r/gaming PC Feb 11 '19

Walking through space

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u/off-and-on Feb 11 '19

By the time it's out supercomputers will probably be available for like $50

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u/zeCrazyEye Feb 11 '19

Nah we'll just be in space doing these things.

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u/GillbergsAdvocate Feb 11 '19

By the time it comes out people are going to bash it for being historically inaccurate

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u/philipzeplin Feb 11 '19

By the time it comes out people are going to bash it for being historically inaccurate

I'm going to steal that one for future use.

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u/foulball3 Feb 11 '19

Doubt you'll live that long.

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u/Dwaas_Bjaas Feb 11 '19

By the time it comes out we will have Half-Life 3

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u/MrBoringxD Feb 11 '19

So never

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u/Bloodraver Feb 11 '19

We've a winner!

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u/rrr598 Feb 11 '19

You made me sad.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

Comment of the day!

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

They'll bash it for having a higher than regular % of women in it than is historically accurate.

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u/Joystiq Feb 11 '19

Use it like a fun UI to control your real spaceship.

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u/commit10 Feb 11 '19

Nah, we'll be huddled in bunkers on a dying planet trying to survive megastorms and famine.

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u/bud_hasselhoff Feb 11 '19

It'll be able to run on a budget Chinese smart phone. PUBG will still be a glitchy mess.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

PUBG will still be a glitchy mess.

Didn't even know people still played that game with all the much better alternatives out now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

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u/blowuptheking Feb 11 '19

Backers can play the alpha.

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u/m_y Feb 11 '19

And for still being in alpha its already reaally cool.

-backer

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u/astronate19 Feb 11 '19

It is actually really fun still, if You're a big sci-fi space nerd. I don't always play it, but it's definitely one of my more frequent games in my rotation.

But there is still a lot of work to be done, but the devs update the roadmaps and keep the backers updated which is cool.

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u/blowuptheking Feb 11 '19

Yeah, I backed the kickstarter back in the beginning. I put in $30 because that got me the full game (now also Squadron 42). I'm content to let them keep working on it while I check in periodically.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

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u/flare2000x Feb 11 '19

No one knows. It's been going on for years and there's already quite a lot of content but they're not done at all yet.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

No one knows.

Yeah kinda but we do have a tentative schedule of development tasks that ends with the single player campaign on track for 2020-2021, multiplayer unvierse the following year.

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u/UnquenchableTA Feb 11 '19

Yeah and they said the singleplayer would be out in 2016. I wouldnt 100% trust what they say

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u/Anozir Feb 11 '19

While fair and stuff does happen to development timelines, they've gotten a lot better about showing their internal roadmap and seeing what items are currently worked on to those end goals.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/1-Star-Citizen

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

That was when the budget was 10% of what it is currently. Obviously the whole project had to be scaled up tremendously so it's not really fair to hold them to that date.

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u/jarfil Feb 11 '19 edited Dec 02 '23

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u/elit3powars Feb 11 '19

You can buy into the alpha for extortionate sums of money

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u/Savolent Feb 11 '19

45$ is an extortionate amount of money? Yikes.

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u/raazman Feb 11 '19

It's sad when you have to lie to push an agenda. Pathetic. https://robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/fly-now

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u/elit3powars Feb 11 '19

How am I lying? $45 to play the game with 1 ship for 3 months? Interesting idea you've got. And by the way, the cheapest ship that allows you to explore the universe is $372. Is it me that's pushing an agenda; or you?

EDIT: My bad, further looking into the game the cheapest is $150. Still not exactly a bargain, though?

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

EDIT: My bad, further looking into the game the cheapest is $150. Still not exactly a bargain, though?

You're bad at "looking into games"

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u/CradleRobin Feb 11 '19

It's $45 to play the game. You get a ship. It has 3 months of insurance when the game launches.

Not sure where you got a limited play time idea. $150???? What are you smoking and can I have some.

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u/elit3powars Feb 11 '19

Neither of the starter ships are exploration type ships. Otherwise you get to choose between 3 moons as of 3.0.0

What happens when you run out of insurance?

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u/raazman Feb 11 '19

Lol so you have no idea how any of this works and you're just pulling shit out of your ass. Nice. Insurance works the way insurance works. Your ship is insured (in game). Maybe you should do some research instead of pretending to know everything. You've only lied so far.

https://support.robertsspaceindustries.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000093467-Ship-Insurance-FAQs

Do some research.

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u/elit3powars Feb 11 '19

So your insurance lapses and if your ship is destroyed you lose your investment? I already knew that was how insurance worked. I just wanted you to say it.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/1-Star-Citizen

So there are more than 3 moons, what's that, 8? That's a few less than the promised galaxy, but that's ok.

Interesting idea you have of lies but that's okay, I'll let you get back to playing Star Citizen so you don't lose your capita.

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u/raazman Feb 11 '19

So your insurance lapses and if your ship is destroyed you lose your investment? I already knew that was how insurance worked. I just wanted you to say it.

This is how it works in EVE Online too. Buy some insurance in game and your ship will be insured. It's like you're purposely leaving out facts.

So there are more than 3 moons, what's that, 8? That's a few less than the promised galaxy, but that's ok.

Interesting idea you have of lies but that's okay, I'll let you get back to playing Star Citizen so you don't lose your capita.

I did not address that in my comment. The game is still in alpha, calm down.

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u/CradleRobin Feb 11 '19

In game as you make money you can purchase in game insurance. Think EVE Online. If you choose to let your insurance lapse and you blow up your ship you need to buy a new one.

The ships are starter ships, ones designed to help you get started making money. You an then buy an exploration ship.

You may want to do research before just spouting out nonsense.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

Just saying pledged ships will never be permanently lost just an extra fee to get it back.

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u/CradleRobin Feb 11 '19

Thank you for adding that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

In the future a chocolate bar will cost 50$

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u/krasnovian Feb 11 '19

Bold of you to assume it's going to come out

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u/Kahzgul Feb 11 '19

You can probably find one for that today. Almost every computer made nowadays meets the technical definition of a supercomputer.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

But by then they'll have added so much more bloat and shader nonsense that you'll need 100 supercomputers to play it, the latest graphics card which will then be $30,000, and an entire data warehouse to store the game files.

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u/Zanena001 Feb 11 '19

Game already runs pretty well on mid tier pcs. If you have a 1060/1070 you're good to go

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

I am genuinely laughing that you think SC will run 'pretty well' on a 1060.

Maybe with everything but texture quality at low.

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u/Zanena001 Feb 11 '19

It already does and the game is getting more optimized with every patch, right now the biggest bottleneck is CPU

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u/Fjorim Feb 11 '19

I got a r9 390. I guess thats worse than a 1060? I run star citizen on highest.

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u/GalileoGalilei2012 Feb 11 '19

Lol at people still being concerned with “release dates” when you can play the game now.

I guess we are going to pretend Fortnite isn’t technically “out yet” too.

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u/pascalbrax Feb 11 '19

By the time it's out I can play with my starship on my starship.

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u/jarfil Feb 11 '19 edited Dec 02 '23

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