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Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Well, I mean, I would have launched it first (as an AAA game), but I'm no game developer. 🤷 And neither are they, from the looks of it. Good at perpetually raking in money for himself and his family, though!

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[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 64 points 8 months ago

At this point I have genuinely have no fucking idea what the game is about

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Sir it's in the name. Star Citizen. Citizen of the stars. It's pretty clearly aiming to be what Starfield completely fucked up on.

A space game with as few restraints and as many possibilities as they can do. An Elite Dangerous with a much broader scope.

[-] MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Cool, too bad it's one of the worst pay to win games. Last time I checked you had to pay real money to buy in-game stuff and the prices were by no means pocket change.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago

It really isn't though. For one you don't "have" to buy anything except a starter package for $45, everything else is optional if you want to support development. There also isn't really a "win condition," there's PvP, but it's not like ranked matches or whatever.

Also those people buying the largest most expensive ships are going to be in for a rude awakening. You will have costs for managing ships that currently isn't in the game, but when it is I imagine the big spenders will bankrupt themselves (in game currency). There's also the fact that ships larger than a one seater will need crew so you can't really do much with them on your own.

The prices of ships can be absurd, but I think the people that buy them are just shooting themselves in the foot. I've been a backer since 2014 and aside from the starter ship I only bought one "extra" cheap shuttle because I love having access to it through any wipe even though I could earn it in game fairly quickly.

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

"Last time I checked"

Damn, as of years ago you've been able to buy new ships with in-game currency. You're not even keeping up on the game you're bitching about. Sure you can always buy better ships with real money, you can have whatever reservations you want about that, but calling it pay to win seems like a stretch. Elite Dangerous has long proved space battles are often a skill issue.