Out of Pod Experience

I'll be surprised (pleasantly) if they lock down a date this month.

With regards to the issues of realistic space flight, the frustration part is mitigated what is effectively "simulated" computer control. They've talked about being able to turn off the various assists (think of the similar assist defeats in racing games) which enable more interesting flight dynamics like powerslides and such. With the whole thing turned on, you'll fly like a fighter jet, but obviously at the mercy of people skilled in the more loose flight models.

They also showed the g-force simulation, with the assists completely off you run the risk of blacking out and who knows what other harm to your character. Do you pull the harder turn and risk blacking out entirely, or do you take the less risky move and possibly get shot to pieces? Should make for some interesting gameplay.

Interstellar travel is all jump-based, presumably the in-system stuff will be similar. We'll see.

Of course this entire discussion is an academic exercise anyway until we get the game in our hands. I for one think it's a good thing to have a flight model which can be challenging to master but yields awesome rewards for doing so.

Real world fighter pilots detail with extreme g-forces, and try to pull off extreme maneuvers while dealing with those g-forces. I imagine that same acceptable risk is something we'll be able to manage ourselves when flying around in SC. We'll see.

Compare one game designer that have outrageously ambitious visions for his game and has yet to deliver with another game designer that have outrageously ambitious visions for his game and has yet to deliver?

Hmm jump drives then... I have always felt this is the best mode of travel, especially for games. Less travel time makes for a happy player.

But for me the question is if they use jump drives does that mean you can jump to anywhere you want or do you have to jump to a beacon/gravity well or some other specific spot intended to create a chokepoint?

I don't think any significant details have been released about this, so anything anyone says would be speculative.

Going to use a combo of my keyboard and joystick/ throttle, and with an Oculous rift DK2 glasses which should be arriving in June.....Immersion factor maxed.

You should know better than that....CCP does whatever it wants to do and whenever it wants to do it.....Timelines for given features haven't been too important these last several years...

Seems like a great acquisition from CR to take the Executive Producer role. From what he said in the Wingman's Hangar interview he started in the business by messing with a Doom map editor, was a level desiger for Quake II and some other games, before working with WoW and Diablo III at Blizzard. If he can help Star Citizen deliver half the fun I have playing Diablo III then the money I gave CR is already well spent.

Speaking of D3, it's 2 years old today, anniversary bonus is up! Double rift keys and legendary drop rate for everyone