Well, I mean, I would have launched it first (as an AAA game), but I'm no game developer. 🤷 And neither are they, from the looks of it. Good at perpetually raking in money for himself and his family, though!

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[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago (4 children)

At this point I have genuinely have no fucking idea what the game is about

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 46 points 8 months ago

It's about taking money from people who like spaceships.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 9 points 8 months ago

Everything lol

It's supposed to be a "space life" simulator so you can basically do just about anything

[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Sir it's in the name. Star Citizen. Citizen of the stars. It's pretty clearly aiming to be what Starfield completely fucked up on.

A space game with as few restraints and as many possibilities as they can do. An Elite Dangerous with a much broader scope.

[–] brey1013@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Releasing soon ™️

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[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago (24 children)

I mean... it should given the playerbase has thrown a billion dollars into it.

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[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (8 children)

For those wondering about why such basic features are mentioned here it's because work on Squadron 42 (single player part of the project) moved to the polishing stage and everything created for it is being ported back to Star Citizen (multi player part).

Is it worth an article? It is if you're interested in the game, I guess?

Is SC a perfect project? Of course not, far from it. I do find it interesting however how... angry it makes people and how much they want it to fail. Yeah, I know $1000+ packages and so forth (not needed if you just want to play the game btw).

For those interested in actually checking for themselves whether it's a scam or not, there are free flight events multiple times a year - you get to see the current state of the game with everything good and bad it entails. Surprisingly enough, they tend to bring in more players every single time.

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Just because the product they are making is quality does not mean it isn't a scam. The game was supposed to be released a decade ago now. They said they had the entire single player finished and ready in 2014. The things they have made are impressive, sure. But after that amount of time its looking more and more like they lied about how ready things were to get more funding, and have been doing that for a decade now.

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[–] entropicshart@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If SC simply showed their original roadmap and timeline, it would speak to itself if it is a scam or or not.

As someone who bought in from the start (when everything was bundled), the argument of “not a scam” fell through when they started to hide their original roadmap.

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Just to clarify, which roadmap are we talking about?

The changes to the release view from last year or so?
One from CitizenCon after addition of full planet exploration?
One from the early days where SC was suppose to be a prettier Freelancer with planets separated by a loading screen and consisting of a small hub for activities?

I'd like to make sure which one we're talking about.

Edit: I'd also like to add, how far are we going with people being scammed?

I can understand this view for early backers (I'm one of them) but what about people who decided to drop money on the game in the last 2 or even 5 years? Were they also scammed despite hundreds of articles about delays, issues and thousands of people yelling about a scam every time SC is mentioned?

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can understand this view for early backers (I’m one of them) but what about people who decided to drop money on the game in the last 2 or even 5 years? Were they also scammed despite hundreds of articles about delays, issues and thousands of people yelling about a scam every time SC is mentioned?

Maybe, maybe not, but is entirely possible to be scammed while also being in a position where you should have known better; the two are not mutually incompatible.

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[–] aniki@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago (20 children)

imagine paying pcgamer for an advertisement like this to shout about dynamic crosshairs and backpack reloading like its fucking 1998.

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[–] entropicshart@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago (6 children)

The feature creep never ceases to amaze

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

PentA game

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[–] invisiblegorilla@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Oh shit. I think it was literally 10 years ago I 'pledged' the base game (Aurora Mr). It still has less hours than Microsoft minesweeper, which let's face it is a banging game.

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[–] EchoCT@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

This is all just stuff they're porting over from Squadron 42 now that they were able to move those devs back to SC. I have no idea why this deserves it's own article.

They should be bragging about the 400 player single shard test they just finished.

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Why do laser weapons have recoil? Don't ask. "I think you need recoil in order to balance the game and make it fun for everybody," explains Greim.

photons have momentum

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 16 points 8 months ago

Okay I did some math. If the gun shot a single photon with all the energy of a .50BMG from an M2 heavy machine gun, it would have about 1.2e-4 Ns of momentum. For reference, the bullet it's compared to would have 38.3 Ns. So the photon has about 32000 times less momentum than a bullet. Do with that what you will.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

barely... when's the last time a ray of sunshine slapped you across the face

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

Every morning.

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[–] tourist@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Wait did they still not release this game

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Even more fascinating, people are still chucking money at it. Because apparently too many ran out of other things to waste money on. Entirely.

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (12 children)

It’s playable if that’s what you mean. It’s still “early access” though.

[–] drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

"Playable"

for the record I paid for this and am watching with hopeful eyes, but please stop pretending that being able to launch the game and walk around is playing

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[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The phrase "AAA game/developer" has lost all meaning for me over the years. I just can't drop the clichéd $60+ on these titles anymore, especially with quality and support waning. I don't see this game being any different; the writing's on the wall.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Well, see, with Star Citizen, you buy it to have an unreleased game that will allow you to buy a ship for 8000 dollars that you can.. stand around inside of and look at.

Seriously, This is peak gaming.. how can you losers not understand how great this is?! /s

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[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Procedural recoil? So basically, random recoil you can never learn the patterns for?

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