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

[Lantz]

A long look at impressive planet playgrounds in Star Citizen Alpha 3.0

There’s a reason why that’s a crap ton of jump cuts from the stream with very small segments. After Derek’s compilation of bugs and things I was a little disbelieving that it could be that bad (even though I think this project is a total cluster that is drifting well into the outright scam range) so I loaded up one of the multi-hour stream recordings and just jumped around to random spots to see how it played and it is a disaster. The ‘game’ in that stream honestly looks like some college kids are trying to make a Starseige Tribes inspired game. Everything clips through everything including basic things like whole ships just flying through the ground. The game desynchs constantly like a worse version of X-Wing vs Tie Fighter. All kinds of animations just flake out. Doors don’t open half the time. Guns are just not working right ever. I honestly can’t even understand how it is possible to have a game be that bad in this era even if they only spent 6 months on it.

[Timex]

Ya, I guess I’m not so worried, given in earlier phases like ship combat things were also super glitchy, and they got quite good. Then again, I’m in no rush, so the delays don’t bug me as much.

I’m content to wait and see for now.

[Lantz]

They should stop promoting the multiplayer stuff and put out like one single episode of the single player. Just a few hours long of a polished Wing Commander type game. At least they’d have something people could point to and say, “Oh yeah I played through that little Star Citizen thing, it was pretty cool.”

No one is buying jpegs of single player ships for $20 up to $3000.

[dsmart]

You’re not kidding. I popped over there yesterday just to get the general take of that community and I found it a little amusing to see the mental gymnastics performed. For their sake I hope everything works out in the end, as cynical as I am about the project myself.

It’s mostly the zealots and shills now. They’re easy to spot actually. I have a radar map.

[dsmart]

They should stop promoting the multiplayer stuff and put out like one single episode of the single player. Just a few hours long of a polished Wing Commander type game. At least they’d have something people could point to and say, “Oh yeah I played through that little Star Citizen thing, it was pretty cool.”

They can’t. Here’s why.

[RichVR]

Put me in for Doubtful.

[dsmart]

Most of that is pure fiction. I mean, seriously, what stream was he watching?

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In the footage, pulled from the official Star Citizen stream, we see various spacecraft fly down from space into the atmosphere of a planet and then down onto the surface. Once there, players can zip around on a kind of hoverbike or pile into a multi-wheeled, off-road buggy transport, assuming your ship has the vehicles ready to roll out or you can get hold of one from a station nearby.

[Timex]

All that stuff actually was shown off at various points. They had folks fly into orbit from the surface, around the moon, back down to the surface, get out and into vehicles, etc.

[kedaha]

There’s a difference between a seamless experience of all those activities, and all those activities happening but in chunks.

[Timex]

Well, seamlessly, they had that DeeJay guy get in a fight in a gladius, crash it, get it and onto one of those bike things, run around on the surface with it while being shot at by another dude, then got back into another ship on the surface.

I only watched the actual stream for a bit, but that was what I saw from what I watched yesterday. (Might have been the stream that was recorded from the previous day, since I wasn’t watching it live. Was just watching the recorded one they posted to YouTube).

Don’t get me wrong, there were all kinds of hilarious glitches. I wouldn’t recommend anyone give them money at this point, but those core mechanics of being able to fly back and forth from the surface, multicrew ships, etc. Seemed to be functioning, albeit with many bugs.

[dsmart]

All that stuff actually was shown off at various points. They had folks fly into orbit from the surface, around the moon, back down to the surface, get out and into vehicles, etc.

That’s patently FALSE. There is NO space region in the “3.0 demo”. They even said that on the stream. And you can’t do ANY of what I excerpted. The “Black” sections shown are the “empty” areas in the CryEngine map they made of Daymar moon. It’s like a sphere inside a box. That’s it.

[Timex]

All I know is that they flew up into orbit from the surface, and vice versa. I mean, you could see them do it multiple times.

I mean, it may just be a “sphere inside a box”, but it was a freaking huge moon sized sphere, and you could see the planet, so apparently they had another sphere in the box too :)

Ultimately though, as I said, I’m happy to wait and see what they put out when they eventually crank out 3.0.

[dsmart]

All I know is that they flew up into orbit from the surface, and vice versa. I mean, you could see them do it multiple times.

Ultimately though, as I said, I’m happy to wait and see what they put out when they eventually crank out 3.0.

I know. Now please explain to me, in very simple terms, how that equates to this (my excerpt)

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In the footage, pulled from the official Star Citizen stream, we see various spacecraft fly down from space into the atmosphere of a planet and then down onto the surface.

[Timex]

Yeah, that’s pretty much exactly what you see them doing, multiple times.

Maybe you are just using a different definition of “space”. I think what that guy is using is a layman’s definition, meaning “way up in orbit, outside the atmosphere, where you can clearly see the curvature of the whole moon”

Which most folks would probably think of as “space”.

[dsmart]

Yeah, that’s pretty much exactly what you see them doing, multiple times.

sigh I give up.

[kerzain]

You never give up.

[RichVR]

Yeah, Derek. You giving up on anything would be the real news. :)

[Timex]

[RichVR]

[dsmart]

Yeah, Derek. You giving up on anything would be the real news. :)

A man has got to know his limitations. Plus, I can’t save everyone. :)