Hobold posted:

It looks like a badly photoshopped Commander Shepard, with too many snapchat filters ontop of it.

Ghostlight posted:

According to starcitizen.tools, Daymar has an "Equatorial Radius of 1,771 km (Lore) and 295.2 km (Ingame Scale)" [loving lmbo that these are two distinct measurements]

Now, that's certainly bigger than any measured NMS planet (because NMS is literally built for you not to spend time wandering across the planets) it somewhat pales in comparison to this random ED screenshot I googled.





oh wait, he just means things like Grand Theft Auto and Skyrim, games which rely heavily on hand-modelled content and therefore restrict their play area so that people don't spend fifteen minutes holding down W to get to their destination without anything interesting happening along the way.

Quavers posted:

Quavers posted:

Beet Wagon posted:

Vertisce, buddy, you’re a loving imbecile

colonelwest posted:

I played my first 4 hours of Star Citizen tonight. I spawned at Port Olisar, called up my ship (apparently I got a Cutlass Black for the free fly event). At first I tried to buy some weapons, but the kiosk screens just kept saying the store was out of stock. Then I accepted a mission but all of my controls were bugged and my star map wouldn't display. Eventually I got a CTD. I reentered the game, and sat through a 15 min fidelity timer to get my ship back. Finally I just decided to go to Hurston to check it out. I soldiered through ten minutes of quantum travel and another 10 minutes to enter the atmosphere and land in Loreville, battling more glitching controls. I walked around the 2 main areas for awhile, and chatted with some people who were trying in vain to complete missions. I did manage to go to the bar and drink some fidelity whiskey, but I couldn't put it down and it was stuck in my hand for the next 10 mins as I walked around. Eventually I was able to throw it away and it then glitched threw the floor for a while as my framerate tanked. I got back to my ship, and flew around the planet for a while, landed near the ocean and then promptly fell through the map and died as soon as my feet touched water. I re-spawned in the Hurston Hab, but the exit was glitched and rendered as a hole in the wall. When I tried to walk through it, I fell through the map again. After that I had the urge to play a real game and logged out.

If you told me this was someone's Crysis 3 mod I would believe you. Nothing in the game looks or plays like a 200 million dollar AAA title 7 years into development.

If they're still trying to sell this game on pure graphical fidelity, that ship sailed years ago. At best it looks like what would be considered high end in 2012/2013, and at worst its just hideous. I was playing on 4k/max settings and their were low res textures everywhere, even on the struts pointlessly obstructing my cockpit view. There was also horrible pop-in everywhere especially in Hurston's biomes, plants and rocks would just appear a few feet from me. I did average around 40-50fps on my 1080ti, but it seems to be at the cost of huge cuts in rendering distance and overall quality. Hurston's sea was probably the ugliest thing I've seen in a game since the beginning of the last console generation. The character models are doughy and creepy abominations, I made better looking characters in Oblivion.

The UI is a cluttered and fragmented mess that seems to only exist to hide relevant information and give the illusion of depth and complexity.

Loreville is just an empty maze of hallways and stairwells. None of the NPC's even spouted caned dialogue at me and they all just either stared off into space or floated around the map in hilarious ways. Nothing about it is relevant from any gameplay angle, except for the one tiny out of the way corner where there is a quest giver who told me that he had no work for me. I didn't see a single NPC ship above Hurston.

The whole environmental interactivity/object permanence thing is a joke. I guess they're shooting for the Bethesda mechanic that everything in your inventory and most small clutter in the world are fully rendered objects that you can take out and manipulate; but the engine clearly can't handle it outside of a few heavily scripted scenarios which themselves barely function.

I just don't even know what they're going for anymore in this game. Whether you're looking for second life/hardcore roleplaying, ARMA style FPS, or a deep space adventure; you'd be hard pressed to even find the bare shell of any of it.

Finally those in game ship prices... LOL. The whole free fly event just seems to be designed to snare a few more whales.

Awesome Fidelity posted:

Thoatse posted:

https://i.imgur.com/ymCLzLA.mp4

Hobold posted:

It looks like a badly photoshopped Commander Shepard, with too many snapchat filters ontop of it.

Beet Wagon posted:

This guy creeps you out?



I have no idea why lol

The Titanic posted:

Good report!

I totally meant to try the free fly thing but then remembered it's poo poo so I didn't. I'll never make any cute or funny videos of it because I'm not funny or cute, so there's really not much reason to give it a shot.

I may still, but chances are slim, friends.

Combat Theory posted:

If vertisce dedicated 10 percent of his internet policing time to actually playing star citizen, he would have bought an AV and started laughing about all the poo poo about a year ago or so.

Hey vertisce, play more.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Theres no way that isnt ripped from Second Life or a porn game

Quavers posted:

Qwertycoatl posted:

One of my favourite things about Star Citizen is watching the backers slowly talk themselves round to the idea that actually you shouldn't be flying spaceships in the space game.

orcane posted:

Nice little bit of game play today.

A contract waypoint puts me on Yela in the middle of nowhere. I'm to collect three toxic waste boxes and transport them off world. - I know, it was the highest paying contract at the time -
Smooth arrival, I'm alone so I put down my Drake Cutlass to one side of the habitat. In I go. I locate the boxes and bring out the first one. Hovering over the front of the habitat as I exit, pointing right at me is a rather fetching looking ship. All pointy and menacing. I'm assuming an Arrow at this point.
I play it calm and walk to my cutlass and place the first box inside, close up and head back to the habitat. Once inside I hear bangs and explosions. I fear the worst.
After it's all calmed down I exit with the second box and straight away notice a Connie parked near the habitat. Turning to find my ship I see it smoking and minus it's two engines. The Arrow is hovering a little way off following my every move. It's pilot has purposely pinpointed the engines to save the cargo inside but ensuring I can't go anywhere with it.
Feeling totally trolled I continue towards my cutlass. I have a thought.

After placing the second box in the hold I repower up the ship, leave the pilots seat and enter the upper turret. I slowly slue it around until it's facing the Arrow. It doesn't move and seems unconcerned.
I fire 6/8 rapid shots taking away the front shield. Clearly the pilot is spooked and turns very quickly away.

Straight into the mountainside.

Hassar. A small victory!

Unfortunately doesn't' change the fact I'm stranded.

I try and reach the Connie pilot on local chat but I'm ignored. I decide to go over and start face to face communication, but as I approach the Connie takes off and leaves me with no further options.

That is until I see a dark shape slowly coming towards me low over the distant mountains. Fearing the worst and thinking I'm going to get strafed I hide behind the nearest rocks. The dark shape turns into another Cutlass and proceeds to land. It's pilot lowers the rear ramp and runs out towards the habitat. LEAVING THE RAMP DOWN!

This is too good a chance not to take. I sprint over to the Cutlass and as I get very close shots are starting to land close by. I run straight into the cargo hold, through the front airlock and into the pilots seat thinking there is no way this is going to work. The engines start and I lift off closing all external doors as I do so. I spin the ship around and see a small person firing up at the ship. It's previous owner.

As I fly up out of the atmosphere setting a course for PO it occurs that the last 5/10mins have been enormous fun.

Scruffpuff posted:

This reads like a paid advertisement. I could only stomach the first paragraph and bolded the lines that are unnecessarily specific (a DRAKE Cutlass) and several that imply functionality that doesn't exist but was promised ("pinpointed the engines to save the cargo", nobody cares about your "cargo," rear end in a top hat).

The last line reminded me of Harry Chapin "as I logged for the night it occurred to me, this game is great you'll see, the game is great you'll see."

The Rabbi T. White posted:

It does not look a thing like a red-headed female? Femshep4lyfe

E: Oh. Beaten by Quavers. Quality snipe.

Alan Smithee posted:

sir you are guilty of thought crimes for saying this unreleased game is merely worth retail!