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In less than a month (end of May), the new RSI site will be up and the costs of pledges will go up. Anyone who pledges before then, will automatically get converted to Lifetime Insurance for their ship. Wait..what is Star Citizen you might ask?
It's the new Chris Roberts game!
The guy who brought you the games:
As well as the movies:
Star Citizen will basically be a combination of two different games together. Squadron 42 is the story driven single player(or coop), where you play as a member of the military like in Wing Commander. It will be heavily scripted and include different paths as you win and lose missions. After you finish (the single player is optional) you muster out of the military, into the open world that is Star Citizen. Here's the original Kickstarter video.
And here is the Squadron 42 Trailer(All ingame, but pre Alpha):
So why should you be excited?
There's way too much to even go into. The game is going to be extremely deep. It's already raised 9 million dollars in crowd-funding as it is. They are anticipating just under 15 million dollars by release.
The release will start with multiple alpha modules, then a combined beta. Everything you do in Beta stays. There will be no roll-back once the game is released.
So the schedule is:
Top 15 reason to be excited for Star Citizen:
The ships that are coming with release that you can purchase now are:
The Aurora: basically your starter ship. Not a lot going on for it. Short on weapons, short on cargo space. Very customizable.
The 300i: Kind of like the BMW of space. Decent light fighter with a relatively large cargo space.
The Freelancer: Think of this as the semi tractor trailer of space. Lots of storage space with tons of modules.
The Hornet: The medium fighter of the game. The best fighter in the game at current time. Tons of armament, but not much cargo space.
The Cutlass: Bit of a happy medium between the Freelancer and the Hornet. Billed as a pirate ship, it has a docking ring specifically to board other ships. Good cargo space, and weapons loadout.
The Constellation: THE jack of all trades, type ship, Think of this as your Millenium Falcon. TONS of cargo space, TONS of weapons. It's a battle wagon. Even comes with its own snub fighter in the cargo hold.
There will be a total of 14 ships at launch. Including bombers, fighters, cargo ships, fuel ships, and Capital ships. Yah...you can fly fuckin capital ships!
And you can capture alien ships!
Tons more pictures
And dont mind the music on this, but here's the character modeling:
[video=youtube;LKGbjVGHu4U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKGbjVGHu4U[/video]
It's the new Chris Roberts game!
The guy who brought you the games:
- Wing Commander
- Wing Commander II
- Wing Commander III
- Wing Commander IV
- Privateer
- Privateer II: The Darkening
- Starlancer
- Freelancer
- Conquest: Frontier Wars
As well as the movies:
- Lord of War
- The Punisher
- Lucky Number Slevin
- Outlander
- The Jacket
[video=youtube;VhsgiliheP0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhsgiliheP0[/video]
And here is the Squadron 42 Trailer(All ingame, but pre Alpha):
[video=youtube;RlIWJlz6-Eg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlIWJlz6-Eg[/video]
So why should you be excited?
- Persitant Universe
- You can be a mercenary, pirate, merchant, manufacturor, bounty hunter, explorer, etc
- Universe that is controlled by "Dungeon Masters". With large scale events that alter everything
- Boarding! You can board player/NPC ships and it goes into a strategic FPS (ala Titan Mode) where you can steal the ship
- Dynamic damage system, where hits in different areas have all sorts of affects
- PC Exclusive
- TONS of new hardware supported. It's being built with Oculus Rift and LEAP Motion in mind, with a bunch of others planned
- Built on a heavily modified Crysis 3 Engine
- Ability to manufacture your own parts/ships
- Stealth technology to stay off the radar
- Pilot-able (with a crew) capital ships
- Ships that have multiple crew can have turrets manned by friends
- Full scale and proportioned ships (The carrier is actually 1km)
- No loading screens once in the game
- Tons of aesthetic customization for your ship
- Buy the game once, no subscription fees
- Find and chart wormholes to new systems, get to name them(within reason)
- New content every 2 weeks
- Also allows for private servers where users can run mods
- Allows for user created ships
- Motion Capture player modeling
- Newtonian Physics
There's way too much to even go into. The game is going to be extremely deep. It's already raised 9 million dollars in crowd-funding as it is. They are anticipating just under 15 million dollars by release.
The release will start with multiple alpha modules, then a combined beta. Everything you do in Beta stays. There will be no roll-back once the game is released.
So the schedule is:
- End of May: New Website comes online
- End of September 2013: Hanger Module (Your player housing, lets you walk around and check out all your ships, go inside them, configure them, and invite your friends in)
- October 2013: Social Module (A bar where you can communicate with other players, take jobs etc)
- December 2013: Dogfighting Module (This is where it REALLY starts.)
- October 2014: Beta Release
- December 2014: Game Release
Top 15 reason to be excited for Star Citizen:
[video=youtube;06Un1pEr5tA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Un1pEr5tA[/video]
The ships that are coming with release that you can purchase now are:
The Aurora: basically your starter ship. Not a lot going on for it. Short on weapons, short on cargo space. Very customizable.
The 300i: Kind of like the BMW of space. Decent light fighter with a relatively large cargo space.
The Freelancer: Think of this as the semi tractor trailer of space. Lots of storage space with tons of modules.
The Hornet: The medium fighter of the game. The best fighter in the game at current time. Tons of armament, but not much cargo space.
The Cutlass: Bit of a happy medium between the Freelancer and the Hornet. Billed as a pirate ship, it has a docking ring specifically to board other ships. Good cargo space, and weapons loadout.
The Constellation: THE jack of all trades, type ship, Think of this as your Millenium Falcon. TONS of cargo space, TONS of weapons. It's a battle wagon. Even comes with its own snub fighter in the cargo hold.
There will be a total of 14 ships at launch. Including bombers, fighters, cargo ships, fuel ships, and Capital ships. Yah...you can fly fuckin capital ships!
And you can capture alien ships!
Tons more pictures
And dont mind the music on this, but here's the character modeling:
[video=youtube;LKGbjVGHu4U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKGbjVGHu4U[/video]
