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I will stick with Starfield and Star Citizen until it comes to Steam at a discount.

Get it on cheap sale pretty much. Not worth the pricetag whatsoever, not when Space Marine 2 looks fantastic

I will, once I can get a custom character.

Thanks for the review. Was good to hear your thoughts :)

Nice review. Seems like it is the game that I was expected, a solid 7/10 game...cannot wait until I can dive in!

It looks like one of the games ever made. But really. The gameplay makes me feel like i played it already.

No, no you should not on principle. Reasons why... its Ubisoft, its DEI and its broken period.

Really apprechiated your opinions about the game, that was the read I was getting on it to. I got a free copy with my recent PC build, so I am excited for it in that way. But also I am a huge star wars nerd, so your review made me a bit excited; as I am there for the story :) But now I will know going in to give it a chance to get get and tell its slow burn and not get burnt out at the start as I have to suffer through the heavy handed current model of "ok now I will teach you what this game is" game play.

The beginning was odd.. stiffer animations than the rest of the game.. linear vs the rest of the more open game you get later. On the other hand, I has zero input lag in the beginning. Not sure why you had that but I don't think it was suppose to be like that. Getting the money in the beginning was actually easier than what you did to get. You just tell your pet to pick pocket everyone and you have the money in no time.

Sadly, mid.

So worth getting at a discount is what I am picking up here

Looking forward to the Steam GOTY edition next year, it actually looks like a worthwhile game. Eventually.

I really wanted this game to be good. Thank you for the review! Looks like I will pick this up when its 50% off.

Thanks for the balanced review.

Another game that could have down with longer to cook. Makes you realise why CIG is doing it the way they are. Think ill pick it up in a few months with some more polishing and bug fixes and when the price drops.

"If it's 1 group who really hate star wars it's star wars fans" well imagine your favourite franchise and the people in charge of the IP knowingly keep making it worse, And if you dare criticize it you get called every name under the sun.

feeding the algorithm.

I got a copy with my CPU. Can't wait to jump in this weekend, though my expectations are low.

I have not been playing any other game than Mechwarrior 5 since you all shared it with me!!! I LOVE IT!!!

@19:00 THANK YOU!!! This has been one of the things that had irked me the most over the last year about Star Citizen is the idea that someone would design a ship not just without any redundancy when lives literally depend on it, but without sufficient power to supply even your most basic needs! And the idea of batteries being the saving grace is idiotic to the extreme, because if you have to use them - EVER - because you "need them" to get full power to your ship, you then have to power down EVEN MORE things to recharge them later. Someone needs slapped for this idea.

1:20:00 Graph-based server meshing with multiple supporting services is not new, nor is it exclusive to MMO’s. Search engines use it to update their optimized list of searchable domains and have it interact with the dozens of services they run along side that. Really, almost all cloud services utilize it to some extent on this 1-2 updates per day approach. What is fundamentally different, however, is the rate of interaction with graph updates, and having all those systems depend on the graph being continually updated. Search engines only update their graphs once a day, at like 4am pacific. So their “replication layer” equivalent doesn’t need constant interaction with the actual primary graph database. Even compared to AOC, SC’s fundamental tech hurdle is combining the persistent database in real time with all layers on top of it. This is what is needed for a player on the ground 20km outside an outpost to fire a missile at a ship that’s mid dogfight in the upper atmosphere while an fps boarding action unfolds on the opposing ship. All of those players need their permanent data placed in the correct object container, and that container correctly loaded into each client, across multiple servers, in real time. They all need to know if the boarders destroy the power core and cause the ship to turn off or explode, they all need to know if the first ship launches flares, they all need to know the ground player fired the missile, etc. And all of that should be visible to someone just sky-watching in the outpost, in real time. The persistent graph database, however, is a system that fundamentally struggles for real time. That’s why everyone does it once a day, at low traffic volume, where it doesn’t need to be instant and constant. AOC’s implementation is fundamentally a bit easier (still super cool) because they aren’t doing the live persistence layer. They can handle persistent data updates (like the state of X building or Y character) via the much more traditional 1-2 updates during low activity per day. If you search “software engineer star citizen server meshing” you’ll find two series of videos by two guys who literally work in this exact field of database programming going into super deep and technical detail on SC’s approach, why it’s both radical/difficult but technically possible, and why it would be such a literal game changer. They do a much better job than I can.

The challenge for dynamic is not how many servers can they add, it’s how far they can subdivide density. Two crewed Javelins fighting each other without escorts would already saturate the current player limits for two high performing servers. If those ships chose to engage in a boarding action, will meshing be able to handle bringing a third server in to control perhaps individual rooms in the boarded ship? Even once boarded, the two Javs will still be moving in space. Will their various escorts and consorts whirling around be able to receive accurate position data for the two Javelins as their internal spaces are handled by multiple meshed servers? This is the real hurdle. SC can’t back down from the Javelin or Bengal. They must be playable spaces, must be able to participate seamlessly in fleet fights. If meshing can’t divide down far enough for 2+ meshed servers to handle fps combat on the same ship that is simultaneously accurately participating in a space battle, then they have a real problem. And cutting big ships wouldn’t solve that problem, because it means that any time 200ish players are in the same physical space things break down. This would place an eternal hard cap on everything, from racing (racers and a crowd could clear that limit in an open single area) to simply moving through a city.

Server meshing is not happening this year or next year, It's like nuclear fusion, Always around the corner. Same with the Polaris and polished versions of Vulkan, Not happening this year.

I am REALLY looking forward to my Polaris, multicore vulkan, 3.24 and 4.0!

They have lied to us about this so many times i have lost count, i do not believe a word they are saying anymore.

I agree that as a project progresses over time, milestones often shift or change. There’s no need to be upset about it.

Ok. I’m allowing for the eternal optimism, but there are going to be so many “unexpected” bugs with v1 implementation and beyond that I don’t understand how meshing will be the foundational tech that removes the roadblocks. They have to get their foundational tech in a stable format.

woah ease up on the redeemer, my attack helicopter looks good.

No. It will unequivocally not happen in 2024.

If server meshing is done they'll be all out of excuses. They'll buckle under the pressure of actually having to deliver a game

wonder if the spinning planets server meshing would rip your ship in half. with ships destruction and all

Nope. It was supposed to happen in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and "within 12 months" of 2024.

Foxhole and anvil empires by siege camp are pushing the single shard idea where everything is made by players. Foxhole, every bullet is made by players for wars that last months. Foxhole uses the older way of server meshing with boundaries. Their new R2 engine is from the ground up to make a single shard mmo where players create ever tool and weapon and building. They're ones to watch for new single shard mmos.

Fixing all the bugs? Stable? What game is he playing? I'd like to try it.

Money hides mistakes. CIGs terrible project management will never be acknowledged by its executives while we keep buying ships.

I believe so yeah, If it goes worse than expected then an open ptu this year worse case scenario. I truly believe this time bases on the additions and work we've been shown compared to any other year this is the closest we've been to 4.0

stream starts at 7:30 first mission foot fall at 40:00

I have been playing this game of late. Really enjoying it.

I bought the Polaris not wanting to deal as a want to be Idris that doesn't need as many people as the Idris and think a lot of people will come too see that also. I think it will be used in place of the Idris a lot in the end.

lol ballistics' are what always make the Humans win against the aliens in sifi books because they go through their shields.