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Comment by sroya | Hacker News Reader

It’s not playable, it’s a buggy mess. A $200 million buggy mess. CIG has never made a single deadline it’s set for itself.

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It appears that you're posting an opinion rather than informed fact. You should attempt following the development if you have a keen interest.

They've switched to a quarterly release system and have, in fact, just released their Q4 drop last evening. I would grant you that they have had a history of missing deadlines, but stating that they have "never made a single deadline" is disingenuous at best.

Is the frame rate still limited by the server-side tickrate?

No, and it never was. The frame rate was limited by a large in-memory working set, high CPU load from tracking too many entities, and lack of multi-threading.

Those issues were fixed in the 3.3 release earlier this year.

I'm not too worried about bugs TBH as long as the underlying game.mechanism is sound. For example, Subnautica have had severe FPS issues from the beginning yet it never became a gamebreaking issue.

Last time I looked into SC (a few months ago), the only gameplay loop consisted of picking up cargo and dropping it off with no failure conditions attached. What else has been added since?

I guess you're using a different definition of gameplay here? You can fight other players, race, FPS, and more, and this has been available for a lot longer than a few months, unless you're also using a different definition of what constitutes a few months: http://www.infoapps.cc/en/starcitizen_playable.html

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