How about the people that bought the game 3 years ago?
Backed in October 2012 and I don't mind waiting. How about speak for yourself.
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How Star Citizen Plans to do Much of What No Man's Sky Doesn't
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Backed in October 2012 and I don't mind waiting. How about speak for yourself.
He didn't learn his lesson after financing the open-dev crowdfunded game that is NMS ?
"NMS was a disappointment so every game from now on will be the same ! Don't believe their LIES !"
You cannot get misleaded with SC if you follow the development closely. They are honestly as open and clear as any dev could be...
That was absolutely not the case with NMS and the comparison between the two projects is pointless.
Look at his avatar champ.
GuitarAtomik
Member
How about the people that bought the game 3 years ago?
Yeah. I think I backed for $35 not long after the KS ended. I did it with the knowledge it wasn't going to exist for a LONG while (my rig at the time wasn't even close to capable of running what they were showing). It's blown up to be way more ambitious than what I payed for back then (in a good way). With as much as they're putting in to this thing, I think that's a steal assuming most of it comes together. If not, oh well. I wasted a measly $35 that I spent 2 or 3 years ago..
It is more ambitious clearly, but NMS was made by like 3 people who made some 2D bike game or something. Plus they were so high they started making features up.
Deckard Chapel
Banned
I sincerely hope that this project comes together.
I just fear that the scope of Chris Roberts vision outweighs what can feasibly be done in reality.
1000+ people on a server playing a game with Crysis quality graphics??
That seems a bit too far-reaching.
I just fear that the scope of Chris Roberts vision outweighs what can feasibly be done in reality.
1000+ people on a server playing a game with Crysis quality graphics??
That seems a bit too far-reaching.
iHaunter
Member
That is not correct. 2.0 Alpha was 2.0 Alpha, the same one they played.
30 times the team though so the math works!
Umm. Already mentioned that it is going to be instanced so no you won't be able to get 1000 people on the same server. I think the current version of the multiplayer has a limit of 20 or so. My guess is that it will be limited to around 50 or 60 ships in a single instance at launch.
JustSomeone
Member
The server in online games isn't doing any graphical processing, for starters.
BlackClouds
Member
Should be a fine game in late 2018, 2019, can't wait.
Haven't seen anything of the game outside of knowing my friend Pedro is scoring it, but I watched the Gamescom demo and I was blown away! A gripe I have with NMS is that it's a little to colurful and cartoony...but this? Oh man....ill be keeping a very close eye on it from now on.
Deckard Chapel
Banned
Really?
Then why do the "World Of Warcraft" servers buckle at times; even though they are using far inferior graphics?
Just asking...
Why do the gaf severs buckle at times even though they are using far inferior graphics?
Tracking players, actions, and objects is all that's done on server-side, graphics are processed on the user end.
Because they are doing the gameplay logic work. Which isn't all that heavy but once you start doing it for several players it stacks up. On top of that it is usually a bit of code that really doesn't run all that well in parallel (see Eve online and their YEARS of work to make these 2000+ ship battles work. though even then the game has to run at 10% of normal speed) so you are quite often limited to the speed of a single cpu thread for many things.
They get those milestones done, I don't think they ever got a release date right but it still end up being released.
1/2 OT post incoming: I find the seamless movement from outer space onto the planet's surface highly fascinating, but when I watched the Gamescom footage I asked myself if we will ever overcome pop-ups / visible LOD changes and low-resolution shadows.
Please don't understand this as bashing, this isn't something particular annoying in this game, quite the opposite I can understand and better live with these limitations in a game of this scale, it is just a general question. Is there tech to avoid this on the horizon?
Please don't understand this as bashing, this isn't something particular annoying in this game, quite the opposite I can understand and better live with these limitations in a game of this scale, it is just a general question. Is there tech to avoid this on the horizon?
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Already have in this thread.
There are plenty of research on shadows and some might even work for star citizen.
IE. shadowmaps which use virtual texturing as it's base are quite interesting and might work.
For planet surface self shadows they already seem to use custom solution and create shadows during creation time. (Store it to texture etc.)
It's visible up to space and looks stable, which is very important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8AzNjLqyX8