Chris Roberts Space Garage Simulator: Star Citizen

[ALien8ed]

So when is S42 coming out?

Still no word but the SQ42 roadmap will be released in December so we should know more then.

[andino]

Still no word but the SQ42 roadmap will be released in December so we should know more then.

I'm going to bet that they don't meet that deadline for a December roadmap.

Too much work for this crew.

[globalist]

Not impressed with the livestream this year.

We have some foliage on planets, you can drink a coffee and ice cubes float in whiskey.

Is this for REAL??

[logical]

Anyone got a link to a video with a quick rundown of what was shown? Not the full stream but cherry picked best stuff.

[ALien8ed]

Anyone got a link to a video with a quick rundown of what was shown? Not the full stream but cherry picked best stuff.

Might want to check out Obsidian Ant's overview.

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[ALien8ed]

3.3 PTU is now available to everyone, live should not be far off.

[shockwave]

3.3 PTU is now available to everyone, live should not be far off.

hah, live not far off? 3.3 is a buggy piece of garbage. They can't even implement a global chat.

[aop]

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The dialogue and monologue in that trailer is cringeworthy.

Reminds me of that Wing Commander movie and is a reason Croberts should never direct or write anything.

[Elysian]

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[logical]

Might want to check out Obsidian Ant's overview.

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Finally got around to checking it out and it seems ho hum. I thought they would bring the fire this year with the spotlight on them even more than ever.

I always find it hilarious they add things like ice physics to the game when they dont even have some of the basic stuff down.

Also still looks like its running like ****. We have gone through what maybe 2-3 generations of video cards and nothing can run this thing with decent frames.

[Dungeoncrawler]

Personally if I was Chris, I'd continue to milk this puppy for all its worth. If the consumer is willing to pay for this type of cosmetic, go for it!

[logical]

Personally if I was Chris, I'd continue to milk this puppy for all its worth. If the consumer is willing to pay for this type of cosmetic, go for it!

Thats what hes been doing

[aop]

Also still looks like its running like ****. We have gone through what maybe 2-3 generations of video cards and nothing can run this thing with decent frames.

CryEngine is heavily CPU bound even much smaller games so it's pretty unlikely they'll ever get the performance to an acceptable level.

[kboye]

I thought it was local level media streaming stuttering? Reminded me of that anyway last time I ran it.

[Argoon1981]

CryEngine is heavily CPU bound even much smaller games so it's pretty unlikely they'll ever get the performance to an acceptable level.

Why is Cryengine CPU bound?

[Napoleonic]

$1650 for an unreleased video game spaceship JPEG

[abdecken5]

$1650 for an unreleased video game spaceship JPEG

This industry is full of this type of rip off! I Pre-Purchase Metro Exodus - Gold Edition for Є69.99 and alls I got was a "Thank you for your purchase" screen on Steam

[acroig]

This industry is full of this type of rip off! I Pre-Purchase Metro Exodus - Gold Edition for Є69.99 and alls I got was a "Thank you for your purchase" screen on Steam

, wow.

[Napoleonic]

This industry is full of this type of rip off! I Pre-Purchase Metro Exodus - Gold Edition for Є69.99 and alls I got was a "Thank you for your purchase" screen on Steam

Crobber and SC isn't on that low level of rip off.

1. How much is that metro exodus pre-order?
2. when is that metro exodus release date?
3. Are you pre-ordering for prealpha of metro exodus?
4. Are you pre-ordering for a jpeg only item in metro exodus?
5. Did metro exodus dev proclaim to save pc gaming and behave unlike the industry?
6. Did Metro exodus dev proclaim their game to be the best damn game ever?

No, they are not the same level of rip off.

[Dungeoncrawler]

It is the times we live in. I never thought I would ever see people throwing thousands of dollars at people just to watch them play a video game (streaming). Literally people are becoming rich! So this does not surprise me in the least.

[nutcrackr]

They got $2.3 million from backers last week. No wonder they spend a heap on the citizencon when you get that kind of return.

[ALien8ed]

3.3 is now live.

[Eisberg]

3.3 is now live.

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Pretty good for what was said to be shut down in 2015 in 90 days tops

[bill dennison]

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Pretty good for what was said to be shut down in 2015 in 90 days tops

Star Citizen Has Now Passed $200 Million in Crowdfunding, Will Be Free to Play for a Week

https://wccftech.com/star-citizen-200-million-crowdfunding/

[Dungeoncrawler]

Only 3 games I can remember that had a development budget over 200 million. Grand theft Auto 5, Modern Warfare 2, and The Old Republic.

edit - guess there are 4 now

[Greasy]

Only 3 games I can remember that had a development budget over 200 million. Grand theft Auto 5, Modern Warfare 2, and The Old Republic.

edit - guess there are 4 now

This one will got 300M before we get anything. Squadron 42 better be a 40+ hour game!

The reality is they are going to release a 10 hour buggy ass shell of a game.

[kboye]

They could be taking their time too knowing commonplace hardware/performance catches up. Already their engine streaming has been optimized for SSDs (I'm guessing high amount of small blocks?).

Wing Commander 1 then 2 (and Ultima7 for that matter...cool days!) were pretty steep on requirements when they came out, I mean can you imagine someone telling you "I just bought a soundcard for speech and a Roland sound module for music worth of $2300" today? Not that many system sellers these days, but this one game might be it.

[Dungeoncrawler]

I have been reading many articles lately regarding the life cycle of this game. Personally I believe Chris has an ego issue. He seems quite satisfied with individuals circumventing his directors, and coming straight to him as one example. Likewise the games development cycle screams overscope. Many games throughout their development cycle had things cut or redesigned due to its size. Again this could be Chris and his ego? It would have been simple enough to set a goal, fund that goal, and deliver that goal. Even if no further features were added, it appears enough is on the table already to extend the development cycle into the foreseeable future.

[ALien8ed]

3.3.5 PTU open to all backers.

Time to check out Lorville.

[ALien8ed]

3.3.5 is now live.

[Eisberg]

CIG just won the MTD in relation to 2.4. Crytek tried to sue CIG for Promoting another engine and for licensing another engine from a third party. The judge rule on CIGs favor saying that Crytek's interpretation of 2.4 is wrong.

This leaves:

1- Whether or not the GLA that says the GLA is for both SQ42 and SC is actually for SQ42 and SC.

2-Whether or not CIG shared Crytek code with a third party company, that happened like 6 or 7 months after CIG moved to Lumberyard, and many years after Crytek shared their code with the public themselves and after Crytek made their code free to use.

3- And whether or not code was shared with the public through bugsmashers.

[Napoleonic]

this guy has been the boss of this project since may :



totally an open and transparent game development guys.

[Eisberg]

this guy has been the boss of this project since may :



totally an open and transparent game development guys.

as a director, not the director. So now instead of having 3 directors (Ortwin, Chris, Erin) they have 4 directors (Ortwin, Chris, Erin, and Dan). What will he actually do? we don't know, for all we know he is being silent and is only a director as a formality due to him most likely investing in the company since he owns an investment firm.

Also open development is just that, talking about the game development, it does not mean and has never meant open business/human resource/regular business stuff. Or do you expect them to tell us when someone is going on vacation, or each time they bought toilet paper, or pens as well?

[acroig]

Also open development is just that, talking about the game development, it does not mean and has never meant open business/human resource/regular business stuff. Or do you expect them to tell us when someone is going on vacation, or each time they bought toilet paper, or pens as well?

Is there a good reason why you get so aggressive/defensive when anyone dares to question this game's development?

You really go into psycho mode.

[Eisberg]

Is there a good reason why you get so aggressive/defensive when anyone dares to question this game's development?

You really go into psycho mode.

So you are saying if someone says something factually wrong, then nobody should correct it? What he said about what open development is , is factually incorrect, I see no reason to not correct it.

[logical]

Daniel O'Connell Offner is a fictional character. CR is unloading his culpability in this train wreck before it crashes.

[Eisberg]

lol

[nutcrackr]

If their funding chart is accurate, $8 million in November is nice handy boost. Doesn't look like Dec will be quite as big, but it should do around $4 million. Handy sum to keep em going for maybe half a year. Whales keep on buying.

[Napoleonic]

So you are saying if someone says something factually wrong, then nobody should correct it? What he said about what open development is , is factually incorrect, I see no reason to not correct it.

it is a well known and self admitted fact that they lied to the world since the KS campaign, let's see if you'd prove Acroig's statement

[bill dennison]

Star Citizen Maker CIG Takes $46m Investment Valuing it at $500 Million – Squadron 42 Roadmap Released

Today, we look at a few major pieces of news which have come out of CIG.
•Cloud Imperium (both the UK Ltd and the US LLC legal entities) have agreed a private investment from an external party amounting to approximately $46 million in exchange for new shares being issued (113,861 in each of the UK and US entities), amounting to approximately 10% of the overall company. This gives the various entities a combined valuation of approximately $496 million once the new money is taken into account.
•Two new board members join the boards of both the UK and US entities, these being Dan Offner, representing the new investors (Clive and Keith Calder), as well as Eli Klein who is a long-time friend of Chris Roberts and has apparently been a sometime advisor in recent years.
•Board and company control remains with Chris Roberts as Chairman, CEO and majority shareholder.
•Money to be used for marketing and business development initiatives as Squadron 42 and Star Citizen head towards launch.
•CIG will release full historical financial details from 2012 through to 2017 via a new corporate website.
•Squadron 42 roadmap released and is expected to be feature complete by the end of 2019 with alpha/beta in 2020.

https://wccftech.com/star-citizen-maker-cig-takes-46m-investment-valuing-it-at-500-million-squadron-42-roadmap-released/