The Star Citizen Thread v 4

Vasea Azure · May 21, 2016

Rilzi said:
Star(Citizen) Wars:
Year IV
The Publishers strike back

It is a dark time for CIG. Their teams struggle with basic functionality within the engine continue, as rival Indie developers have pushed ahead with projects like Elite Dangerous, No Man's Sky, and Rogue Systems. Facing ever improving competition and falling funding levels, Roberts has made a desperate ploy - move focus from the MMO sandbox Star Citizen which would compete with those titles, to building a triple A Space Opera 'Squadron 42' - a space sim/fps game which fills a niche which is largely empty.

It may come to backfire though as after years of being the butt of CIGs jokes, the dreaded publishers have finally started to make their move. Activision released a trailer for 'Call of Duty - Infinite Warfare' which is set for full release in November this year. As well as showcasing CoD's well established FPS gameplay it pushes into space flight mechanics, zero G FPS, making it a serious contender in the same field as Squadron 42. EA has yet to show much of 'Mass Effect: Andromeda' which is rumoured to be set for a 2017 release - even unseen it's most likely superior graphical, storytelling, and acting will make it a formidable rival. Lurking unseen is Bethesda's mysterious 'Starfield', as well as any projects of others such as Ubisoft. With time against them, the CIG developers desperately refactor code...

+1 this is beautiful!

kilvenny · May 21, 2016

Toumal said:
All Kickstarter promises have been accomplished?

REALLY?

Forget consumer protection, call the media. They should be told that SC is finished. Because that's what "all KS promises" means.

That was my take away - If that is not a forgery then that one line is very striking in what it implies.

Mu77ley · May 21, 2016

It appears I no longer have PTU access for some reason...

Cosmos · May 21, 2016

So whats the deail with SC.. Have they got any dates planned for release? THe project doesn't look like its in great shape. Over a 100 mil and 5 years later is this all they have to show for it?

Rilzi · May 21, 2016

mordin86 said:
+1 this is beautiful!

thanks - for the full impact you have to imagine the John Williams music during the text scroll, then a Constellation desperately trying to outrun EA's Star Destroyer

In other news - The Buccaneer sale is on sale Friday! This is going to be the pirate ship we've all been waiting for - for realz this time

Cosmos said:
So whats the deail with SC.. Have they got any dates planned for release? THe project doesn't look like its in great shape. Over a 100 mil and 5 years later is this all they have to show for it?

"When it's done."

Rolan · May 21, 2016

Toumal said:
All Kickstarter promises have been accomplished?

REALLY?

Forget consumer protection, call the media. They should be told that SC is finished. Because that's what "all KS promises" means.

I believe he is referring to the alpha access. Not that the goals or the game is complete. For what I can read in the conversation, the supposed customer is saying that because he was an KS backer he have to have access to the PTU.
Part of it http://imgur.com/KpnUwgg

VidarSnipes · May 21, 2016

Mu77ley said:
It appears I no longer have PTU access for some reason...

You have lost the faith. But don't worry, for the low price of one Buccaneer (on sale soon!) you can achieve redemption in the eyes of Christ Roberts. Or perhaps it's some kind of staged release.

Cosmos said:
So whats the deail with SC.. Have they got any dates planned for release? THe project doesn't look like its in great shape. Over a 100 mil and 5 years later is this all they have to show for it?

No and yes. SQ42 is supposed to be released in 2016, but an article released somewhere at the beginning of the year mentioned total lack of gameplay. The journalist had some intended features described to him and some footage from CryEngine editor shown.

PiLhEaD · May 21, 2016

Rilzi said:
....for the full impact you have to imagine the John Williams music during the text scroll, then a Constellation desperately trying to outrun EA's Star Destroyer.....

I certainly read it with the text scrolling away into space with that fantastic score playing.

My only question now is, who will take the Disney and JJ Abrams roles to rescue the franchise? Vill it be zee vonderkind? Or will the coming phase be more akin to The Perfect Storm... tune in later this year to find out...

Rilzi · May 21, 2016

henry1491 said:
I certainly read it with the text scrolling away into space with that fantastic score playing.

My only question now is, who will take the Disney and JJ Abrams roles to rescue the franchise? Vill it be zee vonderkind? Or will the coming phase be more akin to The Perfect Storm... tune in later this year to find out...

I think we played this game before - my vote was for Sony and Kojima. From memory MaxLexandre suggested EA and Derek Smart

MaxLexandre · May 21, 2016

Adventures! Was yesterday having adventures on the Starfarer, it's pretty much a FPS Map

~~don't mind the naked people

[video=youtube;dRq5m5DI560]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRq5m5DI560[/video]

Rolan said:
I believe he is referring to the alpha access. Not that the goals or the game is complete. For what I can read in the conversation, the supposed customer is saying that because he was an KS backer he have to have access to the PTU.
Part of it http://imgur.com/KpnUwgg

Shhh, don't you dare to use logic like that in here! :O

ianw · May 21, 2016

Rolan said:
I believe he is referring to the alpha access. Not that the goals or the game is complete. For what I can read in the conversation, the supposed customer is saying that because he was an KS backer he have to have access to the PTU.
Part of it http://imgur.com/KpnUwgg

Not an unreasonable assertion.

If someone buys a package with alpha access I imagine most people would interpret that as meaning as soon as anyone outside of CIG gets access that person would have alpha access - therefore if you have alpha access you should get it when it goes public - not be excluded from it because you're not part of some post purchase made up special group.

Of course this being CIG they will have some handy re-definition of what alpha access means.

Voivod · May 21, 2016

So how has 2.4 been accepted by the community?

I had a bit of a looksy aroundsy and it seems like a very lukewarm patch? Lots of improvements in some areas, some additional features which aren't particularly exciting.

Was it worth the wait? (I bet all of Max's dreams came true)

The features didn't really convince me I want to play it, so any ideas what's in 2.5 ?

Rilzi · May 21, 2016

ianw said:
Not an unreasonable assertion.

If someone buys a package with alpha access I imagine most people would interpret that as meaning as soon as anyone outside of CIG gets access that person would have alpha access - therefore if you have alpha access you should get it when it goes public - not be excluded from it because you're not part of some post purchase made up special group.

Of course this being CIG they will have some handy re-definition of what alpha access means.

yeah, it seems that the customer is in the wrong here - but to be fair, it's CIG's own fault for creating the three tier pre-alpha PTU avocado mess in the first place.
Also, though the guy is being pretty rude - suck it up customer service guys, being polite to annoying customers is part of your job.

Toumal · May 21, 2016

Rolan said:
I believe he is referring to the alpha access. Not that the goals or the game is complete. For what I can read in the conversation, the supposed customer is saying that because he was an KS backer he have to have access to the PTU.
Part of it http://imgur.com/KpnUwgg

Mmm, i admit that this may well have been the context for that statement. Though, what will happen on may 31st?

MaxLexandre · May 21, 2016

Voivod said:
So how has 2.4 been accepted by the community?

I had a bit of a looksy aroundsy and it seems like a very lukewarm patch? Lots of improvements in some areas, some additional features which aren't particularly exciting.

Was it worth the wait? (I bet all of Max's dreams came true)

The features didn't really convince me I want to play it, so any ideas what's in 2.5 ?

Oh yeah all my dreams came true, i'm floating naked in space, that's all i ever wanted.

Then Crusader Security arrives and ruins the fun:

Oh dear they really need a double-check to make sure the space suit is on outside, or not

TieKnee · May 21, 2016

service guy was being polite from what i read, customer should suc it up .. the PTU was passed to those who logged in frequently and how do you infer tone in text.

Have a super Elite day !!!

ianw · May 21, 2016

Toumal said:
Mmm, i admit that this may well have been the context for that statement. Though, what will happen on may 31st?

Same as the last deadline - CIG will be doing "customer service" by terms and conditions.

Sydivision77 · May 21, 2016

MaxLexandre said:
Adventures! Was yesterday having adventures on the Starfarer, it's pretty much a FPS Map ~~don't mind the naked people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRq5m5DI560

Shhh, don't you dare to use logic like that in here! :O

Now isnt the time for levity. If I had any skin in this project I would be horrified by the current update from CIG

kilvenny · May 21, 2016

Are these videos/screen shots post Evocati or during?

MaxLexandre · May 21, 2016

Sydivision77 said:
Now isnt the time for levity. If I had any skin in this project I would be horrified by the current update from CIG

Oh lol! I can handle bugs!

They wanted a release with big height on back end changes like 2.4 to not hit one wider audience with major breaking issues (like crashing every few minutes dejavu of 2.0), and i'd say they're doing alright on that!

kilvenny said:
Are these videos/screen shots post Evocati or during?

Some are others are ongoing, the notice-able thing on the PTU is pretty much naked people and similar, and clipping through things allowing to be without space suit on space.