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

Snubs docking with the relevant ships is meant to be next patch.

External ship to ship and to station, will show up when there's a ship that needs it.

Hull C introduction likely to have it.

Maybe with idris as that's probably furthest along.

Love the Expanse.

Must give it a watch, it probably more believable than Star citizen ever being playable

EoinHef wrote: »

I like the Expanse but im not blown away by it. Must watch the mew episode though.

This game just disappoints every time i TRY to load it up.

Huge load times,crashes,terrible performance,lockups and then when it does work everything from landing to flying feels so place holder that whats the point.

It really has a long long way to go. I spent €30 only so not much of a vested interest either way,hopefully ill be able to enjoy it some day....hopefully before we put a human on mars!!

If things go belly up you're covered in any case if you paid by CC, at least in EU/Ireland

So I was really fed up strumming my fingers every time I'd come back to try SC to see how far along we were. Time to go SSD for it. Gave it its own dedicated basic SSD (OS is on a balls to the walls NVME drive, this doesnt deserve that).



7 Minutes down to two. Still WAYYYYY too long there big C but we're getting there. 90 seconds to 16 seconds for FPS. Very pleased.

Cost? €28.




My main issue though is the 2GB graphics card. Playing Vandul Swarm usage is about 1950MB of 2048 and thats the lightest possible load. Everything else is pretty much unplayable. Now that prices are coming back down I might finally upgrade.

I agree with the SSD - I have it on one (not the latest & greatest) and it was reasonably playable last weekend with the 3.1.4 patch. I was able to do a 5-stop trading trip and made it back to Port Olisar with no crashes, just one minor bug (one door would not open, so I used a different one). Graphics card is a GTX1060, but at the resolution I currently use (1366x768) I can see it's not being fully utilised, and I got > 90 fps in the hangar last time I tested that.

I also have a 3x3TB Storage Spaces array in the same computer with very fast read speeds close to SSD performance. (Software RAID-0, yes I know a single disk failure will trash it, so there's nothing critical on that and it's backed up regularly.) Last time I tried SC on that, it wasn't as good as SSD but better than a single disk.

There is still too much random loading from disk and/or network calls that kill performance when anything happens - and I do mean anything. Go in to freelook and look around -> FPS drops. Turn the ship while approaching an outpost - FPS drops. Open a door and see an NPC -> FPS drops. Combat -> the enemy ship manoevres -> game can lock up for several seconds, during which time you're a sitting duck.

Get 1500 UEC and a chance to win a Starfarer Gemini for agreeing to the new terms due to gdpr

Never received the credits.

Varik wrote: »

Don't think anyone has yet, the competition part of it isn't up until the 31st.

They were probably busy getting the Legatus Pack ready for ordering.


A bargain at $27,000!





https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/8mos1t/star_citizen_offers_the_legatus_pack_for_27000/?st=jhrpildw&sh=b04f1651

bnt wrote: »

So, what you're saying is: you can't tell the difference between total vapourware - software that doesn't exist - and Star Citizen as it is now - alpha, flawed, a long way from complete, but also a long way from vapourware. I'm not happy with the slow pace of development given the amount of money they have to play with, but development is happening.

They aren't getting any more of my money, so the sunk cost fallacy (a.k.a. "throwing good money after bad") doesn't apply here. I don't have to "give up": I can just wait. I have time. :cool:

I'd kind of agree with you, but to day they've apparently raised over $185 million dollars. That is an extremely largely amount of money for a game still in Alpha, and by the looks of it has spent more time creating new micro-transactions instead of the actual game content.

People rightfully went berserk at EA for their tactics on Battlefront 2 and micro-transactions, but these guys do seem to be getting a pass on it.

I honestly don't expect to see this game for at least 5 more years at best.

What's the actual incentive to fully release though? You have a game concept that takes in boat loads of money every year if you just show a few tech clips at your very own conference. You can just create an income by promising future updates.

And even if you do fully release, how the hell are you going to set a balance between the person who spent 800 real money on a ship Vs the person who wants to earn it in game, no one's going to be happy!