I think this basically speaks to very specific people who want a very specific thing.Īnd hey if you like the alpha, you like the alpha. I have seen people just take ages to even get into their ships with all the elevators and ramps and then another small elevator and then a door and then another door and then sitting down and then button press animations and and and by that time I am asleep. It either just looks like some tech demo or the gameplay is one of two things 1) very shallow or 2) hilariously overdesigned. I have watched streams, I have watched videos, I have watched compilations of "cool" moments, basically anything that tried showing off this game and I just can not see anything that excited me here at all. I personally just can't find any reasons at all. I'm sure the people who play the Alpha play it for their own good reasons. If countless bugs on the client side and buggy, unstable servers are a thing, you can't really say to someone that, well, it works. He told me he did try it on his new system a few months ago (i7 10xxx, RTX 3070) and it - surprise! - ran like a dog and was pretty unplayable. You couldn't walk in the ship they gave you for having signed up to the Kickstarter, iirc.īut yeah, I uninstalled it and told my friend about my experience with it, and he wisely dropped his, "Let's play Star Citizen together with the gang!" idea and didn't bother trying it. I never got to the hangar - I see people mentioning walking around inside their ships and I'm curious what ship they got in the starter pack because I remember before the alphas they gave us a small hangar level with a fighter craft that you couldn't swing a cat in. It was only half an hour because I wasn't willing to put up with any more of it. It was a half hour experience of a barely cobbled together "game". I tried getting to the hangar but the game decided that what I should really be doing is sinking through the solid floor and down into the planet below (was it a station in the atmosphere of a gas giant? I can't remember). It was a very empty space port, whatever it was. I slid around the map of some space port like a drunk, and I don't know if it was latency (I have a 500MB connection) or another of those lovable bugs that crop up so often that caused it, but that was an interesting experience. But I could move around wherever it put me. Performance was still absolutely dogshit, like I was trying to run Cyberpunk 2077 on a Pentium 4/GeForce FX 5700 LE or something. In that it let me move around the game, which was a vast improvement on what came before. I installed it on my NVMe drive.ĭid it run better? Yes. After all, I'd upgraded from an i5 4690K/R9 390X combo to a Ryzen 5 3600/RX 5700 XT one since I'd last played. And, like an idiot, I expected it to run better. Last year a friend mentioned wanting to try it out as a multiplayer experience so while he was at work, I tried the latest version. I tried some alpha version of the game a few years ago and I don't remember anything specific that happened, but I do remember it being an unplayable mess, to the point that it turned me off wanting to try again. And if it wasn't bad enough to deal with that, the servers can also be fucked? So if you're lucky enough to not run into those countless bugs that destroy the experience for you, make it unplayable, you could be unlucky enough to join a server that's so fucked it's making it - again - unplayable. Software that is that level of unstable is not what anyone could reasonably claim to be in a working state. Click to shrink.How exactly can you claim "it works?" when your next sentence is talking about countless bugs and broken servers? How then, is it working? Countless bugs, by the very definition of that term, means it's not working.
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