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Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



phosdex posted:

Listening to lando try to explain why they reset the servers every 10 minutes is painful.

They had people mentioning about the resets in other places and now they feel compelled to correct the record

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smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

So the spaceship has spaceflight mechanics, but you can "fall" out of it. OK

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
they dumped a guy out the back of the ship

he is falling very very slowly

more like swimming downwards slowly, really

strange

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
like he's obviously falling at a slow constant speed without accelerating at all

Mr Fronts
Jan 31, 2016

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

Berious posted:

if they ever get as far as press USE and minerals appear in your chariot it'll be a miracle

I'd settle for them getting as far as using "its" correctly.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

It's like they put a slow time on the server.

The flailing is slow too.

AutismVaccine
Feb 26, 2017


SPECIAL NEEDS
SQUAD

no re-entry trails anylonger

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

RESEt #

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

How convenient that it cut out there before we "transitioned" to the surface of the very real planet

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

AutismVaccine posted:

no re-entry trails anylonger
Those are triggered by the afterburner.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Hey, how about 2 old ads in a row!

kilus aof
Mar 24, 2001
I floated a idea on Twitch for them to put a Nox in a Cutlass and it sounds like they are going to do it.

AutismVaccine
Feb 26, 2017


SPECIAL NEEDS
SQUAD

SelenicMartian posted:

Those are triggered by the afterburner.

lol thats even better :D :D :D

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
it takes, what, four minutes to fall from edge of the stratosphere to ground?

that dude was 'falling' for a lot longer than four minutes. like a good ten.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

The ship with a bike inside is shaking like crazy.

Actually, now showing the bike inside.

The turret guns are up without the turret.

Codezombie
Sep 2, 2016

chochmah posted:

Millions of square miles of explorable terrain per moon...




Great procedural landscape generation CiG got going there. Possibly just a bunch of tiled and blended maps.

Thing is, that using straight up perlin noise/brownian octaves to generate landscapes does'nt generate anything that looks realistic, those two techniques are pretty much the defacto for procgen, and have been for the past couple of decades.
So you need to seed your random generator with some actual data. This is not hard, as easy as making the first octave of the function contain hand crafted data points (usually from a set of blended DEM files)
Thats just lazy.

From that picture, it really looks like CIG has gone down the laziest possible route, of just mashing some height maps together.
God knows if they are even using fractal generation to interpolate additional detail between those points... (Hell Outerra uses this simple approach and gets really good results, http://www.outerra.com/)
Which is a shame as there is a way to generate really realistic landscapes from proc data, such as the approach taken here:
http://www.howardzzh.com/research/terrainr/

No signs that CIG have even tried to use this 10 year old technique.

Lazy.

Codezombie fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Aug 24, 2017

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Everything's jerky as gently caress.

Codezombie
Sep 2, 2016

SelenicMartian posted:

Everything's jerky as gently caress.

Always had been, when I first looked at the hanger module years ago (before Arena Commander was even out), the FPS was so bad that I checked the exe because I thought they'd put out the Debug version of the build by mistake.

AutismVaccine
Feb 26, 2017


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SelenicMartian posted:

Everything's jerky as gently caress.

Thats the charme of SC. If you want to play a smooth game with 100+fps and no lag you have to play hundreds of other games.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

No, I mean the guy in 'free fall' was moving in steps.

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009

Literally hacking the demo live and:

code:
Kade7596: Hey. HEY. This is PERFECT for a Star Citizen audience. This is why we're here. Transparency FTMFW.
:ughh:

kilus aof
Mar 24, 2001
Looks to me they clipped through the ship but Lando claimed they just fell through the side door.

https://clips.twitch.tv/SeductiveFantasticSoybeanDoggo

Sectopod
Aug 24, 2017

Who's the dude with the red hat, some known streamer?
He seems more eager to cover up bugs than the other guys.

He glitches through the chariot that is trying to catch him falling down -> promptly declares that he fell out through the open side door (totally no a bug you guis)

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

They're racing to the dark side. By going into space.

xXAdmiralBekHarXx
Jul 11, 2017

by zen death robot

chochmah posted:

Millions of square miles of explorable terrain per moon...






Great procedural landscape generation CiG got going there. Possibly just a bunch of tiled and blended maps.

Thats exactly what it is. In the original promo last yea the same mountain was in the screenshot at least a dozen times. They have tile sets and blending tool thats it.

Damn Dirty Ape
Jan 23, 2015

I love you Dr. Zaius



chochmah posted:

Millions of square miles of explorable terrain per moon...






Great procedural landscape generation CiG got going there. Possibly just a bunch of tiled and blended maps.

lol good catch. The terrain is archering itself.

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Some serious smoke and mirrors going on here with the "landing" in pitch darkness

xXAdmiralBekHarXx
Jul 11, 2017

by zen death robot

Milky Moor posted:

do you think any of these guys, especially lando, are worried about basically lying on camera

No because it works everytime. Yesterday on reddit someone smugly quoted the clip of lando saying that as impeccable proof.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

The map is darker, but the sun is just as high.

Then it's suddenly beyond the horizon.

Theory: The map has a mountain with everything on the other side set to dark.

kilus aof
Mar 24, 2001
Epic FPS action.

https://clips.twitch.tv/ModernKitschyHerringPicoMause

Sillybones
Aug 10, 2013

go away,
spooky skeleton,
go away

Nice to see the homage to the Halo dude.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Railgun shot to the pilot's head - no reaction.

The railgun was in the cockpit next to the pilot.

Natron
Aug 5, 2004

I like that the only interesting part was when they tried to catch the guy falling through the atmosphere and that it got cut short by their idiotic server reset.

Also, shouldn't that guy have burnt up on re-entry? Guess he didn't have his afterburners on...

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Holy LOL. That landing

kilus aof
Mar 24, 2001
Ship crashes full speed into the ground and is perfectly fine.

https://clips.twitch.tv/BoredSteamyHerringDoritosChip

AbstractNapper
Jun 5, 2011

I can help
This is like the last season of Dexter.
I could only "watch" it by reading people's comments from their hate-watching.
And it was actually fun that way.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

So, we're about 1 reset from Erin?

Inkel
Feb 19, 2004

College Slice
This is so embarrassing.

milk milk lemonade
Jul 29, 2016

Inkel posted:

This is so embarrassing.

Insanely so. What a bunch of conniving thieves and incompetents

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Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



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