Space mining runs the risk of being extremely boring, as boring as long-distance freight hauling, but damn if the community video headlining Star Citizen’s latest Around the Verse doesn’t make it look like a “blast,” complete with soaring frontiersy music.
ATV also covers Cloud Imperium’s development efforts on the mobiGlass, route planning (navigation mode looks so good you guys), chat, moonscaping, planetary scale, scramble races, and the ship pipeline. The Aegis Hammerhead, specifically, is debuting today with a Q&A on Reverse the Verse.
CIG’s Sandi Gardiner says alpha 3.3 features are due to roll out to Evocati testers soon with an October 10th date for everybody else (at CitizenCon), though it looks like object container streaming (OCS) and other features have been held back for 3.3.5. That’s got Star Citizen fans on the subreddit grumbling over the delay, with one thread claiming 3.3 is a “full of nothing patch” since much of what’s still included is inaccessible for those who haven’t purchased the related ships.
Ship Shape is back this week on RTV with John Crewe and Adam Parker talking all about the Aegis Hammerhead and answer questions LIVE on https://t.co/2AdNouZOOo at 8am Pacific/4pm UTC. pic.twitter.com/ZXhsTgyySi
— Star Citizen (@RobertsSpaceInd) September 21, 2018
This one has an NDA so testers can’t say much if they respect that kind of thing. I just have a twinge of hope that they may consider having two worlds, a PvE and PvP one. Currently they have a PvP world and I haven’t read anything about them possibly doing a PvE one but I do hope they consider it.
What I don’t get is when a game refuses to do a PvE world because too many people go to play on the PvE server. To me that seems like it is telling the Devs how most of the people want to play their game and how people would be more happy and stick around to play if they had both PvE and PvP. Instead they just usually worry about having enough people on the PvP server for the PKers to get to kill and think the PvE people will just deal with it.
If they are confident enough that people want to play the game as a full PvP game, wouldn’t there be enough people for both PvE and PvP servers? Maybe they should open up both during testing and see what would happen.
I guess I should look into it a bit more, just I hadn’t heard anything about a PvE server so I just am assuming they’re only going to have the PvP side right? I don’t really know, maybe that isn’t even totally decided yet. I should probably get into the Discord and find this stuff out.
Aww come on MassivelyOP, why do you have to open the article with “Diablo-clone”?
OK it’s isometric ARPG, but I think considering Mad World’s artistic originality it’s unfair to the developer team to oversimplify it that way. IMHO gaming journalism has a responsibility to educate readers to appreciate such artistic expression.
In any case, the game looks good and adopts a style that not many games have. Wishing the best for the developers.
It will be coming out of NDA next alpha test too