Man, you young folks must not have been around for E3, or all the various leaked E3 presentation builds of games over the years.
You can pull off some amazing looking stuff with just scripting the hell out of everything and only showing what you want people to see. Toss in some obviously unfinished stuff to make it all look more legit.
Gameplay "demos" that are not open to the public to mess with are just ad reel by another name.
I heard the same bullshit about a 2016 release of SC. It's nothing but copium. It's laughably easy to show "gameplay" of a prepared show demo, even if nothing of the actual game actually existed. Roberts has done this so many times already.
I still have my pledge to SC, ~$25 so not a big one, but I’ve all but lost hope on a release of the full scope of the game as it was set out years ago thanks to the massive amount of feature creep and mismanagement.
I hop in every so often, fly my Cutlass around, blow some shit up, check out the ground game and then go back to Elite. I got my money's worth. Still need to check out 3.24
Yeah I'm similar, I'm in for about $45 or so from the Kickstarter. I wrote it off and stopped paying attention about 6-7 years ago (it was already pretty far behind then!) but I figure, I've wasted more money on dumber stuff before, and if an actual game ever does happen to materialise then I'll give it a look.
If you want to play a space flight combat game, Everspace 1 and 2 have both come out in less time than Star Citizen, and I'd bet my life Everspace 3 will also be out before Star Citizen.
Yeah but the doesn’t make OP wrong, the devs said in 2016 that sq42 was essentially down and needed some final polish and now we learn it won’t be ready till 2026.
Safe bet squadron 42 will miss yet another promised date
Is there a Lemmy community for people who don't just shit on the game? Tired of just hearing about how it's a scam. Does anybody play this and enjoy it?
I think being on Lemmy is part of the issue. The Venn diagram of people who left Reddit for Lemmy and the people who support pie in the sky games like SC doesn't have a whole lot of overlap in the middle, I wouldn't think.
Anyway, any particular gameplay loop you're excited for?
I really enjoy Star Citizen as it is right now. They push out huge updates every quarter so it's getting better and better. I paid $45 and have hundreds of hours of fun. The energy people spend hating this game, inventing conpiracies, and circle jerking misinformation is super irritating. The hive mind's assumptions are wrong, the lived experiences of a growing number of players is fact. This game would have gone bust long ago if it wasn't fun, a scam, or not making steady progress. Instead it's revenue and player counts go up every year. The people who try it stick around more often than not.