Star Citizen is Almost Mainstream 

This game is not ready for us to show our friends unfortunately there's way too many bugs. That's what I fear when there are free fly events because we are invested in the game we put up with the bugs but trying to show this game to people who don't know anything about it turns them off

This game needs tons of ai roaming around, going after their business, working, committing crimes, getting in a police chace etc. Imagine this game, at this scale but with GTA like liveliness.

I wonder how many backers have died of old age during the development of this game.

I started with SC one year ago. After about 80 hours I decided it was best visited every 6 months or so. 4.0 will be my next visit and I’m happy to be along for the ride.

You could make a drinking game out of every time you said massive

I walked down my ships ramp and died. I'll give it another go in a year.

"if", "when" and "potential" are doing a lot of heavy lifting in this video tbh :P

I recently came across a free fly player, who joined the game for the first time from games like Tarkov. It took us over an hour to get off planet due to bugs, failures, or other crashes and issues. Until server meshing is complete, and these bugs and de-sync can be resolved, its nkt ready. He wasnt very pleased eith his experience.

LevelCap in 30 years: "Star Citizen is finally in beta testing. It is really fun and almost ready!"

This is the best the game has ever run for me. Ive tried several free fly events over the last year or two and its always been laughably bad. Like, half the time I didnt even make it to the hanger, bad. But this event has been a blast for me. I havent run across any game breaking bugs. I enjoyed it so much I actually bought a starter ship.

to be honest levelcap , i tried going to the expo center from invictus day 1 aka the 17th , and got periodic 10 - 15 secs freezes every 2 minutes . got me so worked up i ended up alt f4

lots to do in the game at the moment but nearly none if it works, 1. Cargo sometimes doesnt spawn ( takes credits and doesnt give you anything ) 2. Some ships wont power on leaving you stuck in the drivers seat with no choice but to altf4 the game and reclaim the ship 3. Characters stuck holding items in hand leaving you to have to hold back space and die 4. ships not spawning in hangers 5. heart rate bugging out sitting at 190bpm constantly so not being able to run, slowly losing health and dying 6. larger ships not being able to dock and undock then getting the ship inpounded becuase your in the way because you cant undock 7. elevators bugging in ships causing you to be stuck under them 8. clipping through ships and stations causing you to be yeeted into space and dying 9. falling through your ship while in QT forcing you to just sit in the chair the whole trip 10. hanger doors not oppening but looking like they are open so you drive your ship straight into the door and it explodes 11. being stuck in a seat forcing you to have to alt f4 the game and reclaim the ship 12. stuck in ship beds with only option given to log off, so having to have someone come and blow the ship up just so you can get out and these are only the bugs ive seen the few hours ive played since the last patch it can take hours just to succesfully do anything, witch is a pitty as when its all working its absolutly brilliant

being able to spawn on regular medic beds is actually huge. i totally missed this update.

It's fun but still super buggy. I would recommend coming back in 4.0 or 2025

I don't know guys, mayby in US. Here in EU is almost unplayable. Even just go thru Invictus is real lag pain..

content creators can have a VERY negative effect in SC considering that SC is an open development. I am so worried of it becoming more and more popular.

Looking forward to giving this another try. The concept is so amazing but I last played this 3 years ago.

I’ve been trying to play, but I’ve had a few persistent bugs, like missions not spawning enemies/missions not actually starting so I’m gonna hold out to see if this fix any of my problems in the next 3.23.x patch

This game is like a prison life sentence 12 years done 12 years more to go!!!

While I love the direction SC is going, It’s impossible to get friends on board and when they do play, the game makes me look stupid for trying. I’m loving 3.23.1 but there’s a ton of issues to be sorted before I can recommend this game to anyone!

As someone that has been playing for a long time... This "game" is not ready for the masses at all. There is literally nothing that isn't broken in some way. And hte bugs range from wasting hours of your time to literally bricking your acc, so you have to reset or wait for the next patch. Also, performance is not good and with the free flight, the lag and desync is insane. Only way to actually play this is if you are already heavily invested in the project and know something about every broken system, feature and bug.

I’ve only logged one time so far in 3.23 and tbh my experience was immediately ruined by my first bounty. I was going to a bunker (lowest tier one) and upon attempting a landing out of sight of the turrets, I was attacked by an NPC HH that was flying around in atmo. While trying to flee, I was attacked by security and a mantis. Killing the mantis (who shot first) gave me a CS3 so I did a character reset (cause I died to the HH that chased me hundreds of km across the planet) and haven’t logged since

the mirai pulse can also fit inside elevators in the stations

CIG needs to understand people are getting less patient with buggy broken games. They should really start working towards better servers if they want to bring in more players. I’m hoping server meshing is that “savior” patch.

Nah.. ill pass. Here is my issue. I kid you not.. i JUST got an ad for this game. Generally you do an AD for a finished game.. last i heard (and played a couple months ago) this was an alpha.. so what does this mean? This means they are trying to draw people in to buy more ships.. nothing else... you dont draw eyes to a bug filled alpha.. unless you need more money.

I've been loving all the videos I see from star citizen but every time I try to hop on the game it prevents me from joining the PU with an error 30k, I've done everything I could find on google and reddit to try to fix it but I'm just locked out of the game any recommendations?

The biggest annoyance with ground vehicles like the Nursa is that you have to go to a mining facility to spawn one, and then drive it into your ship. It takes so much time to gear up for an FPS mission that it's almost not realistic to do with friends on a week night, but it's more like preparing for a raid in WoW or something. And larger "raid" type gameplay is fine, and it's okay if that is a weekend-only event, but simple FPS missions should not take so long. We need to be able to spawn vehicles in normal hangars inside of our ship and be done with it.

When will bangable aliens be added?

I’m curious what would the consensus be among gamers if this was EA or Bethesda that had a title in develop for little over a decade game and used crowd funding at the tune of 590 million dollars and still in beta.

Genuine question: Can I get that giant ship if I only buy a 60$ bundle? If not, then why so?

This patch has actually made me want to play it regularly between game sessions. I can really see the ramping up of development and if it continues then I honestly could see myself recommending it to my friends. Until then I'll have to play solo

Don't know about anyone else's experience but I'm having a great time with this patch. Minus the inventory bug!! 😫🥴.

5 minutes of playing and my laptop is already an oven

Bought a starter ship, learned some basics with the short tutorial, went to pick up a package, and was gunned down because I was trespassing and bad at ship combat. I was still in orbit when they deemed me a criminal. The quantum drive wasn’t working great and I was trying to fly around part of the planet.

Well, it seems like the game got more mainstream. But every game loop has bugs who destroy the flow, and many players quit after getting in at least 2 of them. CIG should really focus more on the playability rather than pushing out new ships. At the end, no one is going to buy all those ships (in the shop) when you can not even start off from the hangar due to a bug.

Most stable Invictus week, since as far back as I can remember!

Trying citizen for the fist time and really fun. I recommend everyone to contact a guide in the forums

You could tour the idris before though. it could be found during events at orison & other spaceports

It runs SO MUCH smoother than any previous instance. The minimap is probably my favorite addition so far. Something sorely needed.

Yeah don’t hold your breath respawning is gonna stay that way we will still have to deal with perma death!

Like you said, the DCs have underground levels that aren’t in yet. Basically, half the interior space is coming in a later patch and raids are planned.

One thing I almost forgot about, and many people who look at SC now, or ignored development for a while, wheren't around for, or don't remember, was the 2017-2019 Crytec lawsuits. For background information, from 2012 at the beginning, CIG signed an argeement to develop SC using the Crytec Engine, so long as the Crytec engine remained supported. In 2016, the studio that created and supported Crytec moved to instead use Unreal Engine, and basically the Crytec engine became abandoned save for a few bugfixes. CIG, unable to properly continue SC development on the Crytec Engine that was quickly becoming too underpowered to do what they needed, instead started developing on Amazon's Lumberyard Engine. Crytec's new owners, EPIC Games, proceeded to sue CIG for moving to another Engine. CIG won the lawsuit because they where able to show Crytec was no longer being properly supported. But that took a few years, now everything is being developed in Lumberyard since 2019, and all the fun it brings of developing in a new engine from an old one.

Loving this patch. It sparked my interest back. Really the only thing that killed it was having my character, ammo, ship weapons, and location being reset after each update when they pumped out updates like every three days there for a while. Enjoying everything so far. Far more stable than last invictus.

I bought this game and played a few times, but i get so nervous to ask anyone if they can help or to tag along. So i would play your star citizen video as i play to feel like i have a buddy. No one in my personal can or willing to play it. So now its sims or fallout haha.

Average Star Citizen enjoyer: "Just bought my 10th ship with real money and couldn't be happier aimlessly flying it around for another 300 hours." Star Citizen devs and marketing: "Good, gooood! Our marketing leaders have ordered us to prepare another batch of ships for you to buy. Be ready to be amazed."

Awesome content and updates!

Playable in terms of stable (!) 60 fps at 4K (DLSS or similar)?

Honestly, the even the menu just feels more responsive. Everything with that new off-white boarder feels quick and clicky--before that, it felt so damn slow (like everything had a time-lag).

Honestly the game is a game now. That's all I can say. I've been having a blast since patch came out

Agreed, if they can sort out all of the bugs I would be keen to start playing it.

Would this run decent on a 4070ti w/ ryzen 7 5800?

I played in free fly last year with 3.18 and again this year and sure. It still runs slow on stations and planets, and sometimes things are a little laggy. But server performance in particular is loads better and the game is starting to feel like a game

God it’s so close to being a game, if they get that dynamic server meshing working and it loses some of the jank it will be so good. I tried doing xeno threat last night and it’s still got lots of desync and is so buggy, but it has so much potential

Do I still need a $4k pc to play it? No matter what customization settings I put in it always runs rough and the elevators are still game-killers as far as I experienced.

It's been an overwhelmingly mixed bag. Some days I can play for hours uninterrupted, others I can't play more than 30 minutes without a crash to desktop. Somedays bugs are just cosmetic, others I lose all my gear because I fell through the planet (just learned the work around to that is to alt+F4 out of the game so it will respawn you back at your spawn location with all your gear.)

I feel like anyone who says "I can't believe the game is still this bad after 12 years" doesn't really understand the leaps and bounds they are doing or the long path cig has gone down for both squadron 42 and star citizen

3.23 isn't a big patch for the average gamer, this level of QoL features are expected in any AAA game. 4.0 will also be a major milestone only for people closely following SC and most of the features added will likely be buggy and need further refinement judging by the SM tests. Only SQ42 will have the level of polish that can be presented to the masses so CIG will have to make do with whatever they can scrounge up from us until then.

The biggest spawnable ship will be the Javelin, which is 3 times bigger than the idris

I tried this game when I got my 3090 when it launched and it was... not a good experience. I might try and start it up again but there's no way I could get anyone I know to try it in it's current state so it would just be solo.

Just another 10 years guys and this tech demo might actually become a game!

In about 2 weeks I'll finally have a PC that can run this bloody game. I bought it a few years ago and my i7-6700K with GTX 1080 just wasn't enough to run it at a playable framerate. That won't be a problem with the new PC though! Woo!

I decided to take the opportunity to try Star Citizen for free during Invictus. After verifying my account I couldn't login, I did finally get logged in and was able to downloaded the entire 96Gb Install plus the launcher. Only to have it not actually work, I tried verifying the game files but it decided it wanted to download everything again. At this point i called it and uninstalled, ether there services where being overloaded, or they're not ready. My PC more than meets that recommended system requirements.

i got the 30k connection timeout is there a solution?

When they intend to finish it ?

Not even close, cheerleader.

I started playing before yela and I wait with checking out stuff untill the even is over. I want them to fix my delivery missions though...

i love seeing the karna. put a scope on that thing lol

People hating on SC don’t realize how innovative and groundbreaking the technology created to run this game is

I don't think people understand how absurdly expensive MMO development is compared to other genres, and that they have also been developing a single player campaign alongside this. CIG has acted in very scummy ways before (locking dev news behind paywalls comes to mind) but to say that SC is a scam for the sole purpose of taking money is greatly misinformed. Development has taken this long because they are quite stubborn in not compromising on the vision which requires very complex new tech behind the scenes to function (e.g. dynamic server meshing).

how many terabytes is this game?

Same here, old time backer, I can't believe it is in that state after 12 years! I was so hyped for this patch.. man if it is broken.. the game does everything to ruine your experience! 3.22 was in a far better state.

If it goes mainstream it'll die like Star Wars, D&D, WoW (though it seems to be recovering from what I've heard), Star Trek and soon to be 40K I hope I'm wrong but I highly doubt it won't end in disaster

I love SC to bits, but it is a CONSIDERABLY LONG way from being ready for 1.0

I was on a normal delivery contract, picked up 4 crates, put them safely in the back of my ship. After flying off the planet and landing so very softly and safely at the drop-off point, I walked back to check on the packages, and they were all demolished. Safe to say I got off for the night after that.

The medical changes are actually somewhat controversial and the trailer for the Nursa was really bad.

the devs still working on starfield must be looking at star citizen and trying not to break down in tears

Been playing Star Citizen since the start of 2020. It was fun then, and it's more fun now. Some of the major issues remain. It's hard to group up with friends. Server performance is a roulette. Lack of gameplay loops. As soon as those problems are resolved, it will become very, very popular.

My experiences with 3.23? It can be defined as 30K error Infinite load screen.

I really wish people would at least try and understand the complexity behind this game before writing it off or saying things like shroud said about being surprised of the state of the game after 12 years... There is not a SINGLE game out there that comes anywhere near what star citizen is doing, not even single player games. All of those physics, everything going on in the SC galaxy, all of the persistent dropped items, destroyed ships, etc... That is all INSANELY hard to get working in a single player game, doing it in a multiplayer game is like a whole different level.

This game will never be mainstream with the prices of the microtransaction they have, to be frank.

Where do I go to your the idris?

The new player experience/tutorial 1000% needs to be in ARENA COMMANDER!!!!!!!!!! We can't ask new players to put up with server performance and lack of direction in the PU in its current state.

Levelcap sees this game through pink glasses.

im enjoying the wait, from the outside. at least one AAA dev cares about their game

I took off, and right as I was about to accelerate, I crashed out. Will try again

bought my game in 2016, and this is "the most game like it has felt ever before" is how i describe it. This week, ive played for 20 hours. I've completed my initial misison which was a delivery. the next 12 missions i've done have failed in 14 different ways. This game is not ready, and I have 1300 hours in Elite Dangerous, so I have a ready tolerance for hardship and anti-handholding. I died on an elevator on a planet in SC recently.... you know what i'm tired, i've played a lot t his week and i just dont care, i'll check back in 5 years as is my usual. .... AND THIS IS THE MOST GAME LIKE THIS GAME HAS BEEN since "launch"

Im glad Shroud was so negative. CIG needs to push for polish and fixing desync and missions.

To Shroud and everyone else, a friendly reminder that - until recently - most the money and devs went to making a totally different single player game. So wondering why Star Citizen is in the state it's in after $600m and 12 years isn't really understanding the development decisions funneling the vast majority of resources to an entirely different product in those 12 years.

I had a horrible experience, first contract I tried didn’t know I needed a cryptokey, second contract ship bugged, third contract crashed ship, 4th contract couldn’t accept contract (this went on for 30 mins) 5th contract server crashed, 6th, couldn’t pull my pistol out, melee or anything to kill the hostiles to finish the contract. This while gearing up every time and over the course of prob 4 hours.. and multiple other contracts by the time I got there they expired..

1:11 its a young Detective Poirot!

The bots being the first ones to comment on this is hilarious 😂 Anyway on subject, at this rate the game should be finished by 2045!

Shroud got a hate boner for SC probably something to do with making his own game

They need to work on the quests. I've been into Star Citizen for a decade. Never did quests, never needed to or wanted too. Just flew around, explored, killed things. (Few times I had tried, NPCs were really bugged) Gave it a shot this time around. Took the very first "priority" quest. Go to a bunker, access computer. I get there, kill all guards. Can't access the computer, the quest can't be finished. I need a crypto key...I check all bodies. Check every inch of the facility. Nope. Okay, maybe bugged. Do it THREE more times before I find out via General Chat that you need to buy the crypto key somewhere before doing the quest. Had no idea and the quest didn't mention it. THAT'S what you want to sell to first timers? Quests that you have to Google to finish? Bad design.

Does respwan work with c8r picese

CIG, fix the bugs!!!!

"Is it good now?" Heh...no. But I know it absolutely will be for once.

I feel like end game they should do another system that's fully aggressive making each planet a (raid) get a group and do a full planet assault. Each Planet could be different difficulties Massive Space fights, Spacestation take over, Anti air, tank warfare. Full out invasion once a month or something. Thoughts?

had an SC add for the freefly before this vid

Star Citizen fits right in with the other unfinished cash grabs in modern gaming.

All these big ass capital sized destroyer ships. No NPC crews to pilot them. Just big ass 15 man geo in space you can fly by yourself or with one or two other people.