Star Citizen (Thinly veiled 'How many Irish backing this?')

The_Valeyard · 20-08-2016 04:01PM

Impressive. Looks very nice indeed. Slowly getting there it seems!!

Lukker- · 20-08-2016 04:23PM

Starting to look like a game at least

The_Valeyard · 20-08-2016 07:20PM

Lukker- wrote: »

Starting to look like a game at least

Think the game Squadron42 is nearly done. But the persistent universe is still well off completion.

PirateShampoo · 20-08-2016 07:57PM

He says in the demo that it would take months for a player to walk around a planet on foot and when you look at a planet its not just a render of a curve your looking at, its the actual curvature of the planet and that the mountains you can see are really there for you to visit.

Icyseanfitz · 20-08-2016 08:03PM

PirateShampoo wrote: »

He says in the demo that it would take months for a player to walk around a planet on foot and when you look at a planet its not just a render of a curve your looking at, its the actual curvature of the planet and that the mountains you can see are really there for you to visit.

The thing is will there be stuff to do on those planets or is it going to be a no mans sky situation, must say its looking amazing though

The_Valeyard · 20-08-2016 08:08PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

The thing is will there be stuff to do on those planets or is it going to be a no mans sky situation, must say its looking amazing though

Probably be empty if they are moons. Could be great place to use mining ships though.

Class -M planets will probably have cities.

PirateShampoo · 20-08-2016 10:03PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

The thing is will there be stuff to do on those planets or is it going to be a no mans sky situation, must say its looking amazing though

He said they will have a main unique outpost and a few modular bases scattered around.

Venom · 20-08-2016 11:03PM

That demo looked amazing no doubt about it but I wonder how it will work with multiple players running it at the same time?

BlitzKrieg · 21-08-2016 05:31PM

Venom wrote: »

That demo looked amazing no doubt about it but I wonder how it will work with multiple players running it at the same time?

The bit where the ship follows him down the elevator really perked my interest.

In some areas the game locks your guns so you cant shoot, but not in every hub area, so I am sort of tempted with the idea of doing this to some market space:

https://youtu.be/g1mTJS0L_Hs?t=46s

crap movie but still gunshipping a public space has that twisted dark appeal to it.

though I'll wager a guess that even in areas you can shoot the glass will be shield protected or something.

Varik · 21-08-2016 08:18PM

Would assume that the inside of stations and such would be similar to the inside of ships/space and while you can see inside it's a different instance.

saneman · 22-08-2016 07:30PM

Venom wrote: »

That demo looked amazing no doubt about it but I wonder how it will work with multiple players running it at the same time?

Therein is the main problem currently and the Crynetwork refactor is ongoing to improve server/client communication. I believe the issues are most notable in 2.4 where larger framerate drops have been experienced as the existing system shows it's weaknesses.

Currently every update (whether relevant or not) is sent to every client affecting both the server and the network. The server has to do significant amount of processing to generate and stream all the update packets to every client. The clients have to deal with a flood of updates that it doesn't need to know about, killing CPU performance.

Certainly from what I've seen in 2.5 PTU these issues are still there and I think it'll be 2.7 before the improved netcode will be introduced, this being the planned release for the Stanton system.

dreamers75 · 22-08-2016 09:44PM

Have tried 3 free weekends of this and cant get into it.

PirateShampoo · 25-08-2016 10:22PM

Alpha 2.5 is now live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVK8syx-Y-w

Andrew76 · 26-08-2016 05:50AM

Another lovely looking trailer. Still in Alpha though? Have they given any indication when we might see the finished article?

PirateShampoo · 26-08-2016 09:04AM

Andrew76 wrote: »

Another lovely looking trailer. Still in Alpha though? Have they given any indication when we might see the finished article?

Squadron 42 which is the single player part of the game is due at the end of the year.

Personally I don't think that's going to happen but you never know, they have a massive global spanning team working on it. Luckily it's all supervised by one guy so it won't get pushed until ready and hopefully we won't have a No Man's Sky situation.

Kiith · 26-08-2016 09:13AM

It'll be a good while before we see anything near the finished article. Squadron 42 will probably come first, with the persistent universe following after that.

Smiles35 · 26-08-2016 09:45AM

I'm waiting on an xposé on the AI/Pathfinding. For all the little AI contoled crew and wingmen. That's such a huge technical part in it and would make the game a popular single player game aswell.

TireeTerror · 29-08-2016 09:46PM

Tried to install update. Deleted the entire game folder and uninstalled the launcher. Downloaded new launcher and it wont accept my login credentials. Stupid stupid annoying POS!

dan_ep82 · 29-08-2016 10:00PM

TireeTerror wrote: »

Stupid stupid annoying POS!

Wow

Its probably servers if its the authentication

TireeTerror · 29-08-2016 10:13PM

dan_ep82 wrote: »

Wow

Its probably servers if its the authentication

I googled it and over the last few years many multiples of people have had the same issue with no real fix.

The_Valeyard · 29-08-2016 11:23PM

I'm really looking forward to the new netcode for 2.6 or 2.7, should dramatically improve loading time and framerate

froog · 30-08-2016 11:28AM

seems to be a lot of problems with this development.

Corvo · 30-08-2016 11:30AM

Never had a PC. Never played PC games.

I would kill everyone in this thread for a chance to play this regularly.

TireeTerror · 30-08-2016 11:33AM

Corvo wrote: »

Never had a PC. Never played PC games.

I would kill everyone in this thread for a chance to play this regularly.

You would kill yourself after the millionth time you fell out of your ship, or were pushed into oblivion for no reason, or the game crashed to desktop for the 100th time in a day. I barely play it, just waiting for them to improve stability because its a complete shambles at the moment.

BlitzKrieg · 30-08-2016 02:37PM

froog wrote: »

seems to be a lot of problems with this development.

There has been accusations of such. But honestly it has insane ambitions but unlike certain other titles that are controversial at the moment it does feel like its moving towards those ambitions.

Even if some of the things they fuss over are the sort other developers would cut because even though its cool in sheer gameplay terms its a lot of effort for no pay off.

But for role playing experience and to take the selling point of that other game the thrill of exploration and deep space travel it is those touches that make the experience.

Skatedude · 30-08-2016 02:50PM

The launcher would also not accept my account login details until i downloaded the launcher again, but i think some people still cant login even then.

froog · 30-08-2016 07:00PM

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

There has been accusations of such. But honestly it has insane ambitions but unlike certain other titles that are controversial at the moment it does feel like its moving towards those ambitions.

Even if some of the things they fuss over are the sort other developers would cut because even though its cool in sheer gameplay terms its a lot of effort for no pay off.

But for role playing experience and to take the selling point of that other game the thrill of exploration and deep space travel it is those touches that make the experience.

well i hope it goes well. if they deliver even 70% of what they've said it could be an amazing game.