MassivelyOP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards kick off today with our award for the Worst way to die in an MMORPG. Yes, it’s time once again for the Golden Yachties series, named in honor of somebody we’ve long forgotten from Old Massively who insisted that surely we make so much money that we’re typing MMO blog posts from a gold-plated yacht. (Joke’s on you; it was always silver. Gold is too heavy.)
And the winner is…
Dying in a fire in Star Citizen
Move over, bedsheet physics, we got a new contender for Star Citizen insanity: Star Citizen studio CIG announced this past summer that the 4.0 build will, for some reason, introduce realistic fire on ships that can pretty much burn you and everyone else alive. Now that’s immersion.
“Alpha 4.0 will finally introduce the long-gestating fire propagation system to the sandbox, which will consider factors like combustibility of material, amount of oxygen, and heat of ignition source to determine what starts fires and how they spread. That means that real-world fire behavior is being simulated, like how certain materials will take longer to catch fire than others and how not fully snuffing the heat of a fire can reignite a blaze. Fires can currently be started either by players or by ship items receiving damage or through item wear and tear, while putting fires out will involve either cutting off oxygen by turning off life support in the area, opening the ship to the vacuum of space, or utilizing on-board fire extinguishers.”
Yep, definitely gonna trigger some nightmares.
Runner-up: Jumping to your death for cheevos after learning Concord was toast. Geez.
Want to nominate another winner? Let us know in the comments, and don’t forget to check out our serious MMO awards while you’re at it, or skim through our past “winners”: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.
