Star Citizen is Almost Mainstream

Star Citizen is currently free to play during it's Invictus Launch Week event. It also just got its biggest update ever and it's shockingly... playable? Lets check it out.

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[georgeorwell]

I wonder how many backers have died of old age during the development of this game.

[teambattleground]

This game is not ready for us to show our friends unfortunately there's way too many bugs. That's what I fear when there are free fly events because we are invested in the game we put up with the bugs but trying to show this game to people who don't know anything about it turns them off

[_DAVADER_]

This game needs tons of ai roaming around, going after their business, working, committing crimes, getting in a police chace etc. Imagine this game, at this scale but with GTA like liveliness.

[thehandleiwantedwasntavailable]

I started with SC one year ago. After about 80 hours I decided it was best visited every 6 months or so. 4.0 will be my next visit and I’m happy to be along for the ride.

[kjaesp]

"if", "when" and "potential" are doing a lot of heavy lifting in this video tbh :P

[jmcorp]

You could make a drinking game out of every time you said massive

[pbiza]

I walked down my ships ramp and died. I'll give it another go in a year.

[lxlKHARMAlxl]

LevelCap in 30 years: "Star Citizen is finally in beta testing. It is really fun and almost ready!"

[YaBoi-vjtl]

I recently came across a free fly player, who joined the game for the first time from games like Tarkov. It took us over an hour to get off planet due to bugs, failures, or other crashes and issues. Until server meshing is complete, and these bugs and de-sync can be resolved, its nkt ready. He wasnt very pleased eith his experience.

[Mediocrity_In_Action]

This is the best the game has ever run for me. Ive tried several free fly events over the last year or two and its always been laughably bad. Like, half the time I didnt even make it to the hanger, bad. But this event has been a blast for me. I havent run across any game breaking bugs. I enjoyed it so much I actually bought a starter ship.

[johnnytrongaming]

CIG needs to understand people are getting less patient with buggy broken games. They should really start working towards better servers if they want to bring in more players. I’m hoping server meshing is that “savior” patch.

[anthonypllu]

lots to do in the game at the moment but nearly none if it works,
1. Cargo sometimes doesnt spawn ( takes credits and doesnt give you anything )
2. Some ships wont power on leaving you stuck in the drivers seat with no choice but to altf4 the game and reclaim the ship
3. Characters stuck holding items in hand leaving you to have to hold back space and die
4. ships not spawning in hangers
5. heart rate bugging out sitting at 190bpm constantly so not being able to run, slowly losing health and dying
6. larger ships not being able to dock and undock then getting the ship inpounded becuase your in the way because you cant undock
7. elevators bugging in ships causing you to be stuck under them
8. clipping through ships and stations causing you to be yeeted into space and dying
9. falling through your ship while in QT forcing you to just sit in the chair the whole trip
10. hanger doors not oppening but looking like they are open so you drive your ship straight into the door and it explodes
11. being stuck in a seat forcing you to have to alt f4 the game and reclaim the ship
12. stuck in ship beds with only option given to log off, so having to have someone come and blow the ship up just so you can get out

and these are only the bugs ive seen the few hours ive played since the last patch

it can take hours just to succesfully do anything, witch is a pitty as when its all working its absolutly brilliant

[darkmadrap]

to be honest levelcap, i tried going to the expo center from invictus day 1 aka the 17th, and got periodic 10 - 15 secs freezes every 2 minutes . got me so worked up i ended up alt f4

[marsaeternum]

content creators can have a VERY negative effect in SC considering that SC is an open development. I am so worried of it becoming more and more popular.

[MyNNM]

As someone that has been playing for a long time... This "game" is not ready for the masses at all.
There is literally nothing that isn't broken in some way.

And hte bugs range from wasting hours of your time to literally bricking your acc, so you have to reset or wait for the next patch.

Also, performance is not good and with the free flight, the lag and desync is insane.

Only way to actually play this is if you are already heavily invested in the project and know something about every broken system, feature and bug.

[jello]

being able to spawn on regular medic beds is actually huge. i totally missed this update.

[KOAP]

This game is like a prison life sentence 12 years done 12 years more to go!!!

[ZachlyS]

Average Star Citizen enjoyer: "Just bought my 10th ship with real money and couldn't be happier aimlessly flying it around for another 300 hours."
Star Citizen devs and marketing: "Good, gooood! Our marketing leaders have ordered us to prepare another batch of ships for you to buy. Be ready to be amazed."

[cm]

It's fun but still super buggy. I would recommend coming back in 4.0 or 2025

[KeystheBatcave]

I’m curious what would the consensus be among gamers if this was EA or Bethesda that had a title in develop for little over a decade game and used crowd funding at the tune of 590 million dollars and still in beta.