Star Citizen (PC game)

[Neil]

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[Kaos]

Looks pretty good to me!

[Neil]

Not played a really good space sim for as long as I can remember!

[shootemindehead]

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[Neil]

Remember the little economy in Elite, and how much fun that was :) Now watch this...

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[Neil]

They're reach $19m now... Now aiming for $21m for even more features - https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13266-Letter-From-The-Chairman-19-Million


We are also excited to reveal the $21 million stretch goal, a major gameplay feature we have been hoping to include with Star Citizen and the culmination of several recent stretch goal unlocks!

Salvage Mechanic: Salvage isn’t an aside: it’s a career, with its own mechanic, story tie-ins and universe-shaping endgames. Search the galaxy for a host of valuable and interesting secrets using both the flight and FPS components. Discover the secrets of the ancient Hadesians, locate valuable components and cargo… or go down in history as the first to make contact with an entirely new alien race!


On an interesting note, if you read the article tye pay Kick Starter approx 10%.... So they've earned $2m just from this one project! WOW!

[Neil]

OK! Watch the first ten seconds of this Star Citizen video and tell me what demographic it's aimed at? I suggest teenage boys, and can give you two good reasons why!

http://vimeo.com/76645112

[Neil]

So they're up to about $57m now via the Kickstarter. People are throwing bucket loads of money at them!

Here for example is them offering a new ship, the Origin 890 Jump Luxury. And all you have to do is give them $600! - https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/186116/890-jump-concept-sale-plans


The game does look pretty, but the gameplay looks worrying. Look at this guy playing it... does this look like an indepth space sim? (jump about 35s in)

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Some people have created signature images off of it...

http://i.imgur.com/5oB9AIS.gif

[Neil]

Derek Smart is a game developer who crowd funded Star Citizen when it started development for $250.

Recently he's got alarmed and posted a number of articles...


If you have time (it is a long artciels but worth it) this is an interesting/epic read from his blog - http://www.dereksmart.org/2015/07/interstellar-discourse/

He's forecasting very bad things for SC!


Here's the epic continuation :) - http://www.dereksmart.org/2015/07/interstellar-justice/

^^ He's offering $1m of his own money to investigate what's going on in RSI :)

[EvilNed]

Seems like an interesting read. I think I'll plough through this.

[Neil]

Seems like an interesting read. I think I'll plough through this.

I found the two blog entries interesting... Let me know what you think :)

[kidgloves]

This looks incredible to me

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[Neil]

^^ That is starting to look good!

[kidgloves]

5 hour live stream.


https://youtu.be/9r6zE_vESvI

Still in Alpha I think

[shootemindehead]

This is going to destroy Elite.

If they give the player some crap to do, this game will be a life drainer.

[Neil]

This is going to destroy Elite.

If they give the player some crap to do, this game will be a life drainer.I'm interested to see what comes out of this monster in the end!

[kidgloves]

This is going to destroy Elite.

If they give the player some crap to do, this game will be a life drainer.

Aye. The Mass Effect series is about as close to my idea of a perfect "space" game. This looks like a real time version of that. Will be life draining for me if they get the combat right. Fallout 4 combat is what I'm looking for

[kidgloves]

This is free to play this week.
Be interested to hear your views


https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/07/16/star-citizen-free-fly-week-trial/

[Neil]

This is going to destroy Elite.

If they give the player some crap to do, this game will be a life drainer.

You do realise there's an increasing opinion, this thing will never be released... And if it is, it will be a super super super cut down version of what it's been "sold" as...

[kidgloves]

You do realise there's an increasing opinion, this thing will never be released... And if it is, it will be a super super super cut down version of what it's been "sold" as...

There's a lot of misinformation around this game Neil.
Afaik it's grown in scope over the years and that's where the confusion over the finished product comes from. Not broken promises

[Neil]

There's a lot of misinformation around this game Neil.
Afaik it's grown in scope over the years and that's where the confusion over the finished product comes from. Not broken promises

Dude... There's talk of misappropriation/spending of fund... Suggestions money is getting short... Key staff leaving... And after allllll this time, nothing like a smidgen of the game play required to release...

I would not put a $ into that game at the moment...



Derek Smart is starting to look like he might have been right that they could never deliver on their extended project...

http://www.dereksmart.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/sc_completed.jpg

[shootemindehead]

Ugh. That's shite.

But , TBH, colour me unsurprised.

[kidgloves]

So, is anyone going to try it then? Don't have a capable pc myself

[shootemindehead]

Just don't have the time right now.

I've games bought from two years ago sitting on the HDD that I haven't touched.

Besides, I'm sort of done messing about with Alphas. I'll wait until the full release.

[Neil]

Oh dear!

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[Neil]

Squadron 42
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Star Citizen
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Raw footage...

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