Out of Pod Experience

I think CR was not smart when he decided to go form making Dogfight a single player at first then multiplayer, to multiplayer at first. I don't think he was even remotely ready for that, and tbh, it shows both that he may have his head in the clouds as to what he can actually accomplish in a reasonable time, and what is so far out of his league that he will just be bogged down with crap.

I always said, he should stop with this stupid stretch goals, and trying to cram more and more into the itial launch, and focus on the core of his game, a few ships, getting everything set and yes even buggy for alpha, then adding more it as things get worked out and played.

While its great that he went forma single ship for dog fighting to four... its an alpha. Its foolish to keep changing the plans once you have a time line in place.

As digital keeps doing, if I compare SC's progress to say Valkryies, Both had a reworking around the same time, as SC decided to not put out whatever crappy version of dog fight they had, and Valk had to scrap the play idea thye had as it was not fun.

SC then announced a clearly unattainable alpha date (march or april they said there would be an alpha [no digital I could care less what you ment when you typed that DFM was being released during pax.. released is released])

where as Valk is taking its time to perfect it and has tons of little prealpha events to test and get feed back on there game now.

SC keeps adding or modifying things...

Valk seems to be not doing that much, but then again, Valk devs are not talking as much as CR is.

CR really needs to just stop. Just stop talking, and focus on his game. Announce the damn launch of dogfight when they are actually set to do alpha, not when they THINK they can do alpha, and launch a damn alpha, not a 100% ready right off the self game.

Advancing the storyline on Jove to the point that Oveur ( one of the original developers of EVE) stated we could become jove....That was 10 years ago that he stated that and nothing has been done since....Kinda running late.


Advance the research in the wormhole that closed and try to re open it and see if there's anything that resembles a human species on the other side and if they'd be friendly or hostile to their long lost relatives living in the eve cluster....Nothing has been done there either.


Release the other Tech 3 ships that were stated in a previous post of mine, right up to battleship class and even if the skills to train them would be insane, I wouldn't mind, and we could even release tech 3 sub capital weapons while were at it too, with insane training skills to match.


No I won't go into it, but there was supposed to be walking in stations and all we got is walking into a pilots quarters that didn't add anything to the gameplay.


Would be nice if by now, tech 2 capital weapons existed since dreads and titans have been out for 9 years, so it would be about damn time they were released...In fact also release other T2 capital class modules while we're at it and insane skills to use those of course.


There's plenty more, but those are a few suggestions.

You might want to read up on Freelancers development.

Started in 1997 with lots of big promises.

Then Microsoft took over and Robert's left Digital Anvil and was only kept on as a creative consultant. It took 3 more years to finish. Even after dropping a lot of the promises.

Please tell me how bringing up Freelancer is meant to make Roberts look good.

Civility? In my OOPE?

What the hell is going wrong with the world.

Because at least now, he's got his game fully financed without needing any publishers getting in the way and not allowing features to get fully developed, or needing the game to be released by a given date.


Does this mean the game will be released on time?....hell no, but judging by the quality of work done so far and even lf it requires some stiff hardware to run it smoothly, but you can bet that it raises the bar big time and that publishers want to see it fail badly, because it means it cost them more money to match that kind of quality, not to mention seeing kickstarter financed projects fail.......they want to keep control of this industry in terms of how long should the game take to make, how much money is needed, making it run on every possible platform and what features( graphics or otherwise) should be supported and just enough polish to beat out what is released at that time.


Star citizen bypasses all that crap and aims to be the best that is technically possible, even though they have people on the forums already wanting a console version for the Xbox 1 and PS4, and Chris said no ******* way is it happening as he doesn't need money from either Sony or Microsoft, or their restrictive license agreements( ask CCP on dust 514 and why there isn't a PC version), or debating just how powerful their PC's need to be to run this game anyhow, wanting to water it down already...

It's more to say that THEY THINK they've got the bugs resolved. Since one of the show stoppers seemed to be a major issue with netcode, I'm not surprised they are taking an extra couple of days to retest everything. It's a smart move.

There's a "sizzle reel" in that link too, and like most sizzle reels it's complete garbage.

What I got from the bit I quoted was that he went way overbudget with what budget he had before Microsoft stepped in with more money.

So when you say that Star Citizen is 'fully funded', are you saying that Chris Roberts thinks he has enough money for the features he has promised (just like Freelancer), or do you have some other source who ran the numbers themselves ?



Which work ?
Please point to bits that are produced by CIG, not competition entries. Preferably bits that show off gameplay, not graphics.
Though if you do point to graphics, point out how it does something new. Not just throwing more manpower at existing graphics methods.


If the game needs hardware that most of the target audience doesn't own on release, that's still a failure on the developers part because they are limiting their sales.


Yes, that's what they are aiming for. But where is the evidence that Chris Roberts can deliver ?

third cockpit is hornet one seen already and boring as well.(also i think it is one where dude is looking at us)

Well, initially he wanted just 2 million from the kickstarter fund and another 20 million would be provided by private investors if he managed to hit that mark, which as we all know was blown away by the near 45 million amassed so far, to the point that the private investors are no longer needed, and the game continues to gather more money on a daily basis( between 20 000$ to 70 000$ every day), so the total should be much higher by the time the game is anywhere near being complete.





The use of PBR to make everything look much more realistic, which is a brand new feature from the Cry engine 3.5 game engine and never used in any other game previously, and yes the ships developed by the staff look equally awesome, like this one:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/media/y763j5ppisnnfr/channel_item_full/IDRISdownfrontquarter_copy.jpg


How the hell does this not look awesome outside and even more so with a full working interior and the ability to board the ship to take control of it




They don't care, the aim is to create the ultimate PC game experience, just like when the original Crysis game was released in 2007 and made even the highest end pc setups it's personal *****, being forced to run the game at low settings compared to every other game out at the time, but still sold in droves as people upgraded to try and run it as best as they could, and the game was used by hardware review sites to gauge new video card performance for a few years after it's release.


Sometimes, you just have to gamble rather than always play it safe, and Crytek made a name for itself since then....



You wait and see if they can.....It's called a leap of faith and i'm sensing you have none left.

Personally, I was really hoping for Tallon to go through, that ship looked really badass. If only they hadn't totally screwed the pooch on their presentation. You're right though they definitely have it down to "two helicopters". :)