Submitted questions can be found here: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/looking-for-questions-star-citizen-live-brave-new-

Which version of Voyager are you on?

I’m on 2.18.5 with my Pixel 7 and everything is running fine for me.

Nice! If you’ve been able to avoid all the videos you’re definitely in for a treat.

Oh, ok. I didn’t realize he had been banned at one point on Spectrum. Doesn’t look like it now since he was posting on there earlier today: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/search?member=Camural (Link is currently messed up, you’ll need to remove then re-add his name to see)

I do like most of his videos, he definitely points out a lot of valid concerns, although there are definitely a few that I disagree with him on.

For a second I thought you were talking about Camural. I’ll have to look into some of Caracal’s videos. As long as he’s done some decent research and has valid criticism it’s probably worth watching.

Wow, way to take the whole thing out of context with those initial clips.

The first part of the video focuses on CIG talking about how the core tech for server meshing worked. Then it transitions to the recent video posted today where they were discussing RMQ and all of the issues that they ran into once they tried to scale up the servers to handle hundreds of players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCPaSkcK3mM&t=500s

These are 2 very different things and this video is either purposefully misrepresenting what was being said, or else they are doing a terrible job at understanding what is being talked about.

Either way I would not rely on “Jack Reacher” being a reliable source of information on any video game if this is the kind of content he puts out.

Every time you think you fixed it… You go deeper down the rabbit hole of what’s causing issues to bubble up.

Still, it’s great to see that they’re making a lot of progress on this front.

Yeah. The mission can be shared, and it goes a lot faster with a buddy.

There are 2 options for the missions, one for hauling cargo, and the other for defending a cargo hauler being attacked.

I haven’t tried the cargo hauling mission yet, but I’d assume it’s similar to the xenothreat cargo hauling where it would involve a little ship-to-ship combat and some FPS once you board the wrecked ship.

For the defend the cargo hauler mission, it’s soloable with a light fighter, it just takes a little longer to destroy some of the larger ships that might spawn in. They must have lowered the accuracy of the NPCs for this mission so that they weren’t hitting the NPC that you’re trying to defend. I was flying around in a Corsair and the NPCs were barely landing any shots on me. There are probably 10-20 enemy ships, the vast majority are light fighters (mostly M50s, Buccaneers, Hornets, Gladius, and maybe a Scythe or a Talon or two). There will also be a few medium sized ships like some Prowlers or the Freelancer Max, and maybe one larger ship like the MSR. Even if I took a while to destroy the ships, they never seemed to be able to destroy the NPC Cargo Hauler that I was supposed to defend.

The servers were running fine for me on the 3 or so that I tried out yesterday. I only encountered 1 server error (which will fail the mission once the server recovers).

Ah, ok I read into the spectrum thread a bit more.

It looks like we will be able to get additional rewards as the event moves from Phase to Phase:

Are there any other rewards for completing the event?
► Yes! We have many permanent rewards for this planned. However, to get every reward, you have to play all of it and finish it BEFORE 4.0 goes Live.

But it sounds like we have to finish everything for the ship weapons… Or else maybe it’s just to complete phase 1?

Confront the ruthless pirates terrorizing the Stanton system, defend its people, and (if you complete the whole event before 4.0 goes live) exclusive permanent in-game ship weapons will be yours!

They didn’t specofy a date for 4.0, but I wouldn’t expect it to release this year with the current state of the EPTU.

I could see it opening up to the PTU for the wider player audience, but if they rush it out by Christmas I would expect it to still be a broken mess.

Stability wise, 4.0 has gotten a lot better, but it feels like there are so many issues (such as missions not working properly)… Maybe I’ll change my mind after they roll out the new 4.0 patch today, but I hope they take the time to fix up a lot of the bugs we’ve been reporting.

Ackshully… It should be: “AaaS”.

Additional shots and cutaway can also be found here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/x3d8GY

Highlights from /r/starcitizen Discord News channel

➣ Q - Is the Valakkar the biggest creature?

• A - No, there are bigger creatures.

➣ Q - Will there be reputation/org armor that give unique specializations stats?

• A - Not quite, The majority of armor loadouts will be unlocked by player guilds/orgs but the org/guild will have to find blueprints to unique armors out in the PU. There will be no additional stats or bonuses because it was made buy a guild/org.

➣ Q - Will we use insurance or a blueprint to gain back subscriber armor?

• A - yes when crafting comes into star citizen you will receive a blueprint for your subscriber armor. This is not a replacement for the item kiosk/recovery

➣ Q - Has the team considered specialized clothing for jungles and swamps?

• A - Yes.

➣ Q - Will we be able to save armor loadout with gear?

• A - Yes, we want armor lockers to be used to quickly swap loadouts.

➣ Q - Will there be backpacks that are able to be used with regular clothing?

• A - Yes, we want to make dedicated backpacks that are used with clothing.

➣ Q - Why was the Boreal Stalker canceled?

• A - Its not canceled, we really want to do it.

➣ Q - Will we be able to wear clothing over armor?

• A - Yes, some armors will allow layers.

➣ Q - Will there be any new creatures released soon?

• A - There is one creature (Tor-luk) that is coming before the Valakkar and one coming after

➣ Q - Will it be possible to mix armors/clothing to min max stats?

• A - Absolutely.

➣ Q - What needs to be finished for the Valakkar to be released?

• A - The demo is completely playable but we want the worm to have bespoke collision. We also need to make sure it works well on the server and add some more animations.

This is starting to tick me off. Now you’ve got me all wound up!

Cooking from scratch is excellent… But there’s also an extreme for how far you consider “cooking from scratch” to actually be “from scratch”… For Example: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C76cACZB0oq/

Do you milk the cows yourself? Churn the butter? Etc.

For me, the article makes it seem like there’s some new announcement that the FBI has put out about a newly discovered vulnerability. Turns out, the announcement is about vulnerabilities we’ve known about for a long time.

Kitboga has used AI (STT, LLMs, and TTS) to waste the time of Scammers.

There are AI tools being used to develop new cures which will benefit everyone.

There are AI tools being used to help discover new planets.

I use DLSS for gaming.

I run a lot of my own local AI models for various reasons. Whisper - for Audio Transcriptions/Translations.

Different Diffusion Models (SD or Flux) - for some quick visuals to recap a D&D session.

Tesseract OCR - to scan an image and extract any text that it can find (makes it easy to pull out text from any image and make it searchable).

Local LLMs (Llama, Mixtral) for brainstorming ideas, reformatting text, etc. It’s great for getting started with certain subjects/topics, as long as I verify everything that it says.

For fun I’ll probably setup GLaDOS like what was done here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1csnexs/local_glados_now_running_on_windows_11_rtx_2060/

Orison in Star Citizen. One of the coolest cloud cities in gaming with some of the most amazing sunsets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YSoaOEr9D0

Edit: It’s hard to pick a picture that captures the experience (so I picked a few). A video is better, but actually being there in-game is a whole other level. Everything from the bars, food court, living spaces, shipyard and space port add to the experience.

I understand, that definitely makes sense then.

This isn’t an article about mistranslations.

This is an article focusing on how asking about US election questions in Spanish will give you answers that are for the wrong country, or just wrong in most cases when compared to asking the same question in English.

One example is that, if someone in Puerto Rico were to ask ChatGPT 4/Claude/Gemini/Llama/Mixtral a US Election question, it would respond with information for Venezuela/Mexico/Spain instead.