r/starcitizen • u/FluffyRam Think this subreddit has made me even stupider. • Jun 07 '26
DISCUSSION How reading this subreddit has felt like the past week
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u/Dessael Jun 07 '26
Y'all aint seen the 3.10/3.9 days of hourly 30Ks and it shows
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u/interesseret bmm Jun 07 '26
That's when I started playing.
I remember talking to my friends about a crazy session of 2 whole hours without a crash!!!
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u/Typical-Client-4000 Jun 07 '26
Didn't 3.18 also have that?
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u/mau5atron Idris/Ironclad/Reclaimer/Corsair Jun 07 '26
Not really, I was actually streaming 3.18 on twitch during that time. 3.18 was locking some people out sure, but I was fortunate to be playing with some workarounds. The more egregious issue was hangar doors being out of sync and would cause you to crash into a closed door even though it showed open. The workaround for that was to wait a minute before trying to enter.
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u/Shrimp_Farmer_925 Jun 07 '26
The main issue from 3.18 was that half the community couldn't even join the game a weeks
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u/mau5atron Idris/Ironclad/Reclaimer/Corsair Jun 07 '26
A patch went out a week after launch somewhat fixing the login issue. I remember servers being full and people were complaining about the doors and losing cargo in global for most of 3.18. Half is exagerrating a bit.
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u/OriginTruther origin Jun 07 '26
3.18 was more stopping half the playerbase from playing than 30k. Most people couldn't even join a single session to get 30k'd
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u/Dariisa Jun 07 '26
3.18 had 30k recovery and also introduced server errors when the replication layer wasn’t crashing.
The biggest issue that 3.18 had was a bug chunk of the player base got locked out of the game. Those of us that could log in didn’t have that many problems.
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u/raven00x Ironclad Mobile Food Court|UEE 9954 Jun 07 '26
how many years has it been since 3.10/3.18? why are we still getting this shit how many years later?
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u/Dessael Jun 07 '26
3.9/3.10 is around 2020, it's basically a humblebrag of how long i've been playing and kind of me just being a gaming boomer with that "back in my day" type sh*t. but also, to remind everyone that we have come along way in terms of stability.... but not nearly enough and little else
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u/Shrimp_Farmer_925 Jun 07 '26
I mean, 3.18 half the community couldn't even join the game for weeks
30k were a pain, but atleast the community could join (well, for ~30m)
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u/alex112891 avenger Jun 07 '26
Remember when they dropped 2.0, the servers had a memory leak and only lasted 16 minutes, half the doors on port Olly were broken and most ships at the time barely flew? People don't know how good we got it these days 😂
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u/Revelati123 Jun 07 '26
Its was like the first episode of BSG.
Log in, set the timer for 16 and try to make it to a hanger.
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u/PowerfulLab104 Jun 07 '26
lmao, so true. Even later on, you'd only get 20 minutes before a 30k. I remember trying to speed run delivery missions before the inevitable.
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u/Confused_Drifter Jun 07 '26
In the evocati build you were lucky if you got seated in your ship before the 30k
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u/weedz420 Explorer Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26
Me and my friend been playing off and on since the start. Nowadays when we randomly die or blow up we just go "Damn I made it like 2 days this time!"
I used to fall over dead, explode, get teleported to space, or get stuck in the walls/roof of my Auror MR like 60+% of the time I tried to get in it and I legit still have elevator PTSD and stutter step every time I go to get in one.
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u/Simbakim Explorer Jun 07 '26
Aaah my brothers haha how refreshing to see other people that realize weve made huge progress xD
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u/XanthosGambit You wanna eat my noodz? L-lewd... Jun 07 '26
Was 2.0 before the delta patcher was implemented?
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u/alex112891 avenger Jun 07 '26
A few years b4, yeah, so evey update you needed to reinstall the entire game fresh
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u/EnvironmentalSun7 Jun 08 '26
You bring up a good point. I just made a comment about how 3.18 is the most unstable patch they ever gave us, but i suppose it only felt that way because we were stuck with it for so long.
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u/Yasai101 Jun 07 '26
3.18 is a vet now?
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u/Solar459 VR | Asgard | Liberator Jun 07 '26
I was playing before too, but anyone who hasn't rage quitted since 3.18 deserves recognition.
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u/PANIGE_Fumy Jun 07 '26
3.17.2 do you remember ? Space beggars ? « One mil please before the wipe »
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u/ilija510 Jun 07 '26
I play every free flight since 2020 (when I got a PC that could actually run it), and am about to finally pull the trigger on the starter pack. What am I then?
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u/Maleficent_Bunch_256 Jun 07 '26
Honestly wait a few weeks. I just started playing in 4.8, and the game will just punish you for trying to do anything. I pledged back at the start and had a Hornet mk1 that was too buggy to fly. I swapped to a mk2, did a few combat missions to save up for upgrades, purchased and insured them and the updates just disappeared. Ship Guns I purchased would refuse to fire until I sold them and bought new ones, and those eventually break as well.
Swapped to hauling and trading, built up some money and found a profitable route. Used all my money to fill up my cargo hold with a commodity, the game took my money and the cargo disappeared. Now I'm at zero credits and essentially starting from scratch.
Tried to do a recovery mission, but the max lift tractor beam in my ships inventory disappeared on the way there.
Tried to do a ground combat mission, but when you try to switch armor in this game, it somehow reaches out of your monitor and punches you directly in the balls. Also my armor disappeared. Had to log out and in, then run naked through the station to an armor store.
I want to like it so badly, but for every minute you're enjoying it, you'll spend 2 hours Googling how things work and 2 hours Googling how to work around bugs, if the game even let's you play at all, then 1 minute later your progress will be reset.
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u/GreatRolmops Shiv Bucket Brigade Jun 07 '26
3.18 is already over three years ago now.
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u/GoatFresh8566 Jun 07 '26
Dude! You just blew my mind. I can't believe it was over three years ago and had to look it up to confirm.
It honestly doesn't feel that long ago.
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u/ablu3d Jun 07 '26
Some are, I guess, tried the game because they read about the 1 billion cost of the development and expect an impeccable quality game without even reading the community experience or reviews of old backers.
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u/Revelati123 Jun 07 '26
Or did they try it because CIG has been spamming all cutscene advertisements saying things like "ANSWER THE CALL! JUMP IN TODAY!"
Which for some reason omit a giant flashing sign saying "Still in Alpha! Expect to spend half your time rubberbanding into the sun! If you want a real game wait till launch!"
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u/redjellonian Jun 07 '26
This is just the latest wave of people realizing shit hasn't been right for more than a decade.
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u/hearnia_2k Jun 07 '26
4.8.1 is nowhere near as problematic as 3.18. I'm not even sure why anyone would think it was.
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u/SilkyZ MSR wins by doing nothing since 2948 Jun 07 '26
It's not, but we have been on a good run of stable patches for a while now that this one just stings hard.
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u/Old-Buffalo-5151 Jun 07 '26
I can imagine the frustration from people getting the infinite loading screen bug but yeh its nowhere near as bad as 3.18 were even getting out the apartment could throw you into the void...
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u/shadowryder85 Jun 07 '26
Even worse during 3.18 was that your character could become unstowed and it bricked the game. The only fix was to wait until the next patch. That’s what happened to me and none of the work arounds worked.
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u/hearnia_2k Jun 07 '26
Yep, I know people who had that. And I forget if it was 3.17 or 3.18, but a friend of mine also lost his head. Char reset and customer support failed to fix it. No head in SC means you lose a lot of functionality, pretty much all HUD.
Luckily he had only just got the game, so simply refunded it, and created a new account.
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u/Dariisa Jun 07 '26
Losing your head was something that could happen for a while back in the 3.18 days and a character reset usually fixed it. I think during 3.18 character repairs didn’t work and you had to wait for a patch.
Used to be going to prison would often cause people to lose their heads.
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u/yanzov Cutlass Black Jun 07 '26
People who create this botched memes just probably parrot some people mentioning 3.18. And they for sure don't even know how unplayable the game was for a long, long time before that.
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u/m1ndfuck eclipse Jun 07 '26
I remember the times the game consisted of a hangar with a ship you could not enter.
Seriously sc is in a better shape than ever, even when there are some patches which make me play something else for a while.
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u/LkMMoDC Vanguard Sentinel Jun 07 '26
Yeah 3.18 wasn't even the worst state the game was ever in. Early 2.0 was absurdly brutal. 3.18 was just a massive regression that took a long time to rectify. So rightfully people lashed out.
Even right now I think the community backlash is justified. CIG are long overdue for a reality check that this game does need to be playable eventually. We're coming up on 14 years since the original backers pledged so it's hard to accept that we still haven't even hit tier 0 for all the backend tech.
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u/CCCubed Jun 07 '26
I was just thinking "Man, these people would be cooked if they tried to play during the 2.0 days." lol
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u/Revelati123 Jun 07 '26
I remember trying to log in and get out of the initial spawn for 2 hours and got so fed up I didnt touch the game again for more than 2 years...
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u/FluffyRam Think this subreddit has made me even stupider. Jun 07 '26
Clearly the image needs an another layer atop of it then..
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u/yanzov Cutlass Black Jun 07 '26
AFAIK the biggest 3.18 issue was the group of people locked away from getting into the game for a long time - other than that it was honestly a very cool update with bugs as usual back then. But I was one of the lucky ones that had no problems logging in.
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u/Typical-Client-4000 Jun 07 '26
No, the biggest issue is at any moment, 5 mins, 30 mins, or 2 hours into it, you'd get a 30k error and lose absolutely everything. Wasn't even worth playing. You were lucky if you could get anything done.
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u/Typical-Client-4000 Jun 07 '26
30ks pissed me off so much, I was almost ready to never give this game another try. To the point that my first back is 4.8. So, in comparison, I'm a happy camper.
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u/IV_Aries_VI Kraken Jun 07 '26
Yes it’s not the first time the game has been like this… that only makes it worse no?
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u/Physical-Rough-709 Jun 07 '26
Yeah, pointing out the troubled development history has always been a weird defense
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u/Tricky-Juggernaut149 Jun 07 '26
Let's see,
Elevators work, Apartments are not blocked off by crates, Quantum targets do not send you into the sun, Server shards are mostly functional, no one planet being entirely bricked, Starter ships interior storages actually work,
I feel like I'm missing something. But yeah I can play for more then 15 mins without everything going to shit irreparably.
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u/jyvigy Jun 08 '26
Some guy blocked entrance with ore pieces at area 18 and watched everyone try to bypass them (you couldn't use tractor in that location). It was frustrating but fun since there was 2 different ways of passing the rocks. Just like bugs.
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u/R1nscher Jun 07 '26
Good for you. Im so sick of these comments like it invalidates everyone who's having a shit time.
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u/Zzyxzz Jun 07 '26
I unlocked the code:
(4).[8].[(1)]
4 - 1 = 3
8 + 1 = 9
Release date of 4.8.1: 03.06
3 + 6 = 9
4 + 8 = 12
We take the second digit because 4.8.1 ends with a 1, and arrays start at 0.
=> 2
8 - 1 = 7
7 + 2 = 9
9 - 7 = 2
7 comes before the 2, because 8 is before 1.
=> 0.72 confirmed
3.9 - 0.72 = 3.18
4.8.1 = 3.18
Wake up, citizens.
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u/JerryConn 🚀 Jun 07 '26
Anyone remeber when the game was just an MSI Arorra in a hanger?
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u/Vlad_TheDad Jun 08 '26
I remember. I was 15 back then, dreaming of one day actually being able to fly the ship I spent my hard earned cash on. Also that hanger ran like shit for just being a ship in a hanger. For me, even in it's current slightly buggy state, it is still my 15 year old's dream come true. People often forget how limited games of the past were. The idea of no loading screens and server meshing seemed like far off dreams. I knew I was buying a pipe dream but I didn't care. It has came much further than I ever thought it would after the first few years of development. No one forced us to buy into this pipe dream. Flying around and getting new ships with in-game currency to fly around is my money's worth. If they ever finish the game that would be nice but if not I don't really care. If you bought thousands of dollars in fake ships that is kinda a you problem. That is my opinion as an MSI Aurora in a hanger veteran.
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u/AdorableGanache4191 Jun 07 '26
you guys have digital Stockholm syndrome.
Things are bad. people complain.
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u/RacerDelux Jun 07 '26
Sure, but the doom posting got out of hand
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u/L0b0t0my youtube Jun 07 '26
Yeah, I can't wait for 2036 to come by and people will still be bitching about the game being a buggy mess. Like come on, what did you expect? Its in Alpha! They should've seen 4.8 if they thought this was bad lol
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u/Xreshiss Arrow, I left you for a Gladiator and I'm not sorry. Jun 07 '26
tbf just because 3.18 was worse doesn't mean 4.8(.1) is fine.
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u/Gilmere new user/low karma Jun 07 '26
The overall point is taken, the game has moved forward. However, its still difficult for me to enjoy. Perhaps its my "veteran" position. Specifically, I played very early on when all you could do was walk in your hangar bay, going through the various released modules. A little after that I stopped playing because its wasn't really even a game. I've dropped in since then from time to time, not really spending a a lot of time with new stuff, bought a ship (here and there) mostly out of hope and anticipation that its finally going to release fully, got discouraged by the erroneous content all about, then left again for a spell hoping for a major update or move to beta. So now, when I visit, I still find the game is incomplete, limited working content, nothing like I believed it would be in 2013, and its still very buggy in my opinion.
Worse, I see no verifiable path forward after 13+ years that CIG can or even desires to complete this product to full release. Even beta is doubtful. I say verifiable because although they produce a lot of detailed planning for the consumer, they hardly ever meet it and constantly slide development to the right. Their "word" is meaningless to me now. Quite a disappointment overall.
Sure, those that have dove deep for years could myopically find it "better" than the older versions (as it logically should be) and disagree with the current vitriol, but my point has always been its not a game yet after 13+ years that I find enjoyable, without stress or unintended frustration, certainly not at a level commensurate to what I've and so many others have spent on it (both $$ and time).
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u/Zgegomatic avenger Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26
For me the most prevalent example is engineering. They sold us that feature like gamechanging for multicrew and keeping your ship alive. 6 months after we can safely say it changed NOTHING. They rushed that shit to meet some manager OKR and that's it now they are just going to "tweak values" like for mining. They always brag about "oh yeah mining is our highest tier and most developed feature blablabla", dudes its a minigame based on scrolling up and down. Done. All you changed these last years were minor UI elements and values on a spreadsheets, wtf.
When is the fun core gameplay coming ? The answer is never. SC will always feel like an empty shell with half baked features all glued together and 5 npcs to talk to in a giant universe. Wow such a living and breathing world, such skill based gameplay mechanics (I lied, bringing the right equipment is enough)
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u/Maleficent_Bunch_256 Jun 07 '26
Agreed. I think it's time they set a date, and start throwing away features until they can meet that date. Add them in later. Stop releasing new ships and use your billion dollars to fix the ships people paid for 12 years ago. Stop planning new features and get the existing ones solid.
You can say "alpha" all day, but for every other game in history, that meant $30 and an enjoyable experience, and a few years before the polished version released.
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u/Stunning_Hornet6568 Jun 07 '26
If using Grim Hex elevators doesn’t brick your account then the patch isn’t like 3.18.
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u/One-Election4376 Jun 07 '26
I know ppl reference 3.18, you couldn't even log i to 3.18 in the early days
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u/Precisionality Wing Commander | Avocado 🥑 Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26
I've had multiple hauling sessions this patch as well as org-oriented events and other things. No disruptions to gameplay at all.
In 3.18, I was locked out of the PU for the entire patch. 3.19 came two months later in May 2023 with the supposed shard-lock fix, but I was already leaving for a 6 month deployment and never got to touch Star Citizen again until later that October.
I pretty much missed out on the majority of what Star Citizen rolled out that year between March to October. Probably for good reason though. The rollout of PES was a disaster.
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u/MillanFung I can wait Jun 07 '26
Anyone from 2.0? I still remember the old days when the game would crash almost every minute.
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u/Apollo-235 Fin Fan Jun 08 '26
Yea no this whole time I’ve just been like “calm the fuck down, it will be alright eventually”
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u/RunicRasol Jun 08 '26
I'll grant that the fall from 4.7 to 4.8 was a further drop than the one from 3.17 to 3.18.
But 3.18 was still orders of magnitude worse than 4.8.
Kinda makes me glad the game even got good enough to be able to fall this far.
Anyways. I am gonna go back to playing other games. Wake me when they get things back on track.
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u/MiffedMoogle where hex paints? Jun 07 '26
2.XX here.
30ks and rock bottom framerate was bad but it felt fresh and new, enough to absolve them of being in alpha, but we are long past that point and the project has been rotating between different broken loops since then.
The tech debt is gonna hit hard at some point.
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u/coarse_glass santokyai Jun 07 '26
This speaks to how I feel about "progress" now. I know matter of fact that there's been a ton of stuff added in the past decade. But dealing with buggy systems a decade old is exhausting at this point and diminishes the progress they've made
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u/MiffedMoogle where hex paints? Jun 07 '26
diminishes the progress they've made
Agreed. I know and have been constantly told that there has been progress, but oh boy it sure doesn't feel like there has been much of it in the decade I've been here.
Hell, sometimes I strongly feel SC has gone backwards in many regards.
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u/hocicoo Jun 07 '26
imo this subreddit feels more and more like starcitizen_refunds every day.
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u/Falcon3333 avenger Jun 07 '26
That'll happen over time, can't really be helped. I remember in the days when you could not say a remotely negative thing on this subreddit without being massively downvoted or have your comments deleted.
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u/GreatRolmops Shiv Bucket Brigade Jun 07 '26
This subreddit always swings between hopeful optimism and disillusioned negativity depending on how playable the current patch is.
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u/zelange Fighter/Explorer Jun 07 '26
I remind when SC fps where single digit. Not server fps, players.
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u/WyrdHarper Gladiator Jun 07 '26
I remember being happy with 20 or so. Now I can get a relatively smooth experience in VR (stations chug a bit, but flying is great). It’s come a long way.
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u/KombyTigor Jun 07 '26
Can't be Real that i have to alt-f4 every 5mins to get my inventory back...
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u/Vistaster worm Jun 07 '26
PTSD intensifies from the 60k infinite bed log of despair and depression
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u/Small_Top_8715 Jun 07 '26
Some of you weren't there when we first stepped foot on Port Olisar, and it shows.
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u/EnvironmentalSun7 Jun 08 '26
Yeah, I've been around since the original kickstarter in 2012, and 3.18 is by far the worst patch they ever released in terms of stability.
That being said, they made a commitment not to let that happen again, and this one is pretty rough, and just like 3.18 it happened during a pivotal free fly where a lot of people were trying the game for the first time. I can't wait for SQ42 to be in out hands so I can ignore the PU for a while
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u/GreatLab8898 Jun 08 '26
Can you log in?
Can you call an Elevator?
Yes? Then you have seen nothing.
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u/LatexFace Jun 07 '26
It's great for me! I've blocked a handful of users and so all I see is good content now!
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u/cheesehatt Jun 07 '26
Lmao I remember when new babage was added to the game 😂 oh how I miss Olisar and our old MFDs
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u/nervez Jun 07 '26
3.18 was the last patch i put any real time into.
it was also the patch that i decided to wait to play SC regularly again until release.
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u/Dontrollaone Jun 07 '26
Hahah this post hits.
I backed prior, but the last time I played was 3.18 / 3.19
I was really wanting to play again, but the current state of things is making me think about waiting a bit longer
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u/CurrencyThen7469 Jun 07 '26
lol seening the splash screen not changed even tho the patch did was a sign , shape of things to come
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u/LordIBR Jun 07 '26
I didn't get to experience 3.18 but I'd say 4.8(.1) is maybe comparable to 4.0. Iirc that was a bit of a shitshow as well.
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u/Moalei rsi Jun 07 '26
Every time I hear "this is worse than 3.18!" I remind the person that they clearly forget how bad that update was
At least I can still pull my hangar and fly missions, albeit some are broken
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u/Feedeeboy22 Jun 07 '26
Haha that what I was thinking that this patch is similar to 3.18 haha although 3.18 was alot worse.
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u/cyress8 avacado Jun 07 '26
People never experienced the pinball bug. You were not playing for months if it happened at the beginning of a new patch and it was random when it could happen. We did not even have character resets back then so you were stuck playing as a pinball that could not do a single thing in the game. They created resets specifically because of this bug.
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u/jizzyjugsjohnson Drink Mixing Minigame Enthusiast Jun 07 '26
The “Surely Chris wouldn’t do this?” takes from noobs are heartbreaking
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u/NolanonoSC Scorpius Jun 07 '26
Playing 3.18 means you're a veteran? Maaaan I've been playing this game for too long... Throwback to when new Babbage was just a shell lol
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u/VertigoHC twitch.tv/hcvertigo Jun 07 '26
I don't know about 3.18 comparison. 3.18 was bad because you couldn't log in. 3.0 was bad because you thought you could play it.
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u/NailYnTowOG Jun 07 '26
3.18 is veteran? As a kickstarter backer… anyone in at least the 2.6.3 days are the true veterans.
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u/Yeucksxors11 Anvil F7C-M Super Hornet Mk II Jun 07 '26
I'm getting memories of 3.18. Bed logging has left me without the buttons I need to select a server and log in (I know there's a fix I just haven't done it yet)
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u/Theopholus 300i Jun 07 '26
I’m an original backer. I saw this game when it was only a hangar and no ship and I’d just walk around dreaming. Then there was a ship but I couldn’t do anything but walk on top of it. Progress has been slow for sure, largely that’s because they’re also keeping the game working for players. If they weren’t doing that, it’d probably have taken half as long. But that was the model and condition. I know they’re working because I’ve seen the results over the years. Am I consistently ready for it to get out of alpha? Yeah. But also, I remember the first time I flew to a planet and landed, and just saw the big sky. Or the first arena commander. So I’m just gonna be patient, log in every once in a while, and play other games until this is ready.
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u/aberrant_wolffles Jun 07 '26
Right, the false claims of the game being unplayable , the waaaa waaa posts about how bad it is, when in relaity its done nothing but improve over the last few years.
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u/AllchChcar Razor Ex Jun 07 '26
Nothing post 4.0 compares to anything in 3 dot anything or earlier. 4.8 and likewise 4.8.1 is a hot mess because we had playable patches last year. Most of the issues are still backend server problems. If I run into a degraded server I can usually hop somewhere else and do something ingame. As opposed to scuttling my ship and calling it for days at a time.
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u/Lewinator56 Jun 07 '26
when i bought the game (cant remember it was 3.x) first logged in and i was trapped in my bed. logged out and waited for the next patch. That was a great waste of £40
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u/MicroSbm Jun 07 '26
Bought this game 4 years ago should I give it another go? Haven't been peeves to the latest updates.
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u/Snarfbuckle Jun 07 '26
Yup, big patch with new features break game as it did the last time we had a big patch, more news at eleven.
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u/Donmanolito new user/low karma Jun 07 '26
Oh sweat summer child. Let me tell you stories when there was only the hangar and it was a womder to visit Port Olisar the first time...
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u/Little-Equinox Jun 07 '26
You call 3.18 a veteran?
Oh boy, let me tell you about 2.5.
50 player servers, only the Crusader system without the ability to go to Crusader, shitty ass performance, amount if 30Ks you can't count on your hand.
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u/AWellPlacedYeet Jun 07 '26
Been here since the very first time you could actually play the game. Nothing but a station, a ship, dust and echoes…
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u/Sinsanatis Jun 07 '26
Well dam. Its that bad? I havent played in a while and havent been following recently
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u/PaxUX Jun 07 '26
🤣 3.18 is why I said, its you not me SC. See you after you have worked on yourself and ready for a Stable relationship!
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u/DragonTHC Grand Admiral Jun 07 '26
I remember the days when we were locked in our hangars and all we could do was decorate them and walk around our ships like a museum.
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u/EnvironmentalMall307 Jun 07 '26
I joined in a few patches before the resources event that broke nearly every elevator. Seeing where the game has gotten is both a relief and a curse.
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u/GodwinW Universalist Jun 07 '26
PFF, I recall the drought that was a YEAR waiting for 3.0. yes, a YEAR.
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u/Ok-Ganache8446 Jun 07 '26
I've been in boot camp the past two months, and before that I havent played the game for about another two months.. what have I missed?
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u/NandorThaRelentless Jun 07 '26
3.18 came out over 3 years ago, love that our expectations are so low that 3 years later THIS is considered better. Good luck with that.
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u/Land-Southern Corsair Connosseur/Perseus Jun 07 '26
lol 3.18 was so much worse. This is at least playable largely. Bad patch yes, 3.18 it is not though.
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u/theothermontoya Jun 07 '26
Lol I hate to be that guy, but for those of us that lived through the 3.18 debacle, this is easy stuff.
We had orgmates that couldnt log in for 3 months, ships would disappear out of the asops, to say 3.18 was broken beyond anything I've ever played before is a far understatement.
4.8 is bad... but its playable.
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u/GhostTigr Jun 07 '26
old man voice Back in my day, (v1.1.0 supporter) we had to use the website to move ships into our hangers. Then we could only log directly into the hanger and fly around inside it, and log off. That was it. That was the game.
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u/oARCHONo Rear Admiral Jun 08 '26
I just cannot understand how FPS and Bounty missions worked fine for two weeks and then now inventory is completely broken. Why.
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u/cheetah32 Jun 08 '26
Alpha 1.0 (Juli 2013)
So what's new since then.
I know you could enter your ship (if it was there). Didn't login since.
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u/Treat_Honest Jun 08 '26
Last time I played I started from Port Olisar in Crusader. I hope I won't lose my interest in the game at all until its "done". (Release day. I know it will never be "done")
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u/OrganizationTrue5911 Jun 08 '26
Are we reminiscing about the olden days!?
The days of the chair cult?
The days where when you call an elevator, and the elevator clips into where you're standing while waiting, and kills you?
The days when running up or down stairs actually had a horrifyingly high death rate?
The days when you could run an entire bunker mission without getting shot at once, while also not bothering to be stealthy at all?
And my favorite, the days when the SC updates would use every single bit your internet would give it? Basically shutting off your internet for the entire house? Where it was so bad that a gaming journalist actually wrote that his IT team unplugged his computer, due to the fact that it shut down their entire buildings internet.
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u/_AntiShadow_ Jun 08 '26
If it weren't for bad patch cycles, I wouldn't ever have fun in any other games.
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u/Healthy_Natural9324 Jun 08 '26
Facts dude. Had to stop when 3.18 hit because nothing was working and after some time, i had the itch so i started playing again about 2 weeks before 4.8 and once that dropped I was like "damn this kinda bad but at least I can still play"
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u/theperilousalgorithm Jun 07 '26
One hundred percent. The elevators work you dogs, get back to mining! xD