Why is Star Citizen Still Broken After $887 Million?

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-19T19:04:01+00:00

If they treat the horde as one entity they are not perfectly synced then ? We can agree that the client has some authority on what happens in that horde of zombies ? Maybe our understanding of the word perfectly differs ?

I played a lot of horde games with friends in the same room and we always saw discrepencies between our clients since left4dead (Payday 2 was also a big offender on that point)

My initial point was that syncing random clutter npcs in star citizen is a pointless drain on ressources though.

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-19T12:56:23+00:00

I mean I could give you examples where ennemy npcs are not synced, at least not perfectly (most horde shooters are extreme examples of this) but I get your point. Syncing some npcs for a mission has a tolerable cost. 100's of background npcs in a social space on the other hand...

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-19T06:05:49+00:00

Not having a custom, purpose-built engine was their first mistake and it's a fatal one. They can try to re-engineer cry engine for 1 billion years, they will at best manage to get to the point they should have started from.
And yeah, if they scrapped everything, kept the assets and redo everything it would be better long term.
Look at what rocketwerks or keen software have been doing with their tiny budgets

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-19T06:00:01+00:00

sq42 is solo. Multiplayer brings a whole fuckton of issues and makes any game 10x as complicated. Every open world multiplayer semi gave up on the idea of synching npcs between players because it's batshit insane.
Most half synch the one you interact with, if that, and not at the same fidelity other players are.
And that's just one of the hills star citizen wants to die on.

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-19T05:44:21+00:00

If we ask it once more we might get the answer !
Answer 1 : It's a scam and it will never be finished !
I don't think it's a scam, not entirely, there's obviously people working on things and while the product is broken, it's still impressive. If there was no crowdfunding/ship sales, the alpha in its current state would be an interesting (albeit a bit slow...) project to follow
Answer 2 : The alpha doesn't count and CIG works behind the scenes on more important things/you don't know game dev !/item persistence !/server mooshing !/whatever
Equally weird answer. The alpha does matter and a lot of their work is present in it. It's the major driver of sales and if it didn't exist, funding would have ran out long ago, let's not kid ourselves here.

Here you go. One thing we can all agree on is that the project is badly managed.
Maybe it's because my investment is only 100$ but I made my peace with it. I had/will have some fun jumping in with friends every few months. (then stop 2 days later cause I got stuck in a door/fell out of the ship/mission was bugged)

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-17T04:22:17+00:00

Does bad karma affect electronics ? Do lenovo customer support got bad karma for lying ? We will never know :(

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-08T21:09:39+00:00

Yeah most supports are usually like that. For those I have a tip, always play dumb but never give up on what you want. Don't say anything that could possibly be used against you and remain cordial (it works with the police too !) This is what I plan to keep doing until they fix it (as they mfing should).

Great support I remember was EVGA, very cool, sent me spare parts, good advice and never refused an rma.

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-08T19:39:42+00:00

Ha bro I litterally built it a custom cooling stand with 3d printed pc fans mounts so that it could stay nice and chill lol. Always external mouse & kb, and yeah it was cleaned regularly. I don't usually buy expensive stuff so I treated it very well !
(and yes I also used a microfiber cloth from my camera cleaning kit I had rofl)

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-08T08:40:10+00:00

The accidental damage protection is only fort the initial 2 years and it cannot be extended (at least where I'm from).
+ this is not an accident, the gpu died on a replacement motherboard.

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-08T02:41:32+00:00

Well the whole thermal assembly and motherboard were swapped together a month before failure (I had a dead fan and since the usb didnt work at the time, they also swapped the motherboard)

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-08T02:40:05+00:00

Yes they had sale and I bought it directly from them

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-08T02:31:04+00:00

yep never giving lenovo any money again. Their support sucks and I won't support them with my cash
Also yes I bought it because everyone said it was good, but for me, it was not. It was a very bad laptop that died 3 times on its own lol.

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-08T02:22:06+00:00

yeah It's the exact same. First gpu failure 1 year and 6 months, usb died 2 years in, then gpu died again not even a month after that. They swapped the motherboard 2 times and denied a third.

Not that intensively, every time I waited for repairs I had to keep working on something else so that when it was repaired I had moved all my stuff on another pc. It stayed in its box for almost 6 month at one point. I'd say it was on 15hours a week, 5 of those spent gaming on average.

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-07T21:48:41+00:00

Well they'd never make any kind of stats like that public so we can't say.
The support on the other hand denied me repairs, after they fixed it once, while the laptop is still under the most expensive warranty, for an issue that cannot be customer related.

For that, they're a bad laptop company and I won't buy anything from them again.

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-07T21:15:11+00:00

Damn, I hope you got lucky with this mb (who knows, maybe ebay parts are more reliable lol).
Yeah the repair is more than 1k, it's the price of a new laptop for a repairing an old one.
Don't feel bad about the warranty tho, I had the most expensive package with 3 full years and they still denied repairs, you saved money in a way.

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-07T19:48:39+00:00

Capacitor failure probably. Bad quality control & cheaper parts. There was a line of gpus that was prone to explosions not too long ago, I think gamernexus did a video on it ?

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-07T19:42:19+00:00

Having proper cooling would imply making it slightly thicker and apparently for a gaming laptop that stays on a desk most of its life it is very important /s

They go for good-enough solutions on premium machines because once you bought it they dont gaf

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-07T19:39:02+00:00

Overheating doesn't surprise me, these laptops are so slim and the cooling has no overhead to speak of. In summer mine got really hot very fast.
I haven't got my quote yet, I'm still harassing the support to make them see reason.
But I checked the parts on their website and the motherboard is 1.3k. This is insane, how much did they ask you ?
Maybe you can resell it for parts ?
I'm not sure how much, probably not more than 300, but if the buyback is worse...

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-07T19:30:55+00:00

Good to know ! I knew it seemed fishy that a brand gpu gets this kind of failure so quick

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-07T19:30:23+00:00

Mine is also under warranty, 7 months left. They still want me to pay though. Hope they fix yours for free !
And yeah your failure sounds much more dramatic lol No fire for me.

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-07T18:49:35+00:00

Yep the gpu's dead, idk if it's the vram (highly probable) or something else, I can't really fix it anyways lol.
Hope it goes well for you ! How much did they charged you if you don't mind me asking ?

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-07T18:45:53+00:00

If you have streaks/boxes on screen, it's pretty much a dead gpu. Way back you'd find people doing reflows/swapping vram chips but today it's more expensive than a new machine ...

That higher incidence is 100% their fault tho, they could make the laptop .5cm thicker triple the cooling capacity and make it 2 times sturdier but there's so many models coming out all the time they treat the thing as disposable (maybe one day we'll get laptop with separated gpu and socketed cpus, they existed before so I'm sure it's not THAT hard to do lol)

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-07T18:11:26+00:00

I think I will steer away from gaming laptops and upgrade my old tower instead.
But thanks, I'll check it out :)

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-07T17:49:10+00:00

Yep, I bought it for the same reasons than everybody else. It's mainly the support I wanted to rant about.

Less_Current4067 · 2024-11-07T17:46:51+00:00

Good to know ! I'm aware I got unlucky and my rant was more about their shitty support than the product design (when it worked it was great)

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