When 3.3 dropped, we introduced our brand new telemetry page, which Chris debuted at CitizenCon this year. I want to ask, quite simply, how does that work?
TL;DRThe telemetry page replaces fixed minimum and recommended specs with an interactive graph of collected performance and hardware data, letting players log in and compare their own machine's results against other players' CPUs and GPUs.
So one of the most common questions that we get is about performance in our game and what it takes as far as hardware to run a game that's so demanding like Star Citizen. We used to generate minimum and recommended specifications as a guideline that we could distribute out to our players so they could generalize how they should build their machines or what kind of hardware they would need to run our game. Now, previously, this worked to an extent, but we wanted to refine this process and give the players more insight into this data. So we've taken some of the data that we collect when it comes to performance, like frames per second, as well as the hardware the players have, and we've summarized this in an interactive graph that players are able to view to see where certain performance falls in respect to things like your CPU and your GPU. Now, when you log into our website, you're able to look at your own summary of your performance and hardware that's generated from the data that you send during your gameplay session and then compare that against other players. So you can see exactly where your specific machine falls against those with very high range CPUs as well as the average. And the same thing goes for GPUs.