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Me normally: games should focus more on physics simulation, they haven't evolved past the PS360 era and in some cases regressed. How is it that a 2006 Bethesda game is ahead of the curve in this compared to modern titles?

Me after seeing this video: Please make every object stactic and uninteractible.

Trump in order to secure the g*mer vote should promise to finish Star Citizen, its probably more realistic than Biden promise to cure cancer

I see Chris Robert's retirement fund shows no signs of stopping. It's unlikely it will anytime soon anyway. The other day I saw a clip of last year's CitizenCon with Chris entering the stage, with a giant ass CitizenCon logo behind him, and the crowd going apeshit when he appeared and screaming: "Chris! Chris! Chris! Chris! " He couldn't help but smirk and revel in his status as God of universe.

they've spent most of the money a long time ago. since then they've been on the death spiral, in order to keep going they have made stretch goals ane ship packs that are increasing the scope, therefore increasing the budget, which they need money for, down the spiral they go.

i don't follow the game but my impression is that the huge amount of money they raised is shackling them to the wrong technical decisions they made many years ago. they can't start over otherwise that would be millions of donor money wasted. if this was a normal company they would've either cancelled the project or salvaged what they can and start over.

it also looks like most of the experienced people quit due to mismanagement and most of the staff are new hires. all i can say is i wouldn't wanna work on a project like that.

I remember in 2014 there was a lot of hype around star citizen so I decided to check it out on youtube. However all I could find were videos of middle-aged men soy facing while walking around an empty hanger. That was the moment I realised star citizen fans are completely delusional

Have an excerpt from one of the loudest and biggest spending true believers on the official forum:

This year was set out at CitizenCon. For the first time we had some fuzzy estimate of when the final tech pillar would go in. Dynamic Server Meshing is not something that will affect the players experience hardly at all, DSM is about streamlining and reducing the cost of game service delivery for CIG. I'm getting older now and don't feel the need to be 'first' for every single feature addition. I knew after watching CitizenCon I'd be mostly sitting it out until after Server Meshing goes in. Call it the deep breath before the plunge, I'd be happy to forego the boiled frog experience after so long. I am happy that I now know how this particular sausage gets made, a sausage many didn't believe would ever get made. The PU was always supposed to come after the players experience of Squadron 42. It's that 'connectedness' that I'm interested in seeing how they do it now.

For me it has always been about the 'how', not the 'when'. I leave the 'when' questions to those much much younger than me, which is ironic since I have much less time left to see that eventual 'when' than they do. Many of CIG's team are in the same position, Chris Roberts is only 7 years younger than me.

Many features people are still asking for are in Squadron 42, so the answer to 'when' for those features is.. after Squadron 42 release. Because. No spoilers.

As Chris says, it'll be done when it's done - great! See you (all) then! I have other things to think about right now. Keep up the good work. The run up to Squadron 42 starts in Q4 (hopefully), in a years time people will be no more interested in Server Meshing than they are interested in Object Container Streaming or full persistence today, when it 'just works' you can forget about it. That race has been run. 4.0 means the end of the 'will they do it' patch watch cycle. The 'how' only matters when you can't do, once you can do no-one will even bother to think about 'how'.

Am I better off with 3.24? Not really, didn't expect to be. As Richard Tyrer said, for 95% of a games development time you are playing a broken game, we aren't near 95% yet. They are still building the game engine the whole game is based on.

There is no more mystery to chew over endlessly about 'how', only the 'when'. I have experience in building things, it's always the most frustrating time between knowing the 'how' and waiting for the 'when'. There are plenty of 'why' questions to ask, but Chris won't address those until the full and final picture is made known and they are only just thinking about what that final picture will look like... so... not for a good while yet, hence all 'why' questions are treated as 'when' questions by CIG. Many don't like it. I don't like it, but you can't answer all the 'why' questions until you've finished putting all the pieces in place, so I at least understand it.

that door clearly says "Do not block" and you blocked it anyway smh my head

Oh no you've returned to star citizen posting.

The countdown to UlyssesT logging out of hexbear to ~~resurrect kissinger to kill him once more~~ touch grass has started once more

"zero gravity" does NOT mean "zero mass"

Star citizen was doing NFTs before NFTs.

That’s like a million a week jfc

It's not about the finished game at this point and more about the vibes and the vibes are this game will make white people great again.

I missed your star shitizen posting ulysses

After over a decade in development they have replicated Roblox physics that I experienced back when I was 12 years old.

For such an expensive game that's supposed to run on some crazy high spec PC, I hate to say it, but the graphics aren't even as good as I expected. Like yeah it looks very good, great even, but so do most exclusive PS4 and PS5 games, that run on consoles that cost a fraction of what a top of the line gaming PC does. This isn't some revolutionary leap in graphical fidelity. And looking at videos like this, you can't say that the physics are any better either. What's the point of spending so much money on stuff like this?

I'm definitely no expert but I'm pretty sure a big reason the physics are always so borked is because Chris Roberts insisted (and insists) on it using a weird, heavily modified version of the Crysis engine where everything has to be super tiny which is peak Bazinga brain

@UlyssesT@hexbear.net is only Star Citizen reporter I trust.

Store Citizen

"You just don't understand, this is a differently physicsed universe! Do you have any idea how hard it is to program a world with a randomly fluctuating strong nuclear force?!"