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

eekfek said:
My question is, do I need to buy a package of some sort to get into the test?
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See the "Where do I start?" Section of the OP ;)

$45 in total to get in, at the moment you'll get Arena commander and access to the hangar with your Aurora and the Arena commander drone sim where you can fight against AI opponents or do some free flight. The multi-player part is still being tested and rolled out based on your citizen number i.e. first come first served. As you registered early you'll have a nice low citizenship number which is good!
 
JamesM said:
Ah so a £30 one is just as good (ignoring the extra features etc)?
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X55 or Thrustmaster Warthog are the best at the moment. But I'm finding my Thrustmaster T.16000M to be excellent, honestly accuracy wise it's just far better than the X52 I had for years. Apparently it's the sensors that it uses, they're the same type that the very expensive sticks use i.e. the Thrustmaster Warthog.

If you want to go down the X52 route get the pro version it is worth the extra money.
 
ttaskmaster that sounds like my initial experience last night mate, especially with targetting, it's reassuring that someone else had the same issue. I did keep trying and eventually had two nice runs, I'm not someone fussed about KD ratios, I'm too old for that lark now lol

Wouldn't surprise me if you could make use of this T16000M config, seeing as it's all just axis/buttons etc.

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen...aster_t16000m_keybind_files_in_here/?sort=hot
 
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In PAGAN only I and Starstuff have one of those.. how do I have a feeling that number will rise rapidly..
 
PaulC2K said:
"Some other versions of the images:"
versions of the exact same 2 images, you mean? :confused:
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Bigger equals different :P Not sure about the texturing. Is it just me or does it look like a French polisher has been at it?

Kishywish said:
$150? Is this another limited sale?
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That was the price last time, "limited" I'm not sure remember they've never said limited sales would be one offs so there's a change these will be back up again at a later date anyway. I'd be shocked if they didn't have a pre-PU blow out sale in 201X when the game comes out.
 
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That's a good point, forgot we had that vote. I voted for hangar too as I've no interest in the Mustang, but might have if I can see what it looks like in the hangar first (via youtube). I'm surprised it's taking so long to get some concept art out for some of the ships tbh.
 
Yeah I'm wise to them now Chris lol. I would argue that last time the sale was limited in terms of it being the only time you could get one of these with LTI out of the box, there's nothing to say they wont' allow a cross-chassis upgrade route from LTI Auroras to them in the future though.. ;)
 
Come back in 18 months and we'll tell you if it's any good. It's still very much in development Buffet :)

Joystick, probably not compulsory. One of the main benefits to not having it IMO is seamless control switching from ship combat to boarding party FPS. I'll still use a joystick though as it's far more fun!

Elite Dangerous is much further along in the development cycle and has a pretty complete game. Star Citizen frankly is probably 1/20th of the way through!
 
Farseer said:
I often think about melting the Hornet, but doubt if I will as it's in my physical package :)

They do look like turrets but the original specs only had class 1 and 2 so either it's changed or they may just be gimballed.

Maybe it's my 350R that's going. I originally bought it as a fast explorer and courier ship but now it may not have any cargo I may as well get the exotic Xi'an ship (and lose the bed).
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The Scout will be back on sale again before PU and it is likely to have a bed, we've not seen the internals but you can't have a scout ship without somewhere to sleep, that's been the case with all exploration based ships so far and the scout is as listed as scout/exploration so I'd be shocked if it didn't have some place for crew to kip. The ship is rather large tbh.


BuffetSlayer said:
Is it 1/20th of ground breaking awesome though? I don't mind investing time and effort into awesome.

But alpha stage mediocrity is not my bag.
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Perhaps it's just me but the alpha is by far the most polished I've seen and it is drop dead gorgeous :D
 
Likely a one off IMO, the only reason they've gained so much backing is Chris Roberts. Richard Garriot may have been able to pull this off before Tabula Rasa but unless he announced Ultima Online 2 he's got no chance and seeing as he sold the rights to that to EA..

I can't see anyone else being able to emulate it. What games are in need of a spiritual successor where the person behind it is still alive and actually interested in doing it?
 
Having played the multiplayer a bit now I think it's shaping up pretty well, at least this part of the game. They do seem to be ramping up the development process now though.
 
There are quite a few competionists or at least those in at the $5000 mark. Plenty of people have put a lot of money into this, oddly they tend not to be those whinging about things.

There's one of them in PAGAN, has every ship plus a couple of doubles and intends to collect every item available.
 
There's only one called completionist but there are undoubtedly a few who are past that in terms of pledging.

I'm not sure what our 27 ship members total adds up to but I'd guess it's got to be between $6000-7000.

On the grey market that'd be an insane amount. especially when you consider the Scythe goes for $2000 on it's own and one of the Idris has recently changed hands for $4200.
 
Mercutio said:
So... what do you actually get out of a package with a ship and the arena pass at the moment? A demo VS some waves of enemy ships? (I'm not bashing it, just checking what's on offer to weight up purchasing).

If it IS just a "demo" effectively I might wait till the PU gets to beta or similar.
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That's pretty much what you get so far, more is planned for this module of development though and later in the year there is multi crew ships, ship boarding and FPS to come.

When PU is here you don't get a ship with the game they all have to be earned in game.
 
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