Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

When marketing and advertisement deals are made for SQ42 only then do we know that the release is near. That could be 1 year before release. So realistically I think SQ42 could be released in 2025 at the earliest. In 2025 there will be a bunch of Unreal Engine 5 powered games with the same or better graphics fidelity.
A lot of AAA games now are still below what we have seen in the UE4 trailers.
What you see in the SQ42 video is not some trailers but the actual in engine game.
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SQ42 leaving alpha is enough to make my month 🥰

  • 'Feature complete' normally means 'alpha' friend. That's the stage SQ42 has now reached. But I recognise that CIG may have baffled you on this front ;)
  • SM only proves itself when it scales. [Interesting that what you see as a 'simple' 'first implementation' is not being attempted by CIG currently. IE they're aiming for a lone test server for Pyro etc. And lord knows there's a lot more scaling needed after that to prove it fit for purpose...]
  • I think the rivers are a'ight. But also as awkward to implement as CIG say they are. (And so not as scalable and powerful as the young dev who hyped them, and you, up suggested. Quelle surprise ;)). Kinda makes you wonder if the talk of the Rastar tool being in a similar state are true too ;).
  • Not even vaguely true friend. The vast majority of CIG's features, pre-sold ships, and combined complexity are still to be delivered. (As this feature list and these ship lists make clear, even in their deeply out-of-date states.). And no amount of 'lol other games didn't attempt an everything game' makes that any less true. I'm glad the illusion of patch progress is keeping you amused though ;)
 
I think some of you have missed this panel.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioNMOemGCuM

Nah, it's not much different from the prior ISCs.

And still neatly side-steps issues such as: The fact that they don't know how to add engineering components to the smaller ships without tanking the framerate:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ93uVoWrXo&t=7m50s

And all the other various tech blockers in this area. Before we even get to the ones about them implementing it without making the ships explode at random ;).

(Not to mention getting NPC crew to work after all these years of trying etc)
 
So, CIG showed off a SQ42 promo.

What happened to "no spoilers"?

Or they will pull out that line again in the future when people are asking about the state of SQ42 in a few months time and have nothing new to add?
 
Sorry, I don't get the reference.


It was a massively over-hyped game that was largely behind the industry pre-order trend to follow. There are lots of similarities with SC/S42 (All about graphics, celebratory endorsement, much touted 'ground breaking' AI & genre breaking technologies).

Unlike SC it was actually released, it was awful - but the pre-orders more than covered the cost. The press dedicated double page articles and mysterious rave reviews for a fighting game that had one character who wouldn't even face the other way. This also lead to a complete mis-trust of the gaming press, who were known to be taking bribes.

The industry lesson was that pre-order sales could cover a multitude of sins.

Chris Roberts has taken this lesson to the extreme. Crowd funding is pre-ordering with no accountability and you get the customers to make the excuses for you.
 

It was a massively over-hyped game that was largely behind the industry pre-order trend to follow. There are lots of similarities with SC/S42 (All about graphics, celebratory endorsement, much touted 'ground breaking' AI & genre breaking technologies).

Unlike SC it was actually released, it was awful - but the pre-orders more than covered the cost. The press dedicated double page articles and mysterious rave reviews for a fighting game that had one character who wouldn't even face the other way. This also lead to a complete mis-trust of the gaming press, who were known to be taking bribes.

The industry lesson was that pre-order sales could cover a multitude of sins.

Chris Roberts has taken this lesson to the extreme. Crowd funding is pre-ordering with no accountability and you get the customers to make the excuses for you.

It was also possible to complete in about 1 hour.
 
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