Out of Pod Experience

Nuke is game over obviously, but the rounds that the iowa could fire weighed 3100 pounds for the armor piercing variety, so about 27000 pounds with all 9 turrets doing a full volley...That's a lot of kinetic energy hitting a target ship, and there was another class planned( but never built), the Montana class with even more armor than the Iowa and a Quad triple 16 inch turrets on a hull clocking in at 70 000+ tons if they were built.


The focus changed to building more aircraft carriers for the pacific war, so the Montana's were never built and thus the yamato class from japan remains the biggest and heaviest ever built.


The sister ship of the yamato took 17, 500 pound bombs and 19 torpedos to sink in a 3 1/2 hour battle involving 350 planes.... a massive fight for a single ship, but she went down swinging right to the end.

We'll know the answer in 4 hours with regards to star citizen.....Here's hoping.

Tis quiet indeed, though ben left a message saying that if we have anything more important saved in the star citizen folder like pictures from the game, to remove them and save them somewhere else since it'll be deleted once the update is done.


Could be, may be, but we'll see if it is released....Seems they're preparing for it.


https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/136223/warning-for-all-pilots-read-before-you-install-ac

The first images of the hangar as posted today using PBR.....Holy ****


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCCRhgHSBeQ

Enjoy, my friend, and tell us if it was worth the wait. Also, be vigilant and on the lookout for anything that might have slipped them by.

I, for one, think the ships look pants compared to the ships in E:D. :P

11.5 GB update......And this is just the first part of the DFM, there's 2 more releases, the single player, the tools to create content and run a server, and ultimately, the public universe download.


Game is going to be huge in terms of size once fully complete....

Whole pile of people streaming on Twitch.

http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Star%20Citizen

Great for those of us stuck at work. Hey at least people are testing the release for me before I get home. :)

Seems those that were critical in this thread have gone quiet all of a sudden....

Jury is still out for me...
Anyone else here remember Freelancer?
(Hint, it was the last game Roberts was involved in).

What Aspalis said. Also not everyone lives in your timezone.

Played the SP mode a bunch last night. My impressions, highlights first.

Graphics: Lets get this out of the way right now. It runs pretty much butter smooth on my system on very high (I didn't crank it higher yet), I didn't notice any lagginess or anything. CryEngine scales well, so even those I've seen running it on low looked impressive. Things come apart very nicely, though I noticed that if something was even slightly offscreen when hit with a missile the explosion effect was not rendered at all.

Controls: I don't have a HOTAS yet so I'm using mkb, and that definitely took some getting used to. It's sort of like a terrible version of War Thunder's controls, which I always found to be pretty damn good for a flight sim. Think Freelancer, but with an enormous deadzone and the jittery response of War Thunder on Historic (not full realism). There's a ton of arguing on the RSI forums about mkb vs joystick and which is overpowered.

They also need to find a proper balance of "space dust" so you have a better idea of how your ship is moving, because while turning off the engine assist is awesome for complex maneuvering it's not always easy to tell how you're moving vs your orientation.

AI: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah

Sound: A very mixed bag, the atmospheric sounds like your engines and the voiceover work of the computer are excellent. The guns sound completely impotent, lacking any real punch and drama that cannons the size of a truck should have.

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In general, after getting used to the controls and key bindings it was "alright" to play for a while. I have major issues with a lot of the presentation part of things, for one the game does not telegraph properly when you're getting shot. Often my first indicator is when my shields have dropped and the computer that never shuts up stops telling me about something overheating to say that I'm taking hull damage now. OR, you notice when your guns stop firing because half your ship is shredded. It's quite terrible.

The AI is just junk. I get killed more by them colliding with me, and once it actually severed my cockpit away from my craft. While this was cool, it took four AI enemies six minutes to land a single hit on me to kill the pilot.

Another annoyance, the HUD is supposed to be projected in the helmet visor, and for some stupid reason the game will often have various hud elements sliding off the screen based on how you're moving. I know it's because they're simulating g-forces, and your guy's head is bouncing around in the helmet, but that's just **** UI design. Realism is no excuse for it. The HUD is also totally cluttered, those missile lock animations should have been canned after their PAX demo but they only add noise to an already over-designed mess.

The point of a HUD is to be informative to the pilot, not to distract constantly from things they should be concentrating on.

Anyway, that's my initial impressions anyway. Will post more as I remember more things. For a pre-pre-pre-alpha it's pretty nice overall, though there's some serious circlejerking going on by RSI when you jump into your ship via all those long winded canned animations, only to find you forgot to pick up the helmet you left sitting on the other side of your hangar because the game never said you should have done that first.

They have a TON of work to do.