Star Citizen: A PC-Only Space Sim by Chris Roberts

To be clear, Star Citizen will be a persistent online world, with a single player campaign called Squadron 42. It will be both privately and crowd-funded, no publisher. Cry Engine-powered (All that stuff in the trailer is real time). Also, cockpit views!

The RPS Preview.

The Eurogamer preview

edited 10th Oct '12 9:10:29 AM by edvedd

The downloadable version isn't available, but Gamespot's showing of the GDC Online presentation by Chris Roberts for the game is set up to repeat.

robertsspaceindustries.com is getting slashdotted, but for those wanting to pledge money towards the project, here is a backup of the N. America pledge site, and here is the EU pledge site backup.

edited 10th Oct '12 9:20:27 AM by Nohbody

I'm not a big Space Sim guy, but hot damn that trailer is a face-melter.

edited 10th Oct '12 9:22:02 AM by edvedd

Reminds me of Wing Commander, and in a good way. Not enough to really gauge what exactly is this game going to play like, though. Will it be an arcade-style up close dogfigts and WWII style combat manuevers, or sim-like in the sense of space having a sense of no intertia and heavy drag on the fighter?

Sgt, the video of the presentation I linked to shows some actual flying in game that isn't recorded in advance, but Roberts actually flying a fighter in realtime.

edited 10th Oct '12 9:29:06 AM by Nohbody

There's a whole video on physics on the official site, if you can reach it. You'll probably be wanting a joystick.

Oh man, this reminds me so much of Freelancer (a criminally under-rated game, by the way). I've got a pretty good feeling about this; it makes me think of a spiritual successor to the sequel to the aforementioned game that never quite materialised. I also got a little kick out of the out-of-ship segments of the trailer for some reason.

I'll be watching this one eagerly.

So that's why this game reminds me of Wing Commander - this guy MADE the series!

Courtesy of yours truly, now has a basic work page that Needs Wiki Magic Love.

And because the original site keeps getting pummeled, Roberts has created an alternate Kickstarter page.

What's wrong with his original page? Too much traffic?

^ Yeah, among other things.^note About which I can't talk. I'm not part of the project, but I know one of the people involved in it.

I'm in love. And there's no way I can ever run this.

They're not talking about releasing it until November 2014, assuming they can meet the crowdfunding goal of $2M (they're at $1.675M currently, RSI.com and Kickstarter combined) in another ~3 weeks.

Plenty of time to save up for updated components.

(Here's hoping that if there's a Windows 9 by then, it doesn't continue on the shit-tacular trend started by W8. )

edited 22nd Oct '12 4:42:08 PM by Nohbody

I should probably do some upgrading sometime between now and then. I'll get something top of the line now so it can be obsolete by then.

Well, you could always wait until they release specs for it. It's Cry Engine 3, if that means anything.

This looks fun. If I can manage to upgrade my new PC, I might be able to run this when it comes out. Looks like the cool community parts of EVE Online, but with the boring stuff out. I'm hoping to get the mech controller for Hawken, hope that works with it.

edited 23rd Oct '12 4:35:02 AM by Ninjaxenomorph

Actually, I have never played a real space sim, the closest to an 'Sci-fi'-sim with an awesome controller was an inherited Mechwarrior 4 game with joystick and throttle. What do you need to play a space sim, peripherally-minded?

Depends on the space sim. If you go for Freelancer, all you need is a keyboard and mouse.

I mean, what peripherals are generally used in space sims, besides a joystick?

Anyway, I will buy into the Kickstarter when I get paid sometime next month. Maybe there is an option to make the ships big red blobs for the P Cs not high-end enough to run it?

That's all you need really. Freelancer and the X series are both very easy to control with a mouse/keyboard set-up. Hell with X3 I'd advise mouse'n'keyboard as dogfighting is less important then proper squad management and running your empire.

Freelancer is really the best play to start out. Tons of fun and the game is pretty simple to learn. Mastering it is a different story.

I... Guess that answers my question. I like how there are hangars in the game.

One thing, though: ok, lots of people will sign up for a tour with the military upon joining. Aren't they the same military that is supposed to help against pirates?

Looks like between RSI's crowdfunding and the kickstarter, they've made the 2 megabucks needed to convince investors to shell out the real money, with some to spare. $2.1M total funding, with RSI's homebrew crowdfunding setup getting 1.55M of that.

I hope the Citizen Card I'm getting isn't just a little business card...

Boarding mechanics introduced, along with cockpit decoration. To be excited for the boarding, I would have to see more. Also, I hope the decorations are cheap. It would really break immersion for a pinup poster and fuzzy dice to be a quarter the price of your ship.