******Official Star Citizen / Squadron 42 Thread******

Official explanation from Ben:

I'll go ahead and answer that one before the concern thread: the Starfarer Gemini is significantly 'better' in several ways than the standard Starfarer (there are some tradeoffs, especially in core carrying capacity... but there are enough areas where it's different that people will immediately think it's better.) It's also a ship constructed from the ground up for this purpose rather than modified from an existing chassis. With those things in mind, it seems unfair to only allow early backers to have an LTI version. (Similarly, the folks who are most likely to buy it are the ones who have been collecting lots of ships from the start... and they'll probably also be the ones who want both rather than be forced to upgrade.)
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PaulC2K said:
Star Marine/FPS Update
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14697-Star-Marine-FPS-Update

Starfarer Update
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14694-Fleshing-Out-The-Starfarer

Very disappointed by the lack of anything new for the basic Starfarer. But 'Crew: 7'.... What the f.....
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When I saw the page I was gutted, it's just the info they released previously put together with perhaps 3 more screenshots, nothing more really.

Gemini seems like a no brainer too for most people pledging for one now, I don't quite understand why they've offered it with LTI rather than putting both models on with 24 months insurance and the upgrade for those with LTI.
 
Well I think it's shocking, I mean last time I played Colin McRae rally you walked him around the track as he made car sounds whilst giving Nicky Grist a piggyback.
 
Someone found this inside the normal game files, possible FPS tie in with Nvidia then?

I'm guessing but probably some special Nvidia gear to wear lol

Warning: It's not another ship..
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Cobra is really a multi-purpose ship, thing about SC is that you can mod ships in your hangar one the game is out or buy a variant of the ship. The Cobra is a fairly good ship and a decent size, you'd really need to put in a fair bit of money for it's rough equivalent in Star Citizen, so I'd suggest sticking with a lower cost starter ship and just earning the ship in-game if you aren't sure. Personally I'd think the Cutlass Black was around the same level as the Cobra, you'd need to buy an Arena commander pass too though if you wanted to fly it now.

If you aren't sure which ship you want, but want to jump in and get access to a hangar + ship, plus Arena commander (dogfighting/free flight test module) then this is arguably the safest bet:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Packages/Aurora-MR-AC-Starter


If you don't want to go that far but want to start getting the backer rewards then buy one of these skins, it grants your account backer status.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/extras?product_id=3

Melting etc is all going to change soon, they're looking to simplify the process but essentially melt means get store credit (like a refund) for the ship and then reapplying that credit against something else as whole or part payment.

The important thing from a backing point of view is that if you want THE ACTUAL GAME it has to be mentioned in the description of the package you're buying, you're looking to see three key things just now:

Squadron 42 Digital Download - Single player game.
Star Citizen Digital Download - multiplayer game.
Beta Access - access to all beta modules (likely next year)

Ship insurance doesn't matter just now, it only applies in the public universe which isn't going to be out for 18 months+
 
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Quite a few are doing that, it's nice that they've added in multi-crew starter ships, I'm just worried that they're too focused on ships now to get the rest of it right. the FPS element is key to how the game will play.
 
Yeah they set the price in Euros cheaper to help with the VAT being applied to electronic goods, they purposely haven't changed it which is why it's a good bit cheaper to pay that way :)

Download for the hangar/arena commander is ~22 Gig from memory, may be marginally smaller but needs around 26Gb on disk
 
Yeah the backer status bit is important to remember, lots of people forget that. I've used (bought and sold) a lot on the trades subreddit under my various Reddit accounts, never had an issue - but it's always a case of judging the risk.
 
I'd love them to allow users to setup ships in a sandbox and share settings, would allow for more people altering them and the final decision on what's used could still rest with the devs.
 
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