OFFICIAL Star Citizen

[human_error]

The amusing thing is that most of the vocal whiners / complainers are recent johnny-come-latelys who wouldn't have been playing today due to their low ID# anyway.

I loved one comment that was "I've been a backer and following this game since January blah blah blah moan moan". I was sitting there thinking "I've been waiting since Oct 2012. Deal with it". Delays happen in software engineering - it would be better if CIG (if they decided to give out deadlines despite the outcry they cause when missed) gave out deadlines far and above what they think is necessary so they can launch early instead of late, but at the end of the day promises or not the game will be released at the same time.

 

[TheMailMan78]

I got an Xplor invite also. I roll only with Capt. Neck Beard. All other orgs. can go F#$K themselves......Unless a DN org. starts. Then Ill have to jump on them.

 

[Ahhzz]

Anyone else think the first two Critical bugs sound like a bad night drinking and the next morning?

• After respawning, the player immediately blackout, couldn’t get back into gameplay
• Character shakes and twitches when freelooking left or right in any cockpit

 

[Scrizz]

I've been seeing a lot of hate from SC forum members. Either original backers don't use the website at all (i don't and I'm guessing most of you guys don't either, besides checking the odd update or two), or SC is going to have the worst troll community I've ever seen.

That, and I'm utterly sick of SC guys hating on Elite: Dangerous, and Elite: Dangerous guys hating on SC. Both fit in a different market segment, and I fully intend to buy and play both of them. Some people just seem to think there is only one thing that is the be all and end all, just don't understand the mindset of these kids.

I've backed both. I found out about Elite from SC peeps.
I love multiplayer, but I am happy there's the option of running my own server/single player. That way I can play 8 years later when the servers might be shut down.

Oh, I plan of getting Limit Theory too.
http://ltheory.com/


It's like all the cool space games decided to be in development at the same time. xD

 

[Mindweaver]

I've backed both. I found out about Elite from SC peeps.
I love multiplayer, but I am happy there's the option of running my own server/single player. That way I can play 8 years later when the servers might be shut down.

Oh, I plan of getting Limit Theory too.
http://ltheory.com/


It's like all the cool space games decided to be in development at the same time. xD

Don't forget about Darkfield.

 

[Ahhzz]

Hadn't seen that one, been watching Limit Theory, not sure how much Space I can get before I burn out tho lol

 

[Scrizz]

Don't forget about Darkfield.

yeah, for me that one competes with mah precious arena commander. lol

 

[Random Murderer]

Does anybody know if they're still on-schedule for the v.8 release in an hour?

 

[erocker]

Does anybody know if they're still on-schedule for the v.8 release in an hour?

No. Delayed. Daily updates on their front page.

 

[Random Murderer]

No. Delayed. Daily updates on their front page.

That's from yesterday, the 29th. The last I heard, a few hours after that was posted, was that the internal schedule was set for the 30th at 2PM CST.

 

[erocker]

CIG never gave a date or a time. Don't count on it today as they said they're working on it through the weekend. Also mentioned is that there will be a Jump Point, TGNS and and another DFM daily info. update today.

 

[Random Murderer]

CIG never gave a date or a time. Don't count on it today as they said they're working on it through the weekend. Also mentioned is that there will be a Jump Point, TGNS and and another DFM daily info. update today.

Didn't see that part. Thanks for the heads-up. I wasn't counting on it today, I was expecting another delay notice, lol.

 

[Hilux SSRG]

I just started watching the Next Great Star Citizen Starship series and its great. For someone like myself who has zero industry knowledge, it's fun and learn all that goes into making ships, components, etc.

I must say some of the contestants have talent. That Mustang starter ship is awesome looking, much better style than the Aurora and Hornet. Are all three starter ships or will there be more released?

 

[Nordic]

I know Star citizen will require a beefy gpu, more beefy than todays top end, but does anyone know about cpu? Does it need a lot of single threaded power? Will it make use of multiple cores? Would it be much more cpu intensive than other crysis 3 engine games?

Did a google search in the end, and didn't expect much. I did find this link. Basically it says star citizen will use anything you throw its way. More cores, yes it will use them. Recommended specs so far is an i5-2500k, and I usually think you need more than the recommended, thus answering my questions.

 

[erocker]

Yeah, the game will use whatever you can throw at it... I doubt anyone would need over 16 gb's of RAM though.

So, from what I gathered in chat today:

-They are compiling a hopefully fixed build of the DFM right now
-It will be Monday at the earliest most likely.
-Jump Point is out today
-They are working on a Freelancer and Freelancer variant brochure (might be out today) I think one of the variants will be called a Fardancer (I read it in the lore somewhere).
-They are working on a short video to show today (not sure on the content)

 

[Mindweaver]

Yea, Ben said Monday would be the earliest we would get it in chat today.

 

[Scrizz]

yeah, Monday the 9th

 

[Scrizz]

Check out the sizzle.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/...ena-Commander-V8-Daily-Bug-Update-May-30-2014

yeah

EDIT: thought this in-game pic looked great. It's the 300i

 

[Divide Overflow]

Can someone please clue me in to what the heck Katamari means? It's all over the place in the RSI forums, but a google search only brings up some old Japanese console game with next to no relevance that I can see. (Must be getting too damned old to lose track of the lingo...)

 

[Scrizz]

IDK what Katamari is....
it's not needed for this game, lol

 

[erocker]

Can someone please clue me in to what the heck Katamari means? It's all over the place in the RSI forums, but a google search only brings up some old Japanese console game with next to no relevance that I can see. (Must be getting too damned old to lose track of the lingo...)

I have no clue where the word came from but what I can gather that a Katamari thread is for dumping all threads on the same topic into one big thread. All forums do it, TPU does it.. we just call it "cleaning things up".

So... Probably shouldn't post this, but since it's hosted by RSI and isn't blocked... and it's way too awesome not to share...

That right there is some serious ship pr0n.

 

[ne6togadno]

nothing about freelancer variants

 

[RCoon]

IDK what Katamari is....
it's not needed for this game, lol

Katamari Damacy

Seriously. Nobody has heard of that? Best PS2 game ever.

It refers to combining all the crap into one big homoginised ball.

Edit: it's like a landfill, you gather up all the crap and just dump it in one place

 

[Kursah]

Katamari Damacy

Seriously. Nobody has heard of that? Best PS2 game ever.

It refers to combining all the crap into one big homoginised ball.

Edit: it's like a landfill, you gather up all the crap and just dump it in one place

Gran Turismo 3 was the best game for PS2 imho...even over GT4. Never had interest in the Katamari, but had a nephew that loved it.

I haven't been keeping too close track of this game and it's releases, still appears to be having delays....I'm fine with the "when it's ready" approach vs. a rush it out, call it done and make it buggier than beta approach. I'm excited to experience the DFM (are they still calling it that?). I have started playing Evochron again in anticipation.

 

[RCoon]

I have started playing Evochron again in anticipation.

I found it really difficult to get into that game. I understand X3 is great, (I have the GOTY edition), but struggled to get into it. On the contrary, I really love and still play Freelancer. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Am I just not giving the games enough time to play? Should I be playing through the missions first?

As for Gran Tourismo 3, I have to totally agree on it being the best. The sound track was amazing, and the graphics for that generation were simply amazing. First car was always the Mazda MX5 over the Chrystler Cruiser, and even though it was crap the Fiat Bravo was always nice early on. Then there was the awesome bug with the Escudo Pikes Peak Version where you could tune the gears so finely, if you went on the large circular test track, you could flip the front of the car and reach stupid speeds!

I'm happy to wait for DFM(Arena Commander). I've never been particularly impatient with Kickstarter games. We've waited for years with Star Citizen, I don't see the issues with waiting an extra weekend. I don't believe any game has been perfect on release, and this is just Beta anyway. No complaints about the delay for me, and I'll have no complaints if their beta is buggy either. Beta is Beta, it should have bugs, and even though they have all eyes on them, I feel like they're trying to make the DFM a little too polished for Beta. Granted blockers are serious, but smaller bugs are acceptable for a Beta build.

Too many impatient kids these days, buy into Betas and then expect them to have the quality of a finished game. I think until that is accepted and addressed suitably by the gaming community, Kickstarters and Early Access will always be plagues with bad reviews and complaints.