SaltEMike Reacts to Star Citizen Live: Q&A Characters and Creatures

[@allthatishere]

14:00, "Let them cook" It's burnt, dude! Lmao

[@CaptainSnackbeard]

Time to fire the head chef, the patrons have all starved to deth

[@Billy-bc8pk]

@@CaptainSnackbeard So you can get another Starfield? How about just play Starfield instead?

[@CaptainSnackbeard]

@@Billy-bc8pk So I should be thankful for 12+ years of being fleeced and lied to by Chris Roberts because someone else made a bad game? This is called a "red herring." You seem to have forgotten how we are paying to have two games made, and one of them we don't even get for our money. This project is fraught with fraud and mismanagement. Starfield has nothing to do with that.

[@aguspuig6615]

I dont get why they have 1000 + devs but literally half the systems in the game are under the same guy. I wonder if hes literally the one guy working on them

[@5h4ndt]

it feels like 950 of them are marketing and sales team

[@artsolano6762]

And all this is just fluff unless server meshing actually works.

[@master8127]

They dont have 1000+ devs

[@inter_estelar]

950 of them are developing SQ42, witch is another game of the same enterprise 😂

[@jaybluff281]

They are all on Squadron. Always have been.

[@Cathrynne]

Coming from realistic view, I sincerely hope players be more prudent on spending their real hard earned money on ships because chances are they are much more disappointed with what's in store for SC even for long term due to so many overpromised, under delivered from CIG.

[@TKanal3]

I want some fools spending all their money to fund my space game personally lol

[@mariopenulli1395]

If you buy a new concept ship now it will probably in game in 12 years. They can't keep up this charade for much longer.

[@Juice1286]

SC definitely won't be the game OG backers want. CIG needs new money coming in and the only way to do that is cater to mainstream gaming audiences. We already saw it happening with the introduction to skills (which will be expanded for sure) and the change to ship combat.

[@Captain-Comedy]

"1200 people" 1 guy owning 4 different functions

[@essentialasa]

This. I always wonder how many of the 1200 are devs and how many are hr, interns, marketing, accounting, and various other support staff.

[@williamlewis1805]

Yup

[@shanks2872]

@@essentialasa I feel like a lot of them are writers and artist instead of pure marketing people(although you could argue they are 2 sides of the same coin in this case). The ship art doesn't draw itself after all.

[@polblanes]

ownership doesn't mean it's just him working on them, though... Most of those 1200 people are definitely artists, animators, modelers, riggers, environment, lighting, etc. But when he says he owns something he means he's in charge of what happens with it and he requests tasks from other people to build it. Then what he's probably doing is configuration, testing, design and documentation, setting up test for QA...

[@Falenir]

​@@shanks2872ai can do it instantly for free now. They could train a model that knows how each manufacturer looks and produce all the art for a 3d model in seconds

[@5h4ndt]

I'm fully expecting the sandworm to be citicen con fluff only and aldready been shelved.

[@lolsalad52]

Tbh I trust Zack to get it in, I don't trust his bosses to force him to stop 🙃

[@Bucketnate]

Did you already forget the giant list of creatures for 1.0?

[@Ogata123]

So much of what is done in the name of immersion is immersion breaking lol. Others feel like the dev has a second life shard theyve maintained for 15 years. The one thing thats always sticks out immersion wise is being able to carry more ammo than 3 people irl in your backpack, but unable to carry 1/5 as many guns as i could irl.

[@UnderdogSMO]

"I own law and reputation" what law and reputation

[@Cam_Wight]

He has the concepts of a plan

[@Bucketnate]

The one they're working on that isnt in the alpha yet

[@AngeloReis]

The Conni, mustang beta, freelancer max and the titan are still missing there inventory.

[@TheJZP]

Inventory no longer works on the Corsair

[@jimmy37591]

The joys of tech debt, haven't played in a while but it's sad to see the space penguin fall apart with how popular it is.

[@HarleyHyena]

love the vids man thanks for taking the time to upload to KZbin!

[@FNKRoue]

Salvage will be huge. The most valuable reason to salvage won't be to hull scrape, it will be to board and scan for high quality and potentially extremely valuable t2+ ship components

[@rathanndgk]

Yeah this always gets overlooked once components are actually valuable I doubt I'll even bother scraping the hull.

[@randomuserame]

everyone forgetting that you can craft ships with different materials, also upgrade ships with better materials... eventually... in 1.0 or later... so 2027-2030 or later. It wont just be components it will be upgraded hull materials too (durasteel t2+ vs regular steel t1). components will be huge once crafted/upgraded components get in-game. _Salvage is placeholder until then._

[@MaxZeCat]

We can already grab guns off derelict ships! Adding components from engineering(whenever it comes) will be enough to do IMO. Also we should be aloud to salvage ships around stations as clean up crew

[@beavschannel5217]

I get your points Mike on hull scraping and structural salvage being pretty minimalistic, but I see that as only one part of the salvage loop, you still have retrieval of components, weapons, fuel and ammo. I could easily see a Salvage scanner giving a read out of what components and weapons are on the ship, and their health levels, and also fuel and ammo amounts.

[@StoneCoolds]

Marines literally drop from planes and choppers fully loaded with backpacks and 100 pounds of freedom strap to them, cat wait to sit and have all my equipment dissapear and bug out tnx to this magical auto equipment mechanic lol

[@randomuserame]

yeah they didn't consult anyone who's been in a drop ship, they don't consult subject matter experts for much of anything, it seems. They'd have more slack for not doing so if they didn't raise almost a billion dollars. How many subject matter experts can be retained for the price of that grim hex sign. Hell, put out a call for community volunteers, they'll do it for free cus they want the game to come out (and make sense). the "magic solutions" are only an issue because they spent so much time making everything hyper-realistic.

[@veger2001]

I agree with this direction as it makes sense! different suits should have different advantages and drawbacks.. also non compatibilities as you should be able to mix and match at will.. EG: Mining suit should have high & low tolerance to temperatures for instance but little to no defense against enemy fire. PS: There should be multiple kinds of Mining suites with all different advantages and disadvantages.

[@TommyRushing]

@10:30 Salvage will be cool when ships have a recipe to craft. Because then you'll get the materials it was made with.

[@q3aryoko]

@25:10 the inventory system is NOT cool. Its ridiculously convoluted and cumbersome. I absolutely HATE it. Tabbed SAVED load outs in inv screen! I can change into it quickly (near a closet or something) if i have to pass through a customs gate where weapons and armor are not allowed. Tabbed inventory load outs in your hab, your ship, whatever. Even if it is a 10 second darkness animation while i "change:" outfits is more acceptable than what we have now.

[@richardmiklos]

On the armor swapping: I think the best would be a physical capsule, inside it a mannequin with the latest armor you were wearing if you died (or empty mannequin if you are wearing it right now) and a touch display with two buttons. One button for equipping the gear currently on the mannequin, the other to unequip current gear onto the mannequin. There would also be a compact menu to select another set to show on the mannequin, everything is 1 click or 2 if you swap gear. This way the whole thing looks epic, but doesn't need it's own room with dozens of mannequins, so you can have it on many more, smaller ships as well. When swapping the gear through the menu there would be an animation with the door of the capsule closing and then opening again with the new gear on the mannequin. So basically like the expensive rotating garages in crowded cities IRL. (By mannequin I don't really mean the plastic thing we have IRL, but just a skeleton or something modern to hang your gear on.)

[@99mserna]

Yes, sell the bloody ship when you have decided what it will be…not before.

[@Zeata_Udan]

For the pledge store armor “blueprints” they could make it so they can’t be upgraded or researched further than so that it is “locked” at tier 1 the base level to balance making the blueprints that are earned ingame be able to be superior when researched tier 2-3

[@Tekjive]

After seeing the last Roadmap Roundup, and watching this, knowing the Dev count for each, such as BaseBuilding only has 1-2 devs working on it, which could possibly mean now not exclusively, the biggest question is HOW MANY DEVS ARE ACTUALLY WORKING ON SC OUT OF 1000+ …dude, what is going on.

[@Turbovolver]

Is there proof of those 1000? Chris might be taking more "salary" than any of us thought...

[@sosayweall2509]

More like how many people have left the company

[@insector2093]

90% of the company is working on Squadron 42.. That's always how its been

[@Fragnatix]

Citcon 2024 was only to make some sells and pitch ideas, not real prototype near release. Nothing was real this year

[@sogehige]

4:44 The "own" thing mean that he has main word in those feature when some developer is not sure if something should be implemented in specific way or how feature should exactly work. Its more manager thing, he is not one man developing it. That mean those features will be consistent and have someone who looks over them.

[@fabilord98]

25:24 "the game is pain" - me literally for the last 4 years.... it was less pain and more fun when we only had port olisar and the very old flight model..

[@Haegemon]

Simulators usually are only a plane, a ground and sky.

[@fabilord98]

@ wtf are you talking about?

[@IIITangentIII]

Come on Mike. It's well known that star citizen is just a spreadsheet simulator... You know how Microsoft Excel has incredible graphics, revolutionary game design, spaceships that you can walk through, turrets that you can shoot like the millennium falcon, insane potential, and a shit ton of bugs. I mean Microsoft Excel and Star Citizen or practically the same thing.

[@critic_empower_joke_rlaxtslife]

Anything we say or do won't matter. They ll keep going divisive community by implementation because what they create only talk to one particular gaming type. Engineering, fuses redundancy, burning components up is a total drag to everyone but not to very truly few that dreamt to be engineers, then even less who expect engineers to be the way they make it,yet, all of us are bound to it or lose. Same goes for medic,cooks, rear ass turrets where nothing ever happen, and probably more. Not helping are blind knights always in defense of the poor and defenseless cig princess at the mercy against her will and held by evil criticizing community dragon. Server meshing was and still is a major stone for star citizen. Optimization is done routinely and is another stone and step. Any gameplay implementation without root core, then sorry to everyone for bursting your bubble but it is a poor choice in domain of MMO. This means that, next major stone is nothing else but player controlling a series of npcs at hand, 4, 5, maybe 7 npc with defined roles controlled face2face as well as mobiglass or ship intercom is THE ROOT where subsequent gameplays lays upon for proper ship management. I literally hate CIG guts pushing players grouping for few years now like its a feature they invented. That above and alone is a divisive element, not the fact that the root complement should exist upon gameplay branches can latch onto.

[@saltemikereacts]

2/3 of the people on that panel regularly watch streams and engage with the community on a regular basis and take feedback. The other guy may, but I can’t confirm.

[@MooneShadow]

I have PTSD just from the MSR second exit promise. Another ship they built before gameplay and a promise made 3 years ago that it would receive a second exit. Another promise that will never happen! MSR does not have its inventory.

[@senn4237]

In the same pile as the 600i rework that will never come.

[@Cam_Wight]

If the MSR was built today it’d be a great ship. It’d have a ladder entrance near the front, the stupid crawl space would just be useful cargo drop space.

[@MooneShadow]

@@senn4237 Yeah what ever happened to the 600i Rework? Shelved? They had concepted that work too. Anyway my point is they are making allot of promises they seem to not be able to keep. And its just disappointment that stews into anger. They need to stop making promises, complete the promises they already made and just report on what is being done instead of making things up to keep the backer entertained.

[@Broccoli_32]

1:15:29 I think it’s that you create whatever load out you want as you do now and you just walk up to the locker press F and that load out just appears there.

[@518UN4]

So they added blueprint to the list of things sold on the pledge store. That makes: - Ships - Modules for ships - Ship insurance - FPS weapons - FPS armor - Land claims - UEC - Skins for ships and FPS gear - Flair of any kind - Blueprints for FPS gear Things that can't be bought on the pledge store: - reputation ??

[@Weirdletter]

I’m sure not all blueprints can be bought from the store, especially since some are locked behind rep and maybe the instances areas. “Hopefully” if not then CIG has ruined the game.

[@corvoadam5598]

I hope we only get the stuff but not thier blueprints because if some dude bought a javelin then he can have the blueprints, upgrade the blueprints, make the upgraded ships to everyone in the org all while other orgs still looking for that blueprints in the verse

[@Fragnatix]

​@@corvoadam5598i hope they fuckin stop selling in game asset. At this point its ridiculous. The cosmetics can stay, but not the asset.

[@AtlasRandGaming]

This is BS I should be able to buy reputation quick start as a Legatus!

[@Billy-bc8pk]

@@corvoadam5598 Pledge items get blueprints, not ships. And even then, who cares if he did have the blueprints for a Javelin? To upgrade a Javelin blueprint would be crazy hard, and to actually make the Javelin will take months. It used to take about three real life months to build ships in Allods Online, and those were about the size of a Constellation or maybe a Carrack at most. It will probably take about three to six real months to craft ships the size of a Javelin.

[@Kahless47]

"It wasn't lies. It was just... bullshit." -Elwood Blues

[@corvoadam5598]

So the worm is an event or a world boss....... now how can we do the event when big orgs can simply blockade it or farm it?

[@Billy-bc8pk]

Then just take down the big orgs? Snipe them with rail cannons at a distance. What are they going to do?

[@kavos7234]

straight up ppl need to stop buying these ships at release. it just buys them more time of less flak for a month or so. get the damn game fixed of stupid bugs ( that are prolly left in to keep calling it an alpha) like not highliting mineables properly, doors not opening, lifts not working. Get some gameplay for ships that have been out for years.... if noones buyng the ships they would soon get thier finger out. And now, talking about stuff like in this show, its probably stuff from 1.0 Not gonna see it for ages

[@greygamer6220]

I don’t mind if stuff takes lots of prep time and getting “Ready” but I want some things to be one click. Like prepping load outs and backpack contents but one click to change them out.

[@The_Real_bubbazaneti]

Time perspective according to CIG it is something between cradle and grave, in human years! The only thing we can count on are all the ship sales that are always on time, no matter how F up the patch is. I would rather have them working on getting the tech demo to be playable and all year old bugs, like falling threw planets and elevators would be fixed. I dont really care about all the eye candy fluff, they focus on putting into the game, cause of marketing. Those are nice to have, but not need to have! Make POI´s you promised we can set our selves in starmap, short quantum jumps etc. instead.

[@Sinekyre14]

News flash: there IS NO WAY to fix the bouncing through the floor and randomly dying. There is no way because the systems they have designed were never meant to be reliably be combined on a server with huge planets and the size of this universe. It will NEVER be fixed. None of it.

[@KA317S]

Right count = 167

[@veger2001]

48.47 - The way the game development is going I wonder if we will even be able to have pets on our ships before 2030!

[@reconraider707]

Mining is the only game loop that for a brief time received regular updates and attention from the dev team. Every other game loop has been ignored for years, until cargo got updates. But bounty hunting, piracy, salvage, exploration, etc have all languished for YEARS.

[@stegy247]

"Why are so many people going missing in caves?!" Answer: Space Mafia

[@Turbovolver]

They need to work on spawning logic for mobs around the sandworm? Oh, you mean like Genesis which supposedly does all that and more? Guess it's not anywhere close then, not that that's a surprise...

[@idn]

These people are Director level -- they have Senior people underneath them to delegate work to and individual manage. They "govern" dependent and related areas of gameplay to help ensure those areas have a cohesive feel and gameplay experience.

[@RoLo87rl]

They're crazy. And so are we for continuing to believe that this project will end, stabilize or whatever. 2025, we don't have single-player (not even with an interactive cinematic campaign like myst or riven😂) we don't have stability, the netcode is far from being stable, the game loops don't exist, the mechanics are incomplete or they need to be reworked them over and over again (like the rest of the elements), there will continue to be wipes until a hypothetical and future (very future) version 1.0, hundreds of critical bugs that ruin any simple attempt to ""play""... Have you played sea of ​​thieves? Have you tried to sail a boat with 5 friends? (even a small boat with 2 or 3 players) it's fun because of the chaos that ends up being generated when each player tries to control their position and functions... but it always or almost always results in catastrophe (sea of ​​thieves is fun because of its approach). If you want to try something similar but as a simulator, please try WolfPack, a submarine simulator where you have to cooperate with 4 other players to control a WWII submarine, eliminate certain targets and escape without being detected. It's a very complicated task and the battle game is quite slow. Now imagine a Polaris type ship against other small ships or even other capital ships... (yes I know dynamic meshing will support and make possible this to happen online, EVEN HYPOTHETICALLY) just imagine the terrible chaos of players in each Polaris in a battle against many other ships... please... even if they instantiate these battles (of course they will) the experience is not going to be good... it sounds amazing and wonderful in our minds, but no, it is something that is not going to work out not only for technical reasons, but because the base concept is not feasible and it is an unbearable Gameplay, not even they know where all this is going... that is SC... they have always said it, "it is a constant..." it is never going to end... (why can't it end, it is impossible). I love the project, I love the way it looks, but realistically... The future gameplay it's a castle in the sky.... either they simplify ship management in PU and separate battles by instantiating them or hosting them on separate dedicated servers and limiting the amount of ships per match and by ranks or this development will NEVER end and none of us will see it close to ending in this lifetime. The project needs to be finished, stabilized, polished and PU REDESIGNED so that it is fun and contains an endgame that gives players endless hours like any MMO. (This would imply many more years of development...) At this point I think there are only 2 options left for CR... either throw it all away and sell the company to the Chinese and have them make a cryptocurrency casino MMORPG like an "entropia universe") or let it die from wear and tear (this is already happening). Too much money invested, too much time invested, too much work from too many people, fewer and fewer players interested in the project and vague and improvised plans that only lead to absolute catastrophe, frustration of players, developers and a diminished, poisoned and divided community, not to mention the poor image we have in the eyes of the general gaming scene...😢

[@havocnchaos]

57:03 I do really hope that what they mean is most suits will have very limited EVA capability, and not zero capability... I agree 100% with you Mike. There are so many situations where you didn't expect to need it, but now, surprise you do... Having the game just end there feels bad. There should certainly be suits or armors that are specialized for it, stronger thrust, faster top speed, larger O2 tank, etc. However, if we can do things to adjust our trajectory inleu of EVA thrusters, like throw a medpen or fire a balistic weapon, that would be interesting too...

[@Anonymous-m9f9j]

11:10 the way you talk about salvage is how people talk about flight

[@saltemikereacts]

Fuck I wish it was, people are super nasty about it.

[@randomuserame]

I feel like salvage will make a lot more sense and have a crazy amount of depth once we get ship crafting/upgrading... I feel like this was talked about a while back, but dont remember who, or of it was even official or on a CC video. Anywyas, that means salvage is pretty much filler/mesningless until 1.0 or 1.x

[@TKanal3]

When can you expect monster hunting? According to CIG next 12-18 months

[@azzanon]

I'm pretty sure they said the armor would be on a mannequin in a closet and you swap with what you have on. They do this in a few mmos

[@Broccoli_32]

1:16:56 underrated joke from Zac

[@PCPAyLOAD]

I get the urge to preempt with the whole "Shits going to be a while" speel but how about you just talk about what you're ACTUALLY working on that has a legit chance of being in our hands in the 6-8 ish months. The whole way way off in the future theory crafting with these devs is what disingenuously causes all the doubt in the first place. And ships like the Gladiator, and many other pushed aside for the better part of a decade to sell shiny new ones is why I stopped all future funding. You just can't trust a thing they say.

[@fatman9994]

I love the idea of armor that's bought being blue prints instead. Tbh I kinda wish all the armor and weapons that you buy on the store were blueprints and make those base blueprints easyish to get in game. So like ships it hopefully won't be as big of a deal since upgrading ships or upgrading your blueprints to be able to craft the best options would be the main goal. Buying a blueprint or ship just gives you a head start. It's still not perfect but I honestly don't think we can get to a actual perfect system since they've been selling ships for so long.

[@fatman9994]

Well darn, I shoulda watched a little farther. I had hoped this was actually a replacement for the recovery.

[@LagunaNexus]

With salvage we only have two types of material. So here's something. For example we have Drake and Origin, two companies on vastly different sides. Drake is probably one of the manufacturers who use the cheapest materials to get a job done. Origin has specifically been said to use only the best quality materials, add to that the fact that luxury ships cost more so case and point.. So then if I salvage an Origin ship, why am I not getting higher tier materials that earn me more by comparison? Another thing past hull and construction materials would be.. Why can't we salvage various fuels, upholsrty, parts (partially can on some small ships, glass from cockpits ect. By all means group the many smaller things, but a ship is more than just two forms of metal. And what about paint stripping? could be a fun way to earn in game paint jobs, hell why not include a new paint shop loop additionally tied to those supplies. Salvage COULD supply so many other loops as a backbone. It could even be more than just salvage a ship, you could be salvaging for a further purpose past that, similar to Towing jobs. Do this to unlock that.

[@rarrie9123]

It feels more jobs are being delighted to them because they are better than others so they get bigger work loads. I totally agree with everything. Im glad they are choosing to work on optimation now

[@l3lackoutsMedia]

Hardspace: Shipbreaker )) is a good example for salvage in another game that is purely dedicated to salvaging. I thought Star Citizen would at least take inspiration to be honest.

[@l3lackoutsMedia]

I really wonder where all the employees of CIG are regarding the tech and gameplay. I do not understand why 1 guy would be the product owner for multiple important gameplay loops like that with that many employees. Switching between these topics like that can't be good for making serious creative progress. Each one of these loops/systems should have a product owner with a team working on that. The following is just what im feeling in my gut with this: The way they have this set up now really looks a bit like they're running on the absolute bare minimum of people somehow, but how the fokk is possible? - im starting to feel scammed honestly and i do not like that.

[@futuresmart2505]

With armor swap I wonder if med pens, guns, backpack will swap over.

[@nebulajumper6216]

Always talk the talk .. when walkt the walk?

[@CHEESYhairyGASH]

Q3 2036

[@GeneCavalcante]

New ships are getting flyable faster than before. The Polaris and other older concepts yeah...they promise something they couldn't make back then. I think they changed that. Now when they announce a ship, we get it faster than before.

[@angepano8591]

If Luke has good people working for him, it's actually better if those things are related one person is watching the big picture. It just depends on the organization and if he has the right authority to assign resources to go with the responsibility.

[@soliitudegaming7275]

My big issue is no amount of features fixes the game if it has 2000 things for me to decorate my ship and setup suit lockers... only to get blown up or have my ship stolen every 15 minutes.

[@Minishimirukaze]

Finally, this is the content I’ve been waiting for! To add to the conversation I would really love to have presets and setup presets that show up in the suit locker and I can swap what I am wearing with the doll or it puts my cloths into a preset in my inventory. Then give me a dozen or so presets so I can have different outfits.

[@rop27703]

5:43, one word, Merchantman (and yes, I "own" one Merchantman)

[@fireye3]

Off the dome, they could do a scrape intensity mechanic which increases scrape speed but eats into CM output if used for too long in a certain spot. Also, grabbing guns and components should definitely be much more lucrative than it currently is.

[@Zer0megaXX]

it was originally for the guns. to the point they just took guns and left the ship

[@mcaddc]

@@Zer0megaXX this wouldn’t be an issue if both were lucrative options. If anything, salvaging could be an option if you weren’t piloting a salvage ship.

[@lolsalad52]

​@@mcaddcit needs to be balanced to the point that you don't mind having another person to split credits between in a reclaimer, for example you make 1mil an hr salvage split 3 ways, so ~333k/hr, adding a person who only strips guns should add about 100k/hr split, to boost that rate slightly. It's not something you would do instead of salvage but on-top of if you have the crew. This Would also make it a profitable thing to do in a cargo ship.

[@UnderdogSMO]

Lol, Mike, there is a good chance that what salvage looks like to us externaly isnt what their building for internaly. Particularly the fact we know there already setting values, rating, tags, to materals for crafting

[@sosayweall2509]

Scraping should turn into an npc role and be something low level.players can attack salvage caravans or something

[@Terran0va_Plays]

1,196 devs all working on the marketing build. 4 devs working on PTU. They pretty much admitted they spent tons of time trying to rush the sandworm, in game demo. This is probably why they dumped 90% of the features that were supposed to drop with 4.0. Also: 7:45 before the first question. The pauses are about to be insane on this one 😭😭

[@xSKOOBSx]

When can I buy LTI mining boots?

[@Luukullus]

Thanks for your Video! I enjoying your reactions because you really say what you are thinking. Scary that the community is crazy toxic sometimes. One Question about the topic with the "flying with backpack" thing. When i am in the command control stand of my carrack (the one in the front on upper bridge), can i leave my clothes and the backpack equipped? I mean, its not a seat. I am just standing with joysticks and its possible to fly the ship from there. What do you think? Backpack possible? (realistically seen yes. But who knows what will go on xD)

[@Rooskiy]

So with subscriber armor. We get blueprint. Yes, we bought a blue print. Time to stock up on subscriber armor

[@murdurmuffin7872]

Because it's a gristle in my burger: "Realism" and "Immersion" A lot of devs, and business people at dev companies fundamentally don't understand this and only know it's a player popular buzzword and actively work to produce an experience completely counter to expectations. RULES 1. Do not make mechanics at the expense of fun. 2. Make the player's connection to the character and world as seamless as possible. 3. Realize it's a video game, not real life; and it will always be so. 4. Don't frustrate your players with arbitrary problems that can be solved with 5 minutes of thought or less, because your characters/world would have solved it too. Is: Animations for smelting ore, mechanics for transforming the raw resource into refined resources and finally into usable products. Is NOT: Making refining steps take 12+ hours when a player might have 1-3 hours to play, arbitrary randomness or ultra-specific requirements during the process, requiring the player to have a degree in computational theory to understand. Is: Making interaction as simple, thoughtless, and seamless as possible. Is NOT: Forcing the player to hold a button, manually search for an interact icon and click it, choose an action and click it, then figure out what they wanted isn't available in the context. Is: Giving armor uniqueness and purpose, tracking ammunition in magazines and magazines in inventory, having different types of healing items to treat different types of injury. Is NOT: Arbitrarily preventing players from flying a ship while wearing their armor, using UI and menus for extremely common or repetitive actions, forcing the player to play tetris for half an hour every time they load their ship with cargo because you couldn't make boxes and cargo holds standardized for your fictional industry.

[@Nullslayer]

god i just want a simple interface for armor. I do not want a whole process to put it on

[@toyahinata]

they are always good mike. But believe when you see it working. Since the cig can do the see, but not the working.

[@williamlewis1805]

Guess that Kiosk works for lawful system. Craft if it’s lost in lawless? What if I steal gear

[@UnderdogSMO]

Getting a Blueprint for your sub gear is easily the best salution. Just like ships there going to start at T1 and the stats attached will be entirely dependent on the mats you use. Calm down mike its just cosmetic

[@jimmy37591]

Star citizen 2025 we don't know shit. Why else would you think sqaudron is ao far down the road.

[@FlatMoki]

6:52 "you can repair ships from softdeath NOW!"

[@eric.c.bullock]

To think that Salvage will "vastly" change is, in my opinion, vastly hopeful, and frankly never l nieve. Temporary becomes permanent.

[@ZevesG]

15 years in they are still guessing what gameplay will be

[@Caennuck]

Wait Luke owns cargo? What happened to Chad?

[@saltemikereacts]

I would guess he needs to do something else, also Luke is a designer so I think Chad passed the code off to him

[@Caennuck]

@@saltemikereacts Gotcha! I wasn't sure if I misunderstood, but that makes sense if Chad set things up so the designers could run with it kinda thing. Thanks Mike.

[@Fayzon_XD]

@58:30 I beleive the term is a bi product of "how do you eat an elephant?", "one bite at a time". "Full throated" would be trying to eat to much too quickly?

[@HereIsZane]

The more I hear CIG devs speak, the smaller my hope this game will ever be good gets.

[@Sinekyre14]

It was never going to work. The planet tech and FPS tech does not work together. None of this tech was designed to be combined. It cant be combined and work reliably. Sorry

[@T-Hawk]

I wouldn't mind animations for armor.

[@riosasin3086]

I think If somebody kills you and loots your flair armor you shouldn't craft another right away maybe only craft after you lose it once for 72h or so, some game does that

[@Dirk-wk8yx]

it's the same like in most bigger companys today, people come and go - and the knowledge goes with them. And the the "seniors" have to take over more and more and then one of them goes away and everything shatters. Stop just countig heads.... damn...

[@insertinterestingnamehere5055]

LETS GOO, NEW MIKKE REACT

[@senn4237]

They are super excited about adding all these new features, missions, fluff to the game. But we are stuck at phase 1 where nothing functions correctly and the basic gameplay is missing. Cart before the horse and these updates are just rubbing salt into the wound.

[@silus73]

I would like CIG to let us fill the lockers and weapon racks from the cargo or inventory kiosk while the ship is stored. Glider suits would be the coolest ever..

[@stegy247]

The only advantage live could give is taking questions from chat. Not that, that is something they do.

[@nolagaming]

Vandal ships should let you wear back packs, cause you lay down on your stomach

[@sidewithwerewolves]

I thought we wanted cosmetics for sale? Sub armor blueprints just cosmetic. that just means players can sell a skin and not everyone wants those store skins so how is there any pay to win?

[@ConteRegalado]

@saltemike The reason for the whole "make it realistic and then make it fun" - thing is to find out how much realism is fun and how much is not. You making it sound like that Devs always know or have to know what they want to achieve. That is not the case. They have to find that out. Only because people usually don't get to see how games are made, doesn't mean Game Devs are some kind of masterminds. I also don't understand how the "There is no Gameplay" - Guy could possibly say "Don't waste your time finding good gameplay!". I don't get it.

[@philsc6028]

I dont play Star Citizen, but listening to these guys its sounds like their in Kickstarter phase of starting to develop a game. And they are now what 10-12 years in wiith a budget atleast twice the size of a AAA title.

[@Mace1000S]

I feel a lot of frustration with the way CIG handles med beds, I think down in bunkers and around on planets where PVP or PVE is going to be going on in certain places, there should be chair one med bed, I think the smaller ships have med beds should be here two, I think very large ships and capital ships should have tier 3. I don’t think you should have to stop everything. Find a way to get back to a planet. Limp to a hospital so you can get to a tier 3 medic bed Is cool gameplay, I is a waste of time, and a pain in the butt and frankly just stupid. I think the hospital should be there with tier 3 beds. But there’s absolutely no way they should be the only tier 3 beds in the game.

[@99mserna]

Jared’s antics are not appropriate for the mood in the room at the moment. The community is frustrated, disappointed, and “let’s get on with it CIG.”

[@Billy-bc8pk]

You are frsurated and disappointed -- which is fine. But maybe it's time to part ways with the project. I have never been more excited for it.

[@Spike.SpiegeI]

Please don't speak for everyone in the community. There's a lot of backers out there. I like the jokes and banter in SCL

[@dicegamer3466]

Don’t be pedantic; he was speaking for a large and growing portion of the community.

[@Billy-bc8pk]

@@dicegamer3466 It is not a large and growing portion of the community, it's outside trolls who have come in to be disruptive and spread negativity. If you're so displeased with the project, there are a thousand and one other games you can follow instead. No amount of childish whining will speed up development or change the R&D process.

[@antoniovinciguerra8982]

SCL should just be Startalk and pre-recorded… oh wait… that name‘s taken

[@alexpetrov8871]

15:50 "extra pouches still a thing" - I bet this guy have no idea are pouches a thing or not, looks like devs just have a rule on interviews - do not say anything is abandoned. Any hypothetical feature that some other developer once randomly fantasized about is "still a thing" no matter what, It is just "not actively being worked on" )) Smart.

[@Pyrilium1043]

Maybe they should actually survey the backers for what they want them to focus on more. My apologizes if they have done this before and it failed.

[@sosayweall2509]

Where do you think the games feature creep came from

[@Pyrilium1043]

@@sosayweall2509 Chris. Also, I said survey for where to focus, as in the things they are already working on. I implied nothing about new areas for development.

[@matteobarbarini3120]

Wait, what? Mining is immersive?

[@saltemikereacts]

I think it’s tactile. Like you don’t just click one button and wait.

[@senn4237]

I think it is pretty decent all things considered, when it works at least. It could always be better, but for an MMO it is above standard.

[@I3ladefist]

@51:50 it it to CPR the hype ... as life shows, there are a ton of ppl who buy the promises ... and don't learn or learn very slowly. I think I understand now, why I do like your channel, and I don't like the "it's so asom" chennels on YT! Seeing your disappointment reflects my disappointment ... and You have very valid arguments! GL in the verse'; About crafting subscriber gear: most important qustion: WHERE will you be able to craft it? Will spaceports enable to access a "crafting machine" ? As a solo player, I don't expect to be able to claim a land wherever .... mats are secondary issue and time needed to craft it. But it looks like a solid replacement (imo ) for quiosks

[@LunaNL]

so i have to buy a armor with real money and when i die i get a blue print to craft it while i can buy it with in game money all day long? wow

[@Viktoria_Thaelin]

let's hope salvage visor helps locate components you can take out of ships like shields and power plants etc. Suit lockers, you can do it manually or pay to do it automatically, it takes 5min per mSCU tho why... the fuck... would combat armor make you overheat more? it's SCIFI 930 years in the future they should have cooling systems and heaters FFS

[@brandoncamarillomusic]

they say "so eventually" alot

[@ccloudleaf]

Throwing my comment in here to ask for more Ashes Content on SaltEMike Reacts! Might get me to subscribe... just sayin

[@TheSunsetHero256]

Right?

[@kwcnasa]

Resume @1:01:00

[@barryr.9354]

all these dumb animations and time wasting is the main reason why i stopped playing way too time costly playing this game, only reason ill be playing again is the main story i hope it will be a different experience

[@sirbonobo3907]

All those Entering vehicles or Ships makes me Motion sick this is so Bad.

[@Billy-bc8pk]

Stick to call of Duty or Arena Commander then.