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nawledgelambo
Nov 8, 2016

Immersion chariot

AP posted:

How do we provide windows search with a solution for this issue?

alas, we cannot, as star citizen has transcended the Windows OS into its own, called Robertsware

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Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

AP posted:

How do we provide windows search with a solution for this issue?

You mean providing answers or solutions to the Windows problem 'Star Citizen has stopped working'? And Windows cannot find a solution for the problem?

The solution is to get a refund.

This solution also works for all variants of problems or issues with 'starcitizen.exe'.

Repeat everywhere.

alf_pogs
Feb 15, 2012


Beet Wagon posted:

Oh agreed, I didn't mean to conflate the two, I was just giving my thoughts on the game. And I actually do agree with you I think Isolation captured the feel of the first film in a way that probably can't be beat, all other failings aside. Also since we're talking about good Aliens games I'd be remiss in my duties if I didn't mention Acclaim's wonderful but somewhat lazily named "Alien Trilogy" from like 1996(I think?) even if it just falls outside that 20 year range.

the old SNES game Alien 3 still stands as my favourite alien video game

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

AP posted:

How do we provide windows search with a solution for this issue?

The proper solution is to uninstall. But I actually think that is also broken for a lot of installs. One has to manually go in and delete the folders.

Munin
Nov 14, 2004


Sappo569 posted:

You need to have faith in Chris man , he is a rock star when it comes to game developement

Read it first time that way for some stupid reason.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Scruffpuff posted:

This right here - the bolded part - is why this project is a scam. They never had any idea whatsoever how to build this right from day one.

CIG: SHIPS WILL BE BIG AND HAVE TONS OF PLAYERS LOL.
Backer: How will you handle instance sizes and whatnot with ships so large with so many crew?
CIG: ... UHH ... SHIPS WILL BE THEIR OWN INSTANCES.
Backer: Then how will people in different ships see each other?
CIG: ... THERE ... WE ... WE'RE GOING TO HAVE POROUS INSTANCES THAT COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER
Backer: Can I get a refund now?

There's not a single part of this project that was ever considered, from any angle, at any time. Every question you can ask about "but how is x supposed to work" is a new problem they hadn't planned for, have no answer to, and will lie about by saying they've got it all figured out. In the meantime their "2.6" is a broken piece of poo poo that doesn't deserve to clean the crap out of the portable toilets that Ride to Hell: Retribution drives by on its way to work. And all the while, the most credulous apes in human history are believing every word.

I beg to differ, friend! :argh:

The several thousand page script was totally ready to go, and Chris immediately hopped into directing AAA actors in his project.

Now of course the whole game, mechanics, models, skeletons, etc were not even thought of. But the acting... acting is how you make a game. With enough animation and 3D models the game will basically build itself.

Just got to layer easy code on top of these difficult to hatch ideas.

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/csdesign72/status/829071424664924161

:gary:

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

What the gently caress is wrong with that arm?

Apart from the tat I mean. That's not what an arm's supposed to look like.

DapperDon
Sep 7, 2016
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.

DapperDon fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Feb 7, 2017

JugbandDude
Jul 19, 2016

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun

Shine on you crazy diamond!

tooterfish posted:

What the gently caress is wrong with that arm?

Apart from the tat I mean. That's not what an arm's supposed to look like.

Agree. Might be fake

Xaerael
Aug 25, 2010

Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

Can you imagine being the poor fucker that did that tattoo?

:raise: "So, what's Star Citizen then?"
:shrek: "well... :words:"
:suicide:

Beexoffel
Oct 4, 2015

Herald of the Stimpire
I just received an update from the Infinity Battlescape space shooter kickstarter.

Goobs
Jan 30, 2016

Doxcat is watching you PU.

HycoCam posted:

GameCom 17--Chris gave the 3.0 by the end of the year quote followed up with a "I get in so much trouble for giving dates" cop out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-3YBuFI3iI&t=1410s

The good Doxtor was working on something along these lines. Look for it in a few weeks.

Again, Doxtor Smart may know..

Ty for responses all. I found all the stuff I was looking for.

Goobs
Jan 30, 2016

Doxcat is watching you PU.

Holy poo poo. Lmfao.

DapperDon
Sep 7, 2016

tooterfish posted:

What the gently caress is wrong with that arm?
That's not what an arm's supposed to look like.

It's supposed to look like the arm of a real man that has a tattoo to proudly display what is important to him. Unfortunately this commando does not understand real manly arm development.

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016

MeLKoR posted:

The "porous instances" was a shot from the hip when asked what happened if someone opened a hole in your hull.

Such a fine line between a shot from the hip and Christayne Roberts talking out of his rear end

Xaerael
Aug 25, 2010

Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

Imagine being that guy when Star Citizen turns out to be dogshit.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Xaerael posted:

Imagine being that guy when Star Citizen turns out to be dogshit.

Don't drag Lazrin into the conversation.

Sabreseven
Feb 27, 2016

AP posted:

Apparently things are so hosed up at CIG that some are considering a career change to comedy.

https://twitter.com/SandiGardiner/status/829051084270219264

CIG 'engineering': "Why did the commando cross the road?"

Normal well adjusted person : "Hehe, I don't know, why did the commando cross the road?"

CIG 'engineering': "You don't know the answer and your lies mean nothing to me, anyone who understands game development knows the answer, the answer will be released on time and will be better than any other punchline ever, I've seen the full unreleased answer and played the joke all the way through, it exists and is worth donating to unless you don't want all the perks of early backing such as... , shut up Drek Smurt you're just a stupid goonie and furthermore..."

:shrug:

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development

Xaerael posted:

Imagine being that guy when Star Citizen turns out to be dogshit.

Like Maximus Derekus Smarticus carving up his tattoo in that Gladiator film.

Viscous Soda
Apr 24, 2004

Xaerael posted:

Imagine being that guy when Star Citizen turns out to be dogshit.

Eh, it's the amount of ink is pretty sparse. A cover up tattoo should be pretty simple.

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

Goobs posted:

Ty for responses all. I found all the stuff I was looking for.

If you've stuck arguing with a Citizen you might want to consider telling him he's convinced you and then slowly encourage him to spend more.

peter gabriel
Nov 8, 2011

Hello Commandos
So erm we've erm made instances but instead of being erm you know like erm plastic bags they are like erm napkins and the data is like gravy so with a plastic bag erm you'd have a bag of gravy and it's all in there sloshing around and erm yeah but you can't get to the gravy because of the plastic bag you see so we've erm used napkins so gravy seeps through and then gets over to other places because a napkin isn't like a plastic bag

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Viscous Soda posted:

Eh, it's the amount of ink is pretty sparse. A cover up tattoo should be pretty simple.

Irony is the tattoo is not really 100% fidelity. The plaque in the office had a broken off piece.

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

How 'bout them hawks news huh!
I've seen worse. Saw a Battlefield 3 tattoo once. I mean, skip the 3 and it's just kinda silly, not downright stupid.

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



peter gabriel posted:

So erm we've erm made instances but instead of being erm you know like erm plastic bags they are like erm napkins and the data is like gravy so with a plastic bag erm you'd have a bag of gravy and it's all in there sloshing around and erm yeah but you can't get to the gravy because of the plastic bag you see so we've erm used napkins so gravy seeps through and then gets over to other places because a napkin isn't like a plastic bag

Is this why the videos stopped? You're working at Foundry 42 now???

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development
/r/StarCitizen: "Star Citizen refund guide (Easy)" (now removed)

Refunder posted:

Schala (Cloud Imperium Games) Feb 7, 21:20 GMT

Hi Locippoci,

No problem! I have processed a refund of $210.00 USD back to your original payment method. It can take 3-5 business days to arrive, but you should see that in your account shortly.

All ships, items, and upgrades have been removed, but your account will remain open in the event that you would like to give us a try again in the future.

Thanks for your past support of our game. Schala Player Relations Roberts Space Industries


Loci Poci

Loci Poci Feb 5, 11:20 GMT

The game did not live off to my expectations, and I no longer believe in the project. Also, my PC is getting low framerate, although I have a GTX 1060 3gb.

USERNAME: Locipoci

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

"refund trolls"

Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





Lmao when that guy gets a coverup done it better be Derek's face

alf_pogs
Feb 15, 2012


haha 'conpany' is loving right

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Filthy drama locusts.

peter gabriel
Nov 8, 2011

Hello Commandos

Daztek posted:

Is this why the videos stopped? You're working at Foundry 42 now???

I'm head of gravy development

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

AP posted:

Apparently things are so hosed up at CIG that some are considering a career change to comedy.

https://twitter.com/SandiGardiner/status/829051084270219264


:confuoot:

Best of luck (Future) Developer Commando!

Mr.Tophat
Apr 7, 2007

You clearly don't understand joke development :justpost:

Xaerael posted:

Can you imagine being the poor fucker that did that tattoo?

:raise: "So, what's Star Citizen then?"
:shrek: "well... :words:"
:suicide:

At least they'd understand no refunds

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003


The helmet bob always gets me. But since Chris wanted it that way so it goes.

It's almost like Chris has memories of running with binoculars pressed against his face and the idea has just stuck. That's not how it works commando! Also the bouncing HUD :barf:

DigitalMocking
Jun 8, 2010

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin
Meanwhile, over at HBS, an actual successful and well run Kickstarer gaming company:

quote:

Greetings MechWarriors!
Klimecky here. We have good news for you - we're targeting March 15th as our Beta launch date.

I understand they'll even have a delta patcher. They don't know anything about game development.

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard


AlmightyPants
Mar 14, 2001

King of Scheduling
Pillbug
I believe that CIG can manage inter-instance communication, but of text chat only. Hell, when I used to play City of Heroes there was inter-instance and inter-server global chat channels, and that game came out over a decade ago. Now make that communication something like a bullet fired, which they can't even get right in a single instance right now, and that's pure loving fantasy. Nevermind if it's feasible computing wise, it simply doesn't seem possible with the latency inherent in using the internet. The two (or more) instances are going to have to come to a consensus, somehow, on whether or not a bullet fired hits anything and then relay that information back to all clients. Maybe if they were doing a Napoleonic war game with loving muskets, but not with machine guns and poo poo. It doesn't add up.

Space Crabs
Mar 10, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Raskolnikov posted:


:confuoot:
Best of luck (Future) Developer Commando!

Sorry Citizen, but throughout the decades families have been established as JPEG artisans that teach each new generation of their progeny how to make star citizen ships in familial apprenticeships.

I mean you could hope for an opening but the Star Citizen Artisinal Jpeg system has been around since 2024 easily.

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Strangler 42
Jan 8, 2007

SHAVE IT ALL OFF
ALL OF IT

Quavers posted:

Like Maximus Derekus Smarticus carving up his tattoo in that Gladiator film.

"I spent all my money on space ships so I couldn't afford laser tattoo removal. So I used this rusty cheese grater I found at the bus stop."

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