Apparently the patcher they were trying to use didn't work so they had to run an old build... which they thought would work fine but was pretty buggy and crashy and just didn't work well.
On the plus side, when it was working it looked pretty incredible.
Few folks saying they played it on the show floor at PAX East today and it was awesome... so that's a positive.
DFM will about around the end of the month. Roughly 3 weeks from now.
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It looks good, but it doesn't look fun yet. The energy weapons that don't track seem like no good, hopefully bigger ships have guided turrets because dogfighting with stationary guns in space does not seem fun to me.
Tons of great information on the state of the game and the work of all of the NINE studios plus freelance contractors that are hard at work on Star Citizen.
Here are some awesome images from the monthly report:
Javelin Destroyer Turret Concept
Unspecified Planetside Shop/Location
Engineering Section of Idris Frigate
Banu Merchantman Landing
Gold Horizon Station (This abandoned station will be the first level in the FPS module)
Concept Art for landing zone Sherman on planet Castra II
Concept Art for landing zone Sherman on planet Castra II
Work-In-Progress Revamped Citizen Dossier on RSI Website including Arena Commander statistics
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After much searching I have a compiled a pretty cool album of my favourite Star Citizen wallpapers. I have an imgur pro account so there is no compression on the images.
I wanted to share this image with you guys... the first image of all three ships that will be in the very first version of the DFM, in a great image inside the DFM map Broken Moon. The image is a whopping 8000 x 4500 (click the image to massively embiggen!)
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Arena Commander's release plan has been announced. Initial release is expected for May 29th. It may still suffer some slippage but the plan is in place:
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Before I leave you to the individual studio weekly reports, I’d like to walk you through exactly what the next two weeks—if all goes well—mean for Arena Commander’s development:
May 17th: our IT groups will be updating our global internal server infrastructure. A lot of the internal tools we use for game development (checking in builds, storing assets, etc.) are in dire need of downtime and update; we’ve been running them in the red zone so we can have 24 hour round-the-world development on Arena Commander. During this downtime we will also be switching over to a much more flexible and advanced architecture for our content management system Perforce. We will be upgrading to using Perforce Streams which will allow much quicker and more flexible movement between code branches for our development team. This prepares us for the added complexity of launching and supporting a live multiplayer service like Arena Commander. Saturday’s update will allow us to push the final Arena Commander update out to the world with much more confidence (corrupted data from these servers was a major issue at the PAX East reveal!)
May 18th: with the new servers in place, we will split off the “Arena Commander Release” branch of Star Citizen. This will separate the Arena Commander you play from the rest of the game that is being developed by other teams. So data checked in by teams around the world that doesn’t have anything to do with dogfighting (such as FPS weapons, planetside maps or future ship assets) won’t cause additional bugs for the team to worry about.
May 19th: The QA team will begin their final troubleshooting session with the new Arena Commander Release branch. They will go through the entire game and catalog all the current bugs they can find – ships not spawning in the correct place, physics not functioning correctly, disconnects during battle and so on. This will help to generate our final “Must Fix” list for release. It is important to remember though that our internal QA team cannot find everything and it is very likely that we will not fix everything prior to release. We are releasing playable code to the community much, much earlier than you normally would in AAA game development. Because of this it will not be as polished as a final game would be so we are going to need a lot of support from all of you to help us in bug finding and gameplay feedback!
May 23rd: The official cross-studio playtesting of the Arena Commander Release begins. This represents a “pencils down” phase where, unless you are working on an authorized must fix issue the team is expected to QA the game as much as possible. After this point, only a limited number of “designated driver” team leads will be able to check in any changes to the game itself.
May 27th: By this point, we hope to have the egregious, game breaking issues resolved but there will still be plenty of known and unknown issues. This is also our deadline for making sure the launcher is hardened for the deluge of users and the first set of necessary servers for the release have been spun up. After this point all check in privileges will be revoked and will only be returned on an as needed basis by senior Production staff and myself.
May 28th: The release candidate build of the game will be compiled. If all goes as planned, this is the version of Arena Commander you will be playing! The team at Turbulent will begin switching over the website to the version that will make Arena Commander available to backers. I will personally ‘sign off’ Arena Commander as ready for the community on the evening of the 28th. To be clear, we fully expect that there will be bugs remaining, potentially some bad ones. That said, our primary focus is getting a version out to the community to help us find all the issues and work together to improve Arena Commander.
May 29th: This morning, the web team will spin up additional authentication and web servers in the in anticipation of high traffic during the release. The engineering team will begin “warming” caches on cloud servers around the world, making sure the release candidate game is ready and waiting for users. By the end of the day, we will update the website making the game available, and the first public release of Arena Commander (which we’re calling v0.8) will be live to the world for testing!
After this we will continue to work hard finishing off game modes, making balancing calls and hotfixes as we spin up more and more servers, allowing for more and more concurrent multiplayer games.
v0.9 will be an intermediate step with additional features, polish, fixes and the Squadron Battle game mode.
v1.0 will be when everyone can access the multiplayer and all game modes are in (Capture the Core comes in with v1.0).
Any estimates on the total number of players per instance? I'm aware they won't be traditional instances
Ages ago they said ~100, more recently they said ~70, but once the game is in full release, who knows?
I would assume it'll be dependent on how smoothly they can iron out CryEngine's less than stellar netcode. Judging by reports, this has been the cause of 80% of the DFM/AC delays so far.
couldn't be worse than the netcode in the frostbite engine. I wonder how Star Citizen will deal with the insides of each players ship, there's so much customization. Will the small items in the ship all fly out into space for everyone to see? I can see the objects and physics of the items in everyones ship being hard to deal with because instead of static models they have fully 3d models with interior geometries of their own. If you leave a cup on a table will it bounce around in the ship when flying, will someone see it floating in space if the ship gets torn apart?
Any estimates on the total number of players per instance? I'm aware they won't be traditional instances
Nothing solid. I don't think they'll have really good numbers on this until the Persistent Universe is further on in development. They've mentioned 100 before but basically want to get it as high as they reasonably can.
Also, as the game will be continually developed into the future, they will increase instance sizes as computer hardware becomes more powerful.
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