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Tippis posted:Yeah, it's like every new thing that is revealed, either in gameplay or patch notes or 10ftc or… anywhere, raises the immediate question of “but… this is a solved problem — how can it even be happening in a mature engine (even if it is CryEngine)?!” Every nonsensical non-excuse for lack of design that CRobber comes up with on the spot just reeks of him not having been in the industry for a decade or two, because he keeps trying to solve problems that should no longer exist — not just this far into the development cycle, but this far into the history of computer gaming. His absence from the industry also reveals a very flawed understanding of gaming from his backers as well. Not taking into account the fact that he sucked out loud back then as well, being absent from the industry for that long is complete suicide. If I interviewed a sysadmin whose last experience with PCs was Windows 95, there is no way in hell I would hire that guy - his knowledge is practically useless today (barring some amazing aptitude potential, which Chris sorely lacks). If I want to hire someone to paint a chapel ceiling, I'm not going to hire a 25-year old mechanic whose last drawing was on his mom's fridge 20 years earlier, and was lovely even for a kid's drawing. Yet that's exactly what the backers did. "Here's a guy who sucked in his prime, failed at nearly everything he's ever done aside from the one lucky hit, has literally been doing gently caress-all for the better part of a decade while the industry moved along at the speed of light, we know for a fact he hasn't kept up with it, and he wants to make a game now, planting his starting flag firmly in the 90s, and willfully ignoring every single lesson learned by hundreds of thousands of people across the world over 10 years. Seems legit - hand this fucker $2500." There's a similar event happening in the U.S. right now, where you have a large contingent of out-of-touch people who feel they've been ignored, their glory days are in the past, and this messianic figure comes out of nowhere with vague promises of fulfilling some past greatness that never actually existed except in their own minds - where they are all heroes and awesome and respected by default, even if they've never accomplished anything of note in their lives. Of course I'm referring to Star Citizen...
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Thanks Obama.
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Tippis posted:Thanks Obama. Now I'm picturing an Obama stylized poster of Chris Roberts with the text "No we can't."
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Scruffpuff posted:His absence from the industry also reveals a very flawed understanding of gaming from his backers as well. Not taking into account the fact that he sucked out loud back then as well, being absent from the industry for that long is complete suicide. If I interviewed a sysadmin whose last experience with PCs was Windows 95, there is no way in hell I would hire that guy - his knowledge is practically useless today (barring some amazing aptitude potential, which Chris sorely lacks). If I want to hire someone to paint a chapel ceiling, I'm not going to hire a 25-year old mechanic whose last drawing was on his mom's fridge 20 years earlier, and was lovely even for a kid's drawing. Palingenetic ultra-space-cultism?
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Scruffpuff posted:His absence from the industry also reveals a very flawed understanding of gaming from his backers as well. Not taking into account the fact that he sucked out loud back then as well, being absent from the industry for that long is complete suicide. If I interviewed a sysadmin whose last experience with PCs was Windows 95, there is no way in hell I would hire that guy - his knowledge is practically useless today (barring some amazing aptitude potential, which Chris sorely lacks). If I want to hire someone to paint a chapel ceiling, I'm not going to hire a 25-year old mechanic whose last drawing was on his mom's fridge 20 years earlier, and was lovely even for a kid's drawing. To be fair, in his prime he really did make some great games. WC1-4, Privateer, Freelancer (ok this one was great despite him not because of him) is more successful titles than most successful game devs could dream of (Carmack had a total of 6 really successful games and is pretty much THE god of game devleopment). You are absolutely right though, having a 10 year long break from gaming is a massive red flag.
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Renon Vesir posted:I'm a lurking lurker that always lurks, but this this thread has brought me such joy that I felt compelled to draw a little something for it. I wish it had a narwhale poster in the background.
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Happy Sisyphus posted:why dont real planes use kb+m controls? Environmentally unfeasible and unreliable. Can you stop a mouse from flying in your face when you roll? Can you rely on a pilot finding the right key in a featureless array of keys under duress? Unrelated to mouse and keyboard, but there's also the fact joysticks and yokes have been in use pretty much since day one as input. Changing that in any significant way would meet the same amount of negative response as replacing a wheel in a car with a joystick. In fact, look at what happened when they've introduced a "dead" immovable joystick with force sensing in F-16s. They had to go back and add fake, placebo movement range to keep pilots happy. orcinus fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Mar 15, 2016 |
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Scruffpuff posted:Now I'm picturing an Obama stylized poster of Chris Roberts with the text "No we can't." It'll happen in a page or three.
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Ravane posted:drat, I only went to sleep for five hours and now this thread is being archived like Oswald's personal notes on the JFK assassination. ahahah holy gently caress
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I just realized I have my entire office packed up in those exact crates. Evidently I own a lot of lube oil destined for the Fora System.
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darkarchon posted:I really like how all the ships rotate to the left at any time. Great physics. It's due to Paarpiolis force.
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quote:[PSA] Help deal with trolls and improve your Reddit experience at the same time. self.starcitizen https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/4aitcv/psa_help_deal_with_trolls_and_improve_your_reddit/ reddit noob discovers res, news at 11
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I know its been asked too many times but What hotas do you Elite players use? I'm toying with the idea of getting one, as much as I'm toying with the idea of actually playing Elite.
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Hobold posted:I know its been asked too many times but I use a Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X Flight Stick, it's really cheap, good quality and a great starter hotas
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Hobold posted:I'm toying with the idea of getting one, as much as I'm toying with the idea of actually playing Elite. Are you already married?
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FrankieGoes posted:Those are the ships that are actually IN SC right now. If you add up all the ones that have been sold, including variants, it's well over 100 for SC IIRC. And there's more on the way. Oh yes i forgot, we are comparing actually delivered content vs. promised dreams.
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Tell him he's been scammed, do the right thing. Just be prepared for when he gets really mad and calls you Derek Smart
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DigitalMocking posted:I just realized I have my entire office packed up in those exact crates. The crates look like they're a pretty good storage container when they're not filled with robo-vagina. They're probably the only one of this guy's good decisions.
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Hobold posted:I know its been asked too many times but KB+M and TrackIR, because HOTAS and VR is silly. Silly expensive that is
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orcinus posted:Environmentally unfeasible and unreliable. It's not fake placebo motion, the stick moves +/- a few mm at the tip and even that tiny amount makes all the difference for a humey to be able to *efficiently gauge their inputs. You can do without, but the fatigue and stress of using a static stick is completely avoidable by allowing a tiny amount of displacement for pilots to build preconception. The good force sensing joysticks replicate this perfectly (FSSB 1-3 TM mods, Ribbstick), however Saitek didn't get the memo or thought they could fake it and made a lovely static stick (X-65f), and because of that it never achieved real popularity. Ironic and sad, because the tiny pittance of displacement needed is so incredibly easy to achieve (mechanically very low hanging fruit) it made no sense for them to go 95% of the way there, only to make those efforts moot.
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Thoatse posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/4aitcv/psa_help_deal_with_trolls_and_improve_your_reddit/ I'm convinced this is because of my posts warning newcomers about the red flags surrounding this game. that really pisses people off for some reason.
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Some of the ship UIs in this game are loving atrocious. Flying the freelancer you have no way of knowing what your or the enemy ship's condition is. You have no way to tell what's going on. Also, your ammo count isn't even in view so if you want to know how much ammo you have left you need to alt free look to your left to check. Excellent design. I also can't tell how damage/health actually works in this stupid thing. Sometimes ships survive for 10 minutes without any problems, sometimes they suddenly explode 10 seconds into a fight. The FPS and EVA stuff has actually improved since I last played and they're now passable to such a point that I don't really have any critical problems with them. Now if only flying and fighting in a ship was fun. Playing this tech demo makes me angry cause clearly some of the devs have tried to make a game out of this and there are short moments where I'm somewhat enjoying it, but it all falls apart constantly because it's a cobbled together mess of random ideas and designs.
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Thoatse posted:1) no kinematic feedback 6) Double dare you to use a mouse when you're clenching your butthole under 6 G's
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Berious posted:Just be prepared for when he gets really mad and calls you Derek Smart He'd still be morally right (and also not be derek smart which is *delete as applicable*)
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Thoatse posted:(mechanically very low hanging fruit) You know what else is mechanically very low hanging fruit? Only platinum members can see this content
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Not enough catte. Have two.
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Hobold posted:I know its been asked too many times but X52 Pro and it's been really good, I know there are some quality concerns out there but mine has been cool
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I also give you progress of catte December Today
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Norefund14days posted:Not enough catte. god dammit look at these fuckin cats
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Tippis posted:He was in the Vietnam War, not the French Revolution. This is one of the pieces of art I am tinkering with Not sure if anything will comeof it though
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Thoatse posted:It's not fake placebo motion, the stick moves +/- a few mm at the tip and even that tiny amount makes all the difference for a humey to be able to *efficiently gauge their inputs. You can do without, but the fatigue and stress of using a static stick is completely avoidable by allowing a tiny amount of displacement for pilots to build preconception. It is placebo motion because motion itself has 0 effect on control surfaces. Once you reach the end of movement range, you can continue pushing on it with an increased force and that input will get interpreted as part of the output range. But never mind that. Have you actually tried X-65F? It feels ”weird” for all of half an hour it takes you to get used to no motion. After that, it's absolutely fine, and in fact, once you unlearn the muscle memory required for movable sticks, let's you do way twitchier and faster corrections. Especially near the deadzone. Try playing a helicopter sim with it, it's a pretty nice match. Not sure what you've meant by ”they could fake it”. Fake what?
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Thoatse posted:It's not fake placebo motion, the stick moves +/- a few mm at the tip and even that tiny amount makes all the difference for a humey to be able to *efficiently gauge their inputs. You can do without, but the fatigue and stress of using a static stick is completely avoidable by allowing a tiny amount of displacement for pilots to build preconception. So if I'm understanding this right, they tried to implement a stick system where it didn't actually physically move but rather the input was how much pressure you pushed/pulled onto the stick? How in the gently caress... why is that better than a traditional stick? fake edit: i know nothing about fighter jets or really any aircraft stuff.
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Sundowner posted:So if I'm understanding this right, they tried to implement a stick system where it didn't actually physically move but rather the input was how much pressure you pushed/pulled onto the stick? How in the gently caress... why is that better than a traditional stick? 1) mechanical reliability 2) less user-error prone under heavy Gs 3) faster response Unfortunately, also very much at odds with decades of pilot training, hence not very well accepted.
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Daztek posted:Order a hotas or joystick in advance peter gabriel posted:Just a DK2 while I wait for the CV1 I have a hotas. I got it for SC. It was poo poo in SC. It's in the cupboard now. I will get it out. Checking out the ones you recommended Does anyone know if the samsung one (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B016OFYG...X8XT6H3HTPFD0QJ) is any good BTW? e: to add link
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ZenMaster posted:gotta admit looks like he gives a good backrub i think you meant reach around
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cats are good my cat went up to my wife's collection of records and decided it was a scratching post she yelled at the cat, and then later on, the cat crawled over to her to apologize p cute
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Galarox posted:I have a hotas. I got it for SC. It was poo poo in SC. It's in the cupboard now. I will get it out. Checking out the ones you recommended Does anyone know if the samsung one is any good BTW? A hotas is poo poo for sc, like complete loving rear end. It is also by far the best controller for sc such are the sheer shitness of everything about it. The only Samsung controller I have is the pad for the Gear VR, do they make a hotas?
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Eonwe posted:cats are good Cat stories are good
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Viscous Soda posted:Wow... the station rings keep "popping" into a slightly orientation. You can see a pretty clear example at 2 minutes in.
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Hobold posted:I know its been asked too many times but TM Warthog, Saitek pedals and TrackIR.
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