Star Citizen Live | DefenseCon Showcase: Odin Battlecruiser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFoQp6w ... XVyolQO3wj
Do you know Star Trek?
Isn't the Enterprise the heart of Star Trek, without which one of the most famous and longest-running TV shows is impossible?
This new SC spaceship is the setting of a TV show. It has all the functions to be that setting. That's why people are so hyped about it.
The interior is the size of an open-world game.
The functionality of what can happen inside the ship and what can be accomplished outside it is staggering. The possibilities infinite. And only by watching that video you will get them.
Check out the main hangar:
It opens at the back of the ship, but it also connects at the top to three smaller hangars on each side. This entire space is continuous, and there's even a giant freight elevator at the back for bringing freight up or supplies down to resupply the vehicles. You need an entire crew just to manage everything, outside the pilots coming and going. The functionality is unprecedented, but the aesthetics too are completely next-level. There isn't even a movie that looks this cool, let alone a game.
And that's just one part of what's shown in the video. The bridge is another.
See how the commander is standing inside a circular floor section? This is what happens when he presses a button:
A glass sphere comes up and encases him so he can have private conversations with subordinates even in the middle of a chaotic battle.
The ship is full of this kind of crazy stuff ripped off of countless sources (novels, movies, TV, anime): there is a metro with six stops running around the entire ship, there is a hospital, there is a contemplation room with stunning views of whatever planet is in the background, there is a tactical room whose holospheres look like they were ripped out of an RTS, there is briefing room that looks like a parliament.
There is nothing like it in all of gaming. And yes, CIG isn't sure it can build it, and they even say that it's a new distant goal for them that they set up to challenge themselves. And you best believe that they have no idea what kind of content to make in order to fully utilize it. They haven't even started thinking about it.
Of course people will make movies in it ("machinima"), and it will also no doubt be used in Squadron 42 sequels, but who knows what kind of semi-scripted and semi-sandbox content they can build to incentivize SC players to use the private bridge bubble button, the contemplation room, the parliament.
So no, this is not just another Star Citizen ship. This is the future of gaming, and the smartest, most hardcore gamers in the world know it, which is why it raised 5 million in ten minutes [ > ], and you had to win an essay competition explaining what you plan to do with the ship before even being allowed the chance to buy it.
So let the midwits whine on Steam about microtransactions, while cutting-edge gaming runs on macrotransactions, exactly as art did in the Renaissance (see Renaissance Gaming and the Most Expensive Game Ever), and poor people aren't even aware of it to whine about it. And it is these macrotransactions that fuel greatness, and allow the developers to dream big without having to worry about bills and market conditions like midwit developers must.
Watch the video if you care about cutting-edge gaming at all.
And, by the way, it costs $5,000 and The Cult owns one [ > ].
@fmartingorb wrote:This made the Idris look like a Gladius.
@mitchcyphers6344 wrote:The Odin will win every engagement just by crashing the server.
@neo2264 wrote:Walking through some of that thing in VR... or on it... any of the gantries... or under the turret... gonna be the experience of a lifetime.
@karmioya wrote:Just the thought that the entire length of a Polaris might only be the size of the Odin's main gun mount is absolutely mind-blowing.
@sirberticus3815 wrote:2003 Freelancer game had a few NPC battlecruiser trading posts. They never moved, but you could land and buy/sell or effect repairs.
CommanderAmaro wrote:Good lord it's practically launching ICBMs.
