I remember watching the first trailer they released more than a decade ago and thinking wow, those are some nice graphics and I am a sucker for space stuff. But at the time, my 1080ti didn’t look powerful enough for such a game.

Then some 4 years ago or so, with a brand new 3080Ti there was a free weekend to try the game and, after cranking every setting to max, what I remember is, wow these graphics are outdated AF and it is a stutter fest. Uninstalled after a couple hours never to think about it again.

There is a functional product. I played it years ago.

But it ain’t finished yet, which is the insane bit given the breadth of funds and length of time.

The grift is the buisness now

I was more excited about Squadron 42. I backed it a decade ago. Been waiting. Download and installed it a few months ago. Couldn’t even get it to launch. Gave up. I have written it off as a lose and moved on.

idk some of the ships are literally just single concept art images and have been for years, kinda hard to imagine that can possibly be in good faith.

Good faith, no. There’s about as much good faith as a silicon valley tech bro looking for venture capitalists.

I don’t think Chris Roberts doesn’t believe in what he’s doing. I genuinely think he wants to make what he’s promising because he’s been trying to do that since the 90s. But he’s also milking the development time/funds as hard as he can.

I backed the Kickstarter back in 2012 or so. Maybe I’ll be able to play it when I retire

Everyone here should go to YouTube and watch the investigative journalism docu “Sunk Cost Galaxy”. It’s EXCELLENT. I think the dude making it had to stop because of legal threats, but the parts that are out are VERY enlightening.

Well, if they release it they’ll stop getting money shortly after, so why would they?

Thats me, backed it when it came out, play it a bit every couple years.

If Bernie Madoff went into game development

He’s also using the funds to live out his dream of being a movie producer, something he desires as much (if not more than) being a game developer, with the Squadron spinoff mainly being an excuse to hire big-name actors he likes to deliver his script.

Not that that’s a bad thing, but he hasn’t really changed much over his decades-long career, flaws included.

I wonder if it’d be out by now if they had picked a different engine. It can’t be easy finding devs experienced in fucking CryEngine, especially when you’re using a heavily-customized fork of an ancient version of that engine.

As a long time player, its probably settings. Which isn’t your fault.

This shit is optimized like a snail in an f1 race, it just doesn’t work. Turning clouds up is actually a viable way to get the game to run well, its super cpu bound, so if you turn up some settings it offloads some of that work to the gpu, freeing up some fps.

In my experience it plays way better now, but SC is a cranky bitch and its a free flight, never played a free flight that plays well, usually because players who don’t know what they are doing clutter environments with busted ships, trash and more.

It’s reasonable to be outraged over a scam, or a ‘scam adjacent’ project. They’re everywhere, and literally screwing up the world.

That being said, I wouldn’t want to criticize the gameplay, either. If it’s fun, it’s fun; that’s very personal. But the predatory FOMO aspect is completely fair game.

What kind of system are you running it on? If its Linux there’s a community Installer that simplifies things.

If its windows… good luck. Their forums are cesspool of bad help.

That was a good buy. Those big Ampere GPUs are aging like wine.

Saw an argument somewhere that its not an alpha anymore. Alphas you can still change fundamental things, that its okay to break things at this stage still. Star Citizen cannot, without messing up its established economy and game systems now, its selling what is the game at this point. And only receiving updates.

Well, some of those actors know him. Mark Hammel has worked with him before in Wing Commander.

But yeah, you’re right; same old Roberts.

The choice of CryEngine was because of Crysis, a game that was infamous for PC killing visuals. Roberts doesn’t just want a gran open universe, but also something that looks like real life.

Which is why on two occasions new ships were put off from development in order to competent overhaul existing ships to look better, as better graphics became the norm.

I’m surprised development hasn’t completely paused once again to overhaul everything for raytracing.