Minimum Requirements:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system  
OS: Windows 11  
Processor: Quad Core CPU - Intel: i7 (Sandy Bridge or later), AMD: Bulldozer or later  
Memory: 16 GB RAM  
Graphics: DirectX 11.1 compatible Graphics Card with 8 GB VRAM  
DirectX: Version 12  
Network: Broadband Internet connection  
Storage: 150 GB available space
  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    “Focus on optimization” = normal people can not get close to affording shit beyond their existing 10 year old hardware.

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    15 hours ago

    I looked it up and I backed this thing in October of 2012. I’ve played 0 minutes of this game. Talk about return on investment.

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    12 hours ago

    A list of things that will happen before this game actually comes out:

    • Trump Dies
    • Putin apologizes and withdraws from Ukraine
    • Netanyahoo declares a Palestinian state
    • my ex wife stops being a bitch
    • My current wife converts to Christianity.
    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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      11 hours ago

      Plot twist: Crackhappy converted after bitch ex wife and is now happily married to his husband

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    19 hours ago

    Chris Roberts’ upcoming single player magnum opus, Squadron 42, now has a Steam page, the company’s focus on optimization will allow the game to run on early 2010s era CPUs

    Yeah, I believe this Chris Roberts guy, he seems to be very trustworthy.

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      17 hours ago

      Yeah, fucking what?

      Star Citizen?

      Optimized?

      Its notoriously a horrifically buggy and unoptimized branch of literally the Crysis engine which was famously memed into oblivion as being quite hardware intensive.

      … on the very hardware specifically mentioned.

      That’s made basically no progress in terms of optimization for about a decade now.

      This is delusional.

      Like did nobody see the recent ‘hey guys this is our dev branch you can see how much more optimized it is - woops its buggy laggy and crashes all the time’ live stream?

      • Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip
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        16 hours ago

        You don’t get it. It wasn’t buggy. Sure, they delayed the game again, but that was totally because of GTA6. Trust

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        12 hours ago

        this isnt star citizen the multiplayer game but the single player story. no network code. star citizen has been more if a test bed fir thus game

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    21 hours ago

    i should fucking hope so, those were state of the art when they started development.

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      15 hours ago

      I’m not sure you could get an 8GB GPU in 2012 - could you? And 16GB of RAM wasn’t really a consideration for most.

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        11 hours ago

        You’re correct. back then the standard was still 2GB with some cards offering 3 or 4 GB. 2014 the first 8GB was released, but that was one board manufacturer going beyond the chip manufacturer specifications. Another 2 years later, the RX 480 and GTX 1070 came out with 8GB.

        • uninvitedguest@piefed.ca
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          13 hours ago

          For sure. And while the CPU comment is valid (and funny), I’m suggesting that it’s also being carried by required minimum hardware that didn’t even exist during that CPU’s production run.

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      9 hours ago

      I’m sure you could fit 150GB of uncompressed assets on a CD though right?

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      15 hours ago

      (Hmm, I do not understand what the comment meant to say. The game is not coming out in 2010.)

      Edit: Never mind, I missed that in the long title of the post.

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    17 hours ago

    Considering the persistance and severity of bugs in Star Citizen I would expect this one to be delayed about 5 more years. There is no way they get this out the door in a working condition any time soon.

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    17 hours ago

    Considering how bad his financial management is i doubt he has money left to finish his “magnum opus”.

    Game will probably cost 100$ for base edition and 500$ for day one dlc and 50000$ for ultimate edition and in game store of course.

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      13 hours ago

      There are so many things to actually criticize CIG for that it seems weird to come up with something like this out of nowhere. When they were last selling SQ42 as a standalone it was $40. Despite all of the entirely justified memes about expensive ships you can still buy the complete Star Citizen game for $45 and unlock all those ships in game. While CIG have zero problem shilling $5000 ship packages to overly eager whales, they’ve always kept their base asking price impressively low.

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    19 hours ago

    I’m not believing it’s coming until it’s out. It’s been too long and Roberts gaslights people every few years to keep the money flowing.

    I really don’t think this is ever going to release.

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      9 hours ago

      Even as someone who is legitimately excited for this game to come out, this reaction is so completely justified. CIG have only themselves to blame for all the skepticism at this point.

      Of course, they’re also continuing to make money hand over fist, so I guess they don’t really care…

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      17 hours ago

      Can’t say for certain, but I think voice acting contracts with famed actors were already announced. So the money has likely already been sent out and something will be released, one way or another.

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    20 hours ago

    It would be incredible if they’re able to pull that off.

    I hate the trend of just pushing more and more graphics through up-scaling technologies. My electricity bill isn’t too happy either.

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      13 hours ago

      Considering the game still requires a minimum of 16gb of memory and an 8gb graphics card I wouldn’t say it’s not pushing more and more graphics. All that the specs imply is that the bottleneck will be the GPU.