Go here, pick one of the two starter (aka cheapest) packages and you get a ship, full access to the 2.0 alpha, and the full game on release. Or if you want to spend more,here is a full list of game packages.
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So 16 minutes to download 30gigs. nice.
Load up my hangar, boring.
Load up arena commander, don't know wtf i'm doing can't fly a ship to save my ass.
Ok load up arena commander flight tutorial. now i'm getting places. figured out how to take off, fly around, shoot things, how to not blackout/redout mostly. figure out how to tokyo drift with the e-brake (lol spacebrake). still trying to figure out the sling shot stuff (caps lock). I get the concept just hard to get it down right.
Ok cool, almost finished tutorial. I crashed into a lot of shit trying to follow through the asteroid fields but whatev. kill all the badies about to wrap things up and game crashes, lolz.
Load up my hangar, boring.
Load up arena commander, don't know wtf i'm doing can't fly a ship to save my ass.
Ok load up arena commander flight tutorial. now i'm getting places. figured out how to take off, fly around, shoot things, how to not blackout/redout mostly. figure out how to tokyo drift with the e-brake (lol spacebrake). still trying to figure out the sling shot stuff (caps lock). I get the concept just hard to get it down right.
Ok cool, almost finished tutorial. I crashed into a lot of shit trying to follow through the asteroid fields but whatev. kill all the badies about to wrap things up and game crashes, lolz.
If you own a game package, you can play. There is a player cap on each instance of the 2.0 universe (Im not sure the exact number though). Enough are playing that sometimes I get the "All Instances Full" message when trying to log in, but once you get into your ship and are out screwing around running into others isnt a real common occurrence (at least for me).
The Javelin is probably a bit off from being flight ready. In the Star CitizenShip Matrixyou can see a description of all ships that have been revealed and sold at some point so far. Each entry has a status update that shows where in the pipeline it is. The Javelin is in the 3D art stage, so it's still a ways off from being Hangar ready, much less flight ready. Currently the largest ships that are flight ready are theRetaliatorand the Andromeda variant of theConstellation.
The Javelin is probably a bit off from being flight ready. In the Star CitizenShip Matrixyou can see a description of all ships that have been revealed and sold at some point so far. Each entry has a status update that shows where in the pipeline it is. The Javelin is in the 3D art stage, so it's still a ways off from being Hangar ready, much less flight ready. Currently the largest ships that are flight ready are theRetaliatorand the Andromeda variant of theConstellation.
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3.0 is supposed to have a 'capture the capital ship' multiplayer attack/boarding scenario. When we will actually see pilotable capital ships in the sandbox portion, no idea.
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horizontal scrolling was not a good choice in that ship matrix.
I can see capital ship gameplay being really amazing, but I'm not sure how much constraints would need to be put in the game to ensure capital ships make sense.
I could see some fun gameplay where PRX could have a massive capital ship that was persistent and was basically the home for all the people in the organization. They'd spawn there, get missions from there and would carry out some larger campaign. The ship would move from system to system at the admiral's command and players could have a variety of interesting roles (likely gunner + pilot in the fleet) they could play.
I don't see how that kind of gameplay aligns with the typical MMO style of being a freelancer, but it'd be cool from the standpoint of a leader in a massive guild.
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Yea, if cap ships are implemented properly they'll need a ton of support and I do question what their purpose is besides pitched engagements.
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Yeah, it has quite a few crash bugs introduced in the latest build. Supposedly the PTU build is more stable. It will continue to improve with incremental patches until the next big release when everything gets broken again. Welcome to alpha!
They're basically rebuilding the game as they go; there's minimal to no version control or regression testing it looks like.
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I don't know about SC but this is very common for one 'experimental build' to be more stable. It's also very common for the X.1 build to be more stable than X.0, because X.0 adds a bunch of features and X.1 fixes them.
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I don't know what you're saying here, but I am sure they have a very coheisve version control and broad QA system. But this iterative process is part of their QA system, so these player tests are going to include a lot of issues.
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To add to what Tuco said, and address your second question: Arena Commander is not a separate game with it's own engine and physics models. Everything done in the persistent universe build will affect Arena Commander. If you change how a ship flies in the PU, it changes how it flies in AC. If you change the damage system in the PU, it will affect the damage system in AC, etc. As features get added, they require testing and fixing, in all game areas.
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Do you understand how a game client works? They're still adding features to the graphics engine on the client, this will effect all presentation modes of the game.
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The first part of your sentence seems true.
This is not apparent at all, but it makes sense, thanks.
go fuck yourself mist. I just gave you spacebux and you come at me like a twat (I would call you a cunt but, ya know)
Arena Commander doesn't appear as a "presentation mode" of the game. It appears a completely separate module. It doesn't look like it has any advanced graphic updates or 64bit (well maybe this is hard to tell since the zone is so small) or anything else that would lead a person to assume that it wasn't a finished and polished stand alone module. As an old looking stand alone module it doesn't lead one to to assume that it's buggy as fuck because it's also being rebuilt constantly and updated with engine updates from the game.
So basically I will accept Blackwulf's explanation, even though there is nothing about arena commander to make you assume that.