Ground fog and sunlight shafts: are underrated features imo, it creates a level of depth and immersion to the landscape that is often overlooked in videogames, most games use fog to hide their graphical limitation not enhance them. at most you need a GTX 1660 GPU but the current game isn't optimized yet and runs the CPU hard. at bare minimum you need Intel: Sandy Bridge or later, AMD: Bulldozer or later and 16gb of ram but i'd recommend a CPU with good vCache like the ryzen X3Ds to get decent frame rates before the game is optimized. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fp-qiNqTvafUknk.html However, server performance can limit your frames so i wouldn't buy anything new until they release SQ42 or completely integrate server meshing to the live game. Rivers driving terrain modification: they programed their river generation to flow realistically based on the terrain heights and adjust the asset generation in the biome around the river to have more foliage and river rocks or carve out cliffs around it if ran through a hill for example. Clouds: I think that came in at the end of last year and they just improved it a lot for SQ42 so we should be getting those improvements this year in the live game. FTL: is called Quantum Travel(QT) in SC and it is not faster than light but actually between 18%-94% of the speed of light depending on the ship drive. It is real time travel not a clever loading screen, sure they stream in and out assets while you are on the move but with the large world space and object container streaming they don't need to fake the warp travel like most games. the visual effects in this demo are new and should make it to the live game this year along with manual QT you don't have to have a navigation marker for so we can freely explore the vast solar systems. Realtime planetary rotation is just the tip of the ice berg, they intend to have the whole solar system orbit in realtime around the solar body but that isn't in engine yet due to server limitations and i'm sure some gameplay design that needs to get fleshed out first but ideally server meshing will overcome that technical limitation. Sound Design: shout out to Pedro Camacho who's responsible for a lot of the music in SC and the FYI devs behind the audio work are adding realistig audio in vacuum because in lore the ships simulate audio outside the ship so you could choose to turn that off or have that part of the ship damaged in the future and the audio will change to be more like how it would sound in a vacuum where the only noise is what your ship makes or what hits your ship etc. What the hell is that: this is a jump point, in lore they are naturally occuring singularities that basically create wormholes between solar systems that you can navigate through. it's the only clever loading screen SC employs to stream out the old solar system(Stanton) while you travel and stream in the new solar system(Pyro). we've been waiting for server meshing to enable this before we get the Pyro system in the live game which is currently only available on a seperate preview server. Basically it is a dangerous system with solar flares and abandoned infrastructure that is overun by outlaws, think null sec space in Eveonline. You are correct, SC is a MMORPG and SQ42 is the singleplayer narative driven campain, the space stations streaming on demand goes back to that object container streaming i discussed before. Skinshaders: they are just showing off that their skin textures aren't prebaked but driven by values represenative of the melanin levels in real life skin not that impressive but a recent addition to the engine so they were showing it off. up until recently i believe the skin on a player's body didn't really match the faces they generated in the charater creation screen so there was basically a seam along the character's neckline where the skintones didn't match. Are there meaning full quests: SC doesn't have the final version of dynamic procedural missions generation yet but there is already a lot of mission content, events like seige of orrison, xeno threat, and jumptown, and they even have more narative driven stuff that has been on development hold while they completed SQ42 and server meshing. The final intention is for the crazy complex economy, NPC actions, and player actions to drive the mission generation to have a truely unique experience and not just fetch quests and copy pasted missions. 2050: LOL, I fully expect SC to keep updating for decades but i think we're going to see development speed up here in the next few years now that core tech has been completed and it maybe in a more mainstream consumable state sooner than you think. The yellow stuff on the planet is supposed to be a moss i believe. The heiarichal streaming goes back to object containers and how they can be neseted within eachother, i.e. The planet to biomes to outposts to the individual loot boxes, ships, and vehicles. The last few features such as water physics, procedural destructions, cloth, blood sweat/tears are brand new and won't be in the live game till sometime this year. If you want to see more i definately recommend you watch the SQ42 trailer.

Well done with that description!!

Anice summery end explainetion. thx

Good write up!

*rebuilt from the ground up. This engine doesn't even bear resemblance to lumberyard let alone cryengine anymore.

Nice, I love that. Definitely the best way to use procedural tools. Ty for the correction!

​@KeroTheGoat yeah it's basically curated procedural generation. Giving the devs the ability to both allow the procedural tech to do the bulk of the work and fine tune details where wanted/needed.

​@@KeroValentinethey have had to make all the tools from scratch after having to shift engine mid development while going through a legal battle about it. They've done well really.

​@@Guvnor100 To be fair, the engine switch was more of a legal switch than a technical one. IIRC it took about two engineers two days to get it over with.

No, it is also generated procedurally by the server and client with manual changes. Generating procedurally only once and then saving would mean several petabytes of data. MS Flight Simulator 2020 accesses a 2 petabyte database for only 1 planet, which is not even enough, so that individual trees still have to be generated procedurally. Planets are to be scaled 1 to 6 in SC, which means that a planet has 36 times less surface area than the Earth in FS 2020. With 300 planned planets, that would be over 10 petabytes. That is why this is also generated procedurally on the server and client. With the same initial data, the same results come out again and again; contrary to popular belief, procedural is no coincidence!

It's also server side object container streaming

Object Streaming is actually not unique to Star Citizen, a lot of games use it. Especially, single player ones. Thats how large maps are done. Server side object container streaming seems unique though, but I don't know enough about server side code in different games to speak with any level of confidence.

In short, loading screen? It's always loading!

Exactly. CP77 does this on a city scale, SC does it on galactic scale

@@odysseus655 In short: loading without a loading screen. Yes it's always loading, but there's no pause to your interaction as it does so.

Sorry to hear your imminent demise after crossing the finish line but at least you accomplished what you set out to do lol

Racing in sc is really hard. Top speed in the game for now is around 1400m/s for context. The speed of Sound is around 300m/s.

And that's only because of the dual reason of they dedicated almost all their staff specifically described in 42's creation, As well as not wanting to give away to the wider audience what is coming in squad in 42

Well, they just released the FPS' AI to PTU 3.21.1 but yeah, you won't see much improvement since servers are always struggling.

Ahhh so, Star Citizen itself is an MMO but Squadron 42 is pretty much a separate Singleplayer version of the game? There's a lot to understand about how this game works. Never seen anything similar to its scale.

@@KeroValentine Exactly that.

@@KeroValentine I wish more people would come to this realization instead of sheepishly repeat _sCaM cItIzEn_

That sounds sweet. I'm especially interested in Squadron 42 and will be checking it out later today. Thanks for the comment!

​@@KeroValentine u have to see the server meshing Panel of the Citizencon. Groundbraking teck for all of gaming

@@KeroValentine Before you get too hyped to get into the project, you should know that while Im sure both SC and S42 will EVENTUALLY get released, do NOT overspend on the project because S42 might still be well 2+ years off (and for the past 8 years both it and SC have been "around 2 years off") and CIG's track record for timelines and estimates is abysmal. And while they have the assets shown in many of their videos, the current game engine does not have the network infrastructure to give you the full experience that they are showing off. In this "4.0" video for instance, we do not have destructible environments, nor onboard fire propagation, the fancy water physics, nor the second star system Pyro in the game yet. And we will likely not have it for some time. Chris said "everything you've seen here will be in your hands within 2 years", but again, take ANY time estimates from him with a massive grain of salt. And in contrast to what amateratsu said, do not get too hyped over server meshing yet. What we saw at citcon was a tiny ingame tech demo between like 6 clients of how they're intending to make SM work, along with the verbal "confirmation" that it works "at scale". But if it would actually work at scale, like the thousands of players scale that this project needs, that is what they would have shown us. Only believe that it works, when it's actually in your hands. Backers get too hyped up over anything because they're starved for content so for your own/your wallets sake be very careful with which part of that train you hop on to.

That's great to hear. I'm not a MMO guy and the only one I could play for a good while was Star Wars The Old Republic exactly because of it's emphasis on stories!

Plus, a large portion of gameplay is occupation-centered, rather than being traditional MMO story style quests. So, you have quest-less occupations like mining, salvage, and cargo hauling/trading. Mercenary occupations like FPS bunker missions, bounty hunting (both player and NPC), and standard combat quests like going to a mining claim to clear out pirates. These types of quests/occupations can be legal or illegal, by the way. And finally you have beacon-based quest gameplay like medical and rescue missions, where stranded or injured players will pay for a rescue beacon that gets send out, and rescuers will get paid to complete the contract. On top of that, there are events that happen occasionally that aim to bring an entire server into contact, whether that's in cooperation or conflict. Like Xenothreat, where the server needs to come together to salvage important cargo from wrecked spaceships and bring it back to a Navy carrier, while defending from pirates, then follow the Navy carrier out to engage the main enemy fleet. Or Jumptown, where a remote drug facility is brought online, and the entire server fights for control of the lucrative operation.

@@KeroValentine If you want a story driven single player experience then you could look for Squadron 42 which is the single player campaign with the same engine.

And the great thing is since Star Citizen is so heavy on the simulation side of things that even those basic "fetch quests" are actually quite enjoyable. The immersion of flying your ship in to a stormy outpost, fighting the winds to get landed safely on the pad, picking up the package, flying off to another planet, landing on a pad on top of a huge skyscraper on the acropolis (city planet) of ArcCorp during sunset dropping your package off and watching the city lights come up as the sun sets beneath the cloud layer. It's seriously incredible and it was just a simple fetch quest. If you enjoy immersive sim type games nothing really comes close right now. And it'll be even better when we actually start getting more content and progression systems.

​@KeroTheGoat star citizen brings back the story driven aspect in a fully open sandbox platform if you remember the old games "wing commander" or "freelancer" it is the same developer behind this

Thank you! Certainly good to know for future reference.

Wow, these guys sound like real jerks

@@KeroValentine The local star also became unstable and has frequent solar flares slowly destroying the planets and moons. We are doing a player test preview of Pyro and its unforgiving environment is as deadly as it is beautiful. If you or your ship gets caught in a solar flare it messes you up with radiation damage you have to heal before dying and can make your ship power off for a time and crash if flying in a planet's atmosphere/gravity at the time. You get about a 5-10 minute warning to get someplace safe for cover.

It's actually a technology over CryEngine that was originally developped by Warhorse Studio for their game Kingdom Come Deliverance, some years ago. It shared the same original engine as SC (before SC made CryEngine sooo different that it's now their own engine), so they had deals to exchange some of their techs. So the cloth rendering is rather close to what was seen in Kingdom Come (I guess CIG made quite a bit of changes since, though)

With game optimization there is a chance that it can look even better, it would most likely take a beast pc but I think it’s possible.

Like most games, the better the machine, the better the visuals.

thats because optimizations are not something developers do in Alpha, why optimize a game when its at a stage where many things get added and changed non-stop. In Beta stages devs put a lot of focus on polishing and optimization.

*Log out in your ship, IF your ship has a bed. Most do though, except some dedicated fighters.

Also the waiting time is a maximum of around 30 seconds and the train and shuttle rides are a joy, because the vistas around you are so pretty.

I mean eventually you'll be able to just log out whereever you are standing up and log back into that location. Probably when dynamic server mesh is up. Excluding a few sensitive areas probably, unless your body persists so people can offline kill you like rust in pvp areas. @@GUNNER67akaKelt

I think the trains are super fucking cool part of the game. You have to take a train to the spaceport and then get your ship? That's immersive as fuck.

I think the trains are super fucking cool part of the game. You have to take a train to the spaceport and then get your ship? That's immersive as fuck.

What you touched on is the ONE thing that has been holding this game for years. That changing would really push the momentum of this game to another level! Thank you for your comment.

I mean this comment could have been said word for word back in 2016. The demo looked impressive but I'm remaining skeptical until its actually delivered.

@@antonego9581 It's the best way to go with ANY product ever. So your heads' at the right place my guy

No dude it belongs to RSI not player. Your pledge does not give you any shares of the company. So copyright do apply, this is just a decision of RSI to let backer use some for SC videos. From an early backer back in 2013, very happy to support this company!

CIG Is not going to drop any copyright claims on videos Commenting on or show casing its game. As one they need all the publicity they can get, And 2 they're not a bunch of jerks like some companies such as Nintendo are.

@@HighmageDerin Nintendo is absolutely WILD when it comes to copyright lol - they don't mess around

@@vinct7023 Love to see your balanced take on this situation, thank you @yeawhateverdudesure for the info as well (amazing name btw)

Ofc many of the things I said are a tiny bit dramatized. 11 years is still a insane amount of time but I had no idea this game was aiming so high on everything. From that perspective it makes more sense. Thanks for the warm welcome btw hahah

@@KeroValentine fun fact... The original pitch for the game back during kickstarter was for something more similar to how Starfield turned out. Cutscene transitions between space and ground, limited landing locations... Due to the funding being so successful they were able to expand the scope. And the continued funding let them expand as far as seen in this Star Engine trailer.

@@KeroValentine Yeah CIG has made some mistakes & fumbles in those 10 years , but they started w/ 3 people & now have 1,200 employees. So , they’re learning from mistakes. The good thing is now that SQ42 is feature complete, they can switch the bulk of the Dev teams back to the Persistent Universe (Open World). Their Montreal studio, Turbulent has Ex Bungie , CryTek & Ubisoft Devs making all the assets for missions & planet systems. You’re about to see major, major updates in 2024. o7 #oneofus

@@TaranTatsuuchi Truth!

The Star Engine doesn't crush anything, it's an heavily specialized engine that could only be useful if you want to make a space sim, if you want to make a space RPG it's better to ditch the seamless space flight and do it like Mass Effect, Starfield, Star Wars Jedi Survivor and Outer Worlds.

ahaha omg, my condolences

@@KeroValentine And about those flying through asteroid in high speed. Well, kind of. There are community in Star Citizen doing "Low fly" flying in super low altitude in high speed with extreme maneuver.

Another comment told me they went into more detail about this in a longer video. I'll try and find that!

​@@KeroValentineif you're willing to go down the rabbit hole, the entire Citizencon 2953 was AMAZING! Each panel had something to be hyped about.

@@KeroValentine Star Cloth kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrGHlJeI1LrPhmg.html and the Water Physics section is earlier kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrGHlJeI1LrPhmg.html

There's another game called "Ready or Not" in EA. I love that game and truly see potential in it so I have no qualms about supporting it. If the people who support Star Citizen share similar sentiments, then there isn't much issue imo. Hope they make good progress and this game releases soon enough tho lol

How many micro transactions or surprise mechanics?

@@ravenwda007 NONE.There are no micro transactions or anything once you are in the game which requires a purchase with real world money. In short, if you want to play with all the faults and issues of an alpha, purchase the minimum package for a ship of your choice and that is it. You can earn almost every other ship, armor, paints which are in the game.

@@grast5150 how long does it take to buy a ship in game that someone else paid real money for?

@@ravenwda007 It depends, most gameplay loops can be distilled into about 80k to 100K per hour/ hour half. A small ship is couple of million. So, 20 hours for a small ship and longer for the bigger ships. This assumes no bugs or blockers.

Sound super interesting. Definitely giving it a look!

Man, that sounds amazing. People say there's a chance to try the game for free in the coming weeks. I'm excited to jump in there myself to see what's on offer!

@@KeroValentine that's amazing dude, you'll love it, just note free flies are generally the worse the servers get, roll with all the punches (there's many) and the next year is gonna be the biggest ride we've seen i think, I took a break, as needed, but this game constantly brings you back with what it offers when it works

Now I wanna try that too lol

You know all of these reaction videos I watch almost every single Person aperson acts like you need a super computer to run this game, I have been playing this game with 3 different computers over the last 7 years none of them are super computers by any leap of the imagination. Shoot my newest computer is now 4 years old and still runs the persistent universe with no problems!

​@@HighmageDerin I mean it doesn't run great on any Hardware but I played it for 3 years on a 1660 ti and it was playable in 1080p. It kinda sorta ran on my 1050 ti (but that was really rough)

Well thats a stretch to imply these games, when done. Can be run on old hardware as we can today. There is alot of visuals, background systems, tweaking that is not in the PTU today. This Tech demo shows some new stuff that will put further requirements on our PC systems. CIG have stated that they will not hold back making the games as impressive as possible. Offcourse different settings and optimisations will be done, to open for as many players as possible. But dont expect todays hardware requirements, showing what the end state will be

@@Paisa231 I don't. More features will go together with more optimization of codes. I do not forget that goal of CIG is not sell games to a minority of people but the larger number possible. Of course having the best of the best GPU is great but I am currently running the game in medium and it looks very good and more important, with constant good FPS above 30fps with no drop.

@@vinct7023 The goal of CIG is to make Chris Roberts vision. Now that offcourse doesnt exclude for making the games as accessible as possible. But its not to make a game for the masses, thats MW3, StarField, Space Marine 2, Cyberpunk etc. A better comparison are Hearts of Iron, Armored Core, Scorn, Elden Ring. Niche games, but perfected Quality within their own genre. SQ42 is the closest you get to be a game for the masses, I could see this. Star Citizen is a Space Simulator, with a lot of tedious gameplay even I dont know if I would like. Along with a Death of a spaceman Mechanics, that will exclude many of the Casual Gamers. People that think they will go out blasting with their space ships every game. Will be in for a suprise, it will not be like today. Choices adn actions, will have hard consequences like in real life.

FOIP* Face Over Internet Protocol

Nothing has ever come close to the immersive feeling of booting up Star Citizen with head tracking and a HOTAS setup for the first time. Looking around the cockpit to start the ship up, being able to look around as you fly is amazing.

wait they have actual eye-tracking now? I know they have been working with Tobii but I thought they only used that for head-tracking.

Thanks! Bunch of other people recommended the same but no one went into as much detail as you did so I really appreciate it. As I was reading your comment, I was saying "man, there'll be a whole bunch of people on the servers then.." But since it's 2 weeks, I'm sure I can get in there and get the gist of it lol

@@KeroValentine Just attempt to take a tour. You don't need to be a space fighter pilot or anything. Even just walking around the starter city you'll see so many details and cool stuff. Even better if you can get one person to show you around, they can help you dodge bugs and know a lot about the game.

@@KeroValentineNo problem. If you curious about the "game" / project you can use these free flys to decide whether or not it's a game for you. I always tell people that if you don't like unpolished, and buggy experiences, then don't play this... not yet. Even during the regular year, the game is filled with bugs, crashes and disconnects (commonly known as 30k). But when it works... well... I won't spoil that :D Another advice I'd give you, is to find tutorials on youtube. The game has a "tutorial", and you should play it... but it only tells you like 10% of the basic stuff you need to know imo. And trust me... there's a lot that you have to know to play the game.

@@KeroValentine yeah, get in there after a few days has gone by, and perhaps at a time when less people are on, since they will indeed be crowded, more so this year I think.

@@KeroValentine The IAE will be in New Babbage this year (the city near the start of the video). If you decide to try the free fly during that time I would suggest that you set NB as your permanent residence, that way it's just a quick train ride to the expo centre whenever you log in. Also, please make a video of your 1st attempt to fly a ship, it's usually a frustratingly hilarious experience. We will laugh at you but it's only because we've all been there.

There are already Machinima's captured in game, like Overclocked, from Elite Expeditionary for example.

no way you say this runs better than starfield, i literally tried this game two days ago and it runs like crap on any place with players.

Daamn, that sounds super tough to pull off. But I love the idea of randomly shooting at the horizon and the possibility of those shots to land on an innocent, unsuspecting travel ship days/weeks later by pure coincidence lol

@@KeroValentineAnd to clarify a bit what @HighmageDerin said. There are multiple servers, yes, but they aren't shards in the way Elder Scrolls Online or WoW has regional servers that are isolated from one another. It's more like EVE-Online where there's only one shard and the "multiple servers" are just localized computers that stream the data in. It's the intention of CIG for there to be only one "shard" and no matter where you connect from you'll be in the same universe.

I think you're confusing server meshing with object container streaming. Object containers are local parts of the map which range from the entire solar system to the stuff in your pocket and everything in between. It's kind of like a menu system where each container is a file which is part of the heading above, and the farther down you go the more local the objects you are dealing with. Distant objects can be deleted from memory because they are too far to see or interact with. Sever meshing allows you to have a large number of servers running the same area in concert without you noticing when you change servers as you move about. That primarily allows more players to be part of the same location at once. Dynamic server meshing will allow the servers to increase or decrease the size of the areas they are in control of on the fly.

My current best guess via player crowdsourcing is that there is 10 servers in Australia, 10 servers in Japan, 90 servers in Europe, and 90 servers in USA. Although this is just a guess by literally logging how many servers IDs players have logged into.

@@jkleylein ya, i mixed the 2 up. Thinking one thing, saying the other ;)

Excuse me??? ahhahaha why is that? There a way to make money? Or are people just adrenaline junkies?

@@KeroValentine well some of the bounties that we hunt are in asteroids. So we have to fly around 30Km to get there. And the faster you go. The quicker you can get to the fight. Also astroids are good places to mine. And fine good salvage from other ships that err… didn’t do so well on their last hunt

@@MaxPSVR Ahahahaha it all makes sense now. I'm sure as a pro, you never had the misfortune of crashing into one of those asteroids. 😆

@@KeroValentine oh ofc,but thats why we do noob flying school trains around yela asteroid belt.The hard part is going at pace with really big ships, like a starfarer or even carriers.

@@KeroValentine From an earlier comment I made. Here is a vid on people doing one of our fave past times. Hard flying. This is totally in game and requires a lot of skill. But also one of the most enjoyable experiences. Hard flying. (Ps. You may want to record your reaction) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m96DZbupyKupgKs.htmlsi=j2ruqxL_BqDWZtOx Ps. Looks like my previous comment was accidentally deleted. As i can’t seem to find it. Sorry about that. But was just talking about how small 1 man starter ships like the Aurora could beat a massive gunship like the hammerhead in an asteroid field because the hammerhead isn’t as a manoeuverable. And that the pastime of hard flying is kinda fun even if it’s not profitable

Oh, I definitely want to dive deeper into the Star Citizen rabbit hole lol

@@KeroValentine "The War for Jumptown" by Bedbananas is the BEST video of Star Citizen WHEN IT WORKS! Its real unscripted PVP footage. Its a very buggy game, but they recorded it during a more stable build. You can see the potential of the game, but don't expect it to play like that whenever someone tries it out.

That would definitely work. When I replayed Cyberpunk cuz of the expansion this year, a lot of the times I found myself taking the scenic route as I called my contacts or took time with my dialogues and it felt so darn immersive.

Squadron 42 is for sure more suited to me. However I'd like a bite sized RP mode sort of like the Gmod RP servers where you can come in, mess around and do cool stuff without needing to invest high amount of hours or money. That'd be really cool!

Gotcha chief

star citizen is not only made for PC. It will be on consoles aswell. Its just not announced yet. Mark my words

@BaumbuckelvonerAJ ...do you know this? Do you have any evidence of this, or is this just wishful thinking. If they manage to pull that off and port this game over to "current gen" consoles, feature complete with comperable visuals, then I'll be even more impressed.

@@roland1931 the proof i have i can't share to protect the source. but the biggest evidence that is already shown for this is the hard decision to switch over to Vulkan and the new controller optimized UI. Thats everything i can tell you so far without leaking anyone

​@@Moosbuckels_sexy_brother I'm fairly certain that when the project launched, they specifically stated the goal was for PC only. None of the current generation consoles can even run Star Citizen in its current form, much less the finalized version that they are shooting for. On top of which, CIG already has its hands full with getting the game finished on PC. They can't be spending time trying to get it run on an additional two or more platforms with different operating systems. They might consider it in 10 years if there is a major jump in console technology, but not right now.

@@OmegaZyion and that's where you are wrong. current gen consoles can run SC as well as an PC can. The problem is not the hardware

not to mention starting with 3 people 11 years ago, they have also built a world wide game studio at the same time as building the games and the engine

Oh that's cool!

That's a sign of good optimization. Happy to see you don't need to break the bank to run this SOB

during the demo they already said its working at any scale ^^ !

Ahhsshsh this bugged me too but with OBS, what you record is what you get.. hard to fix it afterwards. I'll try and be more mindful on my next go around.

I'm already imagining trying out this game in VR and how awesome it would be lol

@@KeroValentine you should try even when the ships is on fast travel ( in sc they call it quantum travel), its really not a loading screen because while you are in QT mode, you can get off from your seat,and just walk around inside your ship, sit somewhere, lying on your bed if you are in much bigger ships. YOu can even swap the camera angle to outside so you could see how your ship fast travel,and you can pan the camera pretty much all around if you wanna see your ship, from front, back, top or bottom. If its loading screen you only see a static screen with loading screen bar or text and you cant do anything and just need to wait, in SC you didnt have to do it. The only loading screen you will have is when you start the game from clicking the game launcher and another loading when you are in the game menu to take you into the game, after that its pretty much seamless and no loading screen at all, you can travel far or short distance within the verse freely. I play both SC and SF, and I cant fully immersed myself in SF the way I did in SC. the planet is also fully explorable, like you can land anywhere if you want to, and then go by ground vehicle or by foot, or even fly your ship low if you really want to rotate the full circumference of the planet,, but I wouldnt advise that as its gonna take a while , especially on foot , it will take very long also in SC, there's thirst and hunger gauge, so overtime you will deplete this and you need to eat or drink, it also depends on the weather some planets are very harsh like freezing cold or scorching hot, so if your space suit is not suitable, you wont survive long enough and usually they will give you warning of how long you can stay outside and it ranging from minutes to like hours.

I forgot to add while in Quantum Travel ( QT mode), you can even cancel the QT midway and you will end up in space somewhere lol

@@KeroValentineIn the current PTU (Player Test Universe) there is support for Tobii eyetracker and other head tracking devices. That really steps up the immersion without having to have a huge heavy thing on your head. There is also support for all kinds of controllers, including sticks and throttles so you can have a HOTAS (Hands on Throttle and Stick) or HOSAS (Hands on Stick and Stick) controller configuration.

Not that I'm defending Starfield for its flaws, because I'm not. But the real main difference between SF and SC is that SC is being developed for high end PCs only. SC won't be avaliable on any console in this version. That truely expands what's possible.

How is your PC going to render millions of players at once pray tell?

Maybe Starfield should have gotten this engine lol 💀💀

You are confusing integer numbers with floating point numbers. They differ greatly on how numbers are represented in binary. According to CIG they can do around 800 million kilometers on each axis with 64bit floating point numbers (before precision issues arise).

@@SETHthegodofchaos Yes I was assuming integer values for the sake of simplicity. As floating point values bring in more complexity than a layman could handle.

@@BornAgainstAllI am sure there are ways to keep it simple while being as correct as possible...

@@SETHthegodofchaos I would encourage you to try for me then. As I would struggle too much, and it would have only bloated my original comment.

Thank you for this expansive comment! Will definitely be checking out Squadron 42.

Guess you did hahah, thanks tho you're the second person to recommend AstroHistorian. Will definitely give his channel a gander!

Moments like that are why we all play video games. Can't wait to experience it myself. Thanks for the welcome

Yes Server Meshing

@@yeawhateverdudesure Would this potentially allow for... pretty much infinite amount of players?

@@KeroValentineYes. If you’re interested in how it works the have made videos about it but the ultimate goal is to have the entire playerbase play in a single game session, not instanced like how games do it now

Nothing about it is new. Every MMO does it.

​@@Wylie288that just isn't true at all. CIG are creating sever meshing that allows you to interact across servers and dynamically on fly cross those server meshes. Things like PS2 can't for instant interact with the server it is attached too. You can't even see into them. With that you also don't have persistence to that. That is only the first stage of server meshing as well. There is dynamic meshing that will be the stage after (in like 5yrs course) but yeah. There is a reason Devs I know personally are excited to see what CIG can do with their system cause no game has managed that to date and is very much unique.

Star Citizen isn't done yet. Squadron 42 is close to being done. In the polish phase now. That will be unlike anything we have ever experienced. If you want to see it, watch "Squadron 42 I held the Line." It's 26.5 minutes of awesomeness.

I'm definitely more interested in Squadron 42 for that very reason. I love games like Mass Effect while games like Elite Dangerous, No Man's Sky reaaally don't appeal to me. Having a good story with memorable moments and characters is way more than enough to immerse the hell out of me in a game lol

@@KeroValentine Sometimes you play a great title like Kingdom Come Deliverance and you love it, but you don't want it to end, or maybe you do, but if that's not the case this time, this is going to be your game.

there is nothing to recover from STARFIELD, it is 10 years behind everything

SC isn't released yet, and you report on the fps on y yesterdays low to mid-end gaming system? E.g. I test/play it on a Ryzen 7900X (not the best gaming CPU) and a last-gen 3080 10GB (higher end, but last gen) - I have my fps-limiter set to 60 fps in SC - and except challenging situations the game plays at 60 fps in high-settings.

They seem to pay attention to many small details which will pay off in the end by having a universe that feels alive!