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Mike is referring to Pyro as 'Red Stanton' because it feels much like Stanton - only with more red. It seems to be missing much the danger that was promised for Pyro (though it was nice to finally see the settlement from a couple of Citcons ago).
SC is also suffering from Mike having played SF I think - lots of running up to new things and being disappointed they are not interactive. e.g. "Oh, I found a drug lab, I'll just loot the drugs ... oh, they aren't interactive" (for all its downsides the loot spread everywhere in SF is quite fun)
I also found it a bit weird that Pyro I - with its 300C surface temperature - is seen from space as a blue planet with fluffy white clouds.
Other than the new assets it is the same old SC - getting caught in bed-logging loops, uncontrollable spins in ships, inability to interact with downed buddies, frame rates dropping to single figures if you get near buildings.
They do seem to have tweaked some things for the EPTU - all the ships have more fuel available (because Pyro is bigger? But the flight times seemed fast enough to me
), and they might have given ppl more health (one of Mike's bugs saw him think he was landed but actually he fell a few 100m to a planet - and was surprised to live. There was a long discussion about whether it was correct that a person with no armour can survive 10 head shots 
) Also - bombs kill you if you are inside the buildings, so 'kill NPC' missions should be easy
SC is also suffering from Mike having played SF I think - lots of running up to new things and being disappointed they are not interactive. e.g. "Oh, I found a drug lab, I'll just loot the drugs ... oh, they aren't interactive" (for all its downsides the loot spread everywhere in SF is quite fun)
I also found it a bit weird that Pyro I - with its 300C surface temperature - is seen from space as a blue planet with fluffy white clouds.
Other than the new assets it is the same old SC - getting caught in bed-logging loops, uncontrollable spins in ships, inability to interact with downed buddies, frame rates dropping to single figures if you get near buildings.
They do seem to have tweaked some things for the EPTU - all the ships have more fuel available (because Pyro is bigger? But the flight times seemed fast enough to me
), and they might have given ppl more health (one of Mike's bugs saw him think he was landed but actually he fell a few 100m to a planet - and was surprised to live. There was a long discussion about whether it was correct that a person with no armour can survive 10 head shots ) Also - bombs kill you if you are inside the buildings, so 'kill NPC' missions should be easy 
That is a badass name for a character, for example in a (space) western setting.
Next system: Yellow Stanton. Like beams, like systems.
Also - bombs kill you if you are inside the buildings, so 'kill NPC' missions should be easy
I can see that making PvP "fun" as well. See someone run into a building? Drop a bomb outside and laugh as they die.
It's the no-bounties open-only instance "everybody" wanted. It will be interesting to see, how it plays out.
(Edit: indoor bomb blasts - it's that room system again?)
In a month of playtesting, I think I died more often to elevators, shuttles and ill-advised flight maneuvers in the dark (another lost tech: radar altimeters) than to player action. I'm not too salty yet.
I don’t believe they can run the entire cloth sim on their server no- it’s interacting with server side stuff 3d data though yes; but there’s at least a mesh of 64x64=4096 3d points on that cloth, they struggle with 50 players and those npcs so yeah… an extra 4096 3d points to pass around… nah.
The cloth is struggling to interact with the server side data though, and cloth mechanics are renown for temporal dependancy - you need fast sampling to get smooth and non glitching movement. Although, I’m sure cig will get themselves a new cloth pipeline refactoring at some point that could use gpu ml crunching … one day!
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Don't let these "Behemoths" hit you on your way out.That’s got to be a euphemism, surely?
Anyway, the morning coffee is now kicking in - I’m off for my daily massive content drop
Sad, but another backer bites the dust before SC releases
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Someone dares to ask for non-beam gameplay
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Someone complaining about PvP in Pyro (gotta admit here, its long been advertised as lawless and at least CIG didn't bait and switch people here)
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Gushing about the new map and a few new missions..... really sad.
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Someone really happy Pyro is a gankers paradise
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But not all are impressed
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More gushing praise and claims of stability which flies in the face of a ton of video evidence to the contrary
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Reasonable words about mixing PvE and PvP
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Its not as though developers haven't been struggling with this issue for decades and the simplest variant (which CIG of course will never do) is just to offer a way for PvPers and PvEers to play separately (modes, split servers, PvP slider... erm...)
And things not working in this 11 year old alpha
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Share this SC experience with you - Star Citizen Spectrum
Me and my gaming partner for over 25 years took to playing Star Citizen a couple of years back, for many years we had shared near nightly sessions from flight sims to FPS and of course SC. We...
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Someone dares to ask for non-beam gameplay
Can we get gameplay that doesn't involve magic beams? - Star Citizen Spectrum
CIG has done a lot of innovating to get us this far but something I've just been noticing more and more is a seemingly over reliance on magic space beams to do everything in the game. Need to mine...
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Someone complaining about PvP in Pyro (gotta admit here, its long been advertised as lawless and at least CIG didn't bait and switch people here)
already seeing ganking in pyro - Star Citizen Spectrum
im not against pvp but now? really? this may never release again and pvpers are still trying to find ways to cancel it for everyone else
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Gushing about the new map and a few new missions..... really sad.
Pyro is great fun, thank you CIG - Star Citizen Spectrum
I think playing Pyro today gave me the most fun from Star Citizen in a while. Even with the constant worry of being shot out of the sky or someone blowing up my ship, gave a sense of adrenaline...
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Someone really happy Pyro is a gankers paradise
PYRO IS AWESOME - Ganking Paradise (Working as Intended) - Star Citizen Spectrum
So i got a full 8 hours to test Pyro today and it didnt disappoint. Almost identical to the same build i played at Citizen Con. Some of ghe best features are the ability to PVP as u leave the...
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But not all are impressed
My opinion of Pyro - Star Citizen Spectrum
As much as I want to love Pyro, I just find it... disappointing. Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate all the effort the devs have put into it, but why do I feel so bored and apathetic towards it?...
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More gushing praise and claims of stability which flies in the face of a ton of video evidence to the contrary
Pyro preview feedback - Star Citizen Spectrum
I like it thanks for the preview! It was stable. Experienced one client crash in two hours. No 30k, couldnt find any real bugs, just clipped through bed in hab on respawn once, which happens, so...
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Reasonable words about mixing PvE and PvP
PvE and PvP Perspectives in Star Citizen - Star Citizen Spectrum
It's interesting to see how Star Citizen players are split on CIG vision. Some PvP players are excited about the open PvP gameplay, seeing it as a way to experience thrilling conflicts and...
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Its not as though developers haven't been struggling with this issue for decades and the simplest variant (which CIG of course will never do) is just to offer a way for PvPers and PvEers to play separately (modes, split servers, PvP slider... erm...)
And things not working in this 11 year old alpha
Simply nothing works currently but there is content - Star Citizen Spectrum
Since mining and salvanging does not work I have played with a friend Orision platforms... I could not loot anything or open my inventory. But I saw the enemies and could fight them... My buddy...
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What an absoloute numpty.
CIG is apparently putting EA and Activision to shame. To be fair, i don't think EA or Activision need any help in the shame department.
From refunds.
I'm sure if EA or Activision could get ppl to pay them > $25k for a game that doesn't exist then they would.
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TLDR: More QA & Networking resources plz. And fewer streamer devs...
TLDR: More QA & Networking resources plz. And fewer streamer devs...
Inconsistent at times and currently overwhelming.
Current Employee, more than 3 years
Manchester, England
Recommend
CEO Approval -
Business Outlook
Pros
-Majority of team members that I work with, as well as my supervisor, friendly and helpful. You will make great friends here in various areas of the company, -The projects you get to work on are amazing.
-Holidays.
-Internal promotions are more likely here than any other places I have worked at.
-Other reviews list HR as a con, but I don't have an issue with them apart from the con listed below.
Cons
-The hiring practices now seem very inconsistent, a clear example being that very inexperienced members are hired because they stream and their partner works here. This doesn't help the nepotism reputation that CIG has garnered.
- (This will probably ruin my anonymity) Adding on to the previous point, despite for the most part, having staff moving onto the same project now. It's still overwhelming, we still need more hands. I've raised this concern in the past but clearly it's ignored. A few of us in various areas feel this way, all working in different roles. So it's an issue in more than one area of the company. We do have a lot of staff, so maybe it's a management issue rather than a lack of staff issue?
- Very disorganised at times however this can be due to the actual project rather than the company. So I wouldn't hold this point against them.
Advice to Management
Can we please move more staff to assist various areas such as networking, QA and production. Or at least hire more people for these areas. If these cons don't change any time soon, you will lose some of us. I know I have been exploring other options for 6ish months now. As well as a few others.
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We've been joking for years about so called senior devs looking like should still be in school
CIG actually has QA people? I thought they just relied on backers!
"accomplishments"
Ha, when I clicked the link to watch on youtube I got a scam currency trading advert. Apt, I thought.
Chris Roberts studied Physics not Geography. What, you think physicist knows about temperature and evaporation? Not Chris Roberts.