https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/9xbj0v/335_progress_report/
Sitting on $4300 of dreamgame.jpg I decided to test out 3.3.5, because just as many people here deep inside we still have a slither of hope that maybe there is a light at the end of this 6 year old long tunnel...
Running an older cpu i72600k 16 gigs of ram SSD and a 980 gtx. So enough to run most games at high at around 45-70 fps.
Logged in, spawned at Loreville 5 fps. All praise CR.
I asked the locals where the space port is. I was told it's an alpha. That answered my question.
Some local tells me he has the same system as me and he's getting 60 fps or 30 fps at 4k. I asked him if he's on the planet or in the middle of nowhere in space? I was told I don't understand game development.
Some random screaming in chat how waiting for 6 years was worth it because the sun set looks amazing. Other randoms are attacking him because the game hasn't really started development until 2014. Other randoms attacking them for being fudsters something about building offices and really 3.0 is where development started.
A local is praising cig because he hasn't crashed in 2 hours. He's also stuck in a chair for the better part of that time because H isn't working. I assume it's preparation H and he chooses to sit. Not sure.
Got out of the starting apartment. FPS hovering at solid 15. Fidelity.gg
Got to a ship terminal. All landing pads full.
All landing pads full.
All landing pads full.
Locals tell me to wait and it will spawn a ship eventually.
Decided to take a train around to look around. Next train 2 minutes. My ship has spawned.
No indication where. Shows 700 M away. I run outside it's not there.
Locals tell me to get down to the elevators. I did. Ship despawns just as I get into an elevator.
Get the ship out again. Landing pads full.
Landing pads full.
Landing pads full.
Ships spawns, it doesn't say where (like it does at Port Olisar). Looked at screen again - now it says large landing pad.
Asked locals where I can find large landing pad. They say it's one of the elevators. There are like 12 of them and take 20 seconds to get down each.
Visited 5 different pads, ship despawns.
Locals play a game, everyone takes an elevator down and they tell each other what ship spawned where.
55 minutes later finally found my ship. Requested take off.
Landing gear fused with floor. Ship despawns.
Back to the top I get, some random is running a rescue mission. I follow the crowd to be rescued from my $4300 investment.
He picks us up outside to fly us to a "rest stop". I assume it's a term for some form of a gang bang.
We're flying. Warring bells go off. We explode because noflyzone.wtf
Back in my 4 fps apartment. Run to terminals, hollycrap my phoenix spawned and told me where. I am the chosen one.
Get in it, request take off, and it actually worked.
I fly up. Random local tells me it's going to be about 5 minutes before I can clear atmosphere. Now this is the kind of immersion I love, just like I loved public transportation in world of warcraft, I never liked questing, it's flying on flight master for 5 minutes that what sold that game.
We check out the ship while it flies up. Holly crap I have a piano. Space sims are saved.
Piano plays music when you use it. This is actually kid of neat. Totally worth $275.
So I played the piano once, don't think I'll look at it again. I'm glad they worked on it instead of silly things like flight model, ship docking, art assets, game play, trade or anything that makes a game a game.
Finally cleared the atmosphere roughly 2 hours after my initial log in. Some locals seem upset but others tell them to get off ptu and star citizen. Come back in 6 years where it's a little more polished.
I'm glad this is considered early release. PC gaming is saved.
