Out of Pod Experience

This i like when looking at the classes of ships that can even be landed on planets, and those that can even be built at all in order to keep flghting scenarios Under control and avoid power creep as the game gets older and pilots have huge number of large ships at their disposal.


Planetary landings will be limited to single seat ships, as well as 2 seat and 5 seat ones, and up to the idris class corvette, which is a ship that can hold up to 10 players, either real or hired NPC's for which the owner of the ship has to pay a salary if they're NPC's....CR is still debating if there will be destroyers( bigger than corvettes) with the ability to land.


For any larger ships than this, such as cruisers, they can only dock at orbital stations around the planet the player is intending to go to, and will obviously require an even larger crew which will get expensive if it's NPC based given the higher number needed to operate the ship.


Anything bigger like battlecruisers, battleships, escort carriers and carriers up to 2 kms long can also dock at these orbital stations, but cannot be purchased at all, cannot be built since there's no blueprints for them but will be added to the game in very limited numbers and players will have to capture them from the NPC's that operate them, and keep them in control for however long they can manage until another player run corp or aliance manages to take it away from them, as the ships can be boarded once their defences are taken out, so they need constant protection 24/7.



It basically makes the smaller ships more usefull if the larger ones will be available in very limited numbers( think bengal carriers and only being 5 of them in game at most), will require hundreds of people to properly operate each one, and if using NPC's on those really large ships, it'll cost a lot of money to pay the crew given the required number needed.


Since i want my ship to land on planets directly, it means either the idris class corvette or a destroyer being the largest i can aim for.....

Of course it could fairly be said that the risk of doing this is only incrementally higher than buying a $60 game the normal way. You're gambling that you'll get your money worth either way.

Well, that and pray that you'll be able to connect to a server each time you want to play your game in your computer.

Well considering that I doubt that Star Citizen would have gotten the support it has received from a publisher just on the bases of being a PC exclusive title it may actually have come to this. This year you have what for AAA, ESO, SC II: Heart of the Swarm, TW: Rome II, Sim CIty and Command and Conquer.

I know, I know, the older you get, the more difficult it is to see the difference between a 6 and a 8 but the recommended requirement is a 660.

Well BF4 is being designed to fit the specs of the PS4 and Xbox One as well as having versions for the 360 and PS3. If PC games do not break away from multiplatform development to some extent the technology used in games will continue to idle along with the console markets for years to come. This is especially true considering that outside of exploiting AMDs Graphics Core Next archutecture you're dealing with 8GB RAM and 500GB HDD which will be pretty underwhelming within a couple years.

More props for RSI for coming up with a successful crowdfunding scheme instead of selling out to other companies, subject to their rules and/or water down the game for playstations or vitas or tablets/smartphones.



Yes, i remember this time too... it was so long ago when games like Dust514 were launched like that... oh wait lolol nvm
Yeah SC fans can relax cause RSI is not CCP. They're not gonna sell the game for petty cash to some console company. The game is already paid for. Plus, even if ppl "run for the hills " like they did in Dust514, it won't be a big deal for this same reason.



It would be a more successful scam than asking you to buy a junky 7 year old ps3 for 200€ to play Dust514, it doesn't seem too many people fell for that one

That's what worries me as the PS4 is a DX11.1 capable machine and 8 GB of ram, and an X-86 CPU, and the PS3 is still stuck with DX9 and way less onboard memory and a RISC style processor, so it'll be interesting to see how dice handles BF4 on what are basically very different machines to begin with.


A friend of mine actually has a PS3 and is a big fan of BF3, and was shocked when he tried the PC version of BF3, where the particle effects and explosions were much more detailed, some of the larger maps only come on the PC version, not to mention that only the PC version hosts 64 player games, while the PS3 is limited to 32 players online.


So with BF4 looking even better than BF3 and being more demanding, how are dice going to pull it off on a console that's 7 years old in terms of design, and not making visual quality gap between the console version and the PC version even more noticable than it already is with BF3 is beyond me.....It'll be much easier with the PS4 obviously to minimize any gap between it and the PC version since it's a much more recent design, but i suspect PS3 owners will be dissapointed big time.

It's basically true, but you can also say the same thing about practices like buying good reviews, gaming reviews and preorders (Aliens Colonial Marines comes to mind) and preorder incentives. A lot of, especially hardcore gamers buy their games (at least in there heads) when a game is announced and there already committed by the time of release. The difference isn't really that great except the game could never be released and you lose a few bucks. MWO is sort of special however in that Piranha Games made a lot of mistakes from out of the gate including how they handled the MW fandbase, lack of consistency (only consistent in its lack of) and focus, poor game balance (turnbased pnp rules do not translate seamlessly to a videogame, especially an fps) and instituting pay-to-win. If anything we can now all see and understand why Piranha Games has never really pulled off making a game that's more than mediocre.

Especially tesselation, and it being used extensively on characters, weapons, water, land and air vehicles and the overall environment itself, not to mention textures and the amount and resolution they'll use, or particle effects they can use with the PS3's limited abilities by today's standards.....i expect the game won't even be close to looking the same as the PC or Xbox one or the PS4 version.