There are so many things to actually criticize CIG for that it seems weird to come up with something like this out of nowhere. When they were last selling SQ42 as a standalone it was $40. Despite all of the entirely justified memes about expensive ships you can still buy the complete Star Citizen game for $45 and unlock all those ships in game. While CIG have zero problem shilling $5000 ship packages to overly eager whales, they've always kept their base asking price impressively low.

I feel like you're misreading what I wrote if that's your takeaway.

For sure. And while the CPU comment is valid (and funny), I'm suggesting that it's also being carried by required minimum hardware that didn't even exist during that CPU's production run.

Yeah at the time I had a Radeon HD 5850, which I think was a decent price-value balance, and that had 1GB.

Considering the game still requires a minimum of 16gb of memory and an 8gb graphics card I wouldn't say it's not pushing more and more graphics. All that the specs imply is that the bottleneck will be the GPU.

Recent reviews: mixed 64%

A list of things that will happen before this game actually comes out:

• Trump Dies
• Putin apologizes and withdraws from Ukraine
• Netanyahoo declares a Palestinian state
• my ex wife stops being a bitch
• My current wife converts to Christianity.

It’s not optimization if you just never upgraded the hardware you started production on

this isnt star citizen the multiplayer game but the single player story. no network code. star citizen has been more if a test bed fir thus game

For him it seems fine 😁

Plot twist: Crackhappy converted after bitch ex wife and is now happily married to his husband

You're correct. back then the standard was still 2GB with some cards offering 3 or 4 GB. 2014 the first 8GB was released, but that was one board manufacturer going beyond the chip manufacturer specifications. Another 2 years later, the RX 480 and GTX 1070 came out with 8GB.

Some games beat out the vast majority of Hollywood. A small selection (with a focus on more indie titles, because that's I play):

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Citizen Sleeper I (and to a lesser extent II, albeit if II was released first it would beat I)
Lone Survivor
Cloudpunk
Don't Escape
Consortium
Age of Decadence
Roadwarden

better than anticipated actually

In what way? Genuinely curious? What was the expectation and why was it overcome?

Heart of Darkness

You're saying SQ42 will be like Heart of Darkness?

I find this difficult to believe. What makes you say that?

From my perspective, just a mere dark and foreboding presentation doesn't mean anything. Wing Commander: The Movie was supposed to be serious, but it transforms more into an unintentional comedy for trash space sci-fi and b-movie nerds.

You're saying SQ42 will be like Heart of Darkness?

No, I'm not. Let me absolutely clear about that. I'm not saying anything about what SQ42 will be like, because I haven't played it, and I haven't had this confirmed by anyone who has.

What I am saying is that those comparisons were brought up by the writers early on in the development. Whether that has any bearing on the finished product remains to be seen.

Take a look at the discussions of Wing Commander 4 elsewhere in this thread if you want a better idea of the kind of stuff Chris Roberts likes to do when he's not beholden to a publisher. If your only yardstick here is the Wing Commander movie, you're really not looking at a very helpful data point.

But, again, I'm only talking about hints and intimations. I don't have hard facts about the game and I'm not claiming to.

"Focus on optimization" = normal people can not get close to affording shit beyond their existing 10 year old hardware.

Just go to Youtube and find the latest Squadron 42 videos.

Basically, great story, compat and overall very playable game.

Allegedly the new trailer on Steam only shows actually in-game graphics.

Mind you that properly means a beefy CPU and a 5090 but nevertheless

Even as someone who is legitimately excited for this game to come out, this reaction is so completely justified. CIG have only themselves to blame for all the skepticism at this point.

Of course, they're also continuing to make money hand over fist, so I guess they don't really care...

I'm sure you could fit 150GB of uncompressed assets on a CD though right?

Just a bit more polishing everything is basically ready any day now trust

Sapphire 290X VaporX 8GB

I have one :)

Idk man...Star Citizen is a famous resource hog.. and i dont think they reinvent the wheel with SQ42

They let around 100 people play the game throughout the weekend.

All reviews where very favorable.

So,.I think sq42 is pretty close to release

They are getting more money each year...

Funny enough in SC its definitely the CPU in many cases

So 600 years into the future and the Earth's army sounds exactly like the US Army of today, but looks a lot whiter? wow there's been some ethnic cleansing in this Empire

That makes sense. If they set up the pipeline for Star Citizen, then cut out all of the processing needed for networking, then you end up with a lot of headroom on the CPU. However, some of this will obviously be consumed by AI (as in video game AI).

Last time they had a free weekend and I checked it out, the game still ran like doodoo on my machine built in 2016.

• Grand Theft Auto 7 releases. Not 6. Seven.

And not even the same genre.

That was star citizen, the mmo, this is squadron 42, the single player game

Yes, I think it would be way more fun to play if they spoke some language I don't understand or at least said "frak" a lot.

Squadron 42 is included in whatever I backed.

So you've played it?

How can you trust PR contractor output? This is not even a Star Citizen thing, one does not take advertisement and press releases literally.

Oops, same, I paid 37 dollars back in 2012. I did NOT remember this at all, though I occasionally watched news about Star Citizen, thinking what idiots would buy the game lol