disclaimer: i haven't even played odyssey yet. i don't have experiences first hand, but i've watched myriads of videos and streams and can safely say that it's quite bad.
star citizen has just launched a freefly event. i was waiting for an opportunity to check how my new hardware would perform. i upgraded to a ryzen 5 5600x, 32gb of ram and a beefy corsair mp600pro m2 ssd. my gpu is still my old gtx 1660ti which is still very decent. i only play in 1080p anyways. so it's perfectly fine. i can run all my games at 75fps. shadow of the tomb raider actually being the most demanding game in my entire library.
oh boy, but star citizen? i don't know what i expected. the loading times are absurd. the game "runs"?! below 30fps most of the time. the hardware is being utilized though which is good i guess. anyways, while the game looks fantastic, with this performance it's not playable.
and then there's the little fact that there is not much of a game to talk about. as a completely new player, you have no freaking idea about anything. good luck calling your ship and fly into space. the most basic of tasks require you to either ask in chat or read a guide/watch a tutorial video. what you're confronted with is pretty much just empty.
it made me appreciate elite. it teaches you the basic stuff. it has gameplay mechanics and systems that make sense, that are coherent within the game. it's like, you know, an actual game. yea, we all know about the issues which will get better over time. i expect big leaps with the console launch. that's when i will probably buy odyssey. but star citizen? it's a glorified tech demo that runs awfully on high end hardware. and no one seems to care that this game is in development for ten freaking years. ten years and we get this? looking at this, i do appreciate elite a whole lot more and i actually would like to get back into it.
star citizen has just launched a freefly event. i was waiting for an opportunity to check how my new hardware would perform. i upgraded to a ryzen 5 5600x, 32gb of ram and a beefy corsair mp600pro m2 ssd. my gpu is still my old gtx 1660ti which is still very decent. i only play in 1080p anyways. so it's perfectly fine. i can run all my games at 75fps. shadow of the tomb raider actually being the most demanding game in my entire library.
oh boy, but star citizen? i don't know what i expected. the loading times are absurd. the game "runs"?! below 30fps most of the time. the hardware is being utilized though which is good i guess. anyways, while the game looks fantastic, with this performance it's not playable.
and then there's the little fact that there is not much of a game to talk about. as a completely new player, you have no freaking idea about anything. good luck calling your ship and fly into space. the most basic of tasks require you to either ask in chat or read a guide/watch a tutorial video. what you're confronted with is pretty much just empty.
it made me appreciate elite. it teaches you the basic stuff. it has gameplay mechanics and systems that make sense, that are coherent within the game. it's like, you know, an actual game. yea, we all know about the issues which will get better over time. i expect big leaps with the console launch. that's when i will probably buy odyssey. but star citizen? it's a glorified tech demo that runs awfully on high end hardware. and no one seems to care that this game is in development for ten freaking years. ten years and we get this? looking at this, i do appreciate elite a whole lot more and i actually would like to get back into it.
