Should you Buy Star Citizen? Top 5 Questions for Curious Gamers 

There are a lot of Yes and No replies here, but remember that only you can decide for yourself if you’ll enjoy Star Citizen. The purpose of this video is help you make an informed decision.

Gotta love the answer right at the front.

It should also be stated expensive ships tend to be multicrew. For new players I think it's important to point out that ships with multiple turret slots need actual people to operate them. Plenty of other space games have that stuff automated so a new player may not realize a hammerhead is useless without friends.

The biggest problem I have with SC is that once you get over the learning curve of all the various mechanics, you start to realize how little actual gameplay there really is. At times I would say it feels less like a spiritual successor to EVE/ED & more like “Microsoft Spaceflight Simulator w/ missions”. If CIG could just get all the remaining professions (especially Exploration) in the game along with maybe 10 of the 100 star systems, I think SC would definitely be a serious contender for one of the best games ever. But as it stands, I tend to just play off & on, follow along with the development, and don’t have anywhere near $1,000 invested.

#1 tip: get a cheap starter pack when starting out, and experiment with ships in game before committing to anything. Most people will let you test drive their ships, and you can always change ships later if your interests change

For me, Star Citizen is therapy. I am brand new to the game, but I like the slower pace nature of it, and on top of all that, there's so much to explore and do as a new player. Plus, I love how cinematic the game is! Really such a nice change of pace from the games I've been playing. I have you and a few others to thank for making me a Citizen of the Stars.

This will be *the* video for now if someone asks me about the game. Though I missed one bullet point when you talked about the bigger more expensive ships: Operational complexity and cost. I think this is important since the combat meta might change in the future. On the other hand i would claim that one of the core principles behind the big ship designs which is less likely to change is that they are conceptualized around player groups.

Great video! My personal tips for new players: - Multiplayer is 100% where the fun is at! - Remember you can rent ships for a specific activity - Try different things to see what you like best: deliveries, mining, fps bunkers, bounties, tracking players, trading, etc - Don't be afraid to ask for help & ask for tips

Great video and exactly what I needed! I used to follow the development very closely like…7+ years ago, but stepped away and now so much has changed that it’s hard to understand exactly where things are now. This helped so much. Please keep making these periodically! Always love your analyses. Can reliably get a clear picture without all the drama/hate discourse that most other RU-vidrs engage in. Any chance you can do an update on where SQ42 is at now?

to be clear i hit the like button because you started the video with the answer to the question. thats great lol. havent watched the rest yet but thats a like and sub from me.

I tried paying like 6 times yesterday. Nothing works and everything that didn't work was game breaking every time. Lighting and 1% FPS were much better but so much stuff was broken I literally could not play the stupid thing.

I'm one of those very disappointed backers. Pledged back in 2015. And I can say with confidence that after so many years in development Star Citizen is still just a shell of a game. Its pretty tho. Every time I go back to it, once or twice a year, I get bit mad about the state of the this "half a billion dollar budget" game...

Excellent, well rounded explanation of where the game's at. Love the concept for this video....start with no...then see if you overcome the hurdles. I'm very much a wait and see and in for the long haul. I've been a backer since 2014...basically when Arena Commander started. My hurdle for getting into the game has been setting up my desired hardware setup, though I have a couple ways I can improve it further. I finally got that (mostly) sorted, so configuring it is my next hurdle. The configurations in the game are mind boggling, and honestly a hurdle unless you go with the standard gamer setup (WASD, etc)(I don't). Configuring for some other setup, is quite a task. Doesn't help when updates come out and wipe the configuration I have, as has happened several times. Right now I'm seeing is not really a good time in game, so I'm laying off. I'll try again when I see a more stable update. I still keep up on news...getting the general sentiment of the updates.

Bought SC a few weeks ago and have been watching Morphologis ever since. Even with all the bugs, I would still recommend to anyone interested. Bought the mustang alpha starter pack and it has been amazing!

Extremely informative video aaaaaaand answer right at the front?! Instant like and subscription.

This was a very fun video! Absolutely loved it! And the QUALITY from you is just always next level good stuff!

As a backer since '16; I really appreciate the fair and neutral POV. Its important to not edit out the bugginess. You also cover most of the game pretty well. I will be sharing this.

Bro, very well put together video! Randomly came across this and was very informative. Kudos!

Thanks for the video! I'm going to use it whenever I try to recruit a new player.

Very informative, and thanks for the widesceen format, much appreciated.

I would totally agree with this video with one thing to add: if you keep all this in mind, I would recommend seeing what it has to offer just because the $45 I spent originally and the $25 upgrade I got later was totally worth it just to experience the fully-realized ships and planets. Just flying around for a few hours is like nothing else and you’ll see out there and makes it feel worth it to support the project even if you’re not playing regularly.

I think you should be commended for immediatly answering the question in your video title. Every single youtuber should take notes right here.

Star Citizen has moments of sheer brilliance. And as a whole, its an absolutely impressive project. Unfortunately for me, thats quickly overshadowed by all the bugs and glitches and occasionally the performance. Taking 20 mins to get anywhere only to blow up when leaving Port osilar for no reason, or placing a package in the my Mustangs cargo tray, only to suddenly die placing it in the cargo tray because the "place" animation made my players head clip through the tray itself. Spending a bunch of money buying armour and gear to go do a bounty 50 million kms away, entering a cave to take out hostiles, get stuck on a rock and die losing all my gear. Returning to said cave killing all but 1 enemy who seems to not exist, spend an hour looking around cave for an enemy. Enemy doesnt exist. So, cant complete mission. So no 30k reward. 3 hours wasted. All the money and effort, wasted. This was only a few things that happened amongst alot more, in around 10hrs play. Literally just got my refund. Ill give it anohter go in a few years because it could truly be great.

I can't say enough about how happy it makes me that your videos are 21:9. Magic.

getting cave missions for fps is a good way to get big empty box with you and clear the cave of the gems :) its a good boost for moneys

heres a thumps up JUST for the format.

Well done video!, ironically the med specs you set out im just under haha, i did briefly try it back when they had a free weekend, which is why i still have not bought it YET, but maybe soon, i love scifi so this game is something ive been following since its inception. This video definitely helped.

Amazing broll camera work bud!

Great breakdown... I feel most RU-vidrs just post a long cinematic video with little to no breakdown for new players OR a joke video thats 4 hours long with little editing. This was perfect.

Currently, I am playing SC on an MSI GF63 Core i5 with GTX 1650 4GB and 32GB DDR4 and average 40+ fps planetside and 50+ in space(there are tweaks and tuneups for the Nvidia software that really help). I know it's not awesome like some other PC's, but it works for me.

Thanks this has whetted my appetite and curiosity for this simulation game... I am starting to compare it with a few others.

i love how u gave the answer right at the very beginning of the video

God your footage always looks so good.

I occasionally have people asking me about star citizen and this is now my go-to video for them.

I agree completely, I have owned and played... inconsistently at best, some patches are a blast but right now is utterly unplayable to most people, for example, some days I can't spawn a ship, other days I can play for hours without issue. It's really a test of patience so I'd give it another 2 years before really considering it

Part of the problem for paying for ships (other than the fact that most of the money goes towards a game you don’t want) is that there really isn’t much progression in Star Citizen. Grinding for auec so you can buy cool ships is really the only major gameplay loop atm. There’s no long haul exploration with only one system, no homesteading/base building, no hunting animals/creatures, it’s mainly ships.

I tried out star citizen during their recent free fly event. Buggy mess does not even begin to describe things. My very first interaction with the game, getting out of bed, caused me to fall _through_ the world and die. Any starting gear I might have been given was lost since if it's on your person when you die it stays with your body (and my body was now below the map). Don't get attached to any gear you buy either: If it's on your ship and your game crashes while in quantum, it's *gone* because you don't get any of your ships inventory back when you claim your ship. The final straw for me was when I attempted to move my belongings from one starter location to another. I loaded them into my ship, flew out of the hangar, was well clear before going to turn skyward, and abruptly detonated for no apparent reason. Inside a safe zone my ship just exploded. For no reason. Destroying every single last bit of gear I had. Again. I want to like Star Citizen, I really do. I can see the potential it has, and if they fix the awful buggy mess they have it's going to be amazing. But it's not where it needs to be yet. $500 million and 10+ years of development and I die *getting out of bed*? Seriously?

Watching this to support the channel even though I'm a chairman's club member and early backer 8D

Medrunner here! We're honoured by your mention of our org; see you in the 'Verse!

Thank you! I've been monitoring the development of Star Citizen for about 2 years, waiting for a reasonably stable version to come out. Recently, I heard about some new updates to SC and went through about five other YT videos trying to find one that would describe the current playability of SC well enough to allow me to make a buy-or-wait decision. This is the first one that did a good enough job to earn a "Like." I'm waiting, for now, but if I do make a "buy" decision, I'll be back to subscribe.

Perfect video at the perfect time. Cheers

Honestly, clever timing. Probably intentional with the free fly event. Been playing since 2016. Best space Sim I've ever experienced.

Cinematography on point 10/10

I bought the game about a year ago. I probably only played 50+ hours. I had fun playing a game in development. I like the concepts and ideas that will one day make up the finished game. I feel like looking at it as a Player vs Engine/Servers + PvE + PvP game makes it more fun. It is basically buying access to a alpha with a possible free game on top (if it ever finishes). I didn't regret buying that :D

What up, Morph. It's CtrlAltPhreak. We used to be in JENK Squad Alpha together on Planetside 2. Hope all is well. I recently started Star Citizen. Maybe I'll see you in-game some time.

1:30 it heavily depends on what resolution you play for Full HD in low settings it needs 1060 6gb and a 4000 cpu from Intel ore first Generation ryzen and 16gb ram.

I like to watch others play the game more than actually playing it due to it still in alpha. I respect those that have youtube channels dedicated to Star Citizen with all the changes over the years. I suffered with Ark Survival Evolved but don't feel like I can suffer with another. I do own a nice ship in Star Citizen and my account is many years old. I am as many that have bought into the game am waiting for the finished product. I will never sell my ship, but I may upgrade it to a newer better ship.

CPU: I7 9700K @ 5.1GHz GPU: RTX 2080 Super RAM: 64GB 3200MHz DDR4 SSD: Samsung 980 NVMe I'm barely seeing above 30 FPS @ 1440P at any landing zone. Graphics settings don't seem to matter and I get a lot of hitching. Haha. Love SC and your videos Morph.

Hey look: I (briefly) co-starred in a Morph vid! ;-) Per the end of the vid when you discuss purchasing the starter ships and grinding up to something bigger, it's important for new folks to also refer back to your discussion about the DB wipes that happen. A player that has worked their tail off to buy a bigger ship will lose that ship at the next full wipe.

Thank you. Because the best that can happen is for CIG revenue to star trending downwards. There will never be any form of development triage, as long as yearly revenue keeps breaking records.

Awesome content!

Im running a gtx 1060 6gb, i3-8100, 16gb 2400mhz ddr4 rams, and a NVME SSD. Usually get a stable 35 fps, unless on orison but definitely playable. Everything on low, couple settings medium that arent heavy performance hitters. I enjoy the game So i dont mind playing with a stable fps even if its sitting 30, as long as its not jumping

The Cutter starter pack is best only starter that can haul STV, ROC [yes open tailgate] grind Titan, Nomad or Arrow in game based on play style and goals.

great video morph

I've been playing since 2017 with a 2700x and gtx1080, until I recently upgraded to a ($180 ebay) 5800x, and the difference is unbelievable, same gpu, 50-100% more frames at any given location, but the stutters are basically gone. I think if you are a 1080p gamer, a super powerful gpu is less important than a strong, modern cpu with good IPC.

Good vid! keep it up 👍

damn that’s convenient I just got interested in star citizen today and would you look at that a brand new video with no outdated nonsense very cool 👍

Great Video. I'm wondering If my AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with an AMD RX 6600 can run the game in 1080p anywhere near 60FPS

As for spec I run the following and will state my frame rate at orison. My specs are as follows Nvidia 3060, Intel 12400f, 16gb ram and a NVME (on my SSD i get the same result). Now a couple of key things I have to mention is I run the game at 1080p when you run 1440p I will highly suggest 32gb ram and if you run 4k then these specs will not do. My frame rate at orison with my cash folder cleared is 32fps with dips into the high 20's, once the game has run for about 10-15 min the frame rate increases too high 30's and low 50's (bunkers and service beacons my system will hit a fps of 65+. My settings are on everything high with clouds at medium. I am going to add that I upgraded from a 6th gen intel and the free fly that swayed me I ran on that rig and could barely achieve low 30's in non-landing zones. (can't state the importance of modern hardware no 6th gen intel will do as in the guys that were trying the game with me we had almost all the intel chips I3; I7 and I9 all struggled. I only listed the cpu's as the gpu's have a much smaller effect and this will change with the adoption of Vulcan) The difference between my 1050ti and 3060 was on average 15-20fps but I will add there is a good 30fps and a bad 30 fps as the frame time between the cards are huge. (I did find it playable on the 1050ti but it was nowhere near as smooth and this is not a game where you want a playable experience. Landig zones was the biggest difference in performance and here the 1050 was struggling but in its defense so was the 1060 and 1070, the 1080 did ok all at 1080p). All four of us tried our old gpu's and found that CPU was the biggest problem but a good gpu really helped make the game feel better. I am excluding the two guys that were running AMD, the AMD's were slightly better and were around the same age maybe a year or so newer than the intel's, and unfortunately I do not have their new or old specs, but all our systems were around 5- 6 years old and we all had similar problems irrelevant of NVIDIA/ATI or AMD/Intel. I have played in all events with no abnormal frame drops except for Zenothreat which will knock even the best system. I hope this is helpful to those that are considering the game and I cannot emphasize this more, test it during a free fly before you buy as this is the worst time to run the game and it will only be better after that.

I play on a 1070 just fine, a friend is playing with a 2080ti and he only gets like 5 fps more in cities, the big difference for me made the upgrade from a 4 core to a 8 core cpu and from 16gb to 32 gb ram! awesome video, as always 🙂

In 2020-21 I had a 980ti, don't remember the rest of the specs on the old rig. Did have 16 gigs of ram which probably saved it. Was able to play pretty smoothly even in high traffic areas. Now the settings were all set to low which surprisingly it still looks amazing on low settings. Don't know what that's like now considering persistence and I don't have that old rig anymore.

My recommendation is to try the game out during a free fly week. The servers are under heavy stress and you will most likely get a better idea how rough the game can be. If by the end of the free fly you are still interested, get the cheapest package. If not, consider coming back later for another free fly for a new try.

Enjoyed the video. If someone wants to buy into the dream of all the promised content they'll need to ignore the clear problems. Many seem to play this game in their imagination and/or completely ignorant while getting angry at those who have concerns. Star 'I can't wait til they' Citizen is fun with friends or the occasional random but that's possible with nearly any multi-player game. Robby needs to get focused or he and many of his backers will never see this complete.

Thank you for the Canada Ref!!!!

lmao love the instant answer!

bought the game like 1.5 years ago since i heard it would be getting the cargo update wich was one of the biggest reason i bought the game. i got burntout when trying to buy my dream ship THE CATEPILLAR but experienced the loops of the game but stuck with pve/pvp since it paid the best for what i had. it was fun but ill probably be back when star citizen hits 4.0 or something

I literally purchased a Maingear MG-1 - 4080 with 32GB Ram for this game. It was worth every penny. Love this game.

great video!

Space Penguin (Avenger Titan) FTW, it used to be cheaper but price was "adjusted to correspond with utility". It's still the best single-seat all-rounder, very good in space combat (the chonky profile makes it less nimble in atmo) has fair bit of cargo space and large vehicle inventory (for transporting stuff), has a bed (important for logging off outside of landing zones) etc. Even at 70USD it's still very much worth the premium over Aurora or Mustang, though Titan is "only" 800k credits in-game and if you regularly manage to join up with an experienced player who has the reputation to get high-end missions you will easily earn that in about 10h of playtime. Arrow (the mentioned "meta" light fighter) is 1M but it's only good for fighting, Titan can do almost everything decently. Ask on global if anyone wants to show a newbie the ropes, it's the best way to learn and you have rescue nearby if things go south for you.

My 1070ti was handling the game just fine before I upgraded to a 3060ti. 32gb of Ram is almost mandatory. It was the biggest qol upgrade for me before I built a new computer.

I’m obsessed with the concept of this game but I doubt my pc can ever handle it. I’ll have to be watching from a distance 🥲

Thanks i really enjoyed that

Excellent description, thanks! What ship is being walked through at the 19:50 mark?

honestly if youre like me who had a passing intrest in star citizen but still aren't sure about getting the game, wait for a free fly event to try out the game. that's what I did with this most recent one and got a starter pack because the event sold me on the game. even if it is bare bones still

Yeah, my pc can't handle it but watching videos seems like it drags me right into the world, even if I'm not the one behind the keyboard.

i just finished a 4 hour session. 3 hours of it was struggling with lag (IE: equiping stuff then it unequiping, interacting with something then it happening a minute later, etc) as well as being stuck in new babbige because the the space terminal was just a void making calling for ships completley inaccessible. and ultimatly finally getting thru a single merc job only to die because the game decided it would be great to get out of my aegis from the front while in atmosphere, leading to a long drawn out death of me plummeting to my death.

Correct me if I'm wrong but - you didn't mention free fly events? They're the best way to test this game out for sure!

Great video!

you deserve the likes and more

My theory on SC still stands. Only spend upwards of about 65$ The price of a modern video game so when and if the game never comes out due to impossible features being requested by the community you are out only a few dollars. And life goes on

My man answered the question in the 1st second.

Something i recommend for anybody to do at least once .... go and take a hover bike (just rent it) and go to micro tech take a route between to points and just do a drive. It is oddly fun to just try and drive your way through the forest, snow and over the rivers (if you can find them ^^)

For performance, with a Ryzen 5800X, RTX 3090 and 32GB 3200 CL14 tuned tertiary (like 10fps diff.) @ 1440P UW I don't get under 60-80 FPS and it goes up to 140-150. RAM CAS timings make a huge difference on Ryzen. It was like $400 for the RAM 3-ish years ago and everything got super snappy. M.2 gen 4 SSD really helps with this game too.

i played the game with those exact specs (8700k + 1080ti + 32 gigs of ddr4 3200) and i can say that its about the minimum for being able to call the game playable. In some areas its a lot more than playable, but others not as much

One of the biggest issues with the game is depending on what you're doing it can take 1 to 2 hours just to get ready to go. Then another 15 to 20 minutes to get where you're going, and that's assuming everything goes right. This isn't a "pick it up and spend an hour or two" game. You literally need to have at least 4 hours set aside anytime you start this game up otherwise you're not going to accomplish anything. It is a huge time sink

So I’m currently downloading it and you either need a direct wired internet for it to download in a day or it will take about 2 days of downloading (for me at least)

I didn't realize the game is STILL in development. I remember playing a demo version years ago. Then I forgot all about it. Very interesting to see how far it has come. But, I think I'll wait just a little longer before I buy into this game. Warframe and MSFS 2020 are my addictions right now. Both taking a lot of my money! Lol

Agree on the cost segment. My biggest permanent ship is a BMM (Crusader C2 loaner for the foreseeable future), but I much prefer to fly my itty bitty Aurora LN (upgraded starter ship), the few times I actually log in throughout the year. It's an awesome little ship, though it is ugly as sin to look at. Mostly just play Arena Commander though; far less buggy and even though I have an i9 13900KF / RTX 4090, so much smoother performance wise.

Do ships get wiped? Also is the PTU the only way to play or is that for just trying out the updates and new ships? My buddy and I are planning on playing soon, I got the game bacl in 2019 but my acer nitro 7 couldn't hack it lol.

Absolutely not, it’s too early! Thanks for bringing up the topic.

From my experience: Try it out, If your ok with retracimg around 15 to an hour of gameplay because of serve bugs Have all your things wiped ( server wipe ) except some amount of isk Can live with seemingly lifeless stations and npcs that has no real value Don’t mind being sniped at point of interest just minding your own busi😮ness Clunky interface for starmap and inventory ( getting better) Performance low and a high learning curve flight model The rest is really cool if somewhat buggy

in my opinion the fun and the overall quality of the game overcomes the bugs, specially if you have friends to play with. we recently found a abandoned hammerhead in an asteroid field which was a real fun experience

What do you recommend for a start for someone who wants to mine and do more of the PVE portion? Less of a fighter pilot....

Why is your filming style so epic?

Hey morph, what kind of 4k monitor for my 4090rtx do you recommend?

the big f'n NO at the beginning got one of those "its funny cuz its true" laughs out of me

This game is like Ark Survival. You'll hate it, you'll love it, you'll get bored with it, and there will be days where you'll sit down and the next time you look at the clock, 12 hours have passed. I've played a couple free weekends over the last year or so, never got the hang of it. I played this last weekend, actually giving it a go, and it was awesome. If you put a couple hours into it, you can pretty much learn all the basics of flight and combat and most of what you need to have a solid grasp on missions/exploring. I got the Cutlass Black starter pack for $120 I think it was, I wanted a well-rounded freight/rescue/personnel transport ship cause I'm definitely more of a PVE player, I love going out and helping random people that are being attacked or rescuing stranded players. That's pretty much a role in itself. But there are times you'll need to defend yourself too. The Cutlass is amazing for all of that. My only complaints are that the game can get a little dull after a few hours when playing alone, there isn't a ton of new stuff to do once you get more into it. And the prices of the ships/packs is near criminal, especially with how much money they've already made on the game and that it's still in its current state. But if you can get a cheaper ship that you love (The Cutlass) and get some friends (I know, me neither), this game could be something you get lost in for hours upon hours. The immersion and visuals mixed with the intensity of ground/space firefights is something you just have to experience to understand. If you don't wanna actually buy in, that's understandable, but you absolutely have to try it out on a free play weekend.

Biggest recommendation I can give to new players is find a group to play with. Most groups I've seen are super welcoming to new players. They're more than willing to help new players learn the ropes, from the basics to how to mitigate or avoid common bugs, or what good ways to make money are. Additionally, most sufficiently large orgs will have nearly every ship represented among their members, with most more than welcome to let other org members give them a test fly. Lastly, some of the most fun stuff to do in the game happens in a group, such as multicrewing spaceships, or organizing informal events.

Star Citizen IS PayToWin because P2W means having a mathematical advantage over an equally skilled player by spending more money. 1. The gladius/arrow/blade cost more money than a starter ship and are factually superior. 2. If I have one starter ship and you have 10 fully upgraded gladius/arrow/blade, you re going to be able to get into them and back into the fight quicker. This applies to every ship in the game you could own with real money as well. 3. Alt accounts allow big spenders to park multiple fully kitted ships in space at key locations. This advantage will massively increase with death of a spaceman. 4. Land rights from a Pioneer, owning a Javelin and every other capital ship in the game saves you potentially more than 10,000 hours of grinding if they'll even be purchasable in-game. 5. People that can afford multiple computers or have a strong enough pc for multi-boxing have already been using this for major bonuses such as security on their ships, mole mining, and more.

def buying in the next year if progress is still being made