Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

[Firkrayt]

 

[MQC]

Please, no one miss the character change at 15:40 of the video....

The best game ever made...

By the way... that magnificent cliche of a marine looking at a picture of his family before the battle that happens seconds before in 15:30... is it a polaroid? tell me no, please, I'm confusing what is happening in that scene.

 

[ZeeWolf]

The intended development time between the 2012 Kickstarter and the original expected 2014 release is less than the time CIG need to "polish" the "feature complete" game after delaying it a decade.

Other games by real developers will be conceived & made in full and be robust products between Roberts uttering the words "feature complete" and 2026.

 

[Factabulous]

Here's the official "gameplay" trailer. So without crashes and awkwardness I guess...

I have better things to do in my life than inflict myself more than the first minutes I watched, but I'm curious how far or close it is from what Rich Saviour played yesterday, or it's just his play through hastly edited overnight by a crunched employee. (I didn't watch either, as for the rest of what has been showcased so far, for the same reasons I said)

They said on the stream today that it was Rich doing another run afterwards to 'prove' it worked, rather than an edit of the live version.

 

[Firkrayt]

Does that say...

No such host is known [panic.cloudimperiumgames.com...]

DON'T PANIC!

 

[Factabulous]

Base Building uses its own UI ... hmm

 

[HansAcker]

Base building looks good.
Spectrum is going to be not amused as none of this was to be in the game ever or something.

 

[Factabulous]

All the people who left ED for SC because they didn't like the engineering grind right now

 

[thistle]

This base building demo they are doing is Satisfactory, but ... SC can't handle players in multiplayer. How many servers will melt when people try and build massive buildings?

 

[thistle]

I want to see the buildings fall through the ground.

 

[Cosmo]

Base building tech demo 2024:

This base building demo they are doing is Satisfactory, but ... SC can't handle players in multiplayer. How many servers will melt when people try and build massive buildings?

Without the mystical "server meshing" it would be almost unplayable with lots of players at the same base simultaneously:

1. Building stuff
2. Manufacturing
3. Buying, selling
4. Docking ships
5. Using vehicles
6. Transporting goods
7. Moving and placing lots of individual items
8. Modifying the structures, decorating
9. Warfare, raids between the bases with player groups

If that wasn't enough, how about 10000+ bases on the same planet. Each base would need to be in its own instance.

 

[thistle]

Yeah the image they showed with org bases scattered about a planet ... unless they have 100+ systems none of this is going to work, all the bases will be on the same bodies.

I mean it's obviously not going to happen but if it did ...

 

[thistle]

Someone in Mike's chat. "there's 0 chance this is coming next year".

Next year lol.

 

[HansAcker]

If that wasn't enough, how about 10000+ bases on the same planet.

Instanced planets

 

[Viajero]

Do you have a video of that?

Ouf, I was checking in and out of Mike´s stream after the demo and caught a glimpse on that, You can probably dig it out from mike´s twitch channel, not far after the demo.

 

[abc0815]

This base building demo they are doing is Satisfactory, but ... SC can't handle players in multiplayer. How many servers will melt when people try and build massive buildings?

On top of being a open World PvP Game. No more idris time to buy A2`s

 

[Cosmo]

This base building demo they are doing is Satisfactory, but ... SC can't handle players in multiplayer. How many servers will melt when people try and build massive buildings?

I'm curious how Fdev will do base building. If it has similar capabilities, how do they keep it playable. There can be 150 players with ships in 1 instance in ED.

 

[thistle]

I'm curious how Fdev will do base building. If it has similar capabilities, how do they keep it playable. There can be 100 ships in one instance in ED.

We'll see, I've never been convinced fdev will do base building, of all the things we could see it seems the least "Elite-ish" to me. But I'm rarely right about anything

 

[thistle]

CIG just announce an entirely new family of ships lol.

Whales vomiting cash like Mr Creosote.

 

[Tifu]

CIG just announce an entirely new family of ships lol.

Whales vomiting cash like Mr Creosote.

I'm not so sure. I know this has been said many, many times before but this feels like the beginning of the end of that cash spigot. Watch for more layoffs.