actually Argo Astronautics is the name of the manufacturer. the ship itself simply got kind of unofficially nicknamed the "Argo" because that name was all we had for it for a while just prior to its release. the ship is actually called a MPUV. though it appears the nickname has now stuck in the lore. but in terms of what class of ship it is, its MPUV (multi-purpose utility vehicle)
I never carried for the Idris, I always thought of it as the poor man's Javelin. It also didn't look particularly pretty when standing next to a Javelin or a Bengal. With all that said, after watching this video I have a new found respect for the Idris. I think the people who purchased them will be happy with their choice and I hope the Javelin interior is just as cool the Idris.
I keep looking at this video and you can totally fit more fighters in the hanger there if you face all of them against the wall :P I am so saving up for this I hope they do another ship sell at the end of the year or Citizencon but not before then.
+APEXPR3D4TOR It's more the scale that I find amazing. If you haven't seen Star Citizen alpha 2.0, there are plenty of ships already that one can fly while other people walk around and interact with things.
CIG really need to tone down on that ambient fog, because it's hiding all the wonderful pbr textures, and it's muddying them. I wonder if there's an option to turn it off, like I see people turning off the Blur.
PotatoTornadoable Nah it used to be corvette sized, then got bigger and bigger, and reclassed as a frigate, and bigger. It has a minimal crew requirement, but it can carry ALOT of people So much so that the games being developed with a kind of dynamic instancing system, so that if necessary, the interior of the ship will be a separate instance to the exterior, to make carrying large numbers possible.
beta is the final stages of the game development, basicly all the content is implemented, just need brushing up. that probably be last few months before main release, so it will be a while still. but if you watch the latest gamescom vid, you'll see alpha is really starting to take shape, the past years they spent most of the time setting up the technology and there tools to actually build the game with, now they have we can see progression getting faster
Every damn fps gets directional sound volume wrong. Someone talking right next to you sounds perfectly fine, then you turn around and its like they are suddenly in another room. How is this such a hard problem to solve?
On a headset it gets very hard, because we have ears on only two sides. Take that and put some speakers right next to each ear and it's very hard to tell the difference between sound that's in front of you or behind you.
+Rajafa that makes the location of sound hard with headphones. it is not the explanation of why the sound's direction affects the volume too hard - given the option to almost not hear and still not locate well, or hear proper and not locate well, every sane person should chose a "omnidirectional voice" for the cutscenes instead of a directional one that is badly implemented.
+Super Stellar Hard to say how long the ships take to make, as they will be able to do it faster and faster as the game nears release, but i think i remember one of the devs saying the single seater ships cost $100k to develop, the medium sized ships around $500k and the larger capital ships, you are probably looking at a few million $$$. They employ over 350 staff now in the US, UK and Germany.
Does anyone know if the Idris is going to be available for ingame money ? Not at release date but later from ingame money, because i heared that we can buy it for 750-1000 Dollars or Euros. I really want to have it and I dont want to spend 1000 Euros.
Yes you can buy it with game credits probably at start of full release. Also there is even bigger ship you can buy with credits, its the Javelin and you can find some videos of it from RSI site or in youtube. I am also going to earn credits with friends and buy Idris.
Ok nice thank you! Yes I know the Javelin. Love him too, but I think that the Idris is looking a bit better and is better to fly, compared to its size! :)
Tyler Faulkner ah nah. you can see there starting to come out of there shell.... we have gamescom due in couple weeks, and then theres there aniiiversary in couple months, both events are likely to shed some REAL information. we'll see then.i doubt it'll be 4 years. 2 years i say
Darth Sidious nah im gonna guess 2018 release. 2019 tops, we are going to get the first batch of chapters over the course of next year on squadron 42. we should be getting star citizen coming out shortly after chapter 28 the final one.
+Aaron565pwns I wonder how CIG will handle insurance fraud. Seems easy to just let a bunch of people keep stealing your Idris and getting a replacement each time.
+Tristan Czerwinski Your replacement is planned to take some serious time and gets longer everytime. We dont know yet....but that was what was mentioned....The shipyard has limited production of such big ships....so it gets built for you or close to that. Prepare for some days and later weeks to get it back.
+Light 1988 yes and no you can get npcs to help you but there is a limit to how many npcs you can have under your command most likely not enough to fly it effectively. keep in mind players are always more effective than npcs.
+ruskodisco Idris ? well if you dint know it is , not only this but were is jevalin wich is almost twice as big as idris and it will be flyably by 10 people I think .
+ruskodisco yup , the Idris frigate will be maned by up to 8-10 prople or npc if you want to be just captine as well as park 3 smaller ships inside its small hanger .
+Sogeking Unleashed I agree so much with you , and to think were are people who think its imposible to make this , I mean have thoes people ever heard about star wars galaxys ?
Wth is that 3:12 ---> On the right side of the screen among the Cargo modules. There is something / someone having sex there. Or what ever. Looks like a Punk.
I just think its so stupid the whole head bobbing when you walk. I mean does anyone experience this in real life? lolwhen you run yes but not when you are just walking.
+thecanadianwill Yes, you just don't notice it. I guarantee you your head doesn't stay on the same, straight horizontal line when you walk. I totally agree though, it's one of the many things that make the moving around in the game feel to awkward. I don't think that the camera (first person view) should be physically attached to the head. So many times in the alpha I have glitched through the side of a ship because I turned my head and the rest of my body moved, through the wall.
In real life we have equilibrium mechanisms in our ears so we don't notice it. That is why it is retarded to have in game.. Can you disable it? If not I can't play it is so weird and annoying to me.
Lol, well what do you expect? A fully finished game when this was shot last year while just ending on year 2 of development? High standards so quickly.
The development on this game is sketchy as hell. CiG purchased 2 separate Motion Capture companies and MADE 2 of their own mo-cap studios. This is a Spaceship Game. Why are they funneling money into absolutely unneeded stuff? Star Scamitizen is going to break soon and so many people are going to be pissed.
+Jebb Katarn yes the development is sketchy. do I hate the game? no. I would have loved to see it come out and be everything and more than what they pitched initially. the real problem isn't that it's a scam (I don't actually believe it's a scam so much as the amount of scope creep that's happened makes the game impossible with their staff and budget.) you have a studio that has way overstepped their capabilities in terms of staffing. they have opened more than 5 sub companies within their fold and are pushing for so much mocap that's it's rediculous to think they aren't pissing their reserves away. and to top it off they are opening the Santa Monica office which is damn near prime real estate in California and costs a fortune in and of itaelf. not to mention they just announced they are looking at hiring actors for a movie IF the screen write gos good. how much backer money is being tossed into THAT? their recent "sneak peak" of Inga me footage was remastered stuff from things they showed OVER A YEAR AGO. There's a reason the last good game Chris roberts made was Wing Commander 2. Microsoft fired him from the freelancer dev team because he kept having scope creep that would have landed the game atleast another 3 years of dev time minimum and he was still adding to that stuff. open your eyes and see the reality. Chris roberts isn't the Messiah of gaming. he's a broken 90's developer in the same boat as Peter molenuex and the like. probably butchered his name since I can't easily check it's spelling right now.
+James G I'm also going to ad this for posterity. during the Kickstart er, part of their ToS promised that if the game was not released in full by this November, yes the one we're in, they would release their entire financial stuff for all to see and now they refuse. sketchy.
that small ship is now my favorite out of all of them. go figure
+Marcus Hampton the small, orange transport at the beginning, that is
+Marcus Hampton Me too ! I don't even know the name of that small cargo ship
+Dear Medusa The Argo
actually Argo Astronautics is the name of the manufacturer. the ship itself simply got kind of unofficially nicknamed the "Argo" because that name was all we had for it for a while just prior to its release. the ship is actually called a MPUV. though it appears the nickname has now stuck in the lore. but in terms of what class of ship it is, its MPUV (multi-purpose utility vehicle)
2:32 reference to "Old Man." (Mark Hamil)
Didn't catch that the first time.
+drksideofthewal That's cause we didn't know who the "Old Man" was then
I'm in love with the Idris. Probably my favorite ship so far.
1:11 Hair Sorcery! GET HIM!!!!
+Praxographist ahahah
Note: this is a ship not a level
+Sir Aroun Probably both :)
Nah, I think it is a level for the Campaign, but it takes place on one of the ships
The idea that you can actually own this as a player is just fantastic.
I never carried for the Idris, I always thought of it as the poor man's Javelin. It also didn't look particularly pretty when standing next to a Javelin or a Bengal.
With all that said, after watching this video I have a new found respect for the Idris. I think the people who purchased them will be happy with their choice and I hope the Javelin interior is just as cool the Idris.
I keep looking at this video and you can totally fit more fighters in the hanger there if you face all of them against the wall :P I am so saving up for this I hope they do another ship sell at the end of the year or Citizencon but not before then.
Hopefully the character creations will look better. they all look a bit plain. Pretty freaking cool ship though, cant wait.
+JuergenGDB
WIP
I like how the black guy in the beginning looks exactly like some second protagonist from the Wing Commander Movie ;)
Rhona Mitras voice just sounds so cool. Even if she's threatning to give you a bad career :)
+Kai Marcad If I got to work on an Idris IRL, I would gladly mop floors.
+Kai Marcad If I ever play this game, it would be an honor to serve by Rhona Mitra and Mark Hamill.
+Ban Danna ha, "space janitors" it's a web series :D
SQ42 is going to be so epic...
It’s gonna be epic when it is finally released. x)
That is my Baby, the crown jewel in my fleet of 42 ships.
+Ray Engle haha nice dude! thanks for backing so much!!!
+Ray Engle I had no idea it was that big.. It's huge!!!
+Ray Engle Got a name for your Idris yet?
+Ban Danna Not yet...waiting to get a feel for her first.
+Ray Engle
We have one for our Idris. It's: Vegvisir (old northern language/icelandic) it means Roadmap. the symbol is a old viking compas
still blows my mind that the ship will be flyable while friends can walk inside it
+APEXPR3D4TOR It's more the scale that I find amazing. If you haven't seen Star Citizen alpha 2.0, there are plenty of ships already that one can fly while other people walk around and interact with things.
+Tristan Czerwinski exaclty. the Bengal is going to be the size of 2 battlefield maps.
4 battlefield maps
Didier Chewi Some maps are smaller than others, same difference
CIG really need to tone down on that ambient fog, because it's hiding all the wonderful pbr textures, and it's muddying them. I wonder if there's an option to turn it off, like I see people turning off the Blur.
welcome to pre alpha footage
more like welcome to cry engine lolollolol
I get the feeling that Mark Strong is the captain. CAN'T WAIT.
oh.. jesus!
those engines are huge
at 10:15 - she sounds like the actress from 'the last ship'
+colin1235421 Yeah there's a good reason for that. She is.
Where are the airtight balast doors to cep the ship from depressurising in the case of a hull breach?
HOLY SHIT DUDE !!!! AS U CAN SEE I'M EXCITED AND I'M NOT WRITING THIS USING CAPSLOCK!!
*okay... now I want to make a fleet already....*
Hello, can someone tell me who is the art designer of Idris frigate wallpaper please?
6:05 Anyone notice that's Robert's wife?
1:50 that woman has got a badddd attitude problem so the designers got that right so far so good
Dammit they still don't have any good 40" 4k monitors on the market. *sigh* It's the last part of the gaming rig that I need to be ready to do this.
where did you look at ??:D
Idris owners, you may commence smug face activation, in 5...4...3...2...1...
Congratulations, activation successful, all systems green with envy. ^^
+TerminalHamster This ship really only holds 10 people?
PotatoTornadoable Nah it used to be corvette sized, then got bigger and bigger, and reclassed as a frigate, and bigger.
It has a minimal crew requirement, but it can carry ALOT of people
So much so that the games being developed with a kind of dynamic instancing system, so that if necessary, the interior of the ship will be a separate instance to the exterior, to make carrying large numbers possible.
+PotatoTornadoable No 10 people is recommend crew, you can have more people :)
+Gizimoo86 You can have less too, its called NPC hires :) Im not worried about losing my Idris, and if I do....LTI baby :)
+Gizimoo86 Speaking of which, what FPS do you get in live?
The detail and graphics look great, but there's still a lot of clipping going on
man this gets boring seeing these posts. ok all explained in 1 simple word.... ready?
***ALPHA***
Really, oh I'd never have guessed
And will it ever be BETA?
beta is the final stages of the game development, basicly all the content is implemented, just need brushing up. that probably be last few months before main release, so it will be a while still. but if you watch the latest gamescom vid, you'll see alpha is really starting to take shape, the past years they spent most of the time setting up the technology and there tools to actually build the game with, now they have we can see progression getting faster
7:37 hes using a ghost spell...GET HIM!!!
Every damn fps gets directional sound volume wrong. Someone talking right next to you sounds perfectly fine, then you turn around and its like they are suddenly in another room. How is this such a hard problem to solve?
On a headset it gets very hard, because we have ears on only two sides. Take that and put some speakers right next to each ear and it's very hard to tell the difference between sound that's in front of you or behind you.
+Rajafa that makes the location of sound hard with headphones. it is not the explanation of why the sound's direction affects the volume too hard - given the option to almost not hear and still not locate well, or hear proper and not locate well, every sane person should chose a "omnidirectional voice" for the cutscenes instead of a directional one that is badly implemented.
I agree that is a huge issue. They should fix it or it will drag down the quality a whole lot..
not with dolby surround headset. makes the world of difference
How long does it take for developers to create a big ship like that from scratch and how many people are part of creation?
+Super Stellar Hard to say how long the ships take to make, as they will be able to do it faster and faster as the game nears release, but i think i remember one of the devs saying the single seater ships cost $100k to develop, the medium sized ships around $500k and the larger capital ships, you are probably looking at a few million $$$. They employ over 350 staff now in the US, UK and Germany.
Three mega studios across the world. It's massive.
Does anyone know if the Idris is going to be available for ingame money ? Not at release date but later from ingame money, because i heared that we can buy it for 750-1000 Dollars or Euros. I really want to have it and I dont want to spend 1000 Euros.
Yes you can buy it with game credits probably at start of full release. Also there is even bigger ship you can buy with credits, its the Javelin and you can find some videos of it from RSI site or in youtube. I am also going to earn credits with friends and buy Idris.
Ok nice thank you! Yes I know the Javelin. Love him too, but I think that the Idris is looking a bit better and is better to fly, compared to its size! :)
Well, I hope that its going to fly easier and better.
Someone's dark corner of the empire needs scrubbing alright
1:10 what a game huh.
Is this clip new?
Is this game ever gonna be finished?
2 years give or take? we should have the first episode of squadren 42 end of this year.... hopefully
+Nick871203 I'm guessing 4 years.. that's my estimate.. watch I'll be right
Tyler Faulkner ah nah. you can see there starting to come out of there shell.... we have gamescom due in couple weeks, and then theres there aniiiversary in couple months, both events are likely to shed some REAL information. we'll see then.i doubt it'll be 4 years. 2 years i say
Darth Sidious nah im gonna guess 2018 release. 2019 tops, we are going to get the first batch of chapters over the course of next year on squadron 42. we should be getting star citizen coming out shortly after chapter 28 the final one.
Well, im officially boarding you if I see you and going full FPS. I need one and you have lifetime insurance.
+Aaron565pwns I wonder how CIG will handle insurance fraud. Seems easy to just let a bunch of people keep stealing your Idris and getting a replacement each time.
+Tristan Czerwinski Your replacement is planned to take some serious time and gets longer everytime. We dont know yet....but that was what was mentioned....The shipyard has limited production of such big ships....so it gets built for you or close to that. Prepare for some days and later weeks to get it back.
+Aaron565pwns and you will get to the airlock and find that oh shit its locked
My Marine team will be ready and waiting, hell we'll even prepare you our finest room... In the brig.~
Can we add some xenomorphs ?
Dysputant hell yeah
do i need friends to pilot this properly? coz i only got 5 atm. hahha
+Light 1988 yes and no you can get npcs to help you but there is a limit to how many npcs you can have under your command most likely not enough to fly it effectively. keep in mind players are always more effective than npcs.
I wish this was flyable
+ruskodisco Idris ? well if you dint know it is , not only this but were is jevalin wich is almost twice as big as idris and it will be flyably by 10 people I think .
Bad4You wait what? are attempting to tell me that I can fly this?
+ruskodisco yup , the Idris frigate will be maned by up to 8-10 prople or npc if you want to be just captine as well as park 3 smaller ships inside its small hanger .
Bad4You holy shit dude. that's awesome
+Sogeking Unleashed I agree so much with you , and to think were are people who think its imposible to make this , I mean have thoes people ever heard about star wars galaxys ?
The ship looks to spacious to be a navy vessel
Its getting old seeing the same old video footage, need new shots a clips of my baby.
Gamma!
Correct answer:
"I can make my own way" xD
That tour and chat was disgustingly boring D:
+miru021 oh I bet you would get lost
those really low voices from the person with the mic on scared the dog crap outa me!
Wth is that 3:12 ---> On the right side of the screen among the Cargo modules. There is something / someone having sex there. Or what ever. Looks like a Punk.
i think it was supposed to be someone passed out sleeping lol i watched it like 30 times
Yea after watching it again I agree with you.
I never notice that ahahahaha too funny hes totally getting of with the luggage :P
Lol
6 years later still not ingame Lol
I just think its so stupid the whole head bobbing when you walk. I mean does anyone experience this in real life? lolwhen you run yes but not when you are just walking.
+thecanadianwill Yes, you just don't notice it. I guarantee you your head doesn't stay on the same, straight horizontal line when you walk. I totally agree though, it's one of the many things that make the moving around in the game feel to awkward. I don't think that the camera (first person view) should be physically attached to the head. So many times in the alpha I have glitched through the side of a ship because I turned my head and the rest of my body moved, through the wall.
In real life we have equilibrium mechanisms in our ears so we don't notice it. That is why it is retarded to have in game.. Can you disable it? If not I can't play it is so weird and annoying to me.
lol what do you expect now? having it deleted lmao
dont worry the current game feels realistic and dont forget its a tech demo thing you see here
Yeah this is never happening. Youve all been fooled. But remember that it has become way easier to get refunds now.
Wtf is a sq42??? They selling another game before they even release the fucking first game???
Delayed indefinitely
The dialogues are terrible. Feels like a bunch mall rats interacting not the crew of a large military vessel.
Lol, well what do you expect? A fully finished game when this was shot last year while just ending on year 2 of development?
High standards so quickly.
Garon Bradley I expect a glimpse of the general direction and atmosphere of the campaign. I dont think thats high standards.
You serve?
No he didnt....
He thinks in Military everybody is talking always like in the Hollywood movies.....stupid little kid he is
DasFritzchen
... You haven't served? People talk shit constantly.
The development on this game is sketchy as hell. CiG purchased 2 separate Motion Capture companies and MADE 2 of their own mo-cap studios. This is a Spaceship Game. Why are they funneling money into absolutely unneeded stuff? Star Scamitizen is going to break soon and so many people are going to be pissed.
+Jebb Katarn
yes the development is sketchy. do I hate the game? no. I would have loved to see it come out and be everything and more than what they pitched initially. the real problem isn't that it's a scam (I don't actually believe it's a scam so much as the amount of scope creep that's happened makes the game impossible with their staff and budget.) you have a studio that has way overstepped their capabilities in terms of staffing. they have opened more than 5 sub companies within their fold and are pushing for so much mocap that's it's rediculous to think they aren't pissing their reserves away.
and to top it off they are opening the Santa Monica office which is damn near prime real estate in California and costs a fortune in and of itaelf. not to mention they just announced they are looking at hiring actors for a movie IF the screen write gos good. how much backer money is being tossed into THAT?
their recent "sneak peak" of Inga me footage was remastered stuff from things they showed OVER A YEAR AGO.
There's a reason the last good game Chris roberts made was Wing Commander 2. Microsoft fired him from the freelancer dev team because he kept having scope creep that would have landed the game atleast another 3 years of dev time minimum and he was still adding to that stuff.
open your eyes and see the reality. Chris roberts isn't the Messiah of gaming. he's a broken 90's developer in the same boat as Peter molenuex and the like. probably butchered his name since I can't easily check it's spelling right now.
+James G I'm also going to ad this for posterity. during the Kickstart er, part of their ToS promised that if the game was not released in full by this November, yes the one we're in, they would release their entire financial stuff for all to see and now they refuse. sketchy.
+Jebb Katarn boy how true it is: the more people talk, the less they have to say.
Derek smart is that you. Stop making fake accounts you silly man. Your not fooling anyone
Your jealous, and gay. Lol. This is the best game I've ever seen and I can't wait, love it