hemo memo
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The games you mentioned actually got released to multple titles.
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Scam Citizen is now free to play – for a week
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hemo memo
Gold Member
The funnest thing is that you have to buy "Insurance" to a fucking imaginary video game ship. It is so ridiculous that it is like something out of a Black Mirror episode.
Star Citizen is now free to play – for a week
Star Citizen, the crowdfunded space sim by Cloud Imperium, is available now as a free-to-play game, along with complementary ships and starter packswww.pcgamesn.com
"After ten years and almost $500m dollars in crowdfunding, Star Citizen is still in alpha, but at least now it has new commerce options, some cheaper ships — and for the next week, the option to play for free.
From July 8 to July 15, Star Citizen is running its “free fly” event, which means you can hop in and try the ambitious space sim without having to shell out for a starter pack. You can also save money on a ship. Whereas some models, like the Legatus, can run you up to $40,000 of real actual money, for the next seven days you can have access to the Cutlass, the Avenger Titan, the Dragonfly, the Arrow, or the Mercury absolutely free of charge – though you will have to give them back, or choose to purchase them, once the promotion ends.
If after the free fly you decide you want to stick around with Star Citizen, until July 18 Cloud Imperium is also offering some discounted starter packs, which means your first ship and accompanying features can come cheaper than normal. Similarly, if you follow the game’s referral program and recruit a friend to play, you’ll score some promotional points that you can trade for badges, gold, weapons, and vehicles."
bitbydeath
Member
It’s just more obvious on this one given the lack of progress made over the past 10 years.
alucard0712_rus
Member
Big ships are boring. You will spend many minutes just to exit fucking ship.
Hawking Radiation
Member
Free week = Gotta catch more whales.
That Colombian grade cocaine is not going to buy itself.
That Colombian grade cocaine is not going to buy itself.
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Topher
Gold Member
You gotta wonder about these people spending 10s of thousands of dollars on a game like this. My hope is these are just rich as hell nerds who don't have a real social life and so their online persona is what defines them. There are people like that and that's completely fine if it makes them happy. But if some idiot is maxing our credit cards at the expense of his family or something like that then that's a real problem. Ultimately, it is their money to do with as these please. I just hope, for their sake, that they are not spending beyond their means.
OOGABOOGA
Banned
I guess, it must be worth it for you, if you are coping with it and desperate. It's still disgusting they are charging you for a buggy clunky mess of a game that might never be released. I have played it btw.
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Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
I’ve spend 9k, looking at your post, i must have no social life, no kid, girlfriend/wife or friends…such a shame
.Always funny how people are so fake concerned about peoples spending when it comes to SC.
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
So.....$40,000 for 'all ships' you are considering ok? You don't see anything wrong with that?Lol what a ludicrously silly headline. It's like free flight weeks much bigger than this (in which you can fly ALL the ships) don't happen very regularly.
Also this is hilarious.
The Legatus PACK is not a ship model. There's no ship called Legatus. It's literally a package including all the ships. It's always hilarious when a writer obviously doesn't know what he's writing about, which in Star Citizen's case is also very common.
Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
No, don't you see?! You can totes earn those ships in game! And why would you ever want every single ship?! that just makes no sense?!?! /s
Don't try to use logic on those in a cult, Calvin.
Sentenza
Member
What the fuck are you even rambling about?
Did you get some cruel form of meningitis?
Topher
Gold Member
I’ve spend 9k, looking at your post, i must have no social life, no kid, girlfriend/wife or friends…such a shame
Always funny how people are so fake concerned about peoples spending when it comes to SC.
I wasn't trying to offend anyone. I just don't know anyone who has ever spent that amount of money on a game. Creating caricature descriptions out of that ignorance was thoughtless. I apologize.
Hawking Radiation
Member
But its 9000 dollars though. How many lapdances can that get youI’ve spend 9k, looking at your post, i must have no social life, no kid, girlfriend/wife or friends…such a shame
Always funny how people are so fake concerned about peoples spending when it comes to SC.
. In all seriousness its your money so you can obviously do with it what you please. Me? I'd go to the best titty bar in town with 9 grand.
Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
It’s not going to change. Larger ships have a longer waiting time. I think my Carrack or other larger ship is around 30/40 min. It’s not weird and or new in gaming.
It also has to do with the fact that they want players to be careful with their ships. Also, someone who hunts other players should not have their ship available again immediately. But then again, it's tricky when you only have 1 ship. Fortunately you have more at your disposal in this free flight.
Hawking Radiation
free titty and lapdances for me in the house so.
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Fredrik
Member
I haven’t seen this outside of mobile. It’s awful no matter how you look at it.It’s not going to change. Larger ships have a longer waiting time. I think my Carrack or other larger ship is around 30/40 min. It’s not weird and or new in gaming.
It also has to do with the fact that they want players to be careful with their ships. Also, someone who hunts other players should not have their ship available again immediately. But then again, it's tricky when you only have 1 ship. Fortunately you have more at your disposal in this free flight.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
I genuinely believe it sounds great. Making engagements have more drama / meaning is an advancement of the medium.
StateofMajora
Banned
How much money do you have?I’ve spend 9k, looking at your post, i must have no social life, no kid, girlfriend/wife or friends…such a shame
Always funny how people are so fake concerned about peoples spending when it comes to SC.
9,000...
I could be a billionaire and still never buy one micro transaction. I can't wrap my head around why anyone but some gen z Fortnite hoppers could be conditioned to spend real money on game content post the initial purchase.
Fredrik
Member
Anyhow, another play session, for some reason I have more in-game money now, if only 1,000 more. No idea why, I haven’t sold anything.
Oh well, not complaining.
More flying, back to Area18, starter planet, tried another ship again.
Almost crashed in the hangar, forgot to activate the landing gear. Oops!
As usual I got a warning for obstructing an active flight bay or something like that. What am I doing wrong?
This city looks like something from Cyberpunk
Oh well, not complaining.
More flying, back to Area18, starter planet, tried another ship again.
Almost crashed in the hangar, forgot to activate the landing gear. Oops!
As usual I got a warning for obstructing an active flight bay or something like that. What am I doing wrong?
This city looks like something from Cyberpunk
AllBizness
Banned
Ca t wait to see how a 4090 will run Star Citizen
Fredrik
Member
For me it’s like loading a game on C64 cassette tape and someone greedy says ”pay and you can get to load from this SSD instead”.
No Man’s Sky added waiting time on big constructions. I just ended up playing something else instead. Not a fan of waiting, I have enough issues finding the time to play as it is.
The Pleasure
Member
10-15% better after accounting for shit drivers, overheating, liquid cooling, crap ssds, Windows sucking off memory, steam doing weird shit in the background, config.sys, ini files, autoexec.bat, lag on the hotas thrustmaster, aggregated sky gps, weather systems, Warp/OS, AOL subsidies and whatever else goes into the magic we call PC Master Race.
Jigsaah
Gold Member
The only thing I care about are the ships I'll lose. I'll grind up the auec again once the wipe happens. My pledge is a just the Titan. So I'll have that, but I assume all the attachments I bought for it will also be gone. I did not participate in Jumptown or any of the other events. I was taking a break and getting into some other games, but earning money is not difficult. I got pretty good rep and they said they won't wipe that.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Is it possible that the early implementation of waiting as a game mechanic hasn't really been explored and implemented to it's full potential yet?
OOGABOOGA
Banned
What you just said!!! Didn't you just say you are playing this game cus there is a lack of games of this genre, not necessarily cus it's good lol. I'm confused how is this rambling when I just rephrased what you just said...
Hawking Radiation
Member
Fair enough. Looks like a win-win situation.
Hawking Radiation
Member
Be careful you don't turn into a whale.Anyhow, another play session, for some reason I have more in-game money now, if only 1,000 more. No idea why, I haven’t sold anything.
Oh well, not complaining.
More flying, back to Area18, starter planet, tried another ship again.
Almost crashed in the hangar, forgot to activate the landing gear. Oops!
As usual I got a warning for obstructing an active flight bay or something like that. What am I doing wrong?
This city looks like something from Cyberpunk
Spend 50c on this helmet.
Then spend a dollar on this outfit.
Next thing you know you're selling your house and/or man whoring to buy a Capital Frigate.
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poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
I dunno - I look at something like Battlefield and they have gone from excellent games to barely functional games lacking things like scoreboards.
Sentenza
Member
I never said anything of that sort. Stop being retarded, mate. For your own sake.
What the fuck is wrong with people on this forum? The more smug they attempt to act with their "gotcha", the more they sound like mentally challenged 12 years old.
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Topher
Gold Member
But it is so buggy.
MightySquirrel
Banned
I haven't played in awhile tbh, but I'd think most things are patched by now.
MightySquirrel
Banned
You can request a landing from ~10 Km away. There's also auto landing just hold N, but can't be too high above the landing spot.
Topher
Gold Member
I bought it on sale and the tutorial kept trying to make me crash into the station. I don't know, man. I refunded it.
Hawking Radiation
Member
iHaunter
Member
Funny that no one is actually playing the game. And the entire thread is children crying non-stop about prices. Like why are you here?
Hawking Radiation
Member
Searching for the meaning of life
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
I've had access to the game since it was possible - I donated whatever the bare minimum was way back in the day.
It's still the worst performing and functioning tech demo in history. Being absolutely objective.
Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
Getting 100fps is bad? This game is CPU limited not GPU. 2080S/3700X/NVMe 4.0 SSD’s/32GB @3600mhz and i have no issues most of the times. My fps is most of the time between 55/85 fps with a 3440x1440 res.
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
I apparently have a far more powerful system than you. My statement of fact remains.
Yeah no idea what he's on about as I have a 3080 / 10900K and it runs like shit in my opinion @ 2560x1440 for me.
Also he spent $9k in this game, but runs this woefully underpowered PC for someone throwing 9k at a video game .... allegedly.
Rivet
Member
Server AI issues?
"Remember it's still in alpha." (c)
Utherellus
Member
Imagine comparing Fortnite to most ambitious and complexly detailed space/life simulator that industry has ever tried to accomplish.
Yall still not getting it, are you? The fact that such project even exists, drives unprecedented curiosity of what can be achieved. It's a social and technical experiment which aims for "no limits"
Despite the controversy, not a single person can deny that Cloud Imperium did things, noone has ever done. Something fresh. Something ambitious. Without budget limits, manhour limits, hardware limits.
Just enjoy the show and observe from afar lmao, how hard can this be?
Fredrik
Member
I’m sure it’s possible to do some story event or something instead of just having a counter. But the problem here is that it’s clearly built to make you pay.
There is a timer counting down for 9 minutes with a pay button just sittning there asking for 3,000 in-game money to remove it.
As the counter goes down the price also gets lower, triggering the behaviour to pay because ”Oh look it’s just 1,000 now, I can afford that.”.
All this combined with being able to buy in-game money with real money makes me frown. Pay to not have to wait or pay to not have to do excessive grinding or whatever is the cancer of this industry, it has already destriyed mobile gaming and it’s about to destroy regular gaming too.
Lol not likely, I barely even buy real games anymore because of Gamepass and PS+, which I got cheaper by stacking XBL/EAPlay/PSNow.
I’m just playing this because it’s free to play. It’s not all awful but it’s not worth any money yet, imo.
I did request a landing through the F11 com. Can’t say for sure I used the right hangar though, but there was a round icon and a door was open. Am I not placed properly on the pad? Or do I have to tell someone that I’ve landed and they can remove the ship?
Utherellus
Member
Not my video, sorry.
You can observe how planet rotates as light from the Sun(in-engine light source) literally projects planet surface from millions of kilometers.
Talk about shadow cascade mapping resolution
Heh you could chase the shadow and your friend chase the light other side of the planet and you both will be moving perpendicularly on the circle
You can observe how planet rotates as light from the Sun(in-engine light source) literally projects planet surface from millions of kilometers.
Talk about shadow cascade mapping resolution
Heh you could chase the shadow and your friend chase the light other side of the planet and you both will be moving perpendicularly on the circle
MightySquirrel
Banned
This countdown timer pay is only a temp implementation for now to stop the griefing respawn spam and even that is a joke, because once you get the mole you can earn up to 700K per single run. Non issue at least in this game.
Get within 10km range [or is it 11], req landing [F11>Friends>Station, hit F11 again to close], then switch of quantum drive [default B]. After a successful landing you get a confirmation "Landing complete". Now really interested to know wth are you doing to get that "obstructing an active flight bay" notification?
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