(Citizen Star News) - 2014-04-20 - CIG/RSI released a new video, covering the PAX East event (unveiling what was called the Dog Fighting Module or DFM, but now dubbed Arena Commander) in all it's glory and pain. Pulling no punches at how difficult things were, but also showing how incredible everything is when it works. Additional video created after PAX East goes into how things went on the show floor (timeindex 22:44) and (23:15) after PAX getting into some interesting new details about the helmet flip animation, missile countermeasures, flying around in your space suit and free flight modes.

In spite the difficulties, press and fans overall seem to have judged the reveal a success, and eagerly await deployment of the alpha. Of particular note is how Hardware manufacturers and integrators are so interested, because they know Star Citizen will be driving hardware sales like nothing in recent history.

PAX East was also a treasure trove of information, several in depth interviews has revealed quite a bit of detail about what is coming in the next months even years.

(Additional discussion and media links after the break.)

Interviews

First interview people should see after looking at the launch is Gamers Nexus catching Chris on the show floor that answers the question what happened? I think it answers most of the questions, how there were technical difficulties that prevented CIG from showing it's most stable build, but also the indomitable attitude that kept CIG pressing on and succeeding in spite it all.



Other reveal focused interviews/videos:

LinusTechTips - interview with Chris Roberts - PAX East 2014

VISO Games with Sandi Gardiner

Tek Syndicate - A Conversation with Chris Roberts

GeekDomo - Interview with Chris Roberts



Must see interviews w/ important details of whats to come:

Gamers Nexus - talking to Chris Roberts - Electronics & Espionage + FPS Mechanics & Gameplay

GeekDomo - PAX East interview with Erin Roberts

Hull Truth - Interview with Ben Lesnick



Press Roundup



Rave reviews

With a nice interview with Chris Roberts:

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/883/view/videos/play/3511/Chris-...

http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/13/5609590/star-citizens-arena-commander

http://kotaku.com/14-minutes-of-the-super-slick-star-citizen-in-action-1...

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-awesome-video-game-is-the-closest-thing-w...



Balanced

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/14/star-citizen-combat-video/

http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/21359/article/star-citizen-will-have-...

http://www.incgamers.com/2014/04/star-citizen-dogfighting-module-details...



Short Takes

http://www.gameplanet.com.au/pc/news/g534b2da5ed7ce/Star-Citizen-extende...

http://www.lazygamer.net/video/star-citizens-dogfighting-in-action/

http://www.vg247.com/2014/04/14/star-citizen-dogfight-footage-shows-bugg...

http://powerleveled.com/star-citizens-first-launch-into-the-public-shows...

http://www.gamersbook.com/News/Article/ID/758/Star-Citizen-Dogfighting-G...

http://techreport.com/news/26313/star-citizen-demo-shows-off-15-minutes-...

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/04/14/pax-east-2014-erin-roberts-on-st...

http://gamerant.com/star-citizen-dogfighting-module-gameplay-video/



Not so friendly

News enough to get picked up by Time Magazine's online presence but the story is neither friendly nor particularly insightful:

http://time.com/61431/check-out-12-minutes-of-star-citizen-not-being-the...

Nonsensical comment of the batch: "the dogfighting module reveal is likely to only fuel the complaints of those who call the game 'vaporware'." Tempted to put this article into the balanced column, as it is (outside of the vaporware comment) fairly that. Reviewer comments pushed it over the edge though.

http://themittani.com/news/star-citizen-reveals-dogfighting-module

Scuttlebutt

We would be remiss if we didn't mention these two attempts to round up all of the new things learned from dev interviews and discussions. The CIG developers were quite freely discussing details at the show and there were quite a few surprises.

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/120537/things-learn...

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/22xdui/a_place_to_gather_ne...

Update: See also this similarly themed video from Domination Agenda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qEOjJvQ2NM

Summary

All in all, in spite being marred by some difficulties this event seems to be a spectacular success. Chris Roberts' style of sharing the development process and letting people in on the difficulties and rewards of the development process seems to be winning over more than just the core community. Very different from how most game companies work. We'll see how disruptive and influential this ends up being to the industry.

Let us know if there are any articles missed, we'll add them to the roundup. Or feel free to argue with our conclusions.

Update (2014-04-22): CIG's own Press Roundup