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Topic: The Official One and Only Star Citizen Thread: Welcome to Crusader

Lonestar the Kilrathi started this discussion 8.6 years ago #48,319

This thread is made to be a catch-all for all Star Citizen conversation and news.

I'll update this thread when there are new releases or anything related to Star Citizen that might be of interest to people here. If you're thinking of making your own Star Citizen thread, consider posting your thoughts here instead of making a new topic. (part 1 - part 2)

Alpha 2.0.0 now available

Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 is set in the environs of Crusader, a gas giant in the Stanton System. We’ve packed this area of space with multiple points of interest and player options that will deliver our first true multi-crew experience. You will begin your adventure in Port Olisar, in your quarters. From there, you have the freedom to meet up with friends, choose a ship or help crew another. Olisar is huge and is the launch pad for all player ships in the current release. The area around Port Olisar is an “Armistice Zone” meaning that all weapons will be on lockdown in that safety zone to prevent any disagreements or unpleasantness.

Once out of Olisar’s Armistice Zone, it’s a different story: players are weapons free and can engage anywhere they come across each other. What can you explore? Crusader has three moons, Yela (with an asteroid belt), Cellin and Daymar (each with orbital stations.) Security Post Kareah is in the orbit of Cellin and the derelict Covelex Shipping Hub hangs over Daymar. Kareah is now a hotly contested proving ground for the most adventurous player, a good resource for weapons and glory. Those interested in exploration are invited to investigate the eerie abandoned Covalex Shipping Hub in zero gravity. The asteroid field around Yela seems like a never-ending battle between the UEE security and opportunistic pirates wanting salvage rights to the wrecks around the belt.

Additionally, there are many service stations run by Cry-Astro dotted all over the map that will allow players to refuel, rearm and repair. These cannot be guaranteed to be totally safe to approach and you may find yourself the target of the odd pirate or smuggler wanting rich pickings for salvage.

Gameplay Trailer

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Lonestar the Kilrathi (OP) double-posted this 8.6 years ago, 2 minutes later[^] [v] #631,328

It’s time to take the fight to the ground! Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 includes our first drop of first person combat, complete with combat armor and an array of hidden weapons to be discovered. Here’s the situation: Comm Arrays around Crusader have fallen to pirates wanting to create communication black zones in under which they can carry out their illegal activity. Crusader Industries security forces are attempting to repel the pirates, but any help that players can give in defeating them and must be restoring the Arrays’ uplinks will be appreciated and players will find more opportunities are open up for them thanks to the improved flow of communication. Some of these opportunities can be found at the Imperial Cartography Centre which scans deep space and is tasked with identifying unknown signals which explorers can land a hand with.

Lonestar the Kilrathi (OP) triple-posted this 8.6 years ago, 10 minutes later, 13 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #631,329

Monthly Report

behind the scenes with Mark Hamill
formation flying: WIP fly by wire "follow the leader autopilot" for formations.

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soooo, it's kind of like living in china. there's major accidents all-the time.

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and your not past the danger once you leave the station either

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but it's supremely beautiful

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@631,478 (squeegee)
Clones of whom?

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squeegee (OP) replied with this 8.6 years ago, 11 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #632,275

players hiding stealth ships in the shadows of asteroids with engines powered down. they're completely undetectable until you're right on top of them. these guys spent all morning ambushing people and taking down large ships. the role play is going to be strong in this game.

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squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8.6 years ago, 2 days later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #633,456

Holiday Live Stream

holy fuck

From Pupil to Planet: a 2 minute look at procedural rocky planet tech. we also get a glimpse at the new animated facial rig. i got goose bumps 10 seconds in.
1st seamless procedural planetary landing gameplay: using the tech from the above video, this bit of gameplay shows leaving a station, traveling to a planet, flying through the atmosphere across the planets surface, and then landing at the new landing zone on Delmar. open your mouth now so you don't hurt your jaw when it hits the floor.

the whole livestream was 3 hours and they shared progress on tons of stuff, several new big ships will be flyable in the next patch (before christmas) and they did a walk through of the Javelin class Destroyer. i'm about to sit down and watch the whole stream, but i couldn't help spoiling myself by cruising reddit first. anyway, these two videos are 5 minutes of really and truly next-gen stuff. i couldn't be more pleased with the direction things are going.

pictured: Starfarer interior cargo hold. the starfarer is the ship i pledged for in 2013 and it's way more ship than i thought it was going to be. it has it's own gravity generator room! it's a huge sub-capital ship. probably classed as a frigate, but it's primarily a fuel tanker. and it's almost ready!

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Lonestar the Kilrathi (OP) replied with this 8.6 years ago, 21 hours later, 1 week after the original post[^] [v] #634,512

Physicalized character models in EVA

so i use the word physicalized because CIG keeps using it but i'm not 100% on what it actually means.

evidently what this means is that physics is modeled against all the bones in the animated character rig. i guess a more traditional way of doing model animations is to... not do that. so, i have no clue, i'll just explain what we're seeing in the PTU.

this video has several good examples of what they're going for. in this first clip you'll see how the model interacts with the environment.
https://youtu.be/sUKRmmpWIfE?t=1m12s
specifically you can see what happens to extremities when they collide with something. because the head is physicalized it is allowed to move independently from the body (ragdoll) the way you might expect it to occur in reality. not only does it look fucking painful when his head snapped back, but most other games i'v played would just displace the entire body instead of just the head.

if you watch the rest of the clip you'll see lots of other examples of how the model blends between ragdoll and rigged animations when parts of the model collide with, well, anything
https://youtu.be/sUKRmmpWIfE?t=2m17s

but, it's not without it's bugs. 3rd person is super wonky to control, and 1st person is a lot more difficult to "just work" than the old non-physicalized bodies. i suspect there are unintended bugs making it perform pretty badly. some things, like entering a physics grid upside down lead to some pretty funny, albeit frustrating behavior.
https://youtu.be/sUKRmmpWIfE?t=25s

they're evidently using the same IFCS (flight computer) to control bodies in EVA as they do to manage ship thrusters. the result is that they're probably going to need to tweak and tailor it as much as they did after they launched the original IFCS into Arena Commander. to me it feels unwieldy, but, i can't really judge it until they fix the bugs that lead to unresolvable behavior.

bonus: i must go, my people need me

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2.1 pushed LIVE

lots of bug fixes, lots of stability fixes, lots of performance fixes, new gameplay, new ships

it's a big patch, 16gb or so. during the PTU they addressed the crashing issue. the servers would tank, the clients would crash, things would chug along, but they're taken care of the big issues. client crashes will still occur, and there are of course still gameplay breaking bugs, and servers will still occasionally dip frame rate on you, but the frequency and severity of all of those problems is diminished. clients can be online for hours before a server takes a shit and servers handle data transfer more intelligently now and performance problems are reduced but not perfectly stable. there's still a long way to go before i'll call the frame rate acceptable, but i'll admit it's playable between the 20fps to 60 fps range i've been seeing. it's still looking like GPUs aren't being utilized 100% but it's better because they've addressed the whole "single CPU core maxing out" problem i guess. idk, it still needs a lot of optimizations and it still needs a pretty boss CPU to get the most out of your GPU but it's running damn well for what all it's doing.

aside from just making the thing stable enough to play, they've added a new mission series and a couple of flyable multicrew ships! the mission is a detective archtype, and it's pretty nifty. the procedurally generated mission system will "flavor" missions towards the role you're playing. so mercenaries get mercenary flavored encounters and pirates get pirate flavored things, it's a way for the system to recognize what kind of player you are to make sure that the role that you play feels genuine. a merchant player should feel like he's living the life of a space merchant and not primarily spend his time earning money though other mission types to fund merchant as a sideline. of course there will be pirate attacks and maybe bounty hunters will come after you if you're a thieving merchant, but it'll probably be more likely you'll meet a crooked banu who wants to rip you off on a load of power converters and you'll charm him through conversation and shit. that's the plan anyway.

so the detective mission comes in the form of kinda like a craigslist ad on the job board. just asking an interested party to investigate the abandoned covalex shipping hub to look for evidence of her husbands death. evidently the insurance company found him at fault and the wife thinks there's a conspiracy or whatever. from what i hear there are multiple ending depending on the information you collect from various locations. kinda neat, they want people to kinda gum shoe it up. it doesn't add a ton of content, but does explore the kind of mission generation system they're after. hopefully it's as diverse as they're describing it to be. so far i've been impressed with their prefab building tech they use to generate locations quickly and despite it being prefab stuff everything looks unique. "modular" is like their holy design criteria, if it works as well for missions then it should be pretty interesting. of course it could always end up being repetitive and boring, but, that's the kind of thing they say their aware of and don't want their game to play like. we'll see i guess. there's other missions too, of course, the com array missions and scouting missions where you have to deal with pirates and recover data and stuff. pretty basic, but for a first taste it's not bad. needs more depth, but, that's all content and they're just getting finished up with core tech. content to fill in the world and make it come alive is gearing up now.

this year should be pretty interesting, they're about to start cranking out the career mechanics and all the associated bells and whistles, and that means dedicated ships and missions to go along with the mechanics. it's looking like cargo/trade and gas harvesting/refueling are neck and neck for first. the Starfarer (fuel tanker) is hangar ready and the hangar to support it is too and it should be in the next patch once lighting is done. so we're pretty close to having that thing flying, collecting gas and refueling folks. but, there's already a ton of cargo transport capable ships in the game.

in fact one of them, the Freelancer, a big multicrew hauler is flight ready in this patch as is the Vanguard Long Range Fighter. the freelancer seats 5 with a turret gunner and has action stations for a couple of crew as well. mostly it's a medium hauler with big fucking guns on it. 1 man can operate it just fine, but having a turret gunner is pretty nice. the Vanguard is a 3 man military spec ship with a turret and an action station for the third man. it's role is long range reconnaissance, first strike interceptor, and a torpedo bomber configuration. something like that. it's a cool ass ship. it's kinda big and heavy but tanks a lot of shots. it has redundant systems so it's not as likely to be crippled. depending how useful that "flight engineer" action station becomes it's probably going to be a great 2 man ship, but can certainly be operated by a single player pretty well. but, the turret guns are huge class 4 guns and can easily take out a fighter in a shot or two.

Vanguard turret destruction

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http://www.twitch.tv/lonestar_the_kilrathi/v/35542437

oh man, i'm still laughing. maybe you just had to be there, but this was fun as fuck and hilarious. so, i'm at Kareah station getting a rifle, and as i'm leaving the airlock some crew of space thugs in a constellation breeze up and blow up my ship on the landing pad. the bastards. so i go floating off under the landing pads and i'm going to go and fuck with the guy. he's just sitting there and i shoot at him and he can't shoot me because he can't target me and ships weapons resolve on a point like 2500m away, i was like 100m so the shots just went right by me. kek. he rammed me and it hurt, and then took off a few hundred meters away. so i go shooting at him some more when one of his crew out there starts talking shit about me and calling me an idiot and a stupid fuck and how he's going to go kill me. he's pretty far away and rifles are not accurate more than about 100m and we were both moving so he had no shot. we kinda shot back and forth but i had a good lead on him and was retreating into the station. i pull out my pistol and shoot at him so he'll pick up some lateral velocity and throw him off course and i ended up having a nice clean break for one of the airlocks on the back of the station (relative to where we were fighting.) once i was inside i went and rearmed (i was out of rifle ammo) and jumped out another airlock on another side of the station.

while i was diving off the side and floating around underneath the pads the thug ended up mistaking some innocent bystander for me, killed him, and then declared ME dead. i lol'd and told him he killed a noncombatant by mistake and then floated around the outside of the pad and spotted the constellation landed and waiting for the thug to board. i head that way, spot the thug trying to make a get away, get above him and close and start popping bursts of fire. fucking got him. top kek.

that's what you get for talking shit, nkato. that's what you get.

picture: unrelated xi'an scout whitebox

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squeegette (OP) double-posted this 8.5 years ago, 5 hours later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #642,477

ah, now this is a dog fighter. this is the old school first gen F7-C "civilian" Hornet with upgrades out the ass. the central hub normally houses a cargo container, but i've replaced it with a turret mount for a huge ass class 4 cannon. (there's lots of class 4's now, including a 120mm cannon with explosive rounds that might be my favorite gun in the game right now.) pictured on top there is a M6A Behring Laser cannon i yoinked off a small frigate. it does assloads of damage, but it's wise to conserve because all power consumers draw from the same pool, so firing it to much can result in less power for shields, thrusters, targeting computers, etc.

on the wings are two class 2 Badger repeaters (lasers as well) that do pretty good damage, but the wings can support upwards of class 3's (which i don't have proper class 3 energy weapons). it's possible the powerplant wouldn't handle class 3s here, but when all it takes is two volleys to obliterate most targets it doesn't matter much if you can sustain a rate of fire. so i plan to rent a couple of class 3 energy weapons for fun (since i'm just spending earned credits now).

on the nose there's normally a single mount for a single class 3 item (guns, turrets, etc.) i have mounted a turret that splits the hardpoint and reduces it's size giving me the option of two class 1 guns. i have mounted another set of class one laser repeaters for a total of 5 energy weapons.

the base F7C Hornet normally comes with two class 2s. lol. this ship is a very heavy hitter now and with its maneuverability it's excellent against just about anything larger. this all energy weapon build hit hits above it's weight, that's for sure, but, it's got nothing on my all ballistic build :)

squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 29 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #642,482

this ship wrecks everything. 5 ballistic weapons. it hurls depleted uranium. on the nose are two class one ballistic mass drivers. high rate of fire, shield penetrating damage. good guns. on the wings are two class 2 ballistic mass drivers. high damage, lower rate of fire, high speed rounds (60mm i think). on the top there is a gun that's new to the game, the C-788 "Combine" Ballistic Cannon they call it. it's a haaaaaard hitter. 120mm explosive tipped rounds. i was hitting small ships with this and sending them spinning. the class 2 mass drivers knock people around a bit themselves, but the class 4 cannon sends them tumbling end over end.

in the literature: it's built to punch through ship armor making it an ideal choice for taking on larger, less maneuverable targets at a short range.

squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #642,483

it's got a pretty quick rate of fire, but the rounds are pretty slow. when you land one though, you can tell. the only draw back is that the muzzle velocities are all over the place. that means that you end up tracking targets with 3 "lag indicators." lag indicators are used (even in modern fighters) to tell you where a projectile will be when it travels to your intended target. it's a bit like trying to knock over bottles with an arcing stream of water. one arc is fine, but if you have a second hose with water coming out slower then you can't hit bottles with both streams since they terminate at different points. and with 3 hoses and 3 arc of water it's even harder. you're either firing weapon group 1, or 2, or 3, but not all three at the same time.

so it's hard to land sufficient damage without really, really good positioning and relative motion. but, when everything come into alignment and you let off a few volleys their ships get torn apart.

squeegee (OP) quintuple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 14 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #642,484

the "all energy" 5 gun hornet does a little better in that regard. 4 of the guns have the same muzzle velocity which means they'll all terminate at the same place and so you end up with more guns on target more frequently. also, the 5th gun has a muzzle velocity very close to the other 4 which means they terminate pretty close to each other at medium and close ranges so having all 5 guns on target happens frequently as well.

the "ballistic" 5 gun hornet is probably just more suited to fighting larger ships. but, as pictured, it looks awesome. it can get hot though, the mass drivers on the wings are electromagnetic rail guns so they consume a lot of power (about as much as a laser) and also generate a lot of heat that needs to be actively cooled (consuming more power.) but, since you're not usually blasting away with all 5 guns it seems like it doesn't lose maneuverability.

the cannon is really too slow to take on smaller ships (especially in a turning fight) but the mass drivers are kind of at a sweet spot for speed and damage i feel. they hurt, and probably the only reason most people fight till they're burger is because ships are a freespawn right now. later on though people might think twice when their hull is breached in a few dozen places. plenty of people do run though. especially if i hit them with a 120mm explosive shell

squeegee (OP) sextuple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #642,506

alright, lol, this is like the perfect dogfighter. this is equipped with the one class 4 M5A from the connie, two class 3 Panther repeaters, and two class 1 omnisky laser cannons. it's a beast. the muzzle velocities are all within a close enough range that the pips are close enough even in pretty hard turns and at pretty good ranges. i'm dying mostly from pilot errors like hitting space stations at 300m/s in reverse. it's grate. it overheats like a little bitch though. tbh it's not all that bad. i'll try a mixed build with ballistics and energy weapons, but it's hard to find a good one since ballistics are just a lot slower than bolts of beam energy. probably putting the ridiculously awesome explosive howitzer with the existing class 3s and class 1s would be pretty good too, especially against bigger ships.

squeegee (OP) septuple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 34 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #642,510

so yeah. here's the total bill.

F7C Hornet - 11,000 REC points (earned by playing Arena Commander)
Hornet Flashfire Specialty Mount - 800 REC
N4-160f Turret - 2,000 REC
2x CF-227 Panther Repeaters - 3,600 REC (1,800 ea.)
C-788 "Combine" Ballistic Cannon - 1,800 REC
2x Omnisky III Laser Cannons - 2,400 REC (1,200 ea.)
INK-Mark 404-ID Shield Generators - 1,500 REC
total 23,100 REC points

for a comparison the Super Hornet is 16,500 REC. it can carry the same loadout, or lose the class 4 for two class 3's which the F7C can't do. the superhornet is also a 2 man ship, as well as a 6 gun vessel. it's a bit of a heavier ship too.
to loadout the F7M Super hornet it would cost 25,800 REC

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fucking jetpack

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the Starfarer!

sneak peek
it's almost hangar ready, and it's awesome.

squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #643,815

it's huge. this is the fuel ship. others may haul fuel, such as a Hull-E which could technically haul ass loads more fuel, but the starfarer is the only ship that can collect and refine gases into usable fuels. that should make this ship a pretty reliable source of income. it'll have running costs, but it can refuel itself and the cost of initial startup is low since you don't pay for cargo. you just go get it. fuel probably won't be costly, but it's a resource everyone needs so there's a guaranteed market for it, even if it's cheap. plus it's a great logistics ship for organizations. if you're running a fleet you need to fuel it so you'll be running as many refueling ships as you need to feed your armada.

squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #643,816

tbh it's one of the ugliest ships in the game, but that's part of its beauty. no new shots of the internal layout, but it's neat. it's not built in a long row like most ships and instead has corridors and multiple decks. there's a whole captain's quarters and then bunks for the crew. there's common lounge areas, work stations, a fuel refinery, a small cargo hold and a bunch of amenities to keep your NPC crew happy and non-mutinous. she's a good ship.

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@643,847 (B)
this is the hornet ghost with matte black radar absorbing stealth paint.

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squeegee (OP) replied with this 8.5 years ago, 22 hours later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #644,085

2.1.1 is live

nothing exciting, just general housekeeping

here's some more looks at the Starfarer though.

squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8.5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #644,087

pictured: i'm guessing this is the door to the cargo hold area. no idea where it actually goes. but it's big, so i'm assuming it's an airlock to a loading ramp or something. that is big enough for more than one type of ship to enter through. it might just be possible to launch small interceptors from here. maybe. it will be attempted if nothing else. but, like i said, don't really know where this door actually goes. the captains quarters might have a large door like this, like a big movable wall i think. not sure, it might be something completely different than a loading dock. but...

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squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 17 seconds later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #644,088

then there's this huge cargo hold area with what appear to be bulkheads and sealed areas up top. clearly this area can vent to space, so, i'm calling cargo hold. the ship is fucking massive, it's gotta be the hold.

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squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 20 seconds later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #644,089

no star citizen ship would be complete without a couple of toilets

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pictured: contextless corridor

squeegee (OP) sextuple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #644,091

this looks like a docking collar on the floor, and the door to the right appears to be a small airlock i guess.

squeegee (OP) septuple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #644,092

i'm thinking this is the center of the ship on the top level. the "contextless corridor" to the right may lead to the bridge, and the passage ahead leads off into the maintenence and whatever other areas. this is maybe a T intersection with an elevator or a ladder somewhere out of frame.

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squeegee (OP) octuple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #644,093

pictured: maintenance?

squeegee (OP) nonuple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #644,094

leading off towards crew quarters it looks like

squeegee (OP) decuple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #644,095

i think this is the same area but from the opposite side. so, cargo to the right and quarters straight ahead or something.

squeegee (OP) undecuple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #644,096

pretty boss. and notice the guns there on the side. those are that class 4 ballistic cannon with explosive shells that one of which will make a small ship tumble end over end. it has 4 of them apparently. and it's going to have, i do believe, a class 5 turret or something huge up on top. i think it's supposed to have a couple of other turrets too.

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squeegee (OP) duodecuple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #644,098

i hope you enjoyed this look at the corridors and bathrooms of the starfarer.

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also, there's red shifting going on (not redshifting starlight because you're not going quite fast enough to do that). just redshifting light reflected off of "space dust"
just kind of a neat little detail

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squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8.5 years ago, 37 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #644,354

From the Rumor Mill

sounds like there's going to be a FREE FLIGHT this coming weekend! that means everyone will have a week to download and play the game for free! it'll also mean (probably) that everyone will have access to every flyable ship in the game. Free Flys are awesome, it always brings in a lot of fodder for the aces. in the last free fly i shot down 27 people in a row before needing to spawn a new ship. i'm hoping to down at least 30 in a row around Kareah Station during the free fly. bwa ha. hahaha.

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@previous (beckyderp !4aMoRa.T2Q)
well, the endeavor does have farming modules for raising alien plants and stuff. i'm sure we can at the very least grow narcotics for the illegal drug trade.

squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8.5 years ago, 13 hours later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #644,628

Jan 31st is the last day to buy both Squadron 42 and the Persistent Universe as one package

One of the perks of early backing, obtaining both Squadron 42(single player campaign) and the persistent universe(MMO), is about to end. apparently.
As of the end of january the game is going to be sold as 2 distinct purchases (basically 2 separate games.) i have no idea what they'll sell for individually, but it'll probably be $60 each. i'm guessing Squadron 42 will be sold as a preorder and the MMO will be sold as a pledge still. idk, idek when squadron 42 is coming out. all i can tell you is that it'll cost more money to do both after the end of the month.

which might be fine for some people. Squadron 42 is going to be singleplayer and focus heavily of space and ground combat. so you'll kinda need to be interested enough in piloting to at least muddle through the dog fighting bits. it's got a huge cast and from what we hear a cool story in kind of a sandbox, but it'll have an arc to follow and different ways to play it through. CIG promises a full game well worth the full-game asking price in squadron 42 alone, and then promises a fuckload more with the PU, so, ultimately waiting until release and buying then will still be fine. people (hopefully) will get their money's worth from both.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Packages/Aurora-LN <-- this is currently the cheapest package and best ship of the options available at $45
this package comes with both Squadron 42, the Persistent Universe, and the Aurora LN "Legionnaire" which carries missiles and has an upgraded powerplant and shields.

i have no idea what they plan to do in the future as far as pricing, so i don't know if they'll keep the MMO game at $45 or if the cheapest packages are about to be $60. all i can say is that $45 for both games is over this upcoming Sunday. (it's possible they'll do another batch of $20 game packages during the november anniversary, but it might be $20 just for the MMO - if they even do it. so i bet in the future the cheapest you probably be able to get them both for is maybe maybe $80.)

just something to think about for anyone still on the fence. of course if you're not interested in the singleplayer game then $15 bucks isn't much to spend to ensure the MMO is actually worth paying for. it's still an early-access-alpha-yet-to-be-proven product. i expect a lot of people to wait and see, which is fair enough. also the computer specs are still pretty high, so it might not even be super playable on everyone's hardware as it all stands. so, for only $15 i can see how it would be worth it to wait and not outright risk $45.

anyway, end of the month. it is what it is. end of an era.

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squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8.4 years ago, 1 week later, 1 month after the original post[^] [v] #647,961

awesome news

game package split: coming Feb 14th Squadron 42 and the Persistent Universe MMO are going to be sold separately. the price will be $60 for both! and, you've got choices. you can either buy Squadron 42 OR the Persistent Universe for $45 and add on the other for $15 if you decide to pick the other up later. So, no matter how you decide to play it'll cost the same! you'll never need to pay more than 60 bucks for the entire Star Citizen experience!

i gotta say i'm fucking pleased with this. not only does it keep everything priced at the standard AAA game price, but it also ensures no one will be going around trying to slander the project by calling it a money-grab DLC fest. and, it also gives people a choice to pay for what they want and not pay for content they won't use, which is cool. imagine if you could just buy call-of-duty multiplayer and not buy into the zombies/campaign mode stuff if you don't want it. anyway, this has totally blown up my expectations, i was thinking 90-120 for both at best. 60 is perfect, and 45 for your choice of one or the other is more than perfect. anyone who wants to wait and see can do so without it costing them any more than a standard game title. (on a personal level i think it's easily 90 bucks worth of game between the PU and campaign. i regularly pay full price for games that i end up playing far less than i've already played SC. i'd have to play fallout 4 like 2 more times to even come close to the time logged in AC on the leaderboards. and that's not even including unlogged time in free flight, vanduul swarm, or the PU. so, i guess for me it's worth it so far, but i think with everything they're adding it's going to have the same entertainment per dollar hour that WOW had. of course, that's speaking as a big scifi fan as well as a flight sim enthusiast. i love flying and i love space, and i've wanted a high fidelity modern wing commander/privateer for decades so i'm super highly biased. do take everything i say with a grain of salt. i'm loving it, and i'm just stoked that the pricing is not exceeding 60 bucks so everyone can play and love it too.)

Free-Fly: extended till the 14th! servers are just being crushed with concurrency. so many people are logged on that it's kinda hard to get into the PU sometimes. which is great! the stress is leading the devs to fixes they wouldn't normally have the ability to investigate till much later. so some pretty good server patches have been going in place. i think they're extending the free fly just to be awesome. i dunno why really. (ah, i see reddit speculation is that they might drop the 2.2 patch with new content a few days before the free fly ends. so maybe 2.2 next week.)

Sandi's Facebook: sandi is head of marketing. she regularly posts cool stuff. here we're looking at a scene that's being put together (maybe for SQ42, dunno) where ships are chasing each other through a canyon on a planet. neat look at stuff we haven't seen much of before. atmospheric flight, semi-detailed planet scene, the misc reliant.

helmet, helmet, helmet

squeegee (OP) quintuple-posted this 8.4 years ago, 4 days later, 2 months after the original post[^] [v] #649,041

pictured: shoulder mounted railgun

kinda neat thing they're doing, all of the weapons for ships have a personal weapon version. they'll do much less damage and be much smaller, but same principles. ballistics, energy, explosive, EM, there's even going to be a personal shield based on ship shield tech. it'll be like a barricade you deploy.

squeegee (OP) sextuple-posted this 8.4 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 months after the original post[^] [v] #649,043

pictured: various WIP versions

to the left you can see the current in-game rail guns made for ships and how they all have a similar aesthetic. each in-game manufacture have a signature style

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squeegee (OP) replied with this 8.4 years ago, 6 days later, 2 months after the original post[^] [v] #653,443

2.2 on the PTU

Bounty System:

-In an effort to improve security in the Crusader region while their local staffing is low, Crusader Industries has activated their "Bounty" system and encourages all pilots to hunt down any wanted criminals in their space.
-Destroying an empty ship, colliding with a landed ship (in Monitored space), or disabling a Comm Array gives the offending character 1 level of Wanted Criminal.
-However, these are not cumulative and will not take your character above 1 Criminal level.
-Killing a player character or destroying an occupied ship (in Monitored space) gives 1 Cumulative level of Criminal.
-Crusader Security AI will spawn and attack any Criminal (of any wanted level), that enters the area around Cry-Astro Station or Port Olisar.
-There are 5 Criminal levels available. At Level 5 point, a global bounty mission is posted to all characters on the server instructing them to hunt down and kill the character.
-Each Criminal level adds 30 seconds of "jail time" to your respawn. When a Criminal is killed, they will be locked into their spawn-bedroom for the duration of their penalty time.
-If you are killed while at Criminal Level 5, you will be kicked off the server!!
-There are only two ways to reduce your Criminal level.
-Waiting 10 minutes without committing a crime will naturally reduce the level by 1.
-There is a console in Security Post Kareah that you can "hack". Each hack you initiate and complete drops your wanted level by 1.
-However, each hack takes 1 minutes to complete, and other criminals can interrupt your hack by initiating their own.

6k accounts have access, guess who's one of them ;)

pictured: the Aopipa made Xi'an designed "Khartu-al" light fighter which is now hangar ready and soon to be flyable :D

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squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8.4 years ago, 50 seconds later, 2 months after the original post[^] [v] #653,444

the Xi'an scout is the first xi'an ship we're seeing, and it's the second non-human alien ship to be introduced.

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squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8.4 years ago, 2 hours later, 2 months after the original post[^] [v] #653,471

so, it's gorgeous, i've been looking forward to this one

squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8.4 years ago, 4 minutes later, 2 months after the original post[^] [v] #653,473

here's some shots in a hangar with better lighting

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it has a different cross section from every angle. it's awesome.

squeegee (OP) nonuple-posted this 8.4 years ago, 4 minutes later, 2 months after the original post[^] [v] #653,480

OH SHIT BOYS

Hype train engaged and immediately derailed.
accessing Star Marine is evidently a bug, but hype, it's so close!

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a look at John Rhys-Davies' character from Squadron 42

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squeegee (OP) replied with this 8.4 years ago, 4 days later, 2 months after the original post[^] [v] #656,457

Fire up your launchers - 2.2 is Live!

there's a lot of good under-the-hood changes, a new flyable ship, a rescaled Crusader System, many major bug fixes, new itemPort items (intercoolers), new FPS weapons, Physicalized EVA, FPS dynamic cover system, basically a bunch of new FPS mechanics, a new grouping system, and i'm sure other changes.

2.2 is a big update. i only got to play a couple of patches, but the last patch i played performance was outstanding. at least frame rate, i was running 60-90 which is double my previous framerate in previous patches. there were a bunch of crashes though. as someone on reddit pointed out the patches have been either
A. steller framerate and performance but unstable and crashy
B. poor framerate and performance but stable with very high uptimes

What i was seeing on the PTU was about what they describe on reddit, but i missed most ptu patches. only played 2 of them, first and 4th of like 12 or so. i actually haven't gotten to play 2.2 Live yet, but i hear it's giving pretty solid performance. and i think they've increased servers from 16 to 24. basically it was explained that one server is right now handling something like 16 instances of Crusader. they're using google cloud infrastructure to host the servers and they are running 16 core CPU machines (it's probably actually 8 core and 8 HT rather than 16 physical cores, but idk, maybe 16 physical since they are google servers and whatnot, idk) and each core is handling one instance. so, basically one server is handling the network traffic for 16 players times 16 instances for a total of 256 players on a single server. (tbh i think it's 240 because i think one core handled something other than players, not really sure, but i know they said 200+ on a single server.)

so basically the devs were suggesting that even right now they could handle 240 players per instance if they do 1 instance per server. i think scaling up like that might not be exactly correct, but idk. the way the devs are acting it sounds like huge instances are going to be even bigger than we hoped. we'll see. the devs have also been mentioning something that i don't really even know how to explain well. i'l call them "see through instances" because you can see from one instance into another. so, in a typical MMO, like WOW, all instances are basically like parallel universes. thousands of people could all be in the same dungeon, but you'd only see your little 5 man group in your own little dungeon universe. what the star citizen devs are evidently looking into is having instances communicating with each other and allowing people, ships, and weapons (lasers/missiles) to cross the boundary of one instance and into another. so instead of instances existing as parallel dimensions, they'd be more like frothy soap bubbles. big bubbles would contain vast space with few players, and the more players you have in an area the more bubbles you'd need, so big bubbles split into small bubbles in a dynamic resizing of space/instances to best utilize their weird streaming based cloud infrastructure... thing. it's way the fuck over my head, and as near as i can tell most people think it's either impossible or super extremely hard. i haven't heard (or at least remembered) any game that does a dynamic see through instance thing, even WOW had phasing and often times i'd see players disappear as they zone into a different instance. the wow world (and most mmos) have a very disjointed and fragmented feeling to the playerbase because they are permanently spread across a set number of physical servers, if i play on Korialstraz then i'll never meet anyone from Arthas, ever, even if we hang out in the same cities all the time. SC wants to be different and be ONE universe were everyone has equal chance of meeting anyone. if they pull off what it sounds like they are currently SkunkWorksing then it might be the most impressive thing CIG pulls out of their hat, and it's not even sexy. it's network backend stuff that, by intention, tries to never be seen or noticed. if they succeed then there will be zero invisible walls in the SC universe.

of course, the edge case "10k players all decide to stuff themselves into region of space" is the big problem that might require segmented space, instances, zoning and phasing to prevent. the devs had said that the servers aren't the issue there, and probably not even netlag would be the first problem you'd see when trying to stuff everyone into the same zone. it would be client side crashing due to clients not being able to render or do physics fast enough.

idk, i might be way misunderstanding what they are talking about, but if so there's a lot of us out there who think "transparent instances" are exactly what CIG-Frankford is working on right now. and remember CIG-Frankford is basically 1/2 of Crytek who got headhunted by CIG. and not only that but a couple of them were the dudes who basically invented cryengine. so, if anyone can pull it off WITH cryengine, it's CIG-Frankford. not even Crytek would try this, tbh, because crytech isn't making MMOs. cryengine is great for small maps with a very, very high item counts but it's not so great with vast open worlds, anything procedural, or more than like 16 players.

Anyway, got off on a long tangent, but a cool one! their "netcode backend" is going to be the stuff of legend.

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omg. my star citizen boner is so big right now.

squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8.3 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 months after the original post[^] [v] #661,688

Karthu-al transformation

pictured: animated

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squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8.3 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 months after the original post[^] [v] #661,689

atmospheric flight? :D

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squeegee (OP) quintuple-posted this 8.3 years ago, 23 minutes later, 3 months after the original post[^] [v] #661,690

the Starfarer is fucking amazing. it's absolutely huge. i've played call of duty maps that are smaller than this ship. fucking seriously, i'm not even exaggerating. it's has 4 decks and even has maintenance tunnels and shit. the hanger is big enough you can fit the smaller "parasite" ships inside, no problem, probably like 4 of them. it has 3 bathrooms. it's over the top, lol.

the Karthu-al is flyable now and is excellent. it's a very intricate ship, i can only call it beautiful. the sounds are amazing as well. it's got an entirely different feel than any other ship, it's like climbing into a bug, it's awesome.

here's a video with sound of the startup and flight of the Karthu-al. sorry for the guy's voice, he sounds like a frog, but it's the best up atm.

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MISC Starfarer beauty shots time

she's a mighty beast

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i'll try to give you some idea of the scale

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enormous doesn't quite cut it. it's a map unto itself

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this is the business end. the catwalk is used to service the tanks which are used to condense gas collected from the atmosphere of gas giants. the whole ship operates as a refinery, actually, the entire 3rd deck is engineering/maintenance where you'll find the engine room, gravity generator, and equipment to run the refining process

squeegee (OP) undecuple-posted this 8.3 years ago, 7 minutes later, 3 months after the original post[^] [v] #662,008

eventually there will be a refueling boom that can be used to directly refuel other ships, but hauling fuel and selling it to refueling depots in deep space will probably be this ship's bread and butter. there is a planned variant, the Starfarer Gemeni, which is an armor hardened version for military use and the fuel tanks are replaced with a much, much larger cargo hold. it loses all gas collection/refining ability, but it'll be one of the largest purpose built cargo ships in the game. (of course everything is dwarfed by the MISC Hull-E cargo... tanker.)

squeegee (OP) duodecuple-posted this 8.3 years ago, 14 hours later, 3 months after the original post[^] [v] #662,160

sniper rifle shenanigans

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squeegee (OP) tridecuple-posted this 8.3 years ago, 1 week later, 3 months after the original post[^] [v] #664,346

forgot to mention, atm everyone has access to the starfarer. there's no free-fly right now, so you'd need a game package, but if you've got one then you can log in and go to the hangar and check it out.

pictured: map in case you get lost

squeegee (OP) quattuodecuple-posted this 8.2 years ago, 2 weeks later, 4 months after the original post[^] [v] #668,516

April Free-Fly

going on now!

you don't need to buy anything, just register an account here, obtain a referral code (optional) here, and then download the game here

no special promo code required or anything like that. the referral code will give you like 5 bucks worth of in-game currency to use to buy weapons and whatnot.
if you have any questions about the free-fly either ask here, or for a quicker response check this FAQ

if you're interested in a feature list, here are all of the things to do in game as of today.

2.4 update

''the april patch is still in QA, and should be available on the PTU in the next week or two. 2.4 brings persistence (states, such as reputation earned remain persistent after logging out/in) 2 flyable ships and possible the first economic mechanic, refueling/gas collection. we don't know the full feature set for 2.4, and stuff like character customization and clothing might get bumped to 2.5. evidently right now the biggest blockers have to do with the "Item Port System" which is what allows for clothing customization. we'll know more when we get a little closer, but it's sounding like 2.4 might end up being pretty major.

Cargo is also sounding pretty close. They won't give an ETA or even tell us which patch it's likely to be in, but we know they are working to push it out as probably the next economic mechanic. it was a race between refueling and cargo as to which one would be first, so i've got my money on cargo being in the May patch. by summer we should have refueling, bounty hunting, and cargo. piracy will emerge with cargo, so probably by this summer things will be feeling like a real game.

Oh yeah, and antohter interesting tid-bit, they are building out a pirate base right now for the crusader system. everyone spawns into Port Ollisar and have positive reputation with the UEE, negative rep with the pirates. If you attack the UEE you'll lose rep with the UEE and eventually be labeled a pirate. at that point you can no longer use Port Ollisar or any UEE protected space without being attacked. basically once you become a pirate you've got no safe harbor. But, with the addition of the pirate base we will. Of course approaching a pirate base without the rep for it will get you killed, so pirates will soon have a place to run to and lick their wounds. it'll be complete with shops and a refueling/repair depot. this is all on the horizon, and again we don't know which patch will introduce the pirate base, but it should be relatively soon since the devs have pointed out multiple times that they want it in crusader asap. They are beyond white/grey boxing too, and are working on final art and lighting. it being in 2.4 might be a stretch.

There's a lot going on right now development wise, like huge advances in procedural tech for planets and large bodies, but none of that is going to be relevant for a while yet. On the more distant horizon we're looking for planetary landings and atmospheric flight and access to multiple cities on multiple planets. that's all still a ways out, but i'm very excited to see what this year brings to the public builds.

squeegee (OP) sexadecuple-posted this 8.2 years ago, 8 hours later, 4 months after the original post[^] [v] #668,603

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more positive squeegee (OP) replied with this 8.2 years ago, 1 week later, 4 months after the original post[^] [v] #672,288

MISC Prospector

the Prospector is a new ship concept recently announced. it's a mining ship. at the moment it fills a unique role as the only starter mining vessel. designed be be flown by a crew of one and priced at a quarter the cost of the Orion Mining Platform, the prospector will be many people's entry into the mining career path.

We don't know a lot about this ship, but i think it's pretty straight forward: there's a laser, there's a tractor beam, there's an intake pipe, and there are storage containers. basically you'll fly into an asteroid field and begin scanning with sensors. once you've found a candidate asteroid you'll approach and identify pockets of minerals. you'll then land on the pocket, and deploy the laser drill. you drill down to the pocket of minerals, blast it with energy to break up the minerals, then turn on the tractor beam and suck all the minerals out of the hole and into the intake. the ship has internal machinery that sort the materials (as defined by the user) and the minerals fill into expandable containers. after a container is full, the container may be jettisoned for a retrieval ship to carry away to a larger transport. a new expandable container is loaded into the hopper, and it begins to fill with minerals. after ore is extracted, you leave and begin scanning for a new pocket or look for a new asteroid.

the way they are designing it the ship can be 100% operated by a single person, but, it also has some nice mechanics to make it play well with others. i suspect small fleets of prospectors with a large cargo hauler in tow and a couple of escorts will be a very, very popular and profitable thing for organizations and groups to do.

CIG may also be hinting at something else, there's kind of a Lore thing they are doing where you can go to the RSI website and "apply" for a job at Shubin Interstellar Mining company. a lot of people think that in the verse we'll be able to "go to work" for some of the corporations that make up a lot of the lore. probably Cargo is going to be stuff like, "MISC needs [x] delivered" or "Kruger needs [y]" and you'll basically be working for the corps as a hauler. might be the same for mining. i have no idea how it'll work, maybe they'll award contracts and you'll take jobs based on which ones you can fulfill.

SC isn't going to have a traditional MMO quest system, so we'll see how it plays. i figured you'd just get ore and sell it, but maybe there's more complexity to it than that.

that's pretty much it for this week. patch 2.4 is coming pretty soon, but it's got to get out of QA first. there's going to be some stuff to talk about then, but nothing super flashy like a new ship i don't think.

more positive squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8.2 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 months after the original post[^] [v] #672,289

the internals are pretty spartan and modest. the cockpit doubles as a cabin for operating the drill. everything will be done from the pilot's seat. the screens in the back may be for messing with machinery to sort minerals or something. idk, it's all subject to change, but it looks mostly like a pretty small living quarters and maybe a small airlock

more positive squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8.2 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 months after the original post[^] [v] #672,290

you won't always need to land on an asteroid to mine it

more positive squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8.2 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 months after the original post[^] [v] #672,291

the Prospector can also land on planets, the Orion can not enter the atmosphere. that makes the Prospector the only ship (atm) that can perform mining on planets, so it can pretty much go anywhere that an Orion can't

more positive squeegee (OP) quintuple-posted this 8.2 years ago, 34 seconds later, 4 months after the original post[^] [v] #672,292

expandable/replaceable cargo containers

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more positive squeegee (OP) sextuple-posted this 8.2 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 months after the original post[^] [v] #672,293

how the machinery works

more positive squeegee (OP) septuple-posted this 8.2 years ago, 46 seconds later, 4 months after the original post[^] [v] #672,294

scale comparison to a human

more positive squeegee (OP) octuple-posted this 8.2 years ago, 28 seconds later, 4 months after the original post[^] [v] #672,295

dat ass

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more positive squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,342

oh yeah! i forgot to delete my user folder and re-verify files. that might be a problem. let me go do that and log in

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@previous (button)
it's on the PTU which is out to only a few thousand people. they'll increase player count over the coming days leading up to a PTU for everyone and then quickly followed by a live build. there are still some bugs and performance is poor and it's crashing regularly for some people. i deleted my user folder and verified files and that ended my problems and i got into Port Olisar. couldn't spawn a ship though, some kind of bug there. i did get to tour around and check out the shops, didn't buy anything. but you start out with regular clothes now instead of a space suit. you have to go to a locker and change into one, which is cool. everyone starts with a basic suit in storage by the airlocks. you don't appear to start with a pistol anymore, but, all the guns can be bought now (as well as stolen and salvaged from wrecks around the moon Yela.)

you do start with a handful of cash and have to do missions to earn money, which is cool. i'll probably try one more time to spawn a starfarer and fly it around.

more positive squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8.1 years ago, 50 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,362

these are the basic flight suits. you'll start with one in storage

more positive squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,363

i won't show everything, but port olisar got a nice renovation

more positive squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 53 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,364

nice

my frame rate though...

more positive squeegee (OP) quintuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,365

some basic bitches right there

more positive squeegee (OP) sextuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,367

alright, found the locker and got my spacesuit on

more positive squeegee (OP) septuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 26 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,368

let's go fuck up some shit in space

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something seems... not right

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more positive squeegee (OP) replied with this 8.1 years ago, 24 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,386

still couldn't spawn a starfarer, but i did get to check out how much missions pay. the ICC probe chain nets 3150, the com arrays each pay 1050, and the private investigator pays 900 (but more depending on the outcome i think). so there's more than 10k worth of easy repeatable stuff to grab. you also get paid for killing pirates and killing player bounties but i don't know what the take is on those. unfortunately i crashed before i could earn any money, so now to check and see if i'll be in my ship when i log in, dead, or back at port olisar.

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more positive squeegee (OP) replied with this 8.1 years ago, 17 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,395

oh what's this?

more positive squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,396

is that? it is!

the Starfarer Spawns!

new landing pad too, marked 00. didn't even know it was there

more positive squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,398

jesus, takes forever to run up on the door. looks like i'll have a passenger. maybe i can space him

more positive squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 7 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,399

niiiiiiice, flies like a cow :)

i flew us out of the armistice zone and tried to hunt the guy down to force a gun fight, but i couldn't find him. i could hear him running around and i think he either DC'd or fell out of the cargo hold which i found open. he might've spaced himself, the walnut

more positive squeegee (OP) quintuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,400

that's the airlock on the other side of the cargo bay. the one i hope to use to threaten people with decompression and spacing. well, one of them.

more positive squeegee (OP) sextuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 8 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,402

i can't get back in the seat once i leave it, apparently, so i decided to see if stepping onto the cargo ramp at cruise speed would drop me into space.
spoiler alert: it did

more positive squeegee (OP) septuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 3 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,404

alright, so that's crusader behind me which means port olisar is.... uh... hmmm

more positive squeegee (OP) octuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 hour later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,425

yeah, buddy. you smell that? that's space.

more positive squeegee (OP) nonuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,426

"warp factor galactica, dr. sulu."

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more positive squeegee (OP) undecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,428

heading out to do some repairs to a com-array so i can buy me a fancy new space suit

more positive squeegee (OP) duodecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,429

gotta eva inside this huge satellite and reset it manually. pirates take them offline to conceal their attacks around the system.

more positive squeegee (OP) tridecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,430

hey, check out my fancy new suit

more positive squeegee (OP) quattuodecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 28 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,431

it makes my package look huge

more positive squeegee (OP) sexadecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 18 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,433

oh wow, this wasn't me, i just saw this on reddit. but these folks transported a damaged merlin in the starfarer cargo hold. ships with people inside within ships with people inside: confirmed

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@previous (button)
yeah, it doesn't look like many will fit though. maybe 2. supposedly they're working on docking stuff right now so we'll be using it with the Constellation and it'll dock to a little collar under the engines. they'll really start to make sense once the idris is in game and we have a ship that can carry, like, 12 of these things. or the pegasus escort carrier which can carry a lot more.

more positive squeegee (OP) double-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 hour later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,688

downed a few pirates, did repair on a couple of com-arrays and now i've got a new suit and an electric shotgun. i've tried the ICC mission but i keep DC'ing before i can finish. the com-arrays are fast if you're good at killing pirates. haven't gotten to the point where i'm offered a job with Crusader security, i think that's supposed to happen when you do enough helpful missions.

armor isn't super cheap, but if you do everything twice then you can get 1 set of heavy armor. i bet eventually we'll be able to buy armor piecemeal, but right now it's a fair amount of work to even get the cheapest light armor. it's feeling like a kinda real game now. i have goals now, which is nice. simple goals, though, like the extravagant non-armored luxury space suit in all black paired with a sniper rifle so i can hunt people going to Kareah for missions and stolen weapons. in luxury. it's not a hard goal, but it's driving me to play a few extra missions.

more positive squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 23 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,699

even though all you can be is pretty much a police officer or a pirate it's really showing the game's potential. cargo, trade and resource collection are the only things we need to make the economy breathe. well, that and a handful of destinations to trade and ferry cargo/resources between. i mean there's a ways to go, for sure. it's not like it's bristling with activities and deeper gameplay than just missions requires getting creative and making your own sandbox fun. but, each new feature is really adding a layer of depth that makes what's already available much more interesting to play. the inclusion of Persistence and character customization has really changed the dynamic.

for example: ramming people with your ship. people used to bitch and moan all over reddit about how ramming was ruining Arena Commander and that it would ruin the Persistent Universe as well. but, with instant respawns and zero penalty for deaths due to ramming it remains a viable strategy -especially if you're out of ammo. even in the early (non persistent) Universe it was viable because there was no cost involved with damaging your ship or death. but, now if you damage your ship you'll have to pay for repairs. repairs are pretty cheap, usually, but losing your whole ship in a fiery explosion costs you a good bit more. there's a death tax you basically pay when you respawn and there's a cost to replace the ship you lost. like an insurance deductible. so, now ramming is not a trivial matter. you strictly avoid doing things that lead to ramming especially. you can't stop all damage in a dogfight, but you at least have some control over a mid-air collision. also, i have yet to be attacked by anyone except at Kareah, which is unusual. people don't want to fight everyone anyone because of reputation and cost of fixing avoidable damage. which is funny, because again forum nerds were going nuts over how many "pirates" there were and how everyone has a shoot on sight mentality that was ruining the game, even though CIG insisted mechanics like this would be a deterrent enough on its own once they were in game.

more positive squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 14 hours later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,931

Drake Buccaneer

this is a new concept ship from the troubled Drake manufacturer.

the buccaneer is a ship that was never supposed to be. originally the Drake Cutlass was billed as a "fighting cargo hauler" that could double as a competent fighter as well as a modest cargo hauler. the ship design, however, is pretty terrible. (honestly this is what happens when artists take on engineering roles, it has major, major flaws that make it a pretty terrible fighter.) to "fix" the problem CIG decided to divorce the cutlass from its combat role and focus on other roles. you can still fight with the cutlass, but CIG is not going to redesign it to make it not suck donkey balls. instead they created the buccaneer and focused on making it a competent brawler.

as you can see it doesn't have rotating engine nacelles or anything wonky, it's just a boxy little square shaped thing with a couple of huge engines. performance wise i think they're aiming for something akin to the Gladius or the F-7C Hornet, but it's got 5 gun hardpoint so it'll carry more firepower than either of those. it'll be light on missiles, heavy on guns. it looks amazing. based on what i know of the fighters so far, the buccaneer is going to fit right in. (tbh it's the rotating engines and weird shape that make the cutlass suck, the buccaneer doesn't have those AND it'll have proper thruster placement because of the overall shape.)

more positive squeegee (OP) quintuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 33 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,939

MISC Reliant

Hangar ready; Not Flyable

it's an interesting little ship with a real odd variant: the News Van. weird, right? i think so too, but, it's part of a very ambition plan to cater to streamers in a way that a game really hasn't in the past. the "News van" will be outfitted with broadcasting antenna and cameras and will let players record footage and that kind of thing.

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more positive squeegee (OP) sextuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 53 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,940

the idea being that casters might want to use the "News van" to record events (like races or big space battles) and do their commentary thing. with multiple news vans being used, a caster would have the ability to place cameras anywhere and switch between them during a broadcast.

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more positive squeegee (OP) septuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 51 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,942

TBH this all might be super unpopular or not work well at all, so i'm not holding my breath that it'll be used, but there are a lot of people who are looking to... make money off of this stuff and will eventually figure out how to monetize their streams by delivering new and interesting content and maybe, maybe the news van will play a role in that.

more positive squeegee (OP) octuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 27 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,943

other than that it's your basic tier 1.5 "starter" ship. it'll be costlier than an aurora or a mustang (and carry about twice the cargo) but it's still considered "the third starter ship." i think of it as the "starter multicrew ship" since it has multicrew capability and is pricier.

more positive squeegee (OP) nonuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 24 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,944

it's got a pretty unusual profile in flight. landed in sits flat, but when in flight the whole ship rotates about the center and configures itself into an upright "vertical" flying shape

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more positive squeegee (OP) decuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,945

the MISC reliant uses both human and Xi'an technology through a partnership between MISC and a Xi'an company called Aopoa. the engines and verticle flight configuration are pure xi'an designs

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more positive squeegee (OP) undecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 17 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,947

it doesn't carry ass loads of cargo in the hold, and this area also doubles as the News Van business end with a swappable module the replaces the hold with broadcasting equipment.

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more positive squeegee (OP) duodecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 22 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,948

personally i think it's a gorgeous little ship, and it's definitely one of the most unusual.

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more positive squeegee (OP) tridecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 20 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,949

you can almost see what it will look like configured for vertical flight.

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more positive squeegee (OP) quattuodecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 2 hours later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #683,976

more positive squeegee (OP) sexadecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 42 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #684,009

posting this to archive it

visual representation of most of the ships grouped by manufacturer and color coded to show status.
this doesn't include the myriad of alien ships leaked last year, only confirmed ships and does not include any capital ships.
it's also not current in that it doesn't include the buccaneer under the drake section.
it does include variants though.

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squeegee (OP) replied with this 8.1 years ago, 3 days later, 6 months after the original post[^] [v] #692,715

Caterpillar WIPs

the Cat is coming along through the pipeline and is one of the next multicrew ships to be released into the universe.

i think it's coming along beautifully. i can't help but think of old German Airships and fighter planes when looking at the canopy. the rivets and L brackets and even color scheme just screams german influenced.

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squeegee (OP) triple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 29 seconds later, 6 months after the original post[^] [v] #692,717

pilot's seat inside the Command Pod. the canopy really feels like some kind of WW2 airship or something, idk. just looks industrial and rugged

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squeegee (OP) quadruple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 months after the original post[^] [v] #692,718

inside of the cargo hold area which makes up the bulk of the freighter.

squeegee (OP) quintuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 months after the original post[^] [v] #692,719

last picture of a hallway probably leading from the cargo hold to the engineering and command areas.

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i really hope they let Drake build an even larger ship as well. there's a Corvette they're talking about on down the road, and i really hope they give it to drake. it could work as a long range command and control pirate organization headquarters. i can see a corvette providing command support for several Caterpillars each with their own flight wing. hunt targets with the buccaneers, collect cargo and raid larger vessels with Cutlasses, and then caterpillars to provide large storage capacity and possibly even using them as heavy assault gunships. since they're modular CIG has floated the idea we can turrets all over them and basically build a vessel to broadside cargo freighters like old school pirates with cannons.

squeegee (OP) octuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 15 hours later, 6 months after the original post[^] [v] #692,987

holy shit, they're doing it! a micro-ship by drake. now this is the overly-motorized rubber dingy of a pirate vessel that's going to be used for assaulting wounded ships :)

squeegee (OP) nonuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 42 minutes later, 6 months after the original post[^] [v] #693,033

got some additional images here. this thing looks cool as fuck. it can be used on the ground and in space.

squeegee (OP) decuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 7 minutes later, 6 months after the original post[^] [v] #693,037

it's evidently being designed as a 2 person vehicle. that's just god damned ridiculous. they've talked about "weapon hot" pirate races before, and this would be perfect for combat racing. having to shoot each other with rifles, lol. awesome.

squeegee (OP) undecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 months after the original post[^] [v] #693,038

:D

squeegee (OP) duodecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 day later, 6 months after the original post[^] [v] #693,573

squeegee (OP) tridecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 25 minutes later, 6 months after the original post[^] [v] #693,576

more talk about the Dragonfly

there was a bunch of info that came out about the Caterpillar

the Dragonfly is being designed as a complimentary fighter to the Caterpillar. the Caterpillar can stow 3 Dragonflies per modular section. there are 5 modular sections, as far as we know, which means a caterpillar can stow, and launch, up to 15 dragonflies. since each dragon fly can carry 2, a single caterpillar has the capacity to launch 30 players at once.

the Caterpillar IS THE POCKET CARRIER that players have been begging for years to be added. and i don't care how lightweight the Dragonfly is, each one carries the same compliment of weaponry that an aurora carries. 30 m4a lazer cannon bearing down on you plus whatever turrets the Cat has, that's going to be an imposing vessel to attack.

it's a Tractor Trailer that belches a motorcycle gang. that sounds pretty bad ass to me. so i bought 4. well, technically i consolidated my pledges more and got rid of extraneous little ships. i bought a caterpillar in 2013. that was my first ship. (well, really it was my first consolidation, it was multiple little ships and then i got the one Cat.) since then i also bought a starfarer (my other big pledge) and had a few little ships floating around again. since the dragon fly is made to work with the caterpillar it makes sense to have those rather than merlins. i had bought a few merlins to use as LTI tokens, but i'm not going to use them so instead i just melted those down and turned them into Dragonflies. i could always trade back if i want, but i think it'll better to have these early.

because they are fast tracking a few things, it would seem. one, the dragon fly. it's super simple, and small, so they've said the brute force work will be short. and since it IS so small it's likely going to fit anywhere. in ATV they said, "if you've ever asked if a merlin will fit into something, with the dragonly the answer is probably yes. it's even smaller than we thought it would be." that means it'll fit into a connie, a lancer, and maybe even the cutlass. and i'm betting we'll fit 2-4 in a freelancer max or connie. or a starfarer. so very quickly people are going to be hauling these around using them for fun times. owning a dragonfly is going to be a lot more fun than owning a merlin.

also they seem to be fast tracking procedural tech. we're hearing rumors that landing and atmospheric flight may be coming sooner than we think. and the caterpillar itself is being pushed out. the three things combined (dragonfly, planetary landing, and flyable caterpillar) are going to make for brand new gameplay. the dragonfly is a hover bike as well as a space motorcycle. people are already talking about "illegal pirate races" where guns are used to kill your opponents.

squeegee (OP) quattuodecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 hour later, 6 months after the original post[^] [v] #693,582

here are some more HD concept images

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this is my favorite image, showing dragonflies in their stowed configuration on board a caterpillar

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last schematic

squeegee (OP) septuadecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 months after the original post[^] [v] #693,585

alt color option. black will be standard, and yellow/black will only be available during the concept sale.

squeegee (OP) octadecuple-posted this 8.1 years ago, 5 minutes later, 6 months after the original post[^] [v] #693,587

and if you're interested in how the Caterpillar is shaping up, check out this 1 minute video update of the interior. it's come a long way
https://youtu.be/pRMCI-d1rUc

the Cat is going to be an impressive ship:

Drake’s smallest ship isn’t the only one in the works right now… we’re also building out their largest! Cloud Imperium’s engineers, designers and artists are working to bring the Caterpillar into the engine as we speak. Since the Dragonfly is intended to complement the Caterpillar, we’ve decided to offer you a sneak peek at some of that work. Keep following the Comm-Link for more on the Caterpillar, including a behind-the-scenes look at the work going into it in an upcoming Around the Verse!

Like all Drake ships, the Caterpillar has versatility in its DNA. With multiple cargo bays available to be repurposed for a multitude of functions, the Caterpillar’s modular design allows it to be perfect for everything from armored cargo hauls to effective search and rescues. And, when paired with the new 2947 Dragonfly, the Caterpillar can add one more role to its already impressive roster: a mini carrier. That’s right, the Cat can launch Dragonflies directly from the cargo hold as protection fighters or as agile scouts!

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grim hex asteroid base preview

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so, we just got a huge announcement, kinda. a german gaming magazine has done an in depth article on Star Citizen with a focus on their Foundry 42 (cryengine) studio. still waiting on a proper translation last i heard, but the summary is pretty nuts. they go into detail what is to be expected in the next few patches all the way out to the end of the year. there's also confirmation that we'll be seeing something big at gamescom. Probably Procedural Planets and everything that entails (atmospheric flight, planetary landing, all sorts of engineering shit like volumetric gas clouds and light scattering and stuff i don't understand.)

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the authors of the article say it's impressive, and a huge step up from the early look at Procedural Planets from last year. approaching the atmosphere and transitioning through it are evidently pretty amazing. they talk about volumetric clouds allowing mountain tops to pass through them and other details they found pretty remarkable.

pictures from the article

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i'm not going to pretend to understand what kinds of processes they discussed, but the authors were impressed with what they saw and understood to be running under the hood

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this was all being discussed as being in the 2.7 build

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ecosystems will come later, that's still under heavy development, but the plan is for different biomes which all blend and even cities and buildings and AI everywhere (on habitable planets of course).

squeegee (OP) just kept on posting this 8 years ago, 2 minutes later, 7 months after the original post[^] [v] #704,151

2.6 will launch Star Marine as separate module just like Arena Commander, this was also played by staff of PC Games and they are saying it's much more polished on the FPS side and feels a lot better than current rudimentary FPS in the PTU. - Interesting side-note: they talked about map->s.

2.7 will bring procedural planets and you will be able to travel the whole stanton system and all planets and moons can be directly approached down to the surface.

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/4u91db/comprehensive_summary_of_the_info_from_the/

picture: Mark Hamil's character

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they are at a point though where many of the fundamental systems they've been engineering for several years are finally coming together into a complete package - and it's even more complete than i ever thought would be possible. here's a short list of a few things seemingly confirmed as part of newly finished tech:

weather - planets will have weather systems based on biome interaction. artist will be able to label geographic regions with weather data that will allow a simple simulation to create real-time weather systems. depending on how biomes relate to one another and what weather is doing, it can develop over time and change based on things like temperature and whatever other metrics they set. it's basically procedural weather i guess. i can not quite fathom how that will literally play out in game, though. but i'm very interested to see. will be see fluffy white clouds turn to big dark blobs heavy with rain heaving across the sky? i really, really doubt it. they're doing neat stuff with atmospheric effects using volumetric clouds and stuff, but i have no idea what that looks like. i've seen really nice clouds in modded Flight Sim X, and flying into a storm looks fucking awesome, so who knows what it'll look like planet side in SC.

rotating planets - that means proper day night cycles. that also means they had to redesign the engine to make the Sun a fixed light source rather than have the sun be the bit that's moving. so when you're planet side and you watch the sun set, it's literally because you're in motion and not the light source. pretty bad ass, especially since that leads to...

orbiting planets - this would be a soft confirmation of a feature we weren't anticipating because the early answer was "probably not." now it sounds like it's in as part of the planetary system design. originally it was a feature of limited importance and possibly monumental work, so it wasn't seen as critical to have real orbits. it kinda sounds like as they finished out the fundamental engine redesign, orbits became doable. i still take this with a grain of salt, because the reveal was kinda off the cuff and casual, but if it's true they'll have rotating and orbiting planets with simulated weather... will there be seasons? will planets have axial tilt? what all can they DO with planets? we'll find out. maybe as early as citizen con on Oct. 9th.

player placed structures - this is coming out of design right now, actually. another feature we didn't really know was being included. in fact, CIG has made liberal use of the word Homestead lately... we know for certain they are designing player controlled satellites, some of which sound like they have large internal volumes. these satellites can be used for a variety of purposes which are just now being detailed. and apparently these satellites are modular, so we can assemble them together to create multipurpose satellites. CIG may also be currently prototyping ground base type structures that players can place. this may be part of the reveal at citizen con, and i have no idea how extensive a system this will be, or even if ground placed structures are a guarantee, but, it does sound like player placed structures are in prototyping.

Cargo will be in 3.0 - along with trading and an economy. planets will have imports/exports and players will be able to capitalize on that. we'll also have several cities on several planets to trade between, as well as space stations and moon settlements. it'll be a single system with a central star, and players will use Quantum Travel to get around. There will also be pirate bases, pirates, police, bounty hunters, and mercenaries. players can get rich trading, hauling cargo, stealing cargo, hunting pirates, and escorting convoys. at it's most basic, this was the gameplay that you'd expect from a game like Privateer or the Original Elite games. it won't have a story thread woven into the gameplay like privateer, it'll be more of a pure sim like Elite, but at it's core this would be the minimum i'd call a Space trading game. it certainly would need more star systems, but even in privateer you're stuck to one system until you can afford a Jump Drive. it's very close to meeting my absolute minimum expectations for the Persistent Universe part of the game. they'd still need to get player count up and deliver at least 4 more star systems with several planets and moons and stations, and they'd need to fill it up with the procedural mission content that'll come from the simulated economy, but it's very close to what i thought was originally deliverable. (and honestly with planetary landing and atmospheric flight it'll exceed my original expectations.)

now, for perspective, that minimum expectation is what i originally pledged 40 bucks for. my expectations are a bit loftier than that since i've pledge since based on promises of even more ambition. and there's no doubt their ambition is even loftier than my expectations, so, we'll see.

Anyway, look forward to October 9th, it's sounding like they've got some cool stuff to reveal.

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CitizenCon started yesterday! the presentation will be tomorrow at 6EST. they've been doing a twitch stream with prizes and talks with the devs and stuff. yesterday they did the big reveal for the new RSI Polaris, a Corvette class capital ship. it's what the Idris used to be before it was grown into a frigate. it's a 150m vessel built for speed and fast strike. it carries a large compliment of torpedoes, has 5 manned, 2 unmanned turrets, and crew stations for 5, including engineer and weapons officer. it's a military ship, but may eventually have some custom options for more civilian applications. it also carries one small 1-2 man fighter or escort bomber.

pretty cool ship, and expensive. 750 bucks. lots of people have been waiting for it, and it's been selling like crazy. million bucks in a day. interestingly the ones available now are going to have a serial number, which is kind of cool. it's the only ship so far that has one, which will kind of make them limited edition one-time-only items. if people are buying to speculate on the ship market after launch, this is probably the one to have. especially with a low serial number.

anyway. idk what people are going to do with a 13 player ship, running costs will be very high.

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there aren't a lot of beauty shots yet

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very few internal concepts

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most of them look like this. there's also a 3D model you can watch spin around on the RSI website.

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ho-lee fucking shit was citizen con boring! the last half hour was pretty good though. here's a quick breakdown:

first off, they didn't have the Squadron 42 mission ready to go. the plan was to polish up a single chapter of the campaign to final quality and then play it live at citizen con. unfortunately it wasn't ready in time, so a big part of the presentation was replaced with boring filler that's hardly worth mentioning. ok, it's worth mentioning that community tools are coming with 3.0, things like proximity based voice chat, coms systems, and an in-game bulletin board. nothing flashy there, tbh.

the Big Reveal at the end was very cool though. we got another look at Procedural Planets v2. Version 1 was shown a month ago at gamescom, and it was awesome, but it was a rocky moon with no atmospheric effects other than light scattering. v2 includes an earth like atmosphere with a fuck load of atmospherics, including a giant sand storm that came slowly rolling across the planet. the "volumetric fog effects" they've been working on to do nebulae is showcased here as very realistic looking clouds that move, and change shape and undulate across the sky in a very convincing way. v2 of procedural planets also showcased biomes with flora. snow capped mountains gave way to oceans and sandy deserts blended into savannah with trees and lakes and small plants and grasses. imo it looked excellent. there are some issues with pop-in, mostly related to vegetation like tree canopys, but it's only noticeable when you're flying and you have a very, very long view distance. what doesn't seem to have any issues with pop-in is the horizon. there may have been some z-fighting issues with the ground textures as you draw closer to mountains, but that was really pretty rare compared to the more noticeable pop-in. mostly the actual ground map was very solid regardless of your distance. it's hard to explain, i guess the only thing i can say is that the render distance is shockingly far and remarkably stable.

the planet was also made in just a few days. they have a very robust set of dev tools to make planets, and they demonstrated the process live. it's quite simple. the planet is procedurally generated based on a set of starting values that determine what kind of attributes the final planet will have. after that, an artist goes back and hand modifies any "heroic" areas with terrain deformation tools. they can also go in and add any bespoke structures, add/remove/alter vegetation, and assign values to determine the types of influences each biome has over the weather simulation.

the v2 demo also contained a mission similar to the one they did at gamescom. a player in a constellation flies down to the planet, lands, unloads a wheeled rover, then drives about 3km away to search for a beacon from an escape pod. after finding the beacon it's discovered the ship is a Capital Class Javelin Destroyer, a very, very large ship. the player continues finding more wreckage that leads him to finding the behemoth crashed in the dunes and partially buried in sand. of course he's not the only one who's found the wreck, and with an intimidating sandstorm looming in the distance, he doesn't have long to get away with his prize. also, there might be a giant alien monster that... well, you'll just have to watch the demo if you want to know what happens.

full demo - the demo is about 30 minutes long. (immediately after the demo there is a showcase of the dev tools and the demonstrate how they can modify terrain and add in objects. neat, but anyone who's done stuff like this will recognize the process. brushing trees onto the terrain with a paintbrush kinda thing.)
10 minute supercut - fan made. cut down to just the highlights
complete 2 hour presentation.

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Jubilee Starshine (OP) double-posted this 7.7 years ago, 33 minutes later, 10 months after the original post[^] [v] #725,510

[h1]roadmaps[/h1]Coming up first is 2.6 which is the last of this version number. we're looking to see that in a few weeks or so. we'll be getting Star Marine, some finished ships, and an expanded Stanton System in the PU. this will pretty much be the conclusion of core technology development. they've still got work to do on polishing up Procedural Planets, but they've demonstrated that everything they need to have done, is done. the 64 bit conversion is done, meaning we have solar system sized maps down to centimeter precision - the zone/container system is done, meaning multiple physics grids can be stacked within one another like russian dolls and we can walk around inside our ships while it's moving and not bug out the engine and clip through the geometry - integration of the 1st and 3rd person cameras is done (using novel chicken based technology, literally) meaning everyone sees exactly the same character animations regardless of perspective. there's a lot more that's finished as well, and everything else is in a state of near completion.

what's left to do after that, and what 3.x is all about, is fleshing out mechanics for professions.

3.0 is slated for the end of the year. it will have mechanics for cargo and the associated economy. there will also be an inclusion of piracy mechanics to go along with it.

3.1 is Mining, refining, refueling. quantum interdiction will really be for everyone, but mostly for police, bounty hunters, and pirates.

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3.2 is all about salvage, repair, and mercenary work

around this point they are looking at opening up additional solar system locations. you'll also notice that each patch has ships that are planned to be in the pipeline. the big reason for this is the Squadron 42 is now almost 100% in gray box. also, a majority of the ships needed for Squadron 42 are completed. there are a dozen ships we haven't seen being worked on, we saw the asset leak a year ago confirming it, but nothing since then. evidently they are done too. evidently they are so far along now, that many previously busy teams will be picking up the economy mechanics and the rest of the civilian fleet. not to mention developing planets and hero locations for new systems.

3.x will also be a lot about content creation. since most of the core tech is done, the development can now shift focus on creating places to visit and things to do.

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3.3 is farming and rescue (not sure why these are in the order they are in, but ok)

lots of loooong awaited ships in 3.3 as well. the merchantman specifically.

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4.0 is the exploration and discovery patch. this is when they'll look at opening up jump points to additional star systems. he didn't say how many at first, but most people suspect 5 since that was the number they said they'd eventually call the Beta PU.

these patches have been coming in at a rate of about 1 every 2-3 months or so, and it'll probably go like that for this next year.

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this should've gone with my last post.

pictured: sulfurous lakes on the other planet from the demo, the one you see way up in the sky. they flew over to it.

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the planet/moon they flew to was the larger one on the left. there were at least 3 in the sky during the demo

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pictured: the Tevarin

the Tevarin were the first alien species contacted in the Star Citizen Universe. centuries ago, during the Messer Era (messer was an nationalist demagogue turned imperialist once he gained power. something like that. he was a hardcore dictator who terraformed planets and expanded an empire) humans and Tevarin meet. it begins with conflict, both sides calling the other the aggressors. the Terravin were a highly sophisticated technical race, but they were a century behind humans in a few key areas. of course, the Tevarin had tech unknown to humans, but humans ended up being more aggressive. the Tevarin, not used to fighting... terrible maniacs willing to do ANYTHING to win, ended up having their home world and most of their race obliterated. they eventually surrendered, their empire absorbed by the Messers' United Planets of Earth, and their survivors eventually integrated.

they were a very proud warrior species with a refined code of conduct, and it was their downfall. they are based on native american themes as well as samurai and asian influences.

the tech the Tevarin bring to the Star Citizen universe: permeable energy fields, transparent metal, an "antigravity/gravity" type plates. integrating this tech allowed for a new fleet of ships to be designed and the modern day fleet arose from upgrades to those designs. the Bengal carrier uses an energy field door, transparent metals instead of glass allowing for full armor plating, and gravity plating is used throughout the ship. the whole fleet is designed similarly, with smaller ships using shield tech to deflect ballistics and absorb plasma rounds.

what the Tevarin had in abundance was strong defensive tech, what the humans had in abundance were powerful weapons and the willingness to use them with wild abandon. the humans had weapons that could overload Tevarin shields allowing for ballistic rounds to rip the ships apart. Messer employed the use of EMPs to inflict disorder (tevarin ships used cameras and screens, not glass, to see. an EMP made them all blind) and then shred the enemy fleet at his leisure. the Tevarin were able to fight back, however much of this is messer propaganda we'll never know, and many human casualties came from the Tevarin war. but once messer's fleet arrived at the Tevarin Home world the Tevarin last stand was wholly put down, and their world was entirely nuked. a majority of their species was killed, and those that remained surrendered with no more resistance to offer.

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Tevarin troop drop-ship and boarding vessel. called the Prowler

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oh. from the new jump point. space whales confirmed

this is going to make a lot of people happy

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2.6 spoilers

2.6 is being tested by the early PTU invitees known as the Evocati. the play testing is closed and they are under a NDA but that's not stopping the leaks.
we know quite a lot about what's in there already, we just haven't seen it all in a playable state. there are several new ships, the Drake Caterpillar and the Drake Herald namely, but also the Origin 85x and the Drake Dragonfly.

Caterpillar crashes into a Herald in the PU:
https://media.giphy.com/media/Offct4U13E8gM/giphy.gif

Star Marine is in there and all of the associated animations and improvements to the player models and general feel of the FPS has been overhauled. currently and in previous patches it's felt clunky because it was unfinished, and these new improvements bring it much closer to a final product. there's now a cover system, vaulting mechanics and a bunch more weapons as well as dedicated "gamified" arena style maps to kick off the game mode. all of the improvements from Star Marine of course apply to everything so all of that will now be doable everywhere as well.

i haven't heard a bunch about performance improvements, but i think it's getting some attention to optimization.

2.6 has been in testing for a few days now, usually they do evocati testing for a week or so, then PTU for a week or two, then general launch to live. they're hoping to have it all launched and running before the holiday break.

next year the focus will shift to 3.0 which will bring a big change in direction. now that most of the under laying systems have been developed they can move to focus on mechanics. first up will be Cargo and Trade. 3.0 will also launch a "mega map." right now the map size is referred to as "large world" because there is an edge to the PU. the PU is the Gas Giant Planet of Crusader and a handful of orbiting moons and space stations. the Mega map will include the entire Stanton System, which is the Star Stanton, several planets each with their own moons and space stations as well as cities and associated landing zones. 3.0 will include a future iteration of Procedural Planets allowing for landing on moons and planets outside of landing zones.

no idea when exactly we'll see 3.0, but i think they are aiming for Q1 next year. whenever it is, it'll at that point really feel like a full fledged game. cargo hauling and trading may not sound super exciting, but it'll drive the whole economy and give everyone something to fight over. it'll still be pretty early to try to dive into, and will be a lot more fun once all the game mechanics are in, but there should be a lot of activity and people to play with and stuff to do once we get the mega map and new mechanics.

origin 85x:
https://youtu.be/L8XX7C84aVk?t=14s

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@previous (ku)
the 85x is a 2 seat luxury sport craft. when the 890 Jump was developed it was concepted as a little run-about for the luxury Yacht. it's also sold as an independent ship. it's planned to be a competitive racer as well. don't think it has a military variant or even carries anything but countermeasures. it's basically like you say, a luxury sport car for rich folks with yachts.

or it's basically this.

the 325a is more versatile and i think the 300s are getting a rework and the reworks are looking amazing. it'll only get better.

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oh man, i can't wait.

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3.0 schedule out tomorrow they say.

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2 months minimum before 3.0, slated for the end of july, which probably means more like september. CIG also released the whole schedule for the remainder of the year which should all be taken with a grain of salt.

we have also been told that 2.xx is done. no more patches, they're retiring that build. when they do a live release they branch the dev build and the public fork isn't really ever expanded on, we get bug fixes and the devs occasionally drop in new content to test, but the live build we're on right now, the 2.xx branch, doesn't include anything done over this last year. at least content wise, some underlaying systems were installed that improved the 2.xx experience, but nothing really in the way of "shit to do" has been added in a long time. the new 3.0 branch will change that and bring vast changes. at least 9 months worth of work, and in some cases 2 years.

the planetary tech which defines 3.0 has been in development since 2015. in that time they've built a solar system, basically, with all the bells and whistles. revolving and rotating planets, atmospheric light scattering, full on procedural surfaces at a tremendous scale. apparently it takes over 4 hours at full speed to circumnavigate one of the moons by land speeder.

anyway, there's too much in the schedule to talk about everything. they've got a fuckload of stuff happening at the same time. but also some stuff fell off the 3.0 schedule and have been moved to 3.1 or later. like mining i think won't be in 3.0. they're probably focusing on cargo since that's guaranteed (there's a ton of cargo ships and no mining ships are completed yet). oh yeah, and grabby hands is back and there'll be NPCs running around working jobs and stuff. should be a big deal. but, couple of months away at minimum.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/schedule-report

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