December 2003 - but only with HL1 and all the other games that were automatically unlocked with it back then like CS and Team Fortress. Didn’t get HL2 back then, but wanted to continue playing online since it was obvious that WON servers wouldn’t be around forever.

Now I am curious :) What are you talking about, regarding ship movement?
They iterated on it and improved it leaps and bounds in my book - heavy ships “feel” heavy, different ships for different purposes move as you would expect (i.e. cargo ships have abysmal turn circles, smaller fighters are as nimble as you’d…

Well, on my rig atleast (Vega64, old Xeon E1650V3, 32GB Ram, Sata-SSD) I got 50-60fps in Full-HD on medium details in most places, definitely in space as long as no capitals are around going full Macross. Motion blur and film grain off, because I can’t stand them. On high details, the fps stayed well above 30, only in…

So, the “good” ending is actually a classic “good” ending in this game, like in old Hollywood movies, and you hate it for that, do I get this right?

So you would rather have seen Star Wars Episode IV where Luke returns after blowing up the death star and he is scolded during the victory ceremony for how many thousands…

Btw, best reason to play SC:
You can buy plushies for ingame money to decorate your spaceship with!

Probably not on Steam or any other storefront apart from CIGs own, but we all hope that at some point, paying the minimum entry price will not only grant you a starter ship and some credits, but also access to the verse in a somewhat finished state.
Although I could foresee that they would set up Star Citizen as a…

Started with Reflections and Caligari on the Amiga (back when Tobias Richter started making his first Star Trek models in Reflections), moved onto PC with 3DS 3.0 (still DOS), later 4.0 and Max, Truespace, Bryce 2.0 and later for landscapes etc.
Used these tools to create custom shapes to use in Unreal and UT levels, la…

I quite liked “Lord of War” too, was a nice movie (Chris Roberts produced that, among others, too).

Why can’t it be the best if it is in Alpha?

Quake test, the multiplayer-only test version of Quake 1 with 6 Deathmatch levels, was voted “best game of all time” by a british gaming magazine.
They said: “Yes, it is only a test, and yes, the final game might be different, screw it all up and disappoint us. But then we…

one should add that they changed a lot during the latest patch, so the flight model changes did loads for combat, and the AI uses missiles much more liberately.
That being said, I had many occasions of NPCs on foot actively seeking me out, the ones where they were just standing waiting to be shot mostly ended in a…

I was really thinking if CIG would be better off concentrating on relatively few systems, but fleshing them out. Like Privateer 1/2 size. 

eh - no.
Even landing - every ship has (as modeled in their universe) weight, and a center of gravity. So if something has been mis-planned, the landing gear might misbehave and the whole ship topple over. They had to learn this the hard way too, when they introduced wind on planets some parked ships could get blown…

you are not seriously comparing a one-person-game that has a very limited scopy of content with a game where the company has scaled up over the years to over 400 people and the game got so massive they had to expand the mathematical capabilites of the game engine to store coordinates big enough?
You could basically…

Have you ever looked at what goes into modeling a ship to a finished level, or what they are calling “gold standard” now?
For that a ship has to have working entry methods, working hatches for exchanging components, working geometry for flight/landing modes, damage states for all of these parts separately (because…

Ah, I just saw your second addition to your post.
I have to say, in this case Star Citizen is not for you. Probably Squadron 42 will also not fill your bill, it will be more of a tight-knit campaign like Wing Commander, maybe with a few choices of path like those games had, but no big difference in the end. With the…

if they haven’t released a game, then I wonder what I’ve been playing for years now. And had lots of fun with it with loads of friends.

not really true, but I’d say try one of the free fly weeks. The community is mostly helpful and will get you up and running ingame.
You are correct that quite a few of the promised gameplay loops haven’t made it into the game yet, but against all odds, they are trickling in. Medical stuff is next, so medbays on ships…

The game has changed a lot over the past years concerning playability and stuff to do.
You can do a lot as a single player - mining via ship, ground vehicle or on foot, do cargo missions both legal and illegal, go bounty hunting, track down individuals that have fortified with their gang in abandoned hideouts and shoot…

A lot of the jokes got lost in translation into other languages though.
I was infuriated at the beginning when they started translating everything in the German game client into our native language, and then suddenly even started renaming cities and landscapes - though verbally and thematically corrent - since we were…

Basically everywhere when you cook yourself. 2KG of potatoes: 2€, 500gram of curd: about 1€, 500g ground meat: 2,5€ - then you only need some seasoning (free from your garden or balcony), maybe an onion (cheap as f*), and off you go. Roast the ground beef and mini-diced onion in a pan, boil the potatoes, but seasoning…