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The Titanic posted:In honor of Chris Roberts and his upcoming epic series, Squadron 42. It's imperative that you prepare yourself for the story you're going to get. The multitude of characters and their many, varied personalities and exciting dialog. Uh, is that Leo loving Mcgarry in some sort of space navy? I would watch that for ten space dollars.
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Pogue Ma Hoon posted:Uh, is that Leo loving Mcgarry in some sort of space navy? It is!
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Pogue Ma Hoon posted:Uh, is that Leo loving Mcgarry in some sort of space navy? No space-Margaret, though, so he's kind of lost.
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Milky Moor posted:It is! Capt Hugh Paulson according to IMDB. Now I know.
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The Titanic posted:I think another important factor is that Chris Roberts doesn't really care about Star Citizen. He cares about the movie(game). He's already outlined plans for multiple sequels to Sq42 after its mad success. well yeah Crobberts is what determined the focus on Squadron 42. Normally you pick one project or the other to do first. The backers want and paid for the MMO to be done first but they are desperate / dumb enough to not really care if it is the other way around. So okay Crobberts picked Squadron 42 to do first, but due to his mismanagement it has stretched over so much time and money that they need to release a special smaller companion prelude episode to get enough cash to finish Squadron 42 before they even start actually worrying about Star Citizen. Even selling the prelude in the first place is a huge red flag. It's a giant "HEY GUYS THIS IS WHAT WE GOT" move. They need tens of millions of dollars to finish Squadron 42 and it's all because of the lovely animation that nobody asked for. It's obvious this is what is happening, so if the squadron 42 prelude falls flat on it's face i think the entire project is hosed, because there would be a clear message that the next step will be received just as poorly. I personally can't wait for hours of unskippable, terribly animated cutscenes where Sandi's bad acting makes lifeless 2005 era CGI animation exponentially worse.
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The Titanic posted:So for all you guys and girls who bought this, even if you later refunded it... I bought one and later sold it for $300. I could get another with my store credit if I wanted. Oddly enough it does seem to be the closest we've seen to the actual design intent. It's big, fat, modular, and looks like it could be very flexible. When it first came out I had this dream of filling one with LTI snub fighters and having a horde of Goons just gently caress everything. Pity.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I bought one and later sold it for $300. I could get another with my store credit if I wanted. Oddly enough it does seem to be the closest we've seen to the actual design intent. It's big, fat, modular, and looks like it could be very flexible. When it first came out I had this dream of filling one with LTI snub fighters and having a horde of Goons just gently caress everything. Those were the days. I so wanted Bomber Bros to be a thing.
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Fat Shat Sings posted:Actually I don't think that is the case. I mean it's the common joke that backers are dumb enough to keep this trash fire going but something to consider is the cost of Squadron 42. It's a shift in consideration for what they are doing since it would be an actual release. Squadron 42 would also come with Star Citizen. After you played the solo SQ42 campaign , you would finish with a starter ship and that would be your chariot until you earned better in the PU. Of course in early 2015--the PU would still be in development and you'd only have the really basic stuff--like trading... But don't worry CIG would be constantly adding new content and expanding the PU with ships, events, and locations. (This seems so, so long ago--and typing it just makes me feel like a rube for believing any of it in the first place...) So, huge success! And here we are... Just for the record--everything worked out perfectly. SQ42 is 60 hours long of the best game ever created. Chris and Ortwin were just finishing a letter to the spregs back in 2014 and getting ready to release the game. Then Sandi got wind of the plan. Sandi charged into the office with a cleaver and asked if they realized how stupid releasing anything would be when the idiot gamers were giving them $35million a year for nothing. So yeah--CIG is a total sham. Chris and Sandi just go on vacation waiting for the cash to stop rolling in. They figured this Christmas they would have to release something--then the shitizens coughed up $7million. (This would make me love those guys if it were true!)
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What's the Elvish word for Goatse?
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Pogue Ma Hoon posted:Those were the days. I so wanted Bomber Bros to be a thing. Bomber Bros is why I sold my Retaliator for $225 instead of the $450 I could have gotten two years ago. Then CIG revealed that the Retaliator was an under-gunned flying pig with no benefit over other ships for everything but a niche application and the floor fell out.
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Thoatse posted:What's the Elvish word for Goatse? 
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Wrecked Angle posted:Okay, having looked at other gun shapes I'll concede that point. It's 'rather a coincidence' that both have double swept handles like that considering most guns don't. Most of the guns pictured are rifles generally with magazines outside the grip. When you start seeing "swept magazines" is in handguns where the magazine is inside the grip. If you have a rifle that shoots a pistol caliber cartridge, some manufacturers will design a new proprietary [expensive] magazine format and then there's testing and R&D costs associated with it. Some companies don't want to bother with that and will adopt another companies standard, ie. you see a bunch of AR-15 pistols and guns like the Kriss Vector [popular space gun looking rifle/carbine] that use's a pistol magazine [like a g-lock magazine in that case] in which case you'll see rifles with the magazine and the grip at the same angle. In the end, games/film will just design stuff that looks cool to the art director even though it makes no sense. Big K of Justice fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Dec 4, 2016 |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5gdxo4/are_the_banu_space_jews/ The funny thing is he probably has a point, just like the Xi'an are stand-ins for Asian culture. Chris is a creative dynamo. A Neurotic Corncob fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Dec 4, 2016 |
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The Titanic posted:So for all you guys and girls who bought this, even if you later refunded it... Always was supposed to be kinda "trainy" I think, the modularity (swapping in different sections) was an interesting concept. Of course, now that the design criteria for all large ships is based entirely on making them FPS levels rather than any functional or potentially interesting layout, far less so.
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Fat Shat Sings posted:
That's some high fidelitous jpeging right there. Here's  . Sorry I'm not a whale with more money than sense or it would be 30x that.
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Plot summary: Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn't stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
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Raskolnikov posted:Plot summary: David Farrier is our lil' country's current favourite son due to Tickled.
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A Neurotic Corncob posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5gdxo4/are_the_banu_space_jews/ If they actually had anything in the game other than jpegs and ~DrEaMz~ I'd be getting in touch with the ADL about this. Oh well.
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It's Tickler The Grey! (the creepo is a lawyer, thank you star citizen for leading me to this movie.) Raskolnikov fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Dec 4, 2016 |
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Thoatse posted:The new hangar module looks pretty sweet. On the one hand, I'm pretty happy that MW5 may finally be made. On the other hand, it's PGI, the only company I trust less than CIG. I'm slightly heartened that they didn't try to announce this one as a kickstarter- so there's a very small chance that it's not a terrible cash grab, but I will certainly wait until it's actually out. For one thing I'll be really surprised if MWO makes enough to sustain them for the next 2 years of development, given how little engineering time they've put into it. Mechwarrior: Living Legends came back last week and that sub already has 1/3rd the active userbase of the MWO sub. Edit: P.S. I am pretty amused that the other lovely scamware company whose game was based on Cryengine has now abandoned it entirely. Looking forward to CIG redoing all of SC for UE4 next summer. Sarsapariller fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Dec 4, 2016 |
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Sarsapariller posted:Mechwarrior: Living Legends came back last week and that sub already has 1/3rd the active userbase of the MWO sub. This is the best news to come out of the SC thread ever.
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Astroniomix posted:This is the best news to come out of the SC thread ever. https://www.reddit.com/r/MWLL/ Came back, and added custom maps. Like 1 week into renewed development and they've already exceeded PGI. Sarsapariller fucked around with this message at 09:31 on Dec 4, 2016 |
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I bought one and later sold it for $300. I could get another with my store credit if I wanted. Oddly enough it does seem to be the closest we've seen to the actual design intent. It's big, fat, modular, and looks like it could be very flexible. When it first came out I had this dream of filling one with LTI snub fighters and having a horde of Goons just gently caress everything. 
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The Rabbi T. White posted:David Farrier is our lil' country's current favourite son due to Tickled. Fantastic movie, but I'm all about Dylan.
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Chin posted:You purchased a $300 JPEG based on a gameplay scenario that existed only in your imagination? Some people buy a guitar to get women laid.
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Buying a guitar on the off-chance it will get you laid is by far a safer bet than handing your money to Roberts & Co and hoping they actually manage to make a game.
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KM Scorchio posted:Buying a guitar on the off-chance it will get you laid is by far a safer bet than handing your money to Roberts & Co and hoping the actually manage to make a game. Well, Roberts got laid with SC
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crisp roberts posted:Well, Roberts got laid with SC CIG were paid with soon 140 Mio $ to gently caress the backers 
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Soooo tickle cash funding Star Citizen? Yes or no? Tickled is a weird but lovely movie.
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Mr.PayDay posted:CIG were paid with soon 140 Mio $ to gently caress the backers from the backers
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Raskolnikov posted:Soooo tickle cash funding Star Citizen? Yes or no? I was hoping the tickler in black would show up
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crisp roberts posted:from the backers Yep, important addendum 
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Colostomy Bag posted:I'm not sure how one would begin to craft the book. Hell you'd have to start with the Wing Commander days, followed up with race horses and a used car dealership and then the kickstarter fest. That is a fiasco just getting to that point. Ever read the L. Ron Hubbard biography "Bare-Faced Messiah"? The dude was a hack pulp scifi writer, who repeatedly conned his way into things (literary salons, the Explorers Club, government contracts) through force of personality and talking a good game. Then he would more-or-less completely fail to deliver on his promises, flail about while milking the situation for what it was forth, and finally have to move on to pitch new promises to a new group. Until one day he had his only true genius idea: founding a pay-for-play religion based on selling acceptance to emotionally vulnerable people. I can't really put my finger on why, but I think its basic structure might be a good place to Edit: cat overrun by body thetans 
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