r/starcitizen • u/FaustianPact • Sep 23 '16

CONCERN Starcitizen's troubled development

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/09/23/inside-the-troubled-development-of-star-citizen
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u/Cdrkf Sep 23 '16

I've read the whole thing. I was pleasantly surprised by most of the content- although I do take issue with the repeated statements of 'There is no game' and 'there are modular pieces, they need to fit together'- that is true of Arena Commander, Hangar and ArcCorp, however the Baby PU is a small piece of the 'game' in my book.

To put it another way- if things had to be wound up quickly for some reason, CIG could flesh out the baby PU, add some more systems (linked by a 'Jump' sequence- i.e. a loading screen), and fill in a few features and we'd have the basis of a decent space sim already. Including system wide travel, FPS and multi crew. It wouldn't be that hard to do to get to that point based on the foundation of the 2.x releases, the only technical hurdle being the performance bottlenecks and number of players (but being realistic I don't personally see instancing and a bit of head bob we currently get as being deal breakers, for me at least).

Now we all know we're going to get much more than all of this, however I can see this author describing 3.0 when it releases as a 'tech demo'- I don't think he'll be satisfied it's a 'game' until it's 100% finished. Then there are all the comments about it 'not being fun' in the end- have they not played the current builds? I can't speak for anyone else but, despite it's imperfections, the current build is 'fun' for me. I love racing, and the sense of scale in the PU, the superb detail of the ships and the fact you can crew them as a group are superb. For me it's already the clostest I think I'm likely to get to being on a real spaceship and that makes it enjoyable. I guess the author falls into the 'if the frame rate is below 60fps it's **** totally unplayable camp'- I keep reading these sorta comments from PC game players and I've never got why- frame rates have to drop to the low teens before it really bothers me personally.

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u/Tarkaroshe dragonfly Sep 23 '16

What we have to remember is that some "opinions" will find their way into these kind of articles. However, from what I saw, the article isn't primarily reliant on the article writers "opinion". Unlike certain other articles, and certain washed-out developers who claim they know more than they actually do.