Out of Pod Experience

I'm sorry but that looks terrible. Is that a tech demo?

Yep engine ticks riddled with bugs but that I can understand after all dog module is there for ppl to mass test and hunt bugs down.

Game it self isnt gonna be in alpha til 2015 kick in.

dog module

planet module

pve missions

alpha of game world....

if I understood it correctly.

also noticed performance buff couldn't run game and eve at same time all high without noticing sluggish movement gone now.

Having seen the demo played at PAX East, I would lie if my impression of Star Citizen had improved and when compared to Elite Dangerous, that I have a better impression of, Star Citizen is turning me off more and more.

Seems like a beautiful game, though with its fair share of issues this early in its development stage. The Wing Commander games were interesting. I played Privateer for a brief period of time when I dated a guy who had it installed on his computer. I was actually (embarrassingly) quite a bit invested in my character.

That said, I'd play EVE if it was text based with blocks for ships and ascii-line border tables everywhere. I suspect for a lot of people it's EVE's underlying mechanics which seem like they're absent from any other game in the genre, Star Citizen included.

/蘭

My interest in SC pretty much died a few months ago. The overall concept is good, but sharded servers, instanced encounters, chance based combat (i.e. will I fight noob guy 1 or npc 1 lets roll a dice and see) its shaping up to not be the game for me.

"When a player leaves a planet's surface and enters space, the Galaxy Server hands them off to an appropriate orbit instance. If no instance exists in that location or all existing instances are full, a new one is dynamically created. There are reserved instance slots for friends and for players or NPCs that have been tagged as persons of interest (POI), and the galaxy server will avoid splitting up friends or separating a player from someone they have tagged as POI.[1]

“ The game will try its best to put friends and other ships of interest in the same dynamic instance - every space area - say orbiting a planet, an asteroid field, an ambush point etc. has only so many slots for live players - it is dynamically dropping people in and out of these instances based on their allegiances, specified interest / factions and skill level ”

–Chris Roberts"

source: http://starcitizen.wikia.com/wiki/Instancing

That is chance based encourters. Based of some random critera. There are limited slots in an instance, so if for exsample I leave earth's surface it will decide if in the 10 other instances I have friends, baddies, I want pvp or not, and if there are slots. It will then dump me into one or make me a new one. If my slots fill up, and I have a buddy that wants to join, he may see a totally different scenario. In addition, in eve, once I trigger an instance, anyone who comes to said instance I see. Reguardless of anything. What I read this as, is if I am Goonswarm, I leave a planet, it will look for other goons to put me with, or people I have flaged as buds, or enemies. But if will not see everyone there. That is a problem for me, and makes this game not an mmo. But if you enjoy this kind of game play then cool. I happen to think its stupid idea. So this is chance based. Just like combat is. If I land in an area and my pvp slider is a 10 for max pvp and billy bobs is at 0 for no pvp at all, the game will look at that and could randomly place us in the same instance. It however, will prolly not. In addition, i'm not suppose to be able to tell the difference between an NPC and a player. As I said, SC and eve not the same at all. And this type of game play sounds lame imo. But to each there own

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Has a Beta test key waiting.. along with some ships

Considering the already crazy high expectations on Star Citizen, the odds against it delivering on those expectations is only going to get increase as times go on. For a kickstarter that started October 2012 and to date, they got a barely "working" prototype to show the public this far into development, it doesn't really inspire much confidence in the project.

Please allow me to clarify what the acronym "MMO" stands for:

Massively multiplayer online game "A massively multiplayer online game (also called MMO and MMOG) is a multiplayer video game which is capable of supporting large numbers of players simultaneously. By necessity, they are played on the Internet.[1] MMOs usually have at least one persistent world, however some games differ. These games can be found for most network-capable platforms, including the personal computer, video game console, or smartphones and other mobile devices.

MMOGs can enable players to cooperate and compete with each other on a large scale, and sometimes to interact meaningfully with people around the world. They include a variety of gameplay types, representing many video game genres."

MMO - Massively Multiplayer Online

not the same thing as MMOTSS - Massively Multiplayer On The Same Server

or MMOTSAOC - Massively Multiplayer On The Same Area Of Cyberspace

Therefore, Star Citizen is an MMO.


But if you are somewhat concerned about the lack of the competition that Star Citizen will bring to EVE Online, stop worrying now! I've heard that Chris Roberts is planning to launch a side project to do so! I'ts called the "Pong Spaceships App".
It will consist of an old server machine loaded with a multiplayer version of Pong featuring a modified Pong Spaceships™ graphic engine. It will allow all the 500.000 Star Citizen backers to be connected from their tablets on the same server and be online at the same area of cyberspace while pressing F1 and watching little squares fire little pong balls at each other!
Personally I don't think the backers will pay much attention to it, but meh who cares! Its nice to have these little things

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13840-Letter-From-The-Chairman-43-Million

$43 million stretch goal reached, every backer (to this point) gets a set of marine combat armor added to their accounts, to be used in the Star Citizen FPS module.

Omni Role Combat Armor (ORC) mk9 Manufacturer: CDS (Clark Defense Systems) The ‘standard’ Marine armor for almost twenty years, ORC armor is prohibitively more expensive than standard-issue infantry body armor used by Army Ground Forces, but the Marines boast far fewer numbers and tend to make compelling arguments to get what they ask for. Clark Defense Systems’ ORC armor is created of composite mesh of fibers reinforced with ablative plates, offering a modest protection against both energy and kinetic weapons. While it doesn’t offer the same protection of the Marines’ proprietary Nail-armor or their SpecOps variants, ORCmk9 armor is a baseline solution for any number of situations the average Marine will encounter on any given day. Besides, in the words of Lt. Col Armin Trask, “you wanna know the best armor? Not getting shot.”

The winner of the $45 million reward poll has been announced, it's the mistery object.

Hadesian Artifact – The mystery of what happened in Hades has been one of the great archeological puzzles ever since the system was discovered in the early 26th Century. The evidence suggests that the Hadesians nearly erased their entire civilization in devastating civil war that left a planet cracked in half, but so many questions remained. Who were these Hadesians? How did the war get started? Over the centuries, even the public became enamored by the mystery of this system. This curiosity was inflamed when scientists recently discovered a lone Hadesian artifact on the black market of all places. Trinket manufacturers quickly tried to capitalize on the resurgence of interest by building exact copies of the artifact for sale to the public, even replicating the unidentified symbols along the base…

Voting for the 46$ million mark reward is still open. Backers can choose between an updated scanner software, a new role specific outfit, an engine tuning kit, a ship skin and a space plant.