The stuff about CryEngine is interesting - the game is royally fucked beyond all shape or reason because of this and will never be fixed.
Oh, of course. I have experience of smashing things until they work but nowhere near this scale. Hats off to everyone involved that the thing actually runs albeit visually flying apart at the seams.
With 13 years of development they could have written a new engine specifically for the job tailor made to the tasks they needed, solved networking in a way that lets 500 people being in an instance simultaneously and made more than they currently have.
The tech has been laughably mismanaged.
looks like those clowns at CIG did it again! what a bunch of clowns
I also do not like Star Citizen and Chris Roberts but damn did he kill your dog or what?
It's a shame. I used to play Freelancer on a custom server kept up after the official ones went down. It even had custom content and areas. All run on a old school fourm. I think it was called Discovery?
There are people hungry for this kinda game hypothetically, so hungry they'll take anything as long as someone promises they'll give them it... eventually.
Freelancer Discovery was pretty great. I think it's still up and running actually. Also, free. I remember trying to RP as a deep space research vessel that needed a shit-ton of contraband drugs for "science reasons" lol.
Surprised to hear that it's still going and also find someone else who played it here. Wasn't the server quite small? a few thousand?
I think I RP'd as a traveling drone ship ran by AI. I was pretty young at the time however and my spelling was awful so I dread to think what it was like for others.
I think it was hundreds when I played, and the amount of game space made running into folks pretty rare outside the core areas, but I was playing with someone else (who went back for a bit last year, hence why I think it's still up) and we still had some cool experiences with pirates, cops, etc. But yeah definitely wasn't expecting it to pop up here either lol.
HAHAHAHAH
You have it backwards. They didn't fix an issue. That's a NEW ISSUE.
And guess what an ASOP terminal is?
It's the computer that you access to bring your ship from storage to the landing pad or launch bay. So people literally can't do anything but walk around wherever they happened to be last time they logged on. When that terminal breaks, literally there is no space game.
Those terminals have a long history of being intermittently broken, even though it's literally just a UI for picking one of your ships, typically 1-3 choices.
Apparently buying another ship fixes it, so it sounds like a feature
