124
Star Citizen Hits $900 Million in Crowdfunding After a Record-Breaking Year
(entertainmentniche.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
124 points (97.0% liked)
PC Gaming
13772 readers
292 users here now
For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki
Rules:
- Be Respectful.
- No Spam or Porn.
- No Advertising.
- No Memes.
- No Tech Support.
- No questions about buying/building computers.
- No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
- No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
- No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
- Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I wonder if it'd be out by now if they had picked a different engine. It can't be easy finding devs experienced in fucking CryEngine, especially when you're using a heavily-customized fork of an ancient version of that engine.
The choice of CryEngine was because of Crysis, a game that was infamous for PC killing visuals. Roberts doesn't just want a gran open universe, but also something that looks like real life.
Which is why on two occasions new ships were put off from development in order to competent overhaul existing ships to look better, as better graphics became the norm.
I'm surprised development hasn't completely paused once again to overhaul everything for raytracing.
They hired about 1/3 of the cryengine staff.
Not many of those are left.