[666maslo666]

Is there a plan to have these sectors related in any way? International events can affect everyone. I suspect this is not the case for SC.

You cant have as many players as EVE in a single instance in a twitch based game. Last time I heard the plan is to dynamically add instances based on latency. So if the pings are low for everyone, there will be only one instance. But when too many players join an area or possibly when people from a distant region of the world join the area, another instance will be created for them. Overall situation in the wider universe should be influenced by sum of what is happening in all instances of the area.

[Colonol Dekker]

I still don't see why people are following star ****izen after being charged 70 real life dollar pounds for a torpedo! !!

[Blue Lion]

Also, hope you weren't hoping it would have VR

http://www.roadtovr.com/star-citizen-senior-dev-vr-support-dont-hold-breath/

VR is still planned, see this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5rbiwv/regarding_vr_dont_hold_your_breath/dd6tq37/?st=iyn6b3zd&sh=3dbc0bd4

But it wont happen anytime soon.

I mean yea I guess if the original article on it was written in 2012 and now in 2017 they're saying "Don't hold your breath, but maybe someday later" and then totally believe them when they say it's still planned, well I dunno.

But someone  can answer me this question because I'm not super great on VR type stuff. What's the normal good framerate for a VR game? The article states they'd likely have to boost it in SC to get it work well in VR?

[666maslo666]

But someone  can answer me this question because I'm not super great on VR type stuff. What's the normal good framerate for a VR game? The article states they'd likely have to boost it in SC to get it work well in VR?

I have a Vive. VR games need 90 frames per second.

Star Citizen maps run a lot better in offline mode, so the main bottleneck seems to be netcode optimization.

[The E]

But someone  can answer me this question because I'm not super great on VR type stuff. What's the normal good framerate for a VR game? The article states they'd likely have to boost it in SC to get it work well in VR?

Yeah, both Oculus and Valve recommend a stable framerate of around 90 FPS for a comfortable VR experience. Star Citizen is obviously pretty far away from that.

[Dragon]

At least they recognized that they're nowhere near the state in which VR is a good idea. Given how it's been going so far, you'd expect them to cheerfully start working for it, only to find, after implementation, that it's completely unplayable. Had they approached everything like this, chances are they'd have something enjoyable at this point...

[FrikgFeek]

I mean, they could always just cheat and use reprojection like the PSVR to inflate their framerates.

[Phantom Hoover]

But someone  can answer me this question because I'm not super great on VR type stuff. What's the normal good framerate for a VR game? The article states they'd likely have to boost it in SC to get it work well in VR?

Yeah, both Oculus and Valve recommend a stable framerate of around 90 FPS for a comfortable VR experience. Star Citizen is obviously pretty far away from that.

As in, they'd need to quadruple the hard cap on framerates for universe gameplay to work in VR.

[Kszyhu]

I think it's something about their multiplayer that brings down the framerate, I think some people have managed to play PU in offline mode, and framerates were far better.

[FrikgFeek]

Oh great, an MMO that works perfectly as long as you don't try to play it online or in some kind of massively-multiplayer fashion.

[Aesaar]

I think it's something about their multiplayer that brings down the framerate, I think some people have managed to play PU in offline mode, and framerates were far better.

  It's their netcode.  It literally can't handle all the info if the game runs at 90FPS.  It locks the game at 30 or so.

[General Battuta]

But...lumberyard!? it's already in place?!!? power of the cloud     

[Blue Lion]

So SC, while in online play, is currently running under 60fps? So not only can they not reach a goal they set to make in 2012 (at least not any time soon) but also can't make the game run on anything even close to it online, which is the entire point?

I guess if they split it up among regions maybe but this could have serious loading times for a seamless space to ground to space game right?

[Col. Fishguts]

SC is the first multiplayer game, where I heard that client-side FPS is locked to server-side tick rate.
Is this a CryEngine thing? Or common in MMOs?
In every multuplayer game I ever played, server lag results in characters jumping around or some rubberbanding. But never in reduced renderering FPS.

[The E]

SC is the first multiplayer game, where I heard that client-side FPS is locked to server-side tick rate.
Is this a CryEngine thing? Or common in MMOs?
In every multuplayer game I ever played, server lag results in characters jumping around or some rubberbanding. But never in reduced renderering FPS.

Who even knows at this point. Fact is, the CryEngine netcode was never intended to scale to MMO levels, and I have little faith in CIGs ability to come up with a better one.

[Mikes]

SC is the first multiplayer game, where I heard that client-side FPS is locked to server-side tick rate.
Is this a CryEngine thing? Or common in MMOs?
In every multuplayer game I ever played, server lag results in characters jumping around or some rubberbanding. But never in reduced renderering FPS.

Who even knows at this point. Fact is, the CryEngine netcode was never intended to scale to MMO levels, and I have little faith in CIGs ability to come up with a better one.

Spaghetticode can cause frame rate issues, no matter where exactly in the game it is.

I must know because my first C++ 2d pew pew game ran at 7 fps :-)

[Spoon]

I dont know about you guys, but I've been enjoying the game for over a year now. It's absolutely amazing.

[Spoon]

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Gotta put my party hat on.


lol this trainwreck of a project

[Cobra]

Whenever my email says Spoon posted a reply I already know it's gonna be good.

[BlueFlames]

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I dont know about you guys, but I've been enjoying the game for over a year now. It's absolutely amazing.

Pfft.  Real citizens got their boxed copies for Christmas.  Don't believe me?  Here's mine:



They even needed two disks to store all the content!



The box art is a little derivative, I'll grant, but clearly the budget has been spent well on the rest of the game.