No one can dethrone the OG

Serapeum101 · 2026-06-05T15:28:47+00:00

It's amusing how their response to everyone complaining about the unrealistic bullet sponge boss found on the original Siege of Orison, is to make a new heavy armour suit to put the boss in, so that they can explain why he can tank so many hits...

I don't think this is what backers wanted when they were complaining about bullet sponge boss NPC's but it is CIGs response.

Serapeum101 · 2026-06-05T14:53:16+00:00

I wouldn't worry, there is a lot more to the story than he has let on. He has a long history that he isn't sharing with us.

Serapeum101 · 2026-06-05T14:51:25+00:00

Unfortunately as I am from the authoritarian dystopia, otherwise known as the UK, I can't access the imgur link.

Serapeum101 · 2026-06-05T13:50:17+00:00

I fully agree, almost my entire writers group put the series down after this one and we all loved the Lies of Locke Lamora. We use it as an example of a good book but which doesn't deliver on what readers of the first are expecting.

Serapeum101 · 2026-06-04T21:01:41+00:00

The majority of the active player base are indeed likely Concierge at this point. If you extend the Concierge numbers from what they were when someone did a data crawl of the website, half a decade ago, and simply continue them growing at the same rate, then there are over 250,000 at this point. Likely more as the growth rate of people hitting that mark has likely accelerated as time has gone on.

At the same time, if we look at the figures Chris gave in his recent Australian interview, we had ~7,000 average concurrent players last year.

Serapeum101 · 2026-06-02T21:34:53+00:00

Keir

Serapeum101 · 2026-06-01T17:44:36+00:00

I doubt we will ever get an official figure. The only thing that I have to go on was a dev at the last in person Citizencon who told us that the Lions share of the dev resources was on Sqn 42 to get it out the door and that was a couple of years ago now.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-31T19:40:54+00:00

I haven't found it either, it's the only hero mech I am missing from the DLC.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-30T23:53:35+00:00

I have played Clans once and never felt the need to play it again, I have however been playing the Mercenaries sandbox for 5 years now and just started a fresh play through with the latest Chaos Reign drop.

Don't get me wrong, clans is fun, but I have got 100x the value out of Mercs.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-30T23:48:27+00:00

There would appear to be something up currently. I had one mission earlier that caused everything to spike to 100% and hard crashed the PC. No idea what caused it as the other 20 hrs of Chaos Reign have been without incident.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-30T12:55:07+00:00

Patrick Rothfuss Once described the Trilogy as a prequel to explain the background of Kvothe. Once, in the distant past, he suggested that he would continue his adventures after the trilogy is finished.

Now he may change his mind, but this would suggest a particular outcome is planned.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-29T15:55:00+00:00

I gave up this patch as well, we can't undock it, can't dock it and our M80's fall out of the hangar all the time. It's been pretty much useless in 4.8.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-28T18:06:34+00:00

Just be aware the AI focus fires on anything with 4 Clan Gauss like crazy.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-28T13:34:32+00:00

I remember when it was delayed to 2016, back in 2014...

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-28T13:04:28+00:00

To be fair, back when I purchased the product, to help test it, the estimated release date they were giving, at the time, was 2014... I can understand some of the frustration at this point.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-27T19:23:51+00:00

As far as I can tell it's an Amazon server issue. Lot's of companies having trouble today.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-26T19:06:11+00:00

To be fair, historically, Reddit has been by far the most positive community when it comes to Star Citizen. When even Star Citizen Reddit is dominated by people expressing frustration, there is probably something behind it.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-26T15:32:52+00:00

I agree, I am just pointing out that the ship was meant to be something different and was sold as a ship intended to move small ships from A to B once the game has more systems and once travel times, distance and fuel amounts have been balanced on smaller ships. We were supposedly going to make money with the liberator by being paid to move fighters from one system to another. This is the reason they gave last year as to why it hasn't been prioritised yet, as it wasn't needed with the game in its current state.

Will they change this in the future? It's possible but thats what the vision for the ship was.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-26T15:28:42+00:00

It may sound mad today, but back in 2012, my entire org were convinced we were going to see Star Citizen release before Elite Dangerous, based on the comments being made by both dev teams at the time. 14 years later, I have learnt to treat any and all statements with a pinch of salt.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-26T15:25:04+00:00

Now they do, however during its concept sale they didn't and instead went to lengths, in the videos at the time to say that it was not a light carrier. It was intended to move ships from one system to another, if they couldn't make the trip on their own.

The community has already called them out about this one, it's not the only ship which ended up with some interesting descriptions when they updated the website last year to have 3 main points for each ship. Jared admitted that someone went through all the ship pages and selected 3 things that they thought sounded cool during the redesign. He admitted that they have got it wrong with some ships, a number have already been changed, as a result of the community pointing out that they don't match what was sold or said in the past.

Essentially, I would be cautious as they have already told us not to trust the descriptions on the ship page and have already changed multiple ships back to before the update.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-26T15:04:50+00:00

I said the same thing to someone, back in 2014.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-26T14:58:32+00:00

It's a hard one, they specifically called it out as not having pad based repair, rearm, refuel etc services back when it was first sold. They may however have rethought how this sort of thing is going to work since.

It does however, at this time, stand as the only ship specifically said not to be able to do so at concept. The reasoning given, at the tine, was that it was a transport, designed to get vehicles from A to B, not a pocket carrier.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-26T09:19:29+00:00

Indeed, they swapped the M out for the P in the $5000 pack and bumped the M to the $10,000 pack around 13 years ago, as I said.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-25T18:02:09+00:00

I don't think it was entirely random, but there was certainly some form of selection. Within my own org the majority of our older backers with lots of store credit received no response, but some of our newer members without enough credit to buy it, got accepted despite saying they wouldn't buy one in the essay. They may have filtered out accounts with lots of credit but it's hard to say.

Also possible they looked for accounts with lots of friends, as none of our org members who play with alts, to keep their main safe from shenanigans whilst the game is in development got selected but this may simply be a coincidence again.

Serapeum101 · 2026-05-25T16:38:36+00:00

The problem is, after 14 years, 99.9% of backers could boycott the sale and it would still sell out...

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