The Star Citizen Thread v5

[McGlashan]

I wouldn't be surprised if they drop in a little pre-baked Squadron 42 teaser, perhaps salvaged from the aborted CitizenCon demo. Then, because they've promised nothing except more ships sales (and because they want to sell more ships), they'll make it sound as if they've gone above and beyond to give the fans what they want, and pretend that it's a window into a whole world of progress that they've been keeping top-secret.

 

[Jezzah]

I don't think there'll be anything worth a damn in this. Hopefully CR tries to play his own game again and flounces and strops his way through the bugs again like the 2015 one.

Focus on ships or at least the sales of such anyway is round about what I'm expecting if what they've said is anything to go by. Would be very surprised if we see anything at all from sq42.

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Yes. And I'm taking the evening off to troll them non-stop. Just like CitizenCon.

Ha Stay Frosty man

 

[dsmart]

"I am concerned that our money has gone into building a corporate empire, rather than a game" - Star Citizen backer"

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

"I am concerned that our money has gone into building a corporate empire, rather than a game" - Star Citizen backer"

And this is aspect I really, really don't get it. I know lot of SC original pitch and idea came from 'small indie dev sticking it to the evil empires of publishers'. But really, why *anybody* would have trusted Chris, being out of loop for so long, without ready to go infrastructures to back him up? Did anybody have any doubts? Ok, you can have bunch of old buddies coming together, ok, but overall...you need huge complex of developers at your fingertips ALREADY during Kickstarter! That's why CR Start Citizen premise didn't made any sense. I bought Squadron 42 idea, sure, but full blown space MMO? Even FD were very careful not to pitch their game like that - and David had more ready team - obviously with caveats.

OF COURSE lot of money and time went into making infrastructure. CR wouldn't be able to even try to make game without it! Major issue however is that if you do so in short term and notice you are bound to waste lot of resources - which has been evident.

Still doesn't explain state of Squadron 42 of course.

 

[ZeeWolf]

"I am concerned that our money has gone into building a corporate empire, rather than a game" - Star Citizen backer"

I'm amused that the OP in that thread compared SC to the tortoise. For me, that story isn't about rushing it's about complacency. The hare is the sure bet to win, but he falls asleep. Maybe like the largest crowd funding project ever, a safe bet. Sure to hit deadlines and produce the goods? Lots of hype and excitement, maybe they are napping under a big tree when they prioritise ship assets and trade show demos over core gameplay and deliverables? Maybe the tortoise came in long ago.

If CIG were the tortoise they'd have rubbed out the finish line, saying finish lines shouldn't apply and started a new high fidelity race track with no visible winning post.

 

[1500]

Well looks like CIG are going to be playing 2.6 live.

What will we be playing? We'll give you 2.6 guesses, but you'll only need one.Star Citizen added,

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Disco Lando @discolando
Tune into http://twitch.tv/starcitizen tomorrow at 9am PST before the livestream. We're going to have ourselves a good old fashioned LAN party.

https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/799413877511327749

 

[Rolan]

Greetings Citizens!

While the Anniversary Livestream proper will begin at approximately 1pm PST, we will be having ourselves a good old fashioned LAN party at 9am PST on twitch.tv/starcitizen.

What will we be playing?

I'll give you 2.6 guesses, but you'll only need one.

http://www.twitch.tv/starcitizen

Tomorrow.

9am PST.

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/356326/anniversary-livestream-details

 

[Zetta]

So, will they release 2.6 to the PTU or not? It hasn't been available to the Evocati so I'm thinking they won't.

 

[Artemus]

I think another question would be what's actually in the 2.6 version they'll be playing? And will it be functional or just another tech demo...

 

[Knightshark]

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/356326/anniversary-livestream-details

So, will they release 2.6 to the PTU or not? It hasn't been available to the Evocati so I'm thinking they won't.

They are having a LAN party... LAN! So netcode still broken i presume?

 

[Soopyyy]

lol, the irony of having a LAN party with what is supposed to be an MMO.

 

[Britney]

I think it is a good sign regarding netcode progress if they play it in a local network.

 

[Stormprooter]

Well looks like CIG are going to be playing 2.6 live.


https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/799413877511327749

Aww, I was hoping they'd be playing CoD:IW

More seriously - it will be interesting to see what is what, and if they give out any dates for PTU or general release. I have my peanuts at the ready (not too keen on popcorn).

 

[Agony_Aunt]

I hope it means they will release 2.6 after the show.

If its a case of "Look, here we are playing 2.6. What? You want to play 2.6? No, sorry, not ready yet", i'm pretty sure that would generate quite a lot of saltiness.

Plus, if they do release 2.6, we will get to see how the new flight model works.

 

[DLewth]

That MMO you paid us $130 million for? We're haveing a lan party!

Also, buy an Idris.

lol

 

[Komemiute]

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/356326/anniversary-livestream-details

Wait... is that for real?

I mean- people are happy over that?
I'd understand if they RELEASED 2.6, but... show that they play it? in LAN, no less?

*shakes head*

 

[ianw]

So presumably this LAN party means;

Local server
High speed Gigabit LAN
Monster client PCs

Will there be a Not representative of live public server gameplay disclaimer I wonder...

 

[Komemiute]

So presumably this LAN party means;

Local server
High speed Gigabit LAN
Monster client PCs

Will there be a Not representative of live public server gameplay disclaimer I wonder...

Why would they put that? Nobody understand how gaming deveopment works anyways...

 

[Knightshark]

So presumably this LAN party means;

Local server
High speed Gigabit LAN
Monster client PCs

Will there be a Not representative of live public server gameplay disclaimer I wonder...

Gigabit LAN? Haha, that's so far below the fidelious standards of Chris Roberts. Infiniband at least! ;P

 

[DLewth]

Gigabit LAN? Haha, that's so far below the fidelious standards of Chris Roberts. Infiniband at least! ;P

I see Mellanox now have 200Gb/s Infiniband. Just saying...