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Was talking about Star Citizen on https://the-starport.net/ like almost 10 years ago.

People made many predictions back then, some said it'll never achieve that level of detailed game play while supporting multiplayer. And yet, look how far that game has went today.

Pretty impressive already if I do say so myself.

I'm looking forward to see it's completion. And even if somehow it failed, I think it's already a nice game.

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Just curious - what elements of the game do you find pretty impressive and nice? There doesn't seem to be much of a game loop, or anything to do really other than some broken fetch quests. I've definitely seen a few impressive looking screenshots, but the graphics are starting to look a bit dated already. Based on some of the current bugs/issues, it seems to be missing quite a bit of core technology needed to make that promised detailed multiplayer a reality.

As somebody who didn’t back the but followed some of the dev stuff purely out of curiosity I would say it is exactly the other way around. They did a lot in the tech behind it, while a lot of the gameplay stuff started to come together just in the recent months. Purely from my limited subjective perspective I have the feeling they built a pretty solid ground for implementing content and gameplay alike

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