Official Star Citizen Thread

Quite an interesting spot and read over on BBC: Star Citizen: Will big budget space game satisfy its backers?

So, it's no small achievement that Star Citizen's creator says he has raised more than $108m (£75m) to develop the title via online crowdfunding campaigns.
In fact, it makes the sci-fi space simulator the biggest crowdfunded project of all time.
Not bad considering its creator, Chris Roberts, had originally hoped to raise about a tenth of the amount.
That would have funded a much smaller game than Star Citizen has evolved into, Roberts told the BBC.
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Wyzak said:
Ah ok, I've probably backed way too many (21 and counting) :P
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I've also never backed one. Honestly though, there was a time when I almost pledged one, only for it to become one big mess and it got pulled a couple of days later. So the usual stuff.

I'm on the fence about star citizen, not prepared to upgrade my system just to play a game like SC. In it's current state it just seems like it's only aimed at people who have deep pockets. I would love to be wrong about this though.
 
axon1988 said:
I've also never backed one. Honestly though, there was a time when I almost pledged one, only for it to become one big mess and it got pulled a couple of days later. So the usual stuff.
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Not even Elite Dangerous? Did you buy the lifetime pass after KS then?
 
Wyzak said:
Not even Elite Dangerous? Did you buy the lifetime pass after KS then?
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After KS yeah. But good point, I completely forgot about that. I guess that could actually be the same as funding a kickstarter. It would seem that I am absolutely full of shit.
 
Wyzak said:
teheheh :D As long as you are happy with your decision.
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Honestly have not regretted it yet at all. But I can't help but be curious about SC. I want it, and will probably get it. But not yet. I do browse around on community sites to see how they feel about it and what the general reactions are to updates...
 
axon1988 said:
Honestly have not regretted it yet at all. But I can't help but be curious about SC. I want it, and will probably get it. But not yet. I do browse around on community sites to see how they feel about it and what the general reactions are to updates...
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I tend to buy/back it cheaply and then ride out the wave and wait for it to be in a decent state before playing it. I'm still waiting for E: D to reach that state :D
 
Wyzak said:
I tend to buy/back it cheaply and then ride out the wave and wait for it to be in a decent state before playing it. I'm still waiting for E: D to reach that state :D
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Fair enough, I can see the value in that. How much of SC have you played?
 
Wyzak said:
Less than an hour, but I'm planning on putting my time into my big backlog which includes E: D until SC is ready.
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I've also got one heck of a long backlog. Not as much as most of you, but it's still something that I don't really enjoy being reminded about. For us married / family men it becomes tough to find time for all this.
 
axon1988 said:
I've also got one heck of a long backlog. Not as much as most of you, but it's still something that I don't really enjoy being reminded about. For us married / family men it becomes tough to find time for all this.
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Yeah, tell me about it.
 
Wyzak said:
Yeah, tell me about it.
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We should start a thread about how we don't have enough time to play games but more than enough to talk about it during the day when we can't play the games because we are at work and should not technically speaking have the time to talk about the games that we do not have enough time to play.
 
What is meant with referral code ?
Have not used refer a friend before. Mostly just give basic package as gifts to get more friends into the verse.

What ships do you guys have?
I have a Gladius, Freelancer DUR and base Constellation.
 
Alpha 2.2g is now on the Test Universe server for those keen on bug testing and issue tracking. 2.2 will probably go to Live server in the next few days. There's a looong list of changes included in this version, which I won't bother with until it actually goes to the live server. And then probably only the highlights.

One thing that has been given a fair bit of attention since 2.1 is character walk and EVA animations. Here's a look at the the varying speeds of character movement (slow walk - walk - jog - sprint) and the switch between them:



And then a test of the physicalized EVA animations and movement:

 
Ma se kind, those full patch notes are huge! May well be time for me to throw some leftover Afrihost bonus bandwidth at doing a download again.

For those interested, here are a couple of quick video snapshots of some of the major updates:

The hangar-ready Khartu-Al Xi’An Scout:

The flight-ready Aegis Dynamics Sabre:

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