Daztek posted:

Alexander DeLarge posted:

When I look at the gameplay, I see seamless transitions from one system to the next, and adaptive multiplayer on a large scale. That's impressive tech as someone who has worked with the CryEngine before. That's the thing people need to understand, they're doing crazy poo poo with a game engine that wasn't made to do any of this, no engine is made to do any of this, but they're doing a good job.

I rather like the flight model and the ARMA-esque FPS mechanics are extremely difficult to get right. Only time will tell how this ends but I can easily see them pulling something amazing out by mid 2017.

Danknificent posted:

Derek got into a knife fight with Octobro on a small stone bridge, and won.

Loiosh stayed reasonable.

CIG released a new solitaire mini game and a line of in-game hats for around $5 apiece.

Lesnick announced that he's part timing as a life guard under the Santa Monica Pier.

It turns out that Sandi not only really does have a marketing degree, but is also fluent in Spanish.

Star Citizen has a release date (Nov 2016)

Gary Oldman gave an interview, expressing his dissatisfaction with Chris' directorial skills.

A few other things. Nothing too important.

AP posted:

Links his twitter account, calls you "creepy cyberstalkers" for reading it.

CoreFire posted:

It's just sad at this point.

janssendalt posted:

hi Derek, I like you.

I like Chris too, though.

what do I do?

Ghostlight posted:

Karl is a German auditor Star Citizen fanatic who was posting in the thread in defense of Star Citizen.

Beyond that it is easier to tell you who Karl is not. He is not the German auditor Star Citizen fanatic on the official Star Citizen forums that happens to share a name with the twitter account Karl posted here as his own - this is verifiable because that poster has spent thousands of dollars on Star Citizen while Karl's ships were all gifted to him by his brother. He is not the German auditor Star Citizen fanatic on reddit that posts extensively about how unfairly Karl was treated by SA, because that is a woman. He is also not her father who happens to be a German auditor, just in case you were thinking that might be the case. In fact, every redditor who is German and an auditor and interested in Star Citizen is definitely not Karl, nor the obvious sock puppet accounts that jump to the defense of any German auditor Star Citizenite posting in r/DerekSmart.


All we really know for sure about Karl is he can go gently caress himself.

Berious posted:

You can sort of tell the ww2 bomber aesthetic they're trying to achieve but its just so ugly and soulless. Make a few of the struts curved and it wouldn't look hideous. I bet the artist wanted to but Chris hates curves or something

A Neurotic Jew posted:

woah, woah, calm down there sparky.

Sedisp posted:

Honestly who was sitting there and said "You know those two terrible horror actors? They shall be our leads!"

Avalanche posted:

Why the gently caress did these idiots open a development studio/warehouse/whatever in Santa Monica on the loving 3rd STREET PROMENADE?

It's a god drat posh shopping district with most upper level office space probably rented out to Macy's, Nordstroms, other random upscale long running clothing/jewelry companies, and architect firms. I can't think of a more retarded place to place a startup except maybe Manhattan or Dubai.

Mirificus posted:

It's time for



https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/4558518/#Comment_4558518

Ffycchi posted:

You are reading that if you jump in a free falling elevator right before it smashes into the ground youll just land like marry poppins.




On a serious note...what the gently caress.

Hopper posted:

Okay, I didn't read the brown sea physics because I am a linguist and don't understand physics beyond the basics at all. So maybe you are taking the piss and I don't get it, but I have to ask:

When you say "the train pushes the passenger into the stationary bullet" to me this implies from the perspective of the shooter the bullet kills either the shooter or a guy behind him.

Direction the train is going T------>
Direction Shooter is facing S->
Bullet exits gun here: x
Passenger position in the train: P

So if the bullet does not move and the train shoves a passenger into it it looks like this
Train
At time of shooting:
T------------------------>
P
x
S->

train moves:

P
x
S->


impact:
P
x
S->

Correct? Or stupid?

AP posted:

CLOUD IMPERIUM AUSTIN NOVEMBER 5TH 2014


Left
James Wright, Andrew Nguyen, Brian Mazza, Tom Davies, Jeff Uriarte

Still at CIG
Allen Chen (based in LA)
Tom Sawyer

fuctifino posted:

Eonwe posted:

I wonder if Sandi still reads this thread

Mirificus posted:

Doesn't he have an irrational hatred of the Freespace series?

Wesha has sycophants

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/profile/Wesha

Mirificus posted:

♬ ♪ ♫ ♩ ♯ ♥ HAPPY 100 MILLION ♥ ♯ ♩ ♫ ♪ ♬

fuctifino posted:

Someone should suggest NPC hall monitors to stop people running in the coridoors of the stations

peter gabriel posted:

Piracy is piracy, checkmate

Grondoth posted:

However, people who have paid hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars are upset and confused as to why a game basically god drat designed to have people smashing into each other and stealing everyone else's stuff has those elements. I don't know how, other than being hooked into a marketing machine that has told them about living out their immersive space life in a an immersive space universe, that these dudes foresaw Star Citizen's player interactions as anything other than Day-Z with spaceships.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Having flown the ship in 2.0 all I can say is that the Cutlass is an unmitigated disaster and the "fixes" have done nothing but made it worse. The ship flies like a fat pig, the multi-function displays are unreadable without changing your point of view to look directly at them, and any feedback CIG is hoping to get is guaranteed to be just as angry and vitriolic as always. It suffers from a very simple problem; nobody within CIG actually know what the gently caress this ship is supposed to do. Piracy is not well defined, cargo is not well defined, and the ship is passed around from designer to designer like a foster child. Meanwhile the other ships in its "class" (the Hornet and Freelancer) are either flyable and mature or well on their way to a redesign.

Not that I'm bitter or anything.

jaegerx posted:

Since we can't pvp do we just tip fedoras as we pass other ships in space?

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Played 2.0 for a couple hours without it crashing. Flew to the FPS station, got my ship blown up (LOL the Cutlass is such a POS), and then walked around the FPS station waiting for someone to show up. When he did I tried to find them then went "gently caress it" and stole his ship instead. Flew over to the destroyed shipping hub and farted around; EVA is cool but I have no clue what I am supposed to do there. Flew back to the FPS station, blew up every ship docked there, and then got into a firefight with some floating guys... while I had a Gladius. I actually killed one guy which is cool. Then I flew over to the main station in the hopes of hijacking a big ship but nothing spawned and my ship wouldn't let me get out. Got my ship blown up, spawned another, then flew back to the FPS station and got into a big dogfight. I died.

It's surprisingly stable and I could see how it can be fun. I am getting more excited for SQ42 because that should be able to skip all of the networking problems. That said the game will inevitability piss off a LOT of people when they realize they've spent thousands on something worth $60.

Mirificus posted:

https://forums.robertsspaceindustri...oment-in-gaming

Cuntpunch posted:

The part the whales will never admit is that when a game has really 'pushed the envelope' you don't see it. Having enormous poly counts and ridiculously complex rendering isn't difficult, it's arguably the starting point - the real trick that takes a lot of work is all the LOD work and poly optimization needed to take a ridiculously high-detail scene and make it work at reasonable framerates.

Iglocska posted:

Frankly, it doesn't influence my views much either way. Chris and Sandi don't have programmers chained to radiators toiling away while they lash them, and honestly, I just don't care that much about the people involved and what they choose to subject themselves to; they're adults producing a product I happen to be interested in, I feel no more outrage about it or emotional connection to them than I did about, say, Foxconn's working conditions, which is to say not much. For the financial fraud: so long as they manage their financials well enough to get past the finish line, I don't think the status of the rest of their money or how they spent it matters all that much. I don't base my interest in other products on what the profit margins and spending decisions made by their producers are, and I don't see a compelling case for why that should be the case here, either. If they don't make it out the door, then there should definitely be an inquiry into why it happened, and financial mismanagement should have appropriate consequences.

Mirificus posted:

serious norman posted:

Wait, so the position of stuff in game is determined by file location on the HDD?

Romes128 posted:

The resume is from her website which has been taken down but;

https://web.archive.org/web/2007110...dgcfjjinfhimecg

she seems to have left out a lot of her credentials on her current resume

http://resumes.actorsaccess.com/sandigardiner

Rudager posted:

You're talking about an Australian actor who lists her ability as being able to talk in an Australian English dialect on her resume.

Berious posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3x270f/cant_play_hangar_or_20_yet_i_paid_180/

This guy spent $180 on jpegs but still can't play. You'd think spending that much would entitle him to tool around in a basic jpeg while they work on his handcrafted artisanal jpeg. But oh you thought you got to play crashing in space for nearly $200? gently caress no that'll be another $45, sucker

Acquilae posted:

Not to mention, Chris, the CEO/founder, basically looking like he has no clue about how his loving game works and sounding like he hasn't paid any attention to the day-to-day progress (like making GBS threads on the chat UI after this much time has passed in development) made this mess so entertaining but also made me feel sorta for the people working on this project.

Mirificus posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3xa7lb/please_tell_me_sc_isnt_going_to_adopt_a_payment/cy2v5ui

spathi-wa posted:

should i wait for payment for the other vids or just make them public?

Lastgirl posted:

By the way did Derek Smart ever follow through on the lawsuit thing?