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SC is already in playable alpha, and has been for years. It's Squadron 42 (the single player mode) that's planned for 2020.

raesene9 8y ago
yep but unless I'm misreading the original kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen promised the single player mode in 2014
- theandrewbailey 8y ago
  That was before the funding took off, and Roberts decided to scale it up in response. Edit: The page reads "estimated". "Estimated" isn't "promised".
- fapjacks 8y ago
  We have quite different interpretations of the word "promise". For the sake of your real-world relationships, maybe don't throw that word around so easily, at least without someone actually using that word in the first place.
libraryatnight 8y ago
I've watched people play the alpha on streams and jesus it looks boring and terrible.
sroya 8y ago
It’s not playable, it’s a buggy mess. A $200 million buggy mess. CIG has never made a single deadline it’s set for itself.
- LastMuel 8y ago
  It appears that you're posting an opinion rather than informed fact. You should attempt following the development if you have a keen interest. They've switched to a quarterly release system and have, in fact, just released their Q4 drop last evening. I would grant you that they have had a history of missing deadlines, but stating that they have "never made a single deadline" is disingenuous at best.
  - swampthinker 8y ago
    Is the frame rate still limited by the server-side tickrate?
    - jdlshore 8y ago
      No, and it never was. The frame rate was limited by a large in-memory working set, high CPU load from tracking too many entities, and lack of multi-threading. Those issues were fixed in the 3.3 release earlier this year.
      - Laforet 8y ago
        I'm not too worried about bugs TBH as long as the underlying game.mechanism is sound. For example, Subnautica have had severe FPS issues from the beginning yet it never became a gamebreaking issue. Last time I looked into SC (a few months ago), the only gameplay loop consisted of picking up cargo and dropping it off with no failure conditions attached. What else has been added since?
        fapjacks 8y ago
        I guess you're using a different definition of gameplay here? You can fight other players, race, FPS, and more, and this has been available for a lot longer than a few months, unless you're also using a different definition of what constitutes a few months: http://www.infoapps.cc/en/starcitizen_playable.html http://www.infoapps.cc/en/starcitizen_playable.html

raesene9 8y ago

yep but unless I'm misreading the original kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen promised the single player mode in 2014

theandrewbailey 8y ago
That was before the funding took off, and Roberts decided to scale it up in response. Edit: The page reads "estimated". "Estimated" isn't "promised".
fapjacks 8y ago
We have quite different interpretations of the word "promise". For the sake of your real-world relationships, maybe don't throw that word around so easily, at least without someone actually using that word in the first place.

libraryatnight 8y ago

I've watched people play the alpha on streams and jesus it looks boring and terrible.

sroya 8y ago

It’s not playable, it’s a buggy mess. A $200 million buggy mess. CIG has never made a single deadline it’s set for itself.

LastMuel 8y ago
It appears that you're posting an opinion rather than informed fact. You should attempt following the development if you have a keen interest. They've switched to a quarterly release system and have, in fact, just released their Q4 drop last evening. I would grant you that they have had a history of missing deadlines, but stating that they have "never made a single deadline" is disingenuous at best.
- swampthinker 8y ago
  Is the frame rate still limited by the server-side tickrate?
  - jdlshore 8y ago
    No, and it never was. The frame rate was limited by a large in-memory working set, high CPU load from tracking too many entities, and lack of multi-threading. Those issues were fixed in the 3.3 release earlier this year.
    - Laforet 8y ago
      I'm not too worried about bugs TBH as long as the underlying game.mechanism is sound. For example, Subnautica have had severe FPS issues from the beginning yet it never became a gamebreaking issue. Last time I looked into SC (a few months ago), the only gameplay loop consisted of picking up cargo and dropping it off with no failure conditions attached. What else has been added since?
      - fapjacks 8y ago
        I guess you're using a different definition of gameplay here? You can fight other players, race, FPS, and more, and this has been available for a lot longer than a few months, unless you're also using a different definition of what constitutes a few months: http://www.infoapps.cc/en/starcitizen_playable.html http://www.infoapps.cc/en/starcitizen_playable.html