Inside Star Citizen: Let Them Fight | Winter 2021

[@DirectorGunner]

Truly a wonderful cinematic look to the shield responses from impact.

[@Prich319]

None can question the brave madness of that Pisces pilot, just his effectiveness.

[@NEBO--]

I only found out about this game from watching clip of elite dangerous to see if I would get it or not. The KZbinr mentioned Star Citizen so I checked it out and I’ve been playing for 4 days straight as soon as I bought it. Consuming all my time after work. I absolutely love this game. How is this game not more well known! Unless it is and I just don’t know about it. All the people calling this a scam is unbelievable. Good work to all the Devs.

[@blackworldtraveler3711]

Many rather play a finished game.

[@mikeonlinux5491]

@@blackworldtraveler3711 Star Citizen is very enjoyable as it is, but it's true that it still is unfinished.

[@MarkusRessel]

@@mikeonlinux5491 And it probably never will be, which is not a bad thing at all.

[@blackworldtraveler3711]

@@MarkusRessel It's not a finished game. Not talking about ongoing things like upgrades,improvements,additions,maintenance, etc.. once completed.

[@SimpHarderPlz]

This looks like a brand new game with the shield technology

[@krasimirkrastev6375]

Crytek like that...

[@Gungarr]

@@krasimirkrastev6375 Too specific man, only 0.1% of the people will understand xD

[@MrBothandNether]

@@krasimirkrastev6375 you are responding to a bot

[@nathkrul]

lol a brand new game, get your wallet at the ready, he needs another yacht, house or car

[@tticd]

man, those shields look good.

[@jonneymendoza]

the eclipse ship has the new shield tech. i just fought off a bounty NPC

[@jookm]

@@jonneymendoza That ship's shields were ALL messed up, like the bubble was enormous. Maybe they did that to avoid fixing the old tech on that ship.

[@thesilverrook3502]

It does. I like the shields being tight, and form-fitting to the body. The tighter the better. Gives Star Trek: Nemesis vibes.

[@jookm]

@@thesilverrook3502 Ha! I was thinking the same thing. They totally had that in that movie

[@Gm-ce5kg]

How to destroy a capital ship easily : Step1 : max speed herald Step 2 : warning , collision alert

[@Kingdomkey123678]

I’ve seen people try this The capital ship didn’t notice

[@Gm-ce5kg]

@@Kingdomkey123678 well.. it depends if you took the shields down first or not

[@Kingdomkey123678]

@@Gm-ce5kg Shields were down, these things have pretty good armor

[@redrosecounty]

@@Kingdomkey123678 Technically they have no armour since it's not int he game yet, but they have a ton of HP to compensate, so same thing I guess.

[@sashimi0003]

Ramming speed reclaimer

[@Erad_Prime]

wow the shields segment was very informative. Thank you for this good episode!

[@KiraHellhammer]

That 5 minute mark shot !!! So many Javelins and Idrises

[@KenFromchicago]

Shields / force fields that change color as they get weaker! Genius! 40 years of watching space opera and that never occurred to me. It's so elegantly simple.👍

[@surject]

what about less and less opaque ...until they're gone?

[@jakedunnegan]

For gameplay, it's awesome. I heartily approve. Strategically (and realism/immersion) it's painfully stupid. ;)

[@elise3455]

@@jakedunnegan Think of it more as a side effect of shield tech in this universe. As power output decreases, the EM field (shield) transitions from high frequency (blue wavelengths) to lower frequencies (red wavelengths) which isn't as good at repelling enemy projectiles/lasers.

[@wolfgangjr74]

@@elise3455 This is exactly what I was thinking. Perhaps the lower frequencies also require less power trying to make energy shielding last as long as possible.

[@tebasak1]

It is a CRIME that these are ONLY 1080p!

[@Odeezee]

the first thing i checked before watching was whether or not it was going to be in 4K. i was disappoint!

[@pierreo33]

what youtube calls 1080p can't be real 1080p. it's just too blurry

[@SirSpoof254]

@@pierreo33 compression mate

[@PlantSurgeon-growth]

@@pierreo33 agree :)

[@PlantSurgeon-growth]

@@SirSpoof254 bitrate too

[@AlphaCitizen]

I really like the idea of the shields turning red as they become weak from hits. Visual cues FTW

[@PlantSurgeon-growth]

not red please

[@wolfgangjr74]

@@PlantSurgeon-growth Based on the color spectrum blue, purple, then finally red. Makes sense if you go by the thought that lower frequencies need less power to maintain some shields versus just completely losing them earlier because of the power draw. I like the concept.

[@SomberYeti]

Halo

[@spaced-cadet]

The three components of game feedback (i.e. relaying to the player what’s happening) 1.) Visual feedback (fx, lighting, animation) 2.) Audio feedback (sounds, audio cues) 3.) UI feedback (HUD) When it comes to the shields having visual changes and impacts, it’s really nice to see all parts providing the tells to the players.

[@GearHeadR116]

CIG: Inside Star Citizen Me: Oh, what is Richards bike!?

[@PPC4]

Ditto

[@kantt07]

I REALLY want to live the intro of The Revenge Of The Sith. And I'm looking forward for the Perseus, to play with friends and stick near an Idris and shooting him closely

[@ADMNtek]

yea that would be awesome specially once the when the really big ships come online like the Bengal or the Retribution.

[@ADMNtek]

@ThisCantBeHonkening no it was more like 25. that should be manageable with high end hardware in a few years.

[@elise3455]

@@ADMNtek With server meshing and extreme LOD models and occlusion it might be possible with current tech. Unlike EVE however, Star Citizen is real-time so they can't just lower the tick-rate like the devs do during those massive EVE battles.

[@ADMNtek]

@@elise3455 maybe but at this time there are still so many parts missing like components and ship crews those might a lot of server performance. but i so hope we get something like that at some point. CIG has mentioned that the Vanuul might take earth in the future now that would be a possibility for such a massive event.

[@AmentiVZ]

It's amazing how far the performance has come since that first capital ship combat demo a few years back.

[@jbirdmax]

So far in testing it’s been amazing. Also amazing watching the iteration process working up close and personal.

[@tonygunk1886]

Xenothreat has been a convincing addition to the confidence I have lacked about the sim ever being a “playable” sim.. very impressed with what you guys are doing! Best I’ve seen in 5 years

[@JB_Hobbies]

Says: "create strategy to take [capital ships] down as well." Shows (0:37): Pisces hurling some strong words at an Idris 🤣

[@A3ATOT]

Fus ro dah!)

[@Dune571]

Honestly, I like some of the other shield concepts they showed in recent episodes more (especially the pure-honeycomb pattern), but still very excited about this update!

[@Nemethon]

Love the new shields. Star Citizen really is the benchmark by which other games have to be measured. Nice work.

[@relint12]

That Eclipse shot with the torp hitting the belly of the Javelin, be still my heart...

[@Camural]

Cannot wait to test SDF shields :)

[@jamesmc1762]

Sdf in first iteration was implemented since the first idris appears in the alpha.

[@bbull71]

Gonna rip cig a new one haha

[@Camural]

@@bbull71 Always with the negative waves, Moriarty ... :) Maybe SDF shields work flawlessly, I really would like to see this for a change.

[@bbull71]

@@Camural haha. I mean I sincerely hope everything will go awesome. But we all know that we just hoping. Nothing in this world goes fantastic first try. As long as cig keeps trying, I'm good 👍

[@chikokishi7030]

I love the "BIIII Bi duduuuuuuu" Right as the Star citizen logo comes up

[@benvalle8253]

Getting battlestar feels with that b roll.

[@haydenravenscroft1803]

*drums and camera shake intensifies*

[@Sheppardsg1]

Remember when we have just hangar to walk in

[@spartarex]

The shield tech looks absolutely amazing.

[@SamohtNox]

i need that railcannon on my hurricane lol man i can't wait for breaching charges, boarding actions on big ships and fighting your way in the ship is what i'm waiting for

[@stubert2931]

It's not the same, but the Ares Fighter has a size 7 Cannon. Ares will be flight ready this year (Q3).

[@KindredBrujah]

Question is, will we need to knock the shields down before we can breach? If so, perhaps some sort of EMP or an electronic attack prior to the assault? So many possibilities.

[@Otakahunt]

@@KindredBrujah i would guess that there would be penetrative options for assault ships to go into the ship... like the pirate caterpillar already has some type of boarding sticks at the front of its nose, so probably other ships might have similar where you just "ram" the target ship, attach and enter the hull through doors or perhaps windows idk. Shields are directional after all so you can bring down left side shields and then try and reach the hull from that side. But it would be incredibly dangerous during combat... you probably just have to disable the ship first with distortion weapons and keep it disabled while your boarding crew enters. I dont really see any way of doing it mid-combat... disabling seems the only option or they will just boost on out of your reach. Its why we have distortion weapons. :P

[@tomasslastan2250]

5-10 more years so you can play it in at least 60fps without stuttering

[@Tattooniac]

I played in a party lastnite as a turret man. Incredible experience. Just being able to own a ship and look at it sells this game. But it’s really not a game. This is a lifestyle

[@Meuduso1]

Not gonna lie, I love the devs talking about how they want to balance the capital ships. I think this can be compared how a main battle tank would operate in a city. Yes, you have a big gun and a lot of armor but if you get swarmed by infantry that is also using the terrain, a mighty MBT loaded with enough ammunition to take down half a battalion will fall in no time. You need support. So I'm glad that they are balancing them like this.

[@capnrotbart]

SC dev: Taking down capital ships must be a coordinated effort. Also SC dev: _takes down idris with a single shot of an arclight pistol_

[@heliowolf5042]

The best part of this was cameras, headsets, and backdrops of the dev's home workstations. Nice!

[@EricVidfarne]

Shields look great and I really like the intuitive way it displays damage and state.

[@BenHannaNZ]

Those shields look amazing!!!

[@dazza5137]

Yes! Finally. Holding thumbs that the next patch is a great one.

[@thomasjoyce7910]

Little known fact: Every Idris is actually a carrier with large front AND rear doors that open to launch and recover fighters. Okay, not a little known fact. It's just something they seem to want everyone to forget.

[@plushiie_]

Just the sheer size of the Javelin :DDD

[@minicute2234]

Nah... I'm waiting for the bengal carrier

[@AirOne1333]

@@minicute2234 cant buy bengal while you can buy javelin i kept missing the oportuniy becasue of chinese bots buying all javelins for he past years

[@PlantSurgeon-growth]

@@AirOne1333 just ask for it :) the support is quite nice when it comes to that

[@mikeonlinux5491]

@@PlantSurgeon-growth Especially when you reach Concierge, then it's pretty much IAE everyday :)

[@AirOne1333]

@@PlantSurgeon-growth im concierge for a while now they helped me getting rid of my money z few Times but they never replied my last ticket about the javelin XD

[@timvictor8926]

Those SDF shields are fantastic! The cap ships also seem like they’re behaving well. Gonna be good seeing ships launch for them and then using missiles and torps.

[@BurrWolf]

Shout Out to the Mad Lad flying the C8 in that fight! xD

[@Areanyusernamesleft]

Well it isn't like they were there in an Argo MPUV! ;)

[@maxl3754]

Id love for the sdf to be tighter around the ships... it would look better in my opinion

[@PlantSurgeon-growth]

in my opinion too :)

[@colinr2122]

I think this is a reference from Godzilla when Dr. Serizawa said “let them fight”

[@OniMetsuki]

Took a while, but you guys have gone beyond my expectations with that new SDF Shield tech. Quite Beautiful =)

[@jakedunnegan]

Okay, that was some sweet looking tech.

[@OwenGee22]

"Have you noticed the shields are still up??" - Obi Wan Kenobi

[@awayofzen]

It's like waiting to eat a great dinner, and the waiter comes and presents you instead how the salt was cut from the mountain, and the process behind it. Then proceeds to other ingredients, for some years, while you're still at the table.

[@mikeonlinux5491]

That's still very interesting, and I'm into SC for its tech as much as for the end game, being an enthusiast game dev, so definitely my thing. But I can understand if you just want to play the final game and don't care about the underlying tech and how it was made, it's becoming a very long wait.

[@MuchycZ]

This must be the most dedicated game comunity in history of gaming. Madness.

[@ForerunnerIII]

Loved the event hope to see some cool ground combat in the future!

[@harbinger8208]

SDF and CAP ships are looking great CIG!

[@vulcan4d]

I'm getting such a Battlestar vibe! Now bring on the drum battle music!!!

[@rafnogueira]

We need somehow this combat zones ingame quickly, this is so amazing. Some kind of war events to bring clans together with massive ships trying to conquest some territory or objetive

[@erictom6756]

Shields look great! Keep up the good work 👍

[@bomapenguin]

Are we going to get tiny directional shields projecting from our armor in the future? That would be dope.

[@Themagicmountain7930]

Fkg now guys, this looks fantastic ,really...and i m very hard to please....well done.

[@captaincloudsuperhero6869]

ahh perfect timing! Just picked up an Eclipse ingame yesterday!

[@dawidziobrowski1726]

I really want to see something like beam cannons, right now we only see ships throwing rice at each other

[@tealwraith9045]

I really like where the SDF shields are going.

[@underakillingmoon]

I am amazed by the new shield technology. Good work guys!

[@DDSHADE]

Woah it almost looks close to done finally!!! Cool

[@ArmyOfArmagedon]

Lol, that Pisces fighting the Idris XD

[@JLMetaMix]

Imagine them making some sort of 100v100 space battle arena were both sides will get a random but same amount of ships and just have a pvp match making battle. While we have fun and wait for them to finish the universe It would be nice to play there ships they made to get us ready to know how to fly and fight in space when the full release comes out.

[@dennisgarcia7709]

uhm im going to need a longer video of 5:00 i want to see that battle play out

[@ashlynnp.9609]

Just wait until they start launching fighters.

[@SOVERElGN]

8:12 - The capital ship finally appears ;)

[@stefensmith9522]

Can't wait for the shields upgrade plus seeing this same tech used to make water fly off the ship in a rain storm... fingers crossed

[@chaadlosan]

Now this is Pod Racing!

[@kummer45]

I'm interested. THIS IS THE GAME that we all have been waiting for. Finally It happened. It's all about large ship battles, fighters and collaboration. But guess what? This have been done before with Angels Dies First. What took you all this long for it? Donnager, I blame you for this. :P

[@Wind_Lord]

Can’t wait for SDF tech to patch up my holes

[@Vasos77]

1:02... that horrible thing one-shot wrecked my retaliator. I just saw a light coming. One second later...

[@xanderjones2747]

This is looking great CIG team, keep it up!

[@emiliyangeorgiev22]

very good CIG,you just discover the hot water again !

[@123reivaj]

Awesome Shields! :D

[@t.i.e.d882]

Let us take our Javalin out for a spin! its time!!!

[@tans117]

Every time I heard SDF i kept thinking macross. Keep up the updates I look forward to trying them in the near future when the game is more polished and there is more missions and job types.

[@mmPitttypangg]

This looks so good that the engine eventually may be outsourced to do cheap CGI to budget movies and film series too!

[@enriquecabrera2137]

Seems you have no idea how CGI films are made.

[@ramathorn1982]

Those shields look amazing!

[@bes12000]

These fights remind me of Stargate Atlantis fights with the earth ships vs the wraith.

[@Dowlphin]

Those shields should probably have a color grading all the way through their strength range, to give the most detailed feedback about shield status for people with a trained eye.

[@MrRetroDev]

I really want to know if you can see the SDF shield effects from the inside. Would be cool to see it but have it more transparent from the inside to not block the view out.

[@chriscaelum4878]

Quite look forward to seeing the full powered Javelin and not the weakened one for this event

[@tomsbasement4884]

Every cool video like this just tacks another year onto the development.

[@_ezra6217]

I can't wait for boarding and breaching

[@GeorgeVenturi]

boy I have some bad news to give you...

[@_ezra6217]

@@GeorgeVenturi ?

[@Meeeeqh]

Breaching already works since 2 years or so, just fire a gun on a ship door and it will open. effect may vary depending on door / ramp ;)

[@TheKookyman]

Time to team up in the HH guys 🔥🔥🔥

[@DerPolygonianer]

What a great Video. But since I like nitpicking: Why does the Railgun have flame effects? It's a railgun. There is no explosion involved. I don't want complete reality, but since we already have elctricity effects and particle effects and so on why not use those?

[@DerPolygonianer]

@Solve Everything Is that sarcasm I hear? Because what I'm doing is called constructive feedback. The whole idea behind Star Citizen is Immersion and changing something like that is a relatively minor thing to do. And no, I'd make a terrible Dev. I'm not an Artist and I can't really code either. I just know how real-life railguns work.

[@cptcarot]

SDF's are going to be a great update to players ships. Hoping that it will remove any of those shield holes that I have seen before. :)

[@tallll70]

Should not the shield be protecting in atmospheric entry? Maybe the flame effect and shield needs to be combined for it

[@Naviss]

Love capital warships! Also the shields look great.

[@Mr_Jish]

@8:43 "The color of the SDFs will change based on shield integrity" *Shields are blue* Engine: "Ight, I'ma head out ✌️"

[@star_gazer98]

Lol I saw that

[@DaddyKoolPop]

ARES Time! Great work team.

[@John_Conner222]

This is looking pretty incredible.

[@SimpHarderPlz]

The only thing that looks weird is the particles seem to be in gravity rather than zero gravity

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[@theSmolniy]

I am fed of your fighting stuff. More interesting missions like investigations are needed.

[@RobinHartJones]

Great report. Keep 'em coming.

[@Matt-eg1vz]

I petition that those big broadsides on the Jav need their range increased big time..

[@amou2409]

this is so battlestar galactica now, i love it :)

[@FieldHoodGaming]

And then, we saw small Auroras starting ship taking down big Idris Capital ships

[@captainbean525]

the only thing with 3.12.1 is that there will be just straight up arouras and mustangs fighting an Idris

[@fykis519]

I cannot wait for capital ship gameplay I have a feeling the games gonna blow up after squardon 42 and capital ship drops

[@Odeezee]

this is f*cking sick. the fights are this good now already and the Idris and Javelin are NOT even using their missiles/torpedoes. gonna love feeling that extra level of pressure once they come online, i assume they will eb using the missile operator mode for the AI as well! they just need to keep tweaking the AI behaviors to make it more realistic and limit the amount of idle turrets there are in high density combat scenes when it appears that the servers are bogged down and the AI is hindered/overwhelmed. i also think that they need to change so of the thruster curves for the ship movement as there are times when they make rapid movements for their size which kinda breaks immersion for me, but i am hoping that the thruster efficiency curve tech coming soon can address this. i know that for some the rate of progress can appear slow, but the systemic nature of what they are trying to build here is coming together pretty epically and i am here for it!

[@Spanky872]

1. Wake up at station, find ship. 2. Can't see teammates in-game, find them verbally. 3. starmap keeps bugging out, can't select a location 4. Can't quantum jump to location. Keep trying, jump to a random place and try again until it works 5. Teammates can't see my ship 6. Sync issues. 7. Shoot some Xeno ships, have a bit of fun 8. Teammates rage-quit due to bugs 9. End. Fun update...

[@nemesisone8927]

you guys are awesome thx for making this awesome game/sim and it shows why things take long, but better long and perfect then fast and horrible. o7

[@jacksorrows6553]

I just want to know if ya'll remembered to fix missiles on the Connie?

[@justinrice5405]

Nice! Time to go hunting for Xenothreat!