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[PC] Star Citizen: Two-Week Free Fly Event @ Robert Space Industries

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[PC] Star Citizen: Two-Week Free Fly Event @ Robert Space Industries
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LZaros on 10/09/2020 - 13:49 robertsspaceindustries.com (337 clicks)
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Star Citizen is currently running a 2 week free fly event to celebrate thier ship showdown event.

You will be able to fly their top 16 ships for the next two weeks for free.

This will be a good chance to try out the game for free and see what it is about.

Free Fly Event Ships:
Aegis Avenger Titan
Aegis Eclipse
Aegis Gladius
Aegis Hammerhead
Aegis Reclaimer
Anvil Carrack
Anvil Valkyrie
Banu Defender
Drake Caterpillar
Drake Cutlass Black
Esperia Prowler
MISC Prospector
MISC Razor
MISC Reliant Kore
Origin 890 Jump
RSI Constellation Andromeda

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  • OzViper on 10/09/2020 - 13:53
    +1

    What is the download size for this game these days? must be pretty big.

    • Zaros on 10/09/2020 - 13:56

      The download size is around 40GB, some of these ships cost upwards of $950, it will be a good chance to try them out

      • grumpybum on 10/09/2020 - 13:59
        +5

        $950!!! That's insane. Thanks for the link though. I've been meaning to give it a go for a while.

        • CharcoaI on 10/09/2020 - 15:41

          Sounds like an OzBargain to me!
          /sarcasm ;)

      • syousef on 10/09/2020 - 15:07
        +5

        Yeah I want to get hooked on a game that'll cost me more for pretend spaceships than I spent on my last real car.

        Gee I'm glad illicit drugs are by definition illegal or I'd be seeing bargains for them here too.

        PASS!

        • FabMan on 10/09/2020 - 16:32

          You can earn in game credits that will allow you to upgrade your vessel without spending real world money.

        • joelmuzz on 10/09/2020 - 16:43
          +2

          Currently the hours to buy the big ships are quite low. The challenge is how often it crashes deleting all your cargo investment, and chance of total account reset.

          It's unknown where they will balance the grind vs cash on ships, but it is quite likely that ships currently in the hundreds of dollars will one grind able in just a day of play.
          Ships costing $50 now may be throwaway trash which you can buy with the reward from a half hour newbie mission.

          They do keep saying that ship purchases are a donation towards development not pay to win for the release game. But people keep ignoring them and getting carried away with crazy "investments".

          • Clear on 10/09/2020 - 20:30

            @joelmuzz: Mining is a far more safe way of earning credits ingame. If you manage to get some quantanium then you'll be getting the big bucks.

  • payton on 10/09/2020 - 14:04
    +2

    Its been on development since its initial 2012 successful Kickstarter
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IcPsIwC-pU

    Wish Chris Roberts just remaster Strike Commander's graphic and audio and leave its great writing as-is. Alaska seceding from the US, the IRS hiring mercs to bomb breakaway US states, good stuff.

    Even back then during Strikecomm days, Chris Roberts always had lofty ambitions.

    • Manny Calavera on 10/09/2020 - 14:23

      Wait, what? I could never get that running. But more wing commander…

      • payton on 10/09/2020 - 14:28

        gog has it working under win10 with dosbox, but unclear if they have to modify some things to get it compatible, or you can just copy from your old strikecomm CD-ROM

    • FabMan on 10/09/2020 - 16:37
      +2

      I really enjoyed Strike Commander and I had mentally placed that in my top 3 games I'd liked remastered. With the first PC I had I got a 4 games bundle on a Creative Labs CD, it included: Strike Commander, Syndicate Plus, Ultima 8, and Wing Commander 2. What an introduction to PC gaming, I loved all 4, including the much-maligned Ultima 8.

      • payton on 10/09/2020 - 17:07
        +1

        High five, I had the exact same CD with my SoundBlaster 16. The era when people actually had to pay for speech packs.

        Also in the box:
        - Microprose compilation cd with Civilization, Silent Service II, F-117 Stealth Fighter, Railroad Tycoon II
        - Star Wars Rebel Assault
        - Iron Helix by Spectrum Holobyte
        - Grolier encyclopedia

        what a treasure trove

        Ultima 8 was epic: thumping Devon's noggin a few times just for giggles and looting his stuff (he's unkillable - he doesn't mind), breaking into the poor widowed weaver's house, stealing her wares and selling it back to her afterwards (haha). Wreaking havoc with people's houses and furniture with the oil bombs …
        If only Beren weren't so omnipresent what a menace the player character could've been.

        • FabMan on 10/09/2020 - 17:36

          You have been a thorn in my side for far too long Avatar. I banish you to the world of Pagan! No one there has heard of… the avatar!

          Or something like that.

          If he had that power, why not banish him several feat above an active volcano?

  • Syaoran74 on 10/09/2020 - 14:33

    how do you sign up?

  • Aequitas on 10/09/2020 - 14:49

    Do you still need to buy the game?

    • Zaros on 10/09/2020 - 15:10

      No need to buy the game, you can try it out Free for the next 14 days from today, without committing, the community is very helpful, feel free to ask any questions if you need help, enjoy.

      • Aequitas on 10/09/2020 - 15:55

        I made an account, but can't seem to work out where to put the code

  • Stefce on 10/09/2020 - 14:52
    +7

    This a game or a meme at this point?

  • dione on 10/09/2020 - 15:13
    +1

    They need more fund, so they get you hooked up using play for free event and hand in your credit card info afterwards.

  • Kritter2069 on 10/09/2020 - 16:23
    +3

    I'm a backer but I wouldn't recommend Star Citizen in its current state at all. You'll either get booted with a 30k error, get a mission that doesn't work or just straight up fall through the floor when leaving a room among dozens of other game breaking bugs. If you're going in expecting a working "game" then you'll be disappointed. It's also not new player friendly at all.

    • Aequitas on 10/09/2020 - 16:28

      It's still in alpha. there's meant to be game breaking bugs.

      • Kritter2069 on 10/09/2020 - 16:36
        +3

        Yeah I'm aware of that, it just doesn't make for a very fun time at all, let alone a good impression to new potential backers who might not know what to expect.

      • syousef on 10/09/2020 - 16:42
        +2

        …and you don't think it's a problem that it's still in alpha after 8 years? How much have you spent on this game that you'd feel the need to put that up as a defense at this point?

        • Aequitas on 10/09/2020 - 16:47

          I haven't spent anything, don't even have the game; I'm not paying for an incomplete game that's clearly still years away from being finished. but that being said, it's a good thing that they call the game 'alpha' instead of saying its finished and releasing a broken game, like i've seen happen plenty of times before.

          • syousef on 10/09/2020 - 16:52
            +2

            @Aequitas: I agree that the honesty of calling it alpha is a good thing. But this didn't come about from some grand vision of being ethical to players. Rather they have made promises previously that were then broken and so they have been forced to this.

            My only question really is how long they can keep this going, because I sincerely doubt this will ever be finished. If I'm wrong and it is, I suspect it will be underwhelming. But if I'm not wrong I expect some excuse like the pandemic to be used and everything to fall apart quickly. The next question is how long they can hold the record for extracting so much money by promising worlds and delivering broken alphas. I suspect a generation or two before gamers collectively "forget".

    • maskedmustelid on 10/09/2020 - 21:28
      +1

      I'll say that it's not new player friendly. Last free event they had, I was left wandering around clueless with no idea how to even get to a ship to try see what it was all about. Eventually found out how to call my ship into a docking bay, accidentally caused the ejection seat to trigger before I could take off, and gave up after being unable to work out how to reset it to try again.

  • Nitr0 on 10/09/2020 - 17:41

    Seems these free fly things are to make backers feel better about the money they threw at the ships. They get to see other people in the space stations immediately before they ctd and lose their cargo.

  • FanxyChild6 on 10/09/2020 - 17:45

    I downloaded this during a free period in the past.
    Had no idea how demanding it was cause I didn't check the specs.
    My PC runs Gta V very well but then again Gta V is old and my PC's just shit probably.

    • OzViper on 10/09/2020 - 18:51

      Also optimization is the last thing developers do.. so an Alpha like this is going to be pretty slow on most systems

  • gonfreaks on 10/09/2020 - 18:24

    A little refresher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IcPsIwC-pU
    A friend and I are backers. We have given up.

  • shinkudo on 10/09/2020 - 18:32

    Reminds me of Freelancer game

  • gk0r on 10/09/2020 - 20:04

    Wow. I'll download this game for a fortnight because I love space games - but oh boy. What a pile of crap.
    Captcha is the worst implementation I've ever seen. I can't even read the damn thing. "Two Factor" what a joke.
    Not to mention they make it very difficult to work out how to even download the game without spending $45 on a starter pack. Money grabbing w^$%&s

  • Clear on 10/09/2020 - 20:26

    This is going to look amazing with the new RTX cards. I seriously recommend running this with 16GB as the frames will drop in some of the big detailed cities on 8GB.

    Eagerly waiting for my Mercury Star Runner to be released in 3.10.x.

    • joelmuzz on 11/09/2020 - 10:03

      16GB is the minimum spec. 8GB is a total no-go, people do try it and then glitch like crazy.

      Their minimum specs are really outdated too, I think all they have changed in 8 years is the Windows10 spec.

      At some point they have to declare that their minimum target specs are now old trash worse than the Nextgen consoles and reset the minimum to something above the consoles.
      Otherwise they are targeting something even worse than a console port.

      • Clear on 11/09/2020 - 10:17

        Yup used to be 8GB when I first played but as Chris focuses more on the minor details like the countless shield reworks it'll get more and more intensive.

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