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Star Citizen Pre-Alpha: Hangar Module
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We should get a gif version of that image with money dropping, the word, 'swagger' flashing in bright lights, and snoop dogg dancing.
I know there is a site that does this, but I am not aware of the url.
kutthoat5150
Member
I hate the wait to read the new stretch goals when we hit another million
Yeah, that was the slightly hidden joke
No worse than the wait for the actual game.
19 Million Amerikan Dollurs? Already?
More Moneys for the Moneythrone! Spaceships for the Spaceshiplord!
Amazing how all this capital just shows up from somewhere among the populace. THIS COULD HAVE BEEN YOU, PUBLISHERS!
More Moneys for the Moneythrone! Spaceships for the Spaceshiplord!
Amazing how all this capital just shows up from somewhere among the populace. THIS COULD HAVE BEEN YOU, PUBLISHERS!
That's kinda where I draw the line. I do not feel comfortable with people outright charging for doing a friend or vaguely affiliated internet person a favour out of the goodness of their hearts. I mean, I'm sure there are thankful latecomers and the occasional ship skin or maybe even ship changes hands after or during a successful LTI transmogification. It's just that I'm really uneasy with the concept of people turning that into a business and charging fees. Oh well.penny arcade summary said:
Letter from the Chairman: $19 Million!
CR talks a bit about what continued funding entails and put up a poll on future stretch goals/funding display
I'm very happy with the direction they're going with the female characters. While there should of course be customization, I for some reason read an abysmal thread on the RSI forums today about wanting them to look like the firefall female characters and started dreading what direction they would take.
CR talks a bit about what continued funding entails and put up a poll on future stretch goals/funding display
I'm very happy with the direction they're going with the female characters. While there should of course be customization, I for some reason read an abysmal thread on the RSI forums today about wanting them to look like the firefall female characters and started dreading what direction they would take.
What's that? Crystal meth? xD
Honey Bunny
Member
blingee :3
Shisha/Hookah at Germany event. Chillax.
Salvaging is exactly what I got my Freelancer for. Maybe the Cutlass as well if the going gets rough.
So glad the women are actually covered in armour and not just wearing space bikinis.
What's with those pods on the pic with the white suit? Are those mini missiles? Can't be. Extra sensor pods? Sample containers? Snack repositories? I mean, if I scoured through depressing desolated scenery I would need some picker-uppers to keep me motivated.
So glad the women are actually covered in armour and not just wearing space bikinis.
What's with those pods on the pic with the white suit? Are those mini missiles? Can't be. Extra sensor pods? Sample containers? Snack repositories? I mean, if I scoured through depressing desolated scenery I would need some picker-uppers to keep me motivated.
Vlodril
Member
Yes. I got Dead space 3 for free after the sim city fiasco and the parts where you were just floating through space were awesome. I would love to see it in Star citizen too(this game is never getting made btw
).NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
...RSI isn't charging absurd real world dollars for ships?
...they don't have a credit system?
You must be following a different game.
This looks like it could be great, but don't pretend it's something it's not.
I don't quite get this. This is a crowdfund, not all-the-money-goes-into-managers-pockets-so-they-can-buy-sports-cars.
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
I don't quite get your point, crowdfunding is a source of income.. it has no bearing on how they actually spend that money.
kutthoat5150
Member
You talking about the ones on the back of the suit? Look like some sort of thrusters for moving around to me.
Yep that good blue stuff, bought with your money!
I know how to produce it, I'm a chemistry student
Yes, but spending more money for this game just means a better final game. The complete base game won't be plagued much by unbalanced microtransaction. People give money because they thrust CIG and not because their fun gets locked away and they need to bail it out.
Gen.Grievous
Member
So Citizens I need some advice. I want to join this party. I'm not very much interested in crowdfunding or kickstarting but I consider this more of a preorder as I'm planning on getting this anyway. By "preodering" this I might get some really nice bonusses to get me started. I have a budget of 50 euro (normal retail cost of a PC game over here). I was looking at the different pledge packages and it seems like the Digital Bounty Hunter is the one to get for about 50 euros. Is there anything else I need to keep in mind while pledging. I read something about life time insurance, this pledge package contains only 4 months.
Extra info: my preferred role is exploration and some light mercantile, don't know if the ship I get with the pledge packaged is very suitable if it's more oriented towards combat.
Extra info: my preferred role is exploration and some light mercantile, don't know if the ship I get with the pledge packaged is very suitable if it's more oriented towards combat.
spindoctor
Member
You should try to get an original backer to buy you the Digital Bounty Hunter package. It'll cost $10 less and you will get Lifetime Insurance as well. Some kind folks in this thread (or the SC thread in the community section) have been helping others out with this so you can ask there.
Since you're looking for an exploration/mercantile ship, the best option is probably the 315p (in the Pathfinder package). However if I were you I'd get the basic 300i in the Digital Bounty Hunter package and then just upgrade the ship with the 315p parts with ingame currency once the game launches.
In all this, the most important thing is that you shouldn't feel pressured to spend more money than you are comfortable with. Every ship and every upgrade you see in the store can be obtained by just playing the game. You are spending money to support the development of the game, not to buy bigger and better ships.
TheForceWithin
Banned
This is the biggest thing that gets lost on most people.
But haven't you seen? They ask over $100 for a ship! They clearly put this all into their pockets to spend it all on booze and expensive cars.
Gen.Grievous
Member
I consider the stuff I receive by getting on the bandwagon early as a bonus. I know I can eventually get all the stuff I want just by playing. It's nice to start off with a few advantages though. Like I said I consider it as sort of a pre order.
Anyway thanks for your advice.
I can help you with that. Here's what you do:
Find the price of the package you want. Now in Euros.
Buy enough giftable items (ships and skins) that add up to that amount.
When you have it all PM me and I'll trade it for the package you want with LTI.
If you wait 24H between buying the items and starting the trade it's a bit easier for me. Doing it that way means I can melt them without melting my own package.
Gen.Grievous
Member
Thank you for the offer Mindlog but I have already found someone willing to help me out. Now getting that hangar module to run well is a different thing altogether. Of course is not optimized yet but it seems a 560ti is beginning to show it's age.
A 560ti should be fine, if you play on low that is. Even the best graphics card have some problems due to performance glitches and whatnot. It will get fixed over time
Zod the Bear
Member
560ti's worked well for me. It's actually run a little more smoothly than friends with better cards.
Congrats.
I have to upgrade my rig as well, but I am waiting until the Oculus Rift and EVE Valkyrie arrive. In the meantime... more ships!
Do none of you actually want to earn the ships ingame instead of having it all available from the start? I'm not complaining since that behavior funds the game, but personally I just have the basic minimum package for the full game and don't understand why I would want to buy it all and lose my sense of progression in the game.
Getting ships and such isn't really what this game is about to some people. There is no progression system in this game. Just like with cars, you buy the one that does what you want it do, but there are some people that collect many of them just because. It's the things you do with them, the journey, that is important, and if what you want to do is spend your time earning ships for something then you're free to do that.
I thought the approach was actually to just have a handful ships and variations, but these would be extremely detailed. No?
There will be revisions to ships over time, like how cars manufacturers release revised models, as well new ships and shipmakers. Currently there are about 20 ships.
Well, I finally installed the CryEngine 3 SDK. The forest sample map looks pretty nice, but even in windowed mode, it has some nasty slowdown and stutter on a 4+ GHz quad core and GTX 770. I hate to think what huge scale scenes may be like with Star Citizen, unless they can use the emptiness of space to optimize things.
It looks like I have to create a developer account to launch the editor, but maybe I can play around with the ship model once I do that. I think someone mentioned there is a lot of forum information on how to do it.
It looks like I have to create a developer account to launch the editor, but maybe I can play around with the ship model once I do that. I think someone mentioned there is a lot of forum information on how to do it.
Well, I finally installed the CryEngine 3 SDK. The forest sample map looks pretty nice, but even in windowed mode, it has some nasty slowdown and stutter on a 4+ GHz quad core and GTX 770. I hate to think what huge scale scenes may be like with Star Citizen, unless they can use the emptiness of space to optimize things.
It looks like I have to create a developer account to launch the editor, but maybe I can play around with the ship model once I do that. I think someone mentioned there is a lot of forum information on how to do it.
Trees are the deadliest thing when dealing with game performance. There are no trees in space!
Deforestation never felt so good! (although the Star Citizen basic hangar is also crazy hard on my graphics card, but I suspect polycount might be part of that).
EdReedFan20
Member
I wonder if they'll be running out of ideas for funding goals soon since every goal just gets obliterated. The $20,000,000, though, will make the game even more expansive. For those that don't know, it introduces FPS combat!
After that, for $21,000,000 is:
Salvage Mechanic: Salvage isn’t an aside: it’s a career, with its own mechanic, story tie-ins and universe-shaping endgames. Search the galaxy for a host of valuable and interesting secrets using both the flight and FPS components. Discover the secrets of the ancient Hadesians, locate valuable components and cargo… or go down in history the first to make contact an entirely new alien race!
After that, for $21,000,000 is:
Salvage Mechanic: Salvage isn’t an aside: it’s a career, with its own mechanic, story tie-ins and universe-shaping endgames. Search the galaxy for a host of valuable and interesting secrets using both the flight and FPS components. Discover the secrets of the ancient Hadesians, locate valuable components and cargo… or go down in history the first to make contact an entirely new alien race!
kutthoat5150
Member
According to the patch they added some limited interactivity for the switches and stuff in our ships. Maybe we can finally see where we will be taking our space dumps in hiding behind that door in the connie.
there already is FPS combat in the game, their just adding it planet side in that stretch goal
there already is FPS combat in the game, their just adding it planet side in that stretch goal
EdReedFan20
Member
Incredible, nonetheless. This is a dream game. Unfortunately, my only real hope to play this anytime soon is if they release it for PS4, as my PC will struggle mightily with this game.
Practically every goal since the initial campaign ended is stuff that was already in the game's design and was discussed at length months ago. The few new things are typically minor extensions of existing mechanics. As others have mentioned, the FPS mode was announced way back at the beginning.
SPACE TOILET IS STILL LOCKED AAUGH
It's the Kahn, BTW.
edit: Wait wait wait, toilet, shower, bunks and table are operational. omfg
kutthoat5150
Member
more good news for you buddy lol
http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/star-citizen-could-come-to-ps4/
EdReedFan20
Member
Oh, I know. I read that same news elsewhere. Hoping to make this a reality, I tweeted Gio Corsi from Sony that Star Citizen should be on PS4.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
This game looks positively amazing, and nearly everything I've ever wanted in a space exploration game, ever.
...But I really, really, REALLY hate First Person. >_<
...But I really, really, REALLY hate First Person. >_<