It's apparently going to be pushed to live server today.

mikev190:

Does anybody know if the game still runs bad? Don't want to waste time downloading if low 30fps is all it does lol

Don't except high performance yet. Netcode is still bottleneck.

so, next is beta 1 I presume? how long they milking it?5y already?

Ah...Alpha 3.0 out for Christmas...and an hour of pre-alpha Squadron 42 gameplay on YT

Texter:

Ah...Alpha 3.0 out for Christmas...and an hour of pre-alpha Squadron 42 gameplay on YT

That Squadron 42 footage was awesome. It's basically my dream come true. Their tech is groundbreaking.

Anarion:

It's apparently going to be pushed to live server today.

But with PTU you still can use any ship?

coth:

But with PTU you still can use any ship?

Dunno.

I have been saying, for years now, that this is nothing more than a well hidden Ponzi scheme. Bernie is saying DAYAMNNNN from his jail cell. Yet to prove me wrong. This feeble attempt to bamboozle you into thinking they are one step closer to "getting there" is worse than ever. Lag, random stoppages, freezing, walking through ships walls, etc, etc, etc, etc. Don't bother it's a mess and that is being kind. If this was a money fund the Feds would have indicted Chris Roberts and his cronies long ago. ANY money invested in this farce is money wasted. HO HO HO Chris Roberts needs to go!

NewTRUMP Order:

I have been saying, for years now, that this is nothing more than a well hidden Ponzi scheme. Bernie is saying DAYAMNNNN from his jail cell. Yet to prove me wrong. This feeble attempt to bamboozle you into thinking they are one step closer to "getting there" is worse than ever. Lag, random stoppages, freezing, walking through ships walls, etc, etc, etc, etc. Don't bother it's a mess and that is being kind. If this was a money fund the Feds would have indicted Chris Roberts and his cronies long ago. ANY money invested in this farce is money wasted. HO HO HO Chris Roberts needs to go!

How can this be Ponzi scheme and PUBG isn't? PUBG raised far more money, yet what's done can easily be made for just 1 mln.

sammarbella:

Year 2037: Star Citizen 22 pre-Beta is out!

Roadmap is pretty much known 3.0 = planetary tech, a lot of gameplay features and many new ships, that are fully interactive, unlike Elite or Eve. https://starcitizen.tools/Star_Citizen_Alpha_3.0.0 3.1 = procedural cities and ArcCorp planet, further gameplay feature merge and many new ships. https://starcitizen.tools/Star_Citizen_Alpha_3.1.0 3.1 was already previewed. [youtube=b9RUWxsVmws] 3.2 = Hurston and Crusader planets, further gameplay feature merge and some more ship variations https://starcitizen.tools/Star_Citizen_Alpha_3.2.0 3.3 = Microtech planet, further gameplay feature merge and a bunch of very large ships https://starcitizen.tools/Star_Citizen_Alpha_3.3.0 By 4.0 most features would be in game. With 4.0 they add warmholls and start adding more planetary systems. By release there would be 5 to 10 of them. https://starcitizen.tools/Star_Citizen_Alpha_4.0.0

sammarbella:

Sure but... ...just a little "detail": Is there any kind of reliable ETA known? Thanks. 🙂

on when it done? i doubt there ever will be one i was intrested in this when it was first announced simple cause space battles now i no longer have isntrest

There is never could be ETA on software development. But I wouldn't expect 3.3 earlier of next CitizenCon, 4.0 earlier of mid 2019 and release earlier of 2022. But again, this game is completely different from what was under development in 2012. Back then it was an analog of Elite. By now it's far more feature-rich than long time released empty Elite that is still being improved with paid DLCs.

sammarbella:

Sure but... ...just a little "detail": Is there any kind of reliable ETA known? Thanks. 🙂

sure, but its not like you would be interested in it since you just want to troll i guess... anyway: agile software development from now on, which means fixed releases every 3 months. what ever is feature complete by then will be in the release, whatever isn't will be pushed to the next one. and now you are free to troll on ...

I have been saying, for years now, that this is nothing more than a well hidden Ponzi scheme. Bernie is saying DAYAMNNNN from his jail cell. Yet to prove me wrong. This feeble attempt to bamboozle you into thinking they are one step closer to "getting there" is worse than ever. Lag, random stoppages, freezing, walking through ships walls, etc, etc, etc, etc. Don't bother it's a mess and that is being kind. If this was a money fund the Feds would have indicted Chris Roberts and his cronies long ago. ANY money invested in this farce is money wasted. HO HO HO Chris Roberts needs to go

I am certainly no fan of the techniques and practices that have been employed by CIG, quietly changing their refund, returns and release dates policy, being as cagey and tight fisted as possible when it comes to doing refunds for customers and their whole overpriced artificial scarcity on certain ships and content all reek of money grubbing at any price, as does selling plots of land in a game that is no where near release but I wouldn't call it a ponzi scheme or a con. It's the work of someone who wants to give the best outcome and result to their project but is incapable of managing and goal setting, a project that is to desperate to appeal and listen to everyone and is willing to risk the completition of the core project to incorporate the minor but highly time consuming features (face mapping tech is a great example.) The project needs someone who can actually project manage to step in look at what is realistically achievable, what realistically needs to be achieved, what cash they have and then set a series of serious realistic goals.

"Realistically achievable" is what Freelancer was. Hope it's won't happen again.

Tried to launch it. May be it was a bit early to move to PU. 100% CPU usage (2500K @4.4GHz), 91% of RAM usage (16 GB), swaps all around, running from SSD. I don't even remember when last time i've seen swapping game. And i was just walking around top floor in Port Olisar. After few minutes i got stuck in some animation.

coth:

Roadmap is pretty much known 3.0 = planetary tech, a lot of gameplay features and many new ships, that are fully interactive, unlike Elite or Eve. https://starcitizen.tools/Star_Citizen_Alpha_3.0.0 3.1 = procedural cities and ArcCorp planet, further gameplay feature merge and many new ships. https://starcitizen.tools/Star_Citizen_Alpha_3.1.0 3.1 was already previewed. [youtube=b9RUWxsVmws] 3.2 = Hurston and Crusader planets, further gameplay feature merge and some more ship variations https://starcitizen.tools/Star_Citizen_Alpha_3.2.0 3.3 = Microtech planet, further gameplay feature merge and a bunch of very large ships https://starcitizen.tools/Star_Citizen_Alpha_3.3.0 By 4.0 most features would be in game. With 4.0 they add warmholls and start adding more planetary systems. By release there would be 5 to 10 of them. https://starcitizen.tools/Star_Citizen_Alpha_4.0.0

My simple point is this will never be a game, for the money invested by others. This is all pretty to look at yes, but every step is meant to string you along. The new "3.0" is a mess. It's a beta of a beta lol. Lets see what they do in year -------> 7<------ lol. The kings new clothes are beautiful aren't they?

I'm not sure what is worse: a games company using their backers to test their software, or a games company surviving on pacification of target audience. If I invested what some people have invested into something, maybe a car, a STB, a phone; I'd no doubt be emotionally invested, and obviously financially as well. I get why people become defensive of this kind of crap, and really I am just flat-out furious that CR is doing what he did in the 90's, but using crowd-sourced funds from susceptible gamers to do it. Preying on the people's dreams is bad, and there will come the day when these dreams get shattered, akin to children finding out Santa Claus, The Tooth Fairy, Big Foot and Uncle Bob are not what they think. That day? The day the final reviews come out for the final, 'buy it in the shops', completely-complete game. Gaming will hopefully mature that day, and crowd-funded exploitation will get taken out back and put down. That is, of course; after a long period of mass expenditure of time and money into pacification. That court case is also very interesting... /ot Elite Dangerous took 2 years to launch, and since then has had multiple expansions, released on PS4 (this year), Xbox, MAC (!) and of course Windows. And just to cap off that minor miracle, they did it using their own game engine...and got an average of 8/10 across the board...not to mention also releasing Planet Coaster last year and are the only company being tasked with releasing Jurassic World Evolution. You may have heard of Jurassic World/Park...being 'like, one of the biggest franchises out there with billions of revenue...am I seriously not the only one surprised (and glad) that EA didn't get that franchise? No mega company got that, just a little one in Cambridge... /bot I saw this on Steam earlier: http://store.steampowered.com/app/719180/Revulsion/ If you want to spend money on someone working solo on a project, this looked like a worthwhile investment. I don't know anything about this developer, but I would trust a thousand people just like him any day of the week. You can hear it in their voice...passion, for gaming.

buhehe:

Apples and oranges

I agree. On the one hand, you have someone who had a solid game-design document, with timelines and schedules fully realized into a cohesive plan of action, willing to let intelligent members of staff take the necessary reins without recourse and playing the blame game. When they obtained the value of money they initially required, they stopped taking any more - and anyone who wished to have game features at launch that were not there (but promised), got a full refund of their backing dollar back. With an apology. On the other, a highly questionable character who ran out of his 1990's scam-money, had no game design document, no intention of letting anyone take control, and although hit the requested funds to develop the initial crowd-sourced milestone to release, decided to keep taking money and expand the initial crowd-sourced 'pledge' into something that doesn't even have to ever be completed. CR and what he has done will go down in history as one of the biggest mistakes gamers ever let someone get away with. That is, of course; excluding what happened in the past. It may also interest you that he has worked with Harvey Weinstein...

NewTRUMP Order:

My simple point is this will never be a game, for the money invested by others. This is all pretty to look at yes, but every step is meant to string you along. The new "3.0" is a mess. It's a beta of a beta lol. Lets see what they do in year -------> 7<------ lol. The kings new clothes are beautiful aren't they?

Do you even know what an alpha version is?

Cave Waverider:

Do you even know what an alpha version is?

Something that should be tested and ran internally in the company and not sold? If you need more people to test it, you pay people to do it? For decades, that's what alpha was. Do you know what alpha is?