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An initial backer of Star Citizen who still believes in the project is worth his weight in gold-pressed latinum to Roberts Space Industries.
... I mean, I don't. They've done some cool shit, but they haven't made one actual good game much less a billion dollars worth of good games. But after losing steam, GOG, PlayStation, and Microsoft accounts I just sort of got desperate.
Star Citizen depresses me because it has such cool stuff in it and tech and I feel like it would be great ... If they reigned in the infinite scope creep, if they spent more of their time and budget on code refactoring and optimization and actually started squashing the same damn bugs that constantly rear their head in new and ingenious forms.
Like the 20% of the time you are playing and it's working like it should - honestly superb. But not worth it since you're spending the other 80% of the time fighting the UI or crashing to desktop or otherwise occupied in some fuckery of troubleshooting or just having to spend another 30 minutes for the 10th time getting a kit on and getting to your ship.
It's kind of a great cautionary tale, or it would be if they didn't have gobs of money and people still handing them more to worship at the alter of a busted game.
God I tried to play again just a few months ago, saw there was a new home station and thought "cool!" Promptly spawned into falling through the abyss and even after killing myself it wouldn't respawn me properly. So yeah I have up again after that and after I walked around a little and saw all the NPCs are (years later) still standing still or weirdly hovering or not sitting right ... Just ... Yeah.
I know this game is still "in alpha" but like ... Alpha functionality should include letting me spawn in at the starting location I selected. How fucked is CIG ame development process when that's even a thing?
I will be fucking amazed if squadron 42 is real and reliably works. I want it to, I so desperately want to be wrong and have an ostrich sized egg on my face. Pretty sure I'm going to turn out to be right ,sadly.
Anyways just a random rant for the internet.
I mean... it's been like 20 years, hundreds of millions spent, over a billion raised. Still being "in alpha" says it all.
Maybe it will be ready for my retirement, and we can play it in VR while really high in a nursing home. o_O
That would be pretty awesome. Although by the time I'm in a nursing home really high playing a space sim in VR I expect something better to have emerged. Oh and also star citizen would have to start supporting VR which afaik it still doesn't.
Honestly, it's a really good lesson in why sometimes the big bad mean publishers and studio execs can be a necessary evil to get a game released.
I just would expect to not be running into the same bugs from literally 5 years ago still popping up in the game but it's a byproduct of how the software has been designed and coded. I'm not saying it's a straight up scam, shit I might even suggest someone spend the $30, or whatever the cheapest pledge is, just to play with what I'd consider an overblown tech demo. The software is cool, a lot of stuff in the game is cool, hell the game just looks pretty. Plus it is awesome when it works, but it's fiddly as hell and everything takes too long because it's part of some convoluted system that is poorly explained. That's the rub too, it does take easily 30 to 45 minutes just to get some gear and even get to your ship and get your mission/load out/cargo sorted. When you spent 30 minutes walking around only to get stranded by a bugged out elevator, or fall through a floor, or watch the train that you need to take to get to your hangar glitch out ... Etc etc ... It's beyond aggravating. Especially because there is no quick and easy way to reset.
Idk why I'm just in a rant mood but thanks for humoring me.
"Maybe one day the game will be done," is more grace than that game deserves, as you probably are aware.
I just found out about Luanti, a voxel-engine with a bunch of different implementations. It's free. I'm going to try that this week.