Hammerstein posted:

What's the name of that other space game with the video of you as captain standing on the bridge and directing your fleet per hologram overlay rts-style ? And at the same time you had those huge bridge monitors showing how your commands are followed by the ships outside.

Agrajag posted:

how can anyone not look at this and think the game will be poo poo? literally a loving dark blob with some red accents and the helmet i dont even know

Raskolnikov posted:

Design aesthetics straight out of 1999. Is there anything they don't just steal ineptly?

I need a bigger for this.

Kilmers Elbow posted:

D_Smart posted:

So our new contender for my WIP blog (latest PDF export) on the abusive White Knights in the Star Citizen community, is Nick Butler (that's him in the wheelchair) aka /user/NitroTypat/ aka @Bipii_4084.

If you look at his Reddit and Twitter feeds (1, 2, 3, 4), he is one of my top harassers (I'm rounding them all up like cattle, for the blog, then I'm going to link to all their social media feeds).

Hey Nick, if you don't knock it off, I'm going to have my people get in touch with your Dad in Virginia and let him know you're harassing people online. No further warnings. Go play a game or something.

D_Smart posted:

Not sure why that's creepy. Clowns harassing and abusing people online don't get any special treatment. It works both ways. If they can troll my social media feeds, my forums posts etc and setup shop on Reddit to continue their attacks, abusive behavior, harassment etc, so can I.

peter gabriel posted:

that's him in the wheelchair

peter gabriel posted:

A 5 year old punk once called me a poopy head so I kicked his face off

pftc posted:

loving Chris Roberts is using this handicapped kids money for coke

D_Smart posted:

And I have no doubt that he's a bully at school as well.

Fish Fry Andy posted:

Actually when I was in high school there was a 20 something year old kid who had FAS or something who had his electric wheelchair taken away because he was ramming people with it all the time. He had to go with crutches for the rest of the year.

thatguy posted:

Let's roleplay, you're in a wheelchair and you're trying to bully me, a person with functioning legs.

Vire posted:

I was going to say it's extremely easy for anyone to bully these days with swating as a thing. Even if your legs don't work.

Kilmers Elbow posted:

Incombibulator posted:

https://twitter.com/banditloaf/status/659524947543371776

Oh look, something else that will only be real in 's imagination.

mryellowduck posted:

D_Smart posted:

LOL!! I think he stayed up late waiting for the blog. He's such a tool. Now I've changed the password

LCL-Dead posted:

Blog blocked at work.

MeLKoR posted:

They haven't delivered the fully functioning game they sold to kickstarters or anywhere remotely near it, telling the KS backers "ah yes but what we are building now is much more than you pledged for" isn't going to fly in any court of law. If I pay you to build me a house and you promise to deliver in 2 years you don't get to keep my money indefinitely with the argument that "well you see after you paid me a bunch of other people gave me more money so I'd build a fully functioning Fallout Vault under your home and this will take several years more, you'll just have to be patient".

D_Smart posted:

It's not a bug. Those are all valid camera views but with different camera types. In fact, F9 and F10 have multiple views which you can cycle through while pressing the keys. See p5 of the game keys.

When you are in hyperspace, the ship is invisible. The parts (around 3:30 and beyond) where I was looking around at the ship, and it was visible, that's real space; though moving very - very - fast because I had my finger on the thrust.

Also, ships that are in hyperspace have a Blue box visible in the HUD or in Tacops. That's why when you click on them, there is nothing to see.

And yeah, intruders are a pest. Some (depending on AI) will just sabotage poo poo and leave. Others will steal poo poo and either transport out back to their ship (if still around) or steal one of your fighters or shuttles and bugger off. The assholes who steal all your valuable cargo, are the worst because they come heavily armed and can take out all your marines.

You can go to PERSCAN and enjoy the fun as they play hide and seek with your marines through the entire ship. That's a completely separate AI tech running the crew simulation. Which is why the crew can get tired, go off-station, go eat, get rested etc. It's all simulated in real-time and runs completely independently of what is going on in the outside world or other parts of the ship. That's why in the video, I sent a team to the transporter, then beamed them to the planet surface. That's how you go on away missions. And if you beam a team of marines into the middle of hostile territory, you can leave them there to battle it out, while you observe from Tacops or just bugger off and go do something else. The game won't stop because the *entire* galaxy (space and planets) runs in real-time. No instancing. No sharding. No bullshit.

Once I built that engine, all I did was build the games (Battlecruiser which morphed into Universal Combat once I added fps and a bunch of other crap) on top of it. Which is the reason why I needed to build a new engine for LOD because this legacy engine just didn't have the graphics prowess for that game and it would have taken way too much time to retool that (because of the planets) and I would lose a lot of functionality that just works.

So I figured that the best way to preserve the old gal (BC/UC), was to give it a graphics boost (engine, redo ALL the assets, fx etc), while retaining all that ground-breaking tech. That's why no new features are promised in that DLC.

Though one thing I always wanted to do, was add the 3D cockpits (from All Aspect Warfare / Angle Of Attack) to all the crafts. That would allow me to also have 3D bridges for all the capital (carrier, cruiser, transport) ships in the game. If you have seen Into The Stars, then you already have an idea what I am planning. But better. The original BC3K (see below) had that, but it was just a 2D image. If I do it in 3D, you will be able to see bridge personnel go on and off the bridge as they go to other parts of the ship. I'm not going to model the entire ship (like the three deck Starguard carrier in LOD) because that's an exceptional amount of work and will cost over $600K to build all 28 capital ships since each one costs approx $20-$25K to build inside/out like the Starguard in LOD.

Dusty Lens posted:

What's your take on stuff like Pulsar?

Justin Tyme posted:

I'm convinced if the game ever comes out it is goons' sacred duty to become space ISIS

2DCAT posted:

Just...wow. The Goonfear in that thread is hilarious.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Million Mile High Club Screenshots




I really don't understand why they have the most posh and exclusive location on the planet guarded by some guy they found off the street.

Frankly the whole direction they've taken the clothes is so depressingly mundane it continues to bug me. It's 900 years in the future and the guy is wearing a vest, tie, and black latex gloves? I always thought game design would be a really cool opportunity for folks to take risk and see what kind of interesting designs people come up with if given total freedom. I mean Hollywood is full of costume designers; you can't contract them out to go wild with some concept art? It's about as unimaginative as the ship designs. I look at the stuff that was done in the Hunger Games or Mad Max and wonder what people could do if really given the freedom to play around with it.

Danknificent posted:

still no game, you're caught up

DapperDon posted:

gently caress is there nothing sacred?

Tokamak posted:

https://www.twitch.tv/starcitizen/v/101871350

starts at 1:38:00