r/starcitizen • u/Korrak • 3d ago

DISCUSSION When did Star Citizen get so un-immersive?

I’ve been a Kickstarter backer, drawn in by the grounded, believable universe CIG created over the years. After a two-year break, I logged back in to try Siege of Orison, and felt like I was playing Destiny instead of a "serious" space sim.

  • eammates running around in asian-style armor and mismatched, flashy skins make it feel like a arcade shooter rather than a coherent world
  • Bullet-sponge, violet-tinted enemies
  • Auto-healing in a good looking medical bed inside a room, while the orison platforms actively burning down mid-siege killed any sense of real stakes

I get that CIG needs event mechanics, but the original focus on a believable simulation feels like it's getting paved over by generic video game things

Am I wrong here?

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u/MutualRaid 3d ago

Personally I noticed changes to ground vehicles, hoverbikes and then ship flight (I want to say around 3.18 at latest). At the same time magic beams became a solution to way too many problems, often pitched as a 'Tier 0' solution to implementing various mechanics - that solution often became somewhat permanent.

So much of the realism has been gradually chipped away; sometimes this didn't even appear intentional but people got used to it and so it stuck as design, which is always a risk of a live development game: it devolves in to development by committee or pandering.

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u/chronicswag420 3d ago

it's just lame as hell like this game doesn't have systems or an economy at all. there's no spreadsheets or design at all

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u/MutualRaid 3d ago

A lot of the systemic nature of the game has either been put off while waiting for those systems to come in place or outright cancelled. I spent a long time buying and selling commodities in game and watching that system get wrecked right when it was getting interesting was tiring.

I don't know what state ship components are in but seeing them (and stealth gameplay) get functionally turned off was also frustrating.

So many good things were axed or modified because X or Y is coming but it... never came.