fuzzknot posted:

Sabotage the speakers

Gilganixon posted:

The Epic Tale of the Goonship Ramparp: The story so far for them what came in late

Part 1
Part 2

and now the thrilling continuation



WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT IN THE EXCITING CONCLUSION

Toops posted:

Whelp, here you go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pXBpXBm0kk

if someone wants to texture this honka burnin sperg, let me know. UV mapping makes me hate life.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Originally the idea was that you would finish SQ42 and, depending on how you did, you would start with a ship, income, and reputation. Supposedly pirates could quit at any time and run off with an uninsurable stolen milspec craft, or you could be the hero and get mad space duckets, or you could gently caress it all up, etc. If you don't have a ship you could do odd jobs based on multi-crew tasks or fly other people's ships.

Of course that's all hosed since you can buy SC without SQ42, so who the gently caress knows.

phosdex posted:

That was the devs for Guardians of Orion: http://steamcommunity.com/games/407840/announcements/detail/857178496799079226

It's $1 until March 3rd. Dunno if it's any fun, I bought it, fired it up and the first thing it requires is for you to make an account on their site and well I hate that kinda poo poo so I just closed it for now.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6sigd_KMEk

Why does a laser rifle have recoil? And literally go pew-pew? I thought the sound engineers at CIG were supposed to be good?

Sappo569 posted:

beaten...



I count 3 crosshairs, and sometimes a red-dot, i guess since crosshairs were such a huge blocker for them they figured gently caress it MORE CROSSHAIRS!

Also notice the guy is learning over to see because for some reason his whole character is slanted constantly at a 45 degree angle

Samizdata posted:

Wait, if the gun is kicking out enough energy to cycle like that, then it should be imparting enough energy to move the player...

Tippis posted:

I just noticed another thing. Look at the 3pv at 1m10 or so. Notice where the red-dot sight is? Why is it placed right by the character's ear? Why is it that, in spite of its front end being juuust behind and below the eye, it appears in front in first person view? Why does the sight move around compared to where it was not 5 seconds before, and why does it keep appearing in different places later on when he goes back to third person view? Didn't we go through a whole slew of “must sync first-person to third-person” nonsense just so that these things wouldn't happen?

Also, on a more spergy level, why is it that large portions of the tube isn't actually seen in the tube (if it had lenses, you'd normally see a lot more of the tube unless you're looking right down the axis; if it's a collimator/reflex sight, then it should not have any visual distortion at all? The only way I can see that effect making any sense from an optical point of view is if it's not optics, but rather a video feed or if it's a compressing sight rather than a magnifying one — i.e. it makes the target appear smaller and farther away, as to make it harder to hit…

MeLKoR posted:

Remember commandos: SERVICE GUARANTEES PLATINUM

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=456677342

Toops posted:

That gives me an idea: There will be a side-panel in the cockpit that's just a vintage game of hungry-hungry hippos. As you're powering up your ship, you look right, and mash on each hippo for like 3 seconds while bleeps and bloops are going off elsewhere. Hippos gotta eat, even in space you guys.

boviscopophobic posted:

Are you going to have at least one jittery ship (both in flight and while parked)? You could give it a really nervous/manic personality.

The Saddest Robot posted:

There should also be a lawnmower engine primer somewhere. That little bulb you have to push in with your thumb a few times.

Toops posted:

haha fantastic. I'll add the lawnmower primer. I'm a dog poo poo animator, but I'm gonna give actuated panels the ol' college try.

https://trello.com/c/SOQ30xuv/72-ship-startup-sequence-immersive-cutscene

I'm still most excited that at some point after clicking buttons, you will look down and to the right at your vintage hungry-hungry hippos game. You will click on each of the hippos several times in order to feed them because they are hungry.

Ravane posted:

Does this loving idiot of a CEO even realize how little wheat actually sells for? No amount of Space weed or wheat could ever justify the purchasing this ship.



Look at the size of this biome. It's so loving small. You get 32 bushels of wheat per acre, which sells for about $171 per acre. This is not an acre. This is not even the size of a typical one-story house.

The ship salesman that sold this ship has got to be making GBS threads his pants that someone actually bought this piece of poo poo ship, because anybody who thinks they'll actually make money off of it has got to be loving retarded. Also, what the gently caress kind of dystopian society is star citizen set in that bread is not readily available? Christ, Roberts you loving retard, hahaha.

You couldn't even make your money back from space weed.

G0RF posted:

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Originally that was the pitch. Ships would be highly customizable depending on their core design. For example the Anvil Hornet would be a tough, rugged, but focused ship while the Drake Cutlass would be somewhat cheaper in terms of construction but would make up for that with dramatic levels of flexibility. Instead it all ended up being bullshit with unique hulled variants that locked the player into certain playing styles and design decisions that were arbitrary and idiotic (like the Cutlass Red, a space ambulance, not having missile racks or the ability to even mount them because ambulances didn't need them). This resulted in just a little bit of backlash so as a result CIG has a new modularity system where core components (like the center of the Vanguard) can be swapped out for other systems. It's a pretty decent way of doing things since modules are far easier to make and some ships (like the Retaliator) can have two of them.

Unfortunately this also means that CIG has roughly four different "styles" of modularity that they need to reconcile in addition to everything else they've messed around with. If the company was competently run they would have focused on core development of a simple demonstration, locked down the feature set and mechanics, and then used those rules to expand to other ships. So for example have the Hornet and Constellation as locked down demonstrations of how single and multi-crew would work, finalized all of the internal systems, and then use those rules to expand to other craft.

But gently caress it I know nothing about game development.

Turd Burglar posted:

Also remember there's a space news van

Daztek posted:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/ships/reliant/Reliant-Mako-News-Van

Mirificus posted:

Reliant News Van: Will Space Journalism Work Like This?

Nation posted:

who is trolling who here... fuzzy modem you snake

orcinus posted:

I'm a coffee rube whore.
Fancy african beanz are lost on me, because i can't stand sour/acidic, i.e. light roasted coffee.

And i don't mean i don't like it, i love the aroma.
But the acidity murders my stomach and kills the enjoyment.

Mirificus posted:

Merchantman Trading System: Will it work like this?

Astroniomix posted:

The sabot contacts with the rails themselves.

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

I have seen true horror and it's croberts face.

Toysrme posted:

i do like a lot of the SC streamers. many of them have built up good communities.

i am not a real streamer, nor do i pander to people. i just call poo poo like it is. good & bad. facts are facts. opinions are opinions. generally (when it's not imbalance-commander) i've really enjoyed arena commander's combat. a lot of things i disagree with in it, but it's always moved over-all in directions im ok with.
at the same time, i asked for a refund (and have been constantly denied) when i played an early v2.0 build. it's absolutely, in no way shape or form what i pledged for & stood behind AFA a "universe".

but ya... it's a crashtastic, bogged down piece of horse-poo poo who's "finished artwork" areas (arc corp, crusader) DO NOT visually equal other AAA titles built for the new 1440p/4k/5k and higher gaming platforms. that's exactly what it is so that's exactly what i call it.




why does the game run like poo poo? i can show why, but can't help with the code.





There's a 6-frame except flying a connie in the PU/Crusader, bogged down to 27fps from GPUview trace / recording of everything passing through the windows kernal. Obviously the pair of GTX-980's being used have a ton of dead-time waiting on data from the CPU.
You can see the main thread completely clogged with some horse-poo poo (relating to actual ships. It scales not-bad with FPS human players, but is crushed with any human/AI ships in-use). So that 27fps bogged down from only one ship, I typically run 120-170fps. with 9 ships offline i still run >90fps.

People can "blame" Cryengine, but I also have traces of the demo in Crysis 3 at around 100fps and Rocket League at 500fps. Both traced with GPUview appear "textbook" examples from nvidia on how the CPU threaded work finishes and immediately is re-started for the next frame. So it's not "Cryengine" that's the major issue behind the threading issues post v1.1.5 (last summer), but "whatever CIG changed in that code-base merger".

Chalks posted:

It's probably related to resource locking. One thread is having to wait for another to finish doing it's work before it's able to do anything because it's locking a resource that it needs. It's a really common problem in multi-threaded programming but obviously something you would assume would be sorted out when you're using an off the shelf engine like Cryengine. Shows that they've hosed things up internally to some degree.

The reason it's an issue is because it basically ignores most of the resources on your system. All that dead time on the graphs might as well not be there - instead of using two gpus, it looks like it's using half of one gpu. It runs slowly because it's only using a small portion of the available resources. It's the sort of performance you'd get if you're trying to run 4 copies of a game at once.