cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18655795

In case you missed it there will be a Free Fly starting today, August 15th, until August 22nd. Here’s the latest “This Week In Star Citizen” with the announcement.

Good luck to anyone trying to play the game during this time, I hope you’ll have fun!

      • @Essence_of_MehOP
        2•3 months ago

        Fair warning: servers can be a real hit or miss right now but I hope you’ll be able to find a decent one so you can experience the actual game.

        Would you mind making a short write up if it works for you? While I don’t have any Apple hardware I’m kinda curious about how it performs with SC. I don’t any grand tech breakdowns, just some general thoughts would be enough.

  • @Korinthenkacker
    2•3 months ago

    it will be interesting to see, if they really start FF with shit patch 3.23 and its general instability. 3.24 does not look like its ready yet (and the bar was really low with 3.23 - never seen such a bad patch beside 3.18).

    The brutality they use to push their marketing events is rare to be seen. I still wonder, how this will affect the player base, constantly pushing out events to drive sales when the game works as shitty as 3.23 should make even the most hard core boot licker to think about stuff.

    Hopefully 3.24 is better than 3.23 - that it still remains on PTU is a little spark of hope.

    • @Essence_of_MehOP
      2•3 months ago

      If things look grim they’ll just drop another concept sale like they did with the Ironclad, that’s always a sure way to hype up the (important part of the) player base.

      I’m honestly not sure how the free flight go - things are already bad and when you mix ongoing PTU with FF… It’s not going to be pretty. One thing I do know is I won’t be there to help the newbies this time. It sucks but I really don’t have the patience for SC right now.

      I’ve been taking a break since the last Invictus and tried to jump back in over the last few days. Between master modes, changes to flight UI and the state of the servers (I can’t count how many times I had to deal with a situation where game wouldn’t react to any of my inputs beyond mouse movement for minutes at a time) I finally got fed up, quit mid mission and made some space for something that actually works. I’m not even sure I’ll bother checking out 3.24 at this point, might end up waiting until 4.0.1 or something.

      Apparently they just opened wave 2 of PTU. I’d like to believe this means progress but I also saw mentions of persistence issues still being a thing. I just hope this isn’t an attempt to push it early to make space for 4.0 testing.