Pixelate posted:

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Magrov posted:

I'm probably a dumb person who doesn't know anything about game design, but is there any reason why the elevator needs to actually move? Wouldn't it be easier to just close the door, play some jazz and teleport the elevator/player to the destination?

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Last month, Tech Art laid the foundation for converting all T0 hero character heads to the DNA system. While the DNA system was primarily designed to allow the blending of individual face parts for facial customization, other advantages are reduced memory footprint and the ability to share unified attachments between heads regardless of their shape and gender. The efficiency gains will be significant too – the lower-tier DNA heads combined consume only a fraction more memory than Admiral Bishop’s non-DNA head alone (one of the most complex rigs).

ZenMaster posted:

I am alive. My thoughts upon returning after 3-4 months of zero SC news.


nothing has changed.

Outer Worlds launched before SC and is infinitely better

people are still making the exact same excuses and justifications for the game not working and being delayed.

citcon is still a thing

Disco still has a job

i lurk ben's twitter and it is very sad/depressing to read

*sniff*

welcome home!

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When you think of standard video games, you have a limited number of actions you can take, or “verbs” so to speak. It seems like in Star Citizen you want that to be limitless?

We’re tying to build it in a simulation-style way. If you saw Ready Player One, it’s not necessarily all the fictional worlds, but we want that sense of just going into another virtual universe but being able to actually interact and do things. Because of the rules of the world, the things you think you could do, you could do. It’s a challenge to build something to be able to do that at the scale we’re trying, but it’s also hugely exhilarating as you start to put parts of it together. We’re still working on making it better and more reliable but if you have a webcam you can drive [control] the face of your avatar in the game, which is a really high-fidelity face. We’re using the same techniques they used on Avatar. We also take your voice and process it and put it into the world, placing you in this world with a higher sense of immersion than previously. We’re working very much on things that will increase social interaction, increase the feeling of realism in the world, for you to get lost in it and have fun, escape from our world, so to speak.

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What techniques or technologies have you developed that weren’t feasible seven years ago, when you started this project?

When I first started this, I didn’t think we’d be able to realize the planets and walk around them in first-person any way you want, but as we went on, the power of computers and GPUs has been getting better. The cloud’s become sort of ubiquitous, we run all our servers in AWS at the moment. The power of those machines continues to increase. When we first start the game, I thought we’d have to have all these different instances, so people would play in their instance and not be able to join with their friends because they might not be on the same server. But with the new cloud power, we’re gonna be able to do this thing we call “server meshing” which allows a whole bunch of servers to run in the cloud and talk to each other. So instead of having 400 servers and each server has 100 or 200 people on it, and those people can’t see [players on other servers], if they all mesh together you could have all 4,000 people or 40,000 people in the same world at the same time. We’re not the only people that are working on that. That’s the sort of thing that you won’t be able to get on a single-player game that I think can be really compelling. That definitely wasn’t something people were talking about when I first pitched this in 2012.

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How long do you anticipate Star Citizen lasting? Forever?

The concept of Star Citizen is it should always be a live game that people are playing. As long as there’s an audience, we will be improving it and adding content to it. World of Warcraft is still going pretty strong now. There’s some other MMOs that have been going longer. Our model is something that keeps us more on the cutting edge. If you look at World of Warcraft, it hasn’t moved on with the rest of gaming in terms of visuals.

That [live-game model] is probably one of the big shifts in gaming. The past gaming sensibility was: you make this game, and then people would buy it, play it, consume it in two weeks, and then they would buy the next game. There is something a bit frustrating if you [work on a game for a long time] and people are done with it in two weeks. People are still buying GTA V to play online and they’ve been doing this now for quite a few years. They’re doing all sorts of cool, community-driven content, whether they’re doing crazy stunts or having car meets. We see something similar in the Star Citizen community. Our community makes better videos to show off the game than we do. It’s crazy. They do all sorts of wacky things. That’s definitely one of the future things in gaming, that involvement of your gaming community that really invests in this world or universe. That’s been a huge shift. From a creator standpoint, it’s really fun to build this tool set and see how it excites or inspires other people, and then it turns around and inspires us. There’s definitely a symbiotic relationship.

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How do you feel about the future of the game industry?

I feel great. I was in it for a long time and then I got burned out and was in movies for a while, and then I was watching it evolve and progress, and that’s what brought me back to it. I felt like the technology had moved along. Broadband became ubiquitous and allowed for a different environment. Like what we have with Star Citizen, we have a direct connection with our players, our consumers. We don’t have any middlemen, we’re not going through a store where they buy and take it home and install it.

It feels like between the technology and the ability to connect more directly to all your players, and the richness of the world you can build, it’s the most exciting entertainment medium for me now. If I had a $200 million movie, I could not be creating a universe of higher fidelity and detail. We build these spaceships with a level of detail you wouldn’t need for a movie, because in a movie you only need the bits of the spaceships that are in the scenes in the script. If you walk around the corner there is no more set. It’s a facade. But in Star Citizen it can’t be, so you have to build the whole thing. If you love to create worlds and tell stories, gaming is immensely fulfilling.

I feel like the power of the tools are allowing creators to be unshackled from technical limitations so they can explore some of the artistic aspects of it. And the audience is huge, it’s totally mainstream. It’s only going to get bigger. I was a kid when this all started but I’m getting older now. It’s a pretty exciting time.

And we’re still in the early stages, we’re still like where movies were in the 20s, still figuring out how to use your camera and the best way to emotionally connect. I’m pretty excited to see where it goes.

Pixelate posted:

Squadron 54 is upsetting citizens...

Latest versions of Mark Hamill's "The Old Man"









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Pixelate posted:

Squadron 54 is upsetting citizens...

Latest versions of Mark Hamill's "The Old Man"









Monthly Report

Magrov posted:

I'm probably a dumb person who doesn't know anything about game design, but is there any reason why the elevator needs to actually move? Wouldn't it be easier to just close the door, play some jazz and teleport the elevator/player to the destination?

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Quavers posted:

Originally planned for a 2014 release, Star Citizen has had a rocky development and is nowhere close to finished.

Lladre posted:

I just wanted a modern freelancer.
I didn't give a poo poo about walking around some stupid moon.

precision posted:

poo poo, I'm gonna start making anime porn games

Magrov posted:

I'm probably a dumb person who doesn't know anything about game design, but is there any reason why the elevator needs to actually move? Wouldn't it be easier to just close the door, play some jazz and teleport the elevator/player to the destination?

quote:

How do you feel about the future of the game industry?

I feel great. I was in it for a long time and then I got burned out and was in movies for a while, and then I was watching it evolve and progress, and that’s what brought me back to it.

ZenMaster posted:

I am alive. My thoughts upon returning after 3-4 months of zero SC news.


nothing has changed.

Outer Worlds launched before SC and is infinitely better

people are still making the exact same excuses and justifications for the game not working and being delayed.

citcon is still a thing

Disco still has a job

i lurk ben's twitter and it is very sad/depressing to read

*sniff*

welcome home!

Pixelate posted:

Squadron 54 is upsetting citizens...

Latest versions of Mark Hamill's "The Old Man"









Monthly Report

colonelwest posted:

It’s all part of the years long “physicalized elevators” saga. Basically Chris promised that Star Citizen would never use any sort of video game trickery, the whole world would be needlessly rendered at all
times. So of course elevators would be real boxes following real shafts between levels, instead of just teleporting players around like they do in most games.

It caused them huge headaches for years,
so they gave up on it and just had elevators teleport people around, and hoped that the backers wouldn’t notice or care. But of course the tedious game dads of the SC community found out and flipped poo poo, so they backtracked and tried to add physicalized elevators back into maps that weren’t designed for it. So CIG’s crack team of 22 year olds are now trying to hack something into the game that makes it seem like the elevators are real.

Pixelate posted:

Squadron 54 is upsetting citizens...

Latest versions of Mark Hamill's "The Old Man"









Monthly Report

Dementropy posted:

Quavers posted:

As a backer of Star Citizen, I literally bought into Chris Roberts' vision. There was a long wait before the game started to take shape, but the cool thing is we get to enjoy playing it now in an alpha state even as development continues. There are quarterly updates bringing new content into the Star Citizen "Persistent Universe." The "Squadron 42" single-player campaign game was also delayed, but it looks like we might see results on that front a year from now.

Hav posted:

“Surely they can’t keep delaying it. They’ve made so much progress!”

Lladre posted:

You're ready. You'll love it. Then you won't.
But it will cost you zero dollars.

Tsar Mikey posted:

Everything sounds like it's named after lovely McMansion filled, HOA-locked subdivisions. Hurston Homes. Levski Acres. Olisar Estates. Stanton Gardens (a 55+ community).

I would expect nothing less from someone who self inserted via "Roberts Space Industries."

monkeytek posted:

Pipelines my friend, it's all in the pipelines.

Pixelate posted:

Squadron 54 is upsetting citizens...

Latest versions of Mark Hamill's "The Old Man"









Monthly Report

Elderbean posted:

Just lol at anyone who thinks the screenshots devs supply are close to the real thing. They're always taken in the best environments, with ideal hardware, some post processing, etc.

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Lladre posted:

I spent many an hour playing ASL in the 80s.

Very tempted to pick it up in its electronic form.

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Taintrunner posted:

Oh poo poo, my wife's gonna be out of town that day. I'm gonna get loving wasted!

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