The Butcher posted:

To NPC: "I love you."

NPC: "I love you too, MonacleCat."

Voice immersion.

The Butcher posted:

To NPC: "I love you."

NPC: "I love you too, MonacleCat."

Voice immersion.

Shazback posted:

As if Monoclecat could limit himself to three words...

Shazback posted:

As if Monoclecat could limit himself to three words...

LividLiquid posted:

I'm really sick of people "disagreeing" with my personhood and being allowed to spout their bigotry unimpeded, so this pleases me.

War Wizard posted:

You could be gay with aliens in Mass Effect. It'd be weird for this everything game to have less features than a 15 year old game.

I said come in! posted:

What bigoted thing did he say?

Shazback posted:

As if Monoclecat could limit himself to three words...

The Butcher posted:

To NPC: "I love you."

NPC: "I love you too, MonacleCat."

Voice immersion.

The Butcher posted:

To NPC: "I love you."

NPC: "I love you too, MonacleCat."

Voice immersion.

The Titanic posted:

MonacleCat: *assumed kneeling position* Now... Mark me with your pee!

NPc: That feature is not available yet.

MonacleCat: Now, some of the trolls may see this as evidence that the game is being shipped unfinished. However, I have a few words for them as to why their willful misunderstandings ignore the facts that *etc etc for 4000 words*

Dynastocles posted:

Fixed because MonocleCat would never complain about a feature not being in the game.

Eau de MacGowan posted:

any update on squadron 42?

i still have fond memories of starlancer

Eau de MacGowan posted:

any update on squadron 42?

i still have fond memories of starlancer

Eau de MacGowan posted:

i still have fond memories of starlancer

DreadUnknown posted:

Just play Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, its not perfect but its fine.

The Titanic posted:

I remember a mission in starlancer I think that was when you main carrier was blown up and you had to go to a new one, but the mission was an escort mission of some sort and it was one of those 45m multi part missions and by the second half, some escorted ship would die no matter what and I'd lose.

As a girl this was my defeating mission and I never got passed it, and the game was just not as fun as freelancer or Freespace or even earlier wing commander games... too frustrating with super long missions and no checkpoints.

Lord Stimperor posted:

Sonic didn't touch my controls and still the computer would tell at me that I was drifting off. Then it would fail me. I hated that as a kid.

veni veni veni posted:

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is basically what I imagine Squadron 42 would have been if competent people were involved in making it.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Fall theiugh the floor right into the action new worlds and glitch into new jails for rousing games of spamming wtf???????

The Titanic posted:

Honestly looking forward to sq404 and the 20+ minute flying sections between mission areas where nothing happens except Starfield.screensaver playing endlessly.

Maybe there will be a thrill when a survival meter dips too low and you have to go eat or pee or something.

Except you're in a fighter without a bathroom because you didn't buy the sq404 Xtra Roman Caesar Edition of the game and you die.

Don't be so cheap next time and buy buy buy!

Vic posted:

He can be so fast sometimes you don't even notice it.

Severe desync, constant crashes, poor FPS experience....a couple of days playing MW2 has made me feel great about Star Citizens current stability and performance posted:

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My old rear end thought you were talking about mech warrior 2 so I was really confused until I read the comments

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Likewise - MW2 to me means Mechwarrior 2, which was a fantastic (and, iirc, v.stable / bug free) game from ~20 years ago...

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To be fair, I also treat purchasers of AAA titles with contempt. They only have themselves to blame these days.

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Yep, haven't really seen PC games in decades. Just some console optimized ports like Skyrim, which are mediocre attempts at PC-gaming.

It's been funny to me that the most interesting games of the last decade have been Dwarf Fortress, Banished and Star Citizen. First 2 are 1-man projects and SC is in the other end of the spectrum. In all these cases, it is the passion for gaming driving these titles, not the marketing department.

I once tried to explain this in the SASsub but to no avail. Hilariously, they keep comparing SC to retarded crap like CoD.

Mirificus posted:

Rev. Melchisedech Howler posted:

I know it's been said many times, but these guys haven't actually played anything since, say, Mechwarrior 2.

Say what you like about CoD, pc games (and gaming in general) is about as healthy and diverse in genres and gameplay as you could imagine. But sure, it's either Dwarf Fortress or CoD.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler posted:

I know it's been said many times, but these guys haven't actually played anything since, say, Mechwarrior 2.

Say what you like about CoD, pc games (and gaming in general) is about as healthy and diverse in genres and gameplay as you could imagine. But sure, it's either Dwarf Fortress or CoD.

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NPCs do not say one thing and simultaneously do another. There's no feint or betrayal - they don't stall you while their buddies come to call,....

You obviously haven't been listening to Chris Roberts or watching the very first planetary landing demonstration on Delamar after your encounter with Miles Eckhart. Tricksy those NPC' are going to be according to Chris Roberts.

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Don't be like Sea of Thieves, Star Citizen, there's more to the 'verse than that.

This is what comes up when I Google 'Does Sea of Thieves have an NPC population?'

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There is no NPCs in the game and there also won't be NPCs in the future.

Sea of Thieves is the raisin d'etre of the game without PvP there is no game, that is not how Star Citizen is being designed.
This seems to be such a hugely difficult concept for certain players of other games to grasp, Star Citizen isn't like any other game. They can stick their fingers in their ears and stamp their feet insisting it is! it is! it is! all they want... it just isn't.

The play space is huge there is no unavoidable funneling into choke points. There IS a huge population of NPC AI for players to get lost in.. and there is no way for players to identify who are players and who are NPC's until they get 'up close and personal' by which time they are committed to an action that has consequences. The idea that live players will ignore all that NPC traffic and wait many hours until the odd live player comes along is ludicrous. Herds of Wildebeest may get attacked by the occasional predator but the chances of that predator getting you personally is 1000's to 1. Showing a picture of a lion mauling a baby wildebeest is misleading if it doesn't show the massive herd of Wildebeest moving on unmolested behind that lion.

PvP will be a rare occurrence, if you know what you're doing and take care it will be a vanishingly rare occurrence.

Right now murder is the norm and the consequences are basically a short time on the naughty step, otherwise no consequences, this will not continue. Quarterdeck is the big boy prison planet, not some local jail Klescher Rehab for a minor parking offence - going off to Quarterdeck means your ship and contents are confiscated. You think it will be as easy as rocking up to the nearest ASOP terminal to get insurance? Think again. Have you noticed there are security gates just in front of most ASOP terminal areas? You're waiting for some rarely random live guy to turn up among the crowds meanwhile there's a huge posse of potential bounty hunters actively looking for you.

All players will have a history log that informs other players and NPC's about who they are dealing with. Once an ex-con always an ex-con. Even the entrepreneurial 'law-skirters' wanting an easy buck won't be tolerant of murderers and those who engage in wanton destruction bringing in higher security forces to a cushy neighbourhood that accepts a bit of extortion as just one part of doing business. There is an NPC bounty hunters guild and the Advocacy!

Where and how you get offered work depends on your reputation, you won't be getting the type of work that has you going into more secured areas of the game if you have a very poor reputation, whereas lawful players will know how to avoid those systems that harbour the criminal types in a greater abundance. Criminals will spend most of their time with PvE not just because the ratio of NPC's is higher, but also because NPC's will be drawn to them in ever increasing numbers - they've painted a big 'come get me! for a juicy pew-pew legal payout' sign on their backs.

The economy is to be simulated accurately, no magic commodities, any disruption to supply side economics will be met with an increasing level of security services in an area... and they can have access to unlimited resources while any bad boys will be severely hampered in where and how much the resources they need are available to them - they will need to rely on grey middle-men for supplies. It will not be easy to live a lawless life, it will close off large parts of the game universe, and the activities in that part of the universe, especially those that take place in very highly patrolled secured areas.

Really.. stop comparing Star Citizen to other games, you'll just keep giving yourselves the wrong ideas.

EvE Online and Rust don't have a Quarterdeck prison planet, they don't have an NPC bounty hunters guild or an Advocacy connected to a centralised intelligence database with security check points literally everywhere in UEE controlled space (you know... the ones you just saunter through in the game right now like they aren't there), much less local security checking on entry to every single system and even between planets in higher security systems, or a UEE Navy.

EvE Online and Rust don't have facial DNA tech that means every player and NPC look absolutely unique and as such facial scanning is an effective deterrent to keep criminals out of areas of higher population. They don't have an annual Murray Cup Racing calendar, or local holiday events and Expo's. They don't have the same system for examining the reputation of other players and groups.

Death will cost you, that's goes even more for those who actively put themselves in the crosshairs of the law system the majority of the time they are logged in. Regeneration is free right now, it won't in the future.. also regeneration to bootleg Ibrahim Spheres away from secured areas will be harder to access, and guess who's gonna be waiting by your bedside? Realising the hardship and restrictions it will entail for those who like to shoot other players and NPC's which do you think makes more sense.. be a bounty hunter to get your pew pew kicks and get paid to have a good rep with the system or eternally be some low-life hiding every time a blip appears on your long range scanners, meanwhile watching everyone else see an amazingly actively universe going on around them.

onesixtwo posted:

Something I regret is selling off my old Xbox console & steel battalion controller. It felt real good to play giant mechs with that thing.

I’m sure it’s a dead online game now, but even just screwing around in single player with that massive control block was extremely fun.