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SC is a game changer!

CallsignVegaCallsignVega Member UncommonPosts: 288
in Star Citizen
Wow, I never thought we'd get to this point.

Went from Crusader, jumped in my Hornet, flew out into space, checked out the space station from afar during an EVA, warped to another planet, entered the atmosphere, landed on the surface, explored the surface on foot, departed the planet, warped to a comm array, did an EVA inside the satellite and interfaced with the computer terminal.

Just an epic experience and I am glad I stuck with backing the development! The possibilities seem endless with this quantum leap in universe seamlessness.
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  • AvanahAvanah Member RarePosts: 1,627
    Looks ok. I might try it when it's on sale.
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  • MaxBaconMaxBacon Member LegendaryPosts: 7,846
    edited July 2018
    Alpha 3.2 polished up and improved upon several things that have been harming the playability of SC for long, so there's been one overall positive feedback from the backers.

    I'm more excited for the next update being the biggest content expansion, Hurston is the first planet and city the game will get, with its moons, if they manage that alone it'll be great.

    Things bode well for SC this year, it's not the naysaying that's going to determine its future.
    BabuinixGdemamiAsm0deus
  • Mad+DogMad+Dog Member UncommonPosts: 784
    How long till the end of Alpha, then all the betas then release?
    Viper482

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  • MaxBaconMaxBacon Member LegendaryPosts: 7,846
    Mad+Dog said:
    How long till the end of Alpha, then all the betas then release?
    It's not known, there's still a lot to do, if you check the roadmap https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/1-Star-Citizen the alpha updates already go through 2019, so safe to say we're still years away.
    Kyleran
  • rpmcmurphyrpmcmurphy Member EpicPosts: 3,502
    Yes, the game is shaping up but it has got such a long way to go.
    It will be interesting to see what they manage to do with 3.3, will they get OCS and bind culling in, will it improve performance or will it just allow them to add more to the game etc, will they get ship purchases in and so on.
  • BabuinixBabuinix Member EpicPosts: 4,442
    edited July 2018
    3.2 Was a great step forward, maybe CIG can do another Free-Fly Week in the meantime.

    Or maybe wait for 3.3 if they can get the performance upgrades and the new planetary landing zone Hurston it would be great!
    Post edited by Babuinix on
    alkarionlog
  • CallsignVegaCallsignVega Member UncommonPosts: 288
    Ya the best part is knowing that the actual bones to build on are there. Before, that was even questionable.

    I'm glad the most ambitious gaming development in history is actually making progress after all this time. 
    GdemamiBabuinix
  • BabuinixBabuinix Member EpicPosts: 4,442
    edited July 2018
    Ya the best part is knowing that the actual bones to build on are there. Before, that was even questionable.

    I'm glad the most ambitious gaming development in history is actually making progress after all this time. 
    Yeap they sure are taking their time but it's paying off, the sand box nature of the game with the increased of player count and performance really did it for 3.2

    Now it's a good time to come back and test the new stuff if you have at least an SSD and 16gigs of ram.



    Post edited by Babuinix on
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273
    Just seen the spaceship radar, they can expect to be sued by Elite real soon. ;)

    As time goes on and we see more, posters will get more optimistic, but all the indie MMOs have similar issues. They take an age to develop while trying to keep the hype up and the funds coming in. The more hype you put out, the more people start asking, "are we there yet."
    Babuinix
  • hfztthfztt Member RarePosts: 1,401
    CallsignVega said:
    Just an epic experience and I am glad I stuck with backing the development! The possibilities seem endless with this quantum leap in universe seamlessness.
    Nice.
    Babuinix
    Free to play is currently broken
  • ErillionErillion Member EpicPosts: 10,317
    Scot said:
    Just seen the spaceship radar, they can expect to be sued by Elite real soon. ;)
    Frontier and CCP could not care less.

    Any similarities are taken with a smile and (in case of CCP) understood as a form of flattery (see their twitter posts). Braben and the Roberts brothers know each other well.


    Have fun
    Gdemami
  • GanksinatraGanksinatra Member UncommonPosts: 455
    I want this game to be good so bad. I was a huge Wing Commander fanboy. But something tells me this game is going to collapse under its own feature creep. I hope not. I would love to be playing this in the old folks home when it launches in 2057.
    BabuinixScotMrMelGibsonRhime
  • IkedaIkeda Member RarePosts: 2,751
    You fooled me TC.  I was like "Hey, maybe it's out of Alpha finally."  Nope.  Honestly, it's half-built and none of the features I care about are there yet.  But yet you can eat and poo in their roadmap.  Honestly, just give me the game. 

    ED, I know it gets tiring comparing them, did twice as much in half the time on a quarter of the funding.
    BabuinixKrematory
  • deniterdeniter Member RarePosts: 1,435
    CallsignVega said:
    Wow, I never thought we'd get to this point.

    Went from Crusader, jumped in my Hornet, flew out into space, checked out the space station from afar during an EVA, warped to another planet, entered the atmosphere, landed on the surface, explored the surface on foot, departed the planet, warped to a comm array, did an EVA inside the satellite and interfaced with the computer terminal.

    Just an epic experience and I am glad I stuck with backing the development! The possibilities seem endless with this quantum leap in universe seamlessness.
    This all sounds exciting and cool but what i'd like to know is why you were doing this. I've been following this game for a long time but i still don't have a clue what players are going to do in it. Is there gonna be quests or missions, trading, war zones, etc.

    At this point the game looks like an awesome game engine with no game in it yet.
    ScotchUp
  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 9,976
    So what's the average time to make a game and how long has SC been in development?
  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 9,976
    CallsignVega said:
    Wow, I never thought we'd get to this point.

    Went from Crusader, jumped in my Hornet, flew out into space, checked out the space station from afar during an EVA, warped to another planet, entered the atmosphere, landed on the surface, explored the surface on foot, departed the planet, warped to a comm array, did an EVA inside the satellite and interfaced with the computer terminal.

    Just an epic experience and I am glad I stuck with backing the development! The possibilities seem endless with this quantum leap in universe seamlessness.
    Epic experience? Sounds quite boring
    Babuinix
  • alkarionlogalkarionlog Member EpicPosts: 3,584
    MisterZebub said:
    Well that's surprising seeing as we have it on good authority, random blokes on the internet, this game is never coming out and it was foretold by He-who-must-not-be-named that the project would run out of money a year ago.
    it did run out of money or the new ships skin selling was just for fashion?


    btw wait for the game really launch, then you can call it a game changing or whatever, for now even calling this a game, is kinda a strong word for it
    BabuinixRhime
    FOR HONOR, FOR FREEDOM.... and for some money.
  • Dlusion333Dlusion333 Member UncommonPosts: 7
    alkarionlog said:
    MisterZebub said:
    Well that's surprising seeing as we have it on good authority, random blokes on the internet, this game is never coming out and it was foretold by He-who-must-not-be-named that the project would run out of money a year ago.
    it did run out of money or the new ships skin selling was just for fashion?


    btw wait for the game really launch, then you can call it a game changing or whatever, for now even calling this a game, is kinda a strong word for it
    Some people listen to the internet instead of researching for themselves, hard to talk since into people like that.  
     Star Citizen has reached more milestones that ANY other crowdfunded game, as well more than most MMO's. Their smallest moon which you can go land on right now has a crater that fits Arma 3 map, COD map, Battlefield map all just in the crater of the moon... The scale, possibilities and features already implemented are beyond what others dream of.
     Some people just dont have $40 to invest into a game so they hate on it.
    BabuinixGdemamiKyleran
  • MaxBaconMaxBacon Member LegendaryPosts: 7,846
    edited July 2018
    deniter said:
    This all sounds exciting and cool but what i'd like to know is why you were doing this. I've been following this game for a long time but i still don't have a clue what players are going to do in it. Is there gonna be quests or missions, trading, war zones, etc.

    At this point the game looks like an awesome game engine with no game in it yet.
    But there are missions, there is trading, there is PvP, while it is very limited content in terms of length (ending on repetition), to some extent the scope of mechanics and gameplay within its sandbox nature is there.

    Maybe you can just try it the next free flight, check in some useful guides for new players or join a group of players also playing and you'll be able to check it by yourself.

    To me it feels that people generally don't know what a Sandbox Sim is, they expect to play SC and the game to offer them that linearity to gameplay that is classic to MMO's, but SC just puts you in the game-world and what happens from there is up to you.
    BabuinixGdemamiGood_Apollo
  • ErillionErillion Member EpicPosts: 10,317
    Theocritus said:
    So what's the average time to make a game and how long has SC been in development?
    Somewhere between 1 day (Gamejam) and 14 years (Duke Nukem Forever).

    So ... average time .... 7 years.

    SC ... 5 years 8 months ... Start: Nov 2012  Kickstarter End
    (or alternatively:
    6 years, 3 months if you count April 2012 Founding of Cloud Imperium Games as start)


    Have fun


    PS:
    If has been often cited that larger games often have 5-7 years development time.
    Shorter if they have been part of a longer running series that launches new versions every year.
    Gdemami
  • ErillionErillion Member EpicPosts: 10,317
    deniter said:
    This all sounds exciting and cool but what i'd like to know is why you were doing this. I've been following this game for a long time but i still don't have a clue what players are going to do in it. Is there gonna be quests or missions, trading, war zones, etc.

    At this point the game looks like an awesome game engine with no game in it yet.
    quests ...    Check

    missions ... Check

    trading ....   Check

    war zones... Check

    Maybe give it a try for free during the next Free Fly weekend. Usually follows quickly after a new Alpha release ... and we got Alpha 3.2 on live servers last weekend.



    Have fun
    BabuinixWalkinGlennGdemami
  • alkarionlogalkarionlog Member EpicPosts: 3,584
    Dlusion333 said:
    alkarionlog said:
    MisterZebub said:
    Well that's surprising seeing as we have it on good authority, random blokes on the internet, this game is never coming out and it was foretold by He-who-must-not-be-named that the project would run out of money a year ago.
    it did run out of money or the new ships skin selling was just for fashion?


    btw wait for the game really launch, then you can call it a game changing or whatever, for now even calling this a game, is kinda a strong word for it
    Some people listen to the internet instead of researching for themselves, hard to talk since into people like that.  
     Star Citizen has reached more milestones that ANY other crowdfunded game, as well more than most MMO's. Their smallest moon which you can go land on right now has a crater that fits Arma 3 map, COD map, Battlefield map all just in the crater of the moon... The scale, possibilities and features already implemented are beyond what others dream of.
     Some people just dont have $40 to invest into a game so they hate on it.
    it was the longer crowd funding game ever too, how many years it did pass and how many years till its done again? I would be ashamed to bring the time its spend on it calling milestones, I could bring several crowdfunded games who was meet the mark for dev on the very first day, and its launched or is with a fixed date to launch, but what is the point?

    and last I know of i'm not a investor i'm a player, I could care less what the game is aiming to be, I just don't like useless hype, with this project have a lot
    Babuinix
    FOR HONOR, FOR FREEDOM.... and for some money.
  • rpmcmurphyrpmcmurphy Member EpicPosts: 3,502
    edited July 2018
    Well that's surprising seeing as we have it on good authority, random blokes on the internet, this game is never coming out and it was foretold by He-who-must-not-be-named that the project would run out of money a year ago.
    it did run out of money or the new ships skin selling was just for fashion?


    btw wait for the game really launch, then you can call it a game changing or whatever, for now even calling this a game, is kinda a strong word for it
    Some people listen to the internet instead of researching for themselves, hard to talk since into people like that.  
     Star Citizen has reached more milestones that ANY other crowdfunded game, as well more than most MMO's. Their smallest moon which you can go land on right now has a crater that fits Arma 3 map, COD map, Battlefield map all just in the crater of the moon... The scale, possibilities and features already implemented are beyond what others dream of.
     Some people just dont have $40 to invest into a game so they hate on it.
    What do you mean by milestones? Because if you means stretch goals then yes, they have the most stretch goals ever, if you mean release dates then nope, they've hardly managed to hit any of those :)

    RE Moons, it's good but it's not really anything laudable, there are quite a few other games that provide the same size play area, if not even larger.
  • GutlardGutlard Member RarePosts: 1,019
    I just hope when this game is fully released, that Wild Gunman scene from BTTF 2 isn't recreated....

    Gut Out!

    What, me worry?

  • ArglebargleArglebargle Member EpicPosts: 3,465
    SC is certainly a game changer in its marketing and funding setup.   And it may be again.
    CoticBabuinix

    If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.

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