberts and the Star Citizen team was on hand to show off the game in a big, big way. The presentation lasted nearly 2.5 hours and features more than a little bit of game play action.
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Have to admit that looked phenomenal.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
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What the hell game was that in the video?
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Well, the game in that video is one update in development over 1 year ahead of the current playable Alpha.
The performance is still to be seen, it depends on how much the servers have improved (that's why it lags without making full use of your card/cpu). Check the offline mode trick: http://forums.mmorpg.com/discussion/467292/easily-running-sc-offline-self-hosted-server#latest and see by yourself what the game actually weights in your hardware.
Basically clicking away text windows ruins every MMO, try to have fun instead of rushing things. Without story and lore all there is left is a bunch of mechanics.
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Also, Derek Smart is the "fake news" of Star Citizen. If CNN had a gaming news division, Derek Smart would be in charge of it.
Anyone who didn't know about that could be utterly deceived by looking at this video thanks to this article's title by thinking a lot of that scripted stuff is actual gameplay (the video itself has a more accurate title where it just says it's a "presentation")
You apparently haven't watched the entire presentation then because you'd see it is not scripted if you did. Half way into the presentation, a bug presented itself which forced them to restart the entire presentation which played out differently than the last play through. Same players, acting badly, saying different stuff, and doing different things to get back to where they were.
There is a script that is always in the way of, what is going to be done is always pre-defined and rehearsed, the demos are shown to the media days before the same way they are then shown to the public, that's when the media also gets to talk about it (usually).
The script is the way it is presented, not the actual gameplay, there is a flow to what they want to do and intend to show.
You'd find scripted play here in the Idris battle, what is also not part of 3.0, they made the Idris combat possible just a week before the demo, for the demo.
In conferences some do properly fake it, those who pre-render, those who pre-record and then "play over it" to pretend they are playing live what is actually a "video", what clearly did not happen here.
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I personally don't care about all this FPS-stuff and running around on planets doing quests. I want to secure a chunk of space, exploit the ressources, craft stuff, trade stuff and build an empire. Just like I did in EvE for allmost 10 years, but actually flying the ships.
He'll be doing the same thing in 2020
He's the L Ron Hubbard of gaming.
CIG always groundbreaking, now able to provide pre-rendered playable demos at the Gamescom booth. Now ain't Ubisoft jealous?
Again, you didn't watch the stream. The only thing 'scripted' in that gameplay was the mission they took on. They've been working on the Idris for a little over a year now. The first time you saw it fly was in the 2.0 demo / trailer as it flew over Port Olisar and that was a scripted event. In the 3.0 presentation, they had two teams of actual people flying both Idris class ships. Chris Roberts even went on to say before the Idris fight that the Idris still isn't done and that there is still some polishing left to do but it was flyable still.
Chris Roberts and CIG aren't being published by some big company they have to impress. They are crowd funded by players who backed the game. As such, their goal is to be as transparent as possible with their backers when it comes to development. That is why we get community shows like Bug Smashers, and Burn Down that gives the backers behind the scene look at not only their meetings and what they are doing, but also at the code itself as they attempt to fix bugs. That is why you see so many cringy Star Citizen presentations and you will always see something go wrong because nothing is scripted. It's all coordinated between staff members as actual players to present actual gameplay on a presentation. They don't care about impressing publishers because they aren't looking for publishers, they care about being as informative as possible with the people who actually funded their game and that is the backers.
As I said, the only thing scripted in that entire demo was the NPC they talked to, to get the mission in which they had to retrieve a black box. Everything else, including the cringy roleplay between players was on the spot and you could tell that by the random banter that they were tossing back and forth in character that made no sense or just was way too awkward.
You do realize Star Citizen has been in development for less time than most triple A titles have right? There is a graph floating around out there that shows development times between Triple A titles and Star Citizen. That being said, they have been building the core experience to the game. Most of the development so far has been on core features that were needed to begin with and that are difficult to code. Example being, air pressurization. They needed to make it so if one door opens to the vacuum of space and there are other open rooms adjacent to that room, that the air in those rooms have to be slowly siphoned out. Also, ships physics grids needed to be done so people can actually walk around in their ships mid flight, as well as being able to store cargo and other vehicles on said ships without it bugging out. Also the itemization system for ships so you can have your ship auto pilot as you walk around, or tell engines to turn on and off or certain systems to be turned on and off. Being able to open doors while in the pilot seat. Etc. There are a ton of core mechanics that they are still developing before they can piece everything together into a core game.
Not only that, you said you wanted to do quests. They had to develop an entirely new pipeline for quests that way quests can be developed faster and pushed out for players to do. Just as they did with ships. They redid and optimized most of their pipelines to make things faster and are optimized better for not only the engine, but for the client. 3.0 is going to introduce about 26 different quest templates, and the engine is going to randomly generate a mission from those templates, often combining them making thousands, if not millions or possibilities of quests to do in 3.0.
Not only that, in this last year, development has sped up quite a bit. They went from ~200 staff members last year to ~400 this year. A lot more people to work on a lot more things.
A lot of people tend to get inpatient with Star Citizen or throw out the "scam" word because it's apparently taking so long, but it hasn't even hit the average development time most games take. Everyone is way too use to publishers pumping out the same game every year that no one seems to understand how long and how hard development actually takes. Those 1 year releases people are use to, are often in development for 2 or 3 years, planned before even the previous title gets pushed out and the reason they take so quickly to push out is because they recycle a lot of code and assets to make the next game. Example being, Assassin's Creed. We've had the same movement, climbing, and combat animations and code for most of the games. Because it was recycled. All that really went into making the new game was new art, textures, environments, story, sounds, etc. That stuff takes significantly a lot less time to develop then having to code an entire game from ground up. Which Star Citizen is doing. So yeah, it's going to take awhile.
Every year that goes by we get more fluff, jpeg ships costing over $300+, new features that probably no one REALLY cares about, yet at the same time the game continues to look terrible.
The character animations are glitchy, the physics are barely noticeable, movement across the board is janky and unrealistic totally killing immersion for me, buggy beyond belief, and I could go on and on.
I backed the game back in 2013 and i've been paying attention to its development ever since and I can say that over the course of 4 years there have been bright spots but overall I have been disappointed more than excited.
150+ million dollars and we get this scripted demo with terrible voice actors, crashes, physics bugs, low FPS that I would imagine would be unplayable, and CR pacing back and forth across the stage screaming at his team.
Anyone that isn't a complete brainwashed fanboy has got to be questioning the legitimacy of this project by now. It would totally blow my mind if the game launches by 2019. What I am expecting is that some point in the next few years this game completely collapses in on itself like a dieing star.
I really really hope I am wrong.
I'll put it down to you guys being so excited about SC you passed out watching the video and thought you watched the whole thing. I mean who in their right mind comments on a video they haven't fully watched?