Here's why you should be playing Star Citizen
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PC World here from Copy Tech's 2023.
I am talking to one of my favorite tech
tech talker, tech talkers.
My brain is a little fried.
This is the poets, by the way, go to his YouTube channel.
He is also on YouTube was DARPA po e t s.
But I don't see your your tech tik tok content is top notch.
This guy loves the water cooler.
Everything he even water cools his nest unit, deleted liquid metal.
Crazy.
Yeah, but I didn't want to talk about all his awesome hardware coverage.
I want to talk about this logo on his shirt because he plays
Star Citizen.
Which I didn't even know he'd come out because it's been kind of the butt
of the joke of gamers on the Internet that never, never launch.
It's not really out, but it's playable.
So whatever that means.
So it's a playable alpha, right?
And it's like six years of playable alpha.
Maybe more.
Maybe more. Yeah.
The thing is, it's one of the least toxic
or basically most positive communities out there for gaming.
That's one of the things that really brought me into it,
because I played many different games over the years.
I love space, Sims and stuff like that.
I played Elite Dangerous, like 1600 hours in the league, Dangerous Pandemic,
and then one day of Flying Star Citizen.
I never went back.
Totally dangerous, but just one day of playing it.
That's the immersion and the positive community, like just being in game.
I'm like, How do I do this?
And just like all kinds of help and support came out.
When you compare that to other games, we're like, How do I pull this trigger?
And then everybody's going to trash you and rant, right?
Talk about your momma.
So you said actually is interesting because it's
you can have how many players for server right now, like 120.
But that's going to be growing, you know, because before it was like 50 people.
Then they had 100, then 120.
We had actually had like 113 people just on one ship together.
It was a space yacht.
And we had a lot of fun with that.
In fact,
there's such a positive community that when people knew
I was flying to Taipei
for a couple of takes, some of the Star Citizen
people started reaching out to me that lives here in Taipei.
They're like, Hey, can we get together and stuff?
And even in Los Angeles, there's the big star citizen hoopla.
It's like an annual thing that they do.
And that's actually being held in L.A.,
which is kind of like it's called Citizen Time.
So, like the city, the big company, they just do a whole big event for people
just to come and enjoy because that's how positive the community is. Huh?
And I will tell you, my gaming community currently is a little toxic.
I'm one of the toxic people.
In fact, that's why I'm so excited to look for something positive.
Yeah.
And but you also mention something that's really cool is it's
so you said if you leave a rock somewhere, it stays there.
Yeah. So it's still in development.
So if you're the type of person that loves to see new things coming out,
like I know people play video games and like, Oh, the DLC is coming out soon.
No, this is the game is actually in development.
So if you see a bug type of report, they may fix it.
If you're like, Hey, this would play so much nicer
if you do this,
they may add it to the game, you know, with the community support and stuff.
And so now one of the newest things
is called Persistent Universe, where if you're like in yourself
and you put a fuzzy doll on your desk in the ship, it's going to be there.
And so you just take it away.
Months later, six months later, if you land on the moon and you
I don't know, throw your gun on the fire, if I can see that on
channel your weapon on the ground.
You come back a month later.
It's still going to be there unless another player came
and picked it up for this massive multiplayer game.
And it's such a nice community because you can actually land somewhere
and then see other people landing their ships
or taking off in ground vehicles and doing their thing.
You can do co-op stuff together.
You can go bounty hunting.
If another player is against the law, you'll have a mission to go
and get them and bring them to justice and they can go to jail if you get them.
So a lot of my I guess, best
memories in the game have just been with others.
You know, it's it's that's when the shenanigans happen.
That's when you're like, okay, we're going to go to this mission.
But then the game goes sideways.
And that's how you just remember for months and years
all the fun that you've had in this game.
So it's new technology.
The company, that's when it's got this called CG.
Robert Space Industries is the whole term,
but they actually are literally developing
new tech in order to develop the game.
So it's stuff that's just never been created before
and that's what's mindblowing about it for me, being a tech enthusiast.
So if you have the highest end hardware, it's still going to kind of struggle
because like I push the limits, I play in 4K ultra settings, so I'm going to know
how this works in honor of a case processor is going to perform
with thermoelectric cooling sub ambient or the 40,
90 or 79, 50 X or the x D type.
So that's one thing about PC hardware
testing that I really enjoy is what's the real world testing?
Anybody going to run a benchmark?
You know what a cinebench star 23 thing, but how does it perform on parts
three 918 in Star Citizen and then the next week it's past 3.19.
Does it perform worse, better?
And there's a whole community
that wants to know because they're going to go to micro centers or Best Buy
or whoever to buy the hardware specific for the game that they love.
And so when I produce content, I'm like, Hey, this is excellent for Star Citizen.
People actually go out and purchase that hardware, which is mind blowing to me.
But yeah, I'm happy to help with that.
I mean, your system's pretty high end 40, 90, 3900 K parts.
Yeah.
Do I need that to play this game?
Because I got a way more broken down system in yourself.
Well, if you have multiple 49 DS, that may help.
Yeah, but no, I,
it's again an alpha so it's not optimized.
And also when they're putting
a feature in the game, it's to see if it conceptually works
and if the players love it and if they need to tweak it
and then down the road then we'll optimize it.
So it'll run on barebones systems right?
And so older features that are in game.
Yeah, they run very nicely on 1060s, you know, GPU and lower end SKUs,
but it is a CPU intensive games, CPU intensive
game need a lot of RAM that all helps out.
So it's it's something that you don't need to spend too much money on.
But you know, you want to make sure you have a good experience as well.
That is actually the most important question because I saw
like stars and I thought like, wow, this ship looks cool.
Some of that's pretty free.
Yeah, some of this very expensive.
What does it take for Cheapskate like me to get into the game?
Do I need to pay a lot of money?
Well, I know you're a very wealthy man, so you got kids.
You can easily spend $40,000 on a package and star citizen,
you could easily spend $45 and then that's it.
No subscription, nothing like that.
So it's really dependent on how you want to support the game.
44 bucks, get a basic game package, go off and running,
and you can buy all the ships in-game just from playing the game.
If you really become enthused about it or if you're a busy person like me,
I mean, you're busy too.
But like if there's a light, like everything starts from zero.
I just want to log into the game and hey,
my ships are there because I've purchased them.
And it's a good feeling
because I'm supporting a game that I know and love and I love it in unity.
So it's kind of a nice benefit.
You know, my money is helping the project, but I don't have time
to spend a week to get the ship that I want and love.
I can just log in and it's there.
So it depends on how you want to do it.
No, I hear you. I play World of warships.
I love all the warships. Yes, I do.
But I was challenging for the class I play
and it's just gotten so hard and I'm looking for a nicer experience.
So that's why I'm excited about it.
And I.
Yeah, I buy plenty of ships, so I'm okay with that
because there are certain things that I like and it's worth supporting them.
Yeah, yeah.
But I'm looking for something new.
So it's a good balance, you know, because all of our subs,
honestly, the only other game I actively play is like Star Citizen
because our citizens,
you know, vast universe that you can enjoy massive multiplayer,
but then sometimes you just want to play something of 20 minutes, right?
All of our assumptions just that, you know, all of it.
Oh, final question for me.
Do I need joystick controller or keyboard mouse for it? So
a lot of the best like TV peers and stuff, they just use keyboard and mouse.
Everybody can just use keyboard of mouse perfectly fine.
The immersion is something that star citizen really got me right.
So it's like when you're walking around or whatever flying around.
I just wanted to take it to the next level.
So I did get a Hotas hands on throttle and stick.
So it's
like I'm pushing forward on my throttle, I've got my joystick type of thing.
Some people like dual sticks that they're like in like smaller ships.
They like to be more maneuverable.
So they're kind of like this.
And like Mandalorian, it stays in preferences.
There's really no best way.
It's really just what you personally enjoy.
Okay. Yeah. Okay.
You know, I must say, you've convinced me it was $45 to buy.
And there you go. Yeah, I want to land on a planet.
I'm sure I'm going to get the Volkswagen bug of chips when I start, but I'm.
I'm so remember, it's an alpha.
So Alpha is not for everybody.
If you're fine with when you load the game,
you wake up out of your bed, you stand up, and then you fall through the planet.
You laugh at it, start over.
You know, things happen.
If you land your step, you're like, perfect.
Landing ship blows up, Just laugh.
All right?
And sometimes the surface will be perfect.
But you have no bugs for maybe a month, right?
That's just perfect gameplay.
So it all depends on what's going on in the back end,
how they're developing the game.
And I've never known a game to be developed in a way where the
the creators of the game are so in tune with the community,
actively telling the community what's going on.
They do live
shows every week and all kinds of forums saying This is the new patch notes.
This patch is going live in the back and you won't see anything.
But this is what's happening too.
So informative and that makes it more comfortable for me
to spend my time playing a game like this and buying a separate.
So every now and then cool. Yeah.
All right. Well, thanks.
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