Star Citizien- Pre-Alpha Gameplay
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Pre-alpha, at least, that's what they tell us. I don't know but I think PC gamers will be disappointed expecting too much from this game...
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At least it's pretty. Good art direction.
Howver let's not forget 42 million have went into this with the kickstarter funding.
What do you think?
Edit: That helmet animation though.
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Howver let's not forget 42 million have went into this with the kickstarter funding.
What do you think?
Edit: That helmet animation though.
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You do realize the game is like 1-2 years from completion?
Besides that, the art is fantastic. I was in the Next Great Starship competition for Star Citizen, and my team made it to the top 10 out of 200 teams. The competition itself seemed very unorganized and just for show. They had trouble giving technical specs and design briefs to contestants. I'd assume though they were extremely busy working on other things.
Regardless, I'm pretty happy they are doing PBR for everything and they seem like a very open development team with all the updates and information they show the public. The entire team itself look extremely tired, I wouldn't be surprised if they were pulling 10-12 hour work days.
i like the first-person-ness of it all - pulling on the gloves and helmet and so on, makes you feel part of it. the cockpit view swaying side to side constantly in flight puts me off though.
the flight model seems rather basic to me however. tense, unforgiving dogfighting in space, a decent flight model, AI that can mount a challenge and semi-clever and varied mission design with multiple paths to take have been done pretty well in the old lucasarts' star wars games like tie-fighter.
in comparison wing commander and it's off-shoots never matched up IMO. very arcade-y, limited misson variety and stupid AI. well, the asteroid-AI that regularly came right at you was pretty clever though.
they must have sold through looks and cinematics and through being there first. judging from that video it's not evident to me that other aspects have improved since the 90's. even the laser pew-pews and orange balls are still in there.
Can't wait for more though i have visions of what this could be so i'll hold out until I see more, I've been waiting for a similar game like this with a bit more to it though.
Hope it becomes what I've been wanting for also not a contributor to the KS, missed the boat.
Thanks for the heads up.
I hope they have options to skip those animation bits about loading into the crafts cause that will get old fast.
If they can get it even remotely close to something like XWing vs Tie Fighter while looking like that, then it's money well spent to me. The rest of the stuff they're planning is just beautiful, tasty icing on the cake.
BUT ! Man this guy really needs to learn how to fly that damn thing
That's my problem with this whole thing... people are throwing money at promises, the first (big one) of which was already broken.
As their pool of funding grows, instead of hiring more people to fulfill the promises they've already made (which is what they should be doing) they're instead increasing the scope of their game and making more promises of what they want to achieve. Which of course makes it harder to fulfill the original promises.
And of course, because this was all done through their own site rather than kickstarter, there's nobody there to stop them continuing to do this.
Actually they do hire new staff every week. Programmers and artists mostly and they say they are continuing to look for staff. They started off with around I think 20 people, and that has grown to 200+ employees since the Kickstarter in 2012.
I do agree though, they gave some bad estimations with deadlines. Even with a staff of 200+ I doubt the full release would be before 2016. The things they want in it are huge.
The game looks great, as expected. Great visuals for sure. But nothing there that one hasn't seen before. If they keep following this route they sure will do a great looking game with much attention to the details, which is a good thing.
I hope they don't lose their focus and scope on the project. The feature-list seems incredible and it will be quite a task to balance all the mechanics in that huge game.
Anyway: I'm interested how this will turn out.
As for the flight model, I'm guessing that like everything else it will be more refined as time goes on.
lol, you know those socially awkward people, always congregated in large crowds and whooping it up.
It's PAX, it's a fan convention so most of the people there are excited about the game. They are there because they want to be there, not because they have to be there.
:P so what is the socially accepted way to behave at a large event showing off a game you're excited about? Silence and appropriate golf claps at opportune pauses?
Gir: they have multiple studios and seem to always be hiring, this is beyond kickstarter, it's in AAA game development territory.
You get a spaceship when you buy the game.
They are selling access to ships right at launch, all the ships can be bought in-game at launch. There is/was lifetime insurance on these purchased ships so no matter what you don't lose them in-game where as uninsured ships are lost when destroyed
That is horrible. Bad bad people
I think its saving grace is the guy who is fronting this game and that its crowd funded. It looks amazing from a graphics standpoint. However in like 2 years, will it still look as amazing as it does now? Personally I am not too sure. Gameplay its going to be a mess at the start, but hopefully with loads of testing done throughout the alpha and beta stages that people will pay £9000+ for (sarcasm!) that they can get it pretty much nailed for its offical release.
For the future health of indie gaming development of big titles such as this, this really needs to be a success and I personally really hope it is.
Again, purchasing ships at this point is to have access to them at launch, instead of having to earn the money in-game to purchase the vehicles. Mostly everything except some special editions of ships I believe will be obtainable in-game.
There is nothing "horrible" or "bad" about this as it's all been up front and the information freely available for quite awhile now
Thing is, I dont actually have a problem with this type of business model. It's very effective and tends to make a shit ton of money when done well...The exploitation that is, the games are usually horrid turds. The problem I have is that its a crowdfunded game that is going to exploit it's supporters. An insurance policy in a game that can be purchased with real money is not a service, it's just fucked up. What does this serve the game? The player?