The Star Citizen Thread v9

Jacques d'Orleans

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Jacques d'Orleans
Backer42 said:
It's called "Gamescom", because the original trademark Games Convention (GamesCon) is owned by a different venue, which doesn't hold the event anymore.

Initially Gamescom was a ripoff by major publishers, who decided they want their own thing. That's the reason for the weird name similar but different enough to not get sued.

In the end only the ripoff survived. Now see the irony of Star Citizen ("muh evil publishers") showing up on Gamescom?
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I know, it was my obviously not so good attempt of a wordplay. ;)
 

Jacques d'Orleans

Banned
Jacques d'Orleans
Roadmap update:
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Cotic

Cotic
Erillion, from the MMORPG.com forums put together a wonderful list of things you can currently do in the alpha

Current Content (August 2018, Alpha 3.2)
1.- Arena Commander Simpod Module Game
1.1.- Vandul swarm (PvE Waves, against vanduul)
1.2.- Pirate Swarm (PvE waves, against NPCs)
1.3.- Free flight (small area for you to fly with full FPS)
1.4.- Deathmatch (PvP)
1.5.- Team deathmatch (PvP)
1.6.- Capture de flag (PvP)
1.7.- Racing (closed map, passing checkpoints)

2.- Star Marine Simpod Module Game
2.1.- Capture points (PvP)
2.2.- Deathmatch (PvP)

3.- Persistent Universe ("Crusader Module")
3.1.-Exploring space and moons for the views and find hidden locations / wrecks / stations
3.2.-Cargo runs
3.3.-Fight pirates
3.4.-Do missions / visit mission givers
3.4.1.- Get and drop cargo
3.4.2.- Explore wrecks for corpses or loot
3.4.3.- Kill targets
3.4.4.- Enable disable com arrays so people can or can't do crimes

3.5 - Hacking in Security Post Kareah to get rid of criminal rating (attention: PvP enabled)
3.6 - mine and trade
3.7 - go shopping at multiple locations
3.8 - spend hours before a mirror finding your perfect in game outfit
3.9 - boarding actions in larger spaceships (and defense against it)
3.10 - 50 man squard dance coreographied action
3.11 - 50 man air/ground/space battles
3.12 - Multi Crew Ship Gameplay (especially pilot - co-pilot (shield and radar operator) - gunner interaction)

4.- Hangar - Admire the beauty of your ships, in private.
4.1. - interior design with subscriber decorative items
4.2. - obstacle course driving with Greycat buggy
4.3 - getting drunk from the liquor cabinet (if you have one) - with various interesting effects depending on liquor ;-)
4.4. - weapon testing (if you always wanted to kill cardboard Vanduul with ship sized weapons)
4.5 - Loadout changes of ships in hangar

5. - ArcCorp ("Social Module")
5.1 - socializing and dancing in bar
5.2. - Crashcar derby with Greycat buggy
5.3 - shopping

Have fun
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I really like shopping at multiple locations, spending hours in front of a mirror, admiring the beauty of my ships in private, getting drunk, killing cardboard vanduul, socializing and dancing, crashcar derby and even more shopping!
 

DLewth

DLewth
Cotic said:
Erillion, from the MMORPG.com forums put together a wonderful list of things you can currently do in the alpha



I really like shopping at multiple locations, spending hours in front of a mirror, admiring the beauty of my ships in private, getting drunk, killing cardboard vanduul, socializing and dancing, crashcar derby and even more shopping!
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Shopping wins me over.

Who doesn't like shopping?

I bought pasta and macaroni today. And bog roll.
 

Backer42

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Cotic said:
Current Content (August 2018, Alpha 3.2)
5. - ArcCorp ("Social Module")
5.1 - socializing and dancing in bar
5.2. - Crashcar derby with Greycat buggy
5.3 - shopping
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Can you tell me how this can be accessed in 3.2? I couldn't access it during free flight.
 

VR Mr Teatime

VR Mr Teatime
Jacques d'Orleans said:
Roadmap update:
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Just so I understand the roadmap correctly, is that saying that 3.3.0, which is due for release by 30 Sep 2018, is 11% complete and of the features in polishing, the 4 Hurston moons look like they should have a dependency on their parent planet being complete and that is stalled? I guess I've been out of the project management world for too long...the clock ticking at CIG must be deafening ;)
 

Cobra1984

C
Dooguk said:
EightAce on the SA forums......
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There was a leak/rumour a few months ago that Chris wanted SQ42 out by Dec 2018/Jan 2019. It wasn't posted anywhere.

Then the rumour of investors a few weeks ago was posted on here.

Then this latest rumour of new money and moving to new offices, focussing on a SQ42 release for Jan 2020 appeared a few days ago, but hasn't been posted because frankly no one knows what to make of it.

All I can say is that the rumour mill died months ago as folks exited the project, and a new one has appeared to deliver assurances and positive developments primarily concerning funding and availability of money.

This latest rumour was not posted publically so it has now been posted on SA by someone historically connected to the project.

We're now entering a weird and fun phase of positive news flowing from back channels and rumour mills.
 

McGlashan

McGlashan
Cobra1984 said:
We're now entering a weird and fun phase of positive news flowing from back channels and rumour mills.
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A sudden windfall from a mysterious benefactor followed by even more expansion sounds "positive" until you remember that a vast budget and workforce have done very little for this project so far. If anything it has been a handicap. Still, when they miss the "early 2020" goal, they'll be able to blame it on having to refactor the pipelines for the new offices.
 

Jacques d'Orleans

Banned
Jacques d'Orleans
Dooguk said:
EightAce on the SA forums......
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Straight from the intergalactic news van

Foundry 42 are expanding from 270 odd to 315 staff members .
They are moving buildings to a bigger campus in the next 6 months
Sq42 is scheduled for release end of 2019 early 2020. It exists but it's ******* awful
All resources are on sq42 anything else you see is bull to get dollars
A lot of cash has suddenly appeared I have no idea where from or how, but it gives at least another 2 years dev time and lawsuit payoffs

Lots of people will say this is bull but it's straight from the horses/bears mouth
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Foundry 42 expanding from 270 to 315 was already in their financial filing of December 2017.
And to be quite frank, the rest of that story is like a 15 inch , I have to see it to believe it!
Answer the call 2948 (literally).
 

ZeeWolf

ZeeWolf
They've raised enough crowd-funded cash to provide one dedicated professional developer for each original Kickstarter backer for one month.

(I've decided)

Would have been a much better pitch idea too IMHO

Have a developer live at your house for 1 month. Tell him/her your game idea and have it knocked up in Unity or something. You just need to feed them Pizza and have a floor for them to sleep on.
 
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