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  • Envis10n@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Hey now, I enjoy Star Citizen when it's not completely bugging out or disconnecting me.

    Should you pour money into the project though? Probably not.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      10 months ago

      Totally, go for that.

      Don't give Chris Roberts any more money than you already have, that's my take.

      • Envis10n@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        The game is like 90% setup and staging with bugs stopping you, and 10% fun and engaging gameplay. That 10% has so much promise, I just wish they would cut the bullshit and make a fucking game already.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          10 months ago

          The space fascism with corporate characteristics backdrop and Chris Roberts putting himself in the lore as the setting's Elon Musk was pretty awful though.

          https://starcitizen.tools/Chris_Roberts_(lore)

          • Envis10n@lemm.ee
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            10 months ago

            Oh for sure. I'm not a fan of Roberts, and in-game I play as a character that does everything possible to fight the corporate interests.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
              hexagon
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              10 months ago

              Yet you automatically wear a mobiGlas(tm)(r) like everyone else even while ostensibly being an outlaw, wearing a corporate tracking device. Curious! very-intelligent

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
                  hexagon
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                  10 months ago

                  That's actually a damning thing about it: the company that makes the eternal (pre, because it's not feature complete) alpha wants it to seem deep and complex as a setting but it's a lot of aging 90s mall aesthetics and Silicon Valley techbro motifs.

                  • Envis10n@lemm.ee
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                    10 months ago

                    No, my roleplay is not that deep.

                    I hate Star Citizen as a project, and I would never defend Roberts / Cloud Imperium.

                    What I do love is the complexity of certain game features, and exploring the system with my friends. I backed the project 10 years ago because it came with a copy of Squadron 42, with their Persistent Universe stuff being just a bonus. Admittedly I didn't do much research into the project, and it wasn't very expensive for a gamble to me at the time. I'm unhappy with the results 10 years later, but I get a small amount of joy out of playing it every so often.

                    • UlyssesT [he/him]
                      hexagon
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                      10 months ago

                      You do you, then.

                      complexity of certain game features

                      I hope you don't mean The River(tm) or the privatized prison gameplay (with janky scripted and fixed-in-place escape route that never changes) for people that dare to pvp.