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Nalin posted:It's like overheating your mech in MechWarrior, except it lasts longer and your shields go away and then you have to do the cockpit startup sequence all over again. Imagine overheating in MechWarrior during a fight and suddenly losing all your armor. You die instantly. It's better because the default Loadout will overheat doing normal takes like just Quantum traveling. It's more exciting because the heat meter is obscure and gives you little warning. It's more immersive because instead of hitting F to flush some coolant, or override and take some heat damage you have to stop open some awkward MFD muck around with a bunch of settings or just have the ship stop on you. While I have never got the ship load thing to work, and I have no real other guns because I have not spent much on my he game, it dosent even look like you can look at items and predict what effect they will have on your heat. From almost every angle it's the most half assed badly thought out implementation of heat they could have done. You would be hard pressed to make it worse.
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YOUTUBE: Twerk calls 2019 “A Step in the Right Direction” for Star Citizen. Come on, man. Get serious.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 08:45 |
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Star Citizen: Better luck next year
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 08:54 |
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All the very best for 2020, you bitter, rage-filled, dsmart-sockpuppet haters!
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 10:34 |
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G0RF posted:YOUTUBE: Twerk calls 2019 “A Step in the Right Direction” for Star Citizen. Well..one step, sure.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 11:01 |
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Bofast posted:I think Planescape Torment or some similar game had rat enemies that got smarter and more dangerous (to the point of casting spells?) the more there were in the same small area. I guess Citizens become dumber and/or more crazy the more of them there are in the same online forum?
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 11:57 |
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enlightened citizen posted:"with SOCS in game alongside that sexy Planet Tech v4 that the detractors have finally lost one of their final legs left to stand on" It feels CI(G) really showed us our place with planet tech v4. You really cant compare it with v3 or godforbid v2. The game's progress is surely tripling every second.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 12:04 |
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Scruffpuff posted:That's part of the great Star Citizen Illusion, and the presumption of success that surrounds this project like a miasma of poo poo. The rumour with Warcraft is that it was going to be a Warhammer fantasy licenced game and Games Workshop pulled out so they redid the lore aspects.
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peter gabriel posted:A very deep authoritative voice can be compelling though, this is why chris sounds like pingu, because he gets everything wrong Very true. Christopher Lee could have sold refrigerators to Eskimos or played Count Dooku in Star wars.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 12:45 |
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UnknownTarget posted:No it should be fine. Games use several tricks to approximate day traced lighting, which Cryengine is doubtlessly using. One of the major ones is baked lighting and another one is a reflection probe. Baked lighting literally "bakes" Ray traced lighting into light maps (textures) which are then used to make areas darker or lighter. It costs nothing to render and as long as none of the lights move it looks just as good as Ray traced lighting. Reflection probes basically capture the scene from a general area in a 360 map and apply it to the object as color, creating "reflections" and tinting dynamic objects so they match the scene. ggangensis posted:I doubt that CIG has the know-how to properly integrate Raytracing into CryEngine 3. But okay, let's assume they give this task to a junior dev that reads up on this stuff and has some more-or-less workable solution ready to go in a year or so: Funny thing about cryengine and raytracing https://www.cryengine.com/news/view/how-we-made-neon-noir-ray-traced-reflections-in-cryengine-and-more
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 13:29 |
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precision posted:Okay but does Star Citizen have tressFX???? Where Star Citizen is going* we don't need TressFX *nowhere
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 13:35 |
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Beet Wagon posted:"You don't know how much he gets paid, maybe he can afford the mansion" trickle down economics work for games too!!
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Rugganovich posted:As an original backer who hasn't left, in my defense, I think I'm still in shock. I'm afraid the worst kind of electricity can have that effect.
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jarlywarly posted:The rumour with Warcraft is that it was going to be a Warhammer fantasy licenced game and Games Workshop pulled out so they redid the lore aspects. not a rumor, blizzard admitted in an interview a few years back that they were trying for it. you can even recolor some of the units (wolves to boars, for example) to see just how much they based on it
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Horizon Burning posted:not a rumor, blizzard admitted in an interview a few years back that they were trying for it. you can even recolor some of the units (wolves to boars, for example) to see just how much they based on it I never knew this but it makes sense. Cool fact
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Reading all of the 'game melts when I show it to people' posts on the sub, and the noob car crash experiences, it seems like there's a pretty common theme. Try and play it as an MMO and it goes all triangles... posted:Each patch me and one of my friends play for a few days pretty heavily. If there aren't that many bugs, we invite our friends that are on the fence about the game. Without fail the bugs are magnified. After doing this a few times I think it is because of two things posted:I just bought my first starter package a few hours ago and came to reddit to see what other new players have been experiencing.
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Pixelate posted:Reading all of the 'game melts when I show it to people' posts on the sub, and the noob car crash experiences, it seems like there's a pretty common theme. the replies inevitably are "idk works on my machine " quote:Finally got time to check out 3.8, so purged USER, verfied, and go. quote:I call bullshit. marumaru fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Jan 1, 2020 |
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Microtech: City of Razors
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 16:55 |
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Maybe the building is literally mirrored and the logo is correct on the other side of it. That sounds like typical CIG to me.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 16:56 |
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going through controversial on reddit and 95% of posts are from people that dare say anything about how poo poo the game is right now. naturally, all the hot posts are either dumb screenshots of an empty planet or happy new year messages
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 16:59 |
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Inacio posted:going through controversial on reddit and 95% of posts are from people that dare say anything about how poo poo the game is right now. naturally, all the hot posts are either dumb screenshots of an empty planet or happy new year messages This is the way
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Moved to #Concern
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I'm confused and horrified by the people talking about 7 HOUR and 10 HOUR long bug-riddled sessions full of crashes! What's wrong with these people? I was somewhat recently playing one of the quite old Call of Duty games and my Russian buddy apparently got stuck on a gate somewhere so the game couldn't make him show up and open a critical door to progress. After checking online that this was a known bug and that the only workaround is restarting the level I promptly quit the game, uninstalled it, and just read what happens in the remainder of the campaign (there were only 1.5 levels left at that point). I don't have time to waste on game-breaking bugs, but apparently there are people out there with a spare 10 hours to spend on this?
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 18:49 |
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G0RF posted:YOUTUBE: Twerk calls 2019 “A Step in the Right Direction” for Star Citizen. Twerk really really wants this game to happen and be good. He can be critical and when he is, he seems like he has his eyes open, but then he always bounces back to being hopeful, no matter how many things CIG screw up. I keep waiting for the point where he tips over the edge, but i'm not sure it will ever happen. He wants the dream to happen so much.
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Fidelitious posted:I'm confused and horrified by the people talking about 7 HOUR and 10 HOUR long bug-riddled sessions full of crashes! What's wrong with these people?
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A whole city made of vaping gear. Clouds, bro. Clouds.
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Fidelitious posted:I'm confused and horrified by the people talking about 7 HOUR and 10 HOUR long bug-riddled sessions full of crashes! What's wrong with these people? There are a bunch of different sub-groups of backers. Even among the cult there are mega-whales who almost never play the game and just buy space ships and dream, then there are people who dropped a few hundred bucks here and there who actually day in and day out try to play the game and make some sort of progress. I guess what keeps them going is a combo of being part of group that plays the game, wanting to keep up a facade that the game has a large and vibrant community playing it, desperation to prove to themselves and others that the game actually has content and is fun, and just pure self-hatred. Gamers are a strange lot and they sometimes continually subject themselves to games that are horribly and aggressively boring and broken; I mean there is still a large community playing Fallout 76. The group that actually plays Star Citizen regularly though, tends to be comparatively realistic about its state and prospects just through shear attrition. They’re usually the ones demanding that CIG actually fix the horrid bugs and jank that has been in the PU for years. But like the rest of the cult, they preface every criticism with a profession of faith in the holy progress and that Chris Roberts will someday deliver them the BDSSE.
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colonelwest posted:The group that actually plays Star Citizen regularly though, tends to be comparatively realistic about its state and prospects just through shear attrition. They’re usually the ones demanding that CIG actually fix the horrid bugs and jank that has been in the PU for years. But like the rest of the cult, they preface every criticism with a profession of faith in the holy progress and that Chris Roberts will someday deliver them the BDSSE. oh man you should see ingame chat. people mention bugs and share their frustration and Citizens tell them to gently caress off and such
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Inacio posted:oh man you should see ingame chat. I can imagine it goes something like this: Backer 1: Man, SC is awesome. Best game ever, so much to do! I'm having so much fun. Backer 2: Yeah, this is awesome, i'm having the time of my life. Backer 3: Guys, i've crashed to desktop 5 times in the last hour, it has its problems. Backers 1 and 2: ITS ALPHA! Maybe this game isn't for you! You don't understand software development!
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Fidelitious posted:I'm confused and horrified by the people talking about 7 HOUR and 10 HOUR long bug-riddled sessions full of crashes! What's wrong with these people? I'm pretty sure a lot of these guys have battered wife syndrome. They think they play the game wrong, their PC has issues or it is just bad luck the server crashed or a bug appears. They see all the screenshots from people having obviously fun, reading about "flight nights" and witness how much fun Rex has in his streams, so it must be their fault, right? I think people actually playing the game on a regular basis are off the worst. They did not only waste money but also a lot of time, lying to themselves. I think the backers just buying spaceships and theorycrafting are ultimately way happier. ggangensis fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Jan 1, 2020 |
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I can barely stand to play a game I like for 7 hours straight
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 22:38 |
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Star Citizen: kill game, kill USER, restart Rex's pretend roleplaying streams are great because they're the embodiment of reddit posting. He's turning dreams.txt into dreams.mp4 despite the game trying to thwart him at every turn. I don't know how many streamers got their Calders paycheck but Rex is definitely earning his.
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Pixelate posted:I also died from someone barely bumping into me. More lethal than binding of isaac.
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Rugganovich posted:Funny thing about cryengine and raytracing Afaik CIG is on CryEngine 3 (initial release oct. 2009), which might explain this: quote:From 2015 CRYENGINE has used a form of ray tracing for our in-house GI solution, Total Illumination, used in shipped titles like Kingdom Come: Deliverance and our very own Hunt: Showdown. Until now, one of the limitations of CRYENGINE’s GI solution was the level of detail in real-time reflections. There was some picture showing when Lumberyard was branched off and where Star Citizen stands, but I`am pretty sure they are stuck on a version without Raytracing features. Can't find the picture, though. In a way CIG can be happy that the general pace of graphics development seems to have slowed down quite a bit compared to the 90s, this buys Chris some time. I remember the passage from Masters of Doom where Romero saw the colored lighting in Quake 2 which convinced him an engine change was necessary. Those fundamental industry changing improvements won't happen to Chris, so he is just concerned with crossing off bullet points. Some half-assed raytracing implementation is enough for them. The Vulkan renderer they talked about? Just put in some implementation that`s worse than the D3D one, just so he can say they have it. Business as usual in SC-land.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 23:32 |
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precision posted:Star Citizen: I'm not a game
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 23:42 |
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Even if the game launched, I'm not sure how they can design the whole lifetime insurance on buying ships to work as a game play concept. If the cost of buying a new ship without insurance is low, the people who spent $10,000 will complain it was for nothing. If the cost is high, it will create a warped game scenario, where some players can suicide their ship repeatedly at virtually no cost, while others its a huge cost. I mean, i guess its not a big concern if the game will never actually launch, but eh..
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 00:11 |
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God help the poor bug smashers coming to this after the holidays.. 760 bug reports in the past week alone xD 3170 bug reports in the past month.. im actually happy to see ppl reporting bugs there than here. Im sure there are duplicates since ppl wont bother searching.. When you are asking people to pay to test your game .. You get what you get
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I read these testimonials about Star Citizen and it makes me want to play the game. I'm trying to figure out what they are experiencing that I'm missing from 7 - 8 years of gameplay or cinema footage.
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