Unless newer generations of headsets include eye tracking, and perhaps a small camera at the bottom of the headset to track mouth movement. Oculus did a few tests on it and it seemed to work pretty well
Hey, so with the free flight thing, I had a few friends I wanted to get into the game. But they used my referral code but the game is telling them they need to buy a package. For Free flight? What the fuck? Are you not allowed to use referral codes for free flights?
The freefly doesn't begin until tomorrow, so, yes they need a package if they wanted to fly right this second. Tomorrow, they won't.
https://support.robertsspaceindustries.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012238394
Also, important note: To access the free ships available each day (the rotation changes at 8am PST, GMT-8), you have to fly to Lorville, in Hurston, and walk into the special exposition show floor and rent the ship using the same functionality as the ship-buying that's in the ship shops in Levski and Lorville (except the ship is a rental for the 24-hour window and is free). In past free fly events, the free ships were just unlocked on everyone's account for summoning at a ship terminal, but they now have you go in-game and explore them and experience a practical demo of ship-buying.
So, does the game still run like poo-poo? I haven’t played since initial PU with just crusader and port olisar or w/e
The freefly and anniversary sale are live! The Anvil Arrow has been revealed and it's $65 warbond/$75 credit, and it comes with a game package ($80).
The website and game are currently getting crushed by the traffic. When it's up, the Anvil manufacturer sale page is here, and here will be the main sale page (as of this posting it's restricted to admin).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpUnRqOsQUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGEwCHu8Wa8
Well yes and no. Patch 3.3.0 included a major tech upgrade, Object Container Streaming, which totally reworks how the game loads assets and the game world, and it has had a significant performance benefit. However, exactly how much of a benefit you get will depend on your machine -- for example, my graphics card and RAM are weakass so I only went from 15-20 to 20-40fps but the game runs smoother without the constant hitching I used to get.
There are still lots of issues, but it's running better than it used to.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/121652201553657856/515651500630867973/how_2_land_at_lorville.mp4
don't try this at home
Right so I downloaded the game for the free fly thing, got into my free ship, QT'd to Hurston aaaand my quantum drive stopped working for some reason. I can't QT closer to Lorville, can't QT to another planet, I read there should be "orbital markers" around planets which are missing entirely, plus going to bed and relogging forces me to start over from the first station and wait 15 minutes to get my ship back :/
Why can't I just start in the same fuckin bed I went to when I left the game
hijacking a ship in star citizen
Finally landed at Lorville, my ship disappeared, I fell through the floor and apparently I'm a criminal now
Do not get out of the pilot seat during your QT to Hurston. it will just break your QT entirely. In the Cutlass Black, the travel time is roughly 7 minutes so just wait it out.
Remember to hail ATC once you get to Lorville, and land properly. If you do this, more than likely you will spawn there.
Getting out of the seat in QT works perfectly fine for me
It breaks if you get out then get back in. It breaks the UI of my connie and cutlass if i do it. Its the same bug that @RedLine had.
The bug has been submitted and confirmed, so I hope they fix it soon.
it ONLY breaks the UI. If you're trying to figure out where you are in your journey in that case, just open up the starmap
Anyone else just not seeing any ships in the RSI Experience hall?
Watched a video on it where it was filled with ships. Go there in game, and nothing.
Maybe I'm just going mad and the big RSI hall I went to was the wrong one?
Ships not loading in is a bug that people have had. Try reloading the instance (join a new one), and if that doesn't work after a couple tries, verify your files in the launcher. You might also try a different region's servers (change the dropdown from "best" to a region in the main menu when you're about to enter the PU).
It should look like this and it's a bug if it doesn't:
https://i.redd.it/bshiawph9b021.jpg
Oh so THAT'S what happened, I thought I was doing something wrong the first two times
The QT will get you to Hurston but you will be unable to travel anywhere else after the jump without restarting the game
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Also uh, is the game known to perform this poorly? I have an overkill PC yet I'm still getting ~30fps in Lorville, even on low settings. My GPU usage is only like 25% as well
Lorville was only just implemented in this game, so it is hurting for optimization. Lagville is where performance goes to die, but if you're in space things are okay.
Especially during the anniversary event, which puts the focus on visiting Lorville; if all 50 players in your instance are within 30km of Lorville, you don't even get to enjoy the benefits of Object Container Streaming, which allows your client to ignore everything not near it and would be giving reasonable to great performance benefits depending on conditions. Fly off to any moon around Crusader while everyone else is in Lorville/around Hurston and you should get better performance.
Lorville's got such an oppressive corporate pit vibe and I love it.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2304/795de515-0f16-440e-af8b-51fe048216de/ScreenShot0687.jpg
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2304/ce8850d4-a539-475f-a45e-8720eb521177/ScreenShot0671.jpg
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2304/a6ec2333-4279-4d28-9f34-a1b12d23b8e6/ScreenShot0713.jpg
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2304/957ed2ee-61e2-460c-b7f6-8f394678f5a5/ScreenShot0727.jpg
Even on low settings with a potato GPU it looks great.
And despite being a grungy corporate dystopia, it can even look beautiful.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2304/a8c27b90-f27d-424a-97c6-08f36bdae938/ScreenShot0733.jpg
Just got myself a Connie, are you able to undock the merlin at the back? Can't seem to figure it out
Nope, can't undock it yet
Damn, was hoping to have a little fly around. Thanks anyway
nope
I've only been taking the caterpillar and occasionally some random person's cutlass back and forth, every time I get out and walk about, mess with ship doors, watch the sun go by, etc. If you have an issue with the QD not giving you your next point, clear your destination in the map, then set it again, and it should work. If the QD refuses to load up after like 30 seconds (there's a big cooldown after making that huge jump), get out of your seat and back into it immediately and it should work then.
See, there's the problem, the first two times I started QT I went to bed because uwu roleplay, and when it exited QT I got up and went back to the pilot seat and everything was broken in multiple ways
When I just sat in the pilot seat for the entire duration of the jump everything was fine
So I’ve read that every day a new company’s line of ships is tryable during the free fly. How do I actually go about renting one of the ships?
in awe of the size of this lad
unfortunately most new pilots to this bugger aren't aware that it's janked in hurston atmosphere, and you have to keep the landing gear to keep VTOL engaged, and remain horizontal so VTOL can do its thing, MEANING you're trapped strafing up at 50m/s, for 100km, or 30 real world minutes, before you can escape the city
The new Reclaimer pilot experience GIF | Find, Make & Share Gfyc..
(when I first arrived at the city I saw one getting crunched up by the hangar doors on the ground because they couldn't escape)
I hope people figured out fast enough that it was a bit more worth it to just fly to the nearest R&R
Somewhat disappointing you can't upgrade an existing pledge to any of the ships that are on sale, I was really hoping to get back into the buccaneer (after fucking up and swapping it for a freelancer way back when) but alas the site lets you select it but not actually upgrade to any of them :c
That's because the Freelancer and Buccaneer have the same cost and $0 CCUs are gone because people would not stop fucking abusing them to profit on the grey market. There are accounts who've hoarded thousands of every single $0 X->Y CCU so that in the event that Y increases in price (and X does not, or increases by less), they will be able to pay for X ship, upgrade it to Y, sell it for at least even money once ship Y is no longer available for sale, and pocket the difference.
But you definitely can upgrade to ships that are in the sale, as long as they are more expensive than the ship you're upgrading from. For example:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2304/5a7f8051-2a0d-4526-a222-f894ed2be73c/image.png
Also this: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Upgrades/Cutlass-Black-To-Buccaneer-Upgrade ($100 to $110)
What is your Freelancer/whatever that you want to turn back into a Bucc attached to? Is it a discounted package or something? Because if it's a normal package or a standalone ship, if you exchange it for store credit you should be able to buy it back, resetting any upgrades you've performed, and upgrade back up to the Bucc. Be careful and make sure your package isn't special (and not buyable once exchanged for store credit) before you do it, though.
You probably already know this but it's a bug and you need to exit to menu and try again and hope you get an instance where the ships do load. If the M50 in the spaceport, or the ships on the veranda outside New Deal (visible from the window in at least some of the Lorville hab lobby rooms), are loaded, you're good to go with the ships loading in the Expo rooms.
Unfortunately its attached to a very early pledge with base game, sq42 and LTI but its value is still $110 if I was to melt it as its only basing the $ off the freelancer.
$0 CCUs are generally speaking gone, but some legacy ones are still on the store. CIG doesn't introduce any new ones and has gotten rid of a lot of them.
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