Vapourware Star Citizen - Only people with too much money can become StarCitizens! WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?

Yeah, I really hunger for some new space sim goodness for a long time. Hopefully X Rebirth satisfy us for some time.

 

Seems like there will be a big sale soon:



Taken from GAF.

 

But do they really have miles of space ships?

 

Stuff about single player on RPS.

Do i reed that right that you will have to babysit your wingman and women? like in some party?
Like... talk to them and... take care of their... problems?

 

"Sit down and shut up or I pop you in the mouth again", works every time.

 

Recent and substantial forum posts by Chris Roberts, from the dev tracker:

http://partedveil.com/index.php?dev=croberts68

Clearly this will be an arcade game. He's a hands-off idea guy who hasn't put much thought into this, and he's just out to take everyone's mo—

Oh.

 

But why... are the fighters... piloted... and... not automated?

 

Same reason the characters in a two-hour film miss their easy opportunities to resolve everything in ten minutes, or just shoot the villain (or whatever) thirty minutes in—there'd be no film. "Why doesn't he just...?"

Can't think of a good specific example, but there is this.

 

I never would have suspected that Star Citizen will model space flight more realistically than Elite: Dangerous. ED devs presume to know what's best, or "most fun", for you and it's going to have ficticious forces which keep you from having too much control over your spacecraft, in addition to a speed limit.

 

You never would have suspected that a studio which has made shovelware for the past 15 years, and fumbled their last AAA pet project so spectacularly that it nearly killed the company, would be unable to make their desperately underfunded fanboy cash-in on a dead IP from the early 1990's compare to the most cash-flush space simulator in the 21st century?

 

Well, finally couldn't resist anymore, I just felt the need... the need for speed!




Got the 300i package - Blaine, I'll try and catch you when you're on Steam and you can do that space voodoo thing with the LTI?

 

I prefer this as "get hype music":

I'll PM you the email address to gift it to, you PM back the email address I'll be returning it to once laundered. Make sure it's spelled properly, etc.

 

God damn Blaine, ignoring my PMs!

Can you still gift LTI ships? Does it make any sense to get one (over buying the backer package).

 

You sent me a bunch of gibberish, though I see now what you meant to say....

Packages (which include a copy of the game/extras) can also be gifted, and the ship(s) included can have LTI. It doesn't make any sense not to, from your perspective—you'll get whatever you buy, except with LTI, and also probably with 1-3 $5 skins since original backers get packages more cheaply.

 

If it's in finnish, I can translate. Avaruustelakoituminen is serious business.

 

Oh shit, seems I missed this little tidbit:

 

A trade ship? Hmm, I guess it'll be 100+ dollars?

 

I'm still seriously considering organizing a single-elimination deathmatch tournament featuring one-on-one battles between players piloting stock M50s. As such, I refinished the M50 in classic Wing Commander HUD style for later use as a propaganda poster logo for said tournament:



Sorry about the watermark. This is a derivative copy of someone else's work, but it took time to do and I don't want it jacked for general usage.

 

Sounds like a good idea, even for spectators. Of course, as the organizer you'd have to pull the clichéd villain move where the winner has to fight you and you cheat with some pimped-out god-tier ship.

 

Turisas
I'm considering offering one of my limited-quantity LTI ships attached to a Golden Ticket account as the grand prize—either the Idris-M Corvette or the Vanduul Scythe. Either ship would guarantee interest in the tournament. Runner-up prize(s) would be split between runners-up (of which there'll be either one, or three; haven't decided yet), and I feel that a 5,000-credit entry fee would be fair and ought to cover runner-up prizes handsomely. If there's only one runner-up, then the entry fee pot will probably be split between the champion and the runner-up, further sweetening the grand prize. If there are three runners up, then half the pot will go to the final match runner-up, while the other half will be split between the semi-final runners-up.

The "organization" bit comes from needing livestreamers/recorders (for those who wish to spectate—I don't fancy myself ESPN, but some people enjoy that sort of thing), multiple judges to inspect ship loadouts and referee matches, and even advertisers/match coordinators.

I won't be taking a single credit of entry fees and all "staff" will be volunteers. This will be for the glory of the champion who leaves a smoking pile of shipwrecks in his wake.

 

This is 3D-enabled, which means you may or may not have to turn off 3D—but if you have glasses, you can view it in 3D.

Basically, some guy loaded the p52 Merlin model (Constellation's snub fighter) into Unity and flew it around a bit with the Oculus Rift.

 

Well, I'd better break this myself, since I'm the de facto Official Star Citizen Shill and will be accused of "hiding" it otherwise....

There is a PS4 development kit in CIG's offices, as seen on Wingman's Hangar yesterday.

(for reference)


(screen grab from Wingman's Hangar)


Now I'm legitimately worried and no longer as dismissive of Chris' statement at E3 (I think it was E3? Grunker, you linked that quote, what was it again?) that he "might consider" console ports. It's worth noting however that they may simply have been sent a free dev kit by Sony, and just didn't elect to throw it in the garbage. It is being used as a monitor stand after all, and is not powered on in the picture.

There is an enormous shitstorm on the forums about this, as there should be. If Star Citizen is ported to consoles pre-release (by which I mean Star Citizen 1.0 for the PC), I'm selling off as many of my ships as I can and demanding a refund of the rest (CIG is known for actually providing refunds when asked).

 

Uh oh

 

They get almost 28 fucking million dollars of donations, and put everything in risk by trying to get more from Sony. Greed is strong here.