Star Citizen: Chris Robert`s new space sim (the Wing Commander guy)

[IEC]

I've got too many ships. Anyone interested in a Banu Merchantman - LTI at cost?

Edit: Offer rescinded. Got it taken care of through reddit

 

[SunnyD]

I've got too many ships. Anyone interested in a Banu Merchantman - LTI at cost?

You could give it to me as a birthday present?

lol, yeah, I know.

 

[lozina]

edit: whoops wrong thread

 

[Caecus Veritas]

bummer, hanger module just stays stuck at the loading screen now. anyone else having this issue? some people seem to have been having it a few months ago on RSI forums.

new update to hangar module today. hopefully this will fix your error.

 

[vshah]

new update to hangar module today. hopefully this will fix your error.

hooray! fingers crossed, i miss my hornet.

 

[KentState]

So I have been following the development of the game from afar. I'd like to get in as a backer, but not sure what the best approach is. I don't want to spend more than $150, so what would be the best way to go?

 

[ViRGE]

So I have been following the development of the game from afar. I'd like to get in as a backer, but not sure what the best approach is. I don't want to spend more than $150, so what would be the best way to go?

Well what do you want to do? For $150 you can do either the Freelancer package or the Hornet package. The former is a trade/exploration ship, while the Hornet is a combat ship.

 

[SithSolo1]

Since the patch yesterday it looks like anyone can buy a Cutlass game package. That would be another alternative to the Freelancer/Hornet packages.

Also contrary to what the package says, the Cutlass's temporary hangar is currently the Deluxe.

 

[KentState]

Game still runs like crap for me. Not sure it's worth getting excited about patches until this gets into beta.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Game still runs like crap for me. Not sure it's worth getting excited about patches until this gets into beta.

And they said it WILL run like crap for current hardware unless you have either SLI/Crossfire or R290X Uber or a GTX 780 TI (and even these are barely enough). Remember, this game isn't coming out until 2015. They are expecting Nvidia and AMD to have new cards that are 80-120% more powerful than the current generation. Today's top of the line cards are being used for the MINIMUM requirements, which means you might not even be able to turn on all the "shiny".

Most games don't use 4k textures for just about everything (in fact, I don't know of ANY game that does, outside of modding the hell out of Skyrim). And the poly count is upwards of 30-40 times what is being used in other games.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Mr Kell, I believe it has been stated a GTX760 and the stars the limits. That implies it should run well on current hardware. However its just the hanger now maybe we should all have reasonable expectations.

 

[irishScott]

And they said it WILL run like crap for current hardware unless you have either SLI/Crossfire or R290X Uber or a GTX 780 TI (and even these are barely enough). Remember, this game isn't coming out until 2015. They are expecting Nvidia and AMD to have new cards that are 80-120% more powerful than the current generation. Today's top of the line cards are being used for the MINIMUM requirements, which means you might not even be able to turn on all the "shiny".

Most games don't use 4k textures for just about everything (in fact, I don't know of ANY game that does, outside of modding the hell out of Skyrim). And the poly count is upwards of 30-40 times what is being used in other games.

The hanger runs just fine on my single 6970 at 1080p, so I'm not so sure about that.

Obviously if you want to play it at 4k resolution with everything maxed out you're going to need a cray supercomputer, but I imagine it will be scalable to and playable on the top end of current hardware.

 

[nsafreak]

And they said it WILL run like crap for current hardware unless you have either SLI/Crossfire or R290X Uber or a GTX 780 TI (and even these are barely enough). Remember, this game isn't coming out until 2015. They are expecting Nvidia and AMD to have new cards that are 80-120% more powerful than the current generation. Today's top of the line cards are being used for the MINIMUM requirements, which means you might not even be able to turn on all the "shiny".

Most games don't use 4k textures for just about everything (in fact, I don't know of ANY game that does, outside of modding the hell out of Skyrim). And the poly count is upwards of 30-40 times what is being used in other games.

Runs fine on my single 7950 at 1080p as well. Granted I suppose I might turn down/off some detail when I'm in combat but I think for 1080p folks will be fine with a single 760/280x and folks that want to run at higher resolutions will need whatever the latest and greatest is from nVidia/AMD when the game is released. And as has been stated many times the game is in its very early stages and really isn't optimized for any hardware at all, so once they start using Mantle and other APIs performance will likely be a fair bit better.

 

[KentState]

The hanger runs just fine on my single 6970 at 1080p, so I'm not so sure about that.

Obviously if you want to play it at 4k resolution with everything maxed out you're going to need a cray supercomputer, but I imagine it will be scalable to and playable on the top end of current hardware.

What detail level are you running at? I'm trying to determine if it's something wrong with my system or really that demanding.

 

[nsafreak]

What detail level are you running at? I'm trying to determine if it's something wrong with my system or really that demanding.

What issues are you noticing when running the game? I'm running it at Very High level detail settings and it runs smoothly with no glitching at all that I can see. Don't know the actual framerate since there's not a tool in the game, at least I don't know the devconsole command for it if there is one, and framerate wise I'm getting somewhere between 50 and 60 fps if not a bit more.

Edit: Just noticed that you're running a monitor with a native resolution of 2560x1440 so you're running at a higher resolution than either myself or irishScott are running at so a comparison isn't going to be equal. Might be a good idea for folks like yourself and folks running at higher resolutions to upgrade to the latest and greatest GPU that's available upon this game's release.

 

[SLU Aequitas]

As an FYI, I'm running @ 2560x1440 on a 780GTX SC and I am getting smooth, playable fps, somewhere btw 30 and 60 (havent use a fps counter).

 

[irishScott]

What detail level are you running at? I'm trying to determine if it's something wrong with my system or really that demanding.

Not using an FPS counter, and at Very High I start getting some frame rate drops, but still smooth enough for unoptimized graphics and what I would define as "playable". On High things are perfectly smooth.

 

[rstove02]

Am a long time fan of the Wing Commander series with Privateer being my favorite of the lot. That said, is anyone else getting kind of hesitant on the sheer amount of $$$ being tossed about purchasing ships (albeit under the name of crowdfunding).

I am not stating that this is bad path for game funding, just it feels like mega-transactions instead of micro-transactions and that most games based around them are roughs up the gameplay a bit. Am talking beyond "pay-to-win" aspect (non dismissing that though).

Also am not trying to predict doom and gloom, the sheer amount of cash flow going into this game may turn it into GTA is space (where the is untold number of things to do to acquire wealth/power/prestige). Long story short, am mostly concerned on the logistics involved in running a project that has grown so much so quickly. Does anyone else have reservations (founded or not)?

 

[KidNiki1]

i'll start out by saying i dont really follow the RSI forums and stuff because part of me likes to know as little as possible about the game, since i want the game to be as new as possible when i start playing. but i do hop in my hangar every once in a while, and yesterday i noticed i have a gun turret and targets:

it has a chair, which i can 'use' to sit in:

and when i sit there, i get a crosshair / range finder, but i cant actually shoot anything:

i can add it to my ships using the holoprojector. is that about all i can do at this point? am i just completely missing something? what fun is getting a giant gun if you cant shoot it?

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

Is there a link to a handy FAQ that answers minutiae like "can I get out of my ship and walk around space stations and shoot other players in bar fights", without watching videos or reading long interviews that only answer a question or two at once?

 

[coloumb]

Holy crow the hangar at 1024 x 768 FPS is extremely low HD6870 1gb Radeon [me thinks time to upgrade as it's been at least a year ] - gave me motion sickness.. But from what I briefly saw - VERY cool how your view changes when you get into seats, lay down in your ship, etc.

In addition - I couldn't pinpoint exactly the cause - but something was hoarding 100% CPU resources on my i5-2500k CPU...

Uninstall I did and the 100% CPU was gone.

 

[datalink7]

In case anyone missed it, here is the DEC 20th update. Shows off some early Dogfighting and ship destructibility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rez7Hy_BfPY

 

[ViRGE]

i'll start out by saying i dont really follow the RSI forums and stuff because part of me likes to know as little as possible about the game, since i want the game to be as new as possible when i start playing. but i do hop in my hangar every once in a while, and yesterday i noticed i have a gun turret and targets:

it has a chair, which i can 'use' to sit in:

and when i sit there, i get a crosshair / range finder, but i cant actually shoot anything:

i can add it to my ships using the holoprojector. is that about all i can do at this point? am i just completely missing something? what fun is getting a giant gun if you cant shoot it?

That's actually just a gun mount. You need to pull a gun off of one of your ships and mount it onto said mount.

 

[KidNiki1]

That's actually just a gun mount. You need to pull a gun off of one of your ships and mount it onto said mount.

oh, sweet! i will try that later today. Thank you!!

 

[IEC]

oh, sweet! i will try that later today. Thank you!!

Yup the holo table interface sucks so you'll have to struggle through it, but it's amusing to shoot the popup alien targets.