Inside Star Citizen: Alpha 4.0 - Engineering
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- How will the new engineer role impact your ship and crew? Join us for a fresh look at upcoming Engineering gameplay, introducing dedicated engineer tasks, repairing, resource management, and more in Alpha 4.0.
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Presets transferring with the player makes dedicated engineers more viable.
Great feature!
I really hope they give us USB sticks to transfer this kind of data around ships like they have in real life aircraft.
@@dominus1444 yeah and sell them
@citizen_brimstone3113 if you're a pirate you can a preset ready to go to disable a ships systems from within
I love that the interface is clean, clear and intuitive. Well done.
Yeah Jared did shave up quite well. 😅
@@Cablezero1
A decent UI ... shocking. Right? :D
@@jlemmerson Absolutely. But I'm glad they're taking this path.
Always nice to see a Frenchman clearly putting in the effort for pronunciation. Go Bastien!
Now I need to work on my French.
I cannot wait to play with ze couleurs... ;)
Yikes
While commendable, I don't think anyone would be mad if we got subtitles with non-English speaking guests.
@@BradAhrens I know you didnt mean anything bad by it, but Bastien is literally speaking English. He just has an accent!
WHO SHAVED JARED
Chris Roberts personally shaved him
He's appearing in SQ42 as a character. He had to shave for the mo-cap stuff. Was explained during the last episode a week ago 👍
He said (last week I think) that he is getting his head scanned into the game and had to shave for it
cost cutting measure. No more money for fake beards
@@whatasaverl6456 i thought you did
Jared will never be the same without the beard
Jared? You mean Doctor How?
The “Big Benny’s TARDIS” will never not be funny. XD
I've been waiting so long for engineering all my friends have been used for pastas and pizzas :(
Very excited to finally move on from soft death. Hopefully this makes ships persist much longer!
I do think players are keen to know more about how this affects general gameplay in industrial situations and long term. Can't wait to experiment!
lol, I was a bit confused by what you meant... until I saw who this was. 😅
this is real
It’s why I backed, Tomato. For me, the game arrives with Engineering
@M4xCh3rry It's definitely a huge part of what will make this a proper and engaging multiplayer game.
But for me, I'm still waiting on a proper economy and the Quanta system for NPCs. That's when the game will really transition into the bare-minimum of what we've been promised.
I have been waiting so long for this
that ending should be the intro to every episode
Trop cool, merci pour la présentation du gameplay ingénieur Bastien et toute la team 😁
Vive le french accent
super, un nouveau rayon magique^^
@@Muscida_ serieux tg
One thing i feel we desperately need is multi crew bed logging. If we're going to be repairing our ships and traveling further and further out into other systems we need to bring back crew logging so its easy to hop in and out with sessions with friends or orgs
I think when they run into the next iteration of long term persistence they're gunning for people logging back in wherever they logged off. I know that's an end goal, and logging in a bed is just supposed to provide a rest bonus at that point.
Oh my God, I love the Doctor Who part at the end
6:30 There are a LOT of components that, although removable, do not fit through the doorways. 😕
YUP
If they rework the Carrack for this, they should make the rear elevator go all the way to the ground on the same pass.
@@hellow5100 They just told you tier 1 and 2 are the only removable components in the game tier 3 and 4 require landing services for removal.
This is an exciting change!
I hope CIG has it when you are using the interface screen, you can use the keyboard also to change and manage power settings and not just use the mouse and point and click. It would make it a little easier.
Great idea!
Give the 400i back her redundancy. It makes no sense for it to be the only s4 ship to have 0 redundancy and was sold on its defensiveness and survivability
And fixing the endless Bugs like the Elevator and the visual Bugs... Its my fav Ship so far but its always a buggy mess
GET OVER IT OR DRAW 25!
MM killed this ship lol I feel bad for you 400i owners
and give back the speed he was know for, he's now slow like constellation and corsair, without firepower and cargo
@@SaschaTKL Elevators and Transit are being totally reworked for 4.0.
Those systems were old and not compatible with meshing.
Who is this person?
that Dr.who ending was.. just wow.. Side note.. cant wait i love that you will need to plan and take care of you're ship more.. been waiting a long time for this.
This is going to be great, can hardly wait. 🔧
Given their track record prepare to wait 😂
"I can't believe we got the.." Ok my guess straight from my behind is that the next word is "the doctor" and in reference to Parker Terrell from the Plain Truth radio show that might be voiced by Peter Capaldi. Those leaked audio files of the radio show did sounded like him imo.
More customizability and tunability for the ships is awesome! Being able to micromanage every system in the ship will go a long way to make ships feel more like they're yours. I'm looking forward to when this great stuff gets in the game.
Really looking forward to this loop - chance to bring in a whole genre of players who likely have given SC a pass to this point. Presets look amazing - looking forward to that coming over to armor and weapon loadouts
lord knows they're low on players
@@needy3535 they aren’t at all, but drawing in people who are interested in games other than flight sims and fps is definitely a good thing
@@needy3535the original plan was to have a 9:1 ratio of NPC:players
@@DawnstealerGaming at the same time i fear initially this system/s will push a lot of players into smaller ships mainly fighters, since before you could play gigantic ships solo, and now with misfires it will be almost impossible. Wonder how this will go down.
@@2727daqwid Which is exactly the idea - it'll likely push people to, you know, play together. This IS an MMO, after all.
Base building and Crafting will completely change Star Citizen.
Think Skyrim in space.
No. This will be better. Skyrim is widely instanced, all meaningful interiors are disconnected from the open world. Here they are not. So it will be better than anything Bethesda has done.
I think that's a thing already. Something about a Star... and Field...
@@figure_0491 ya cause star field saw the opportunity to used ideas from RSI push something out and try to steal the fans however they didn't succeed and SC is still on top as the best ever space sim ever made that's why its still in alpha and not finished and isn't being rushed like star field. Star field was cool but it will never be SC.
Physicalized damage... the mythical step forward that will change everything in combat that people have been talking about since 2014 has finally emerged.
I like how on a surface level, its not too overly complicated, but it has just enough layers to GET complicated and interesting when you have to be managing everything in certain situations.
Faster Than Light styled power management is such a nice touch!
Can even see some Barotrauma inspired system overview style as well.
I'm feeling good about this loop!
Love everything about this video! Can’t wait to see it all in the PU.
Engenering is very important for multicrew ships. In future it should nearly be impossible for a ligth figther to kill a big ship like a hammerhead. May to destroy the engine or turrent of hammerhead by a light figth, but to kill ot totaly.
Ya fighters will be useless, especially when they buff turrets. Multi crew ships will be mad Op with a crew because they can basically heal the ship.
Not like it matters Mm already killed the fun and skill of fighters, a multi crew meta would be fun
An engine kill is a kill.
Once your engines are down you can’t move, and they can’t encase the engines in armor. Firing up the line of the ship from the engines will just kill it by taking out the power core-and that’s gonna be the least armored route cus it can’t have exterior hull plating to protect it on that trajectory.
Also, lol, heal the ship. This clearly isn’t on combat time scales. Once your engines are down it’s not like the fighter stops shooting.
If they model the bullet paths, your engineer will probably just get killed as the fighter shoots through the engines to the core.
Without flak-meaningful anti-smaller than yourself weapons-we will continue to see large ships defenseless against small ones.
We need flak, a proximity fuse aoe weapon. Lowest dps for its size to make it bad against equal size ships, but good at hitting ships smaller than yourself. The Hammerhead needs it to fight fighters, the Javelin will need it to fight Corsairs.
@@piedpiper1172 I mean, I'd point out that in most of the ships the engines do not actually present a direct physical path toward the power generators, especially directly up the engine port. Additionally, only firing up the engine exhaust may be harder than you think in terms of keeping lined up without getting shot down. Though the port would likely not really be armored, engine nacelles in the game for many ships actually appear pretty well armored. Relative to the size of the nacelles on the hammerhead, for instance, the thruster ports are small, recessed, and clearly still have some armoring.
That said I've often been a fan of introducing a flak gun @ size 4-5 specifically.
@@luistigerfox Once the engines are dead, the ship is increasingly helpless. If it means having to take out turrets, that’s easier when engines are out too.
Any component the fighter takes out, the engineer has to stand directly next to when repairing: aka, where the bullets from the fighter are.
Precision mode works against big ships here. It’s very easy to place shots exactly where you want on a ship that’s not moving. It’s also good at hitting engines even on the better protected nacelles. But plenty of ships do have giant engine banks that are incredibly easy to hit.
It’s also easy to do it while continuing to corkscrew. And they just buffed precision mode, it’s only what, 15% dps loss now? That doesn’t even offset the effective dps gain provided by the improved accuracy.
Time to kill on a hammerhead for a lone gladius is currently pretty high, so I doubt this will even increase the time. After all, 0 hp components cause their own problems like fires, overloads, etc.
Meanwhile, the fighter is melting through the armor to knock out systems.
Cant wait to play this on these servers with 20 to 30 seconds desync!
Are you going to implement cooler tricording?
Peak gameplay is being able to cool at three different temperatures at the same time.
Shifting from bespoke hull HP to a more component based system sounds great. Perfect for the redundant part filled 400i....wait...what do you mean they nerfed it already...it's not even out!
Merci M Cruette Bastien j'ai pu comprendre une partie de la vidéo sans sous titre 😂
chu mort j'ai reconnu un compatriote sans qu'il dit qui les FR XD
I couldn't understand a word he said 😮 was he speaking French or is it easier for FR people to understand each other's English accent?
@@ValosarX more easy for us, now you understand how hard it is for us at the start to understand english speaker with strong accent or just speaking quickly x)
@@ValosarX He was talking english with a very strong french accent, it makes it way easier to understand each other's accent for those who aren't used to listen to english people!
This sounds awesome, but it would seem like quite a few number of ships need to get gold passes or be updated with physical components before this gameplay loop can be fully added to the PU and Live Servers
Connie's literally don't even have components lol
Alpha 4.0 - New time travel mechanism that made Jared young again 😜
I need someone to edit Jared's clean shaven face onto a photo of Titus from WH40K: Space Marine 2. The resemblance is uncanny.
Think the ship view for the engineering terminal should have a 2D view, where you can swap between floors and exterior. Sometimes, 3D models will have too many overlapping components.
I was not prepared for seeing Jared without beard.
Jared just isekai back to his 20s
CANT BELIEVE WE GOT TO WHAT?!?!?
After i come home from a long day at work, i get myself a glass of home-made lemonade from the fridge and sit down to unwind a bit and watch the latest ISC episode....at no point had i ever even imagined to be greeted by such a fresh, shiny and, quite frankly, blinding new interFACE in the first 3 seconds. I nearly spilled the lemonade!
This is why i want them to spread out the components on the MSR!
and give us extra exit... literally just a ladder like on the Zeus. Because if the fire brakes out back there and those little extinguishers are not enough, without opening the cargo bay you are done. Not to mention opening this huge of an opening every time means somebody uninvited may get in. That's not the case for like 99% of other ships.
@@2727daqwid 💯, but everyone agrees on that. Few people in the past understood why I felt components needed to be spread out more
Criticaly failing powerplants being able to explode spectacularly.
I am very much reminded of the Halo:Reach Mission "Long Night of Solace", where a Quantum Drive analogue component is stripped from a warship and carried into an enemy capital ship being repurposed as a very powerful bomb.
This makes me think that shops selling highly explosive components at a low cost will be an IED maker's joy..
2:00 specialized fuel types would be so good
I hope that means 10 people in a hammerhead is still not going to be worse than 10 small fighters
NOOOO! YOUR WONDERFUL BEARD!!!! BRING BACK THE SOUP BADGER!!!! 😢
15:30 The Disrespect😂
And now, just go crazy with components variaty (withing universe lore), a powerplant with huge power output but similar huge heat generation... other powerplant with slow response time, but excelent fuel efficency, etc. let us decide and test what is better for our ships.
I'm really happy to see that at least some of the devs are fans of FTL. The power management system is a welcome nod, and a great improvement over the legacy system.
Getting strong FTL vibes from engineering gameplay. That's a good thing! In Dutch we have a saying: "better well stolen than poorly implemented". FTL Was an indie spacecraft resource management game from 2012.
It’ll never make sense to have multiple people unless that brings enough combat power to justify not just running two ships.
Any of these out of combat chores can be done via EVA and such for two ships.
If you make these chores so intrusive that they literally stop combat, all you’ll do is reinforce the “use the smallest ships for everything” meta.
We want people on our ships. Give them enough combat power for them to not be wasting their time.
combat ain't the only thing in Star Citizen :)
This is awesome! It's important that in 4.0 multicrew gameloops receive a balance pass to make multicrew gameplay more viable and pursued by players.
Shaved Jared looks like CGI lol
if the direction master modes is going is to pick your power profile and you simply have to power your quantum drive but the rest is a meaningful choice, I love that
Engineer your freight elevators to work. that will be impressive!
I hope they start putting hidden easter eggs like these on planets! Would be amazing to have some witch hunts and finding secret easter egg locations on different planets.
I would love to see engineering play into hacking gameplay in the future. Maybe you can sneak aboard a cap ship and avoid guards to hack into the engineering terminal to sabotage the ship. That would be awesome.
imagine this game in vr
I mean, there is this one guy that plays sc in vr, not sure of his name though
engineering sounds fun but don't forget there's still tons of ships that have no capability of that. they'll upgrade a few and then call it a day and then pretend like it's going to go to a different patch.
The ability to make presets is just brilliant !
Glad this systematic approach to components is coming along nicely.
meaningful multi-crew gameplay also means that the turrets HAVE to be A LOT better!!! Please CIG, you neeeeed to understand this
I've been waiting for engineering, repairs and maintenance so long. Can't wait.
Honestly... Looks pretty good guys. I can't wait to see the new multicrew and the balance changes you do. Thanks to the engineering teams that worked on this.
With the layout of drake ships. Engineering will make them perfect. Especially the caterpillar.
The bad guys should swear as much as criminals would irl, including their signage, branding, writing, and ship decor. Bad guys in media kill and steal but never swear. Immersion breaking.
Engineering gameplay definitely looks like it's pretty involved. I guess for the 99% of my solo gameplay time, I shouldn't touch any ships bigger than a Freelancer or C1, lest I get overwhelmed with my ship breaking apart too much on me. Good thing single seaters and medium ships are my favourite class of ships then.
I'm having flashbacks to when I came downstairs one morning to discover my dad had shaved his mustache.
HOW does this now work when the npcs fly into my ship and blow me up after 10 minutes of flying across the solar system ?
My question is, will the AI also have to change components on their ships or will they be cheat ? I can't imagine the AI doing all this on their ships. The game loses dynamics, if it loses dynamics it gets boring. Do not forget that a video game to be fun must be dynamic. With the loadout it has been shown that it has become so tedious that many have stopped transporting. Don't make tedious the most fun part of the game, which is flying and fighting.
Lmao the game is not meant to be about fighting... they're literally building a life sim MMO in a scifi universe... fighting is only a small part of that, and it will be optional once we have high security star systems. This complexity is also meant for game balance so people can't solo larger ships well, thus creating an incentive to work with a crew. In addition, NPCs are literally planned to be able to do things around ships and in the universe in general...SQ42 development has been about that in a large part, they made NPCs dynamic and not scripted. Please do your research before making weird and ignorant assumptions
Now imagine if the game bugs you out and suddenly your ship is on fire, what an awesome game!
Seems like a lot of work. I’ll just head back to the station for a quick repair lol
Drake shirt and no beard, what is this madness.. Origin shirt it should be for babyfaces x)
Love the reference compilation at the end there!
I have been looking forward to this system to unleash my inner Scotty aboard my Polaris. We still need to be able to refuel fighters in the bay. Give us a fuel hose port on the hangar wall or floor to hook up to the ships fuel port and adapt the refueling interface from the Starfarer as a view in the engineering panel or a new panel by the hose port. That would also be an easy solution to update the other ships with hangars like the Carrack and 890j.
I was hoping to also get infos on how these systems are planed to interact with ship destruction models or later down the line maelstrom.
They did mention it in the video, albeit not by name - shots have to 'penetrate' the ship to damage the components (merely doing 'hull damage' will be irrelevant now), and 'Armour' will make it harder for shots to penetrate (so you have to weaken / remove armour using e.g. energy weapons to slag it)... this was previously referred to as 'Physics Based Damage', and later subsumed into Maelstrom.
@@logicalChimpAka: “fighters use precision mode to knock out engines and then snipe your core via that unarmored opening in the hull cus we never added flak and you still can’t hit them with any weapon from a multicrew ship.”
I want multicrew to work, and this system is nice for immersion, but ffs we need flak. We need a weapon whose sole purpose is “hit ships smaller than yourself.”
The Hammerhead needs it to hit fighters, the Javelin will need it to hit Corsairs. We have to have flak for multicrew to ever be viable.
@@logicalChimp Well, that isn't the entirety of maelstrom. Once that's in, ship hulls are supposed to break open and break apart much more dynamically. Meaning that hull damage can still be of value, in that it could cause structural failure of the ship. They have said at times that with Maelstrom they want the chance for a large ship to break in half, for instance, and the rear half of the ship is still powered and such, but the front is obviously not due to no longer being connected to the power source.
So, catastrophic damage could be possible without direct component damage using maelstrom. Though attacking components directly makes more sense.
That looked pretty cool.
Beardless Jared. A thing i never thought we see.
Thats awesome! With how it shaves out to be I can totally see myself playing as an engineer on a friends ship instead of always using my own! Fingers crossed itll be as much fun as it looks to be
Thank you Jarred and team for everything you do !
A tarrapin in the footage B roll!!!!
I didn't know the ReGen tech could de-age you! Neat! ;)
It's very cool that Jared is going to be in SQ42, but I am not okay with baby-face Jared.
Getting some strong FTL vibes from that power management screen
Itd be cool if the software engineering could give us stable play, like actually being able to call your ship and go to the hangar
I sure hope this "loop" doesn't make multi-player ships just a giant PITA / time sink to operate. They really REALLY need to find a good balance here.
Lmao larger ships were never meant to be pay to win and soloable.... anything bigger than a Connie IS meant to be a time and money sink for game balance, you're not meant to be able to solo things past that size without incurring a ton of negatives. So, either play smaller ships or leave
@@ChristoffRevanExcept they announced ai crews.
What you said was true at kickstarter launch, but it’s clearly not now.
Even with engineering this brings no multicrew incentive. This video is just a laundry list of out of combat chores. One person can do them in a quantum drop out point, and two people playing together will just solo two ships and do the chores the same way.
Unless and until multicrew actually increases combat power it’ll continue to be meaningless.
Would I rather man 1 2xS3 turret on a Connie, or just pilot a Corsair? The gulf is so large that it’s utterly absurd.
No, they don´t. The bigger the ship the more work it will be. Simple. Logical.
I´d be more concerned about various smaller ships. Especially those that have a hard time carrying repair parts or have no capacity to do so whatsoever. A ship like, say, a Freelancer can carry a replacement quantum drive and other parts. Try that with a Gladius.
AI shards and ai crew will help here - provided they manage to implement those in a timely manner too. Otherwise people without a player crew readily available will have a hard time operating anything beyond a Constellation on their own.
@@piedpiper1172 You don't understand...NPC crew will have wages, so a solo player will only be able to afford maybe 3 max... whatever the actual number it won't be enough for things bigger than a Connie or maaaaaaaybe a Hammerhead; AI blades (automated turrets) will be relatively expensive to install, and they will be able to get damaged or even destroyed and be a sunk cost you aren't getting back...plus, when someone uses distortions or EMPs against you then the AI blades will be able to be turned off temporarily!
Thus, ships larger than a Connie will increasingly become less and less friendly to solo to the point where it becomes a massive money and time sink (to the point where you can't afford it), as well as losing efficiency AND capability
Dream on even an Idris will be flighable alone. AI Blades will take turrets and the mayority of the repairwork. Maybe not as good as a well trained 30 man crew....... hahaha nevermind...... but good enough for80% of the citizens.
And the reason is simple.....they want money
@robertmandl9326
Tedium Citizen: Go!
Are we gonna get NPC crew or something? I cant really imagine that many players which would want to play as an engineer
Buddy, there are people in the Verse who enjoy picking up bottles at space stations 😂
I'm sure there are plenty who will find their way to the engineering niche.
I have a couple of friends who love how star citizen looks but get too motion sick sitting in turrets or have vertigo or something, I tell them that it is more than flying or being in turrets. Are there a lot of players that would like to be flying or manning a turret, absolutely. There are also a fair few that would rather do something else besides those.
@@fhart85 Let's be honest. Do they enjoy picking up the trash, or are they bored while waiting for a ship claim, cargo to load, a friend to arrive, etc?
@@fhart85 listen buddy, i see bottle on top of the bin while they can go in.... it's compulse me to put the bottle in it... don't you ear the sweet voice asking for it ?
I think you're forgetting the sheer amount of us who backed the game to do exactly this
I dont even need to look at the comment to know what the biggest point of interest is
Yes! This is the reason why I backed the game!
Maybe we could get the physics issue first? Server stability? Item clipping? Proper cargo grids? Just a thought....
Realism is a dangerously slippery slope VS play ability quality of life. Forcing them on people not interested in various play styles can be extremely polarizing.
This has been the plan for years. It is what it is.
@@Island_Bag New players won't care. But maybe they don't care that new players won't care.
@@Cursethedawn they shouldn’t else they would be filp flopping on their words and decisions.
Please, we need hireable NPC crew/indentured servants or multi crew will never be realistically obtained by most players. Npc crew should be hirable and relieved by real players when they are available. Given the hours required to play SC and how much idle down time crew are going to undergo, npc will be needed.
Good revenue for you too. Hire X month NPC crew contracts or indentured servitude as pledges until they are hirable ingame
who's ready for SC to become unplayable for another 6 months when this comes out?i feel like the effort they are putting in to the game could be used in other areas for stuff that was promised years ago such as ships and things like that stuff. They are going to make it where you cant do pvp and stuff like that solo anymore and are going to have to have crew or AI to fix your ship and use the scu space for extra components that if your ship blows up they are gone with the ship. Seems like this is cool for corvette class ships but not so much for smaller ships.
CIG has been saying for years that engineer gameplay is coming, that there will be consequences to every action, and that playing as a crew will be much easier than playing solo. There's nothing surprising.
I love how playable this game got.
all i notice is that they have a french man in their team
hahah..that's where I needed subtitles
Never clicked a link this fast before 🙂🙂
Would not wonder if the Tardis is the final thing to find in pirate week! 😂
Eagerly awaiting the first iteration of these mechanics in 2040.
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I can't wait for this to release, there are going to be so many fun new bugs to play with!
Jared is beginning to look like a Brit. Only 30 days to go!👍🏼🖖🏼