Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Okay, so it's a project manager. From an engineering perspective it's a ridiculously difficult job. I assume it's even more difficult in software development since your tasking is entirely personnel based. When I'm managing an engineering project I can at least get a sense of how long a widget will take to build since it's a physical item. Figuring out people is far more difficult.

alf_pogs posted:

sure the team can play through all the missions. sure.

so why the gently caress hasnt anybody seen any of it?

Einbauschrank posted:

From the article:


"If we do especially well or badly in a mission, this could unlock further missions. That's the plan, but the developers couldn't show us anything that went beyond the presentations of CitizenCon 2015. The team is able to play through all the missions, but didn't want to demonstrate the missions in their current state of development yet."


That's what they said.

Another space gem:


"For this to be successful [the release of four episodes], they first have to finish the first one. And if there's one thing we can say after our visit ... in Wilmslow, it is this: Squadron42 could be the dream of many a Wing Commander veteran, but a release in 2016 will be a tight schedule. A delay until 2017 wouldn't come as a big surprise to us."

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

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D_Smart posted:
Wait.

Did you honestly believe that they were building a whole different game engine (flight dynamics, physics etc) specifically for SQ42? Seriously?

Dude, how many times have I posted that every single thing backers are playing RIGHT NOW is what's going into SQ42? Bugs and all. Why do you think SM was nerfed? That mocap poo poo is going into SQ42 first, then the PU (now a test bed). And if they don't have enough of SQ42 to serve as test bed (note, they're begging backers to play AC now), they may merge some of it into the PU first, then use backers as testers.

No, that's not what I thought. I'm fully aware that SQ42 and SC are the same engine. My point was that I think it's funny that they're saying they have a world class game design team when the gameplay itself is so terrible.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

the co-pilot's view might be obscured ~immersed~ by one big piece of alien arse

Eonwe posted:

lowtax can BeefThief's av be the next newbie av

Beet Wagon posted:

Technically the Vanduul ships use a weird "lay-down" configuration that should make everything fit easier. Plus it has the added benefit of making any two-seater craft they'd implement turn into Star Centipede



Either way the cockpit and controls should be laughably oversized for human pilots, but I think they handwave that away by saying the Vanduul ships humans are flying are refit for human pilots by some company.

Eonwe posted:

lowtax can BeefThief's av be the next newbie av

Einbauschrank posted:

The SC-Thread links to a 11/2015 article from a German gamer magazine . They have a slide show on the different actors and "actors" in SQ42.

They begin with bigshots like Gary Parpman and towards the end state things like "this lesser known actor" or "you don't have to know this name". The last slide is our [timg]http://6images.cgames.de/images/idgwpgsgp/bdb/2664254/600x338.jpg][/timg].
The accompanying text is as follows "Not really an actress, Sandi Gardiner is Vice-President of Marketing and wife to Chris Roberts".

Popular Human posted:

What was the name of that game on Steam that's kind of like what Star Citizen is claiming to be, except kind of janky but actually existing? Like, you can actually fly a ship, board another ship, run through it in an FPS mode and kill everyone on board and take it over?

I keep thinking it's "One Must Fall," but that's that fighting game from the 90s

Exposure posted:

Angels Fall First but it's more like a weird modernized Battlefield 2 in space than what Star Citizen is claiming to be.

Wafflz posted:

the problem is if we actually get in a group it will just be an instance full of goons and we can't grief each other

AugmentedVision posted:

Has anyone yet pointed out that this monstrosity would have a net rotational inertia unless the boxes are of different weights? I know, there are computers to compensate for gyroscopic precession when turning, and it's not at all that the people designing this hard sci-fi full of fidelity don't know high school physics.

Popular Human posted:

What was the name of that game on Steam that's kind of like what Star Citizen is claiming to be, except kind of janky but actually existing? Like, you can actually fly a ship, board another ship, run through it in an FPS mode and kill everyone on board and take it over?

I keep thinking it's "One Must Fall," but that's that fighting game from the 90s

Beet Wagon posted:

Beet Wagon posted:

Man, as soon as I finish my homework I'm popping straight into the verse. This French class just doesn't have the immersion I crave.

Sedisp posted:

Why are they spinning at all?

D_Smart posted:

Angels Fall First

http://store.steampowered.com/app/367270/

Dark Off posted:

Im glad someone likes my photoshop.


heres another one for those that joined SA for this thread

Sedisp posted:

Why are they spinning at all?

That Works posted:

That's Bens eggbeater

Sappo569 posted:

Jesus Christ, how much money DID they spend on actor wages?

There are like 4 A listers, or 5 depending on who you like

Half the bloody cast from Game of Thrones, and a bunch of others

A lot of them have just recently finished very successful TV series or movies, so they would have been demanding top dollar

CIG is hosed if they think throwing names at the screen is going to suddenly make the script not a steaming pile of poo poo