Thread: Star Citizen

Originally Posted by Alundil

Actually not that upset. As mentioned, I already have the game. For $35.

Just don't care for the practice (or appearance) because it is, as I said, PtW in my opinion. I think that is a bad thing. What will SC cost for a player to feel able to compete? $50? $75? $250? Granting accelerated ability and/or advanced equipment for RL cash is PtW. Pure and simple as I see it. This seems an endorsement of that under the innocuous guise of 'pledging support' all the while automatically creating two tiers of player. Those who 'pledged' significant $$ over whatever the purchase or sub cost (and all the benefit and advantage that comes with it) and those who did not or could not.

But if it pleases the court, I'll strike the question and concede the point. No harm. No foul. Nothing gained by this disagreement.

Tappin dat talk

Good point on the two tier player setup. I think that as long as they balance the game effectively it won't be too noticeable though. It's not a typical RPG where it's more about time spent in game and not raw skill. I think in SC raw skill could make up for a huge advantage gap in equipment. I know in Freelancer I took on jobs well above my recommended skill ability and won most of the time because I was a very skilled pilot.

Roberts IS a gamer so I don't think he'll sell out his dream. He's just making the right business choice: when people throw money at you; you take it. And $43 million later they're still throwing it at him!

Originally Posted by grayman

Good point on the two tier player setup. I think that as long as they balance the game effectively it won't be too noticeable though. It's not a typical RPG where it's more about time spent in game and not raw skill. I think in SC raw skill could make up for a huge advantage gap in equipment. I know in Freelancer I took on jobs well above my recommended skill ability and won most of the time because I was a very skilled pilot.

Roberts IS a gamer so I don't think he'll sell out his dream. He's just making the right business choice: when people throw money at you; you take it. And $43 million later they're still throwing it at him!

$47,000,000.00

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Originally Posted by rush2049

I grew up playing flight sims... its been a long time, far too long. My old joysticks have connectors that my computers no longer have.....

So I just ordered a Thrustmaster T-16000M for my left stick, and a Thrustmaster Warthog for my right stick.
I need to get caught up on the software end of things. Do these things still need drivers and a wrapper to map to a single controller for a game?

I'm in the same boat as you. I have a HOTAS setup and am not sure what I need since these games have been catering to the mouse and keyboard pilots for so long. I bought my stick to fly in BF4 and PS2. Got frustrated trying to map keys to joystick functions and then shelved the JS.

When it comes to flying, I miss being the CO of my CAS squadron in WW2OL.

I'll buy a cheap ass js if I have to.

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Originally Posted by maximusboomus

I'll buy a cheap ass js if I have to.

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I tried playing with an xbox controller last night and even though I found the controls quite interesting, you're going to be at a big disadvantage.

the left stick was bank up down + rudder left right
Click the stick in and it disables coupled which makes it roll left and right instead of rudder left + right.

Then..... if at any time you held in the left trigger it changed the left stick to strafe up/down/left/right

So basically you can't strafe and bank or roll at the same time.... I wish they moved some of those controls the the other stick instead of that one being dedicated to head movement.....


also the throttle controls sucked, the bumpers were more/less throttle, double tapping the left bumper reset throttle to 0



I don't see how you're going to be able to do anything playing with a controller, and I didn't even look into what mouse/kb looked like.

I have a mental block with the joystick I own right now. (had to word that carefully) Like many people in our generation I started gaming with a joystick. They were everywhere. All arcade cabinets had them and they invaded the home when the PC market blew up and nearly every game had preferred support for a joystick but after 16 some odd years when they phased out the joystick on mainstream games in favor of keyboard and mouse controls I find it hard to go back. It will take time but for now to familiarize myself with this game I might stick to my xbox controller.

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I haven't loaded it in a few weeks.

Did they patch for key bindings yet?

And what the are the keys for yaw/rudder?! 'A' and 'D' roll the ship which is useless and stupid in my opinion.

word on the street is that MP alpha has accepted 200000 players running now. Check your citizen #'s!