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Fly For Free Through March 14th - Star Citizen - MMORPG.com
Star Citizen News - In honor of this weekend's PAX East gathering, interested players can fly for free in Star Citizen. Players will be able to try out the Sabre fighter and its weaponry. To do so simply go to the official site, create a new account or use an existing one and enter the promo-code PAXEAST2017. You can get started today!
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"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
The longest time i spent in game was to check out the Hangar and that really is nothing special.
For a Hangar i expected to see immersion and QUALITY ideas like npc's to repair your ships or npc's doing other things,tools laying around and parts etc etc,i mean it is instanced anyhow so not like there is any worries.
Having said that ,i felt like the hangar frame rates were terrible,like a really bad engine or the mapper does not know how to utilize the engine for mapping.
The space station does look ok,but took them like a year to get that up for show so yeah,this team seems to be really lacking in skills.
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This team that "lacks skills" has created a long series of successful LEGO games.
The teams 'supervisors have worked on some of the most successful games ever (e.g. Ultima series, Blizzard games etc.)
The teams' bosses have created some of the most well known game IPs (Wing Commander, Freelancer etc.).
This teams' engine coders have created one of the most well known game engines (CryEngine) and now continue their improvement work in this new company after CryTek ran into serious trouble.
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And yet, for everyone who worked on any of these, there are 10 or more people who also worked on it and are not working on Star Citizen.
Wing Commander was a huge success, Freelancer already less so. Richard Garriot was the man behind the Ultima series, but everyone here is complaining about Shroud of the Avatar. CryEngine is *one* of the most well known game engines, yes, but a far cry (no pun intended) from Unreal Engine, Source Engine or even Unity right now. And there's a reason CryTek ran into serious trouble and that Digital Anvil was dissolved.
And even if everyone who is working on SC right now was the main factor behind the success of their earlier works, that doesn't mean that they work well together. Even when a studio delivers a very good game, doesn't mean the successor will be just as good, and thats without changing the whole team, having to set up a whole new studio and creating something completely from scratch, compared to being able to build on the first game.
If anything, the recent history of Kickstarters etc. showed that individual developers etc. mean nothing. Richard Garriot, Brad McQaid, Chris Roberts, Peter Molyneux and many more. All famous for their past work, none delivered since they left their original studio.
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Amass an army, and we'll harness a horde
And then we'll limp across the land until we stand at the shore
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t also doesn't mean they won't deliver. Track record means literally nothing in this business, either way. Huge money does not guarantee a good game, skilled development does not mean good ideas, but it also does not mean it will be bad.
With any crowd funded project, no one should ever put in more than they can afford to light on fire. If it works out well, yay! If it doesn't, then no harm done. I backed SC to the tune of about $200 which seems like a huge amount to me. But it does not even come close to what others have spent.
I hope this game is excellent, I hope it is amazing. But if it ends up sucking, I won't cry either. Some people are staking thousands and thousands of dollars on it. As hopeful as I am, I have been burned by too many kickstarters to get my hopes up.
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They give those trying to decide whether they are interested an opportunity to try before spending any money.
In the case of SC its still only in alpha and being crowd funded it has an incentive to do this type of stuff but its always good when it happens. And if you don't like it you move on (Except for those who stick around to bash SC, CU, Pantheon etc.)
Did you try the different modes...? the arena, free flight...?
Sure there is not much game there but the physics engine controlling the space flight is really solid, especially in the larger ships (the sabre is agile enough that you do not really feel it perhaps)
As for the hangar... I do not think that such a basic task as populating a hangar is even on their radar at this point... If you want lived in and detailed.. take a look at the spaceport. It really looks like a place that people have mistreated for a very long time.
As for the framerates... Yeah.. the game pretty much take a top line or at least upper shelf PC to run even close to playable. No argue there. But that is things that can be tweaked later, i have seen games in stresstest that fixed that with a patch or two.
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The game promises everything under the sun but after five years it's delivered maybe 5% of that, going to be a long ride to get the remaining 95% at this rate, if they don't run out of money before then.
On a more positive note, I did like this screenshot
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However one should ALWAYS question motives,especially if you have followed this game at all.
IMO th emotive is simple,Chris or his marketing team believe that many gamer's will see a cool ship and think i want one and quickly go out and send more money his way.
I have always questioned WHERE all this cash shop money is going because there were SUPPOSED to be stretch goals already funded.Somebody is filling his pockets with money that is suppose to go to the game as well i am sure a very hefty salary along with his wife's hefty salary for making the very odd appearance.Then there is his brother,accounting,leasing,contracting "those outsourced ships are not made for free",the lawyer partner,yeah i an sure there is a boat load of money leaking elsewhere than the game itself.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
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