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Star Citizen Pre-Alpha: 'Arena Commander' Dogfighting
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Wow that looks amazing.
Dubbedinenglish
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Is the coop swarming working again?
How Star Citizen Became the Most Successful Crowdfunded Game of All Time
Nice interview of Sandi Gardiner, CIG VP of Marketing.
Nice interview of Sandi Gardiner, CIG VP of Marketing.
mercenar1e
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i was thinking of upgrading my avenger to a cutlass black or hornet.. which would be better?
MasterOfPastures
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Just applied to the GAF org. Should prove fun when the time comes.
Dictator93
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They are both sexy as hell. Hard to say.
The cutlass does have the very interesting thruster set up as a plus.
Depends on what you want to do. The Hornet is set up as a killing machine more than any other ship, but it has practically no cargo room. The Cutlass has a decent cargo hold that can be swapped out for different modules (perhaps turning your ship into a mobile medical bay, for example) and it OK at fighting, but also has the stigma of being seen as a pirate ship.
exmachina64
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So beautiful.
Cutlass Black is more useful if you want to wait for PU and your main goal requires more cargo room (trading, exploring, pirating since you need a place for your booty), but overall the Hornet is better for dogfighting and has a lot of room for improvement, such as a ball turret in the middle and canard turret under the chin once they allow ship equipment to be purchased.
Cutlass Black might get a lot better at Dogfighting though when multicrew comes out though, when you can get someone to man that turret. When you can divvy up the responsibilities between flying and shooting, ships tend to fly and shoot way better.
Seems like they want to ditch the module passes:
-To help eliminate the confusion for new backers, it is likely the module passes will be going away and instead of the passes, the game packages will just go up by $5 and include the module. (As I understand this, a package that was $30 before AC would be $35 now and then $40 with FPS and $45 with Planetside and include access to all of those.)
http://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/2sjbu2/notes_from_reverse_the_verse_episode_30/
-To help eliminate the confusion for new backers, it is likely the module passes will be going away and instead of the passes, the game packages will just go up by $5 and include the module. (As I understand this, a package that was $30 before AC would be $35 now and then $40 with FPS and $45 with Planetside and include access to all of those.)
http://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/2sjbu2/notes_from_reverse_the_verse_episode_30/
Amazingly beautiful.
Looking over this list of their funding goals still blows my mind.
I'm finally gonna pledge for this game as I've been intending to do it for a while, but never gotten around to it.
Dictator93
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That is good. People getting confused etc..
Iced_Eagle
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Interesting. However, if that quote is correct, it still seems like there will have to be some sort of module pass. For example, if I bought the $35 AC package, I still would need to pay $5 each for FPS and Planetside.
Regardless, I'm sure CIG is on it, and I hope they find a good solution. Having to explain the module passes to a new player is a bit confusing.
I think if you buy the $35 package now, you'll get access to everything, including future modules.
Once the FPS module comes out, the price for a basic package that includes everything will increase to $40. Once the planetside module is out, it'll cost $45 to gain access to everything.
Basically, they're making it cost more to get into the game at a later date.
MasterOfPastures
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I tried playing a coop Vanduul Swarm match with a friend, but we could not start a game because the search would say that no match was found... after a single second of searching.
Hopefully, this gets fixed with the new patch.
Hopefully, this gets fixed with the new patch.
Yes, It's a known bug and will be fixed with next weeks 1.01 release.
ohh no no. i didn't mean to over hype it. sorry.
it's just a pan of a cityscape.
here you go.
http://youtu.be/H5iuq45bO0o?t=31m25s
The Dear Leader
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Xane
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Yeah. It needs AA and better shadows. An it could've been just pre-rendered instead of live for better framerate.
I actually prefer that they are showing most of the stuff completely raw from CryEngine directly.
Yeah, insisting on honest-to-god realtime gameplay demos is great. If nothing else, it keeps CIG's feet to the fire which is important for a developer that doesn't have to worry about publisher deliverables.
Dictator93
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BTW, I have been playing with AC 1.0 and the graphics options. Very High Shadows render at 4096X4096.
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
Now i want to see shadows in very confined areas :O
I think it's odd that they make that distinction. Just let everyone who owns a copy have access to the temporarily free ship.
Dictator93
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That is really odd. When you go to arena commander and pick the map and game type, lower right hand corner has drop down list with available ships. Click on the ship displayed and the drop downlist opens, the mustang variants should be there.
Trial ships do not show up on the website nor in your hangar beyond the holotable. Are they in your holotable to customize?
I couldn't select the ship until I bought some random skin (that I can't even use yet
) for 5 bucks. I am now seen as a "real" backer and got access to the ships.just to let anyone who's interested know.
chris is giving a talk at BAFTA LA at 22:30 EST tonight. and it's being streamed live on twitch.
here's the link.
http://www.twitch.tv/baftalosangeles
chris is giving a talk at BAFTA LA at 22:30 EST tonight. and it's being streamed live on twitch.
here's the link.
http://www.twitch.tv/baftalosangeles
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yeah, it was an ok talk. hopefully they'll put it on youtube so people can watch it.
Found a youtube video of the broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ej6u1h7ZEg
And here's a slide of the expected module release schedule:
And here's a slide of the expected module release schedule:
UpDownLeftRight
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Found a youtube video of the broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ej6u1h7ZEg
And here's a slide of the expected module release schedule:
I'll be surprised if they can stick to that. Hell I'll be surprised if we have any new scenarios in AC by summer let alone the FPS and planetside modules by spring. Pleasantly surprised however, so here's to hoping.
Dictator93
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Squadron 42 delay till like January or February is almost a given
BTW in the latest Ten For the Chairman he talked a bit more about the German Studio they are opening.
From everything that he said it seems to be a tech studio filled with "industry veterans." They will be focusing on performance and visual features.
Also, according to the BAFTA presentation, they have yet to show off any of their facial tech (imaginarium stuff). All the commercials so far have used hand animated faces.
Lol, they did really 'hired' Crytek, didnt they?
But thats great, it means we will get summaries from this studio every month
I really hope that they will include some new video segment about technology or at least give some news about technology, it one of the aspect of SC that its not really covered, except for some random quotes or big presentations. And i'm enjoying a lot Foundry 42's Graphics Programming segment in monthly reports.I need to watch both today.
Dictator93
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hahaha no. But they formed a studio in Frankfurt filled with industry technical veterans.
Putting 2 and 3 together is telling me that they caught some people who left crytek.
Aw yiss, finally some good AA and other graphical options.
It's slim, but there's a chance they could hit these goals. The major time consumer for this game is building the engine, as they get closer to finishing the engine and finish building some of the major systems and tools, content will be coming out way faster than previously. There will still probably be delays, but I can totally see them ramping up the timeline for module releases.
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