Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Locked thread
D1E
Nov 25, 2001


In summary: Chris Roberts isn't even entrusted to manage the PowerPoint remote control.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

Darkpriest667 posted:

I didn't even know there was a mafia 1

loving heathen

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

Chris will have a lot of whiny entitled questions to get annoyed about next 10ftc

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"
if that desert mission was supposed to be possible in an UN-instanced MMO environment, with all the scripted events etc then I don't know game development, and I really actually don't but it still seems like those concepts don't mix

AP
Jul 12, 2004

One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them
Grimey Drawer
https://www.reddit.com/r/DerekSmart/comments/56pn1n/i_honestly_think_there_might_even_be_suicides/d8lguu2

teh_Broseph
Oct 21, 2010

THE LAST METROID IS IN
CATTIVITY. THE GALAXY
IS AT PEACE...
Lipstick Apathy
In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis. The Fourth Stimpire has origins from the Ten Empire War in which 10 of the United Stimpires revolted against each rules. All empires except for the fourth swore freedom upon their citizens. There is no free speech in the Fourth Stimpire, and all self-controlled transportation has been made illegal without undergoing painful medical verification methods, in which arteries are severed without pain resistant, operated entirely by machines. The way they work claim to be the most hygenic and healthy way possible, but these machines often rub against pain points, causing great deals of pain to patients. The heart is then extracted from the body and placed into a glass grinding machine. Various energy centers are also dissected and replaced with dangerous transplants. After the painful, 52 hour surgical procedure, patients will then have to use a fused guidance tool, which pumps painful resistors into the body every 2 hours. The pain they have caused is so bad, the victim would freeze in a tense position. They would then collapse afterwards.

Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will.

Otherwise, offenders would be tazed with the worst type of electricity in the systematic district, causing so much pain, the victim would scream and flail in madness. The pain would also triple every second, but no death would be incurred. This is also used in combat against enemy units, which is why all UEE forces must wear the upgraded suit to block this effect.

However, enertainment is also questionable in UEE grounds. Sporting events end with the losing team being rounded into a grinder and shredded on live television, boxing matches end with the loser having their hands removed without anasthesia, flight races would end with the losers having their arms and legs removed, then being injected with insanity, for entertainment. People are also forced into these events, by undergoing a painful 127 hour procedure which involves tweaking the muscles so they will not listen to brain commands, and then having a painful drug injected which also causes madness if the player is not sporting. This is all for entertainment, and anyone not watching any of it during sporting times and cheering for the winning team, they will be imprisoned into galactic camps.

Snuff films are also broadcast, and actors are actually murdered just for entertainment. Stealth droids also guide these forced actors into behaving exactly as the director dreams, otherwise they will be punished by being placed into a macerator and having their execution written into the film. Any film that does not feature someone being murdered will be burned and the entire crew behind it will be executed in the most grotesque way possible - vivisection.

All executions are broadcast, and anyone who misses even a millisecond, even by blinking, will be executed. All citizens must boo to the person being executed, and the family is gathered to be injected with eternators, which cause pain forever, making them immoral but feeling the pain tenfold every millisecond. They cannot pass out, but they will feel like it forever.

Conquests by this Stimpire end in the planet being razed, and all the citizens being executed in the same way as their citizens are. The planet is then destroyed and all remnants of it are removed, and any memories of it will be erased instantly from civil minds. People who are also killed are also erased from memories, and all memories of them, including toys and pictures, are destroyed.

Prisoners undergo 40,000 years of relentless and endless labor, and anyone not complying is sentenced to the eternator injection. All prisoners injected with eternators are placed into capsules and launched into far space, then the room is closed tight to ensure maximum insanity. Some prisoners are also subjected to the removal of blood, the lungs, the liver, the genitals, the skeleton, the muscles, the eyes, and even the injection of pressure. Prisoners sentenced to pressure chambers are locked in until they are inflated to a high level. The decompression is then stopped to make sure they are inflated and uncomfortable.

Children born on the 14th of July are subjected to the removal of their skeleton and an implant of a silver liquid to replace it. The nervous sysem is also injected in various parts to ensure it is five times more sensitive than the average.

Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal. They are cooked alive, undergoing extreme pain, and are then subjected to industrial grinders and blenders. The Stimpire orders at least 1 million citizens to be dispatched every day, as they are afraid the population may overthrow them. But only one planet is cared for, and the rest are banned from eating, drinking, talking, using technology, touching anyone, wearing unauthorized clothes, touching buildings, or walking a centimeter out of designated routes. Civil enforcers are on every planet, and they are engineered so that they are 40 times larger than the 300 quadrillion population. At least 7 billion die every 12 hours under this rule.

Thoughts are also surveyed, and anyone who does not think anything to loving the Stimpire with more than their capabilities will be sentenced to a prison. Prisoners who are punished for this violation will meet their greatest fear, only to have it amplified so they will turn insane as they imagine it exactly as they fear it. They then undergo a painful extraction of all fluids, to be replaced by a toxin which causes permanent irritation. The unknown substance keeps the subject aging normally, except they will never die. Prisoners punished in this way are unable to be reverted, despite many efforts, and they will never be able to be disposed.

The sickening truths have been revealed only today, and invigilation teams are still investigating the truths without setting foot in the galactic space of this sickening empire.

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



starkebn posted:

if that desert mission was supposed to be possible in an UN-instanced MMO environment, with all the scripted events etc then I don't know game development, and I really actually don't but it still seems like those concepts don't mix

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/56s8qh/death_of_a_spaceman_and_the_sandworm/


https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/56s7uh/there_is_so_much_about_that_demo_that_makes_no/



:smug:

kikkelivelho
Aug 27, 2015

Apples to oranges. Most AAA games are very derivative and they generally rely on well understood and polished gameplay concepts. The games I see people mention all belong under this category. Star Citizen is creating technologies and mechanics that have previously been deemed impossible by some (looking kinda silly now that you see ships going from orbit to surface). Big publishers spend years making games with nothing really new in them and people here for some reason think that CIG can do the same with something far more ambitious. If anything they're progressing faster than expected. Procedural planets were only supposed to come after release but here they are while the game is still in alpha phase.

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

kikkelivelho posted:

Apples to oranges.

http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i3/air-1-3-apples.html

Lladre
Jun 28, 2011


Soiled Meat

Raskolnikov posted:

moments before the fake water works



How did she put on thirty pounds in two weeks? Is she preggers?

TheLightPurges
Sep 24, 2016

by exmarx
Its cool they pushed back SQ42 to "late 2017/2018"

And Chris said it. So its more like Q4 2018/Q1 2019.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013

Mafia 1 still holds up as a really great game. I've been replaying it after being a bit disappointed with III. It's really quite amazing how much harder games used to be just a decade ago.

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/349505/did-something-go-drastically-wrong-at-the-last-minute



:psyduck:

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010




I've said it before. I personally know the guy that spent 10k on mighty number 9 for the dinner date with the producer. The guy said he was paying for a dream, the dream didn't happen and he was ok with it

e-Also the cracks are forming. Even the most hardcore are taking the first steps in the road to disappointment. It is a long road, filled with perils, but they all have the same destination. Refund City.

Cao Ni Ma fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Oct 10, 2016

AP
Jul 12, 2004

One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them
Grimey Drawer

Lladre posted:

How did she put on thirty pounds in two weeks? Is she preggers?

Money belt.

History Comes Inside!
Nov 20, 2004




Cao Ni Ma posted:

I've said it before. I personally know the guy that spent 10k on mighty number 9 for the dinner date with the producer. The guy said he was paying for a dream, the dream didn't happen and he was ok with it

e-Also the cracks are forming. Even the most hardcore are taking the first steps in the road to disappointment. It is a long road, filled with perils, but they all have the same destination. Refund City.

Your friend is a fiscal retard.

TheLightPurges
Sep 24, 2016

by exmarx
the retconning begins

quote:

You seriously thought sq42 would be here this year? Like seriously?!?

I knew it wouldn't be here before 2017 when I saw ppl moaning about updates for sq42 back in August.

No offense to you in the slightest, but this makes me chuckle just a little bit.

D1E
Nov 25, 2001


History Comes Inside! posted:

Your friend is a fiscal retard.

Come now. That's only $2K more than our goon friend MoMA is in on SC. Surely you wouldn't call him a fiscal retard?

CrazyLoon
Aug 10, 2015

"..."

AP posted:

Derek Smart - Paul Atreides
Sandi Gardiner - Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother

Now I can't help but imagine what could be the IRL gom jabbar that Sandi held at Smart's neck and the first thing I can think of is 'Mae Demming sex tape with him'. :ughh:

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



TheLightPurges posted:

the retconning begins

Someone in another forum succinctly pointed out paraphrasing "If its so obvious to us, the casual observers, then why is it so hard for the people making the game to actually get their dates right?"

AP
Jul 12, 2004

One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them
Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/JohnZimari/status/785250130773630976

Rad Russian
Aug 15, 2007

Soviet Power Supreme!
I think clearly Shitizens need to pledge more. Chris needs at least 600 employees and not 300 to make a working FPS demo in a FPS engine after 5 years.

History Comes Inside!
Nov 20, 2004




D1E posted:

Come now. That's only $2K more than our goon friend MoMA is in on SC. Surely you wouldn't call him a fiscal retard?

True.

He's just a regular retard.

ManofManyAliases
Mar 21, 2016
ToastOfManySmarts


Can't post for 3 hours!

Don't be smug. Agent's was largely off too:

"TheAgent posted:
hello
people were still working round the clock to get the sq42 demo done, but
they had to "sneak" around their work hours because CIG already had a finger wagged at them for employee overtime, this is illegal as gently caress btw
the sq42 demo will feature areas already seen in the gamecom reel (nope - no SQ42 demo)
2.6 is still MIA, will be most likely be folded into 3.0 (meh? - too early to tell)
all work on SC has essentially stopped, whole company is pumping out SQ42 assets/gameplay (funny, since most of what was shown was PU stuff....)
the majority of time is still spent on getting cut-scenes/in-game character models to function correctly (nope - no SQ42 demo)
SQ42: prelude release timeline still set for early 2017 (expect a lot of cut-scenes) (this was largely expected among most of the backers)
expect a "ton" of loading screens in SQ42 (nope - no SQ42 demo)
several rewrites and reshoots have happened in the last two years, expect a lot of change from what we've seen (nope - no SQ42 demo)
there will be different ways to level your SQ42 character and npc wingmen (Perhaps? Still too early to tell)
citcon is "heavily SQ42 focused" (nope - no SQ42 demo)
purchases for single player items will "carry over to the SC experience" (no info as of yet)
"SQ42/SC are now a single, unified, seamless experience" (no info as of yet)"

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Mafia 1 still holds up as a really great game. I've been replaying it after being a bit disappointed with III. It's really quite amazing how much harder games used to be just a decade ago.
You say that, but wait until you reach THE RACE

AP
Jul 12, 2004

One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them
Grimey Drawer

ManofManyAliases posted:

Don't be smug. Agent's was largely off too:

They pulled the SQ42 demo at the last minute because CIG is run by incompetent idiots.

Were you at Citizen Con Moma?

a whole buncha crows
May 8, 2003

WHEN WE DON'T KNOW WHO TO HATE, WE HATE OURSELVES.-SA USER NATION (AKA ME!)

ManofManyAliases posted:

Don't be smug. Agent's was largely off too:

"TheAgent posted:
hello
people were still working round the clock to get the sq42 demo done, but
they had to "sneak" around their work hours because CIG already had a finger wagged at them for employee overtime, this is illegal as gently caress btw
the sq42 demo will feature areas already seen in the gamecom reel (nope - no SQ42 demo)
2.6 is still MIA, will be most likely be folded into 3.0 (meh? - too early to tell)
all work on SC has essentially stopped, whole company is pumping out SQ42 assets/gameplay (funny, since most of what was shown was PU stuff....)
the majority of time is still spent on getting cut-scenes/in-game character models to function correctly (nope - no SQ42 demo)
SQ42: prelude release timeline still set for early 2017 (expect a lot of cut-scenes) (this was largely expected among most of the backers)
expect a "ton" of loading screens in SQ42 (nope - no SQ42 demo)
several rewrites and reshoots have happened in the last two years, expect a lot of change from what we've seen (nope - no SQ42 demo)
there will be different ways to level your SQ42 character and npc wingmen (Perhaps? Still too early to tell)
citcon is "heavily SQ42 focused" (nope - no SQ42 demo)
purchases for single player items will "carry over to the SC experience" (no info as of yet)
"SQ42/SC are now a single, unified, seamless experience" (no info as of yet)"

no sq42 demo - that's the excuse you want to use toast???

AP
Jul 12, 2004

One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them
Grimey Drawer

AP posted:

Were you at Citizen Con Moma?



Oh wait you were.

Mr Fronts
Jan 31, 2016

Yo! The Mafia supports you. But don't tell no one. Spread the word.

What a weak-minded, faithless toxic dink!

Looks like someone needs a probation, and a severe public belittling by Kaedan.

kikkelivelho
Aug 27, 2015

ManofManyAliases posted:

Don't be smug. Agent's was largely off too:

"TheAgent posted:
hello
people were still working round the clock to get the sq42 demo done, but
they had to "sneak" around their work hours because CIG already had a finger wagged at them for employee overtime, this is illegal as gently caress btw
the sq42 demo will feature areas already seen in the gamecom reel (nope - no SQ42 demo)
2.6 is still MIA, will be most likely be folded into 3.0 (meh? - too early to tell)
all work on SC has essentially stopped, whole company is pumping out SQ42 assets/gameplay (funny, since most of what was shown was PU stuff....)
the majority of time is still spent on getting cut-scenes/in-game character models to function correctly (nope - no SQ42 demo)
SQ42: prelude release timeline still set for early 2017 (expect a lot of cut-scenes) (this was largely expected among most of the backers)
expect a "ton" of loading screens in SQ42 (nope - no SQ42 demo)
several rewrites and reshoots have happened in the last two years, expect a lot of change from what we've seen (nope - no SQ42 demo)
there will be different ways to level your SQ42 character and npc wingmen (Perhaps? Still too early to tell)
citcon is "heavily SQ42 focused" (nope - no SQ42 demo)
purchases for single player items will "carry over to the SC experience" (no info as of yet)
"SQ42/SC are now a single, unified, seamless experience" (no info as of yet)"

True. True. However I don't think we should crucify Agent yet. We didn't see Squadron 42 so he didn't really have a chance to prove himself wrong.

OhDearGodNo
Jan 3, 2014

All Sandi/Roberts/Derek/Reddit poo poo aside:

300+ employees,at least one studio dedicated to the single player campaign for at a minimum of two years- and they don't even have a single mission demo, assets, cutscene, etc.

For comparison, BF1 has been developed from start to beta in this timeframe.

EminusSleepus
Sep 28, 2015

AP posted:

Dune Citizen

Starting
Chris Roberts - Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV
:lesnick: - Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
Derek Smart - Paul Atreides
Beer4theBeerGod - Gurney Halleck
Sandi Gardiner - Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother
Twitch Streamers - Sardaukar
Goons - Fremen

Derek should be Edric Ordos!! :)

TheLightPurges
Sep 24, 2016

by exmarx

ManofManyAliases posted:

Don't be smug. Agent's was largely off too:



Agreed. Game dev happened.

Seriously though, now that we know you are Toast I'd just like to say. Whats up? Whats it like at work? I feel like I'm finally meeting you.

Mr Fronts
Jan 31, 2016

Yo! The Mafia supports you. But don't tell no one. Spread the word.

a whole buncha crows posted:

no sq42 demo - that's the excuse you want to use toast???

HAHA, he was WRONG! There IS no game! Owned!

TheLightPurges
Sep 24, 2016

by exmarx

AP posted:

Dune Citizen

Starting
Chris Roberts - Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV
:lesnick: - Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
Derek Smart - Paul Atreides
Beer4theBeerGod - Gurney Halleck
Sandi Gardiner - Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother
Twitch Streamers - Sardaukar
Goons - Fremen

Assrapistdude420 is Sting

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



ManofManyAliases posted:

all work on SC has essentially stopped, whole company is pumping out SQ42 assets/gameplay (funny, since most of what was shown was PU stuff....)

nope, what was shown was



not something remotely connected to the PU :smug:

AP
Jul 12, 2004

One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them
Grimey Drawer
Hey Moma don't stop posting now, did you pick up a polaris in the end? $125 off is a pretty good deal.

Lladre
Jun 28, 2011


Soiled Meat

That company name and ship look oddly familiar.
i really hope that's just some fan's org and not something RSI made.

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



"Im not owned Im not owned! It is you that are owned!" I continue to insist, as I shrink and turn into a belt.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

ManofManyAliases posted:

Don't be smug. Agent's was largely off too:

"TheAgent posted:
hello
people were still working round the clock to get the sq42 demo done, but
they had to "sneak" around their work hours because CIG already had a finger wagged at them for employee overtime, this is illegal as gently caress btw
the sq42 demo will feature areas already seen in the gamecom reel (nope - no SQ42 demo)
2.6 is still MIA, will be most likely be folded into 3.0 (meh? - too early to tell)
all work on SC has essentially stopped, whole company is pumping out SQ42 assets/gameplay (funny, since most of what was shown was PU stuff....)
the majority of time is still spent on getting cut-scenes/in-game character models to function correctly (nope - no SQ42 demo)
SQ42: prelude release timeline still set for early 2017 (expect a lot of cut-scenes) (this was largely expected among most of the backers)
expect a "ton" of loading screens in SQ42 (nope - no SQ42 demo)
several rewrites and reshoots have happened in the last two years, expect a lot of change from what we've seen (nope - no SQ42 demo)
there will be different ways to level your SQ42 character and npc wingmen (Perhaps? Still too early to tell)
citcon is "heavily SQ42 focused" (nope - no SQ42 demo)
purchases for single player items will "carry over to the SC experience" (no info as of yet)
"SQ42/SC are now a single, unified, seamless experience" (no info as of yet)"

you're just putting your fingers in your ears and screaming

  • Locked thread