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TheLastRoboKy
May 2, 2009

Finishing the game with everyone else's continues

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

AtV had some stuff going on.

- It kind of sounds like they're getting rid of the monthly reports and replacing them with monthly AtV segments. https://youtu.be/c_v-hMu_h5s?t=3m21s
- The intricate and dynamic virtual economy that Toni Z has been hyping for years has been reduced to going to an admin office at a truck stop where you buy or sell from a handful of resources on a computer monitor.
- The truck stop admin office thing is "the next round of shops that will be available after the 2.6.2 patch" , meaning the content for 2.7 was basically laid out in this AtV, without announcing the 2.7 patch.
- As mentioned, lmao at this: "With the help of code and design we also started researching ways to implement the hundreds of animations we've developed over the years"
- This:



Research into ways to implement all the animations they've made. Research.

loving baffling. Also elsewhere I read that Peeps-filling-Oreos like that guys has make your poop go pinkish (the internet is full of many amazing questions and answers you didn't even want to know), so now even the developers' literal turds are less drab looking than the metaphorical turd they're dropping on the backers.

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Chin
Dec 12, 2005

GET LOST 2013
-RALPH
To be fair he said they're researching "better ways".

Still loving hilarious. Essentially a public admission that those tens of millions spent at The Imaginarium resulted in a huge, messy, poorly planned time sink. I've never seen that Austin lead dude look so defeated.

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

TheLastRoboKy posted:

Research into ways to implement all the animations they've made. Research.

Translation: "We don't have enough money for another mocap session and Chris won't accept that our data is unusable, so we're trying to figure out a way to hack it in"

ripptide
Jul 28, 2016

Foo Diddley posted:

Translation: "We don't have enough money for another mocap session and Chris won't accept that our data is unusable, so we're trying to figure out a way to hack it in"

That, and "Can anyone remember why Chris wanted 17 hours of some guy mopping the floors?"

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard
RSI Forums: How a moderator should and should not act in /r/StarCitizen




One in the Bum
Apr 25, 2014

Hair Elf

Atheist Sunglasses posted:

Star Citizen will be at Pax East right? Will I get to meet Sandi? I vaguely remember her being at the booth a few years ago when we still had hope

I went to pax last year and sc was no where to be found. Doubt they'll be there this time around. They have pretty much written off trade shows other than gamescom (because the Germans have a rockin hard on for croberts). Seeing as how they have a propensity to back out of commitments at the last moment, I doubt they'll ever do another show in the states that they don't directly control like citcon until they have a legit game to show (so never).

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

One in the Bum
Apr 25, 2014

Hair Elf

D_Smart posted:

So who caught today's AtV? FF to 8:28

https://youtu.be/c_v-hMu_h5s?t=8m28s


I haven't stopped laughing.

ps: There's another sale coming. I guess they're going to keep on doing sales until funding improves. Definitely don't need the money though.

They have hundreds of animations but still zero mechanics to make even a simplified game loop. Totes not a scam, nosiree!

One in the Bum
Apr 25, 2014

Hair Elf

First thing he says is "we know..." No, you don't actually know poo poo because none of this is in the gametech demo.

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
11 bug reports in last 24 hours.

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

not funny but whatever. I'm not going to get citcon2018 :mad:

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Mu77ley
Oct 14, 2016

doingitwrong posted:

What Derek fails to disclose here is that the next scene after they say they are looking to find ways to integrate all their animations into the game—the example they picked from 'hundreds' of cool animations—is dudes sitting at a picnic table.



Didn't they already show that exact same thing off sometime last year?

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

Mu77ley posted:

Didn't they already show that exact same thing off sometime last year?

This is like the third or fourth time... yes.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
:siren: Derek Smart Derek Smart DEREK SMART :siren:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DerekSmart/comments/5y4u39/dks_on_fdev_for_the_record_im_still_a_backer_but/den6n0p/



:woof:

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
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.twitch.tv/videos/127365570?t=1h56m46s

CrazyTolradi
Oct 2, 2011

It feels so good to be so bad.....at posting.

Just got a live performance of Oh Chris by ewe2, that song is loving amazing.

XK
Jul 9, 2001

Star Citizen is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it's fidelity when you look out your window or when you watch youtube

Looks like Youtuber dangerousanalysis is still planning on doing a Star Citizen video.

quote:

Oh and Star Citizen work is continuing I'm just being bogged down by the huge amount of data on that one. 60-100k words of Derek Smart etc.

Yeah, that tends to happen.

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

As another fellow with a completely unique name I also feel the same grief that Derek Smart or Zhang Wei must feel. It's just too easy to doxx us.

his nibs
Feb 27, 2016

:kayak:Welcome to the:kayak:
Dream Factory
:kayak:
Grimey Drawer

CrazyTolradi posted:

Just got a live performance of Oh Chris by ewe2, that song is loving amazing.

It's full of toe-tapping parpness

his nibs
Feb 27, 2016

:kayak:Welcome to the:kayak:
Dream Factory
:kayak:
Grimey Drawer

his nibs posted:

It's full of toe-tapping parpness

and a fully released product

Ramadu
Aug 25, 2004

2015 NFL MVP


XK posted:

Looks like Youtuber dangerousanalysis is still planning on doing a Star Citizen video.


Yeah, that tends to happen.

whos that and why should i look forward to it

XK
Jul 9, 2001

Star Citizen is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it's fidelity when you look out your window or when you watch youtube

Ramadu posted:

whos that and why should i look forward to it

Some guy who does long form deeply investigated videos about various topics, and seems to have a knack for digging through financial documents. He mentioned 6 or more months ago he was doing a Star Citizen video "next", then later said it was way more complicated than he originally realized and hadn't mentioned it since.

Space Crabs
Mar 10, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Mu77ley posted:

Didn't they already show that exact same thing off sometime last year?

They showed eight people at one table being a complete clusterfuck that didn't work and looked stupid on top of being completely useless while talking about how Chris Roberts wanted a whole cafeteria with 40+ NPCs being a complete clusterfuck that didn't work and looked stupid on top of being completely useless times five.

Luckily in the last year they've managed to solve the complete clusterfuck of their AI pathing by creating a bunch of tables, so the NPC have more places to choose from instead of awkwardly competing for a place to sit. This has allowed them to add more NPCs, almost half of Chris Roberts stupid and completely useless vision of a populated mess hall.

This is a workaround that took a laughable amount of time, is on the same caliber as an amateur modder that is incapable of changing the core mechanics and instead has to get creative and matches all of the other Cryengine mods and tweaks they've sold to people for $145,000,000 like NOCLIP reskinned Jeeps and 300 people worldwide barely managing to match a 15 year olds modding capability for a team deathmatch after 5 years in an engine that already includes that.

All of this isn't a perfect example of why this game died in 2015 and means the game is coming out because

Space Crabs fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Mar 10, 2017

Decrepus
May 21, 2008

In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.


Derek Smart just robbed a local 7-11. This is my opinion.

Tinfoil Papercut
Jul 27, 2016

by Athanatos
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

Experimental Skin
Apr 16, 2016

Decrepus posted:

Derek Smart just robbed a local 7-11. This is my opinion.

Robert Space is a fuckwit. This is a fact.

aleksendr
May 14, 2014

CrazyTolradi posted:

Just got a live performance of Oh Chris by ewe2, that song is loving amazing.

That one is so good i caught myself humming it sometime.

kilus aof
Mar 24, 2001

I'd be more concerned at when Star Citizen is going to implement one system before speculating about secret system additions.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

kilus aof posted:

I'd be more concerned at when Star Citizen is going to implement one system before speculating about secret system additions.

How do we know there aren't 100 systems in the game already?

Space Crabs
Mar 10, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

kilus aof posted:

I'd be more concerned at when Star Citizen is going to implement one system before speculating about secret system additions.

The dream is obviously real and 100% a sure thing with zero possibility of failure so all we need to do is sit back and think of exactly how it's going to be even more amazing than promised because there is no outcome, in any reality or timeline where this project goes backward or has negative progress.

This is a reasonable thing to think.

Baxta
Feb 18, 2004

Needs More Pirate
Next sale prediction

EASTER SALE!

Get the Constellation Aquila and the Super Hornet for just $800 dollars with LTI so you can rise from the dead just like Jesus!
*Constellation Aquila currently not flight ready

Move stones around like Jesus with the new exciting mining patch!
*Mining currently under development

Crucify your opponents with the redeemer gunship for the sale price of $500 dollars!
*Redeemer currently not flight ready

EDIT: taxxe

Baxta fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Mar 10, 2017

Beer4TheBeerGod
Aug 23, 2004
Exciting Lemon
If they're going to do a Jesus sale to bring something back from the dead it would be the Merchantman.

Beer4TheBeerGod
Aug 23, 2004
Exciting Lemon
Alternatively they could have a forgiveness sale. Anyone with a refunded account can buy a new package and have their account and backer rewards restored.*

*$66.99 Penance Fee Applies

Baxta
Feb 18, 2004

Needs More Pirate

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Alternatively they could have a forgiveness sale. Anyone with a refunded account can buy a new package and have their account and backer rewards restored.*

*$66.99 Penance Fee Applies

Ha this is better. I vote for penance.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

If they're going to do a Jesus sale to bring something back from the dead it would be the Merchantman.

The ship everyone is clamoring for yet has no concept art except for a hallway. Sounds like a recipe for a good sale.

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

Do they even know which end is the front yet?

TrustmeImLegit
Jan 14, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCGYIivC1c8

Plural Abysss
Feb 25, 2016

Twerk - "If you accept that CR is an idiot, then the dream of Star Citizen is dead. So obviously you can't do that. Furthermore, it's not is fault. He's just TOO optimistic."

Battered Citizen Syndrome

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TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer

Space Crabs posted:

They showed eight people at one table being a complete clusterfuck that didn't work and looked stupid on top of being completely useless while talking about how Chris Roberts wanted a whole cafeteria with 40+ NPCs being a complete clusterfuck that didn't work and looked stupid on top of being completely useless times five.
the crazy thing is one of the leaks specifically mentioned the mess hall scene for sq42 having to be cut down

TheAgent posted:

hello, some of this is rehashed again
  • new mocap shoot coming up right before halloween, will continue for several weeks (hearing for prelude, can't be right)
  • in june 2016 hamil did most of what we'll see in the sq42 prelude
  • problems with old animation vs new engine upgrade is causing a lot of problems
  • more specifically: old shoots done with different tech, new captures much easier to get in and working
  • tech was upgraded without realizing how it affected current animation capture and tools
  • every NPC interaction in the prelude is entirely hand scripted at this point, no subsumption or "true" AI
  • almost all scenes will have to be reshot with stand ins for the A list cast animations (already happening since early this year)
  • internally sq42 prelude is still on for march 2017, many fights about deadline releasing with roberts and sandi (for some reason)
  • "huge" scenes with dozens of characters paired down due to problems getting them to run, talked about hiring outside CGI animators for larger cutscenes
  • mess hall scene now features less than five characters including PC, was over two dozen
  • "[Roberts] wrote this like a 100 million dollar sci-fi epic without regard to seeing how it feasibly functions."
  • sq42 prelude supposedly "in medias res"
  • "The problem [with the Morrow tour] was that it didn't hook anyone. We needed a hook; a punch, an explosion right off the bat."
this was in October before any of the mess hall stuff was shown (the first time)

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