Inside Star Citizen: Alpha 4.0 - Engineering 

Great feature!

I really hope they give us USB sticks to transfer this kind of data around ships like they have in real life aircraft.

@@dominus1444 yeah and sell them

@citizen_brimstone3113 if you're a pirate you can a preset ready to go to disable a ships systems from within

Yeah Jared did shave up quite well. 😅

@@Cablezero1

A decent UI ... shocking. Right? :D

@@jlemmerson Absolutely. But I'm glad they're taking this path.

Now I need to work on my French.

I cannot wait to play with ze couleurs... ;)

Yikes

While commendable, I don't think anyone would be mad if we got subtitles with non-English speaking guests.

@@BradAhrens I know you didnt mean anything bad by it, but Bastien is literally speaking English. He just has an accent!

Chris Roberts personally shaved him

He's appearing in SQ42 as a character. He had to shave for the mo-cap stuff. Was explained during the last episode a week ago 👍

He said (last week I think) that he is getting his head scanned into the game and had to shave for it

cost cutting measure. No more money for fake beards

@@whatasaverl6456 i thought you did

Jared? You mean Doctor How?

lol, I was a bit confused by what you meant... until I saw who this was. 😅

this is real

It’s why I backed, Tomato. For me, the game arrives with Engineering

@M4xCh3rry It's definitely a huge part of what will make this a proper and engaging multiplayer game. But for me, I'm still waiting on a proper economy and the Quanta system for NPCs. That's when the game will really transition into the bare-minimum of what we've been promised.

I have been waiting so long for this

Vive le french accent

super, un nouveau rayon magique^^

@@Muscida_ serieux tg

I think when they run into the next iteration of long term persistence they're gunning for people logging back in wherever they logged off. I know that's an end goal, and logging in a bed is just supposed to provide a rest bonus at that point.

YUP

If they rework the Carrack for this, they should make the rear elevator go all the way to the ground on the same pass.

@@hellow5100 They just told you tier 1 and 2 are the only removable components in the game tier 3 and 4 require landing services for removal.

Great idea!

And fixing the endless Bugs like the Elevator and the visual Bugs... Its my fav Ship so far but its always a buggy mess

GET OVER IT OR DRAW 25!

MM killed this ship lol I feel bad for you 400i owners

and give back the speed he was know for, he's now slow like constellation and corsair, without firepower and cargo

@@SaschaTKL Elevators and Transit are being totally reworked for 4.0. Those systems were old and not compatible with meshing.

Given their track record prepare to wait 😂

lord knows they're low on players

@@needy3535 they aren’t at all, but drawing in people who are interested in games other than flight sims and fps is definitely a good thing

@@needy3535the original plan was to have a 9:1 ratio of NPC:players

@@DawnstealerGaming at the same time i fear initially this system/s will push a lot of players into smaller ships mainly fighters, since before you could play gigantic ships solo, and now with misfires it will be almost impossible. Wonder how this will go down.

@@2727daqwid Which is exactly the idea - it'll likely push people to, you know, play together. This IS an MMO, after all.

No. This will be better. Skyrim is widely instanced, all meaningful interiors are disconnected from the open world. Here they are not. So it will be better than anything Bethesda has done.

I think that's a thing already. Something about a Star... and Field...

@@figure_0491 ya cause star field saw the opportunity to used ideas from RSI push something out and try to steal the fans however they didn't succeed and SC is still on top as the best ever space sim ever made that's why its still in alpha and not finished and isn't being rushed like star field. Star field was cool but it will never be SC.

Ya fighters will be useless, especially when they buff turrets. Multi crew ships will be mad Op with a crew because they can basically heal the ship.

Not like it matters Mm already killed the fun and skill of fighters, a multi crew meta would be fun

An engine kill is a kill. Once your engines are down you can’t move, and they can’t encase the engines in armor. Firing up the line of the ship from the engines will just kill it by taking out the power core-and that’s gonna be the least armored route cus it can’t have exterior hull plating to protect it on that trajectory. Also, lol, heal the ship. This clearly isn’t on combat time scales. Once your engines are down it’s not like the fighter stops shooting. If they model the bullet paths, your engineer will probably just get killed as the fighter shoots through the engines to the core. Without flak-meaningful anti-smaller than yourself weapons-we will continue to see large ships defenseless against small ones. We need flak, a proximity fuse aoe weapon. Lowest dps for its size to make it bad against equal size ships, but good at hitting ships smaller than yourself. The Hammerhead needs it to fight fighters, the Javelin will need it to fight Corsairs.

@@piedpiper1172 I mean, I'd point out that in most of the ships the engines do not actually present a direct physical path toward the power generators, especially directly up the engine port. Additionally, only firing up the engine exhaust may be harder than you think in terms of keeping lined up without getting shot down. Though the port would likely not really be armored, engine nacelles in the game for many ships actually appear pretty well armored. Relative to the size of the nacelles on the hammerhead, for instance, the thruster ports are small, recessed, and clearly still have some armoring. That said I've often been a fan of introducing a flak gun @ size 4-5 specifically.

@@luistigerfox Once the engines are dead, the ship is increasingly helpless. If it means having to take out turrets, that’s easier when engines are out too. Any component the fighter takes out, the engineer has to stand directly next to when repairing: aka, where the bullets from the fighter are. Precision mode works against big ships here. It’s very easy to place shots exactly where you want on a ship that’s not moving. It’s also good at hitting engines even on the better protected nacelles. But plenty of ships do have giant engine banks that are incredibly easy to hit. It’s also easy to do it while continuing to corkscrew. And they just buffed precision mode, it’s only what, 15% dps loss now? That doesn’t even offset the effective dps gain provided by the improved accuracy. Time to kill on a hammerhead for a lone gladius is currently pretty high, so I doubt this will even increase the time. After all, 0 hp components cause their own problems like fires, overloads, etc. Meanwhile, the fighter is melting through the armor to knock out systems.

chu mort j'ai reconnu un compatriote sans qu'il dit qui les FR XD

I couldn't understand a word he said 😮 was he speaking French or is it easier for FR people to understand each other's English accent?

@@ValosarX more easy for us, now you understand how hard it is for us at the start to understand english speaker with strong accent or just speaking quickly x)

@@ValosarX He was talking english with a very strong french accent, it makes it way easier to understand each other's accent for those who aren't used to listen to english people!

Connie's literally don't even have components lol

and give us extra exit... literally just a ladder like on the Zeus. Because if the fire brakes out back there and those little extinguishers are not enough, without opening the cargo bay you are done. Not to mention opening this huge of an opening every time means somebody uninvited may get in. That's not the case for like 99% of other ships.

@@2727daqwid 💯, but everyone agrees on that. Few people in the past understood why I felt components needed to be spread out more

combat ain't the only thing in Star Citizen :)

I mean, there is this one guy that plays sc in vr, not sure of his name though

Lmao the game is not meant to be about fighting... they're literally building a life sim MMO in a scifi universe... fighting is only a small part of that, and it will be optional once we have high security star systems. This complexity is also meant for game balance so people can't solo larger ships well, thus creating an incentive to work with a crew. In addition, NPCs are literally planned to be able to do things around ships and in the universe in general...SQ42 development has been about that in a large part, they made NPCs dynamic and not scripted. Please do your research before making weird and ignorant assumptions

They did mention it in the video, albeit not by name - shots have to 'penetrate' the ship to damage the components (merely doing 'hull damage' will be irrelevant now), and 'Armour' will make it harder for shots to penetrate (so you have to weaken / remove armour using e.g. energy weapons to slag it)... this was previously referred to as 'Physics Based Damage', and later subsumed into Maelstrom.

@@logicalChimpAka: “fighters use precision mode to knock out engines and then snipe your core via that unarmored opening in the hull cus we never added flak and you still can’t hit them with any weapon from a multicrew ship.” I want multicrew to work, and this system is nice for immersion, but ffs we need flak. We need a weapon whose sole purpose is “hit ships smaller than yourself.” The Hammerhead needs it to hit fighters, the Javelin will need it to hit Corsairs. We have to have flak for multicrew to ever be viable.

@@logicalChimp Well, that isn't the entirety of maelstrom. Once that's in, ship hulls are supposed to break open and break apart much more dynamically. Meaning that hull damage can still be of value, in that it could cause structural failure of the ship. They have said at times that with Maelstrom they want the chance for a large ship to break in half, for instance, and the rear half of the ship is still powered and such, but the front is obviously not due to no longer being connected to the power source. So, catastrophic damage could be possible without direct component damage using maelstrom. Though attacking components directly makes more sense.

Lmao larger ships were never meant to be pay to win and soloable.... anything bigger than a Connie IS meant to be a time and money sink for game balance, you're not meant to be able to solo things past that size without incurring a ton of negatives. So, either play smaller ships or leave

@@ChristoffRevanExcept they announced ai crews. What you said was true at kickstarter launch, but it’s clearly not now. Even with engineering this brings no multicrew incentive. This video is just a laundry list of out of combat chores. One person can do them in a quantum drop out point, and two people playing together will just solo two ships and do the chores the same way. Unless and until multicrew actually increases combat power it’ll continue to be meaningless. Would I rather man 1 2xS3 turret on a Connie, or just pilot a Corsair? The gulf is so large that it’s utterly absurd.

No, they don´t. The bigger the ship the more work it will be. Simple. Logical. I´d be more concerned about various smaller ships. Especially those that have a hard time carrying repair parts or have no capacity to do so whatsoever. A ship like, say, a Freelancer can carry a replacement quantum drive and other parts. Try that with a Gladius. AI shards and ai crew will help here - provided they manage to implement those in a timely manner too. Otherwise people without a player crew readily available will have a hard time operating anything beyond a Constellation on their own.

@@piedpiper1172 You don't understand...NPC crew will have wages, so a solo player will only be able to afford maybe 3 max... whatever the actual number it won't be enough for things bigger than a Connie or maaaaaaaybe a Hammerhead; AI blades (automated turrets) will be relatively expensive to install, and they will be able to get damaged or even destroyed and be a sunk cost you aren't getting back...plus, when someone uses distortions or EMPs against you then the AI blades will be able to be turned off temporarily! Thus, ships larger than a Connie will increasingly become less and less friendly to solo to the point where it becomes a massive money and time sink (to the point where you can't afford it), as well as losing efficiency AND capability

Dream on even an Idris will be flighable alone. AI Blades will take turrets and the mayority of the repairwork. Maybe not as good as a well trained 30 man crew....... hahaha nevermind...... but good enough for80% of the citizens. And the reason is simple.....they want money ​@robertmandl9326

Buddy, there are people in the Verse who enjoy picking up bottles at space stations 😂 I'm sure there are plenty who will find their way to the engineering niche.

I have a couple of friends who love how star citizen looks but get too motion sick sitting in turrets or have vertigo or something, I tell them that it is more than flying or being in turrets. Are there a lot of players that would like to be flying or manning a turret, absolutely. There are also a fair few that would rather do something else besides those.

@@fhart85 Let's be honest. Do they enjoy picking up the trash, or are they bored while waiting for a ship claim, cargo to load, a friend to arrive, etc?

@@fhart85 listen buddy, i see bottle on top of the bin while they can go in.... it's compulse me to put the bottle in it... don't you ear the sweet voice asking for it ?

I think you're forgetting the sheer amount of us who backed the game to do exactly this

This has been the plan for years. It is what it is.

@@Island_Bag New players won't care. But maybe they don't care that new players won't care.

@@Cursethedawn they shouldn’t else they would be filp flopping on their words and decisions.

CIG has been saying for years that engineer gameplay is coming, that there will be consequences to every action, and that playing as a crew will be much easier than playing solo. There's nothing surprising.

hahah..that's where I needed subtitles