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My brother and his friends are big fans of Star Citizen. I did contribute during the initial kickstarter and bought a couple of ships, but never really played - just the odd check in occasionally.
Give it's been several years now, thought I would give it another try with my brother - should be good by now?
My impressions were not great. Wandering around the station and my fps tanked. Changed settings to medium, then low and they stayed the same? Summoned one of my ships (constellation?) and when I went to the hanger it started moving about on it's own and looking all wonky. It seemed as if it was being pushed around by my avatar.
Brother ended up getting in and trying to fly it for me. Handled a bit weird as for some reason one of the engines was missing (probably due to all the bouncing around). Flew to a station and landed. Station looked pretty good, lots of places to go. Went to a lift and the doors flew out of nowhere towards it when pressed the button.
Went to buy a few things - bought a few pieces of armour but the legs and helmet I bought didn't show up in my inventory so had to try a second time. Apparantly hunger and thirst are now a thing in the game (which I'm not a fan of) so went to buy a drink. Picked up a bottle off a bar to inspect and buy - and my focus became locked on the bottles on the bar. I couldn't move away - it would just move me back. Tried escaping/going into inventory etc and it would just not free the lock. Ended up quitting the game and reloading to recover.
Had to make an insurance claim for my ship as the repair option said "not available" which cost me in game credits. Used one of my brothers ships, accepted a delivery mission. Went to a space station to pick up, and was taking too long to land to permission got revoked. Re-requested and it gave me same landing platform. When I got out the ship started shifting on it's own again. Brother couldn't leave the ship as he had got stuck when trying to leave the turret and couldn't move anywhere.
Few other things I can't quite recall, but a lot of it was my brother saying "yeah, it does that. Oh and another thing try not to do this as it's buggy etc". Loads of NPC's standing motionless on top of benches and chairs too. Issues with HUD as passenger on constellation, and a panel comes down which pretty much blocks most of your view.
And had to setup my character features, again. Seem to have to do this every update?
Used the preset for my Rhino X55 and took a little to figure out buttons. Found landing gear (SW5) which worked - but when trying it during actual landing didn't work? Had to use kb option instead.
Had an extra large ship in my inventory which apparently is to get around some quitting bug if you're in a bed when you exit (or something)?
I quit, couldn't bare it for long. I personally find it ridiculous that a game that has been in development for this many years still has a lot of fundamental issues breaking playability.
Sorry the rant - why they haven't got the core bits stable by now is beyond me. Maybe I should leave it another few years before I try again.
Give it's been several years now, thought I would give it another try with my brother - should be good by now?
My impressions were not great. Wandering around the station and my fps tanked. Changed settings to medium, then low and they stayed the same? Summoned one of my ships (constellation?) and when I went to the hanger it started moving about on it's own and looking all wonky. It seemed as if it was being pushed around by my avatar.
Brother ended up getting in and trying to fly it for me. Handled a bit weird as for some reason one of the engines was missing (probably due to all the bouncing around). Flew to a station and landed. Station looked pretty good, lots of places to go. Went to a lift and the doors flew out of nowhere towards it when pressed the button.
Went to buy a few things - bought a few pieces of armour but the legs and helmet I bought didn't show up in my inventory so had to try a second time. Apparantly hunger and thirst are now a thing in the game (which I'm not a fan of) so went to buy a drink. Picked up a bottle off a bar to inspect and buy - and my focus became locked on the bottles on the bar. I couldn't move away - it would just move me back. Tried escaping/going into inventory etc and it would just not free the lock. Ended up quitting the game and reloading to recover.
Had to make an insurance claim for my ship as the repair option said "not available" which cost me in game credits. Used one of my brothers ships, accepted a delivery mission. Went to a space station to pick up, and was taking too long to land to permission got revoked. Re-requested and it gave me same landing platform. When I got out the ship started shifting on it's own again. Brother couldn't leave the ship as he had got stuck when trying to leave the turret and couldn't move anywhere.
Few other things I can't quite recall, but a lot of it was my brother saying "yeah, it does that. Oh and another thing try not to do this as it's buggy etc". Loads of NPC's standing motionless on top of benches and chairs too. Issues with HUD as passenger on constellation, and a panel comes down which pretty much blocks most of your view.
And had to setup my character features, again. Seem to have to do this every update?
Used the preset for my Rhino X55 and took a little to figure out buttons. Found landing gear (SW5) which worked - but when trying it during actual landing didn't work? Had to use kb option instead.
Had an extra large ship in my inventory which apparently is to get around some quitting bug if you're in a bed when you exit (or something)?
I quit, couldn't bare it for long. I personally find it ridiculous that a game that has been in development for this many years still has a lot of fundamental issues breaking playability.
Sorry the rant - why they haven't got the core bits stable by now is beyond me. Maybe I should leave it another few years before I try again.
