Justin Tyme posted:

Are croberts and sandy married/lovers? was this ever figured out?

quote:

Question: Will there be 1-shot kills, or are people damage-sponges in the FPS?

Answer: There certainly will be 1 shot kills but it all depends on your armor, weapon and ammo type.

source: https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/3665862/#Comment_3665862

Octopode posted:

All of CIG is one giant Heinleinesque love pit.

Black Dynamite posted:

From the AMA


Q: Can you provide an example of the kind of gameplay experience you're looking for? Maybe a description of what an encounter between two players might be like in terms of lethality, weapons used, moves used, length of play, etc?



A: there are so many. lets just pull one randomly from the sky. A Persistent Universe experience. I'm a stealthy, solo player. I find a wrecked ship, i know scavengers will be around soon. I find a crate and put myself in it. I let the scavengers take the crate and put me in their ship. When i'm on their ship, some time later, i get out of the crate. Very quietly, i rummage around and find some goodies i like. I steal those... now i can either - A) Jump out the airlock and call a ride or B) go to their engine room and self destruct their ship or C) quietly hunt and execute the entire staff and take their ship.... or Z) they could have scanned the crate properly before loading it, blasted it with their ship and me with it....



This actually sounds fantastic.

Black Dynamite posted:

From the AMA


Q: Can you provide an example of the kind of gameplay experience you're looking for? Maybe a description of what an encounter between two players might be like in terms of lethality, weapons used, moves used, length of play, etc?



A: there are so many. lets just pull one randomly from the sky. A Persistent Universe experience. I'm a stealthy, solo player. I find a wrecked ship, i know scavengers will be around soon. I find a crate and put myself in it. I let the scavengers take the crate and put me in their ship. When i'm on their ship, some time later, i get out of the crate. Very quietly, i rummage around and find some goodies i like. I steal those... now i can either - A) Jump out the airlock and call a ride or B) go to their engine room and self destruct their ship or C) quietly hunt and execute the entire staff and take their ship.... or Z) they could have scanned the crate properly before loading it, blasted it with their ship and me with it....



This actually sounds fantastic.

Chomp8645 posted:

Does the Z) option sounds fantastic? Because that is what will happen literally every single time after the first week of release.

I can't believe that people can read poo poo like that and take it even remotely seriously.

Black Dynamite posted:

From the AMA


Q: Can you provide an example of the kind of gameplay experience you're looking for? Maybe a description of what an encounter between two players might be like in terms of lethality, weapons used, moves used, length of play, etc?



A: there are so many. lets just pull one randomly from the sky. A Persistent Universe experience. I'm a stealthy, solo player. I find a wrecked ship, i know scavengers will be around soon. I find a crate and put myself in it. I let the scavengers take the crate and put me in their ship. When i'm on their ship, some time later, i get out of the crate. Very quietly, i rummage around and find some goodies i like. I steal those... now i can either - A) Jump out the airlock and call a ride or B) go to their engine room and self destruct their ship or C) quietly hunt and execute the entire staff and take their ship.... or Z) they could have scanned the crate properly before loading it, blasted it with their ship and me with it....



This actually sounds fantastic.

Broccoli Cat posted:

sounds too good to be true

Rastor posted:

the story of star citizen

Chomp8645 posted:

Does the Z) option sounds fantastic? Because that is what will happen literally every single time after the first week of release.

I can't believe that people can read poo poo like that and take it even remotely seriously.

Reddit AMA posted:

Q: Will you be able to damage a ships systems from the inside intentionally or non-intentionally?
A: Absolutely!
Q Follow-Up: Would you be able to elaborate on how you see the details of that working?
A: There are various systems in a ship, gravity, power, oxygen, various hazards, your engine, shields, etc. - when you start playing with power in the ship, for example, you can accidentally overload a system and have to run and fix it! or you could... 'accidentally' throw a grenade into an unprotected gravity generator :P

Black Dynamite posted:

From the AMA


Q: Can you provide an example of the kind of gameplay experience you're looking for? Maybe a description of what an encounter between two players might be like in terms of lethality, weapons used, moves used, length of play, etc?



A: there are so many. lets just pull one randomly from the sky. A Persistent Universe experience. I'm a stealthy, solo player. I find a wrecked ship, i know scavengers will be around soon. I find a crate and put myself in it. I let the scavengers take the crate and put me in their ship. When i'm on their ship, some time later, i get out of the crate. Very quietly, i rummage around and find some goodies i like. I steal those... now i can either - A) Jump out the airlock and call a ride or B) go to their engine room and self destruct their ship or C) quietly hunt and execute the entire staff and take their ship.... or Z) they could have scanned the crate properly before loading it, blasted it with their ship and me with it....



This actually sounds fantastic.

Courthouse posted:

While my first instinct is to agree with your conclusion, it does hinge on the assumption of "surely the pubbies will learn". And yet, Jita burns each year.

Courthouse posted:

You say this as if it's a joke and not something that has in fact already happened.

quote:

Absolutely, your limb damage will have severe impacts on how the mechanics work - and it is limb specific too, not just an overall of 'oh youre kind of hurt'. For example, if your left arm is hurt but you throw grenades with your right, your right throw won't really be impacted.

it is planned for players to choose their dominant hand it will have a direct impact resulting from limb damage.

It's a mixture of all 3, your limbs all equal a total health but those limb states will have an impact on how quickly your overall health dwindles and bleeding out is a state that can happen if any limb is 'ruined', which can make you die rather quickly.

I dont know about limb severing as that enters gore territory but your limbs will certainly be 'ruined' and therefore useless and need to be replaced with a fake limb.

There certainly will be some gains to having a cybernetic limb for certain elements. This puts you at risk in other areas too, especially from EMP type damage or radiation/laser weaponry.

DatonKallandor posted:

That is literally the dumbest thing I have ever heard. There is no universe in which that is good gameplay or design. The entire scenario has so many holes in it you could confuse it for a loving aurora in the AC. It's so dumb I assumed the whole thing was a joke in the style of the 10 for the Beer God.

PittTheElder posted:

What ever happened to that NATO-type good-guy alliance that we goons (under what banner I have no idea) then tried to join, to much wailing and gnashing of teeth?

Broccoli Cat posted:

sounds too good to be true

3 posted:

No loving joke, I made a silly video for my fake spaceship group and the whole organization loving imploded.

imperialparadox posted:

The FPS portion of Star Citizen sounds awesome, but so did the original pitch for Star Citizen, and we see how much of that "vision" has changed (been discarded) already. My main question would be, what other games has Ilfonic Redacted worked on, to show us their experience in the field.

3 posted:

No loving joke, I made a silly video for my fake spaceship group and the whole organization loving imploded.

calusari posted:

Injuries

Justin Tyme posted:

oh my god gently caress this stupid game, do any of them have any idea how extremely frustratingly bad this sort of gameplay is?

I tried some zombie mod for Arma 3 called Breaking Point that had a broken leg/can't-sprint-when-injured mechanic and it literally forces you to crawl everywhere and they only thing that can fix it is a rare medical item. In a game where the world size is like 300KM^2. The kind of retards that love these mechanics are a cancer to game design.

quote:

It's clear that someone has gone through looking at what needs to be done and dumped some cold hard reality on to the estimated schedules. There also also recent efforts to "retool" the production pipelines to make them more efficient. Perhaps if successful, these estimate delivery dates could be beaten for once, although that would be fairly unheard of at CIG.

(Side effect of this has been some loss of beloved personnel, we've already noticed that Chris Olivia has quietly left the company, and there seems to be more of this type of news coming. The Citizen Star is in contact with CIG and tracking this closely.)

Delays

In Episode 42 of 10 For the Chairman Ep 42, Chris Roberts referred to delivering the first chapter of Squadron 42 in late 2015 to backers. This is the same deliverable that at last Pax East was end of this year to March.

Arena Commander 3.0 isn't on that slide because the road map doesn't extend into 2016. We are looking at the first, likely primitive, PU alphas maybe at the end of 2015.

It's worth noting that Squadron 42 is supposed to drop 4 additional chapters, one every 3 months. Meaning complete near the end of 2016. Not sure if it is still true, but Squadron 42 was supposed to be complete before the PU went beta.

A 2017 release is looking more and more likely.

...
Patch 14 (Arena Commander v1.0)

Chris had said two months from Gamescom was the estimated release date at the time, but now we seem to be hoping for before the end of 2014.

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FPS Module

Expecting to see a reveal and demo of the work done so far (and likely more details of the scope of the module) at the CIG Event at PAX Australia, Oct. 28th 2014 (Date wrong here it's November 1). This is the first release deliverable listed for 2015 in the roadmap, so hopefully Q1.
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Planetside(Social) Module Hat Module

Several recent comments in different contexts have placed this module into next year. It had been slated earlier, but various work has pushed it back. Second deliverable of the 2015 roadmap. Something around South by Southwest (SXSW) in March? In a recent Around the Verse, Ben and Sandi mentioned SXSW as being a really big deal for Star Citizen. It is still unclear what this module entails, but clearly the Terra and ArcCom Landing zones will be featured. Avatar customization may be seen here? Citizen Con 2014 showed a number of features that we can hope for, MobiGlas and attire, hats. Layered clothing.
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Release

Final Ship for Star Citizen PU can be reasonably estimated anywhere between Q1 of 2016 and sometime 2017. Really up in the air at this point, as there is a lot of ground to cover and much of the work is still in planning stages.

quote:

NOTE: All date estimates from CIG are subject to change. Citizen Star News has no additional knowledge on dates outside of public comments. CIG was contacted for comment but has so far not opted to do so. The work CIG is doing is groundbreaking, pushing into new territory and the agile methodology they use does not lend itself to hard dates.

Justin Tyme posted:

oh my god gently caress this stupid game, do any of them have any idea how extremely frustratingly bad this sort of gameplay is?

I tried some zombie mod for Arma 3 called Breaking Point that had a broken leg/can't-sprint-when-injured mechanic and it literally forces you to crawl everywhere and they only thing that can fix it is a rare medical item. In a game where the world size is like 300KM^2. The kind of retards that love these mechanics are a cancer to game design.

Revelation 2-13 posted:

This is also what DayZ does, and it's part of what makes it amazing. I guess/hope they'll have an more traditional arena-style fps section (like arena commander) for those who don't like the intensity/realism/frustration, but just want to shoot mans all day.

Broccoli Cat posted:

um, some of us are actually trying to make friends in our guilds by allowing them to shoot off parts of our bodies because we want cool prosthetics

Naturally Selected posted:

There are people that fall over and over for money doubling scams, people that hand over literally hundreds of dollars' worth of in-game currency and items every few months to the same exact scams, etc. Pubbies do not learn, ever.

AP posted:

tarbrush posted:

Isn't the whole loving POINT of Agile that you get as far as you can in a set timeframe and whatever you finish is what that part is?

Hybridfusion posted:

No that is not how the agile development process works.

tarbrush posted:

I have been misled by my boss then.

Hybridfusion posted:

Everyone start saving up your paychecks,

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/193428/the-next-concept-sale-is

Only $85! It's practically free.