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Star Citizen | CitizenCon Schedule published | Next star systems, Road to 1.0, possible Squadron 42 news & more
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I originally got a GTX 580 for this, lol. Funny how it's looking like maybe even the 4090 won't make it.
So 2026? Demo was rough but I suppose that's that these days. I think assuming funding doesn't collapse or runs out it'll be out. But I really want SQ42 & SC to come out because they both really are pushing the boundaries of FP(S) Gaming. At least all that money will probably be used as tech by other developers in the coming years.
Disclamer: have not spent a single dime on this game.
Disclamer: have not spent a single dime on this game.
Yeah, they should've bitten the bullet much earlier on with some choices like built their own engine etc.
Alright, that was a fantastic showing, especially knowing this is all in starengine and you might as well fly down the planet at every time lol.
Kinda bummed I only bought starcit, but I'm imagining there's gonna be lots of options to add sq42 back into the library before release :D
We don't have the whole space walk stuff ingame yet, do we?
Kinda bummed I only bought starcit, but I'm imagining there's gonna be lots of options to add sq42 back into the library before release :D
We don't have the whole space walk stuff ingame yet, do we?
It definitely is. I imagine they really want the upcoming planet features, lighting and everything to be in once it launches.
Except no one has paid for Squadron 42 since they took it down from a discounted pre-order price years ago.
It's all Star Citizen pledges now. I got SQ42 in my $35 Kickstarter pledge. Anyone buying it in 2026 will likely pay $70 for SQ42 and $45 for Star Citizen separately.
"Nobody has bought SQ42 except for the people who bought it a long, long time ago and have been waiting the longest of anyone" is not exactly the defense you think it is.
How do you think they are funding the development of SQ42 exactly?
Okay then the 75% off discounted price is the defense. Back when I bought it, SQ42 was simply going to be a prologue into the MMO. Now it's a fully fleshed out campaign that is exponentially bigger than what was promised with production values through the roof. Given that I literally voted to "scope creep" the fuck out of the game, I can't complain where my thirty five dollars went.
By selling ships in the MMO that you can quite easily earn in game. If people want to pay hundreds of dollars for something I'll earn in my first couple days of launch gameplay then that's fine.
Thanks for the boiler plate gacha game defense against predatory pricing
I swear, old SC backers being constantly, permanently annoyed because the game they paid like 30-50 bucks for, 15 years ago, isn't there yet and just can't miss a single thread to loudly continue complaining about it are the WORST
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But it was right there, on a big screen and all. Would you accuse Chris Roberts of LYING?!
I think they were targeting 2025 but just did not feel confident about hitting it. so it's early target is probably early/mid 2026
Well I don't see anyone else doing anything remotely comparable so it's hard to complain when the competition is Eve Online, Elite Dangerous and Starfield.
I'll take $48,000 pledge packs (that you don't need) over Starfield any day of the week. At least Star Citizen is fun.
Am I supposed to be angry about the development time of a game that I've been able to login to and play since 2016? One that's been updated every quarter since the beginning of 2018? If I wanted a typical production schedule I'd play one of those games. Except they suck and I don't want to.
Star Citizen Roadmap - RSI
The Roberts Space Industries Star Citizen and Squadron 42 roadmaps.
robertsspaceindustries.com
Don't worry, once they've done that and it's looking like the game might actually release, Roberts will insist on all the new tech they've developed in the meantime also get added and the game will get pushed back again
Hehe honestly the presentation reminded me of when Musk broke the unbreakable window on the cybertruck. Maybe a little mean.
Right? I was honestly surprised how gripping the story was told, I completely forgot at times I'm supposed to watch a game demo, not a CGI movie. The SQ42 needle drop was really dope, I was almost fist bumping and I absolutely can't give a shit about SC's story so far.
Oh, so the ships that people are spending thousands of dollars on are easily earnable now after just a few hours of gameplay? I wonder why all those people are spending thousands of dollars on ships then.
Which ships are that, exactly? Checking the store, the most expensive one right now is the Carrack for 600$, which, yes can be relatively (!) easily obtained ingame. I spent like 40 bucks for the game and I've flown a whole bunch of ships in that time. Obviously not within like 2-3 hours, but if you play the game, you can easily work towards one of the bigger ships, as you would in literally any other space game.
Huge org ships like the Javelin, which is literally the giant destroyer from the demo, are obviously not meant to be bought by single players. They can't even use it, because you'd need a crew. Those ships, which only have been temporary available to pledge for, are for entire organisations or fleets, and are obviously a bit more than a week of in-game work - but yeah, you will be able to get them as well, as with all ships that are in the game, if you work together as a clan. Again, like other MMOs.
And please don't get me wrong - I hate you can just buy any ship with cash. It will always make progression look less worthwhile, and it's straight up pay to win, regardless of what pro players "you have to be good at it though" say. It sucks. But implying thousands of players have to pay thousands of dollars is just plain not true.
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Some negative takes on the SQ42 trailer even though it was pretty great.
- The enemies were too slow. They fight faster and more damn annoying in Arena Commander that you can play right now.
- They still have not found a way to deal with players or npcs tilting when a ship dips during soft death. Couple times the player slid down weirdly.
- The enemies were too tanky for the the turret guns given they can take out larger ships pretty easily in Star Citizen.
- Vanduul favored melee way too much and only 1 decided to fire. Making cover irrelevant. Would have liked them to fire while closing in.
Enemy wise, this is the prologue. I'd expect the difficulty to ramp up afterwards.
At least we are at a point where we don't worry about SQ42 anymore, just waiting for it to be released. I remember when we didn't know anything about how it looked, played, or even what its state was.
Also, classic prologue. Cinematic, selling you the spectacle while teaching you some basics.
Love the new Social UI stuff, and the new Genesis system, as well as the instanced content for the LZs, the game really needs some "dungeon" content.
Also, classic prologue. Cinematic, selling you the spectacle while teaching you some basics.
Love the new Social UI stuff, and the new Genesis system, as well as the instanced content for the LZs, the game really needs some "dungeon" content.
Same reason people spend unnecessarily in games like Warframe and Path of Exile. They treat it like a donation to fund the game. In this case, anything over the $45 packs really is just depriving yourself of the intended progression. Those thousand dollar ships aren't viable without an org and anything intended for a solo player/small crew is acquired quite easily. Do I wish that they could make the game without selling ships? Absolutely, but it's a small price to pay to get a $700 million dollar budget in a niche as hell genre.
By the time I leave the starter system and encounter any PvP whatsoever, I'll have multiple competitive solo fighter ships that can tackle the crewed ones. There's been a lot of concern about how it'll play out in practice... But we already know how it works. It's not a "I spent more money than you therefore I win" correlation in most cases. You have to account for ship handling, flight skill and loadouts.
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A lot of this feels like the ultimate space sim. I like how they even did the zero G movement in a relatively realistic way.
Only down side is that I doubt I'll ever have a PC that can handle this and considering all the development time + hardware demands I don't even want to think about when it's realistic to expect a console version
Only down side is that I doubt I'll ever have a PC that can handle this and considering all the development time + hardware demands I don't even want to think about when it's realistic to expect a console version
Seems to be some leaks going around about it actually. The game already has controller support. It just has a fuck ton of keybinds though.
Well according to Insider Gaming, they did present it to Microsoft earlier this year.
12 Years and $700 Million Later, What's Going on With Star Citizen's Development?
Speaking with over a dozen sources about the turbulent development of Star Citizen at Cloud Imperium Games.
insider-gaming.com
Yes, I read the article, but Microsoft owns Windows; I didn't interpret it as a possible console release.12 Years and $700 Million Later, What's Going on With Star Citizen's Development?
Speaking with over a dozen sources about the turbulent development of Star Citizen at Cloud Imperium Games.
They don't care what you put out on Windows, but it could be related to Game Pass
Exactly how it needs to be.
After all it's essentially Wing Commander VI and that's why I can't wait to play it.
It could be for the PC game pass, it's still not a sure sign that it will come out on consoles.
Well, 2016 kinda. I'm still thinking once they got planet tech going, it set the project back years. It was something the cryengine was not suppose to do and they pushed forward with it anyway.
I low key love this, even if I'm scared. It's been a while since we had wing commander/Ultima levels of "shit this needs a machine that's not even it yet" lol makes me weirdly nostalgic.
Do we? There's a lot of future tense in those sentences, and Roberts & Co.'s forward-looking statements haven't been the most…reliable.
People buying
I can write future-tense sentences too. My point isn't that all this will necessarily happen, it's that we don't really know how it's going to play out, so talking about the currently available official plan as if it's already some kind of factual truth isn't very convincing. This is a situation where acknowledging some degree of uncertainty and doubt isn't unreasonable. If SC and SQ42 are evidence of anything, it's that plans change, and they're especially likely to change when hundreds of millions of dollars gets involved.
I hope you're right and you get the game you want. I'm just not sure that's the game Cloud Imperium's "best customers" want.
You can already get the ships without paying anything. Hell, the majority meme'd about it when they did NOT allow people to buy ships in game years ago and said they would never do it. You are pretty late on this one.
You think if they had never got a bigger budget or more employees that they would have released a product in 2014?