Star Citizen - CIG Have CHANGED the Game - Plus Tobii Eye Tracker 5 Camera Boost

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[@ObsidianAnt]

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[@alflud]

Pro Tip: Decouple at max boost to maintain the higher velocity for longer than your boost energy will permit. You can turn to face your enemy, spool up your QD and calibrate on a marker while still coasting away from the enemy. This makes escaping a determined attacker relatively easy ;)

[@randlebrowne2048]

Isn't SCM actually Space Combat Maneuver?

[@ralaxgaming]

FYI personal hangars, instanced hangars and freight elevators are not in the 3.23 patch but will be in an interim patch sometime after Invictus.

[@cmdrls212]

The new map system is the most underrated feature. Seamlessly going from your ship map, to a station map, to a system map is exactly what a game of this scale needs specially one that has no loading screens. The ship maps look amazing and they are key for a game that supports ship interiors. And PS, maybe you want to check the patch notes and play the patch a bit more because features like instanced hangars were pushed to a later date.

[@4tech69]

It still needs work. But it's Sooo much better.

[@CitizenScott]

*most overrated feature Fixed it for you.

[@chrishexx3360]

I like the update literally separating the eyes from the neck movement with the eye tracking. It's much more natural. I'm pretty sure I used your link for my 4c back in the day and your guide was great.

[@Chanharp]

So this video is just basically a Tobii add.

[@coffeecolic5799]

I was thinking the same thing

[@mattfarrar5472]

As someone who had TrackIR then went to Tobii - It's just showing off how amazing it is and you should do it! Changes they way space/flights Sims feel!

[@Spiritwonder420]

​@@mattfarrar5472i rather use my vr headset

[@ian72marian]

Boring as hell, also a click bait, yet to see about what changed in the game. I think I will block this guy's videos.

[@walawala-fo7ds]

Yeah it was very disappointing to see so little research put into what is in the patch. But hell, even seeing star citizen covered here is rare so I'll take it.

[@willot4237]

the Cargo stuff isnt in until 3.23.1 though

[@GUNNER67akaKelt]

Probably .2 .1 is invictus.

[@CelticUchuu]

Interesting to see what is happening with SC from time to time. However, I won't even consider it until it is out in full. I'm more likely to play SQ42 whenever that fully releases.

[@andrewcole4973]

SQ42 should release in 2025 or 2026. They said it is feature complete and they are doing bug fixing and polishing now.

[@dchousoseiso]

Longtime SC backer (wow, it's been in dev long enough that I can actually say that now) and fully understandable and a good choice. Hell, if you just want a good singleplayer game, SQ42 is coming out in the next year and looks promising

[@brentcox6201]

What's funny to me is that people actually thing this game will ever be released in any form or fashion, I would be shocked to see SQ 42 release, just like SC I feel it will be delayed and delayed and delayed

[@MrSpy13011]

@@brentcox6201 You probably haven't followed anything on the project(s) in the past 2 years to come to that conclusion.

[@CelticUchuu]

My memory might be a bit fuzzy at this point, I seem to recall CIG saying SQ42 was going to be split into chapters. I remember them making a big deal out of the big name actors they had in for the initial recording sessions. I don't recall anything after that. Do the characters provided by Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson, etc... not survive in the story for long enough to have more recording sessions with them? I would have figured that with all the changes over the years the SQ42 story would have undergone some rewrites, in parts at least. The PU no longer interests me. Too much of a time sink time and ship buy-in. I'll likely wait to see what the reviews say about SQ42 before giving it a go. In the meantime, since the Kickstarters for SC and Elite Dangerous, there are multiple great space games that have come out.

[@aerohead02]

I think we had this conversation before with elite dangerous. But would you know if the Eye Tracker has been modified to work with 49" ultra wides?

[@PvtDamion]

I was wondering why my Tobii settings were reset in Star Citizen while also feeling a lot more natural at the same time, but this makes sense and makes a big difference! I just wanted to say that I wear glasses too and even with a blue light filter in them I've had zero issues with the eye tracker, no matter the lighting situation. Nowadays I can't even play the game without it and switching to another game after a few sessions is almost always a letdown when they don't support it

[@Rapscallion2009]

How do you use eye tracking? It seems to me that if I turn my head I won't be looking at the screen any more!

[@keithancajas4623]

"eye" tracking

[@oliverbergmann6117]

What you are talking about is head tracking but it works by setting an curve up so you dont move your head much

[@Elvinator94]

It sounds unintuitive but it's not when you try it. Say you have your FOV set to 90° but you want to see an enemy to the side of your ship. That's only 45° your character's head needs to turn to bring that into the edge of their view. You can configure the ratio of your IRL head orientation to you character (mine is 1.5) - i.e. I only need to turn my real head 30° to bring that enemy into vision. That's the head tracking (which optionally works in tandem with eye tracking like Obsidian displayed in the video). Eye tracking can be used separately for target acquisition, e.g. look at a target and push a button to lock that target.

[@Mud_AleX]

It's Eye Tracker, not Neck Tracker...

[@JSRJS]

Only if your eyes don't move and always look straight ahead, which in that case, you should see a doctor

[@transient_]

So..., Nav mode is Supercruise and SCM is when you're intercepted? That's how it sounds like to me, anyway.

[@Minox_]

Kind of, except the other guy can be in scm mode while you're in nav thus blasting you down before you can react because you don't get shields. And as OA said, it can lock you into PvP because your options are basically fight or drop your defence to try and run

[@thumb-ugly7518]

I’ve bought in at the Aurora starter pack, a few years back. Couldn’t even get to another location with my PC then. I’ll try again, when they declare a not alpha, non-beta, released game. That is, if I have a system that can run whatever that game is with whatever new and improved requirements it has.

[@agoosecalledxaro6679]

Hopefully this game comes out when I'm in the retirement home. I know that's an early projection, but I'm already 25.

[@RobertMcNamara3DMc]

I'd guess the average player age is well over 25 so you have a better chance than lots of us!

[@Billy-bc8pk]

@@RobertMcNamara3DMc Average player I think is between 31 - 45.

[@GUnit2214]

I'm 34 and i first bought into this when i was 23...

[@Runic-Raven]

If only The Game wasnt so horrendously broken.... they do have a Test Server for Their Testing but in the End we all are still testing on the live server. The amount of bugs this patch brought (back in some cases) is just unacceptable.

[@MrSpy13011]

Whats sad is that they need to live environment for testing as some bugs dont appear till the servers are pushed to their limits. Thats why 3.18 was shoved out the door last year.

[@IsraelSocial]

Nothing new

[@hamishdundee385]

Any news on VR support for SC?

[@damienfiche2592]

Only that it will happen…someday.

[@lanceobe6801]

Once that happens I think Elite will be close to uninstall status

[@NSXtacy-]

I recall a very VR enthusiastic dev (Silvan-CIG I think it was) saying about a year or more ago that they needed to get Vulkan fully integrated first, and I believe they are pretty much there. Just need to get the multithreading in and then it'll be any year now I swear.

[@derelictdogma]

the game swings wildly between updates in terms of performance, one month my 3080ti pulls 80+ fps with no issue, and the next month I try the game out and it's like a slideshow at 25fps, regardless of how much I tweak it. they seriously need to focus on optimization and end user experience consistency between updates before VR is even considered as a feature.

[@bradule1980]

Any ETA on the VR support? Cannot play this without it...

[@derelictdogma]

game will go from running at 90+ fps on a 3080ti in one update, and i'll come back a month later to find it runs like a slideshow don't bother waiting because even when it IS implemented, it'll take as long as every other feature has to reach a playable state

[@TSINIproductions]

I love my Tobii 4c, I think it has all the benefits of a VR headset without any of the downsides. Though not quite as immersive, it is the perfect compromise.

[@user-rh4sj6lk8w]

Wow.. the SC project started as I was 27..now i'm 40.. and it's still not finished

[@williammullinax6130]

13 years for the most complicated game of all time is actually not that long. Games like GTA 6 first entered development in 2014. That's 2 years after SC. Big complicated games take a long time and no other game even compares to SC in scope.

[@DrBunnyMedicinal]

And it almost certainly never will be, especially if they keep adding pointless and unnecessary crap as animal hunting to the SPACE SIM they originally promised us. Or this [s]WONDERFUL NEW SCAM MODE![/s]

[@DavidLimaGoncalves]

@@williammullinax6130 Two... two games. Squadron 42, though in SC universe, has the biggest ships in the game (not yet in SC), new solar systems, and a fully mocaped, voice acted scripted story with realism that most games haven't been able to achieve... at least, according to what they showed us so far.

[@frederickvondinkerberg7721]

Defend it all you want that fact they keep redoing everything over and over again makes this vaporware... everyone paid for Chris's 2nd home and Sandi's plastic surgeon

[@cvlang06]

Same, pretty sure the game is used to develop mechanics that they can turn around and sell to the gaming industry.

[@reamoinmcdonachadh9519]

A correction Obsidian: Personal Hangars, Cargo Elevators and Item Bank are delayed to a Point Patch, as these things DIRECTLY affect and impact certain systems of the game, and they need further work. What IS new for 3.23.0 is Master Modes, the new Star Map, the New Mobi Glass implementation, Vulkan API integration (ongoing work on that 'feature') Replication Layer and Server Error Correction, the new creatures and several new features and modes for Arena Commander and lastly, the new Character Creator.

[@danilooliveira6580]

you know, if there is something that Elite nailed is the controls. everything is intuitive and use very little buttons, while letting you access information and more controls by looking to the sides. it will be hard to get use to SC control scheme.

[@williammullinax6130]

It really isn't hard. It might be slightly more complicated than Elite. But not by much.

[@realnaste]

It's really not that different. You do have working MFDs in SC.

[@GordonSeal]

Elites controls are really not THAT intuitive.

[@danilooliveira6580]

@@GordonSeal you can map everything into a controler, since everything else you can access by looking to panels to the side. it's the gameplay that is not intuitive, but when you know what you are doing, the controls are very simple.

[@Wylie288]

​@@williammullinax6130 It doesn't even have real space physics like Elite. Half the things people rag on about SC is absolute bullshit that doesn't reflect reality. But the flight model? It fucking sucks. Decoupled mode doesn't even work for the 3 rotational axis. They still normalize to zero without any input. If there was one thing Elite does better than everyone its having the most realistic flight model. Yes. FA On existence makes perfect sense. You would never allow civilians to fly anything with both 6DOF and simulation air resistance humans find intuitive. Same with having speed limits and auto dropping you from frameshift if you get too close to something. In fact the FSD only having 4 axis also makes sense as bending space time is the ONLY method of FTL travel. You aren't actually moving. So it newtons laws of moving objects don't apply. I have no gripes with the airplans in space part of the flight model. No gripes with maximum speed limits outside of FTL. Its absolutely the default for ANY realistic civilian owned space ship. But, you would ALSO for the exact same safety reasons require manual overrides for the artificial friction. What if it malfunctions? What if it's malfunction allows you to cross the 3km speed limit sending you hurtling into a planet at 30km/s killing everyone on it. It doesn't make sense not to have. We learned that lesson with E-brakes and automatic engines already. You need to be able to enable manual control even if speed limits are already in place. The game needs the true FA-OFF experience Elite has. Otherwise it doesn't make sense. So both from a physics and societal POV. SC's flight model doesn't make sense. They aren't space ships, nor do they reflect the limitations society would impose upon them. And most importantly. As someone who want to fly a SPACE SHIP. They don't control like one! Its not fun. Outer Wilds can do it with everything in the SAME physics layer. This game has zero excuses.

[@SlavgaardsManga]

what is the full download size of this game right now.. I have access but at 8mb/sec.. 30+gig would take me a few DAYS to re-download

[@Nemoticon]

On my SSD right now, it stands at 105gb

[@SlavgaardsManga]

@@Nemoticon 105? ACK.. that would take me atleast a week to load...sheesh

[@Nemoticon]

@@SlavgaardsManga It does seem sizable, but games are just massive now. Baldur's Gate 3 122gb, Starfield is 118gb, lol... But I'm lucky, I can download 100gb in like 30mins-1hr depending on the time of day.

[@Kanthannic]

@@SlavgaardsManga (105GB * 1024 * 8) / 8Mbps = 107520s to download, then convert to hours = around 30 hours. Still a long time but no worries won't be a week.

[@SlavgaardsManga]

@@Kanthannic well.. actual d/l speed that I see on steam stuff is around 1.0-1.4 mb/sec it may spike to 6 but usually steady at 1.5mb/sec. I have talked to my provider that 8mb should be 8mb but.. "if the speed test says it 8mb.. then you got what is offered" ya.. ACUAL speeds may differ

[@tzeffsmainchannel]

00:3 Say...that's a beautiful ship! 😯

[@sjonjones4009]

It's called the Avenger Titan by Aegis. It's a great first upgrade from a starter ship.

[@sidrat2009]

Personal instanced hangars aren't in this initial 3.23 update.

[@Red-Wyrm]

Quantum dampener (Mantis and Scorpius Antares) prevent all ships within radius entering NAV mode.

[@frederickvondinkerberg7721]

Week 11,372 of SC development and we are on scope change 23,698

[@smokejaguar67]

My Tobii Eye Tracker 5 is scheduled to arrive tomorrow, and I couldn't be more excited. I deliberated between investing in virtual reality equipment or opting for the Tobii, but ultimately, my passion for games like Star Citizen and DCS made the decision clear. The precision and immersion it promises are exactly what I need to enhance my gaming and video-making.

[@FuzzySheep]

Could you please let me know what you think of it and how it is? I hear mixed things about it, especially in DCS apparently it's pretty slow. I'm very curious and would love to know how it is. Especially with the SC integration.

[@RatBagDad]

Getting roughly 130-160fps in flight on planets and in space. around 50-80fps in cities. 7800x3D/4090 jobbie. This is in 4K with the beta Vulkan renderer, all settings to high and dlss quality. It's playable. But there's still certain bugs that have been there for years. There's still more rough than there is smooth.

[@theonefrancis696]

I've seen several evident bugs being immediately archived on the issue council multiple times. This is not very encouraging.

[@DawnbreakerDivinations]

I didn't know about the eye and face tracker updates!? Thanks !!

[@phantomx2003]

Can't say I had the same experience with the tobi. I too wear glasses and it was almost impossible to get it to calibrate while wearing my glasses. Once I did it seemed like something was off when looking around. I ended up giving it away and that person loves it and has no issues so I will assume it was on my part it was a negative experience.

[@Citizen_Tippetarius]

Did you use it in a low light environment? My Tobii barely works in too much direct light, but it's great in the dark or with the blinds closed.

[@markgonzales]

@ObsidianAnt How is the interface for the Tobii eye tracker? Is it difficult to set up on PC? Integrated smoothly into Star Citizen? Looks like they have a decent number of games with support, but I don’t trust devs to have anything “polished” these days.

[@MichaelJohnsonAzgard]

Well it did take around 500 years to build Westminster Abbey. So no point rushing.

[@gunternine1130]

Tried playing this game with an 11 year old computer, it was a shite experience. Tried playing it with my new i5-13k with a 3060 12GB... and it still runs like Shite.

[@BlizzPort]

You need to set your GPU to max performance, instead of max quality. Try that. Triple Buffering also has big impact on FPS. In task manage give SC a high priority.

[@DrMildayan]

Shouldn’t worry, by the time this is released, you will be able to own a real space ship 😂

[@immatoll4375]

Not sure if they fixed the issue, but I had also a lot of issues with the "efficiency cores" of my CPU and had to deactivate them. Otherwise the game had permanent hickups. But yeah the game is still not finally optimized. Also a 3060 is still not a high end graphics card. Not even much faster than a mid-tier 1070 TI in 2016 so wonder what to expect here.

[@Mud_AleX]

Bro, 3060 is shite...

[@armatian]

Yeah on terrain is terrible, even if i backed it im not sure it will ever work properly, this should have been single player with coop and massive modes developed alongside.

[@walawala-fo7ds]

Correction for you. Instanced hangars are NOT in 3.23. That was announced weeks ago to be part of 3.23.x with no date. Was this just a tobii ad or an attempt to cover 3.23? because you mentioned like 1 feature out of probably the biggest patch CIG has ever delivered...hopefully you cover what's in the actual patch someday.

[@mostlyindica]

still didnt open my tobi 5 yet

[@bbbenj]

Thanks 👍

[@Nemoticon]

The new changes are utterly brilliant, from the water effects to the EVA mechanics, starmap, Master Modes and graphical improves too. Sure, there are lots of improvement needed, but that's why we're here, to test it. Having Star Citizen along side my other games all tis time has been amazing. I play and enjoy lots of 'complete' games, but living with this game throughout it's long development has been so interesting and insightful. And also, it often feels like this forever-unfinished game offers so much more than many titles that are offically released and turn up broken, lol. But there is notihng out there that offer this level of detail and immersion, when SC works well, it literally has no competitors.

[@nighttrain1236]

Hi Chris Roberts.

[@YesItsRickySpanish]

Smells like copium 😂

[@WELLbethere]

How long have you been a backer? I see no joy, after 12 years, of encountering the same critically unstable game patch after patch. There is always a promised technology that will come save performance. There is always an upcoming deadline for a release or an alpha that never actually comes. How can I have anything but disdain, when Roberts himself chose to stand up on stage in front of his most zealous supporters and tell all of them they'd have a playable SQ42 alpha in 2018? It's been six years. He just recently started making another promise about an upcoming SQ42 release. I have nothing but contempt for him at this point.

[@Nemoticon]

@@WELLbethere Since 2017, patch 3.0 ...and it's not the only game I play, lol, so it doesn't bother me when it break, no biggy, I play something else until later. I love the development, I dot play it like it's complete, expecting it to be complete, because that's not what it is currently. But following it as I have, I can also see where it's going and it's very exciting, it's gonna be amazing.

[@Nemoticon]

@@YesItsRickySpanish I expect rsponses like this... I want a lot of Obsidian Ants videos and play most of the games he and the rest of the commenters play. But I also know that that people who watch his videos absolutely trash in Star Citizen, normal people who I usually argee with just come up with ridiculous comments like it's an elitest competition, lol.

[@canoodlingus6244]

Dope!

[@caaront]

OA, you are by far my favorite to watch as far as MSFS, SC, and ED. Too bad you don't do oil paintings. I guess you can try oil painting and if it goes well start doing videos for oil painting artists lol.

[@JagHiroshi]

I think your need to create an infographic at 4:30 is the problem that MM faces. It does naturally flow.

[@cvlang06]

The word of the day. Mode.

[@vicviper319]

Master modes has been a disaster. It might feel easier to get kills at first, but when you realize you can't escape being jumped by more than one ship, and it's now impossible to out dogfight interceptors because they have a blanket speed advantage, it made all the problems in the flight model even worse. The only good changes are every weapon can be gimballed and cone fire instead of the old fixed assist. I really hope they listen to the better pilots and tune a lot differently.

[@Yinzermakesvids]

Maybe I'll give this game a try when my child is born and turns 18 and graduates high-school.

[@lunamaria1048]

By then, it will be in beta

[@Elwaves2925]

@@lunamaria1048 And the elevators still won't work properly.

[@Yinzermakesvids]

​@Elwaves2925 and you'll still clip through your ship and be stranded in space or fall to your death lil

[@Okabe_Rintaro_IF]

do you want your posted the same joke for the 100000th time award?

[@Lucpol1986]

Eh?…

[@DrewieBrando]

The hangars aren't here in this patch.

[@thatrandomguycommenting1261]

I have never been so excited about a game Ui in my life but here we are. 😂

[@RudalPL]

As someone who's bought Oculus Rift to play Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous in VR just to find out SC won't support it I have to say - I would love to at least try SC in VR. Just for the sake of walking around my ships.

[@dickduran]

SoonTM affer all vulkan integration they will work to make that happend

[@SIRCAM73]

Hope CIG consider to allow us play Star Citizen on Nvidia Geforce Now. 🙂

[@sinepilot]

Really I think the only thing still holding SC back from a non-maddening experience is server meshing, which is due around the end of this year. The bad server tick rate is what contributes to so much frustration. But even without server meshing in yet, the effect from so many of the devs finishing their work on SQ42 and moving back to SC has been very obvious. New features have been going in at a blistering rate. Granted, most are obviously Tier ZERO and still need much balancing and polish, but the acceleration in development this year has been unmistakable.

[@Sylar0n]

Static meshing will come in before end of summer as Pyro needs it and they plan to release Pyro by the end of summer. CR said in a recent interview that the first iteration of dynamic meshing is possible by the end of this year.

[@sinepilot]

@@Sylar0n That would be great. I thought Pyro was coming with 4.0?

[@GordonSeal]

Server meshing is not going to fix the countless bugs, the stupid AI, the broken physics system or their bad design decisions, like making bottles physics based objects.

[@sinepilot]

​@@GordonSeal I'm not sure what your point is aside from establishing that you're a killjoy. Are you trying to argue server meshing isn't going to bring massive improvements?

[@philbrown8181]

Remind me, when are the remaining 108 star systems coming? And the current 2 finished? Still, only 12 years late, and so early dayzzzz...... zzzz.....

[@Minox_]

It's insane it took this long to update that terrible map system. That's genuinely not rocket science. But I'm glad its finally there. The interaction menu was also long overdue, but it actually feels like a fairly playable game now. Never thought I'd see the day

[@JayRebirth]

This will make dog fighting better. But will also help Aholes ruin peoples days with no shield during QT

[@cornishpirate240]

3.23 live is now unplayable for a lot of people with 30k connection errors simply trying to launch into the Persistent Universe.

[@walawala-fo7ds]

I got in just fine. Haven't seen any mass reports of issues must be just you

[@hawkzulu5671]

30k? that really isnt a thing anymore

[@walawala-fo7ds]

@@hawkzulu5671 With crash recovery, it should not be. Maybe op is just a pretender?

[@lnomsim2]

Shields disabled in nav mode? Wow, it will be fun to jump somewhere and immediately getting wrecked by griegfers.

[@bigbangerz5856]

Or you could buy a Pimax Crystal and get Tobii eye tracking with dynamic foveated rendering

[@sinepilot]

I left E:D for SC in 2016, I'm glad it's finally in a state good enough for OA to join us with more SC content!

[@angelolima4811]

Free to play version is back and when is ps5 getting physical edition for squadron 42

[@redbarchetta8782]

And introduced a broken navigation system as well.

[@cyberpunkdarren]

Why this game doesnt have VR is mind boggling

[@Podokodo23]

Because games have to render twice to do VR. Games like ED can because its a game built to run on consoles from 2012 or DCS can because the game does not have to render many assets at one time. SC would need a constant 120fps to render in VR at 60 fps. You can play SC in VR but it takes some tweaking and there are YT video's and twitch streamers who play it in VR.

[@WesBrook77]

Are we just going to ignore that 3.23 features are all well and good, but the game is just fundamentally unplayable? Introduction of Master Modes, Mobi updates, adding wildlife, new Star Map, distribution centres, updated scope optics, and all the rest counts for absolutely nothing when the game is so unstable. Ongoing server performance issues result in inventory frequently not working, doors not opening, guns not firing, enemies warping around bunkers, Contracts not working, and 100 other things that simply DO NOT WORK. When it's impossible to even reload your weapon, use a Med Pen, remove your helmet or any other actions are constantly being impeded by server issues, then all the new features mean absolutely nothing at all. SC had been this way for years. We get excited about new features, yet the game just doesn't work. Controller binds are broken, the keymap has been incorrect for several patches, the list just goes on and on and on. I really do want to love Star Citizen, but EVERY SINGLE TIME the latest and greatest patch 100% disappoints with new broken stuff, and older bugs/issues never being fixed.

[@sheev9852]

You're chatting complete bs because these haven't been issues for several patches now 😂 people just trynna make up reasons to hate on SC now

[@WesBrook77]

@@sheev9852 Your experience is different, I assume. Out of interest, which region/servers do you play on? EDIT: Before you ask, I'm on fiber broadband with a 4070 & 5800X3D, just fyi

[@Maddock_]

@@WesBrook77 don't listen to him. it should be said that while combat is now more difficult, mission payouts have been reduced and are basically worthless considering the risk of either death or crash. It's a great game to fly around but it won't go anywhere unless you buy/rent one of the ships that can actually make you cash

[@WesBrook77]

@@Maddock_ Did seem like a rather redundant comment, given one of the issues I specifically mentioned remains objectively incorrect, being the key-binds: just open the menu and check the key-bind graphic, it's not difficult. Controller functionality likewise, either support controllers, or do not. Just an example of how SC's progress is seemingly forever compromised.

[@Enakaji]

@@Maddock_ Combat missions offer a side income by looting cargo, guns and modules from the ships that you kill to then sell. Of course you'll need a ship with some cargospace to do that effectively, so most of the base Starters can't really do that. You'd need either at least a Pisces, Avenger Titan or Nomad.

[@David_Banner]

So not complicated in anyway? I don't mean the eye tracking.

[@Ricolaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

3.22 just now coming out when 4.0 was expected at the end of last year lmfao.

[@youtubevanced4900]

This Tobi eye tracker is so expensive. Is in 170 games. It's barely used in anything.

[@Ploskkky]

I really hope they actually release a good single player game, because I am very interested in this. I just do not care for any kind of multiplayer. I do not want other people polluting, what I consider to be, an escape from the world, from daily life, and from the never ending whining of other humans.

[@ImHavingaCoronary]

They only time CIG had a clear vision of what they wanted was when they had John Prichett on staff. Ever since he left they haven't so much been changing the game as floundering with out a clue. And ya, its beautiful but the appeal of eye candy dies quickly if a game isn't designed according to well formed ideas and if you're at all intelligent.

[@antjones2281]

Its crazy to me that this game and everspace 2 has such detailed head tracking and yet no VR support. At this point the works ia all done its literally just flipping a switch. Why wont these devs just flip the damned switch!?

[@user-mfsc-2024]

I heard that are lot of mtx in-game

[@RoyVulpes]

Don't worry about MM making things too easy. You can easily test if that is true by challenging even an average player to combat, as a newcomer. You can find out the right way if those complaints are legitimate.

[@johndoe-sf6hk]

Chris Roberts and CIG have decided to make a game that appeals to the masses instead of the dedicated backers that have funding this dream from the beginning. the flight model is not the only change im afraid. Bed logging, how one logs on and off the game, has also changed, as well as medical beds and their ability to respawn players. My fear is this game becomes to diluted and generic and just becomes another splash in the in the space genre pool.

[@lesgreen8508]

Is SC out of alpha yet?

[@vicviper319]

Master Modes is what happens when the devs make a huge change internally and don't involve the community in early development. Yes they released it to test but it doesn't seem like they want to change it too much from where it is.

[@walawala-fo7ds]

Lmao no. It has been in eptu for months and changed significantly based on feedback. They even had devs on with org leaders talking combat on twitch. You don't know what you are saying.

[@vicviper319]

@@walawala-fo7ds they were working on this for a very long time internally, Yogi said this himself during citcon and interviews after

[@walawala-fo7ds]

@@vicviper319 Yogi showed up in av1s stream to talk master modes and you claim they did not involve the community. Do you hear yourself? He's been all over the community and spectrum, probably more than anyone in star citizen's feature teams. They fact they've been working on something for a long time doesn't mean they never involved anymore. They have over 100 ships to tune and squadron 42 was their priority. Off course everything we see now has been in the works for years. Welcome to literally all features in star citizen.

[@vicviper319]

​@@walawala-fo7dsFrom the beginning. From day one of MM development, yes this is an alpha and we are all involved in development to an extent. But getting input from Day One would have helped avoid the most contentious issues with MM.

[@spacewombat4569]

I understand the game balance rationale, but I can't get over the absence of sci-fi logic in disabling shields to access higher cruise speeds.

[@reamoinmcdonachadh9519]

Further Note: 3.23.1 Invictus Patch is currently in Open PTU, and will drop later this week for Live PU in time for Invictus (Fleet Week) which is now TWO weeks long and Defense Con along with the now accompanying Free Fly (for people interested in Star Citizen to try out the game without the need to buy a Ship Pledge) and the usual Ship Sale Event.

[@techkev140]

Mmmm... I was close to buying an Oculus Rift for ED. When Meta bought them, i backed off big time. Tobii eye tracker/Robert Space Industries, could not even view the site without accepting literally whatever. Tobii's site on its own fine, RSI interaction a bit stiff. Cokkie wise. I'm not ready to sign up to a game that is not officially released. So get the game launched and I'll consider it. Obsidian Ant good coverage.

[@JamesPery]

I wish they had a TRUE stable version. I understand its all alpha but fewer bugs would be welcomed. I don't think the feature creep is worth the constant stability issues.

[@farid.rabhallah]

The best space game ever

[@actrade1]

I don’t think OA should cover this concept (not a game yet). SC is the poster child of what’s wrong with the gaming industry. Scam citizen will never release and I’d be shocked if S42 does.

[@adrianmartin1394]

If you played star citizen recently you would understand that it wouldn’t make sense for it to be a scam.

[@killerinstinct9954]

I feel like it “fake it till you make it” and I think are are fully capable of making it they just need that💰💰to keep flowing in.

[@DoctorBendOver]

Still better than Erectile Dangerous.

[@wesleyfrankenofficial]

It’s a great POC! Sadly still an Alpha state. I’m done trying so I will try again when it’s out of Alpha and Beta. Great to have a channel keeping me up to date.

[@4tech69]

Just another 10 updates like this and it will be ready for the masses. Hope I live to 2028.

[@Podokodo23]

Good. SC is far to complicated for the massas. It's a niche game [like ED] and I hope it stays that way.

[@fluffiestmallard6484]

This took that long

[@nevilovermann797]

I installed some tobii software on my computer a while ago and even though Ive since uninstalled it something keeps making a .tobii user-account on my computer. I don't trust'em!

[@ooRay]

Two presses of a button to go from 1400 mps (NAV) to 200 (SCM) and then from 200 (SCM) to 50 (gear down) in less than two seconds. It´s just stupid. After 12 years!! I don´t care about anything else in 3.23 because of how bad Master Modes are.

[@YaddaYaddaDa]

It's really good right now i was surprised. Nothing else like it

[@treycox33]

I’ve owned the game for nearly 6 years. I have about 12 hours total. Nuff said..

[@Bennet2391]

That's all well and good, but I kinda lost hope for SC after they announced hygiene mechanics. Unless something is done against the ingame chores and the tedium, i'm out. Like needing 6 minutes to reach you ship and then fly another 10 Minutes to the mission destination, where you spend 2 minutes in combat, is ridiculous. Add to that hunger and thirst mechanics and the ratio of chores to gameplay is easily close to 10:1.

[@dragonchild_SC]

Unfortunately it seems that CIG is going to increase tedium even more. Loading Cargo will then be done manually with a tractor beam (crate by crate). And they plan to remove global inventory and replace it with Item Banks (terminals). A sad thing.

[@Banzai51]

The difficulty to escape is the whole point of MM. CR plays as a pirate, and always tilts the tables that way.

[@lordseppenstein2559]

As long as tobii has a delay i am not going to buy it. A possible eyetracker 6 with MUCH lower lag would be great.

[@Time2gojoe]

Interesting you covered Star Citizen.. usually it seems like you go miles out of your way just to ignore it. Its becoming very advanced

[@driver3899]

so this is basically just a head tracking ad, ok

[@terryd8692]

That shaking ship when entering the atmosphere makes me wonder if VR will have haptic feedback soon

[@bujtorm]

300m/s top speed for combat? Bruh. If I could do combat in Elite: Dangerous with an Imperial Courier rigged for 1000+ m/s boost speed, your brand spankin' new, supposedly superior game should be able to handle that too. 300 is barely supersonic, it's absolutely NOTHING in space combat. Atmospheric, I'd understand, but in a vacuum? "To lower the skill ceiling" Well... nothing new, SC devs taking their players for absolute mumbling idiots again. Well, considering how much money they got out of them already, it's not even completely ungrounded.

[@Podokodo23]

It has more to do with PvP fun then "reality". ED only ever has to account for 32 player max P2P servers while SC has to account for 125 and eventually way more. Besides the fact that a single ship in SC has more assets running than the entirety of ED. Hit registration at super high speeds in a pvp game is technically a nightmare, whether the server tick rate is 5 or 120. SC player have in the past had crazy high speed combat....and it sucked and was not fun. If your really worried about space combat in the future being "realistic" to newtonain physics then every fight would occor from 1000km away and you will never even see your target up close....ever. I have over 2k hours in ED [and love the game] but even at lower speeds the skill ceiling for SC is EONS higher than ED. It's not even close how much more seat time it takes to be a good pilot in SC compared to ED.

[@bujtorm]

@@Podokodo23 I don't necessarily want it to be more realistic. I do want it to be fast. At least future fast. If I want to dogfight within those speed limits, I'll go play War Thunder. The number of assets running, in this case, doesn't help. In fact, it's part of the problem. All those needless cosmetics that you won't see 99% of your game time. Starfield ran into the same flawed design choice, where every pen in town was a finely detailed HD textured, physics sensitive 3D object, and managed to hog down even the strongest CPU/GPU combo in existence. If SC can ever handle 125 players per instance, without crashing, lagging or artifacts, I'll retract all my previous statements and bow down to Chris Roberts' greatness.

[@chicken10999999]

Well they tried server meshing recently and performed extremely well with 400 people. They went up to 800 players, but then it became fairly unstable.

[@beardedlonewolf7695]

I don't trust having a laser in my eyes for hours, is it just me? That's why I'm keeping head tracking.

[@JSRJS]

Its not a laser....

[@y-callos3970]

Pay to win game that doesn’t work, is that what we are voting for aye.

[@hanysonic]

i prefer VR to be honest.

[@vakeervondelecruax8526]

Tobii trying real hard to push sales using YTers.

[@bakzetary3145]

I will forever fail to understand the logic behind being excited or even remotely interested in added features to a product that functionally at it's core is still broken in so many ways? Fix issues that have been plaguing this game since the early days first and then I might consider coming back to see what the new content is. If you like it the way it is, good for you but I'll take a pass, no thanks!

[@Wylie288]

Because if you do it your way, you have to refactor things a LOT more and the game would have taken quite literally, 10x longer to develop. In fact they did this to a degree, and its why we are still here 12 years later. There are VERY, VERY, good reasons not a SINGLE software development model from waterfall, to devops, to scrum does what you describe.

[@fcf8269]

Why so much complication.... Why add more modes? Just let it be as is; it is not even a game, why overcomplicate something that is already complicate in itself?

[@GordonSeal]

After playing the update, I can tell you it's worse than before, not better. Sure there are a few "improvements", but the performance is just as bad, the bugs are even worse, they totally messed up the UI (e.g. the screen littered with markers so you can't see your target anymore), the new flight model is awful and everyone hates master mode, ... And the economy is being nerfed excessively, to "incentivize" people to dish out a few hundred dollars for the good ships.

[@WELLbethere]

Chris Roberts doesn't know ANYTHING about dogfighting or pvp or space flight. He is perpetually stuck wanting to recreate the WWII-inspired cinematic dogfights of the first Star Wars movies. In truth a real fight between spacecraft would more closely resemble a fight between attack helicopters than airplanes or fighter jets. And Chris would KNOW that, if he actually played full-Newtonian space combat games, instead of pretending to be a bigshot movie director.

[@Chris-zi4mo]

Well done Captain Obvious. A game needs to be fun though. You obviously haven't even stopped to think about what realistic space combat would be like in a video game. Or what it would entail development wise. Firing a missile at a blip on your radar doesn't sound very fun at all. And besides I don't remember Star Citizen's premise ever being realistic, with it's lizard people and FTL travel. And I don't know any good games that have realistic space combat. What games are you referring to?

[@MrSpy13011]

CIG already said they are moving away from simulation and more to an actual game. The changes in 3.23 make that very apparent (not just the new flight model).

[@WELLbethere]

@@Chris-zi4mo what are you so upset about right now my man? What are you shilling for? Grab a hold of yourself before you post dumbass comments on the internet. Chris doesn't need you defending him. Oh and games like Hunternet Starfighter exist on one end of the spectrum, and Nebulous Fleet Command on the other, both made by people who are much more respectful and passionate about space combat than Roberts is. To say nothing of the fact HE SOLD THE GAME on the premise of its' fidelity, one of the original selling points back in the Kickstarter campaign that got me to buy the game was his emphasis on the fact every ship would have realistically placed thrusters doing their job fully-newtonian. One of his many promises he has since backtracked or straight up abandoned during the long years of development.

[@Swordxboy]

First 😮

[@StageCoachMedia3656]

My great great great great great great grandkids might be able to try this game...until then, not sure I care.