Comment on 12 Years and $700 Million Later, What's Going on With Star Citizen's Development?

FancyLad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• limitedduck@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stat Citizen has its problems, but it’s literally not vaporware since there’s something available that you can download and play with.

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• Fecundpossum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, and it’s sad bro. I put about 900 hours into Elite: Dangerous, which I enjoyed a great deal, but it still left me longing for something with more depth. Back then I thought Star Citizen would be the next leap forward in my career as a space trucker who dabbles in bounty hunting and deep space exploration. I wanted to have games worthy of justifying a home cockpit setup, and now it seems like a lost cause.

  I really hope someone picks up the torch. Even if it’s just Frontier making a generational leap with the Elite IP.

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  • erin@lemmy.sidh.bzh ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you can try X4: Foundations ^^

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The controls in X4 are so horrible though.

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      • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Good lord if that ain’t the truth.

        It has every opportunity to be good, but I can’t even navigate the goddamn menus, let alone step into my ship.

        Forget about using something other than a mouse and keyboard too, it just won’t work.

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      • PushButton@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Like any of these games, you need to change the key bindings.

        I have a set that I use in all space sim. What I am trying to say is that the control can be the same as any other space sim.

        This type of game might not be your kind of stuff.

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      • erin@lemmy.sidh.bzh ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I play with an HOTAS, so controls are the same as in Star Citizen for me

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      • haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What part do you feel is horrible? I enjoyed playing it a lot.

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  • FancyLad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember how awesome Distant Worlds was, as a community event, and I wish I appreciated it more at the time. 65000 light years and back, I even bought a T-shirt and coin to commemorate the event lol o7

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    • Fecundpossum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My big in game accomplishment was making it to SagA*, I spent some time in colonia and joined a discord of nerds that hung out there getting big exploration creds. I actually made the trek all the way back to the bubble after spending about a month in the galactic core. It was an epic adventure in my mind, but afterwards it was hard to be motivated for the engineering grind.

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  • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I haven’t played E:D so I can’t really make comparisons, but maybe X3/X4 can pique your interest?
    I don’t think they can justify a home cockpit setup, they’re also kinda hard to get into (especially X3, you can’t get far without a guide), but hey, there’s a combined 1.5% chance that you haven’t heard of them and that you’ll enjoy at least one of them if you don’t care much about graphics. Or voice acting. Or UI/UX.

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    • Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      X3 is a fun game, with a very developed universe (you’ll see factions conduct invasion in real-time as you do your own thing) with a wide variety of gameplay. The universe of X3 honestly makes Star Citizen seems like a theme park for children.

      That being said it is extremely difficult to get into them both because there are so many gameplay options and the UI/UX is subpar (prepare to be constantly fiddling with menu and looking up how to execute a given course of action).

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• morbidcactus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I sold my pledges off 9 years ago, the reason I even made a reddit account in the first place. Was getting disillusioned with it back then and I was super excited when I initially backed it.

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