Think yo need to revise your thinking on this. Here is a Video of the outsider that never got released:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glr71X-cr84
It is a 3rd person game, but it still uses the cobra engine.
Please FD make the transitions between SC and normal more like Star Citizen.
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Think yo need to revise your thinking on this. Here is a Video of the outsider that never got released:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glr71X-cr84
It is a 3rd person game, but it still uses the cobra engine.
Haha, have to agree with those video comments.. that IS Watch Dogs. Looks good though, makes you wonder what we could get on the ground.
Way most modern engines work has really zero to do with being tailored towards first person shooters. Cobra could easily do FPS if wanted to. It is not only a graphics engine, but framework which allows for FD to extend it while keeping building systems, etc. unified and thus cutting down to costs.
Walking around doesn't take so long because of Cobra graphics engine. But because FD wants us to have meaningful gameplay around it. People hate walking simulators for a reason. If you don't have to do it for some reason why do it at all? It is very costly. If people don't play it then what's the point?
No, Cobra engine is like universal soldier. It can do SC. CryEngine however is very small level based FPS engine. They had to hack their own hierarchy system - basically what CIG added to CryEngine in these two years - to make it work.
Because it's a tech demo on a LAN?
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It was 2050 wasn't it ?
No, it was just a hell of work to get it done. You can play the alpha to see it by yourself. But you also need a fast internet connection.
This is untrue in multiple respects. They've basically had to gut Cryengine to make SC. Whether you're rolling your own like FD or using an existing engine like RSI, these types of games are just a lot of work. There isn't an off-the-shelf "space engine", unlike say first person shooters where something like CE would need basically just filling in content.
Cryengine is also the most optimized engine on the market. Now I don't know what RSI has replaced, or whether they are using properly the lower quality features available, so they may have undone some of Cryteks amazing optimization or simply not utilized it. Optimization typically comes late in development, but something like Crysis 3 will actually run on a toaster given the low preset. I imagine an optimized Star Citizen is going to be similar.
SC Alpha 3.0 will come out in 6 - 8 months. You can't play it yet. Current Alpha struggles a great deal and is choppy as hell. And it was on gigabit LAN, so you can't compare it with regular speeds on Internet.
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Alpha 2.4 let you play together and travel. This has nothing to do with the streaming technology and the smooth jump from one place to another. ED could do it as well, if they had time for this.
And? In this case we were talking about smoothness of transitions in SC Alpha 3.0 demo
But anyway, enough SC talk before we all are redirected to SC megathread.Mu77ley
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Now, look at your speed!
When you jumped to Supercruise you immediately hit 154km/s, and as you started the jump at 6km from the station this meant you shot past the station in 0.03896103896 seconds.
To put it in perspective if the game was running on your system at 60fps then the station would only be displayed on your screen for less than 3 frames (2.3 to be exact). This is why it appears to disappear.
No, it appears to disappear because it's not rendered in supercruise as anything but a dot, and there is a giant clunky transition that occurs.
Even if it would be rendered in SC, you would see for few frames - within 60 per second.
They should load the stations assets up as you approach safe disengage distance then make it grow when you transition out or add some equiv effect (like what it looks like they're doing with stars). At the moment it does look like you just stop and everything suddenly appears then youre moving again. Having the thing getting bigger as you instance will make it feel more seamless
BY that standard ED was pay2win too. I mean anyone in the betas was able to acquire huge amounts of cash via dubious means and guess what there was no wipe so you could say those of us that paid the big buck to play before live release paid to win for the same reasons.
Don't get me wrong I hope ED stays around a long time and just gets better as they add more to the game but ED or fans of it should be wary of casting those stones since ED has done some shady stuff itself like for example canning offline mode.
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ED has never had content costing more than few hundreds.
SC ships are sold at 10k USD.
Don't forget Engineers in Horizons. It's fun fighting with ships on steroids versus players with only base game
Umm, what happens in beta, stays in beta.
Maybe you are thinking about gamma, and that one had its own mini scandal, because people demanded FD tell them if there would be a wipe at the end of Gamma. FD didn't want to say one way or the other. So in the end they said "assume there will be a wipe" So lots of people derped around and stuff, and wiped their saves, and lost money, and then ED went 1.0... without a wipe.
My, i laughed a lot at that one. I'd been carefully building up my ship and CMDR
ED 's Betas are in a separate Save with no progress carried over to live
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