Star Citizen Developer Wants to Reinvent the FPS

These are not recent goals...It has always been the plan.

@Pawfalcon: I felt the same, but the folks I've talked to who are actually playing Star Citizen right now have felt differently, and believe that Roberts, et al are on-track to delivering on at least most of their promises.

@nurnberg: Money is never enough... Father Roberts says.

@Barighm: These ideas are so broad that you can't possibly have a clue how it handles.
ArmA has some of these concepts, but if you aren't in it for the long haul with that game all of the details of the on foot mechancis tend to feel crummy, if you aren't used to them. But mechanics like this, and the ballistics and stuff are also what make that game so awesome for folks like me.

But there are other games with the same concepts that nail the rest and beyond that it's just personal taste.
You could easily add these concepts to Call of Duty and it would still feel silky smooth and responsive and nice like Call of Duty.

@Barighm: Just out of curiosity, what similar game are you talking about? Not trying to dispute your point, just interested in what it is.

@thermalmotion: Weird, it's almost like games have to be finished before they are fun.
This mechanic is barely, if even, out of prototype phase. We have no idea what the end result will be like.

@thermalmotion: that was a silly comment dude, unless you are from the future

@thermalmotion: You are not alone... Their current "tech demos" have not been able to attract more than 1% of their supposed number of backers to play it, or to give it a single try. They have a leaderboard from where you can figure out that, even that not the real objective of such "spreadsheet"...

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The most "popular" multiplayer mode, after AC 1.1.1 release, is not going far of just 1k users so far, who played for more than a few seconds since its release 3/4 days ago. The majority of this microscopic number did not pass from 10 minutes. And the rest, it's easy to infer that are the most excited backers who play the game using more than one account with different ships associated to them, meaning that many "users" are from one single individual.

If you filter to see the entire life cycle of previous patches, they barely pass from 13k-20k users (much less individuals if you understand what I just explained above).

Majority of the supposed population (that they say to have, not necessarily have) even bought alpha access to play it earlier, separated from the package, much further after the "game" available... but all them have been refusing to give it a SINGLE try.

So, by these stats, a lot analysis (even speculation) can be made... But the most important FACT is, that you can have an idea of how "good" it is for their own backers.

If that was really good, as some people try to claim, definitely more people would play it, or would give it, at least, a single try, even that just to check how it performs in multiplayer in their rig/broadband.

And Roberts intention with such releases were to keep his backers playing the game and busy "having fun" while waiting for a long time. As you can see, he has been failing terribly on this announced objective. But one can argue that it's just another speech of bs. If he really wanted to more people "having fun", he wouldn't create schemes of cash grabbing associated with these earlier modules, that actually can limit the level of players having fun, or even testing. Maybe these people back later, but I highly doubt that after so long waiting, and clearly have been treated as second-class citizens because do not spend more real dollars, they will look to all that they release with forgiving eyes and good taste in their mouth, just as the few 1k-5k whales that spend their days praising CIG in their forums.

@thermalmotion:

What do you talking about?

The FPS Modul is not release.

@ethario: fun >= realism Dependent on the person

Though if this is considered as realism that is pretty funny. It just has elements which are found in less arcade like games(not to say the fps portion is realistic nor arcade like itself, which it is).