SoftNum posted:

"Fun to play ships"

Doesn't every ship that's been actually released play exactly the same (Plus or Minus a cargo spot)?

Dementropy posted:

Raskolnikov posted:

I really enjoyed this post. It's such a well written tale of tedium and creeping despair.

G0RF posted:

I probably enjoy Batgirl’s videos more than most people. Batgirl, like Clifford, fits neatly in the Evangelist camp and while I think they’re a little, uh, “batty”, they also seem pretty guileless. I don’t understand how it’s possible for Batgirl to retain the hopes she has for the project in the face of what she’s seen and experienced. It was a little easier to understand in the prior years because her “friends” Sandi and Ben gave her privileged access and she reciprocated with softball questions and an abundance of praise.

Thoatse posted:

A few years back someone was editing xml to put impossible guns on ships in arena commando and owning everyone and tears were flowing

AP posted:

There's an old video of batgirl on a stream with (from memory) Michael Morlan and Wingman, they hinted at the rumours of what was really going on at Austin. This is around the time Morlan was not so subtly taking digs at CIG with his sock puppet videos after Austin lost the power struggle with LA.

There's no way she hasn't known poo poo has been hosed for years and she still investigated the possibility of getting a job there.

Sabreseven posted:

Guilty as charged your honouror

To be fair though, the ships looked a lot better with oversized weapons, and they did in fact, punch wayyyyy above their weight.

Pixelate posted:

Danknificent posted:

GORF, rebuttal?

AP posted:

There's an old video of batgirl on a stream with (from memory) Michael Morlan and Wingman, they hinted at the rumours of what was really going on at Austin. This is around the time Morlan was not so subtly taking digs at CIG with his sock puppet videos after Austin lost the power struggle with LA.

There's no way she hasn't known poo poo has been hosed for years and she still investigated the possibility of getting a job there.

AP posted:

I'm not really disagreeing with Gorf, just giving my opinion on it, it would be a pain in the arse to track down my original post about this from something like 3 years ago.

G0RF posted:

I probably enjoy Batgirl’s videos more than most people. Batgirl, like Clifford, fits neatly in the Evangelist camp and while I think they’re a little, uh, “batty”, they also seem pretty guileless. I don’t understand how it’s possible for Batgirl to retain the hopes she has for the project in the face of what she’s seen and experienced. It was a little easier to understand in the prior years because her “friends” Sandi and Ben gave her privileged access and she reciprocated with softball questions and an abundance of praise.

Yet Ben seems marginalized if not gone completely, and Sandi hasn’t given a new interview in quite some time.(Wise move, really, given how many regrettable things she’s said in past interviews.) Her “friends” have shut her out every bit as sharply and unexpectedly as her NPC mission giver did in SoTG. I’d assumed maybe some distance from CIG might clear the fog but no, she_still_trusts_in_cig and believes in the game.

Depending where you stand it’s either heartbreaking or hilarious that her video ends with her still hanging on to the Cargo she scored in a half hour of planet jogging. It can’t be redeemed yet can’t be discarded, either. It’s empty, pointless, a gag gift consolation prize for her time lost to a parody of a gameplay experience, yet she’s attached to it anyway. She’s assigned the meaning and worth to it that the game failed to provide or reward and I’d not be surprised if she retains it as long as persistence will allow. It’s pretty much a symbol of her faith in the dream and like hell is she going to let anyone take that away. (At least until some server wipe does.)

Foo Diddley posted:

Was waiting for Ben to come out and was sorely disappointed

Raskolnikov posted:

Don't worry, I know just the right person!

Dusty Lens posted:

Didn't he get taken out in an earlier scene?

MilesK posted:

Seriously though, fire the lore people. I think twice a week lore posts since september 2012 is a little much.

AP posted:

There's an old video of batgirl on a stream with (from memory) Michael Morlan and Wingman, they hinted at the rumours of what was really going on at Austin. This is around the time Morlan was not so subtly taking digs at CIG with his sock puppet videos after Austin lost the power struggle with LA.

There's no way she hasn't known poo poo has been hosed for years and she still investigated the possibility of getting a job there.

Dusty Lens posted:

Didn't he get taken out in an earlier scene?

Pixelate posted:

Yeah pretty sure Ben's shafted, Sandi has a purple face, and most of the backers are Charlies.

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/953721793524785155

Xaerael posted:

I have a stockpile of duplicate games due to Humble Monthly.

The Long Dark
Sleeping Dogs
Tomb Raider (reboot)

I would like to give these out, with the rule that you MUST play them and do a 250 word field trip report about why they are better than Star Citizen within ONE WEEK of receiving the code, or toxx. If you're up to the task, post

and claim ONE game. First come, first served.

Note: 250 words is nothing. About 2x what I wrote here. Thread's getting stale, things need punching up a little.

You need PMs for me to send the steam codes.

E: to spice it up, the field trip needs a screenshot or two.

G0RF posted:

Yeah I remember seeing that, and you’re right, at the time she seemed more in sync with the Austin folk. I assume once that crew was out and the flag fully rose in Santa Monica that Ben was trying to keep continuity with folks like Batgirl and the door was opened to regular contact with Sandi and occasionally Chris.

But whatever lucidity Batgirl had back then took the backseat to hope in the years after. Maybe a starry-eyed deification of Chris was part of that or maybe the fact that money just kept coming into CIG’s coffers by the truckloads offered reassurance that despite the drama in Austin, the dream was still very much alive. She had other emotional attachments during that time that gave some continuity through the turmoil, too. Her fondness for Chelsea as her Concierge liaison was very real and enduring (to Sandi’s visible annoyance during that interview that birthed “It filters from the top.”)

Her faith may have been tested during the Wingman drama but she’s nothing if not hopeful about the future for the game. She found new people to believe in (who’ve abandoned her), new hope in the game (that consistently fails her) and bought a lot more ships to fill out her hangar (though many haven’t delivered yet.)

The thing is, is CIG can avoid the hard crash and deliver the spectacular muddle, a second life in space that puts the “B.Y.O. Fun” onus on players, it’ll probably be Batgirl’s heaven even if it looks like Purgatory from the outside. Being trapped in a high fidelity / low mechanic sim will still be sweet since she’s playing as much out of her attachment to ships as anything else. I mean she turned a half hour of box retrieval into a thrill adventure and savored the sight of approach her Cutlass over a half dozen times just to drop cargo in it. That’s a pretty low threshold for meaningful gameplay but if CIG can deliver a stable version of that and fix the missions so she can earn some scratch, I think she’d be more than ready to make a second life out of crap every bit as mundane and be thrilled doing it.

She gotta believe, if you know what I mean.

Galarox posted:

Can you imagine SC on Steam?! I reckon the salt on the forums would be adequate to supply a small country.

Galarox posted:

I-It - it might have even been... A FEMALE!!!!

Beet Wagon posted:

Experience excitement like "Finding place the procedural generation hosed up" in the new NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL CONTENT 42!!

The Titanic posted:

It seems an awful lot like some kind of a terrain seam,

The Titanic posted:

Now I ain’t no smart woman, but is this sort of behavior supposed to happen with procedural generation?

It seems an awful lot like some kind of a terrain seam, but maybe the terrains are knitted together using a singular procedural generation? I’ve seen stuff like this and it’s usually associated with where height maps come together, but I’m not a game dev so y’all fill me in here on my lack of wisdom.

Galarox posted:

The chances of 4.0 being released this year are Slim and None... and Slim? Well Slim is right outa town. If the Commandos are lucky they will get 3.1 this year. But don't hold your breath.