So has anybody else tried SC? Have done most things in NMS, so thought I’d try Star Citizen. £45 to get a basic ship. Okay…. So this is what I found

So you have to do a 30 min tutorial. Crashed the ship twice (fair enough), game crashed once (blue screen of death equivalent). Got in a lift, fell through the floor, died. Took off, couldn’t land back, while trying to find out why, game threw me out after 5 mins for lack of activity. 6th time, finished it yay, over 2.25 hours instead of 30 mins, marvellous.

Now the game – a few things you should know

It’s a sim, so don’t expect NMS. It’s been 10 years, $650m and they have 1100 employees and it’s so buggy, error driven, loads of glitches etc etc The idea of having to take off your helmet to drink or eat sounds great to start off with, until you realise how much you have to do that at which point you really wish you didn’t need to. Ditto waking up in your room then having to get up take an elevator, into the lobby, run to the metro station, get on a metro, wait while to gets to the spaceport, get off, run to the screens to call in your spaceship, get in a lift, get to the hanger, turn on the ship, ask for permission to leave, lift, raise landing gear, wait for the doors to open, then you can leave. First time wooooo lovely, 5th time ‘just get ON with it!!!!’ You can only save by going to sleep on your ship or in your home spaceport. So no popping off to make a coffee or eat or “I’ll just pop on for 5 minutes” – this is a game where you need to sit for some time and plan when you are going to take a break/log out It’s very very pretty if you have a PC that can run it at full graphics quality but even then you can get some strange effects and glitches If you have dodgy internet it’s going to be a problem, throws you out if there is a problem. Would report on the missions but I haven’t had the game not crash for long enough to finish one. Nice community – was having an issue to I asked, got loads of helpful responses and then someone gifted me a load of credits to give me a good start. Then I got the email saying we have some deals on ships – had a look – £200 ???? No I don’t think so …….. Oh and it resets frequently so you are back where you started And no VR (NMS should be free on every VR headset! I’ve got 250 hours on the original Rift)

I’m am going to stop there, but ultimately if you want better graphics consider it, but if you want a reliable gaming experience stick with NMS.