Star Citizen reaches $600 million raised but the game future is really worrying
Cloud Imperium has been working on Star Citizen since 2011, which has already raised more than $600 million. When will its final version be released?
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The game is playable now, although not perfect and not feature complete. The folks whining have not played it, no matter what they claim.
You must have rock bottom standards to not expect the most expensive game ever made to at the very least be feature complete after 12 years. And we are talking about a very healthy first here, development costs are more than twice as much as second place and growing every day.
Not accurate, most funding goes into squadron 42
Star citizen is an afterthought built from SQ42 spare parts
I don't see a reason why the most expensive game ever should have to be feature complete after 12 years.
But if this particular most expensive game ever was originally announced to be released in 2014, then postponed last minute a couple of times and subsequently split up into two games to allow an earlier release of parts of it...
There's plenty of multiplayer live service games that show how it should be done. Yeah sure, add microtransactions and content updates and whatever else but make sure that bare minimum standards are met with regards to the game itself. When I click "Play" in Apex Legends, I don't clip through the floor and explode because it's a feature complete game. Still live service, still getting improved every day, but feature complete. The base game actually working is not optional like in Star Citizen.
I played it this year, and it is totally shit, the features that are already in games don't work. Even comparing with other space games like elite dangerous that are way cheaper and already have a decent and less buggy gameplay loop
35 bucks is way more expensive is it? Proof that you have not played is that is.
35 bucks what? What is proof? And what is change?
I played enough to see an empty city that adds literally nothing to anything, with every single NPC standing still on a chair. I played enough to crash two times interacting with shit to just restart ON MY FUCKING ROOM, why there is a server if it is unable to keep your quest state is beyond my intelligence.
Furthermore, I played enough to see corpses around the abandoned world, adding nothing but noise to my immersion, dumber quests, simpler ship controllers and simpler planetary bases than Elite Dangerous. Also, maybe I didn't have played enough, but I had no SC player providing me with a decent endgame gameplay loop like ED, I don't know how a game this old and this expensive can have less endgame than an actual indie game.
Literally the one thing that it is better in SC than ED is the ability to move inside your ship, that is dope but is not worth the cheapest ship or worse, your time. And I'm writing this comments to other ppl, not you Tigris, you are beyond any rational discussion, you probably have spent too much on this game to admit to yourself it is crap. If you truly believe that the game is good you would just talk about what we are missing and not white knighting and gaslighting anyone that disagrees with you.
simpler ship controllers and simpler planetary bases than Elite Dangerous
There’s plenty to criticise but this is just wrong. I’m really into space and flight sims and Elite Dangerous doesn’t hold a candle to Star Citizens flight model.
Can you explain a little? For me, it was just an arcade game, I felt that a have so less control layers that I have in ED that I cannot get what you mean.
Elite Dangerous has a flight model where your ship behaves like it’s in atmosphere. You even have a throttle/speed “zone” where your ship handles best.
In essence this flight model is a very basic imitation a WW2 era plane, where due to the complex relationship between control surfaces and air speed they had ideal speeds for manoeuvring.
Elite Dangerous doesn’t model any of this using physics it’s all just fixed values and of course there’s no (or negligible) atmosphere in space.
Ever watch The Expanse where they’re going one direction full speed then they flip and burn the other direction? That’s realistic physics even if the engines being used are hand-wavy future tech.
You can do that in Star Citizen, though new players often miss that, as there are a actually two flight models.
The basic flight model is called coupled mode, where your direction of travel is “coupled” to your direction of forward momentum and has “drag” which is your ship slowing itself when you’re not using thrust, due to the chosen mode. This gives you a feeling of atmospheric control similar to Elite Dangerous.
The second mode is called uncoupled and is complete 6 degrees of freedom and your ship will maintain all momentum (it doesn’t slow down when you’re off throttle) allowing manoeuvres like the flip and burn mentioned above. This is very close to how things actually work in space though not perfect.
Oh and because atmospheric flight actually is modelled in Star Citizen, you can’t treat a dog fight in a planets atmosphere the same as a dog fight in space!
OK, thats actually cool. Maybe I will try it again just feel it. How I choose this uncoupled mode? It is a config of the game or a mode of the ship?
Just a shortcut, sorry I don’t remember what the default is because I use customised HOTAS controls.
Don’t try decoupled in atmosphere/gravity as… you will be claiming your ship very quickly.
Proof is last time I gifted a game. Starter ships right now are 45 bucks. But wait for the Thanksgiving sale and they are 35, or were last Year.
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Packages/Aurora-MR-Starter-Pack
Sounds like you have not played in numerous Years. None of that is true recently.
If you want an active City play during fleet week.
But tell yourself whatever you like to feel better about it.
Squadron 42 when?
When they finish it.
I think you meant IF.
Nope. They are having no problem continuing funding.
That's why they aren't going to finish it. Why finish it when you can keep developing and keep extracting money from gullible fans.
Is Amazon finished yet? You seem strangely unfamiliar with businesses that remain open.
"Is Amazon finished yet" Holy shit my sides!
Well yeah, it is finished. It has reached state where people can say "yes, this is finished" unlike star citizen. And there's a fundamental difference between a store and a game that at some point reaches the finished state, again, unlike star citizen.
How come baldur's gate 3 didn't need 10 years and 600 million fan funding to reach a release?
Agreed - it's more fun to play than most of the major releases of the past few years.
What's there to play and what's still coming?
You can bounty hunt, mine, trade, race, pvp or explore in a ship, in a ground vehicle or on foot. You can buy most ships and vehicles in game, the exceptions being the most recent ships and some capital ships.
There are also pvp events and the occasional pve event, but I prefer the player driven events like the daymar races.
I guess new locations, some more ships and a bunch of server tech like functional server meshing are what we’re waiting on.
Given how great this year has been for games, I'm just going to press X to doubt.
Baldurs Gate 3 is a masterpiece, GOTY for me so far, but every other game this year I would rank below Star Citizen for me personally. Starfield especially just makes me wish I was playing Star Citizen.
