Star Citizen. 1 hour of goodness from Gamescom in HD

Oh god the peasantry. The fact that you guys hype the most boring looking games (I:SS, The Order, No Man's Sky) just because they're on PS4 and dismiss anything, no matter how amazing, just because you can't play it, is ridiculous.

No cinematic 30 fps, no movie like black bars, no washed out grey palette, no fog everywhere to mask the textures, no hardcore god rays, no CGI cutscenes every 2 minutes, no QTE's. Is this even a game? Looks stupid.

Still looking amazing. By the time Arena Commander hits version 1 (we're at .8 right now) it will be as feature filled as a lot of games are on launch. I'm pumped.

The racing ended up looking a lot more fun than I was thinking it was going too. The multi-crew ships look every bit as awesome as I expected. The actual gameplay is all still very rough, but it is coming together. The trailers they put together are of the highest of quality. Games is stunning.

Can I still buy into this game?

Yes. You can buy the lowest level of ship package for $40 and get beta access then purchase instant alpha access for $5 more.

Or you can be me and spend nearly $150 to get a Hornet. I may have a problem.

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yeah ok..lol

last night i watched this whole video. i really enjoyed it. at the moment i'm a backer with arena commander.

great they're introducing coop, now the mrs wants to play too - so once AC 0.9 comes out they'll have another backer.

really sensible choices regarding the hangers. first person gameplay coming at PAX, that's freaking awesome.

If I didn't have a £100 parking fine then I'd be all over it.

Absolutely, dude. You can pretty much buy whatever ship or game package you want and then buy an arena commander module pass(it's $5) and you're set. Just be aware that some ships aren't flyable in AC just yet. I think only the Hornet, Aurora and 300i are flyable.

Makes me regret not getting the M50 when I had the chance.

It's called an opinion if someone doesn't like it.

My favorite genre hands down is space games and I am having trouble getting excited because what I've seen of gameplay hasn't looked fun at all. It looks slow, boring, empty. A game like star conflict has much better actual combat despite not being very deep. Star Conflict might have the most depth of any game ever but if the core gameplay is not fun it does not matter. Few games find the balance between good gameplay (e.g. Dragons Dogma) and depth (e.g. Eve Online) and Star Citizen is shaping up to be incredibly deep and incredibly boring

this combat is more fun than star citizens

And there's a difference between having an informed opinion and not.

So when people like you don't actually back up what you say, what are the rest of us to think? Give actual examples of why you think the gameplay isn't fun. Slow, boring, and empty with regards to what? Nothing that I've played, except for the solo flight mode, has been empty. Multiplayer combat in AC has been anything but slow and boring.

and what pray tell, makes that any faster or more exciting than star citizen? its not faster, its not more action packed... the only recognisable advantage, is being a friggin star fox level easy flight....

Very little going on at once, slow flight doesn't give an actual sense of speed, small scale conflicts, tedious shooting....... empty environments, annoying sounds.....

just because you like it doesn't make it objective, how about you tell me, besides graphics, what makes the core gameplay stand out above its competitors in terms of fun

see ? the ignorance again... Star Citizen will have 200+ ships in one zone... all you see now is alpha flight testing.

And clearly... by the racing footage shown, the Star Citizen Ships move a hell of a lot faster than star conflicts.... which is just a little star fox deathmatch/ctf game.... ugh it was a tedious grind fest.... with appaling space combat.

"Very little going on at once," what? Multiple ships going head to head isn't enough for you? "Tedious shooting," what is tedious about it? "Empty environments," It's space...of course parts of it are going to be empty. It would have to be to facilitate ship vs ship combat in an arena(where there are places you can and can't go). I don't think you've actually played Arena Commander, though. If you had you'd realize there are actually a lot of objects and debris in the current maps.

The rest of what you mentioned is subjective.

It looks mind blowing at times but how come that there are so many jaggies at 17:05-17:50? There it looks like the game is rendered at a fairly low resolution with no aa at all.

@rabakill: I think what you appreciate is simplified gameplay, which is what Star Conflict represents. Star Conflict isn't a space sim. It's really just a third-person shooter.

Star Citizen is a space sim. It's meant to simulate dogfighting. You can't make comparisons of the games because they're different types of games.

Now I'm not criticizing what you like, but to make criticisms of Star Citizen solely because it's more advanced than Star Conflict is disingenuous.

Was probably an issue with how they captured that footage. It doesn't look nearly that bad when I load up my hangar. Although the deluxe hangar(what they showed) is pretty ugly to begin with.

The game looks quite good, the only thing that bothers me is the system requirements. To me it looks like they are not going to bother optimising the game for a set of hardware and it's going to run like shit on mid rage systems,

I hope I'm wrong.

Now we have to wait for PAX Australia for FPS combat

@MBirdy88: you should look up the word ignorance because you don't know what it means.

A real space sim wouldn't be at the speed of sound

The game does not look fun from what I've seen. The apologists can throw their rhetoric around but I'll wait until it looks fun before investing

i'm looking forward to that.

Aside from some subjective viewpoints(which don't really make any sense if you think Star Conflict looks good), you haven't shown what doesn't make it fun.

your comment was pretty ignorant considering it was based on alpha gameplay taken place on a empty testing map. saying that there's very little going on shows just how little you understand the game and what its end goal is.

We just saw first release of pre alpha build of the game . It is currently version 0.8 . After two weeks , they are about to update it to version 0.9 . That alone brings tons of improvements and new features . They are even going to increase ships' speed (Plus new sound effects) . Did you even watch the video .?

This is just a pre alpha build to test the game . Final game will have 50+ Space Ships in same instance fighting one another . Campaign is still one year away from release . You know games aren't made in 1 day . They start somewhere and build rest of the game on it .

This looks like shit. Nothing like other pics that have been posted. Looks to be running on Mass Effect Engine.

yup..the mass effect engine..thats exactly what its called

its funny because mass effect engine games are usually my favourite games on the citadel

This is my dream game ive been waiting for.....along with mass effect 4.

Tough choice between this and bloodborne lol

A note from the chairmen:

At $53 million, we would like to look ahead to Star Citizen’s launch. One thing we’re doing today is drilling down how a lot of our post-launch systems will work: deciding how we discourage bad behavior within the confines of the Star Citizen universe, while at the same time letting players have as much fun and freedom as possible. What we’d like to experiment with on launch is the “Independent Arbitrator’s Guild,” a staffed position for taking care of certain player disputes without leaving our world. The stretch goal will earmark money to maintain this as a position at Cloud Imperium! Here’s the in-universe background:

• INDEPENDENT ARBITRATOR’S GUILD – Have you been wronged by your superiors? Has the member of your organization entrusted with watching the funds, been watching them go into their own pocket? Think you don’t have any recourse? You’re wrong. Fully licensed and bonded to work within the UEE and beyond, the Independent Arbitrator’s Guild allows citizens (and civilians, we don’t discriminate!) to file complaints against (or within) private organizations. Petition cases with our IAG representatives to have your voice heard and restitutions made. Is your business less than legitimate? IAG is only here to judge the matters you want us to. Confidentiality is guaranteed.

I like were this is going