******Official Star Citizen / Squadron 42 Thread******
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There is a variety of gameplay there, more so than many "AAA" games at this point if you go looking.
Is it joined up - not really that's my main criticism and I don't see it happening for years at this point.
Couldn't agree more with new player stuff, but as someone who's been in and out of the client since it's very first edition this is nothing new and I still get lost in the plethora of confusing nonsense controls backed up by a garbage menu system. They have had UI engineers dedicated to getting this right since 2014 and it's still a god damn mess.
Current inventory system reminds me of Ultima Online, which is from the late 90s and still somehow did it better. It takes too long to manage, is fiddly, if you have a lot of items it's hard to find the item and many of the menus within the inventory system can end up overlaid on top of each other. It's a complete mess. It screams of the same old problem CIG have had - lack of proper project management.
No they are calling it that and it's been the perpetual excuse. Let's stop the pretense, it's not a defense against how poorly managed it's been and how the roadmap, targets, deadlines continually slip.
Mindlessly defending CIG is pointless, they deserve criticism for a lot of their poor choices and delays over the years. "but it's an alpha" doesn't cut it.
You can be a fan and still criticise.
Blows my mind that some OCUKers have accounts in the first few thousand because someone alerted us to the fact Chris Roberts was up to something right at the start.
I'm citizen #9229 but I'm sure someone on here is in the first 2K.
I'm citizen #9229 but I'm sure someone on here is in the first 2K.
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Interdiction style attacks shouldn't really be possible IMHO. I think it's a daft mechanic shoe horned into space sims style games as they feel they have to have it. By all means have malfunctions etc - but interdiction gameplay is rarely a benefit in the way it's implemented.
They can always have interdiction to prevent you getting into quantum, but dropping you out of it? Really doesn't make sense if you consider the speed you are going, it would never drop you out where the person doing the interdiction was.
They can always have interdiction to prevent you getting into quantum, but dropping you out of it? Really doesn't make sense if you consider the speed you are going, it would never drop you out where the person doing the interdiction was.
Whatever is faster, it's fairly minimal improvement from SSD to M.2 as well. As long as it's not mechanical if you can avoid it.
Other than mechanical it really doesn't matter. I did some testing a few years ago and timing wise it's still pretty much the same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-fE3XutVtA&t=1m57s
same problems they've had to 5+years though, sure the server caps are creeping up but netcode has been an issue they have talked about since the very start. At some point they are going to have to settle on realistic limits or a compromise instance based system.
Wonder how this will work to prevent exploiting, offloading to client side opens up a lot more for cheating, reconciliation and cheat detection will need to be rock solid and it will be increasingly difficult to do.
Don't buy this "we have anti-cheat it's fine" there are plenty of ways around it and plenty of groups who specialise in doing so.
Tidied up a bit, shortened too.
Put the roadmap on the second post, it's a bit confusing tbh
If you have any recommendations for videos etc let me know Jonney!
Testing takes as long as it takes and they strip out anything that's overly difficult or time consuming to fix generally.
There's not a huge degree of consistency from one patch to the next tbh, they have a track record of moving the goal posts.
There's not a huge degree of consistency from one patch to the next tbh, they have a track record of moving the goal posts.
CIG aren't interested in hacking etc at the moment but doesn't mean their accounts aren't being flagged for later bans or deletions.
Let cheaters cheat not prior to release and use their activity to help improve systems without letting on. This is how I typically deal with issues like that at work, gives you more data to improve automatic detection and flagging.
Let cheaters cheat not prior to release and use their activity to help improve systems without letting on. This is how I typically deal with issues like that at work, gives you more data to improve automatic detection and flagging.