Windows Star Citizen

who doesn’t like a spreadsheet? The need for a mass of spreadsheets is slowly being phased out anyway which is a shame.

 

I play games to have fun, if I wanted to look at spreadsheets I’d probably go work on my taxes

 

Gareth, indulge me for a moment. Let's say Squadron 42 is released in 2021, and bit-tech employ you to review it (within this hypothetical scenario they provide you with an appropriate machine to run it).

Also, let's say it is a technically exceptional game and reaches a new height in gaming (not dissimilar from what the original Wing Commanders achieved). How would you review it?

 

[Laughter emanates from the Enterprise sector, turning quickly to sobs]

 

We're increasingly rapidly moving from spreadsheets to R. Spreadsheets will still have their place, but for a lot of modelling, especially data-heavy stuff, they aren't the right answer.

 

@Gareth Halfacree

Insightful reply. I guess in asking "how" I meant would you review it within the lens of the delays and controversy, or wholly based on its own merits.

 

My experience has been that spreadsheets are almost always the wrong answer, but also that spreadsheets were the answer at one point in the distant past so spreadsheets will therefore be the only answer that is accepted until that particular person (and anyone they have infected with the same mentality) retires. And heaven help you if it's a load-bearing spreadsheet...

 

Reminds me exactly of having trading in space games.

Elite had it so now every space game has it in just because. There'll never be, say, a cinematic, entirely story-based, exploring-based space game like a Last of Us, it'll nearly always be trading and trading and long journeys (unless there's a money cheat), with a story tacked on, and hopefully the exploring's pretty.

 

There won't be trading in Squadron 42 (the single-player, Hollywood All-Star cast version of Star Citizen) - as you're a Navy pilot on your first assignment.

 

And hopefully it'll be at least as good as Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.

I'm very bitter about CoD fans sabotaging it because they wanted yet another WWII shooter. If it wasn't called CoD, would they have been fine with it? Bah.

 

BTW - Everyone in that trailer who looks like someone famous, IS that person!

Spoiler

Mark Hamill, Mark Strong, Gillian Anderson, Gary Oldman, Henry Cavill, John Rhys-Davies, etc

 

Naturally, but I always think Mark Strong is Stanley Tucci.

 

Trailer looks amazing, not so keen on the pew pew laser sounds.

Still missing that all important release date though.

 

When It's Done, presumably. Full agreement on the pew-pew lasers, they're just far too comical.

 

Just wish they'd revert the fighting side of things to 1.3 or perhaps 2.4. It's been over a year and a half since I touched the game (though I'm looking to get back into it) and the flight model was a joke, which is still a view shared by my Org.

 

Flight model is about to get a massive change Pete, and then expect that to get tweaked more.

Everything specification and physics wise was subject to change. I guess if enough people said "stick with 1.3", they might, but CR has his 'vision'.

I am looking forward to seeing the change though, which is supposed to add more realism i.e. not all thrusters have equal thrust just based on engine output.

 

Good lord, now I'm seeing why this is taking forever.

Some people fuss over these little things, but when the game is underway and being played we don't notice them. Like those graphics comparison pictures / videos where you see slight differences if you stare long enough, but while playing you don't notice it, you're busy playing and moving.

 

Part of the original pitch was that you would be able to write your own Control Laws for the ships (translating Yaw/Pitch/Roll inputs to the actual commanded engine and thruster gimballs and powers). That's the level of engine nerdiness at work here.