Star Citizen

[Nerva]

Until 17th of October, all ships that are currently flyable are available to everyone with access to Arena Commander.
This includes Aurora, 300i, 350r, M50 and Hornet.

[Sir_Now]

Yeah, i bought one too :-)

I didnt want to spend a lot of money, so i thought to buy the Aurora.
But then i found it yust to ugly to fly around in, lol.

So i went for the Avenger;



I cant wait to fly it!

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Yohoo

[Nerva]

The full game + Beta access + Arena Commander pass for $20.

These are of limited number and are getting sold out very fast.

The usual price for this is $45 or so.

EDIT: Sold out.

[Govedo13]

It sux to be someones' wallet now>
http://s27.postimg.org/p42oonfzn/image.png

To be nerd comes pricey sometimes. However the other nerds that would crew the bird are quite happy.

Code:

Length
345m
Beam
148m
Height
65m
Null-Cargo Mass
TBC
Cargo Capacity
5400 standard cargo units (SCU)
Minimum Crew
23
Max Power Plant
2 x Size 8
Factory Power Plant
TBA
Max Engine (Primary Thrust)
4 x TR7
Factory Engine
TBC
Maneuvering Thrusters
12 x TR4
Factory Maneuvering Thrusters
TBC
Max Shield
14
Shield
TBC
Weapons
x13 Size 5 ATA Turrets
x2 Size 7 STS Turrets
x2 9m Desolator Class Anit-Capital Ship Torpedo launchers
Escape Pods
16 × 5-man 3m x 3m x 4m (Total – 80 )
Modular Component Bays
x12
Modular Rooms
x6

The most enjyoable part of the whole story is the minimum crew of 23.
This would be quite brutal space pirate chariot.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)

[Mímir]

so if i get this, are there meaningful things to do now or will I have to wait for years? arena commander - is that like conn and is it fun?

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[Nerva]

so if i get this, are there meaningful things to do now or will I have to wait for years? arena commander - is that like conn and is it fun?

Pretty much just Arena Commander for now and probably quite a bit of time in the future.
It's somewhat similar to Connecticut, yes. There's also PvE mode and racing mode.
It can be fun but the Aurora is probably the hardest ship to fly and also the weakest and slowest (unsurprising).
They are also often changing the flight and combat mechanics to test different variants.

[Govedo13]

so if i get this, are there meaningful things to do now or will I have to wait for years? arena commander - is that like conn and is it fun?

Pretty much just Arena Commander for now and probably quite a bit of time in the future.
It's somewhat similar to Connecticut, yes. There's also PvE mode and racing mode.
It can be fun but the Aurora is probably the hardest ship to fly and also the weakest and slowest (unsurprising).
They are also often changing the flight and combat mechanics to test different variants.

Currently it is not worthy to play it at all. Too much changes and patches. I wont play it till the SP misisons at all even as gold member I have acess since alpha lanuch.
However buying promo stuff now is worthy/cheaper then later especially LTI stuff for PU.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)

[Mímir]

hm welp I was looking to get a new game, and both elite and SC are promising.

star citizen is half the price, but will it ever be finished?

for now, there is more to do in SC, but Elite opens december 16th.

Elite is supposed to be great with a 360 controller, how about SC?

which one to get, if I am getting one today?

I'll stop hijacking this thread after this

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[Nerva]

A hard decision that I solved by buying them both. Even if one of them flops, there's still the other one.

Currently (something like beta) there are more stuff to do in Elite but the overall opinion on the forums is that it gets repetitive fast. It's far from feature-complete at the moment.
It looks like Frontier is being forced to release the game this year, in an incomplete state, and update it gradually. Still has way more stuff than SC, though.

But I like the flight model of Star Citizen better even in its WIP state. Way less airplane-ish and is faster paced.

[Mímir]

Got the game, been playing around with my Aurora in Arena Commander and killed some dudes. It's got missiles!*

I gotta say, I am positively surprised by the combat. Really surprised, actually. Granted, I have only tried one ship with one loadout, but it was a lot of fun.

The game also runs smoothly on older-ish hardware*, and using mouse+keyboard works just fine.
So yeah, looking forward to 2020 when the full game is released.

*Psst devs, SC knows how to implement missiles in PVP: You have very limited ammo, so you have to make the missiles count, you can't spam them either because they will miss. It's an extra bonus up the sleeve / a good finisher and that's all - it's not a source of sustained damage, like in Disco.

** All things considered... I get 40-50 frames on an i5 / Radeon 7950.

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