Star Citizen - New Videos
 

@Twinfinite Some new videos for Star Citizen which show the Orison Landing Zone & Visual Degradation system.

Thanks Farflame!

More information.

Neat, new concepts went from a good thing to a bad thing years ago. I don't hear "cool, floating city" now. Instead, I hear "new reason why you won't see the game release for at least another year."

Almost eleven years now and it's still not finished.:p

I skipped the part "nostalgia of a wonderful development experience with appropriate music" :p

The accumulating dirt and flying in weather / dirt environment is a nice touch!

I really like the whole idea of this game, it appeals to me, except there is no SP mode - not sure whether Frontier Development has removed the SP mode from Elite as well or not, it was a debate a few years back. I haven't followed the whole development of Star Citizen but I suppose Chris Robert is afraid SP wouldn't earn enough money? Though the universe could serve as a base for campaigns, missions, buyable modules as in DCS or IL-2, so we know it's a viable model.

Anyway, the main problem seems to be the lack of management to get a proper release schedule, so the SP/MP issue is just rhetorical, who knows, maybe they'll delay the game to add an SP mode ;)

I see that Elite Dangerous Odyssey releases an open alpha end of the month and is aiming at an Autumn release. In this new DLC you can finally get out of the ship and explore or do missions on the planets, so it may be a good alternative to the never-to-be-completed Star Citizen, though Elite is not very realistic about the physics and has a very painfully long gameplay before getting any interesting ship.

I thought this might be a video of Chris Roberts waterskiing in Fiji again.
https://i.postimg.cc/90Hfb2s2/ow8lceayov741.png
Elite made s pretty universe that is a terrible grind. Maybe it'd be more fun if I could waterski in it.

At the very least, it'll make a great tech demo.

@Capt. Huggy Face Is that Chris's woman?

Not sure. I was guessing so.

Yes it is. She is a community manager for Cloud Imperium or something like that. I can't remember as its been awhile.

I normally avoid answering a question with a question, but how much have they collected in their never-ending fundraising campaign?

They can sure spam the emails with updates though, lots of noise and such, yet so far signify nothing.

What? The game has a single player mode.

https://www.gamesradar.com/star-citi…en-it-is-done/

At least $413M that we know of - $349.4M from crowdfunding as of today (going by the counter on their website), plus $63.25M from a private investor as of early last year that I don't believe was ever included in the counter. Most of it has already been spent.

That would be Squadron 42, I thought they dropped that idea, since it was due 7 years ago.

In any case, it doesn't look like it's there, just another project "worked on actively" ;) So as far as I'm concerned, the game is only MP for now, but it's good to know they still intend to do a SP game out of it.

I gave them money for the SP part back in the begining, can i ask for a refund? I dont even follow the news from this game anymore.

I suppose you could ask them, but I wouldn't keep my hopes up.
https://support.robertsspaceindustri…my-RSI-account
I still have an Avenger, actually, and some items that accumulated along with the years like birthday packs, commemorative coins and who knows what else :D

Not even sure that would give access to Squadron 42.

413M$? Wow, that's a staggering amount of money. In comparison:
"According to CD Projekt Red interview, the Witcher 3 had a budget of US$34 million."

What are they doing with all that money?

Hey, that's me on a Friday night spending all that cash I was supposed to give to Star Scam.

I liked the horribly lame root of vegetable at [2:36]. There was a multi-stage ship design contest held some years ago and the graphics art team presided as judges. Are those artists still there? :)

When it rains on a Friday night, I just get wet.
https://media.giphy.com/media/vapAqOnGhSK9W/giphy.gif

Is that you Capt capturing the rain? You certainly are not what your name suggest you are! In fact, what are you doing Friday night??!!

You have your idea of fun, and so do I. It's Friday night, after all. :)

Half of me: "Please stop giving them money."

2nd half: "God that's a cool ship… $1k and I'll be set for when this game finally launches."

It's not just a game, it's a lifetime career.

Spend €40 once on the game, just after Christ was born (I believe). I just see it as a risk investment, we'll see what happens.

On the SP part in SQ42, I still get e-mail updates about that. So yes, it's still a thing (maybe?).

Oh, so you are going with I believe and feelings instead of facts, got ya.

And you're going with provoking people obviously, nothing better to do? Like reading people's posts properly for instance? :p
Fortunately this forum has a handy ignore list for that, there, sorted out.

Procrastinating for weeks on end about what dust and dirt should look like in a computer game apparently…

Hahaha, today's world makes this a thing:)

I'm sorry you feel that way but you made a statement, I proved was wrong then you doubled down….that's on you.

Space dust is a very special kind of dust, and with hardware getting better and better, thin how amazing that dust will look like in 8K!

Imagine what the dust will look like in 16K once the game goes to beta in 2064! :p