I just want to make the point that you've called SC "great" twice despite the fact that nobody who backed it has ever actually played it. Not being facetious, but that is part of the problem I have with the more vocal of SC backers. They make claims for their game that are simply impossible to substantiate when you consider that no playable space flight (edit: within SC) has even been released to anybody, yet.
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I just want to make the point that you've called SC "great" twice despite the fact that nobody who backed it has ever actually played it. Not being facetious, but that is part of the problem I have with the more vocal of SC backers. They make claims for their game that are simply impossible to substantiate when you consider that no playable space flight (edit: within SC) has even been released to anybody, yet.
For a pre-alpha build SC looks awesome - i'm exited for both games. 
don't think mobius is sh*tting on SC in his OP. again he is voicing concerns as a backer of both games.
To me personally Star Citizen represents (perfectly) the childhood memory of watching Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica, and dreaming that I could fly in space and have a big space battle like in these movies..
I believe that this memory is also what made people crowdfund the game by 40 million.
I believe that this memory is also what made people crowdfund the game by 40 million.
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SC was my First KS, and up until this video I had high hopes, visually SC is very pleasing but on seeing the Video I have now lost hope for the game.
the flight model is very similar to Chris's earlier games and for me this is not a good thing and is 20 years out of date.
None of Chris other games had Newtonian physics, None of them allowed you to fly backwards..so i'm really not seeing any way SC could be similar to his old games here.
But i wonder .. have you also lost hope in FD's flight model then since it must be very similar to the 1984 elite game which would make it 30 years out of date by your measurements?
Up until a few hours ago, I'd never played FD either, I still called it great, and it is.
SC will be great also, but in a different way and for different reasons.
I am glad i put most of my money into Elite Dangerous. The more i learn about Star Citizen,the less interrested i become. I will probably play them both,but i feel pretty sure i will spend most of my time with Elite Dangerous and even Limit Theory than Star Citizen. Everytime i see a video of Star Citizen,i think about military,not space....
This is a big fear i have for both games - FD has p2p and SC is a Cryengine game which in the past have been infested with hackers (Crysis 2/3 was both nearly unplayable online due to hackers runing everything).
Though CIG is writing their own netcode for SC so perhaps that will help.
Chris Roberts mentions in the video we are discussing how they will address hackers in the game. That's what the authorized servers are all about.
Yeah i noticed that, Thing is that Crysis 3 was hacked already in the beta stage before the game was even out..so yeah we will see.
As seen in this now legendary TotalBiscuit vid.
http://youtu.be/aD-uKpkc0LM?t=28m39s
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Thing is elite Had it right the first time around. CR games were driven buy story and not flight models. so while Wing commander had a fun storyline the flight model was and still is a very much up,down left, right affair.
yeah the up,down, roling left, roling right makes the FD flight model far more modern..somehow..i guess.:S
I feel the same way about it, I was dissapointed at the flight mechanics of it, hopefully in later builds maybe it will become better, one other thing I thought chris roberts voice was really annoying shock horror
Yeah I think this is one of the best things about this showing at Pax, it does get old hearing people try to compare the two.
It looks like a very ambitious project, with the bar set a bit higher than the readiness of the presentation. Loved the enthusiasm of the crowd. I wish them all the best, even as I'm gonna stay here.
Ironically the Wing Commander series almost played better the crappier the graphics got. That was not meant as a statement towards the present effort mind you.
Ironically the Wing Commander series almost played better the crappier the graphics got. That was not meant as a statement towards the present effort mind you.
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