Star Citizen's Dogfighting Module Now Available to Backers

Well finally got the time to try it out, what can I say it is AWESOME! Granted it's still pre alpha and it has more than it's share of quirks which makes me even more excited to seen the final release. Really love the dogfighting feels like a reasonable mix between I-WAR 2 and Wing Commander.

Haven't you checked the news yet Gamespot?

Because they did not made 3 or 4 millino in a week, with the failed AC release (curiosly they made more millions in the past with the release of that poor Hangar thing), they had to add a new ship sale in the weekend to raise their number again in the same way, getting money from the same addicted and brainwashed people.

Nice play CIG. Desperately trying to hide the real results for a failed release, at least, that could work for their fans obviously, or people that are unaware of the status of this project.

Each new release their numbers just grow slowly. That definitely means something. Poor release after poor release, showing that they can deal with the overhyped machine that they created.

"Thank god we have our pay wall with the ships behind and a bunch of fanatics that always want to buy whatever thing that we release" - CR probably says internally.

The curious thing is that when it is a matter to explain delays, CR and others claimed that they are "releasing the game in modules, but this is the game, that will grow in time and will be always under development"... They also said that people would get something much more above a pre-alpha state, when explaining a new delay, and that they would get a game "akin" of a full game like World of Tanks.

And finally, after constant new delays and bugs, he started to say again that it is pre-alpha or alpha.

It sounds to me that Star Citizen always have an excuse ready for everything that they do. And their fans buy that and spread these excuses around the internet.

Meanwhile, ED is released in Alpha or Beta state, in a great state of fun and quality, no missing deadlines and showing respect to the clients, even getting almost 40 times less money than the CIG team got.

Now, in who you will trust? In who delivers, or in who tell good tales depending of the occasion and situation, sometimes one tale contradicting the previous tale.

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For two days now I've been all over the forums trying anything to get pas the "loading" screen. It's comforting to know I'm not the only person having issues with logging on.

So far I'll just take everyone who can log on's word for it.

I finally was able to play it. The Vanduul Swarm mode.

The game is not bad... But all those details that they put in the ships, all the polishing and so on, seems more important when you see ships in the Hangar, not in the space.

The dogfigthing is bascically all the time, you against circles, that when locked create more circles and you barely can see anything inside that circle unless in a rare moments when those Vanduul approach and you have a blink of something inside, that you can't really figure out too much its form.

It seems that the only way to see how a Vanduul is, is only in Hangar or in that holographic view of the target, that is just a representation of the real thing.

Star Citizen a game that were delayed due a necessity of been super-polished, but the only that you fight are squares, retangles, circles and more circles, with different colors.

Meanwhile some obstacles appear magically in front of you without alert and you have your ship destroyed :D

That's not cool after the third wave where you spent half an hour to destroy all those fancy circles.

LoL

I don't know. When I look to the ED videos, I can see that people are fighting against ships. In SC, only thing that I can see are colored circles. Something is not right with the SC design.

I just wonder what happened with that talking of "hitting" some specific parts of ships to board them. I wonder how is going to be that if not just by luck, since you barely can see anything besides big and large colored circles.

This makes me feel like flight sims are coming back. Pretty excited, just wish I had a PC that could run this or a good joystick peripheral to buy for consoles if this comes to consoles.

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Just saw a thread in the CIG forums of a person willing to know how to get a refund. A big list of fanboys came and start to ofend the person. Worst than that, many of them simply started to lie about CIG "not giving refunds".

It seems that the fans does not like of disappointed people, but they love the money of them.

True is that CIG is giving refunds when people asked them, at least when people present the right reasons, like "Kickstarter broken promises" for example, since to avoid more serious issues, CIG obviously try to protect itself from major problems with the law, by refunding people immediatelly when they ask for it, after all, they changed the deal due their own wishes to promote itself more.

But it is impressive how these fanboys act, and more impressive that all the time the threads like that are opened in their forums, they, or disappear quickly, and never a Staff member come to clarify that CIG actually refund people when they ask support.

That's a serious deceptive attitude. CIG should be more clear on that. They would win more respect and trust, but instead, by this attitude, they seem to want people falling in the mistake to think that they do not have right of a refund, keeping the "legend of not refundable" grow up for their own interests, ignoring how you win on trust, when you assume a transparent position focused on customer satisfaction. It is also a marketing. Probably a best one that they have been using.

Many people at this point have not been able to even download and install correctly the thing. I suppose that they cannot use the excuse of PBR or "Cry Engine sucks" here.

Unable even to provide a proper download system and a proper installation.... that's simply lack of competency. I suppose that in some years, as soon as these trainees learn how to code things correctly, CIG customers are going to start to get a game.

Now that the first module has been released (and is awesome BTW) I have high hopes for SC, and I think they are doing a great job, game looks, plays, and runs great, I can't wait for some ground missions when they do the PS2 module.

I love the arena commander, the graphic and level of details is amazing. I do not get decoupled mode though, whats that about? I also need to get my head around the radar as there are some NPC enemies who appear from nowhere and shower me with fire of doom. Apart of that the game dogfighting module is really great. Its a shame that I cant fly my 325A but 300i is equally awesome. I hope that I will be ablet o mount guntling guns in the final version.

Already more optimized compared to Watch Dogs. I have trouble with WD on high and no trouble with SC on very high (and it looks better than WD on max)

(gtx 770 windforce, i7-3930k and 32gb ddr3-1866)

Do people really believe that they've been making JUST THIS for more than a year? They're working on every part of the game, people, but just focusing more on this right now because they wanted to release arena commander. Usually with AAA games, you wouldn't even hear about a game at least 2-3 years after they start development. It's awesome that they've already progressed enough to release the different modules, even the pre-alpha version.