26 Minutes of Starfield Getting ROASTED - Star Engine Tech Demo Reaction (Star Citizen 4.0)
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Whoosh! Seems a lot of this goes over peoples heads cause it is a bit technical since they are showcasing what they have programmed cryengine/lumberyard to do over the past 10 years.
I'll do my best to explain if anyone cares...
Squadron 42: is the single player narrative adventure that has been in development alongside StarCitizen since it's inception Originally planned to be developed first but then SC became the perfect test bed for the feature development so they began developing them in parallel early on. For the last couple years most of the devs have been focused on SQ42 so SC development has dragged more than usual. With SQ42 being feature complete now(ruclips.net/video/IDtjzLzs7V8/видео.html), we are already seeing the speed of development pick up as they port features to SC.
64-bit large world coordinates: most engines run on 32-bit and as such their world size is limited to approximately 8km squared i think (out side of that the engine have trouble calculating and you'd get weird results if the player went beyond those boundaries) with 64-bit it goes into over a billion kilometers squared i think? ergo you get a large world space and a lack of needing to load separate maps and that is key to how they get the seamless transitions plus clever streaming of the assets in game.
Why it's taken so long: Yes they've been building the foundations of the engine all this time while working on all other aspects of the game(it already has a ton of story and lore) but recently they just completed the features in SQ42 and their last foundational Tech Pillar (Server Meshing) so we are seeing an acceleration in development now. Note other games like NoMan's Sky or Elite Dangerous for example focused on releasing a limited game and tried to developed on top of that. I'd say it worked in NMS's favor but that approach killed Elite for most gamers. This foundational approach has led to a lot of misinformation and bad press for SC but ultimately i'd say it's proving to be worth it.
Levels of detail: or LOD is not graphical settings though it does help with those options being available. it is the different textures and shaders that are loaded for the assets at different distances because it's a waste to render the whole asset when it's too far away to notice the close up levels of detail, that is part of how they cleverly stream in and out all these assets so you don't require a super computer to render it all.
Streaming: is the means by which they load content in and out of the game for the client and server. for the client(your pc) this is mostly just how it chooses what to render in based on which object containers you are in or can see, for the server it's more about loading and unloading those object containers and the assets contained within. OCS or object container streaming in it's self is impressive tech, it allows anything from a box to a planetary system to be an object container with it's own properties and have object containers nested within, without it there would be no seamless experience cause there are just too many objects and assets for a server or client to load in such a large world space.
Note: the train wait isn't long and most players save their spawn outside a planet to avoid the transit if they hate it.
AI Crew: it is intended to have complex NPCs you can hire eventually but that feature isn't in the game yet and probably won't be for some time. though they have made some great progress with the AI in SQ42 so maybe we will get some placeholder feature like it in the near future, but i wouldn't hold my breath.
Procedural generation: in SC is just a tool the devs use to design a curated experience on a massive scale, you don't need to worry about NMS or Starfield levels of procedural generation. They have a lot of lore they intend to follow in the design of this game so leaving the content in the hands of procedural tools is not an option to craft the universe they intend.
Mining: in SC gameplay loops are intended to be very tactile and immersive experiences, we already have mining gameplay mostly complete in the live version I recommend you look at some youtube tutorials of the feature to see what it's like or you can tryout the game during the free-fly event this month where you can try the game without spending a dime.
Ground fog and sunlight shafts: are underrated features imo, it creates a level of depth and immersion to the landscape that is often overlooked in videogames, most games use fog to hide their graphical limitation not enhance them. at most you need a GTX 1660 GPU but the current game isn't optimized yet and runs the CPU hard. at bare minimum you need Intel: Sandy Bridge or later, AMD: Bulldozer or later and 16gb of ram but i'd recommend a CPU with good vCache like the ryzen X3Ds to get decent frame rates before the game is optimized. ruclips.net/video/H9zUwbXApbE/видео.html
However, server performance can limit your frames so i wouldn't buy anything new until they release SQ42 or completely integrate server meshing to the live game.
Rivers driving terrain modification: they programed their river generation to flow realistically based on the terrain heights and adjust the asset generation in the biome around the river to have more foliage and river rocks or carve out cliffs around it if ran through a hill for example.
Clouds: I think that came in at the end of last year and they just improved it a lot for SQ42 so we should be getting those improvements this year in the live game.
FTL: is called Quantum Travel(QT) in SC and it is not faster than light but actually between 18%-94% of the speed of light depending on the ship drive. It is real time travel not a clever loading screen, sure they stream in and out assets while you are on the move but with the large world space and object container streaming they don't need to fake the warp travel like most games. the visual effects in this demo are new and should make it to the live game this year along with manual QT you don't have to have a navigation marker for so we can freely explore the vast solar systems.
Realtime planetary rotation is just the tip of the ice berg, they intend to have the whole solar system orbit in realtime around the solar body but that isn't in engine yet due to server limitations and i'm sure some gameplay design that needs to get fleshed out first but ideally server meshing will overcome that technical limitation.
Sound Design: shout out to Pedro Camacho who's responsible for a lot of the music in SC and the FYI devs behind the audio work are adding realistig audio in vacuum because in lore the ships simulate audio outside the ship so you could choose to turn that off or have that part of the ship damaged in the future and the audio will change to be more like how it would sound in a vacuum where the only noise is what your ship makes or what hits your ship etc.
What the hell is that: this is a jump point, in lore they are naturally occuring singularities that basically create wormholes between solar systems that you can navigate through. it's the only clever loading screen SC employs to stream out the old solar system(Stanton) while you travel and stream in the new solar system(Pyro). we've been waiting for server meshing to enable this before we get the Pyro system in the live game which is currently only available on a seperate preview server. Basically it is a dangerous system with solar flares and abandoned infrastructure that is overun by outlaws, think null sec space in Eveonline.
You are correct, SC is a MMORPG and SQ42 is the singleplayer narative driven campain, the space stations streaming on demand goes back to that object container streaming i discussed before.
Skinshaders: they are just showing off that their skin textures aren't prebaked but driven by values represenative of the melanin levels in real life skin not that impressive but a recent addition to the engine so they were showing it off. up until recently i believe the skin on a player's body didn't really match the faces they generated in the charater creation screen so there was basically a seam along the character's neckline where the skintones didn't match.
Are there meaning full quests: SC doesn't have the final version of dynamic procedural missions generation yet but there is already a lot of mission content, events like seige of orrison, xeno threat, and jumptown, and they even have more narative driven stuff that has been on development hold while they completed SQ42 and server meshing. The final intention is for the crazy complex economy, NPC actions, and player actions to drive the mission generation to have a truely unique experience and not just fetch quests and copy pasted missions.
2050: LOL, I fully expect SC to keep updating for decades but i think we're going to see development speed up here in the next few years now that core tech has been completed and it maybe in a more mainstream consumable state sooner than you think.
The yellow stuff on the planet is supposed to be a moss i believe.
The heiarichal streaming goes back to object containers and how they can be neseted within eachother, i.e. The planet to biomes to outposts to the individual loot boxes, ships, and vehicles.
The last few features such as water physics, procedural destructions, cloth, blood sweat/tears are brand new and won't be in the live game till sometime this year. If you want to see more i definately recommend you watch the SQ42 trailer.
Well done with that description!!
Anice summery end explainetion. thx
Good write up!
*rebuilt from the ground up.
This engine doesn't even bear resemblance to lumberyard let alone cryengine anymore.
8:15 "ok so these are procedurally generated". No they aren't. They are using procedural tools to populate areas (or entire planets) to save time, but at the end of the day, there's always an artist in charge to validate it an manually place or change things (s)he dislikes.
Nice, I love that. Definitely the best way to use procedural tools. Ty for the correction!
@KeroTheGoat yeah it's basically curated procedural generation. Giving the devs the ability to both allow the procedural tech to do the bulk of the work and fine tune details where wanted/needed.
@@KeroValentinethey have had to make all the tools from scratch after having to shift engine mid development while going through a legal battle about it. They've done well really.
@@Guvnor100 To be fair, the engine switch was more of a legal switch than a technical one. IIRC it took about two engineers two days to get it over with.
No, it is also generated procedurally by the server and client with manual changes. Generating procedurally only once and then saving would mean several petabytes of data. MS Flight Simulator 2020 accesses a 2 petabyte database for only 1 planet, which is not even enough, so that individual trees still have to be generated procedurally. Planets are to be scaled 1 to 6 in SC, which means that a planet has 36 times less surface area than the Earth in FS 2020. With 300 planned planets, that would be over 10 petabytes. That is why this is also generated procedurally on the server and client. With the same initial data, the same results come out again and again; contrary to popular belief, procedural is no coincidence!
Streaming means they dynamically stream objects from your SSD in the game as needed. Other games just load the complete level into the game, but because Star Citizen object streaming is dynamic, they make the levels as big as they want as they can also stream objects out of the game that you can't see anymore and freeing up your ram.
It's also server side object container streaming
Object Streaming is actually not unique to Star Citizen, a lot of games use it. Especially, single player ones. Thats how large maps are done.
Server side object container streaming seems unique though, but I don't know enough about server side code in different games to speak with any level of confidence.
In short, loading screen? It's always loading!
Exactly. CP77 does this on a city scale, SC does it on galactic scale
@@odysseus655 In short: loading without a loading screen. Yes it's always loading, but there's no pause to your interaction as it does so.
I want to note two things:
#1 They started off a garage/basement with a dozen people, got on Kickstarter and funding exploded, nowadays they're over 1300 devs across 5 game studios;
#2 Most of what you've seen in this video is in-game ready for us to play right now! It's not just a tech demo, most of what is shown is what we've been playing for months/years now :D
On the note of people flying through asteroid belts at high speed; There's currently a race track situated in the asteroid belt around Yela, it's called "Miner's Lament", and you can take a 'mission' to do time-trial races on it.
I've managed a platinum finish time there, albeit with an explosive end right afterwards. Zero-G racing is *hard*.
Sorry to hear your imminent demise after crossing the finish line but at least you accomplished what you set out to do lol
Racing in sc is really hard. Top speed in the game for now is around 1400m/s for context. The speed of Sound is around 300m/s.
At 5:15 yes, the plan is to have AI crew. The AI crew is already working fully in Squadron 42 (the single-player), but the AI in Star Citizen (the MMO) is janky and terrible due to poor server performance, hence the importance of server meshing. While AI crew behaviours have been completed, we won't see them appear in Star Citizen until server meshing is fully working, which is coming Soon(TM).
And that's only because of the dual reason of they dedicated almost all their staff specifically described in 42's creation, As well as not wanting to give away to the wider audience what is coming in squad in 42
Well, they just released the FPS' AI to PTU 3.21.1 but yeah, you won't see much improvement since servers are always struggling.
Ahhh so, Star Citizen itself is an MMO but Squadron 42 is pretty much a separate Singleplayer version of the game? There's a lot to understand about how this game works. Never seen anything similar to its scale.
@@KeroValentine Exactly that.
@@KeroValentine I wish more people would come to this realization instead of sheepishly repeat _sCaM cItIzEn_
There is also a single player game using this engine and set in the Star Citizen Universe called Squadron 42. They released a video for that the day after this video came out. Also, if you want to go down the rabbit hole. This video is from their conference called Citizencon. They showed off a lot more about the game in like 7 hours of videos. Including the cloth tech and the water tech in much more detail.
That sounds sweet. I'm especially interested in Squadron 42 and will be checking it out later today. Thanks for the comment!
@@KeroValentine u have to see the server meshing Panel of the Citizencon. Groundbraking teck for all of gaming
@@KeroValentine Before you get too hyped to get into the project, you should know that while Im sure both SC and S42 will EVENTUALLY get released, do NOT overspend on the project because S42 might still be well 2+ years off (and for the past 8 years both it and SC have been "around 2 years off") and CIG's track record for timelines and estimates is abysmal. And while they have the assets shown in many of their videos, the current game engine does not have the network infrastructure to give you the full experience that they are showing off.
In this "4.0" video for instance, we do not have destructible environments, nor onboard fire propagation, the fancy water physics, nor the second star system Pyro in the game yet. And we will likely not have it for some time. Chris said "everything you've seen here will be in your hands within 2 years", but again, take ANY time estimates from him with a massive grain of salt.
And in contrast to what amateratsu said, do not get too hyped over server meshing yet. What we saw at citcon was a tiny ingame tech demo between like 6 clients of how they're intending to make SM work, along with the verbal "confirmation" that it works "at scale". But if it would actually work at scale, like the thousands of players scale that this project needs, that is what they would have shown us. Only believe that it works, when it's actually in your hands.
Backers get too hyped up over anything because they're starved for content so for your own/your wallets sake be very careful with which part of that train you hop on to.
The scene at the end with the 2 ships colliding, they've already improved that a lot. Including the water splashing when debris hits it. It was shown at Citizencon. The 'Maelstrom' destruction tech, if you're interested.
Concerning the Quests in Star Citizen: Yes this is the MMO part. And there are the typical "fetch"-Quests (deliver 3 packages to different locations, kill pirates in this area etc), BUT there are more story driven quests too like P.I. Wanted where you have to investigate an accident on a space station and why everybody died there. Depending on how much of the clues you find you get a different picture of what happened and can report back different findings with different outcomes. Or you have other Quests where you have to visit an NPC like Miles Eckhart or Tecia Pacheco who will give you more complex and stroy driven quests which go much above the typical fetch-quest.
That's great to hear. I'm not a MMO guy and the only one I could play for a good while was Star Wars The Old Republic exactly because of it's emphasis on stories!
Plus, a large portion of gameplay is occupation-centered, rather than being traditional MMO story style quests.
So, you have quest-less occupations like mining, salvage, and cargo hauling/trading. Mercenary occupations like FPS bunker missions, bounty hunting (both player and NPC), and standard combat quests like going to a mining claim to clear out pirates. These types of quests/occupations can be legal or illegal, by the way. And finally you have beacon-based quest gameplay like medical and rescue missions, where stranded or injured players will pay for a rescue beacon that gets send out, and rescuers will get paid to complete the contract.
On top of that, there are events that happen occasionally that aim to bring an entire server into contact, whether that's in cooperation or conflict. Like Xenothreat, where the server needs to come together to salvage important cargo from wrecked spaceships and bring it back to a Navy carrier, while defending from pirates, then follow the Navy carrier out to engage the main enemy fleet. Or Jumptown, where a remote drug facility is brought online, and the entire server fights for control of the lucrative operation.
@@KeroValentine If you want a story driven single player experience then you could look for Squadron 42 which is the single player campaign with the same engine.
And the great thing is since Star Citizen is so heavy on the simulation side of things that even those basic "fetch quests" are actually quite enjoyable. The immersion of flying your ship in to a stormy outpost, fighting the winds to get landed safely on the pad, picking up the package, flying off to another planet, landing on a pad on top of a huge skyscraper on the acropolis (city planet) of ArcCorp during sunset dropping your package off and watching the city lights come up as the sun sets beneath the cloud layer. It's seriously incredible and it was just a simple fetch quest. If you enjoy immersive sim type games nothing really comes close right now. And it'll be even better when we actually start getting more content and progression systems.
@KeroTheGoat star citizen brings back the story driven aspect in a fully open sandbox platform if you remember the old games "wing commander" or "freelancer" it is the same developer behind this
So just one thing to note - CIG have flat out said in a forum response this week that their showcase videos have access to rendering settings that are not in the game version as of yet, likely for performance reasons.
We'll be getting the newly improved volumetric rendering for clouds, shadows, light rays, ground fog, etc by the end of the year.
But it's likely that it still wont look *quite* as good as this video.
With game optimization there is a chance that it can look even better, it would most likely take a beast pc but I think it’s possible.
Like most games, the better the machine, the better the visuals.
thats because optimizations are not something developers do in Alpha, why optimize a game when its at a stage where many things get added and changed non-stop. In Beta stages devs put a lot of focus on polishing and optimization.
I understand people being annoyed at the thought of having to get a train/tram. You can set your spawn location off world on some of the space stations around the system, which allow you to get back to your ships much faster. You can also log out on your ship in the middle of space, which let's you log back in right where you left off. It's not going to be something you have to go through often.
*Log out in your ship, IF your ship has a bed. Most do though, except some dedicated fighters.
Also the waiting time is a maximum of around 30 seconds and the train and shuttle rides are a joy, because the vistas around you are so pretty.
I mean eventually you'll be able to just log out whereever you are standing up and log back into that location. Probably when dynamic server mesh is up. Excluding a few sensitive areas probably, unless your body persists so people can offline kill you like rust in pvp areas. @@GUNNER67akaKelt
I think the trains are super fucking cool part of the game. You have to take a train to the spaceport and then get your ship? That's immersive as fuck.
I think the trains are super fucking cool part of the game. You have to take a train to the spaceport and then get your ship? That's immersive as fuck.
18:45 Pyrotechnic Amalgamated, the name of the company that built the station. And when the system's resources dried out, they abandoned everything.
Wow, these guys sound like real jerks
@@KeroValentine The local star also became unstable and has frequent solar flares slowly destroying the planets and moons. We are doing a player test preview of Pyro and its unforgiving environment is as deadly as it is beautiful. If you or your ship gets caught in a solar flare it messes you up with radiation damage you have to heal before dying and can make your ship power off for a time and crash if flying in a planet's atmosphere/gravity at the time. You get about a 5-10 minute warning to get someplace safe for cover.
CIG does not have their music on the copyright system, people have been playing full vids and tracks without issue for years.
Thank you! Certainly good to know for future reference.
The amazing thing is about 80% of these features are in the game now. The problem is it's still in alpha and therefore unstable. However, it seems the future is bright as a lot of the underlying tech systems are in the game or coming in fairly soon. This should allow them to start optimizing, polishing, and adding gameplay using all the systems they've added. Hopefully this is a turning point in the development and we'll see things coming in faster and with more gameplay going forward.
What you touched on is the ONE thing that has been holding this game for years. That changing would really push the momentum of this game to another level! Thank you for your comment.
I mean this comment could have been said word for word back in 2016. The demo looked impressive but I'm remaining skeptical until its actually delivered.
@@antonego9581 It's the best way to go with ANY product ever. So your heads' at the right place my guy
The cloth simulation in SC is a bit different than the standard "Cloth" simulation. It doesn't clip into itself, Gear, weapons and tools do not clip into the outfit and the cloth itself is far more realistic than the standard cloth you'll see on other games.
It's actually a technology over CryEngine that was originally developped by Warhorse Studio for their game Kingdom Come Deliverance, some years ago. It shared the same original engine as SC (before SC made CryEngine sooo different that it's now their own engine), so they had deals to exchange some of their techs. So the cloth rendering is rather close to what was seen in Kingdom Come (I guess CIG made quite a bit of changes since, though)
4:45 exactly, yes there is still pop in at times but it shows that this isnt bullshit, its actual footage that was captured in engine without polishing it all up to look better.
the water effects are better on the panel demo it was impressive that they have improved from the video by the time of the citizen-con event
The wayer effects actually bugged in that demo whixh is funny but in the citcon demo with more about yhe destruction and water sim stuff they showed a few other crashes and such that looked a lot better.
And indeed cloud physics and simulation been about as you say a long time but its just the scale and ability with the engine. Like microsoft flight sim still got best clouds overall but they dont do it at truly planetary scale or have gad planets etc.
Watching videos react to this and be new to it is always fun. Look forward to you hopefully reacting to other Citizencon videos if you get time. They been spilt up and postrd by CIG on their channel.
If you'd like to try it IAE should be coming in a few weeks and that normally brings a free fly so you can play the game and rent all the ships in the game currently for free to try. It's a whole big convention in the game
I truly do like Star Field, but it’s seriously limited in scale. The new Star Engine from CIG completely crushes everything in gamin today. And the engine is still able to scale to heights unknown. Also, unless you’re a 11 year old, the game has not been in development longer than most people have been alive that play these games. Glad you found the footage , you’ve only scratched the surface. Welcome to the Verse! o7
Ofc many of the things I said are a tiny bit dramatized. 11 years is still a insane amount of time but I had no idea this game was aiming so high on everything. From that perspective it makes more sense. Thanks for the warm welcome btw hahah
@@KeroValentine fun fact...
The original pitch for the game back during kickstarter was for something more similar to how Starfield turned out.
Cutscene transitions between space and ground, limited landing locations...
Due to the funding being so successful they were able to expand the scope.
And the continued funding let them expand as far as seen in this Star Engine trailer.
@@KeroValentine Yeah CIG has made some mistakes & fumbles in those 10 years , but they started w/ 3 people & now have 1,200 employees. So , they’re learning from mistakes. The good thing is now that SQ42 is feature complete, they can switch the bulk of the Dev teams back to the Persistent Universe (Open World). Their Montreal studio, Turbulent has Ex Bungie , CryTek & Ubisoft Devs making all the assets for missions & planet systems. You’re about to see major, major updates in 2024. o7 #oneofus
@@TaranTatsuuchi Truth!
The Star Engine doesn't crush anything, it's an heavily specialized engine that could only be useful if you want to make a space sim, if you want to make a space RPG it's better to ditch the seamless space flight and do it like Mass Effect, Starfield, Star Wars Jedi Survivor and Outer Worlds.
Its not copyright as the music quite literally belongs to us the players
No dude it belongs to RSI not player. Your pledge does not give you any shares of the company. So copyright do apply, this is just a decision of RSI to let backer use some for SC videos. From an early backer back in 2013, very happy to support this company!
CIG Is not going to drop any copyright claims on videos Commenting on or show casing its game. As one they need all the publicity they can get, And 2 they're not a bunch of jerks like some companies such as Nintendo are.
@@HighmageDerin Nintendo is absolutely WILD when it comes to copyright lol - they don't mess around
@@vinct7023 Love to see your balanced take on this situation, thank you @yeawhateverdudesure for the info as well (amazing name btw)
11:31 As someone who called Grim Hex(an outlaws station floating in the middle of Yela's asteroid belt) a home, I have many many many accident involve crashing into asteroid.
ahaha omg, my condolences
@@KeroValentine And about those flying through asteroid in high speed. Well, kind of. There are community in Star Citizen doing "Low fly" flying in super low altitude in high speed with extreme maneuver.
Squadron 42 singleplayer story campaign showed us 30mins of gameplay also if u wanna check
Sound super interesting. Definitely giving it a look!
this video reminded me of what we can do in game, you forget (as your always in FPS mode) that all of this is seamless. still takes my breath away when i fly to a space station and go land, the planets are not new, but the animals are (hopefully have those soon)
Man, that sounds amazing. People say there's a chance to try the game for free in the coming weeks. I'm excited to jump in there myself to see what's on offer!
@@KeroValentine that's amazing dude, you'll love it, just note free flies are generally the worse the servers get, roll with all the punches (there's many) and the next year is gonna be the biggest ride we've seen i think, I took a break, as needed, but this game constantly brings you back with what it offers when it works
Its funny is the no loading screen thing isn't even new in Star Citizen. Its always been zero load screen. you guess just now catching up.
for cloth simulation this video didn't really show their tech, it's really impressive they have 5 layers of cloth with differents materials they are simulated based of their material by wind and the movement of the player without clipping
Another comment told me they went into more detail about this in a longer video. I'll try and find that!
@@KeroValentineif you're willing to go down the rabbit hole, the entire Citizencon 2953 was AMAZING! Each panel had something to be hyped about.
@@KeroValentine Star Cloth ruclips.net/video/xKWa4WoTkV4/видео.html and the Water Physics section is earlier ruclips.net/video/xKWa4WoTkV4/видео.html
Meaningful stuff.
Hi me again.
Just adding stuff as I’m watching. But yea theirs a whole load of things to do. Both mission based and systemic.
Their are normal (Lawful) and personal (illegal) missions that change depending on your location. The types of missions so far are like box deliveries for new starters, mercenary missions, bounty hunting missions (PvE and PvP), salvaging, investing, clean up jobs (illegal jobs) bunker missions assaults and defend (FPS style but some use of ships) and theirs also several types of events that gets the whole server involved.
The systemic element I mentioned earlier is the number of things you can do on you own or in groups without missions. For things like cargo hauling, mining (nothing like star field and has a good gameplay behind it) salvaging, piracy (PvP)🏴☠️ and even a little bit of exploration. All of which can earn you good creds.
He should watch the PTR of people playing during a first time sun flare 😅
Oh, I definitely want to dive deeper into the Star Citizen rabbit hole lol
@@KeroValentine "The War for Jumptown" by Bedbananas is the BEST video of Star Citizen WHEN IT WORKS! Its real unscripted PVP footage.
Its a very buggy game, but they recorded it during a more stable build. You can see the potential of the game, but don't expect it to play like that whenever someone tries it out.
Streaming on demand.
Basically to increase server performance an entity such as an NPC, cargo box or station. Does not exist in the game until a player gets near it. At which time it’s loaded / streamed into the server.
When all players leave the. Area all physical attributes are de spawned and are once again represented by the background simulation that keeps track of everything.
There have been bugs and issues due to this. Such as a someone loading into a game and finding themselves temporarily floating in space. Until the space station their in spawns in
Money is not an issue. For 49 dollars you get a starter ship and can earn rather easily 95% of all ships in game. The remaining 5% are newly released ships and will be available the next release after the ship is released. This is supporting the player which paid real money for the ship. In the end, cost of entry from SC is very low. However, the game is in Alpha with bugs and progress does get reset at time.
There's another game called "Ready or Not" in EA. I love that game and truly see potential in it so I have no qualms about supporting it. If the people who support Star Citizen share similar sentiments, then there isn't much issue imo. Hope they make good progress and this game releases soon enough tho lol
How many micro transactions or surprise mechanics?
@@ravenwda007 NONE.There are no micro transactions or anything once you are in the game which requires a purchase with real world money. In short, if you want to play with all the faults and issues of an alpha, purchase the minimum package for a ship of your choice and that is it. You can earn almost every other ship, armor, paints which are in the game.
@@grast5150 how long does it take to buy a ship in game that someone else paid real money for?
@@ravenwda007 It depends, most gameplay loops can be distilled into about 80k to 100K per hour/ hour half. A small ship is couple of million. So, 20 hours for a small ship and longer for the bigger ships. This assumes no bugs or blockers.
No Nasa computer needed. On RSI web page, menu: development/Telemetry, you can check all backers configuration through a chart. Of course the bigger the better but I run everything at medium.high with a 1080TI, pretty old GPU, on a 1440P monitor
You know all of these reaction videos I watch almost every single Person aperson acts like you need a super computer to run this game, I have been playing this game with 3 different computers over the last 7 years none of them are super computers by any leap of the imagination. Shoot my newest computer is now 4 years old and still runs the persistent universe with no problems!
@@HighmageDerin I mean it doesn't run great on any Hardware but I played it for 3 years on a 1660 ti and it was playable in 1080p. It kinda sorta ran on my 1050 ti (but that was really rough)
Well thats a stretch to imply these games, when done. Can be run on old hardware as we can today. There is alot of visuals, background systems, tweaking that is not in the PTU today. This Tech demo shows some new stuff that will put further requirements on our PC systems. CIG have stated that they will not hold back making the games as impressive as possible. Offcourse different settings and optimisations will be done, to open for as many players as possible. But dont expect todays hardware requirements, showing what the end state will be
@@Paisa231 I don't. More features will go together with more optimization of codes. I do not forget that goal of CIG is not sell games to a minority of people but the larger number possible. Of course having the best of the best GPU is great but I am currently running the game in medium and it looks very good and more important, with constant good FPS above 30fps with no drop.
@@vinct7023 The goal of CIG is to make Chris Roberts vision. Now that offcourse doesnt exclude for making the games as accessible as possible. But its not to make a game for the masses, thats MW3, StarField, Space Marine 2, Cyberpunk etc. A better comparison are Hearts of Iron, Armored Core, Scorn, Elden Ring. Niche games, but perfected Quality within their own genre.
SQ42 is the closest you get to be a game for the masses, I could see this. Star Citizen is a Space Simulator, with a lot of tedious gameplay even I dont know if I would like. Along with a Death of a spaceman Mechanics, that will exclude many of the Casual Gamers. People that think they will go out blasting with their space ships every game. Will be in for a suprise, it will not be like today. Choices adn actions, will have hard consequences like in real life.
Flying through asteroids isn’t a rare challenge. But a frequent activity
Excuse me??? ahhahaha why is that? There a way to make money? Or are people just adrenaline junkies?
@@KeroValentine well some of the bounties that we hunt are in asteroids. So we have to fly around 30Km to get there. And the faster you go. The quicker you can get to the fight. Also astroids are good places to mine. And fine good salvage from other ships that err… didn’t do so well on their last hunt
@@MaxPSVR Ahahahaha it all makes sense now. I'm sure as a pro, you never had the misfortune of crashing into one of those asteroids. 😆
@@KeroValentine oh ofc,but thats why we do noob flying school trains around yela asteroid belt.The hard part is going at pace with really big ships, like a starfarer or even carriers.
@@KeroValentine From an earlier comment I made. Here is a vid on people doing one of our fave past times. Hard flying. This is totally in game and requires a lot of skill. But also one of the most enjoyable experiences.
Hard flying. (Ps. You may want to record your reaction)
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Ps. Looks like my previous comment was accidentally deleted. As i can’t seem to find it. Sorry about that. But was just talking about how small 1 man starter ships like the Aurora could beat a massive gunship like the hammerhead in an asteroid field because the hammerhead isn’t as a manoeuverable. And that the pastime of hard flying is kinda fun even if it’s not profitable
I was surprised I got 120 hrs into SF because it was so grindy. The MMO this engine demo toured (SC) doesn't have classes or levels so time, money, and reputation is how progression pace and content access will be managed. Your gear and ship choice influence what you can potentially do but is mostly raw player skill via manual tasks. Get bored shooting stuff and want to try some quiet mining or salvaging? Grab the tools and rent/buy the right ship for the job in game and off you go. How well you do is determined by the effort you want to put in and learn the nuances of the systems and gear combos to maximize the returns. Want to take a couple space tanks with friends inside parked on the magnetic landing pad of you space mega yacht and fight other ships like it's a ww2 space battleship? Then drive them off the side of the deck and air drop them onto a planet to try to fly a tank like in the A-Team movie? You can just go do that if you want for some silly fun. There is also space racing as an occupation and some player leagues/events popping up like XGR or the annual Daymar Rally across a desert moon in land vehicles.
The single player game in this story (SQ42) universe is looking promising depending on how well it polishes out. I want those new HUDs and map UIs for SC and they are coming in over the next year it seems.
This November 17th will be the IAE (Intergalactic Aerospace Expo). It's basically an in-game event where all the ships are in an expo hall in a given city that you can visit. During this event (it should last about a week, or is it 2... can't remember), you can play the game absolutely free. Only need to create an account. During this period, the game will give you some ships for you to fly for free. BUT, you can just go to the expo and rent (almost) any of the ships there for free for 24 hours (or 48, can't remember).
You can try the game this way with no cost, and actually see what the current build of the Star Engine has (it still doesn't have a few of the things showcased, but what it has... it's impressive).
Be warned though, this game is still in alpha, and during free fly weeks the servers basically run like sh*t due to the load. But still, it should give you an insight of what they are trying to make.
Thanks! Bunch of other people recommended the same but no one went into as much detail as you did so I really appreciate it. As I was reading your comment, I was saying "man, there'll be a whole bunch of people on the servers then.."
But since it's 2 weeks, I'm sure I can get in there and get the gist of it lol
@@KeroValentine Just attempt to take a tour. You don't need to be a space fighter pilot or anything. Even just walking around the starter city you'll see so many details and cool stuff.
Even better if you can get one person to show you around, they can help you dodge bugs and know a lot about the game.
@@KeroValentineNo problem. If you curious about the "game" / project you can use these free flys to decide whether or not it's a game for you. I always tell people that if you don't like unpolished, and buggy experiences, then don't play this... not yet. Even during the regular year, the game is filled with bugs, crashes and disconnects (commonly known as 30k). But when it works... well... I won't spoil that :D
Another advice I'd give you, is to find tutorials on youtube. The game has a "tutorial", and you should play it... but it only tells you like 10% of the basic stuff you need to know imo. And trust me... there's a lot that you have to know to play the game.
@@KeroValentine yeah, get in there after a few days has gone by, and perhaps at a time when less people are on, since they will indeed be crowded, more so this year I think.
@@KeroValentine The IAE will be in New Babbage this year (the city near the start of the video). If you decide to try the free fly during that time I would suggest that you set NB as your permanent residence, that way it's just a quick train ride to the expo centre whenever you log in. Also, please make a video of your 1st attempt to fly a ship, it's usually a frustratingly hilarious experience. We will laugh at you but it's only because we've all been there.
"Meaningful quests" as in intercepting a payload of hyper fuel will raise the costs of refueling your ship at the hauler's destination.
A lot of the magical graphical stuff will have gameplay to go along with it. For instance, the fire actually spreads and propagates, and when it is finished it will be the beginning of firefighting for people on ships or at locations. You will have to decide if you need to vent atmosphere or put it out with extinguishers. If you don't your ship will be destroyed. You will need to have skill to stop the fire from spreading. A lot of the stuff is still being built such as engineering gameplay and repair, but there is a lot in the game now. Such as missions, cargo hauling, deliveries, PVP, Bounty Hunting, Mining, Salvage, exploration and Towing. But a lot of the really good stuff is still being developed. They are attempting to build an immersive and living world, so the types of things they want to do are to be simulated real life type careers. There will be story-based missions as well but most of it will be in your ability to try things and have fun. You won't be limited to what you can do. If you can think of it, you can do it. People have already tried a lot of it. For instance, I saw someone attempt to drop a bomb down and elevator shaft to blow someone up today.
Now I wanna try that too lol
Streaming is basically what is replaced loading screens. Think of it like the old clipplane, As you move closer to a destination things load in as you move further away from that location things load out. As for servers there are multiple servers I don't know the exact amount that they've dedicated for the alpha test bed but it stands to reason there will be hundreds of them. Each of them dedicated to a specific area of the game including individual interiors of spacecraft. Object container streaming is the thing that they have been working for the last 5 years to get right what this does is it allows you to stream your interactions from one server to the other when you fire a bullet across space that bullet will travel across several servers before it hits your opponent who might be playing in a separate server. But all the servers are linked together again the streaming is you transisting between all of those servers in real-time loading in and out what your computer needs to render the world around you.
Daamn, that sounds super tough to pull off. But I love the idea of randomly shooting at the horizon and the possibility of those shots to land on an innocent, unsuspecting travel ship days/weeks later by pure coincidence lol
@@KeroValentineAnd to clarify a bit what @HighmageDerin said. There are multiple servers, yes, but they aren't shards in the way Elder Scrolls Online or WoW has regional servers that are isolated from one another. It's more like EVE-Online where there's only one shard and the "multiple servers" are just localized computers that stream the data in.
It's the intention of CIG for there to be only one "shard" and no matter where you connect from you'll be in the same universe.
I think you're confusing server meshing with object container streaming. Object containers are local parts of the map which range from the entire solar system to the stuff in your pocket and everything in between. It's kind of like a menu system where each container is a file which is part of the heading above, and the farther down you go the more local the objects you are dealing with. Distant objects can be deleted from memory because they are too far to see or interact with.
Sever meshing allows you to have a large number of servers running the same area in concert without you noticing when you change servers as you move about. That primarily allows more players to be part of the same location at once. Dynamic server meshing will allow the servers to increase or decrease the size of the areas they are in control of on the fly.
My current best guess via player crowdsourcing is that there is 10 servers in Australia, 10 servers in Japan, 90 servers in Europe, and 90 servers in USA. Although this is just a guess by literally logging how many servers IDs players have logged into.
@@jkleylein ya, i mixed the 2 up. Thinking one thing, saying the other ;)
star citizen also utilizes eye tracking really well. In addition to missile locking via eye gaze targeting rather than aiming reticle so you can shoot off axis is an amazing little feature and your character's eyes and mouth move when you use Voip as well. This game is finally cresting that little hump it's been struggling to push uphill on. 2024 is gonna be huge for SC. I've been pledging since KS
FOIP* Face Over Internet Protocol
Nothing has ever come close to the immersive feeling of booting up Star Citizen with head tracking and a HOTAS setup for the first time. Looking around the cockpit to start the ship up, being able to look around as you fly is amazing.
wait they have actual eye-tracking now? I know they have been working with Tobii but I thought they only used that for head-tracking.
Squadron 42 is the story which sets up the MMO
Star Citizen is the MMO
Most of what you see is in game, in the testing server(pyro star system) or coming in after Citizencon last month, there is no fauna yet and it all runs better than Starfield on the same hardware. You could make this sort of video in-game right now flying in a ship, using the cinematic camera feature where you can move the camera where you want around you, and far away from you.
There are already Machinima's captured in game, like Overclocked, from Elite Expeditionary for example.
no way you say this runs better than starfield, i literally tried this game two days ago and it runs like crap on any place with players.
The little parts of sc where you sit and wait like Quantum Travel and use tram will be more appriated later on. It allows time for you to respond to mission contacts, manage your ship and crew, and whatever else comes uour way. Without them it will feel like alot.
That would definitely work. When I replayed Cyberpunk cuz of the expansion this year, a lot of the times I found myself taking the scenic route as I called my contacts or took time with my dialogues and it felt so darn immersive.
The ship wreck splash was a little lame there. But at the same event they showed a more updated version with all the sploding debris and splashing much improved.
Forgot to say, but you can also go to EVA ( Extra vehicular activitie) so you can just jump into space and "flying" around with your suite.
We have made some amazing stuff like jumping from a ship into the atmosphere of a planete
And another ship catch us jump while falling
Or even jumping with a tank from the sky
They are plenty of things to do, not in conventional way but more like a sand box
don't give me wrong the game has conventional "quest" but atm the best fun you get it's from games mechanics it self
This game is also only being developed for PC, not console. That makes a HUGE difference in what's possible.
star citizen is not only made for PC. It will be on consoles aswell. Its just not announced yet. Mark my words
@BaumbuckelvonerAJ ...do you know this? Do you have any evidence of this, or is this just wishful thinking. If they manage to pull that off and port this game over to "current gen" consoles, feature complete with comperable visuals, then I'll be even more impressed.
@@roland1931 the proof i have i can't share to protect the source. but the biggest evidence that is already shown for this is the hard decision to switch over to Vulkan and the new controller optimized UI. Thats everything i can tell you so far without leaking anyone
@@Moosbuckels_sexy_brother I'm fairly certain that when the project launched, they specifically stated the goal was for PC only. None of the current generation consoles can even run Star Citizen in its current form, much less the finalized version that they are shooting for. On top of which, CIG already has its hands full with getting the game finished on PC. They can't be spending time trying to get it run on an additional two or more platforms with different operating systems. They might consider it in 10 years if there is a major jump in console technology, but not right now.
@@OmegaZyion and that's where you are wrong. current gen consoles can run SC as well as an PC can. The problem is not the hardware
the universe part, which is the MMO, was used to help make SQ42, which is the solo campaign... and this game had no loading screens since like 2015 if i remember correctly
" I wonder if someone has already been flying through those asteroid at full speed "
--> I did it in Star Citizen, 7 years ago !!! It's been years that we have a solar system to play with ;D
8:30 - LMAO :) There is so many locations that i do not know them all (over 500h in SC) - Im so glad that i had Star Citizen before i played Starfield. NPCs and animals gonna be added fully - rest of it you can find right now in SC.
I also like how no one can handle with their mind what you can do in Star Citizen until you try it. There is no goal - there is no path - You can do ANYTHING!
Just got SC this past weekend. Its Gorgeous on Ultra settings on a Ryzen 7 & RTX 3070, and probably the most immersive game ive ever played. ONLY $45.00 for the game plus a starter ship.
I spent about 10 minutes in Starfield and went right back to Star Citizen. There is just nothing else like it in existence.
o7 Citizen!
Starfield: 25 years in the making. Using a 20 years old engine.
Star Citizen: 11 years, CREATING their own engine /a SINGLE PLAYER game (Squadron 42) and Star Citizen (MMO) at the same time.
not to mention starting with 3 people 11 years ago, they have also built a world wide game studio at the same time as building the games and the engine
New Babbage is named after a famous pioneer of computer science, Charles Babbage
Oh that's cool!
Star Citizen is a Space Job Simulator more than a Story Driven RPG, people essentially make their own "stories" by living their life in that universe. How you play determines how the world reacts to you, mostly though reputation based factions.
There is lore, which informs most of the game.
If you want pure story Driven experiance, they Have Squadron 42, which is the Single player game which will precede Star Citizen Proper.
Squadron 42 is for sure more suited to me. However I'd like a bite sized RP mode sort of like the Gmod RP servers where you can come in, mess around and do cool stuff without needing to invest high amount of hours or money. That'd be really cool!
It's an MMO and they have just succeeded at creating the first dynamic server meshing tech ever. It is working on a small scale, they demoed it live at the convention, now they just have to scale it up.
But you are wrong, you will be able to do everything. We don't get classes, in fact right now there are 0 restrictions at all, but later on there will be a dynamic skill system where your character gets better at certain activities the more you do them, such as handling g-forces, sprinting, lifting heavy things or aiming, but without skill points, simply by repetition like IRL.
during the demo they already said its working at any scale ^^ !
the main difference between SC and SF is that SC allows the players to experience full immersion, instead of loading screens, in SC you can actually go in and out of atmosphere with your ship seamlessly from space to planets/moon and vice versa, in SF you only have cutscenes of your ship taking off and landing. Most of what's shown here, you can already experience it in the current version of SC which is still at alpha stage.
I'm already imagining trying out this game in VR and how awesome it would be lol
@@KeroValentine you should try even when the ships is on fast travel ( in sc they call it quantum travel), its really not a loading screen because while you are in QT mode, you can get off from your seat,and just walk around inside your ship, sit somewhere, lying on your bed if you are in much bigger ships. YOu can even swap the camera angle to outside so you could see how your ship fast travel,and you can pan the camera pretty much all around if you wanna see your ship, from front, back, top or bottom. If its loading screen you only see a static screen with loading screen bar or text and you cant do anything and just need to wait, in SC you didnt have to do it.
The only loading screen you will have is when you start the game from clicking the game launcher and another loading when you are in the game menu to take you into the game, after that its pretty much seamless and no loading screen at all, you can travel far or short distance within the verse freely. I play both SC and SF, and I cant fully immersed myself in SF the way I did in SC. the planet is also fully explorable, like you can land anywhere if you want to, and then go by ground vehicle or by foot, or even fly your ship low if you really want to rotate the full circumference of the planet,, but I wouldnt advise that as its gonna take a while , especially on foot , it will take very long also in SC, there's thirst and hunger gauge, so overtime you will deplete this and you need to eat or drink, it also depends on the weather some planets are very harsh like freezing cold or scorching hot, so if your space suit is not suitable, you wont survive long enough and usually they will give you warning of how long you can stay outside and it ranging from minutes to like hours.
I forgot to add while in Quantum Travel ( QT mode), you can even cancel the QT midway and you will end up in space somewhere lol
@@KeroValentineIn the current PTU (Player Test Universe) there is support for Tobii eyetracker and other head tracking devices. That really steps up the immersion without having to have a huge heavy thing on your head. There is also support for all kinds of controllers, including sticks and throttles so you can have a HOTAS (Hands on Throttle and Stick) or HOSAS (Hands on Stick and Stick) controller configuration.
Not that I'm defending Starfield for its flaws, because I'm not. But the real main difference between SF and SC is that SC is being developed for high end PCs only. SC won't be avaliable on any console in this version.
That truely expands what's possible.
in the end, there will be only ONE server fort all of us. With Server Meshing about to be implemented this and more is now possible beyond our wildest dreams! Imagine a server/Verse with multiple Millions of players all at once... Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How is your PC going to render millions of players at once pray tell?
The distance between planets is extremely reduced. The planets Microtech and Crusader, the moon Yela, all spaceships, and other content are currently in Live servers. There are a total of 4 planets and several moons in the current solar system.
Water FX, fire FX, and animals are still in development. Some locations like settlements are not in the game yet. The Pyro system is currently in testing servers. It should be on Live servers hopefully by the beginning of next year.
the longest Ive ever waited for a city transit thingy was 1 minute. the previous one left 1 second ago.
To answer some of your main questions, there are "quests" but the game is more of a sandbox. Think GTA Online, where there are missions to complete for various tasks to gain currency which can be done by mining, cargo transport, responding to player or NPC distress signals (A player can broadcast a distress signal which turns into a mission for other players to rescue them from deep space if their ship is dead), missions to check crash sights on planets or board a downed ship and learn it's fate on ground or in space (this game is also an FPS, and you will encounter AI/Players that you will have to shoot COD style) but generally the fun is up to you, but unlike GTA, instead of a city, it's a solar system (currently). In terms of sound design, the sounds are physics based, so while the camera is flying around there won't be a lot you can hear (except for when the camera goes into warp), unless the camera gets really close. They've muted a lot of it though since they're trying to show off everything. But sound in the game is top notch. There's not much lore per say, but Squadron 42 will take care of that, with the persistent universe being the "aftermath" of the single player game.
Long story short, what ever it is you think you should be able to do in or out of a spaceship, there's a good chance you're able to do it in Star Citizen. In terms of the pricing of the ships and a lot of the monetary controversy, of course if you have thousands of dollars you can just go buy every ship, but all ships are available for purchase in game, along with all land vehicles and racing modded vehicles and ships (there is also ground, air, and space racing, all of which are affected by the physics of the planet, bird or jet shaped ships will do far better in the air for example, but in space other ships have the advantage). They also have a system in place that allows you to slowly upgrade your ships instead. Say you pay initially to play and get a starter pack with a ship etc for $40, if you see a ship on the website worth say $80, you can choose to remove your current ship for the $80 one, then pay the $40 difference instead of paying the full $80. This is what a lot of people opt in to doing instead, and using that ship to play the game and earn currency in game to buy other ships for their hangar.
There are also various third party set ups including subreddits where people buy and sell ships and you can find some really good deals there or just straight swaps. The market is player driven so it'll be up to you if you want to spend your money or just have fun in game with your mates until you can all pool your in game cash to buy that bigger ship you were looking for.
As I said, the game is a sandbox and there's so much you can do, don't feel obliged to pay real money past the first entry point to play, even the cheapest ship in the game can still do the easiest bounty hunting missions for some quick and fun cash. It's entirely up to you how you want to play. Even the biggest of wallet warriors can't see you EVA out of your ship and fly over to his to board it and kill them lol.
The only thing to worry about is that it's very much like Escape from Tarkov, if you die, you lose everything you have on you and everything you had in your ship at the time, but after a quick respawn back at your home city, you can gear up again, ping the insurance agency to deliver you your new ship, and after a few minutes waiting for it to arrive, you're back in the cockpit and heading back out.
Currently there's no real narrative, that's Squadron 42's job, but as long as you like exploring and running into people and generally having fun with your friends, you'll have a good time. As long as no one is expecting the game to tell you what to do. It won't hold your hand through anything when you first log in. But the community is very generous and will help you out with anything, and will even send you some loose cash to get you started. It's a cool thing to see so many people just not being toxic lol.
@KeroTheGoat there are missions, lots of them but the most fun is the Sandbox Play. Theres Piracy, Mining, Cargo Running, Ship Salvage, FPS Combat, Ship Combat & can happen almost anywhere.
Yeah check out the new version of this engine demo they uploaded on their official channel now! They did fix the bugs, and added some more detail while they were at it. Pretty sure Orison not having NPCs, and the water effects at the end, were actually bugged! Or simply unfinished. And yet still, it was awesome as it was already. But the new version addressed that stuff and made it work better! You also get a current velocity and distance meter.
NPC performance is not the strong suit of Star CItizen at this point. Quite often they'll be standing around doing nothing, arms straight out like a plane flying, often standing on chairs. NPC crew is said to be a feature, and they have discussed it a little bit recently. Everything is possible to be changed, especially things said early on in development. It was said that each additional game package on a single account gives an NPC crewman. Eight game packages total would give you seven npc crew members that you don't have to pay. We are said to be able to rent crew as well.
Bedbannanas Prison Escape and War for Jumptown are great videos to see how the game actually plays.
I ran this game on i5 3rd Gen, and GTX970..on low sure..but very playable.
Most important thing is to put the game on SSD, because it has no loading screen.
and maybe 32 Gigs of RAM for convenience. Alt-Tabbing Chrome and other stuff.
That's a sign of good optimization. Happy to see you don't need to break the bank to run this SOB
I’m really excited for the Fire system and AI improvements.
Currently the AI are a bit underwhelming because it’s running hundreds of AI on the same server and you get a bunch of them just standing still in the same of a hallway.
Server meshing plans to fix that so I’m excited to see how it works.
64-bit large world coordinates means you can have a level span (assuming 1 unit = 1 meter for simplicity, this assumption is not accurate to Star Citizen because they need to be more precise than that for fps gameplay to work) 9,007,199,254,741 km vs a 32-bit coordinate system which can only reach 16,777,215 km using the same metric.
Also this tech demo is primarily an advertisement for other game development studios to buy rights to use the engine. It's only secondarily an advertisement for Star Citizen. Which is why they don't show any gameplay.
Maybe Starfield should have gotten this engine lol 💀💀
You are confusing integer numbers with floating point numbers. They differ greatly on how numbers are represented in binary.
According to CIG they can do around 800 million kilometers on each axis with 64bit floating point numbers (before precision issues arise).
@@SETHthegodofchaos Yes I was assuming integer values for the sake of simplicity. As floating point values bring in more complexity than a layman could handle.
@@BornAgainstAllI am sure there are ways to keep it simple while being as correct as possible...
@@SETHthegodofchaos I would encourage you to try for me then. As I would struggle too much, and it would have only bloated my original comment.
Star Citizen is a sandbox MMORPG that you are watching. It has a lot of lore (history) but you "live" in this galaxy and make your own story. Squadron 42 is the connected first-person game where you follow a storyline and use the same engine (which also has an amazing trailer that came out at the same convention). After the initial $45 for a starter ship and game package, you never need to pay any more money because all items and ships can be bought in-game. I have run this game on an i5 Laptop with 16gb ram, nVidia 1050T, and an SSD. The only real equipment requirement is an SSD. Now I run it on an i7, with 32gb ram, nVidia 3070, and an SSD. I usually get 40fps in the cities and they are still optimizing the game and will use Vulken and server meshing to push the FPS even higher. 90% of the game is already complete and playable now, with the seamless transitions, the ships, the cities, the landscapes,. With the other 10% coming in the next year (physical destruction, player-built cities, crafting, water graphics, etc).
there's a full on functional race track in the yela asteroid belt.
"I wonder if this game has a story?" *Looks on timeline of the game and it's history* Welp looks like it has more than a story.
Also cool thing is that you know when you leave a planet or station you know life goes on there and is simulated even if you arent there. Its all connected. I love that. And its cool only to be there, visit planets and feeling the atmosphere 😍
They seem to pay attention to many small details which will pay off in the end by having a universe that feels alive!
You know it's good stuff when he doesn't even realize they went from the Stanton star system to the Pyro system without loading screens.
and the carrack which is the multicrew ship they showed at the start you can drive your land rover then fly to space and go to the hangar and fly out with your snub fighter from the on board hangar
World-building always comes first, and then the stories follow. In Star Citizens' case, it's Universe-building first, and we know a universe is astronomically huge, so it takes time. Lots of it.
21:23 For story there will be Squadron 42, Star Citizen is more like an sandbox but in the future there will be some small story quests. Or you could just find some lore items here and there. To be honest at this stage I don't know what game I'm playing lol
Damn dude. Great video. Can tell it took some effort to make. You even moved your face-cam so that it wouldn't cover all of the text... That's attention to detail. It's important to feel proud of your work.
Ahhsshsh this bugged me too but with OBS, what you record is what you get.. hard to fix it afterwards. I'll try and be more mindful on my next go around.
So where can I buy star citizen
yes the game has a story in the SC universe, SQ42 is the single player story driven campaign within the SC universe. SC is the sandbox multiplayer,
You WANT to play this. Free fly starting Nov 17th. for two weeks.
One of the best games I ever played very emersive and detailed. I often forget that I am playing a game. It's easy to get caught up in time with it. So many things to do in this game and has something for everyone. Welcome to the verse
Moments like that are why we all play video games. Can't wait to experience it myself. Thanks for the welcome
was going to comment, but the video is 18 hours old at time of watching and as per usual the Star Citizen community has probably answered all of your questions lol. Just a quick hi and welcome and nice reaction comment from me. There is a video of the Squadron 42 demo on the Cloud Imperium Games youtube channel which is the single player game part of this (I am sure someone else already linked), and as to your first question, yes there is a lot of lore and story behind the universe, as you picked up on noticing the different ship manufacturers. The game is set in our own universe, just 900 years in the future so there is lore going all the way back to how we got from now to then... AstroHistorian does excellent breakdown of this, and also the recent Citizencon goes much deeper into 2 of the things you said, including cloth tech and the water physics which aren't shown here as best they could be. edit: guess I did comment after all.
Guess you did hahah, thanks tho you're the second person to recommend AstroHistorian. Will definitely give his channel a gander!
Slight outsider insider info. Squadron 42 is technically a prequel to Star Citizen, and is a "Single player" version of the multiplayer. This also means that in single player YOU are the server, that in multiplayer, they use.
Crazy how far this game has come, CIG invented a lot of crazy tech that was shown during Citcon that proves that the true vision of Star Citizen is actually attainable. Persistent Entity Streaming, Replication layers and perhaps most importantly, SERVER MESHING with players actually interacting with each other seamlessly from SEPARATE SERVERS. This stuff has never been done before, at least not on this scale and detail. If this game achieves even just 75% of what Chris Roberts set out to do, it might become one of the greatest online games in history.
5:10 - "AI Crew? Or just other players?"
AI Crew is a "someday but not yet" feature.
NPCs have a rudimentary "personality and trait" system already, but so far it's only being employed in PvE targets. The official plan is you'll be able to recruit NPCs, view what their skill specialties and traits are like, assign roles to them however you would determine who is best for each, and even issue equipment for them to use... "SOMEDAY™️". A "tier 0" (extremely basic, low-depth, prototype) implementation doesn't even have a time horizon on it yet. Definitely not within 1 year, probably not within 5 years, possibly within 10 - remember, this is not a product but a PROJECT. Not an event but a process. It will continue to develop and refine *indefinitely* after it's "out", like Minecraft. And technically, YOU CAN PLAY IT RIGHT NOW. RIGHT NOW!
For the mean time however, you can only get players to man your ships with you.
If you want to get your feet wet without having to pay any money, there are free fly events where you can download and play Star Citizen for free. Next one starts Nov. 17.
I look forward to the day when I can interact with pretty much NPC, with even just a basic hello. Once that is in it'll be 10 times as complicated as that, with all the stuff we've seen!
This game is so much more than starfield or any game out there, it's even wrong to compare it with starfield..
Transit isn't something you use all the time, but since you can't pause the game little stuff like that becomes downtime to pick up missions/chat in the server.
AI isn't where it needs to be yet, and probably the most unrealistic part of this demo vs what you currently have in game. Looks great in this single view demo, but in a multiplayer server its one of the most obvious issues still in game. Probably will get fixed as SQ42 (single player game version of the MMO) features come to the broader game.
All the locations/ships though you saw are all fully in game and drivable/flyable
Bethesda taking 7 years for starfield with an already built engine, money in the pocket, devs who know how the engine works.
CIG taking 11years building an engine from the ground up, creating 2 games, one MMO and one SP game.
Yeah i think SC and SQ42 will blow many games off once they are out.
If what i heard is true and SQ shoudl release with the idris... 2024 will be huge XD
You can literally use basei thrusters to fly to a planet in the solar system. Takes a long time but possible.
eveything you saw until pyro is already in the game except animals
It's a fantastic world, but the maximum number of people on a server is 130. That's why the developers are introducing a new technological innovation called the server meshing. There's a technical video about this from the annual conference a few weeks ago. Now that's a world first!
Yes Server Meshing
@@yeawhateverdudesure Would this potentially allow for... pretty much infinite amount of players?
@@KeroValentineYes. If you’re interested in how it works the have made videos about it but the ultimate goal is to have the entire playerbase play in a single game session, not instanced like how games do it now
Nothing about it is new. Every MMO does it.
@@Wylie288that just isn't true at all. CIG are creating sever meshing that allows you to interact across servers and dynamically on fly cross those server meshes. Things like PS2 can't for instant interact with the server it is attached too. You can't even see into them. With that you also don't have persistence to that.
That is only the first stage of server meshing as well. There is dynamic meshing that will be the stage after (in like 5yrs course) but yeah. There is a reason Devs I know personally are excited to see what CIG can do with their system cause no game has managed that to date and is very much unique.
I miss a place you can call home (base building) it will come but the question is when?
As long as we don't have this I won't play it anymore it bores me.
Squadron 42 is the single player experience and star citizen is the mmo.
Lore in this game is mostly just things like 'In this year, humanity made first contact with aliens' or 'this is the year that the war with these aliens started'. It has some more detailed things like information on one of the big gangs in the game, or information on when the first civilian starship was released, but it's mostly all just to set up a timeline rather than actual lore.
Also this wasn't ingame, it was in engine, there is a difference. It means it could potentially be ingame, but this is all scripted and run directly through the engine rather than being recorded ingame.
And to people who argue it was ingame... if they had this stuff ingame in the state we are shown in this video, they would have released it already because what they have shown here is ready to go, particularly the water effects and the destruction. The reason they haven't, is because these systems do not exist in the game. They are only showcasing what the engine is CAPABLE of. This was all shown off in an isolated simulation of the engine. This is not 'playable' is one way to put it.
People bashing too much on the trains. It's a short wait and only if you respawn or logout in one of the main cities. Most people have to use the train maybe once per day ... Which takes 2-3 minutes max.
Star Citizen is not really an MMORPG. The term they use is FPU, first person universe, a sandbox MMO with some RPG elements in it. Emergent gameplay will be the most important thing.
The music for the game is not copyrighted in such that you would end up getting penalized or a takedown
"Star Citizen" is the open-world (galaxy) MMO sandbox game. "Squadron 42" is the single-player version.
I doubt CGI will copyright strike you for using their music. Reacting to a Tech demo.
music is Free acces
The thing is, music is usually outsourced to other companies. So it might not be CIG that would attempt a copyright strike.
@@OmegaZyion Not in this case.
@@OmegaZyion These are 2 musicians hired at CIG
persistent universe. like you wreck your ship, it will stay there until someone salvages it o_o you could be exploring your own ship wreck months later because you forgot about it
I love the idea hahahah
They have an update version of this video released by CIG.