Star Citizen - Chris Roberts, lots of spaceship porn, lots of promises

Optane is really cool but not much point in games. I doubt you’d even get much of a loading time benefit over a regular NVME SSD. You would have to build an engine/console around the idea of very fast storage as a baseline.

Are you willing to pay $400 for a 280GB SSD that has a really, really, really, really, really long life?

Or $300 for a 1TB SSD that doesn’t have as long a life, but will still be functionally obsolete looooong before it wears out.

Yeah. Not to mention that the AMD tech is already obsolete, Saitek is bust and the controller never happened. And the game isn’t out yet. So it makes sense they would partner with Intel on yet another bespoke DOA (read the reviews) tech that’s enthusiast targeted.

Yeah, I saw that yesterday. It’s unbelievable.

The best reviews:

I’ve decided I’m getting into the space game racket.

Here’s a screenshot of the alpha. Accepting 5-figure donations.

derpinspace

Hmm that looks photoshopped… also, are the maps procedurally generated?

They ARE procedurally generated! I even wrote a function so no two stars end up adjacent to each other. I’m quite proud of it.

Will it support Oculus Rift?

You can wear an Oculus Rift while you play it. You might want to take it off once in a while to look at the screen.

In your game can you get space health insurance but sometimes it doesn’t pay your space medical bills so you have to get on your space phone and argue with them? I’ve always dreamed of a game with that level of realism.

I’ll put that in the to-do list. I am planning to implement a zero-G toilet that occasionally clogs with tribble hair.

So tribble pooping is done?

If Star Citizen is the template here, the keyword is “planned”, not “done”. ;)

I’ll play it.

Can I buy an ASCII art spaceship?

Well, at the moment all you can do is move the ship across the map in one direction, blow yourself up, or quit. Think that’s enough for a decent Let’s Play?

The Destroyer class can be yours for $300: 3====>

Please don’t copy-paste. You’re on the honor system!

I’m selling a longer, girthier Destroyer class for just $275.

For $250 you can feast your eyes on my rigid frame ribbed Destroyer.