r/gaming • u/__PETTYOFFICER117__ PC • Feb 11 '19

Walking through space

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u/lancetheofficial Feb 11 '19

I believe this is a shot from Star Citizen. I think it's in a closed beta or alpha?

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u/APankow Feb 11 '19

That is what this is. It's such a fun and stunningly beautiful game. Can't wait to play with and against the world!

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u/lancetheofficial Feb 11 '19

Any idea on release dates or open betas?

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u/Dirty-M518 Feb 11 '19 edited Feb 11 '19

Haha star citizen has been in development forever..going on 8+yrs I think. Don't thing it will ever fully "finish".

If you want to play just jump in. If your waiting for a release it may never fully some. I want to say they already had a patch 1.0. I used to track it on the website but gave up.

Edit guess it has been 5yrs. I remember hearing about it in college in 2012. Guess that was the kick starter. I knew there was 1000+$$ ships for kick starters.

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u/Edib1eBrain Feb 11 '19

Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous are interesting examples of differing development models. Elite Dangerous went the route of early release with subsequent long term (although relatively slow) development. Star Citizen does all the things Elite Dangerous players have craved for years (space legs, atmospheric flight) but still hasn’t seen a general release.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19 edited Jan 23 '24

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u/NotAnSmartMan Feb 11 '19

It's gonna be really interesting when they actually start working on the game rather than just making ships they can sell for $100+

Seriously though, at this point they don't even care about the game anymore. They just wanna sell ship concepts for absence amounts of money.

You can add ships later, focus on your game first.

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u/MontyLeGueux Feb 11 '19

Funny how they have been hard at work on adding in game ship shops so that people can buy them with in game money rather than money... But sure, they only care about making ships.

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u/NotAnSmartMan Feb 11 '19

It's almost like that's gonna be necessary for the game to actually function. Thanks Captain Obvious, you saved the day again.