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Kikas posted:PC Gamer: The launch of Star Citizen's biggest update has been a shambles, and players are frustrated: 'This is embarrassingly bad' Oh my god, this comment 
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Mar 14, 2023 16:47
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CIG collecting valuable data on how nobody can login to the game. This is just part of development!
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Mar 14, 2023 16:50
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Yeah but it’s all worth it for the exciting gameplay that PES is bringing to the verse.   It’s one step closer to my space janitor dream job. colonelwest fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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Mar 14, 2023 17:02
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Nice to see we've now reached Half Life 2 levels of technology in Star Citizen.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:14
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https://thumbs.gfycat.com/BleakFriendlyBrownbear-mobile.mp4
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Mar 14, 2023 17:18
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Beet Wagon posted:yeah he ate a regular ban for that and then a perma for posting the linkedin page of a reddit guy who pissed him off by constantly claiming he worked for a major software company and bragging about how he helped mod some game or another lol Please, *that* Kazan's achievements (specially with the beautiful ladies whose heaving bosoms are as heavy as thanksgiving turkeys) deserve more praise.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:33
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Paaaarp up that can.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:42
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I miss when citizens like Vertisce would drop in here and go on victory laps when CIG managed to dribble out some tiny update to the game.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:44
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Manky posted:Oh my god, this comment Star Citizen is actually not happening lol
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Mar 14, 2023 18:06
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colonelwest posted:I miss when citizens like Vertisce would drop in here and go on victory laps when CIG managed to dribble out some tiny update to the game. Well, it's been a while, I'm sure him (and maybe MoMA) will come to dunk on us when Pyro is finished. Any day now. The kickstarter for Star Citizen was around a year after Dark Souls came out. DS2, Bloodborne, DS3, Sekiro, and Elden Ring have been released in the the time that it has taken CIG not to release a second star system for their 100 star system game.
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Mar 14, 2023 18:12
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Which basically means that George R. R. Martin finished writing a story in the time SC has been in development.
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Mar 14, 2023 18:18
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trucutru posted:The kickstarter for Star Citizen was around a year after Dark Souls came out. DS2, Bloodborne, DS3, Sekiro, and Elden Ring have been released in the the time that it has taken CIG not to release a second star system for their 100 star system game. "Ehuh, I think you'll find that Star Citizen will be a perfect, life-defining game unlike those glitchfilled messes. They're just so... barebones, why, I hear you cannot even work as a janitor cleaning up refuse if that is what you wish to do. Just wait until Star Citizen is released, then you'll be GRATEFUL that we lordly ship captains even deigned to allow you to work as an indentured servant on board our ships. Why, this newest alpha is just a sterling example of just how arduous a task it is polishing this game to perfection."
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Mar 14, 2023 18:57
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JugbandDude posted:I believe they can create a bunch of lifeless boring rocks, but they can't just plug them on the PU. This is it exactly. CIG can barely make one small, incomplete solar system kinda-sorta sometimes run in their CryEngine mod, and on some level I think they all know they're never going to get Chris's magical server meshing. Maybe there are people currently assigned to create more solar systems even though they have no idea how to get it into their game (because after all, the company is run by an absolute fool who shot hundreds of hours of mocap before figuring out what kind of mocap he'd actually need to shoot and how to integrate it), but if they're paying even the slightest bit of attention, they know all they have to do is mock up some screenshots of things that Chris can demand changes to. There's no point actually making any of it until a decision is made about how moving from system to system will actually work, and apparently that decision's just not going to be made.
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Mar 14, 2023 19:14
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Call me an optimistic, but I used to believe the game performed much better in their LANs. This would explain stuff like non-miserable devs: they actually see things working, even if it's just in their controlled dev environment. But then we watch the groundbreaking feature of "save my game on a database" implode like this. Really makes me wonder if they have any integration testing done at all.
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Mar 14, 2023 19:22
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trucutru posted:Which basically means that George R. R. Martin finished writing a story in the time SC has been in development. lmao
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Mar 14, 2023 19:25
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Beet Wagon posted:yeah he ate a regular ban for that and then a perma for posting the linkedin page of a reddit guy who pissed him off by constantly claiming he worked for a major software company and bragging about how he helped mod some game or another lol ScootsMcSkirt posted:that's him in the wheelchair [new intrusive thought unlocked]
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Mar 14, 2023 19:39
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I, personally, can't wait to just throw my trash in the hallways and then yell at the janitors to do their jobs. I mean, why would I put something in the trash can when picking up trash is literally what makes them happy.
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Mar 14, 2023 19:47
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Not to mention creating jobs in the process
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Mar 14, 2023 20:00
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Assuming most of you are nerds, how many of your gaming friends know anything about star citizen? My group spans 20s to 40s and I'm the only loon whose been following this thing... everyone has heard of it and most everyone has forgotten about it.
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Mar 14, 2023 20:02
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I don't actually talk about Star Citizen outside of this thread, it's too embarrassing to discuss in real life.
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Mar 14, 2023 20:12
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DOMDOM posted:Assuming most of you are nerds, how many of your gaming friends know anything about star citizen? My brother mentioned it ‘sounded cool’ so I listed off every hosed up thing I remembered then sent him the Forbes article. He laughed, didn’t want to hear my hilarious star citizen stories too much, and I’m sure won’t play it. A friend of mine has a group of non-IRL friends he plays games with. My friend is in his 30’s, single, and games more than anyone else we know. Unfortunately the few times I’ve played with his non-IRL gaming buddies they’ve been incredibly racist, sexist douchebag losers. They’re also all into Star Citizen. My buddy wanted me to join him for a free fly, I told him it’s terrible so gently caress no, he reported back it’s one of the worst games he’s ever played. Those are my stories.
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Mar 14, 2023 20:12
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DOMDOM posted:Assuming most of you are nerds, how many of your gaming friends know anything about star citizen? My friend group will dunk on it occasionally in TeamSpeak but that's about it
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Mar 14, 2023 20:15
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DOMDOM posted:Assuming most of you are nerds, how many of your gaming friends know anything about star citizen? I’ve had surprisingly few encounters with Citizens out in the wild, considering I work in a field full of PC gaming nerds. My old boss in the Army was a low-key Citizen, he was kind of embarrassed to admit it, and just liked to say that he “supported it” and “if they could achieve what they promised it would be an amazing game”. But he would get super defensive if you pressed him and started making fun of the game, so I could tell he was in for a decent amount of money. But that was 3 years ago now. Since then I’ll hear it mentioned once in a while, mostly someone will ask if it’s still going on, and they’re floored when I tell that that it’s still raking in money 11 years in and is approaching 600 million dollars in funding. I think I’m the only person in my friend/acquaintance circle who follows it with any regularity. Star Citizen has become this weird self-segregated corner of gaming where a bunch of generally awful and tedious game dads have gathered to get milked for ever more money by a coke-addled moron. colonelwest fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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Mar 14, 2023 20:26
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DOMDOM posted:Assuming most of you are nerds, how many of your gaming friends know anything about star citizen? my friend who got real into NFTs begged our friend group to buy SC so we can play with him. I tried to talk him out of it, but he got real defensive about it i eventually bought it cause he doesnt play many games and i was happy to see him enthusiastic about one. I knew what I was getting into but no one else did and they got mad lol Seriously though, this game is a massive piece of poo poo, its kinda incredible
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Mar 14, 2023 21:04
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colonelwest posted:Yeah but it’s all worth it for the exciting gameplay that PES is bringing to the verse. How many cans can you put in the bin before you get a segfault and crash the server?
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Mar 14, 2023 21:15
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Why are people so shocked that an alpha doesn't work when they make a bunch of changes? I get that this game is a meme but shouldn't this be expected?
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Mar 14, 2023 21:43
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hello internet posted:Why are people so shocked that an alpha doesn't work when they make a bunch of changes? I get that this game is a meme but shouldn't this be expected? In a vacuum, sure. The past twelve years of SC stuff tho adds a lot to it.
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Mar 14, 2023 21:46
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Also cause CIG pushed this out at like 5:00PM on Friday in a completely broken state and then all went home for the weekend. This patch is a year late from it's original expected release. It's also just the cumalative effect that this happens every single time the release an update and it's totally broken.
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Mar 14, 2023 21:51
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hello internet posted:Why are people so shocked that an alpha doesn't work when they make a bunch of changes? I get that this game is a meme but shouldn't this be expected? Nothing works in the game after 11 years, even during normal times. And this patch is their “big” content update for an entire year, when they were supposed to have quarterly releases of at least this size. It should have come out in early 2022. Plus any reasonable person knew that trying to add object persistence into an already broken MMO with mounds of technical debt was just going to break things even more, while adding almost no gameplay value, and that’s exactly what happened. colonelwest fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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Mar 14, 2023 21:52
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DOMDOM posted:Assuming most of you are nerds, how many of your gaming friends know anything about star citizen? I recall there was some interest early on. I was interested myself around and some time after the KS. Now I don't remember when I've heard anyone mention SC outside of this thread. And when it has it's been a joke about bad kickstarters or development hell.
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Mar 14, 2023 21:52
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hello internet posted:Why are people so shocked that an alpha doesn't work when they make a bunch of changes? I get that this game is a meme but shouldn't this be expected? They are selling new 1600 dollar spaceship packages. You can buy them and get access to the game immediately. It is, for all intents and purposes, a live game. This entire "we'll sell you a product but it's a piece of poo poo so we'll call it an alpha so we're safe from criticism lol" is just nonsense. Game companies need to stop trying to have their cake and eat it too on this. edit: You know what, here's a better argument. They are running ads and marketing to get people to buy into this alpha. I'm sorry, that's not an alpha. That's a live game.
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Mar 14, 2023 22:04
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I bring SC up to my friends, who are generally 20/30-somethings, to gripe about it because I made the mistake of trying 3.16 (I think), discovering that it actually did have the bones of fun flight and on-foot combat and a fun core loop.... and then seeing that present development efforts are largely going towards RP-focused nonsense because gently caress ever releasing the game or leaning into what makes the game fun I guess. Should I be mad? No. Am I? Yep.
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Mar 14, 2023 22:15
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You enjoyed the flight model? Genuinely asking because it's essentially a 3d model viewer with no actual physics. Ships can float upside down 20 feet off the ground.
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Mar 14, 2023 22:17
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Cutedge posted:... Also also, in a number of legal tiffs with citizers, CInoG has claimed it's a released game, as in a functioning game as a service, and no you can't have your money back. They also lie, often.
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Mar 14, 2023 22:23
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Popete posted:You enjoyed the flight model? Genuinely asking because it's essentially a 3d model viewer with no actual physics. Ships can float upside down 20 feet off the ground. I moreso meant the spaceflight combat. I genuinely think it kicks the poo poo out of Elite Dangerous's combat, and yes I realize that's a low bar.
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Mar 14, 2023 22:25
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Ah ok, I think I remember the space flight being serviceable enough although I've heard the AI is really bad. If I remember the one time I tried space combat I found it really confusing to know what was going on because the UI was a mess and it was overlaying the target as you tried to shoot it.
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Mar 14, 2023 22:29
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Decon posted:I moreso meant the spaceflight combat. I genuinely think it kicks the poo poo out of Elite Dangerous's combat, and yes I realize that's a low bar. We welcome bad opinions here, except those that oppose basic human rights. Please expand on your bad opinions for the entertainment of the thread.
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Mar 14, 2023 22:34
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DOMDOM posted:Assuming most of you are nerds, how many of your gaming friends know anything about star citizen? I've had two people mention it, one in a "I was looking at Star Citizen and it looks cool?" way and the other with a direct "Hey, what's the deal with Star Citizen?" And that's since the project got kickstarted; real-world engagement and awareness of this game is roughly on par with its online engagement, from what I can see. Anyway, what I've found is that after giving them a ten-second thumbnail description of Star Citizen (it's spent over ten years and half a billion dollars and only produced a broken pre-alpha, it promises things it clearly cannot deliver anytime soon and probably can never deliver, it has a groundbreakingly awful monetization scheme, and yet somehow people are still sending money to them) I just can't bring myself to inflict more information onto them. Anyone who tangentially hears about Star Citizen deserves a clear and timely warning about it, but no one deserves the terrible awareness of Star Citizen that this thread has provided. Between the LA office and its space doors, the Mess Hall saga, the space worm, the AI, server meshing, etc...it's just too much to dump on someone else all at once, and honestly too much for me to think about all at once, too.
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Mar 14, 2023 22:43
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Cutedge posted:They are selling new 1600 dollar spaceship packages. You can buy them and get access to the game immediately. It is, for all intents and purposes, a live game. This entire "we'll sell you a product but it's a piece of poo poo so we'll call it an alpha so we're safe from criticism lol" is just nonsense. Game companies need to stop trying to have their cake and eat it too on this. Also, alphas are essentially feature complete (for some definition of complete) and INTERNAL tests. An alpha test of a game is not what SC is in any way shape or form.
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Experimental Skin posted:We welcome bad opinions here, except those that oppose basic human rights. Please expand on your bad opinions for the entertainment of the thread. Blacking out from turning too hard is a kinda neat bit of realism. The AI straight up doesn't work though so there's little to actually do.
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