But is it a game? Can you download it today and *play* with it in some kind of entertaining game form?
It's impressive how excited people get about stuff like this so recently after this wasn't what we got.
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But is it a game? Can you download it today and *play* with it in some kind of entertaining game form?
It's impressive how excited people get about stuff like this so recently after this wasn't what we got.
I agree that ED needs planets with atmosphere you can land on, the thing is, the atmosphere is not hard to do, people have rendered great looking atmosphere effects for as long as there has been GPU's around. What's hard is the weather systems and it's undoubtedly why we can't land on moons like Titan yet. Getting good looking and realistic cloud systems is still taxing and difficult.
ED's current focus is realism on planets and moons without atmosphere. Here's what the moon looks like (picture by Yutu - the Chinese rover): http://i.imgur.com/9dfK0pK.jpg
That's how "exciting" the moon is in real life. All in all ED does a great job on barren planets.
Heh. I can say one thing for certain; by the time SC releases those textures will be nerfed into the ground. With the texture quality SC currently uses the final game will be several terabytes in size unless they start downgrading geometry and texture sizes.
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It's a dessert planet with some trees. Not too bad but you whizz by very fast so can't see much. The trees seem to suffer serious popping problems as well.
Serlino they showed a scripted demo in the crytech editor, it even looped at one point in the stream
The whole thing was on rails, it's not game play let alone the game.
Oh and sandworms ripped directly from Dune.
Well, I guess we have very different ideas as to what constitutes a "space sim". To each his own...
Out of interest, what do you think is in CIG's proc gen that's missing in outerra?
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The "road map" is now similar to the ED release Alpha stages. Frontier had Travel & Trade, Docking & Outfitting etc. They have mining & refining, farming & rescue etc..Which is a good approach and about time.
However, I don't think they will deliver them at the same rate as Frontier did and there isn't much in the projects history to convince me that they will get them out over a year as Roberts tried not to suggest. I reckon we're looking at one per year. It might give an indication of how long there is to go, if we only having "mining & refining" by the end of 2017 then we're looking at a 2020 release of the MVP, and it'll be interesting to compare progress as compared to what people called a "bare bones" release of ED content.
However, I don't think they will deliver them at the same rate as Frontier did and there isn't much in the projects history to convince me that they will get them out over a year as Roberts tried not to suggest. I reckon we're looking at one per year. It might give an indication of how long there is to go, if we only having "mining & refining" by the end of 2017 then we're looking at a 2020 release of the MVP, and it'll be interesting to compare progress as compared to what people called a "bare bones" release of ED content.
Needs More Sandworms.
Yeah, and totally-not-Tuskan-raider dudes, I guess.
edit: maybe I should have posted this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNgWwvSaTZ0 - with added stormtrooper and R2D2...
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High Fidelity sandworms unlike anything ever done before!
The sand storm was good. But to be honest if I had backed star citizen expecting a space SIM i'd be seriously miffed right now.
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So TheAgent posted a bullet point list of behind-the-scenes rumour-milling regarding the upcoming CitCon showcase.
Here it is...
Here it is...
Now then, how much of what was outlined here actually appeared on that cut back as heck, 2 hour long snorefest of a presentation on Sunday?
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I saw the sandworm and thought "Looks like Chris watched those early NMS videos and said "I want that in my game!"
Certainly not in 2.5 Alpha. All interactions - i.e. <<<USE>>> are as clunky as ArmA, have poor "zones" in which the interaction option becomes active, and the animations (like getting into your pilot seat) are not stitched together very well, with some odd results on times. It's low-level annoyance stuff.
At least, that is my experience.
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More like "Looks like Chris just finished binge-watching a bunch of classic sci-fi films and saw the Dune sandworm, had one of his Roberts Brand Brainstorms Of Ultimate Creativity (TM) and loped into the LA studios, walked up to an exhausted and near-broken developer and hand-waved his intention for them to work on putting some sandworms in that SQ42 demo ASAP".
LOL! If only it was a game to start with
BTW, I don't care if the sandworm thing is ripped off Dune, will it be a fun thing to have in the game (if we get a game) is the only aspect that concerns me.
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