Eonwe posted:

I'm going to Vegas in a couple weeks

Suggest things for me to do

Semisponge posted:

(Las Vegas)It is a terrible shithole and people smoke inside.

Eonwe posted:

I mean callgirls

Eonwe posted:

I was just kidding

Eonwe posted:

What are other things to do besides having sex with hookers

Mirificus posted:

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment/6406999/#Comment_6406999

Dusty Lens posted:

The first time we were shown a landing zone, Crusader, was October of 2014. That initial landing zone, which we were given a tour of, remains the only landing zone in the game. The second one, Nyx, has been very briefly teased but without any date of delivery. That happened some months ago.

The poor bastards writing up their hype/expectation threads for upcoming release material keep insisting that Nyx will be out any day now despite CIG offering zero insinuation that is to be the case. From what I can tell CIG says that something will be out soon about a year in advance and imminent when it's six months out.

In a few years they haven't managed to flesh out one landing zone, let alone implement the skeleton of two. I know that the SA dialogue has essentially crystalized around the notion that they've put all hands to S42 or have essentially become frozen in terms of determining which direction to take asset direction in SC but, man, in the face of those numbers I have no idea how people maintain their sense of credulity regarding the concept of progress or that CIG will somehow achieve 5-10 distinct landing zones before 2018, let alone 100.

Anyways that new guy seems pretty bad, I hope he decides to take this as a time for personal reflection and improve upon his character/leave.

Norefund14days posted:

...While quite a lot of the promised gameplay is now available...

Gapey Joe Stalin posted:

Starship Troopers remake.

Wikkheiser posted:

As someone who knows nothing about VR headsets, explain to me why I should care and that they're not an expensive boondoggle.

Because they seem like they are. Monitors are huge and awesome now, especially if you've got a multi-monitor thing going. Now I'm going to strap goggles around my head?

Scruffpuff posted:

Someone ITT explained the idea using Elite as a reference. When you're docked in a spinny station, and you're getting ready to take off, no matter how big and awesome your monitor is, you still don't get the proper sense of scale. With a VR headset, everything changes. The inside of the station is HUGE, and it feels it. The 3D draws your attention to small movements you would miss on a flat monitor - your peripheral vision picks up on all the ships flying in your area, lights flashing, structures that you don't necessarily realize have depth unless you're moving are fully realized even when standing still.

I wouldn't personally buy any of the first-gen hardware, but it's certainly something that once you try, you'll know for sure that it's not going to be a passing fad. It's definitely here to stay, and it'll only get better from here on out. I wouldn't say it "changes everything" because it doesn't, any more than television replaced books. But it adds something we never had before, and that's a good thing.

Zo posted:

All I know is that I tried the original shitass dev model oculus rift in all of its 480p (or whatever) glory and it was so loving awesome and way more realistic than 4k resolution flat screens.

So an HD VR experience is probably out of this world. Still waiting for Gen 2 though.

MedicineHut posted:

Great list. Forgot all the laser types I think.

Nicholas posted:

Really? Cause all I've seen since November is tremendous progress. Over the last few months they've released the PU, a bunch more flyable ships, some hanger ready ships, and more patches then most triple AAA developers put together. Plus, their procedural generation stuff is almost done, they just need to integrate it. They have one of the most advanced flight models ever developed for a game and an AI simulation so complex it's never been attempted before. All in less than 1 year of "full" development time. Explain to me how start citizen is "ruined"

DogonCrook posted:

Everyone jumped on the hype train with NMS but that was from a developer with zero rep and empty promises. But you all attack Chris Roberts like he is some kind of 18th century snake oil salesman. I can’t think of a more consistently successful game developer in the history of game development. And I say that with all due respect to Carmack and Newell but neither of them have been as consistent as Roberts. Roberts defined the space flight game, just like Carmack and Newell defined FPS.

I backed the game on kick-starter and the game will be ready when it is ready. but Chris Roberts has a great reputation for finishing what he starts.

SomethingJones posted:

Here is a transcript showing Sean Tracy and Forrest Stephan bumbling and LYING their way through a question about procedural generation:

We've since been shown that planets are NOT generated from a seed, that there is NO procedural generation happening on the fly, and Chris Roberts himself is now on the record saying they use "artist driven procedural tools"

So the question comes up in May, and Sean Tracy and Forrest Stephan categorically lied in the answer. Pay close attention to Forrest Stephan, he hasn't got a loving clue, NOT ONE CLUE what he's talking about. Mumbling about seeds and multiple seeds, and when they kick in.

Of course the reason they talked up the procedural generation is because of the NMS hype.

There is NO procedural generation, it's a big loving Cry level, and it isn't anywhere near the client nor imo is it ever likely to be. It's just another tool to raise money, like Ben.



10 for the Developers: Episode 08
May 2, 2016


@ 01:13
Q: Given that procedural planets are generated from a seed, if we go down to a planet and mine and mine a location and it becomes depleted, what happens after we leave?

Sean Tracy: 
Well it's a awesome question and uh first things first, just wanted to explain cos I...I tend ehr... uhm, end up answering a lotta questions related to the procedural planet STUFF, but, ah-th...the BIG BRAINS that are really working on the procedural planet TECHNOLOGY are all within FRANKFURT so ah, guys like Marco Corbetta, Carson Wenschell, Sasha Holba, um... Pascal Mueller... they're all working... pretty much full time on the procedural planets, now we get a lot of oversight on them, we've gotta blend them into the game, ah, where they're working on the tech so... um, just CONSIDER THAT when I answer any questions regarding it, is that YEAH, I'm... I'm trying to represent as best I can...

Forrest Stephan:
We just get to PLAY WITH IT, right? But they're driving all the tugs

Sean Tracy: 
Yeah that's right they're driving everything that goes through SO... *COUGH* to get to the actual QUESTION, uhm... it...it...it...it's a REALLY GOOD QUESTION because yes, the planets are generated from a SEED but consider that our game is MULTIPLAYER, uhm, we can't generate a different seed for every single player that goes down to the planet so, uhm, me and FORREST can't be flying towards a PLANET, he sees a MOUNTAIN, I don't see a MOUNTAIN, I end up flying through it or whatever

Forrest Stephan:
Right. Yeah.

Sean Tracy:
Uhm, so that's already going to be kind of SET IN STONE so when we generate this planet ORIGINALLY, uhm, as a developer YES we will have a SEED, uhm... but once you see it as a player, you're always gonna see the same thing. NOW... when it comes down to actually permanently altering the surface of it... what's LIKELY to happen is that when we doo-doo mining it's gonna be... it...it's gonna be another OBJECT on top of the planet 

Forrest Stephan:
Right.

Sean Tracy:
It's not gonna be the planet ITSELF, ahm, so NO you probably won't ALTER the actual planet geometry itself, or...or... any of the seeds related to it but you'll alter a different OBJECT that's placed on top of the planet so, just to give a really, you know, OUT THERE EXAMPLE you've got a BIG BLOCK O' ICE right, that BIG BLOCK O' ICE is sittin' there on a planet, you FLY DOWN, you're mining... WATER outta the ICE let's say... that ICE disappears, now the QUESTION IS, will that ICE then REGENERATE? Well it's... it's a DESIGN QUESTION it's really gonna be up to the des...designers, there's no TECHNICAL reason why it can't, ah but LIKELY BE what's gonna be happening is that we've got an AREA of ICE, right

Forrest Stephan:
Right.

Sean Tracy:
It's gonna be a certain number of MINERALS within a certain...eh-uh PRETTY LARGE AREA, uhm... and you're not gonna get the exact same ICE BLOCK in the exact same...

Forrest Stephan:
I THINK THAT'S WHEN THE SEED KICKS IN RIGHT so you know it's not you got the initial planet generated but then the object's on the planet that you're mining itself maybe those have you know multiple seeds so when it regenerates itself if it regenerates itself which I don't know why not that would be the kind of

Sean Tracy:
And that's something that we wanna control because it's really important that we control the COMMODITIES within our world

Forrest Stephan:
RIGHT which affects the economics of the whole thing yeah

Sean Tracy:
Exactly. So. You know, it's kind of a long answer to whether it regenerates or not... I would say NO IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY REGENERATE but... It would be SOMEWHERE ELSE, ah...

Forrest Stephan:
Right.

Sean Tracy:
But the seeds are all... SHARED... so everybody will see the same thing.

Forrest Stephan:
Exactly.

spacetoaster posted:

Where's wulfknight? The man who coined the term "fucktrophies" when referring to children.

Tippis posted:

Also, didn't Chris personally say that his tendency to oversee every step was the one thing to which he'd attribute the failure of WC the Movie?

Kakarot posted:

^^ ahaha yea, what a stupid argument


really good coverage for a game thats in PRE alpha, thanks for making my point

A Neurotic Jew posted:

their exit strategy is probably going to be "we have added additional star marine features as said on the slide. you can do a juke emote and throw a grenade in the PU. star marine is already in the PU, as previously stated. See you next year!" :jumps out window:

tuo posted:

What's your stance on Laphroiag? (I love the quartercask, others say they would clean their pencils with it)

tuo posted:

Yeah, I love Laphroaig. I just like to ask what people think of it because in my experience it's a love/hate thing, even if people like heavily peated stuff, and quite interesting to get their opinions about it.

I really like peated whisky, then again one of my favourite pipe tobacco blends which I mix myself contains 70% latakia (plus 20% burley, and either 10% virgina or 10% kentucky, depending on the mood).

orcinus posted:

Bulleit Rye is smoooooooth.

Mirificus posted:

kikkelivelho posted:

The chart is also clearly wrong on a number of known topics. for example: VR support has been in since the Hangar module yet the chart claims this isn't the case. Did you make this Derek?

ManofManyAliases posted:

Beer-evocati are playing and testing it right now. Derek is saying it's not even in there.