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Star Citizen Pushes Through the $700 Million Raised Mark and No, There Still Isn’t a Release Date (www.ign.com)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Is it still a clunky, GPU melting mess?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I tried it like a year ago? Lasted about 2 weeks before I refunded. It was a stuttery mess for me. They have to reset the servers because they go to crap constantly. Several times a day I would run into some game breaking bug that, when I googled it, I would find people talking about how its been that way for years and then there would be the 15 step 20 minute work around. I remember one in particular...I decided to try crime. Did some smuggling to this (honestly really cool) outlaw base in an asteroid. Once I got there I couldn't sell. People said its just like that and keep trying. Gave up after a few days of trying to sell there. Any and all complaints about anything wrong with the game are met with frothing screams of the world alpha and thats how things are in gaming when a game is this 'early in development'

Its a shame because beneath under the Everest size mountain of bugs and poorly optimized crap is my dream space game.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

thats how things are in gaming when a game is this 'early in development'

Lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It has the potential to be an amazing game. But it probably never will be.

I fire it up once or twice per year. It looks great. Beyond that... it's kind of fun to explore a bit, but that's pretty much it. Not sure if anything will ever become of it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Last I saw it the game was pretty functional in some aspects but we're now at a point where some of the older assets look 2 generations out of date so the game is accumulating a growing amount of artistic debt where the old stuff just doesn't fit with the newer stuff anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If you have a chance jump into the free fly today before it ends tomorrow. 3.23 has been a giant QoL patch and added Vulcan with upscaling.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/190048/thread/star-citizen-alpha-3-23-1-9179031-live-patch-notes/6865743

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It's Vulkan. And from the user reports I've seen it doesn't really seem to affect the still garbage performance.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Reminder that the SC episode of Down the Rabbit Hole came out 7 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean, are people playing and somewhat satisfied? If yes, who gives a fuck about any arbitrary release date?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why not just release it then if nobody cares anyway?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They are not finished with it yet and the folks backing it are playing so they see the work and are having fun.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not meh, it's "we've almost raised a BILLION dollars by not releasing this game. Oh by the way, there's no release date yet."

[+] [email protected] -7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

...and?

Not like people are paying for the release date. And they did release a product, just not under "version 1.0".

Seems like people are just mad that a game they don't like made money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nobody's mad that didn't throw money in the pit. It's just a funny story that never seems to end. Every year they don't have a finished product, the joke gets funnier.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Idk I've seen a lot of people getting genuinely upset over this stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't have a horse in this race, but it's the perfect counterpart to companies like EA Games where unfinished games come out because developers had to meet an arbitrary deadline. Star Citizen is right at the other end of the spectrum and you see what happens when there are no deadlines and the product is never finished. I would love to play it, but my backlog is so big that I can afford to be a patient gamer. I have about 35 years until I retire and if version 1.0 is out by then I'll be happy to take another look.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On the bright side though, they are consistently updating the game. I don't play, but several of my friends play it all the time, and to them it definitely seems to be worth what they paid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

consistently updating the game

People are still falling through elevators and delivery missions are still bugged to hell four years after I quit for those reasons, but hey, they have beards now! 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"A lot" is an interesting descriptor, especially when comparing loud easily defined groups with quieter more subtle groups.

Its the difference between those animals that puff themselves out to five times their normal size and those that prefer not to be seen at all. Are there a significant portion of the first as compared to the second, just because you see them more blatantly?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yep, "I've seen a lot" does in fact refer to the portion I've seen, which is a lot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People are mad about empty promises and vaporware that seemingly only exists to make CR even fatter.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have friends that play this game basically all day every day. Doesn't seem like vaporware to me.

Empty promises maybe, but it would be disingenuous to deny it's perfectly playable in its current state.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

And I have "played" it multiple times for a short while over the years myself. Anyone saying it is perfectly playable in its current state is a liar and part of the cult. It's a glorified half broken tech demo.

And yes, it is vaporware, because there's so much feature creep that it will never see the light of day. They constantly completely re-write systems, often times systems that have been already re-written a couple of times. A lot of newer systems don't fit in well with previous systems or other aspects that are now very much outdated, which means they have to redo them too (like various ships). It's a constant redoing of things that have been done already. All while the major tech needed for what they claim to aim at is still not really there. And all of this comes on top of them adding completely new features instead of focusing on fixing & finishing what's already there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

A tiny amount is, and most aren't. So that should answer your last question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Everyone: It's a scam, game runs like crap, so many bugs, etc. etc., all valid points.

People who like it anyway: vrrroooommm weeeeeee, pew pew pew, vsksshhh, crash. Reload. Vrrroooooommm.....

Who cares, go have your own fun, leave us to ours 🙄

Edit: down voted for wanting to have my own fun? Fine, I'll go play with my toy spaceship with out you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Alright, have fun, just remember; don't drink the Kool-aid!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You're not going to have any luck with the general population. They've been conditioned to hate star citizen by all these lazy asshole "journalists" that can't be bothered to look into what they're writing about past the big dollar sign...

What really pisses me off though is we get the whole "stupid AAA publishers rushed out XYZ game to meet a quarterly financial report!" with every single game that comes out. "Why didn't they just give it time to cook! Release when it's ready!"

Now we have star citizen almost entirely backed by users with no date pressure as there is no publishing company forcing their hand and they're building what will be the most amazing space MMO we're likely to ever see because they have the time and the resources, but instead of awe we get this trash "ItS nOt ReAdY yEt!? MiLlIoNs Of DoLlArS!" article over and over and over again...

If they did actually follow the project they'd know that SQ42 is likely to be released next year and star citizen is already talking about release 1.0...

Bahh bahh bahh goes the media sheep.