Comment on Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN

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• Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Starfield had less than half the budget of Star Citizen and actually came out.

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  • steakmeout@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That depends on your perspective on the engine and dev tools.

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    • Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Does it really though?

      Starfield could have been programmed in potato with ti-84 calculators as dev tools. The work has been done to bring a playable game to the market.

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      • steakmeout@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The point I was making was a response to the budget statement. Starfield uses an engine that bethsoft first licensed expensively, modified extensively at expense and then bought the company’s assets. The game’s singular budget does not show the development cost. That was my point.

        If we’re discussing game dev budgets we’re not talking from an end user perspective.

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• shartedchocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reminder that starfield is playable and enjoyable, with decent performance and a complete game with a shitload of missions. Can Starfield be better? Yeah, and I think it probably will be with a bit if time. Is the space combat a little bit dogshit with really nice audio design? Yeah, it sure is. Is it actually out, playable, with boarding and ship building? Yep, sure seems like it.

  I don’t even know why you threw this example out there for a single player game that’s pretty much what everyone expected from a AAA studio in the current “optimize every dev hour per dollar” bottom line focused game dev style.

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can play SC now if you want, lots of people to and enjoy it.

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    • shartedchocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The second half I don’t dispute, people play it and enjoy it. The first part though I’m not sure about for myself, I don’t think I can play SC, certainly not the SC I paid for god knows how long ago. I can play a tech demo right now, and that’s just not enough.

      I hope I cream my pantaloons when SQ42 actually lands. Until then, SC as a whole is far from what’s been promised.

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not even the same situation

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• PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Played SC 2 years ago and it was extremely extremely buggy and a seriously hardware straining experience. I really wanted to enjoy it, because traversing the city by metro and seeing the ship’s interior is pretty cool, but like on every 2-3rd mission, a bug killed my run.

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  • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Got to love the classic of buying some trade goods and then randomly exploding en route, so you lose all your credits.

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