I have a lot of fun with bad multiplayer games (video games or tabletop -- and boy oh boy there are some poorly designed tabletop games, especially if you go to the demo areas for new games at GenCon or DragonCon) with my friends. I can still pick them apart for terrible gameplay, matchmaking, server connectivity issues, etc. Having fun with something doesn't mean its immune to criticism or critique about its gameplay systems, technology or design.
Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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I should mention in passing...discussing Star Citizen in any positive light on here can be like opening a proper barrel of monkeys, all with fists full of freshly excreted monkey crap to start chucking at random posters fresh to the affray...
I get away with it sometimes, but only rarely. I've just got used to ducking when the monkey-poo flingathon starts
The instant bile to "I never fail to have a blast in SC" and "I've got my £40 worth of fun" was honestly a little baffling to me.
I very literally used the words "SC isn't except from criticism".
I wasn't looking for a reply, but was more commenting on the trajectory of the discourse.
That said, you could've just gone with what you said above instead of throwing in Odyssey or NMS as if it somehow made your opinion more qualified.
Plenty of time...the rest of us who aren't Avocado's can't see them yet anywaySorry I can't gawk at the pretty clouds right now, have a new little puzzle to solve.
I think everyone has been pretty civil? I save the poo-slinging for the Pathfinder/D&D3.5 ed vs 4th ed vs 5th ed conversations!I should mention in passing...discussing Star Citizen in any positive light on here can be like opening a proper barrel of monkeys, all with fists full of freshly excreted monkey crap to start chucking at random posters fresh to the affray...
I get away with it sometimes, but only rarely. I've just got used to ducking when the monkey-poo flingathon starts
Meh, don't take the disparaging commentary too seriously...some of us around here play SC, some don't. There's a few of us on here who are long time backers and regular players, we know where you're coming from
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I mean, this is just yet another strawman and a baffling one I never said anything about qualifications and no one else did (including those I've disagreed with) either.
NMS and Odyssey are both considered "released" games of a similar genre and are perfectly decent and fair comparisons given my point is that while unreleased and maybe never released I enjoy Star Citizen and have got my money worth.
That's what you get when you say that SC is as bad now than 4 years ago... And for every person stating that he has huge amount of bugs, you always have the same question of "do you have a SSD ?" because HDD is getting you a lot of bugs you don't have with SSD and a lot of newbies don't know it.
We are on the Elite Dangerous forums (well, FDev) so it makes sense to compare the SC experience to the ED experience.
If you are on Something Awful and have paid money to complain about SC, then sure.
While I have no inside knowledge, I really think they have traded more desync for fewer 30ks with lower tick rate. Desync is, so to say, less bad than 30ks because you can still try to do something, like mining or, idk, low altitude flying.
Yes, I have it installed on an SSD. It is not a magic cure all for fundamental server issues, disconnects, design issues, bugs or gameplay problems. A lot of these issues have persisted patch after patch after patch, sometimes being stomped out before reappearing suddenly.
I'm not sure why it has to be my fault somehow since these issues aren't exactly rare -- and some of them have been around for years and years.
It's really sad to realize I've been on there before you had to pay ten bux to access the forums. No denying I'm old now.
You did say no one is playing so you shouldn't have any issue joining on your friend. Servers must all be empty.
If you play and don't like riding trains and all that nonsense, I'm sure you set your spawn location at a station that doesn't require a train ride so it really doesn't take that long. I mean there is travel time, but space game players seem to enjoy longer travel times.
I believe you compared your gameplay experience in SC to Odyssey and NMS. That is what came across as a strawman to me, because it didn't invalidate the frustrations others were stating, but was somehow thrown in to detract from other released games to somehow uplift the current state of SC.
Maybe I misread your posts, or the intention wasn't apparent.
2nd ed. is still where it's at and you are now officially dead to me you THAC0-hating Eberron lover.
Accepting the stubbornness with which time insists on passing in only one direction makes one realise there are no young people out there. Only old or less old.
Apologies, my enjoyment of something is not meant to detract from any shortcomings people may have with the game, I was clear that SC isn't above criticism just that released state or not I have got a lot of enjoyment out of it for my £40 and really when I think about it, I'm not sure what more I could ask for.
It's less the travel times and more the constant threat of a random disconnect, server issue or death that wastes that travel time.
I don't get a lot of time to game anymore, so maybe Star Citizen in its current state really isn't built around 45 minutes to an hour of gaming folks like me have. Star Citizen does seem to want you to invest a lot more time to get set up before you get going, which I wouldn't mind if the specter of taking that all away and starting you at square one wasn't hanging over you constantly.
But hey, let's see what the reddit sub's up to?
Generic bugs are just part of the backdrop man. Always there. S'all good. (Unless they point to more major tech woes
LOL. all of your spoilered embedded reddit video links are autoplaying for me.
Took a while to figure out where the cacophony was coming from. That page is now an explosion of sound for me.
But is it 200M dollars better now than four years ago? Because this is, more or less, how much they burned through during that time.
Or, to put it in a different light, has it improved by one Red Dead Redemption 2?