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I was going to buy a 890 Jump to flip but then I thought, what idiot would want such a pointless space ship? In other news my beer fund is up by 600.
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Nita posted:I was going to buy a 890 Jump to flip but then I thought, what idiot would want such a pointless space ship? In other news my beer fund is up by 600. That's some incredible ENRON accounting right there.
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Oct 11, 2014 20:08
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AP posted:
Wonder what those Transverse guys are thinking
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Oct 11, 2014 20:09
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Zeike posted:Wonder what those Transverse guys are thinking "Why did I pitch my idea to  " 
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Oct 11, 2014 21:16
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Broccoli Cat posted:I see zero space-downside to any of it That you spent $600 on it.
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Oct 11, 2014 21:17
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I kinda liked seeing the Planetside Demo, though it was buggy and choppy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gGLE3USB2U The masturbating space pilot at 6:25 was a nice touch. Edit: Also, Sandi being smacked around. http://i.imgur.com/mvVpcus.gif Rincewinds fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Oct 11, 2014 21:26
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Rincewinds posted:I kinda liked seeing the Planetside Demo, though it was buggy and choppy. Incredibly pretty if it wasn't for the very obnoxious motion blur. And a sensible developer would let you "call ahead" and do your shopping and mission taking/handing in during the landing sequence and/or from your landed ship. So I expect the whole time-wasting decon, contraband scan, walking around part to be mandatory. DatonKallandor fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Oct 11, 2014 22:06
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DatonKallandor posted:Incredibly pretty if it wasn't for the very obnoxious motion blur. And a sensible developer would let you "call ahead" and do your shopping and mission taking/handing in during the landing sequence and/or from your landed ship. So I expect the whole time-wasting decon, contraband scan, walking around part to be mandatory. Yea, landing sequence and custom control is something they need to make optional, because it's gonna get tedious. It's fine for the first visits but after awhile you are gonna be smashing that escape button as soon as the sequence starts.
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Oct 11, 2014 22:13
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But in the PU, if someone else is watching you land, how exactly do you skip a landing sequence?
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Oct 11, 2014 22:24
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This illustrates nicely the proverbial dick waving contest.
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Oct 11, 2014 22:25
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Rincewinds posted:Yea, landing sequence and custom control is something they need to make optional, because it's gonna get tedious. It's fine for the first visits but after awhile you are gonna be smashing that escape button as soon as the sequence starts. It's probably all there to mask loading stuff. So it's probably not skippable.
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Oct 11, 2014 22:30
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Rincewinds posted:Yea, landing sequence and custom control is something they need to make optional, because it's gonna get tedious. It's fine for the first visits but after awhile you are gonna be smashing that escape button as soon as the sequence starts. All depends on just how often you end up actually having to land on planets. If it's like Elite with it's docking every 15 minutes it'll get old fast, if dumping loot and getting missions is something you do once a gaming session it won't be that a big deal. If they are into making you do the motions every landing (not improbable since it is probably there to mask loading) they could just have some NPC hanging around some orbital nav beacon where you can dump loot, repair/rearm and get missions. Let immersion people go planetside and do all the immersive npc interaction for a wee bonus to prices to keep people happy, and let casuals just get their business done fast in orbit.
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Oct 11, 2014 22:33
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What I'd actually like to see is the option to do it manually to save time. It works like that in elite. You buy a docking computer and hit dock and go to the bathroom or whatever, and 5 minutes later when you're back, you're all docked up. Or, you fly in manually and dock in 10 seconds.
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Courthouse posted:Let immersion people go planetside and do all the immersive npc interaction for a wee bonus to prices to keep people happy, and let casuals just get their business done fast in orbit. This actually would make a lot of sense. I think it would work exceptionally well if you could sell everything off at an orbital station for a ~5% fee to cover transporting it/convenience. This would double up by making planetside locations less crowded.
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Furism posted:This illustrates nicely the proverbial dick waving contest. :windmill: <-- that one's mine
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Oct 11, 2014 22:48
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 Icecream! Who wants a scoop?
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I think I'll be happy with my Reclaimer that I can start at release going out and being a Space Jew making resources to resell. Are there any solid numbers to how many Goons picked these up? redwalrus posted:
Nice man, after watching the live stream this mother fucker isn't going to make it to release, he gonna die
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Rincewinds posted:I kinda liked seeing the Planetside Demo, though it was buggy and choppy. What pisses me off is that there's no flying involved in that whole landing sequence. You're just stuck on a lovely landing sequence and supposed to have a wank at the graphics in the meantime. Edit: also, once again, CR manages to impress people with a PU that looks great, but has no actual gameplay elements. Am I the only one who's going to be impressed by those graphics once and then go 'ok, so how am I going to have fun with this?' Barnsy fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Bitter Beard posted:I think I'll be happy with my Reclaimer that I can start at release going out and being a Space Jew making resources to resell. If you think you'll have a flying Reclaimer on release... The Avenger has been in the hangar for a year and we still can't fly it, and it's actually modeled.
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Oct 11, 2014 23:01
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rockopete posted:drat Ben don't stand next to James like that Jesus. I mean, even everybody's OTHER fat lovable video game bastard Gabe Newell went and lost himself a ton of weight.
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Oct 11, 2014 23:07
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Really not liking the Cutlass variants. Red is ok I guess, since SAR was part of it's description. What is that thing where the turret is supposed to be, the docking collar? So is the Cutlass Blue just a rehash of what the Avenger was supposed to be? A Police boat that you can haul bad dudes around in. I guess I was expecting something like a dedicated boarding craft that would strip out the bunks and toilet for more dudes or a salvage one that could chop stuff up and have a mini gripping arm. Selling from space sounds cool. If CIG doesn't do it maybe someone could sit in orbit and play Pawn Stars. Or if they do let your NPCs fly your ships, load one up and send it off to sell your crap for you.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Jesus. I mean, even everybody's OTHER fat lovable video game bastard Gabe Newell went and lost himself a ton of weight. If he lost it, Ben found it. 
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RescueFreak posted:Selling from space sounds cool. If CIG doesn't do it maybe someone could sit in orbit and play Pawn Stars. Or if they do let your NPCs fly your ships, load one up and send it off to sell your crap for you. This is what the Banu Merchantman is for.
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Rincewinds posted:I kinda liked seeing the Planetside Demo, though it was buggy and choppy. Yeah all those transitions and "please stand by for rectal scan" stuff to buy a laser pistol won't loving ever get old
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Bitter Beard posted:I think I'll be happy with my Reclaimer that I can start at release going out and being a Space Jew making resources to resell. I don't know about goons, but I certainly have one and I'm really hoping to do a one-on-one reclaimer battle with anybody who is willing. it would be a loving epic spectacle and get many youtube views. EDIT: capntastic took me up on this and I may not survive for another battle...god it will be hilarious Broccoli Cat fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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I just tried the Hornet in the AC since we get to see how the whale side lives this week. I couldn't stop laughing throughout the whole session (it was actually a local LAN coop session - we were all laughing since nobody was stupid enough to spend Hornet money on SC so we'd never seen the Mantis or Hornet). It's even more hideously overpowered than I thought. It is literally a god ship, with god guns. A Hornet with a mouse means you never die and everything you click on dies. It's absolutely bonkers. For fun I cheated some gimbals on my Aurora (thanks wonky outfitting screen for making the very concept of gimbals an item you can transfer between ships) and put the Mantis Gatlings on it. They're like having Omniskys that don't need power and fire as fast as the Repeater line. Completely and utterly mad. I did notice in the course of that experiment that they fixed the Aurora wobble completely. It actually handles like a proper (cumbersome but without quirks) ship now. Of course it's still pointless to fly it in it's "proper" config (without gimbals) but that's because every ship without gimbals is completely pointless and every ship without Mantis or Omniskys is double pointless. Also flying anything but mouse means gimbals don't work - which means those controls schemes make even ships with gimbals, you guessed it, pointless. DatonKallandor fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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Kurnugia posted:Yeah all those transitions and "please stand by for rectal scan" stuff to buy a laser pistol won't loving ever get old All they have to do is feed in some useful info to you during those loading screens. The price of the boar dicks you're planning to buy and haul to Butthole Centauri (where there is obviously a boar dick shortage) for instance. Or what jobs are available. Let the player customize the data feed, and see what they are interested in most. There are ways to make that cutscene useful so that it's not completely wasted time, even if it ends up being completely unskippable. Plus, I don't know about you guys, but I'd rather see a cool cutscene for the 1000th time than "Loading..." for the 9 millionth in any case.
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Hehe yeah the Hornet is fun as hell with a mouse and keyboard. Really hope they don't dumb things down for the HOTAS and joystick people. I'm getting some serious Morrowind vibes from those player animations in the planetside demo
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I am surprised noone has done the math on this timeline yet. CR said that there will be 5 episodes of SQ42, with 3 month intervals. I did not misunderstand him... did I? Considering that SQ42 is at the bottom of that list - meaning they will get to it at the end of 2015 probably, 4x3 months means that the 5th SQ42 episode comes out end of 2016. And PU is AFTER that. It puts PU launch - possibly even PU beta launch well into 2017. I know its a given in this thread that "the game will probably not come out this decade" but I have not seen a CIG schedule yet that would stretch the development so far. Edit: On the positive side, my kid will be almost 3 by that time and I might actually be able to sneak in some time to play this game SirTagz fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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SirTagz posted:I am surprised noone has done the math on this timeline yet. CR said that there will be 5 episodes of SQ42, with 3 month intervals. I did not misunderstand him... did I? incorrect: SQ42 EP1 and then PU. Not 1-5 and then PU.
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Hybridfusion posted:incorrect: SQ42 EP1 and then PU. Not 1-5 and then PU. So are they not doing the SQ42 to earn your citizenship thing anymore?
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I'm guessing you earn your citizenship after chapter 1, and that 2-5 are you re-enlisting, or something.
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RescueFreak posted:So are they not doing the SQ42 to earn your citizenship thing anymore? They've mentioned that SQ42 content will come out periodically after PU launch, and that your performance or actions in SQ42 will somehow retroactively carry over.
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Alternatively they'll just wipe the whole universe and start over based on how your character did in SQ42. Here, have some awesome clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dekkDN9pKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc4SPXgNyAQ Beer4TheBeerGod fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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Oct 12, 2014 02:15
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I like how they talk in their own marketing vids about how they're doing things that the engine they picked was in no way designed to do and how that makes it difficult. I dunno guys, maybe that means you just picked the wrong engine then?
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macnbc posted:I like how they talk in their own marketing vids about how they're doing things that the engine they picked was in no way designed to do and how that makes it difficult. Which engine would you have suggested, then? There are basically no extant game engines that would do what they needed to which are available for licensing. It was a choice of taking an engine and modifying some portion of it to meet their needs, or doing it all from scratch. I don't see any scenario where doing everything from scratch is a faster or cheaper option than doing some portion less than everything from scratch.
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macnbc posted:I like how they talk in their own marketing vids about how they're doing things that the engine they picked was in no way designed to do and how that makes it difficult. It's ok. They already poached all the talent they need to develop their own engine branch directly from CryTek. 
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calusari posted:Hehe yeah the Hornet is fun as hell with a mouse and keyboard. Really hope they don't dumb things down for the HOTAS and joystick people. Oh wow, that's a big change then. I haven't played AC since it went public for everyone, but originally m/kb players were eating poo poo compared to hotas setups (and everyone was bitching about the OR being overpowered). Is it worth patching up to play now? I remember it being pretty bad at the time.
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Octopode posted:Which engine would you have suggested, then? What I don`t get is that then, CR goes on and on about how they had to go over thousands of lines of code to turn the engine from 32 to 64 bits, and how long and painful that process was.
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