Watching this after I just spent an hour loading my ship, then taking a drink because my guy built up a strong thirst, only to have the drink inexplicably kill me and lose hours of bounty hunting and booty loading. Now experiencing 60k to boot so I can't even load in to salvage it. Another day in Star Citizen. Video well timed.
The drink-dead thing - it is gravity related. To fix it you need to stand in a ship while your buddy is pulling high G maneuvres. Just black out a few times and it will be fixed.
I watch very few videos at present but it's always a treat to catch up with your updates. As always thank you I know how much work it takes. Shared on my chanels and blusky.
@@Krakenshaul appreciate you my man. Hit me up if you want to get up to some shenanigans in Pyro. Time I came out of my shell and tried something other than solo gameplay I think.
Mate that opening of the Zeus crashing into the building was such a parallel to the whole C experience- even while a planned section. I enjoyed the video so much that I didn't even skip the ads. We need more meaningful gameplay- a reason to go there. My heart always wants to play SC but while launching I always end up wondering- hmmm what will i do though? And 5 times out of 10, i end up playing something else.
@@LensNation solar systems wide and an inch deep. Such a pity really. I've seen more hope dwindle recently than I've ever seen at any stage on the road so far. Even though we are at this massive juncture that could really turn things around. There's a sense that what CIG considers gameplay and what we consider gameplay are completely different things. Who in hell just wants to sit for 5 minutes on twitter to get to a destination, sit for another 5 whilst waiting for cargo to load, another 5 back, then a train ride. Twitter is shite 😂. People love the realism and it would honestly be fine if somebody there just started coming up with serious gameplay input to balance the load out. I want to not be able to move but there's some NPC begging for help or some creature needing caught. Some rancher needing raced, some out post needing defended from raiders or even players from opposing factions. But alas we have bugs that are so ingrained the games just became starship troopers.
It's hard to believe we went from horrendous performance in PTU (I had heavy stutters, constant crashes, interaction delays well above 10s, collision issues) to now me chaining up missions with NPCs working much better than they ever did, fps combat feeling crisp and fluid (and that's saying something), and meeting players all the time everywhere. It's very cinematic to see ships take off and land around. Btw, nearby players in space stations are also moving fluidly for me, day and night vs the teleporting in PTU. Last 4 days have been absolutely awesome for me, that is after CIG rolled out a few hot fixes last week. What's left is a big hairball of issues with ASOP and hangars (biggest source of issues), adding missing missions and fixing a few chains, and over time, hammer in the sources of issues that eventually cause server crashes. But btw, I've been able to complete missions after server crashes... for anyone who has been around when 30Ks would cause all your progress to be lost, it's such an improvement.
@@Acrrr222 I know it sounds crazy but, in the settings, under graphics, make sure everything is set to Highest settings and turn clouds off. See if that helps. Frames can be a bit low in cities, once you get into space or away from busy areas the frames will go up. Welcome to the verse Citizen o7
One of my favorite moments ever in SC was exiting a bunker on Microtech when the sun was rising, the visual took my breath, i felt like Luke looking at the twin suns on Tatooine. This game is amazing and hopefully will only get better and better.
Took an hour getting my ship out last night, as the platform moved up and down and up and down and the hatch of the platform chomped on my chip like nutcracker until it eventually exploded. When I finally got out the hangar and hyperspaced my ship disappeared out from under me and I was left floating in the middle of dead space. This game is doing great!
I never get tired of the cinematic feel of SC. All of the bugs are frustrating but man is it something else to enter the atmosphere of a planet during sunrise/set. It’s such a crazy thing to experience
Video was fantastic. Way to go encapsulating the whole picture in one go. Keeps the hope going. I personally can't wait till I can track down criminals on foot. Sneak up and incapacitate them. Then haul their butts to space prison. I'd also love to see the basic economy of the game, like the distribution centers and station/city resource needs mostly covered by AI or NPC's. Then the more advanced player economy on top of that, and also the sub-ins to the basic economy to replace NPC traders and whatnot as players take low level contracts. That way you can always find caravans of cargo vessels, miners, & scrappers even in low player population areas. I think it would make the game feel alive and fit the realistic vision. Can't wait for the next one. Hell yeah.
@@BigOlBearKing Thanks dude. Yeah the more thing open up and get ticked off the list the better the picture becomes of what we're looking at. Looks outstanding to me.
o7 loved the footage, and it married the narration so well. I'm almost teary eyed, my love of this game is so, or maybe it's because I just finished my second bottle of port, I'll find out tomorrow when I wake up lol
Bro is asking the questions... Gonna have to get back to you on that one. Defo part of the OST but it's name I don't know. Remind me in a few days if I forget to get back to you dude.
I goon over art, design, and pretty B roll like any other artistic but the bugs kill pretty much all the enthusiasm. The prospect of maybe being able to be useful as an industry player to an org is the only thing keeping me any enthusiasm in the game.
I like your optimism. But if 4.0 preview is any example, I don't see it working anytime soon. Black screens, 60K errors, server errors, and failed missions and inventory, make a game with limitless potential, difficult, if even possible to play. We always get promises, but results, not so much.
I seriously hope they deliver something this year. 4.0+ should bring no more excuses, and I am both excited and held in anticipation to see what they finally accomplish in this year.
The way they've handled the release of pyro has me disappointed. They should have waited until March this year and kept it in open PTU. With the state of the game being unplayable or people not even being able to log in, almost totally negates the money they've spent on advertising it. What a waste of backers money. New players coming to the game to check it out are feeling totally robbed. I know of a few people who have bought a ship package and not even been able to access the latest patch
I love your optimism and feel similar to you. It is easy to get bogged down in all of the things that Star Citizen doesn't have without acknowledging all of the beautiful artwork they have built so far. Software development is messy. It is what I do for a living, and I love it. I can't imagine building a game in front of a live audience.
Let me get back to you dude. Defo 4k native on 4090 no DLSS, 7800x3d and 32 GB. Settings I haven't seen for a while I'm sure I did some optimising though.
@@millylegume9431 I'm not to sure. There are servers in 4 regions right now. Asia, Europe, USA and Australia. A Google search might give you an idea what the average to your local one would be perhaps.
your videos make me want to play the game .... then I play the game, and after 20 min I'm either bored, or frustrated! (Over 12 years, I have over $15000 into this game btw, not a noob)
@@Sams911 same dude. Especially because trying to do the missions is pointless right now. I've existed by doing mostly player generated stuff so far this patch. The salvage missions that spawn around Pyro 5 for 200k. Usually there's a good bit lying around and you can try and hussle yourself some. Without paying the 200k. Pyros definitely made me more adventurous than my usual solo, PvP avoiding self 😂. If you need a few friends to help out like I did I've started a discord. You'd be more than welcome dude. No pressure obvs. There's only a couple of us and syncing up to play is rare tbh but the more the merrier. discord.gg/RVhMyCg7
I started backing in 2017. I hope SC comes together ... but I'm completely burned out. Playing SC feels like walking into my second job after an 8 hour shift at my first job 😅
I want an "Elder Scrolls" game based on this "planet creation" technology with AI driven NPC with credible AI voices, and AI generated dungeons and monsters. Is that too much to ask?
Have you played Pyro "Preview"? Because it's not playable and servers are not functioning at all. As a Software Engineer for many years, I can tell you a little secret: This state is to stay with us for many years to come because CIG don't know what is MVP and all they care is your money! If you didn't figured this out so far, after a decade, well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
4.0 started out ROUGH. Had a hell of a time getting into a single stable session. I did manage to get a few sessions in lasting several hours each. But in between those for about a week I was getting the same black screen/30k/60k errors that prevented me from even playing or logging into the game sometimes at all. Not to mention the persistence bugs with the hangar, elevators sending me to pads or docking ports, inventory issues etc. It sucked. That said, what so many agnry nerds can't seem to wrap their head around, is that it's ALPHA for god sakes. We were never going to get butter smooth bug free gameplay at any time during this process. And on top of that, the 4.0 release is a PREVIEW build.. The whole point of it is to identify bugs and test the new tech. But so many people are bitching as if this is a full game release. 4.0 isn't even a "LIVE" alpha release... All things considered, it is actually pretty amazing, when it works. And now after the script they deployed and hotfix, the game is WAY more stable. I'm able to log in and play for hours at a time without more than a typical few random in-game bugs that aren't that big of a deal. I still see 'server errror please wait..." occasionally, but it recovers every time within a couple minutes now and then doesn't happen again for a while, if it even does. Before it was over and over and over again. So, that is a really good sign that they identified the main issues causing the big problems on 4.0 over the holidays, and they solved them for the most part. With that in mind, imagine how much better it will get by 4.1 or 4.2. We're not far off from seeing routine content updates, probably 5-10x faster than in the past because they were primarily focusing on the tech for the last several years. Now they can tune and debug the tech, expand it and focus mostly on the content to include the gameplay mechanics, in-game assets, game systems like flight and combat etc. Also the gameplay loops they presented recently will start to be pushed out. What people complaining about balance and flight model and gameplay loops don't understand is that NONE of that is final-game stuff. A huge part of us backers palying the game as it is developed is the feedback and testing value CIG get from us. Flight model sucks? Most people hate it? They can change it... It's Alpha. Gameplay loops too boring or simple? Economy barely exists and it unbalanced at best? It will all change.. CIG doesn't just have a live version of the alpha as a lure for people to pledge and fund the game development. They need us to play and give feedback, report bugs, make suggestions on changes and, yes, complain. Because that's a large part of how they know what works and what doesn't. As of today the game is very enjoyable and totally worth playing. Just the experience of the expansive game world that now encompasses two star systems and the sheer beauty of it is enough for me to recommend pledging. You can get your money's worth just from flying a starter ship around, landing on planets and just soaking up the unprecedented sim level of it all. It does get a little shallow in terms of gameplay after a while. But the game mechanics are hardly built in yet. Most of what we have now is there so we can play the game now. I suspect over the next two years this game will transform into a much, much bigger and better version of itself with far more developed gameplay and wildly more content.
@@Gubers Exactly my thinking dude. By 4.2 I'm hoping to start to see THAT star citizen game that we've all been hoping for start to emerge. There's a long road ahead still for sure and the game has been sooo draining recently for everyone. When the most basic of things start breaking (again), like inventory I think it really grinds the player base sanity tbh. Also pretty hard to stay positive when you can't load or complete some basic contracts. Even harder when your trying to film a video about gameplay 😂. But your right, we play this game and put up with the bugs and the only thing that we ask for in return is the right to moan when shit doesn't work. Seems like a fair trade to me 😜
Within 2 minutes you showed the issue with this game. Legit infuriating bugs and glitchy moments, still frequent in the game after 10+ years of development. I hope things gets better but I can never see it ever happening to where this game becomes stable/playable and consistent, to need a 8700XD or whatever ungodly thing you own in your box to get an average 60ish fps is a joke. I sim race on triple screens with max graphics (barring live raytracing ) with over 200+ fps in 1080p with my 7700XT yet can barely swing 60 in this game. An amazing game stuck behind horrendous performance issues and optimization along with incomplete game loops, and loads of buggy and glitchy inconsistencies. Also ever since I started playing 4.0 I have only like 3 missions and most never work or glitch out halfway through
To much doom in these comments. Was just going everywhere for 5hours with 3 buddies and we had a blast without a single gamebreaking bug. CIG got this! I am more confident than ever they will reach the goals.
I just logged in today and lost EVERY item I owned, including paid paints and received Christmas gifts.. It's a broken mess, waiting for 4.01 before I even try to play this game again. Ticket issued, time to put their costumer service to the test.
@@_TrueDesire_ best of luck dude. This has happend to me before. Tried to move all my stuff off world. Forgot what I had in my hold, stopped to take some cool screenshots, game crashed lol. Lost every single thing for a whole patch cycle. Was absolutely gutted. Absolutely feel your pain.
@@_TrueDesire_ I think so. There's has been some talk of an item wipe because of all the duping but none from official sources that I've seen. Hopefully a mini wipe going to full 4.0 or 4.1 will sort you out and that should be soon.
A space game where there are pratically fairly high chance of things failing in game to the basic things like picking up guns and not to mention the items do not persist in game anymore it seems... The one thing CIG excels is to push ship sales!
still is a broken tech demo not a game after 12 years. So who care about that ? When become a game we will see what kind of trash will be. But will be far away from what was promise. I dont even wanna play a broken tech demo. There is a lot of games i can play until this trash become something.
I try to review the game and not CIG or it would have been a lot bigger video. Can't say anything more damning and honest than "don't buy this game if you value your time and money".
The flight gameplay is horrible though. Its objectively bad. The fps play is fine it just needs to have servers work right, mining is fine and salvage is good. Evrything else feels entirely too arcadey and buried under clunky menus. It doesnt need to be a DCS level sim or something but I think it needs to take some pretty big steps in the sim direction. Outside of the art and music it seems dangerously close to NMS. NMS is fine but I dont want a grown up version of NMS. Even the atmo thing. In SC you can fly in sideways and upside down and nothing happens.... You should rip apart or something. Thats my biggest fear, the game will just not be a solid sim but an acradey space fantasy game.
Dude sorry for dropping my patronage but I just wanted to give it to a content provider who is reporting the game as it is, a total mess, and who is also addressing the cause of the problem, CIG. I love your optimism, I used to have it, but your content only acknowledges the mountain of bugs which we live with in this game which they are advertising as a playable alpha. I have been wading through those bugs for many years, they are not the problem. The big problem and the biggest threat to the project is CIG and the way they are treating the backers who have made all this possible. The direction of this game is not what they sold us and not what we backed. They take our money but their arrogance is outstanding and I think more and more backers and content providers are starting to see that. There has never been so much discontent as there is now. We still have the few diehards in CIG's back pocket but if this project is ever to produce a playable game then we need to let CIG know that their attitude and the direction they are heading is not what the people paying their salary wants. I have enjoyed your content but if you want to have a future doing it then you need to speak out as many others are starting to do. Good luck with the channel.
@@oyeebo nah I'm good dude. I don't have time to spend on negative drama I'm afraid. If the game gets too shit or just flat out flops I'll just move on. This will never be a channel that just constantly moans about an ever changing sea of new problems or management decisions. It's just a game. The politics bore me to be frank. Simply because there will always be something new to outcry about the next day. In the end it's not our game, no matter how much money we put in. I could easily shoot down CIG for a million reasons everyday and probably gain quite the following for all that rambling. But it wouldn't be the best use of my time. I appreciate you being a follower dude. There will never be any hard feelings from me. I prefer to have a dig at CIG in my own sarcastic way when the opportunity suits. The game is in a hole right now, it won't stay there. I made this as a gentle reminder of how far we've come and how quickly we could be out of that hole. I knew we'd be in this state after Christmas. It does really grind on the soul. Try gathering a few hundred 5 seconds clips from a game that bad and we can talk about problems. Bound to average about 45 minutes a clip. 😂 Brutal dude.
@@Reds_Resort That's a great attitude, probably better than mine. I'm taking a break from the game but will still be subbed to your content which is some of the best. o7 Dude.
@@oyeebocool, a wholesome disagreement, thats rare and i appreciate that i read it through. I have my own problems and i do view CIG pretty starkly, i think in some ways they are unrealistic, irresponsible and use some arguments in bad faith like the alpha argument shield. I also kind of dont agree with how the monetization works despite them being pledges as an extended kickstarter of sorts, it pains me how quickly it can have people addicted to buying ships but also, its a hobby too which i respect, i spend alot of money on sewing, ttrpgs and gaming in general, too much even on the latter two. Im trying to see the positives in star citizen and honestly my only fear is really the incentive to infinitely develop the game, and that i dont automatically trust CIG and roberts considering his history, but i appreciate the dream and the balls to reach this far to make a game that might technically be impossible. I have thousands of hours in Elite, and SC i admit scratch my space sim itch, i just dont enjoy the fact that the game doesnt respect my time and time investment, as money is slow to earn in the beginning and encourages buying larger ships to get into the fun zone quicker, but its also a bit of a skill ossue on my end.
How are the creators of the game the problem!?! This is one of the dumest things I've ever read 😂😂. Do you want them to just stop making it? Are you gonna start running it? 😂 CIG will keep making the game they are making.
Watching this after I just spent an hour loading my ship, then taking a drink because my guy built up a strong thirst, only to have the drink inexplicably kill me and lose hours of bounty hunting and booty loading. Now experiencing 60k to boot so I can't even load in to salvage it. Another day in Star Citizen. Video well timed.
The drink-dead thing - it is gravity related. To fix it you need to stand in a ship while your buddy is pulling high G maneuvres. Just black out a few times and it will be fixed.
Smoothies still work with the high G bug.
when the game works, it's the best,... and when it doesn't it's maddening
15:47 Orison... THAT's what New Atlantis in Starfield was *supposed* to look like!
I watch very few videos at present but it's always a treat to catch up with your updates.
As always thank you I know how much work it takes.
Shared on my chanels and blusky.
@@Krakenshaul appreciate you my man. Hit me up if you want to get up to some shenanigans in Pyro. Time I came out of my shell and tried something other than solo gameplay I think.
Mate that opening of the Zeus crashing into the building was such a parallel to the whole C experience- even while a planned section. I enjoyed the video so much that I didn't even skip the ads. We need more meaningful gameplay- a reason to go there. My heart always wants to play SC but while launching I always end up wondering- hmmm what will i do though? And 5 times out of 10, i end up playing something else.
@@LensNation solar systems wide and an inch deep. Such a pity really. I've seen more hope dwindle recently than I've ever seen at any stage on the road so far. Even though we are at this massive juncture that could really turn things around. There's a sense that what CIG considers gameplay and what we consider gameplay are completely different things. Who in hell just wants to sit for 5 minutes on twitter to get to a destination, sit for another 5 whilst waiting for cargo to load, another 5 back, then a train ride. Twitter is shite 😂. People love the realism and it would honestly be fine if somebody there just started coming up with serious gameplay input to balance the load out. I want to not be able to move but there's some NPC begging for help or some creature needing caught. Some rancher needing raced, some out post needing defended from raiders or even players from opposing factions. But alas we have bugs that are so ingrained the games just became starship troopers.
Graphics-wise only the atmospherics have ever impressed me in Star Citizen. They need performance, reliability and dedication.
It's hard to believe we went from horrendous performance in PTU (I had heavy stutters, constant crashes, interaction delays well above 10s, collision issues) to now me chaining up missions with NPCs working much better than they ever did, fps combat feeling crisp and fluid (and that's saying something), and meeting players all the time everywhere. It's very cinematic to see ships take off and land around. Btw, nearby players in space stations are also moving fluidly for me, day and night vs the teleporting in PTU. Last 4 days have been absolutely awesome for me, that is after CIG rolled out a few hot fixes last week. What's left is a big hairball of issues with ASOP and hangars (biggest source of issues), adding missing missions and fixing a few chains, and over time, hammer in the sources of issues that eventually cause server crashes. But btw, I've been able to complete missions after server crashes... for anyone who has been around when 30Ks would cause all your progress to be lost, it's such an improvement.
@@rhetor4mentor13 when it works it's the best game ever. Definitely some promising shifts recently. Massive infact.
Just downloaded it and I can’t get over 20 frames, not sure what’s going on but
@@Acrrr222 I know it sounds crazy but, in the settings, under graphics, make sure everything is set to Highest settings and turn clouds off. See if that helps. Frames can be a bit low in cities, once you get into space or away from busy areas the frames will go up. Welcome to the verse Citizen o7
@ yeah, I tried that but it still kills my cpu, gonna have to buy a newish one with x3d
God the old 30ks were the worst. Completely random, no warning, everything gone
One of my favorite moments ever in SC was exiting a bunker on Microtech when the sun was rising, the visual took my breath, i felt like Luke looking at the twin suns on Tatooine. This game is amazing and hopefully will only get better and better.
Cinematic intro is "chefs kiss" perfect!
Love your work Red, think you're becoming one my favourite SC channels along with SuperMacBrother.
@@Jezato yusss. That's some lofty company my friend. Appreciate that.
Took an hour getting my ship out last night, as the platform moved up and down and up and down and the hatch of the platform chomped on my chip like nutcracker until it eventually exploded. When I finally got out the hangar and hyperspaced my ship disappeared out from under me and I was left floating in the middle of dead space. This game is doing great!
I never get tired of the cinematic feel of SC. All of the bugs are frustrating but man is it something else to enter the atmosphere of a planet during sunrise/set. It’s such a crazy thing to experience
Thank you for this, narration and editing, must have taken a while. o7
@@Luidgi509 thank you dude. Appreciate that.
Thanks Red, I just wish I could see contracts ingame lol
Video was fantastic. Way to go encapsulating the whole picture in one go. Keeps the hope going. I personally can't wait till I can track down criminals on foot. Sneak up and incapacitate them. Then haul their butts to space prison. I'd also love to see the basic economy of the game, like the distribution centers and station/city resource needs mostly covered by AI or NPC's. Then the more advanced player economy on top of that, and also the sub-ins to the basic economy to replace NPC traders and whatnot as players take low level contracts. That way you can always find caravans of cargo vessels, miners, & scrappers even in low player population areas. I think it would make the game feel alive and fit the realistic vision. Can't wait for the next one. Hell yeah.
@@BigOlBearKing Thanks dude. Yeah the more thing open up and get ticked off the list the better the picture becomes of what we're looking at. Looks outstanding to me.
one of the best reviews of SC that I have ever seen. Well done!
@@rhetor4mentor13 thanks
o7 loved the footage, and it married the narration so well. I'm almost teary eyed, my love of this game is so, or maybe it's because I just finished my second bottle of port, I'll find out tomorrow when I wake up lol
@@thomasinlondon2849 I think we both see the absolute extremes of both ends dude. Regularly 😂
@@Reds_Resort The promotional footage they are showing on the RSI website for the Guardian and Qi version has rain in it. Looks very Bladerunner.
16:35 music?
Bro is asking the questions... Gonna have to get back to you on that one. Defo part of the OST but it's name I don't know. Remind me in a few days if I forget to get back to you dude.
I goon over art, design, and pretty B roll like any other artistic but the bugs kill pretty much all the enthusiasm. The prospect of maybe being able to be useful as an industry player to an org is the only thing keeping me any enthusiasm in the game.
I like your optimism. But if 4.0 preview is any example, I don't see it working anytime soon. Black screens, 60K errors, server errors, and failed missions and inventory, make a game with limitless potential, difficult, if even possible to play. We always get promises, but results, not so much.
Very good over view.. Will be keeping a close eye for when this beauty becomes stable and playable
Amazing video, great and engaging footage! This must have taken ages 😮
@@jakobfriedrich5117 I have 1000 yard stare dude. 😂
I seriously hope they deliver something this year. 4.0+ should bring no more excuses, and I am both excited and held in anticipation to see what they finally accomplish in this year.
Damn that skyscraper jumped out in front of you.....I would sue
You posted a 2025 review before you could actually play a fully released 4.0? Which will be out in a matter of days? What a GREAT idea!
The way they've handled the release of pyro has me disappointed. They should have waited until March this year and kept it in open PTU. With the state of the game being unplayable or people not even being able to log in, almost totally negates the money they've spent on advertising it. What a waste of backers money. New players coming to the game to check it out are feeling totally robbed. I know of a few people who have bought a ship package and not even been able to access the latest patch
I love your optimism and feel similar to you. It is easy to get bogged down in all of the things that Star Citizen doesn't have without acknowledging all of the beautiful artwork they have built so far. Software development is messy. It is what I do for a living, and I love it. I can't imagine building a game in front of a live audience.
I like SC but they need to fix lots of things
damn bro, it looks super crispy, what rig you running? also what settings?
Let me get back to you dude. Defo 4k native on 4090 no DLSS, 7800x3d and 32 GB. Settings I haven't seen for a while I'm sure I did some optimising though.
@@Reds_Resort im running a 7909xtx, also 7800 x3d and 128 ram and its never been that smooth for me.
very nice review on the current state of the game.
great video, really enjoyed the accent! GREAT CONTENT - not much 'great content' is created on this game yet.
Did they fix the rsi launcher download issue?
@@danielpearson4525 that's a new one to me dude.
@Reds_Resort I tried to download but kept getting a 3005 error
WE DON'T BUY SHIPS UNTIL THE GAME IS FIXED.
Someone had to or you won't get a game
How to check my ping if i want to buy the game? is there any way to check my ping without buying the game?
@@millylegume9431 I'm not to sure. There are servers in 4 regions right now. Asia, Europe, USA and Australia. A Google search might give you an idea what the average to your local one would be perhaps.
wonderful report *thumb up
your videos make me want to play the game .... then I play the game, and after 20 min I'm either bored, or frustrated! (Over 12 years, I have over $15000 into this game btw, not a noob)
@@Sams911 same dude. Especially because trying to do the missions is pointless right now. I've existed by doing mostly player generated stuff so far this patch. The salvage missions that spawn around Pyro 5 for 200k. Usually there's a good bit lying around and you can try and hussle yourself some. Without paying the 200k. Pyros definitely made me more adventurous than my usual solo, PvP avoiding self 😂. If you need a few friends to help out like I did I've started a discord. You'd be more than welcome dude. No pressure obvs. There's only a couple of us and syncing up to play is rare tbh but the more the merrier.
discord.gg/RVhMyCg7
I started backing in 2017. I hope SC comes together ... but I'm completely burned out.
Playing SC feels like walking into my second job after an 8 hour shift at my first job 😅
I want an "Elder Scrolls" game based on this "planet creation" technology with AI driven NPC with credible AI voices, and AI generated dungeons and monsters.
Is that too much to ask?
If phasing thru planets, broken elevators & 30ks didnt exist, loading screens would be welcome.
It’s like they start from scratch every iteration. So the more complex each update …. Do the math.
Have you played Pyro "Preview"? Because it's not playable and servers are not functioning at all.
As a Software Engineer for many years, I can tell you a little secret: This state is to stay with us for many years to come because CIG don't know what is MVP and all they care is your money!
If you didn't figured this out so far, after a decade, well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
4.0 started out ROUGH. Had a hell of a time getting into a single stable session. I did manage to get a few sessions in lasting several hours each. But in between those for about a week I was getting the same black screen/30k/60k errors that prevented me from even playing or logging into the game sometimes at all. Not to mention the persistence bugs with the hangar, elevators sending me to pads or docking ports, inventory issues etc. It sucked. That said, what so many agnry nerds can't seem to wrap their head around, is that it's ALPHA for god sakes. We were never going to get butter smooth bug free gameplay at any time during this process. And on top of that, the 4.0 release is a PREVIEW build.. The whole point of it is to identify bugs and test the new tech. But so many people are bitching as if this is a full game release. 4.0 isn't even a "LIVE" alpha release... All things considered, it is actually pretty amazing, when it works. And now after the script they deployed and hotfix, the game is WAY more stable. I'm able to log in and play for hours at a time without more than a typical few random in-game bugs that aren't that big of a deal. I still see 'server errror please wait..." occasionally, but it recovers every time within a couple minutes now and then doesn't happen again for a while, if it even does. Before it was over and over and over again. So, that is a really good sign that they identified the main issues causing the big problems on 4.0 over the holidays, and they solved them for the most part. With that in mind, imagine how much better it will get by 4.1 or 4.2. We're not far off from seeing routine content updates, probably 5-10x faster than in the past because they were primarily focusing on the tech for the last several years. Now they can tune and debug the tech, expand it and focus mostly on the content to include the gameplay mechanics, in-game assets, game systems like flight and combat etc. Also the gameplay loops they presented recently will start to be pushed out. What people complaining about balance and flight model and gameplay loops don't understand is that NONE of that is final-game stuff. A huge part of us backers palying the game as it is developed is the feedback and testing value CIG get from us. Flight model sucks? Most people hate it? They can change it... It's Alpha. Gameplay loops too boring or simple? Economy barely exists and it unbalanced at best? It will all change.. CIG doesn't just have a live version of the alpha as a lure for people to pledge and fund the game development. They need us to play and give feedback, report bugs, make suggestions on changes and, yes, complain. Because that's a large part of how they know what works and what doesn't.
As of today the game is very enjoyable and totally worth playing. Just the experience of the expansive game world that now encompasses two star systems and the sheer beauty of it is enough for me to recommend pledging. You can get your money's worth just from flying a starter ship around, landing on planets and just soaking up the unprecedented sim level of it all. It does get a little shallow in terms of gameplay after a while. But the game mechanics are hardly built in yet. Most of what we have now is there so we can play the game now. I suspect over the next two years this game will transform into a much, much bigger and better version of itself with far more developed gameplay and wildly more content.
@@Gubers Exactly my thinking dude. By 4.2 I'm hoping to start to see THAT star citizen game that we've all been hoping for start to emerge. There's a long road ahead still for sure and the game has been sooo draining recently for everyone. When the most basic of things start breaking (again), like inventory I think it really grinds the player base sanity tbh. Also pretty hard to stay positive when you can't load or complete some basic contracts. Even harder when your trying to film a video about gameplay 😂. But your right, we play this game and put up with the bugs and the only thing that we ask for in return is the right to moan when shit doesn't work. Seems like a fair trade to me 😜
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Apparently this is the place to unload all your Star Citizen frustrations.
Within 2 minutes you showed the issue with this game. Legit infuriating bugs and glitchy moments, still frequent in the game after 10+ years of development. I hope things gets better but I can never see it ever happening to where this game becomes stable/playable and consistent, to need a 8700XD or whatever ungodly thing you own in your box to get an average 60ish fps is a joke. I sim race on triple screens with max graphics (barring live raytracing ) with over 200+ fps in 1080p with my 7700XT yet can barely swing 60 in this game. An amazing game stuck behind horrendous performance issues and optimization along with incomplete game loops, and loads of buggy and glitchy inconsistencies.
Also ever since I started playing 4.0 I have only like 3 missions and most never work or glitch out halfway through
To much doom in these comments. Was just going everywhere for 5hours with 3 buddies and we had a blast without a single gamebreaking bug. CIG got this! I am more confident than ever they will reach the goals.
I just logged in today and lost EVERY item I owned, including paid paints and received Christmas gifts.. It's a broken mess, waiting for 4.01 before I even try to play this game again.
Ticket issued, time to put their costumer service to the test.
@@_TrueDesire_ best of luck dude. This has happend to me before. Tried to move all my stuff off world. Forgot what I had in my hold, stopped to take some cool screenshots, game crashed lol. Lost every single thing for a whole patch cycle. Was absolutely gutted. Absolutely feel your pain.
@Reds_Resort Wow, that doesn't sound too good 😅 so if possible, or the best scenario, is that I might get all my items back next patch?
@@_TrueDesire_ I think so. There's has been some talk of an item wipe because of all the duping but none from official sources that I've seen. Hopefully a mini wipe going to full 4.0 or 4.1 will sort you out and that should be soon.
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Your videos are a breath of fresh air when compared to the emotional reactionary garbage being endlessly uploaded.
A space game where there are pratically fairly high chance of things failing in game to the basic things like picking up guns and not to mention the items do not persist in game anymore it seems...
The one thing CIG excels is to push ship sales!
still is a broken tech demo not a game after 12 years. So who care about that ? When become a game we will see what kind of trash will be. But will be far away from what was promise. I dont even wanna play a broken tech demo. There is a lot of games i can play until this trash become something.
This game runs on heavy Copium addicts.
Hard to take this insane optimism serious. Ignoring all the huge lies and faults in favor of “a pretty skybox”
I try to review the game and not CIG or it would have been a lot bigger video. Can't say anything more damning and honest than "don't buy this game if you value your time and money".
40-25 fps in contested zones nothing works yep things are going great.
The flight gameplay is horrible though. Its objectively bad. The fps play is fine it just needs to have servers work right, mining is fine and salvage is good.
Evrything else feels entirely too arcadey and buried under clunky menus.
It doesnt need to be a DCS level sim or something but I think it needs to take some pretty big steps in the sim direction.
Outside of the art and music it seems dangerously close to NMS. NMS is fine but I dont want a grown up version of NMS.
Even the atmo thing. In SC you can fly in sideways and upside down and nothing happens....
You should rip apart or something.
Thats my biggest fear, the game will just not be a solid sim but an acradey space fantasy game.
Dude sorry for dropping my patronage but I just wanted to give it to a content provider who is reporting the game as it is, a total mess, and who is also addressing the cause of the problem, CIG. I love your optimism, I used to have it, but your content only acknowledges the mountain of bugs which we live with in this game which they are advertising as a playable alpha. I have been wading through those bugs for many years, they are not the problem. The big problem and the biggest threat to the project is CIG and the way they are treating the backers who have made all this possible. The direction of this game is not what they sold us and not what we backed. They take our money but their arrogance is outstanding and I think more and more backers and content providers are starting to see that. There has never been so much discontent as there is now. We still have the few diehards in CIG's back pocket but if this project is ever to produce a playable game then we need to let CIG know that their attitude and the direction they are heading is not what the people paying their salary wants. I have enjoyed your content but if you want to have a future doing it then you need to speak out as many others are starting to do. Good luck with the channel.
@@oyeebo nah I'm good dude. I don't have time to spend on negative drama I'm afraid. If the game gets too shit or just flat out flops I'll just move on. This will never be a channel that just constantly moans about an ever changing sea of new problems or management decisions. It's just a game. The politics bore me to be frank. Simply because there will always be something new to outcry about the next day. In the end it's not our game, no matter how much money we put in. I could easily shoot down CIG for a million reasons everyday and probably gain quite the following for all that rambling. But it wouldn't be the best use of my time. I appreciate you being a follower dude. There will never be any hard feelings from me. I prefer to have a dig at CIG in my own sarcastic way when the opportunity suits. The game is in a hole right now, it won't stay there. I made this as a gentle reminder of how far we've come and how quickly we could be out of that hole. I knew we'd be in this state after Christmas. It does really grind on the soul. Try gathering a few hundred 5 seconds clips from a game that bad and we can talk about problems. Bound to average about 45 minutes a clip. 😂 Brutal dude.
@@Reds_Resort That's a great attitude, probably better than mine. I'm taking a break from the game but will still be subbed to your content which is some of the best. o7 Dude.
@@oyeebocool, a wholesome disagreement, thats rare and i appreciate that i read it through. I have my own problems and i do view CIG pretty starkly, i think in some ways they are unrealistic, irresponsible and use some arguments in bad faith like the alpha argument shield. I also kind of dont agree with how the monetization works despite them being pledges as an extended kickstarter of sorts, it pains me how quickly it can have people addicted to buying ships but also, its a hobby too which i respect, i spend alot of money on sewing, ttrpgs and gaming in general, too much even on the latter two. Im trying to see the positives in star citizen and honestly my only fear is really the incentive to infinitely develop the game, and that i dont automatically trust CIG and roberts considering his history, but i appreciate the dream and the balls to reach this far to make a game that might technically be impossible. I have thousands of hours in Elite, and SC i admit scratch my space sim itch, i just dont enjoy the fact that the game doesnt respect my time and time investment, as money is slow to earn in the beginning and encourages buying larger ships to get into the fun zone quicker, but its also a bit of a skill ossue on my end.
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How are the creators of the game the problem!?! This is one of the dumest things I've ever read 😂😂. Do you want them to just stop making it? Are you gonna start running it? 😂
CIG will keep making the game they are making.