Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

McGlashan

McGlashan
HansAcker said:
Someone is so concerned over those concerns, they felt a need to clarify that CIG can make any game they want, because, by definition, Star Citizen includes every game, better than any other.

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Addressing recent 'Concerns'. Star Citizen 1.0 - Squadron 42 and beyond. - Star Citizen Spectrum

All funding is for all of the project, all work done for features in the same game engine (Star Engine) are for all of the games and addons to come. They have all been made to work in Star Engine....
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(Munchies is an odd believer in that they preach CIG is actually making The Oasis etc. and that CIG's fabulous tools are going to make every other game developer obsolete)
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"They have all been made to work in Star Engine"

No, they haven't.
 

Fizzatron

Fizzatron
Asp Explorer said:
Does buying an Idris count?
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Indeed it does! This is due to the fact that the base numeric amount of Idri sold directly correlates to the complexity of the procedural generation algorithm, which therefore means that the more Idri sold, the more complex - or the fidelicity - of the range of permutations of procedrually generated eggs can be confabulated, from the limited battery level to the desired free range of procedural egg expression, which would then unlock the ability of the Idris buyer to actually place an egg on their face, in a similar manner to that of ice cube physics. Therefore, if one really wants the full Star Citizen experience of having egg on their face, purchasing an Idris is vital.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
Fizzatron said:
from the limited battery level
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Are you suggesting that Idrises have limited battery capacity? Store bought Idrises should have absolutely pristine batteries allowing faultless operation from the first click.

If Store Citizen is flogging off Idrises needing maintenance as soon as the shrink-wrap is removed and the champagne guzzled, that is completely revolting. Unless of course, they are giving them away free of charge.
 

Darkfyre99

Darkfyre99
Phlegm said:
Excuse me, it is pronounced CRYEngine.
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Well I certainly feel like crying each time I remember that Star Citizen was supposed to be the game that would keep me entertained until Elite Dangerous had a chance to mature to a rough parity with Frontier Elite 2… and realize that landing on Earthlike a worlds are far more likely to be added to ED than Star Citizen is to reach an actually playable state.
 

Garix

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Darkfyre99 said:
Well I certainly feel like crying each time I remember that Star Citizen was supposed to be the game that would keep me entertained until Elite Dangerous had a chance to mature to a rough parity with Frontier Elite 2… and realize that landing on Earthlike a worlds are far more likely to be added to ED than Star Citizen is to reach an actually playable state.
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You'll be landing on a Earthlike before SC is in a playable state!
 

HansAcker

HansAcker
Fizzatron said:
Indeed it does! This is due to the fact that the base numeric amount of Idri sold directly correlates to the complexity of the procedural generation algorithm, which therefore means that the more Idri sold, the more complex - or the fidelicity - of the range of permutations of procedrually generated eggs can be confabulated, from the limited battery level to the desired free range of procedural egg expression, which would then unlock the ability of the Idris buyer to actually place an egg on their face, in a similar manner to that of ice cube physics. Therefore, if one really wants the full Star Citizen experience of having egg on their face, purchasing an Idris is vital.
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Quantum simulates a whole population of chickens to procedurally create those eggs. If you fail a mission and the Vanduul raid the coop, no fried eggs in the mess hall.
No other game goes into that level of detail!
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VR Golgot

VR Golgot
Another intriguing Glassdoor...

3/5

Nice perks but many many frustrations​


Junior qa tester
Current employee, more than 1 year
Manchester, England

Recommend (y)
CEO approval -
Business outlook -

Pros

Really nice office & some nice perks within the office - baristas, gaming area (Pool, table tennis etc) and most of the staff are really nice people. Very talented team & excellent middle management within QA and many within QA have a ridiculous knowledge of the game and aspects around it. the project is quite varied and ambitious with a lot to do & a huge amount of potential for the game as a whole. All the new additions often make working on the project very interesting and varied.

There are career opportunities & roles pop up within the company fairly regularly. We are encouraged to go for these roles.

Cons

Disorganised and lots of inefficiency. Deadlines are almost always missed and tasks are regularly not ready for us or are in an entirely broken state where we can't do our job, wasting whole mornings or entire days. Workload also is regularly far more than can realistically be done within the given timeframe (talking to others, this is across the entire company). Also zero communication or transparency from Directors upwards.

All this can and has hit morale both in QA and across the company hard at times.

There is next to no documentation and we (QA) end up having minimal communication with other disciplines and often ends up as guesswork as big changes to parts of the project can often happen with zero notice.

bonuses... what bonuses? Pay also is pretty terrible, especially for living in Manchester. Base pay is very low and some taking on more senior roles still haven't seen a pay rise several months later (Negotiating one feels very taboo). This also leads in to various strange spending decisions and extravagances that feel unnecessary and better spent elsewhere.

Working hours are also very long & with the emphasis of keeping in office, booking working from home can be difficult.

Advice to Management

Communicate more across the disciplines, Keep egos in check and pay QA what they are actually worth. Staff will end up leaving because of this.

Advice to the middle management:
you all do amazingly given the mess that is regularly thrown your way. Thank you for taking the brunt of it for the rest of QA.
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Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
VR Golgot said:
Another intriguing Glassdoor...
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Interesting.

Thing is, about being a QA, you test against requirements. You can't say whether something is a bug or not all the time unless you have requirements that tells you whether its a bug or not. Sure, something clearly broken you can report, but what is the expected behaviour? QA have to state both what is broken and what should happen. Without documentation, that's just guesswork.
 

Wotthe Dickens

Wotthe Dickens
Agony_Aunt said:
Interesting.

Thing is, about being a QA, you test against requirements. You can't say whether something is a bug or not all the time unless you have requirements that tells you whether its a bug or not. Sure, something clearly broken you can report, but what is the expected behaviour? QA have to state both what is broken and what should happen. Without documentation, that's just guesswork.
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Yeah! Lol, it reads like they actually aren’t always told what the expected outcome should be! Guessing whether something is intended is fun! Maybe they (qa) thought Chris had gone all quantum so it was expected for physics to fail every opportunity?
 
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Viajero

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Viajero

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Viajero said:
Top of spectrum since yesterday

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I played 3.24 for about two hours and just could not find any fun in it. - Star Citizen Spectrum

No disrespect to all the hard work of the programmers, but someone needs to work out how to actually add some fun into this game. This game needs the game designers to find some vision. Mining is...
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Star Citizen shallow and not fun? Who´d have thunk?
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It's like it's a mile wide and an inch deep. Now where have I heard that before?
 
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