At this year’s Gamescom, Cloud Imperium showcased the highly anticipated alpha 3.0 version of Star Citizen, and below you can find a video showing 45 minutes of gameplay footage from it. Star Citizen Alpha 3.0 will feature planetary landings, persistent universe content, a new back-end item system, implementation of commodities, trading, automated cargo buy/sell kiosks, and, indirectly, piracy, as well as network improvements and user interface enhancements. Enjoy!
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The build was technically Alpha 3.0, but it wasn’t really alpha 3.0. It was called “The Daymar experience” – a very limited portion of 3.0 (because the full thing isn’t ready for public).
They were letting people fool around on a moon (Daymar) with some ships and ground vehicles. That is literally it. Essentially a much smaller sandbox tech demo. If everyone goes around calling this 3.0, people are going to think that’s all there is in the release. Regardless of how optimistic or pessimistic we are about 3.0, I think we can all agree that this would be an unfair representation.
The build was technically Alpha 3.0, but it wasn’t really alpha 3.0. It was called “The Daymar experience” – a very limited portion of 3.0 (because the full thing isn’t ready for public).
They were letting people fool around on a moon (Daymar) with some ships and ground vehicles. That is literally it. Essentially a much smaller sandbox tech demo. If everyone goes around calling this 3.0, people are going to think that’s all there is in the release. Regardless of how optimistic or pessimistic we are about 3.0, I think we can all agree that this would be an unfair representation.
I hate to admit but this is never gona b finished . Bye byr millions of dollars
“I hate to admit”. LOL settle down there almighty authority on the development of SC.
It will be finished. It’ll take a while, but it’ll be finished. People have constantly said that it would never be finished yet the game keeps hitting milestones. All in due time.
http://dereksmart.com/2016/06/star-citizen-fidelity-of-failure/
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derek smart is a crazy person.
On the basis, of?
Just search up his whole debacle. He went after Chris Roberts wife and started spreading rumours. He’s a scumbag plain and simple and is just angry his games never got nearly as much attention.
Huh. Alright, then.
I mean, we have to agree that Chris and his release dates are just ridiculous. It’s been a complete mess in this regard, and CIG always wait till last moment to tell us that something won’t come till the year after. There’s definitely dishonesty there.
Hopefully this is gone now with the ‘no release dates’ policy. Instead we can rely on production schedules and make our own conclusions based on experience, past performance and so on.
Thank you . Finaly some one with brain .
This game shoud have been EVE 2.0 but its a mess
Read this
http://dereksmart.com/2017/06/star-citizen-final-countdown/
Derek Smart is basically retarded and is bitter no one knows who he is or any game he’s ever mad.
So, you’re discrediting him on the basis that he’s writing things you don’t agree with, basically?
Great argument.
That’s precisely a good argument. I’ve seen what he has written, he has not only publicly targeted at least one employee of Cloud Imperium, but he has also been caught writing outright falsehoods. He is a nobody trying to make a name for himself by starting problems with people/companies far bigger than himself.
Why else would you discredit someone? When they write blatant lies, people tend to disagree with that. People who outright lie SHOULD be discredited.
Nice logic, I like it ^^
Genuinely can’t tell if that was sarcasm but thanks anyway!
Nope, I really did 😛
Yeah, I figured it might come off as sarcasm, but I didn’t know how else to phrase it >.< I figured if I added "literally" it might come off even worse.
Hahaha, well A for effort anyhow.
Did you really just link me to Derek Smart? Is this some kind of joke?
Derek Smart hasn’t been committed to a state hospital. Somehow he just roams in public being a nuisance that people mostly ignore.
Have fun with No Man’s Citizen, I mean Star Citizen
Lol, and here is one of those cheeseheads who upvotes their own comment.
prove it
I literally just watched you do it through your bedroom window. 😛
Wave hi to your mom
if you hover over the like button you can see who gave the upvote dude.
*EDIT* hey look, you remembered to sign out before you upvoted this time, good for you man.
I know genius, it was a joke…all of my comments are like-worthy. Nope, quit your typing now
is it really worth the effort to sign out and upvote yourself? I mean, come on. Even if others don’t know, YOU know that nobody upvoted you but yourself…
I actually didn’t do that one
Are we still friends? I’ll rub your back tonight
“I hate to admit but this is never gona b finished”
Citation needed.
Google: THE STAR CITIZEN PROJECT IS IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE . Read something before you defend this lie . . . . There is a proof why i am saying what i am saying . Also this game shoud have come out 2016 and slowly is 2018 and still no content . . . Just testing this testing that fps . . . Its a space sim . . Where is the space trade. ? Facitons ? Content ? All we zee is a pretty game what coud have beenbuild on time and yet its nowhere. They had the money . . . And now they are broke with an unfinished game. I liked this game at start . But “I hate to admit but this is never gona b finished”
So nothing but hot air and meaningless speculation then. Thanks.
Just like this games releas date “nothing but hot air and meaningless speculation “
Good games actually take time to finish. Unlike Ubisoft that poops out releases every year and they’re all the same hot garbage.
IF its gona be finished THEN its gona b a good game. right now its a mess called Alpha 3.0
If you don’t care about the game, why do you care so much about the game? Be frickin’ patient. Good art takes time. All this nonsensical doomsaying from tryhards is silly. Go do something constructive with your time.
Sorry towblerone, sometimes getting hit with the truth hurts…but it’ll make you a better person in the end.
The truth that OP is a troglodyte with too much time on his hands? And stop upvoting yourself with your many dupe accounts.
I don’t bother making dupe accounts…I just upvote myself whenever I damn well please and you’ll like it
Indeed. Star Citizen irks him so much that he set up a second account so to chat with himself and to upvote his own comments. NURSE!
I can understand if you’re not interested in a game or indifferent, but to chase articles about a game just to bad-mouth it? Doesn’t make any sense.
Yeah Good art takes time like duke nukem forever 10 years and its a epic mess
Take off your blinders and realize, Tomas is right. I know you already sunk money into it, which was a gamble on your part.
You couldn’t be more wrong but let’s not permit facts get in the way of your baseless speculation.
You hate to admit? Who the hell are you and why should we give a damn?
he’s one of Derek Smart’s butt buddies.
Seemingly a menace with a keyboard!
Wrong . Casual mobile master race.FTW
The build was technically Alpha 3.0, but it wasn’t really alpha 3.0. It was called “The Daymar experience” – a very limited portion of 3.0 (because the full thing isn’t ready for public).They were letting people fool around on a moon (Daymar) with some ships and ground vehicles. That is literally it. Essentially a much smaller sandbox tech demo. If everyone goes around calling this 3.0, people are going to think that’s all there is in the release. Regardless of how optimistic or pessimistic we are about 3.0, I think we can all agree that this would be an unfair representation.
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lmao your crowdfunding money at work, where can i get paid to shill in the internet?
what a piece of sht this game is scamming people biggest scam in the entire industry
Tell us how you really feel.
He’s a pathetic no-life troll.
It’s her grammar that really bothers me (:
Trolls don’t have a strong grasp on grammar because they spend so much time under bridges and not enough time in school.
Would be more exciting to release a scaled down feature complete game and then use the money to expand the already feature complete game into a more ambitious one, kinda like modding (or MMO’s), but with more money to burn. Oh well, enjoy your tech demo…
that’s not how game development works. It is VERY hard to drastically improve the back end elements of a game post alpha stages. Puting lots of time and effort in the pre-production drastically increased the scale in which they can build in the future.
Be patient, good things take time. Its not like they have ever gone long without a playable build, and 3.0 is essentially what you are talking about anyways.
Also, this game has money from backers, so if you think they need to release the game to get the funding you would be wrong. They already have the funding, and they are gonna use it.
So 3.0 does have a campaign, or it’s just a empty sandbox to mess around?
3.0 is part of star citizen, which is the sandbox bit, think Elite.
So nope, no campaign with 3.0, the Campaign is with Squadron 42, the single player game being made at the same time.
There will be NPCs assigning missions and cutscenes with them, but not a full campaign.
That would be the right thing to do with most games. But Star Citizen needs a lot of tech that isn’t available on the market. They have to develop this tech before making the actual game. This is what some people doesn’t understand and the reason why everything still looks very unpolished.
I wish RSI would just stick to a space-sim single-player experience similar to Wing Commander III rather than a revolutionary MMO that spans across multiple genres. We would have Squadron 42 by now.
Seems BS to me. The moment they are getting close to the release, they posptpone it so they can launch the game with top of the line technology,so on and so forth. Remember Duke Nukem Forever and their ever changing engines? And if the tech is not available in the market, why would it be available to the consumer, unless they are making the game to the money whales only…
“Seems BS to me. The moment they are getting close to the release, they posptpone it so they can launch the game with top of the line technology,so on and so forth.”
What you’re suggesting is they keep doing this to milk for money without releasing. Thing is, this makes no sense. If they actually have a game, it becomes 100x easier to get funding. If they don’t, funding is going to decline. If they could release a functional version of 3.0 right now, for example, everything would be so much easier for them. Why wouldn’t they do it ?
“Remember Duke Nukem Forever and their ever changing engines?”
CIG didn’t change engine like that. They changed from Cryengine to Lumberyard, but they’re more or less the same (both Cryengine, basically)
“And if the tech is not available in the market, why would it be available to the consumer, unless they are making the game to the money whales only”
I don’t know what you mean by this. Tech is not available in the market, so they spend time and money doing R&D and developing it.
Once again i don’t think you are understanding how game development works, especially the development of Star Citizen.
They have been using the same engine since they began, which is a heavily modified version of the Cryengine called the Star engine.
The rest of your statements i am not even sure how to rebut because i am not sure even what point you are trying to articulate.
They have a vision for a game, then they receive way more money than they asked for, so instead of using this money to release the game according to the original vision, they promise way more stuff, receive more money, promise more stuff, etc…
Well, yes & no. They’ve always been using CryEngine 3.8, but they’ve been modifying their version of CryEngine for years, which is from where they created StarEngine. To this day they’ve rebuilt over 50% of the engine, by their own admissions, so yeah, they are constantly adding tech to it.
It’s not quite the same situation as with Duke Nukem, absolutely, but when they’re actually taking the time to add in f*cking Faceware tech before the game has even launched…….
Yeah, but that is just what you want, not what everyone wants. I am looking forward to the singleplayer campaign, but i backed for the open world multiplayer.
“Would be more exciting to release a scaled down feature complete game and then use the money to expand the already feature complete game into a more ambitious one”
No. If they did that it just means you would never get the more ambitious game. It’s much harder to build a full game and then later add core tech and features to it.
I’m going to spend so many thousands of hours in Star Citizen. If the ever provide true VR support, I’m unplugging from real life.
True VR support is coming. They recently had to redesign the entire UI specifically for VR in mind.
OH DEAR LAWD ZEUS. I’m going to have to file for a divorce from real life.
“They recently had to redesign the entire UI specifically for VR in mind.”
Not really. I think you’re taking that from one of the recent ATVs. The UI dev was talking about the diagetic nature of the UI. This has always been the case – the UI is present in the game world, and VR works perfectly with that.
THis is just a showsce and the main presentation start tomorrow.
I don’t bother making dupe accounts…I just upvote myself whenever I damn well please and you’ll like it
No sir don’t like it
The build was technically Alpha 3.0, but it wasn’t really alpha 3.0. It was called “The Daymar experience” – a very limited portion of 3.0 (because the full thing isn’t ready for public).They were letting people fool around on a moon (Daymar) with some ships and ground vehicles. That is literally it. Essentially a much smaller sandbox tech demo. If everyone goes around calling this 3.0, people are going to think that’s all there is in the release. Regardless of how optimistic or pessimistic we are about 3.0, I think we can all agree that this would be an unfair representation.
What the f*ck is with the comment bots, suddenly?
The build was technically Alpha 3.0, but it wasn’t really alpha 3.0. It
was called “The Daymar experience” – a very limited portion of 3.0
(because the full thing isn’t ready for public).They were letting people
fool around on a moon (Daymar) with some ships and ground vehicles.
That is literally it. Essentially a much smaller sandbox tech demo. If
everyone goes around calling this 3.0, people are going to think that’s
all there is in the release. Regardless of how optimistic or pessimistic
we are about 3.0, I think we can all agree that this would be an unfair
representation.
F*ck you, too.
B*tch.
😛
Why ? 😀
I’m just doing my job and getting paid, food on the table, dragons on the wall etc…
Oh, dragons on the wall, eh?
F*cking rich people.
“From this point on there won’t be massive overhauls to the back end”
Eh, I honestly don’t know. Firstly, they still have core tech to work out for future releases (Object Containers, Subsumption, Networking).
Secondly, you just never know with Chris and this project. For all we know they might show off some crazy new feature in R&D.
New features for sure. There will still be tons of additions from here on out. Everything from here however can be built on top of what exists instead. We won’t be going back to the drawing board on anything anymore. The engine and essential background work is mostly done.
New additions will be worked into the existing infrastructure and won’t have to be completely overhauled in the back end.