Star Citizen Thread v6
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Ok, scanned through the video from yesterday and can't find the planetary entry/exit. Can someone give me a timestamp for that happening?
exactly this.
I fear ED will have problems implementing what they want to do due to the need of reprogramming parts of the game and perhaps resize assets at some instances.
And while SC tries to do it all at once they are also having to deal with all the problems at once.
i mean...ED released in 2014 and we can at most land at planets after 3 years since release (ok 2 years since we have done it for awhile now). Add in the production time for the main game and im not surprised of the time SC takes to make.
Then we add the additional time for a SQ42 single player campaign as well...
5 years so far does not sound that long when compared to ED progress.
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It's almost as if the conversation is a reflection of the state of the game.
Yeah, ED progress and more explanations from devs have given me understanding how beautifully complex and thus hard will be to get ED full scope. Screw this, such small thing as criminality system is subject of constant development and expense of dev hours.
What's major difference there is that David always knew it will be about MVP and building up from there. Thus they found a way to spread development load and keep developing game while we are playing it.
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I'm sure ED will have its own set of problems when implementing walking around, but making them exist now in order to justify SC's issues at present is daft.
SC's main issue seems to be that its team of brave lions has been led down the garden path by a clueless donkey into a dead end.
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Making them exist NOW? Im saying i think they WILL have problems not that they HAVE them.
More interesting is how both games will tackle large scale earth like biomes and biodiversity without looking like No Mans Sky where every creature is a recoloured and renamed between worlds.
OK, put it another way. You're citing potential problems in Elite's development to justify issues SC has had for years.
Surely a better way to look at it would be to look at all the things SC doesn't have after 5 years, but by any common consensus should have.
Is today the day that Chris will come out and everything will revert back to being awesome again?
Par for the course. They've been praising CIG's imaginary achievements for years, the next logical step is to start criticizing other game's imaginary flaws.
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Seriously?
In ED, I can go on a bounty-hunting spree, mine, trade, go pirate, be a discoverer, drive around on a planet (and attempt to scan certain data points, hhmpf...
, take passengers to places, help factions gain dominance in a system . . . . . . what, exactly, can you do in SC? Yeah, it LOOKS pretty, but that's pretty much it. Not very much for five years. Really very, very little. Please don't compare ED and SC like that. Serious backfire, that line of argument.
It's a given that FD will have problems implementing features. That's obvious. No game developer has ever delivered a totally bug-free game. However, FD has, so far, done a really good job of giving us something to sink our teeth into. It's a rib-eye steak, sometimes a bit tougher than anticipated, a wee bit more well-done than I would have preferred, but hey. It's a steak. SC, on the other hand, is, so far, a bone with very little meat on it, and the butcher's claims that it will put ED's rib-eye steak to shame once it matures doesn't fill my belly right now (or any time in the future, from the looks of it).
Sorry about the culinary analogies, I think I'm going to eat something . . . toodles.
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Very nicely summarized.
Specifically concerning Elite, the game design is more than an imaginary trainwreck if you ask me. It's a real one. That may sound negative, but it's a huge plus for the actual state of the game. We can play it, enjoy what we like, dislike the rest and decide based on actual experience with a real game that it's time to play something else. That may give us some dozen two some dozen hundreds of hours of entertainment.
We don't have to drink the kool-aid all the time, being told how awesome the game will be if only we throw another 700$ at Chris Roberts for the next ship that punches above its weight or has such a specific lore description, that it's all but certain there will never be a meta to support it.
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Something never seen before in the history of computer gaming i think... well, never seen before except in half a dozen games perhaps, but we can ignore those because they did it with less fidelity.
Real guess, presentation, scripted demo. If anyone tries to point out that its another scripted demo that won't make it into the game, fans will point to yesterday's play sessions and point out how far things have come along.... like, making a FPS game engine work like a FPS game engine.
More of the same I think. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
A bone? Not that substantial, for me it's just some fat under a nicely cut but half-cooked skin.
When is the big show?
Nehkara has done one of his playerbase surveys, results are here https://platform.surveysampling.com/surveybuilder/report/599cdd8724ace3d29d3a53c0
A few things of note:
The significant majority (48%) are from the US
The majority (57%) are between 25 and 35
78% don't play at all or play less than 2 hours per week
51% believe that ship sales have no effect on the balance of the game
61% believe that ship sales should stop at release
The majority (25%) believe that SQ42 will release in just over 1 years time
The majority (36%) believe that SC will release in just over 2 years time
51% believe that the SC community is better or much better than other game communities
Only 8% (57 ppl) have attended an SC event
59% say that CIG are doing a good job with their communications, 21% = well, 24% = very well, 14% = excellently
57% of responders are content or feeling great about the state of Star Citizen
45% are satisfied or very satisfied with the development pace of SC with 74% of overall responses satisified or very satisfied with the quality of the development
64% are satisfied or very satisfied with the openness of the project
75% have complete or very high confidence that CIG will produce a great game
A few things of note:
The significant majority (48%) are from the US
The majority (57%) are between 25 and 35
78% don't play at all or play less than 2 hours per week
51% believe that ship sales have no effect on the balance of the game
61% believe that ship sales should stop at release
The majority (25%) believe that SQ42 will release in just over 1 years time
The majority (36%) believe that SC will release in just over 2 years time
51% believe that the SC community is better or much better than other game communities
Only 8% (57 ppl) have attended an SC event
59% say that CIG are doing a good job with their communications, 21% = well, 24% = very well, 14% = excellently
57% of responders are content or feeling great about the state of Star Citizen
45% are satisfied or very satisfied with the development pace of SC with 74% of overall responses satisified or very satisfied with the quality of the development
64% are satisfied or very satisfied with the openness of the project
75% have complete or very high confidence that CIG will produce a great game
Friday evening, 7pm UK time, so I need to decide between that and Psykokow's Drabble Show. Hard to guess which will be more excruciating.
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