Star Citizen is that the grift, I mean, game- that still has thousands of people fooled that it will actually be released?
I have a friend on discord trying to convince us all to play it. All I hear is “Dude, I want to get all my friends on before Pyro so you all know how to play”.
When a games got a whale shop while it’s developed, and the only thing I’ve seen pumped out are more ships with designs for future implementations that are probably a decade away, I feel like you’re more buying a hope and dream than a game.
Besides, the tutorial sucks ass, and doesn’t work half the time, maybe make the onboarding experience better before pumping out the next $1000+ ship. That would be my suggestion for that thing.
I’m pretty happy with 4.0. They sucked all the features from it, and the missions are having problems. But the game fucking works, finally. Or at least it did during the first 24 hours of the patch. About fucking time.
That being said this whole shake up was clearly a cost saving strategy, since most of 2024 was not the best in term of making money, a LOT of people jumped shit this year, and I don’t blame them. CIG messed up so much this year. They have alot of goodwill to re-earn from the community and 4.0 is a start but only that.
Since when does anything to do with star citizen involve a hard deadline. Roberts will never get finished. He lacks that basic ability.
What are the chances they never deliver what they promised?
How is this still a thing lol
Is it playable yet?
Yes.
Buggy, incomplete, kind of a mess, but absolutely playable if you have a sufficient tolerance for jank.
While it’s for sure a ways away from being the game that was promised, what’s there is still one of the most unique and ambitious gaming experiences you can ever have.
For all intent and purposes. 4.0 has been by far the most stable release yet. And that is saying something since the player cap is 500 and now has a new star system.
The new Pyro soundtrack is amazing and if you haven’t listen to Pedro’s work I would recommend to do so.
There are some dumb bugs that qa and the ptu should have found and smashed but they (cig) dragged their feet with 3.24 and server meshing this year IMO.
To be fair the “most stable release yet” label is applied to almost every patch by star citizen fans.
Just take a look at any reddit thread (let alone the fan forum) and for every patch you having something along the lines of “perfectly stable” or “best AI I’ve ever encountered” or “a monumental achievement”.
And yet you have threads like this one:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/4-0-preview-unplayable
There is a reason to be skeptical of “most stable release yet” style proclamations.
