Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

[Surefoot]

It's been a long time I've not payed attention to this dumpster fire. It's still burning as it seems. Watched the SQ42 demo and wow, 12 years of development to make a on-rails turret shooter. The 90's want their gameplay back. Looks like CRoberts is stuck in that timeline and still thinks of games as CD-ROM "interactive" things with FMV, remember that time ? Yeah it was bad. Still is today.
Not thrilled.
I'll be back when there's something remotely playable, which seems not to be the case at the moment.

 

[Viajero]

Day 2, surprisingly spectrum does not seem overly impressed:

 

[sovapid]

You bought a Pioneer?

yep. its in buy back now.

 

[sovapid]

...don't laugh, it cost me a whole $12 for the CCU to the warbond version.

you cant ccu to a warbond version. thats the whole point of warbond. has to be 100% new money.

 

[VR Golgot]

This surprised me - I was expecting Pyro to be another 'Playtest' situation where it appears and then vanishes for another year. But Chris is saying it will go to Live. If it goes live with the current config that is nearly doubling their server costs...

Yeah that was always the 2023/2024 plan. (Ignoring the intervening plan where they thought they could launch Pyro as a stand-alone login ).

4.0 as the big meshy Pyro road-to-revelation.

And yeah, will be interesting to see where they end up on the cost-vs-performance seesaw. (I'd imagine the 4:250 pre-citcon evo would be too pricey for standard PU)

 

[ZeeWolf]

Meh, Turbulent get back in the office on Monday so we should probably expect the first "FAITH RESTORED CHRIS!" three paragraph posts then.

 

[Cosmo]

Does that explain the new '10 Year' name for this purchase option?

The price tags for these pick-up trucks are absurd. You can buy 1 or 2 fully finished triple A games for the same.

 

[abc0815]

https://ccugame.app/star-citizen-funding-dashboard/funding-dashboard

 

[WhiteHaulerMan]

...don't laugh, it cost me a whole $12 for the CCU to the warbond version. I'll never learn, I should have a giant poster above my monitor reminding me not to give the idiot Roberts my spare change again...ever. That's how I ended up with two certificates of stupid in the first place

Mate, like me you're a DCS player, I don't think we'll ever learn.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

yep. its in buy back now.

I have no words other than duuuude...

 

[Agony_Aunt]

https://ccugame.app/star-citizen-funding-dashboard/funding-dashboard

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Early days.

 

[VR Golgot]

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Probably need the month to pan out to know if whale sentiment is stunted.

(I get the feeling CIG will have some more sparkly things lined up to dangle too)

 

[Factabulous]

I'm not convinced the funding is going well this year - the new ships went live only hours ago

 

[McGlashan]

Just used this thread to catch up on the 'Con, because there's no way I'm watching it myself, and I'm looking forward to 2026 when the narrative is going to be, "Chris Roberts is a perfectionist, he wasn't happy with what they showed at CitizenCon '24 and he decided they needed to start over. Again. So really it's only been development since late 2024."

 

[georob]

In regards to this funding, they didn't have the F8C sale this year. That sale alone got them ~3.5 million in 4 days last October.

 

[VR Golgot]

Break the Bengal glass!

 

[Cosmo]

I'm not convinced the funding is going well this year - the new ships went live only hours ago

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There is a limit to how many ships they can sell at ridiculous prices to the player-base. The Wing Commander fans just want Squadron 42.

 

[PiLhEaD]

Cutscene crash

I'm left wondering if it is this or the Chris (and Dennis) Christmas show, that is the perfect encapsulation of all that makes this utter mess so speshul.

Maybe it's both?!

Either way. Hilarious! Especially with the associated whining and denial. Yup. Priceless! Well worth half a billion bucks.....

 

[VR Golgot]

I know I bang on about student hires a lot, but this Game Assembly guy from Aug 2023 was charged with the sandworm AI...

I'm guessing that big ole McGuffin isn't exactly a top priority...

 

[HansAcker]

Just used this thread to catch up on the 'Con, because there's no way I'm watching it myself, and I'm looking forward to 2026 when the narrative is going to be, "Chris Roberts is a perfectionist, he wasn't happy with what they showed at CitizenCon '24 and he decided they needed to start over. Again. So really it's only been development since late 2024."

DownstairsMike:

Well, I am of the quite opposite. I would rather have a development company the ability to try a project, scrap it and make something new, until it is exactly as the developers intended, than have some investors push for release to get profit.
I really do hope that this is the version of SQ42 that CR is looking for because I am excited to play the game, but if it isn't, then I hope he gets the opportunity to remake it. The same with SC.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/...d-day-1-to-be-disappointing-the-overw/7289522