Submitted 3 weeks ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to gaming@beehaw.org
No Man’s Sky has almost every feature that Star Citizen will have/has:
Like, by the time SC releases, the game’s features will have been done by multiple companies. I expect people actually buying the game, if it’s ever released, will do so for the memes and not because the game has anything innovative to add to gaming.
It doesn’t have the feature where whales can give the devs $10,000 for a spaceship.
Check mate.
I mean, nothing is stopping a whale from contacting Hello Games to get a bespoke spaceship… 😂
The bigger context of that quote is basically that they’re heads down and preparing for crunch. The person who said, “I don’t know if we’re going to make it” also said “but we’re doing everything we can to make it happen” (this is my paraphrase, I don’t know if I got the exact wording)
The bigger, bigger context of the quote is that this game was initially supposed to be released in 2014, and now 2026 is looking unlikely.
And yes, im just talking about squadron 42, the spinoff fps of the even later game that is even farther from release, Star citizen.
Sure, that’s true. I was a year 1 backer, just after the initial Kickstarter ended, so I guess to me that part of the context kind of spoke for itself. Thanks for highlighting it, I honestly do appreciate it.
I know some of the SC story from knudsens channel, but somehow it never really hit me that they are developing a spin-off of a game that hasnt even released yet
What is the current state of star citizen anyway?
Un-sarcastic answer, it’s actually in a really good spot. The backend changes they put in over the past year have boosted the per-server player counts like crazy, they churned through most of their ship backlog, and they’ve been running a bunch of story events. Performance is way up, especially for client fps in high-population areas (15 fps this time last year if you were in a crowd, 35+ now).
PCG has been super negative on SC for years. Sometimes very justifiably, but many times not.
Disagree. It is still a buggy mess. Many missing features that they promised. Lots of missing basic features of MMOs like no guild chat, no in game guild rosters, elevators and doors still don’t consistently work, they struggle to connect the game loops, game loops don’t consistently work, etc, etc.
Yes
“The team is heads down,” Huckaby said. “We drew a line in the sand when we said 2026. I don’t know if we’re going to make it, I just know that we’re going to do every single thing possible to make it. And part of that is not taking time for the distraction of CitizenCon.”
That means they already know they are not going to make it. Otherwise why say this more than one year before?
Just 2 years, Turkish!
Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Star Citizen is going to be the next game with a generational legacy.
After fans will their copies to their children, still waiting for the official release.
shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 3 weeks ago
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
its going to be Daikatana II
kurcatovium@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It's already a Daikatana and Duke Nukem Forever combined...