tooterfish posted:

In the time CIG took to not make a videogame, Boston Dynamics made a robot that can do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRj34o4hN4I

Krycek posted:

Dear god, we're hosed! hosed, I tell ya!

Mirificus posted:

Hav posted:

I think this is your MVP;



'Drownin' might never make it.

AP posted:

I'm pretty excited for 3.0 and can't wait till summer when it should hit PTU.

Beet Wagon posted:

a p. good Beck album, imo

Golli posted:

He got a promotion, I guess.

Mirificus posted:

[quote]
CIG is further along than I imagined, that's why I believe Xmas for the 3.0 ALPHA released to the Player Test Universe (PTU) (that would be to us). As an older backer, I don't care that it's taking as long as it has - Diakatana was a load of crap at 10 years development, but nobody knew it was crap until they published it. At least with CIG we can see that it's not going to be crap when it gets released. Any dates before today's were based on optimism - and CIG is now not giving dates because game development with working with CE 3.8/AWS Lumberyard is hard. AND, once they get a single system fine-tuned and working, the rest of SC will be "easy" to complete.

CIG is wise not to give dates anymore because gamers, you know, are an impatient, unforgiveable, and to be frank, ignorant lot who generally have no idea about how to make a video game or what it takes to make one which will be a paradigm shift in how to make games. They just want the game NOW.

hot balls man no homo posted:

summer of what year?

peter gabriel posted:

Part of CIG's balancing strategy actually INVOLVES letting the universe have inequality of wealth from day one.

Solarin posted:

Write a hack that lets you use doors correctly and not be hurled randomly from your ship. I think it will send a powerful message

XK posted:

Also, Star Citizen: Loads of crappy money.

Edit: Yellowbird tax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Thomd4BQg

Anyone who's unimpressed, if you've ever played a racing game with a rear engine rear wheel drive car, and you keep spinning out, you'll understand.

It's called the widowmaker, for a reason.

AP posted:

2018*

*Above may contain an unimportant typo

SomethingJones posted:

"...definitely been challenges going through this, SHOPKEEPERS has been... you know... that's generally our first usage of the SUBSUMPTION engine in general, so getting to know that has been a challenge, the shopkeepers... although... what you're going to see is fairly simple compared to the overall AI you're gonna see, ah... in the LONG RUN is... still just a good learning experience just for us... ahm... getting... getting... some of the other bugs worked out of the system, you know, INTERACTIONS with objects, getting the camera to sit right on the thing you're trying to focus on and trying on... things like that, it's kinda dialing in the knobs so to speak... it's taken its toll and taken its time"
- Robert Reininger - senior tech designer Texas since aug 2016

XK posted:

Also, Star Citizen: Loads of crappy money.

Edit: Yellowbird tax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Thomd4BQg

Anyone who's unimpressed, if you've ever played a racing game with a rear engine rear wheel drive car, and you keep spinning out, you'll understand.

It's called the widowmaker, for a reason.

Hav posted:

'Hunting' Goons? We tend to advertise.

SCtrumpHaters posted:

Its not gambling because the prizes are not transferrable to real money. Literally dozens of EU and US gambling boards have stated this. You may argue its very like gambling and a lovely manipulative practice and I agree to a large extent.

But its not gambling in any sort of legal sense for that simple fact. Baseball cards are not even considered gambling (ruled on in court of law) even though theres a market for them. Theres nothing substantially different with loot crates in games.


CSGO is about to get skullfucked though. Its in the works now. I have no idea what the gently caress Steam was thinking facilitating the market for these.

Sabreseven posted:

The driver was fine if a little sore, but the Mondeo was about 3ft shorter and no longer farted anywhere.

trucutru posted:

Bushwa!

All you bluenose lollygagging four-flushers are just envious because Roberts is an egg who knows his onions and his sheba is a true bearcat.

quote:

So, really what we're doing with Star Citizen is we're working on the game, adding features for an incredibly ambitious design – I don't think there is any other game that is trying to do as much as we're trying to do. So, degree of difficulty 11, not 10. And, we'll have what we determine is a minimum viable product feature list for what you would call Star Citizen the commercial release which is basically when you say, "Okay, we've gotten to this point and we've still got plans to add a lot more cool stuff and more content and more functionality and more features…" – Which by the way includes some of the later stretch goals we have because not all of that is going to be for 'absolutely right here' on the commercial release. But we'll have something that we'll think, 'Okay yeah, not everyone can play it but it doesn't matter – you can load it up, it plays really well, it's really stable, there's lots of content, there's lots of fun things to do, different professions, lots of places to go, we've got a really good ecosystem.' So, when we get to that point that's when we would say, "Now it's not alpha, it's not beta, it's Star Citizen 1.0."

G0RF posted:

That quote had me groaning aloud and I’m glad you transcribed it, S.J. “Shopkeeper talk” is second only in annoyance to CIG babble about female player characters on the “Grating Bullcrap They’ve Been Talking About Ineffectually for Years” list.

I mean, dayemn — they’ve been futzing around with Shopkeepers unsuccessfully forever, and to no productive end.

What happened to all the exciting work we heard about in early 2016? The highly detailed animations of ship hawking, TV monitor gawking and champagne dreams? The showfloor buzz, the meta-spectacle of in-game ship fetishizing by NPC hucksters in AstroArmada?

Oh, that’s right... All that work that came out of the Great CIG Management Brain Trust Gathering of early 2016 didn’t go into the game... Not that it was wasted, though.

At the time it seemed pretty alarming to hear them openly admitting they didn’t really know what their development priorities for the year were — because they didn’t have a master plan stretching across years, they pretty much reset their development priorities at the start of each new year and at the time of filming, the big wigs hadn’t decided yet.

Then it seemed even more damning after the Brain Trust Get Together in California that Priority One was “let’s get our shopkeeper NPCs in the game loaded up with some highly detailed ship hawking movements so the ship showroom in game at least feels abuzz with excitement...” In a space sim without Mining, Bounty Hunting, Trade, Mercenary work, an Economy, Female Players, a satisfying Flight Model or any kind of combat AI...

But as we now know, it was even worse than that. At this point it’s more plausible that the CIG Brain Trust got together to set their priorities for the year and most of it was about the sort of sizzle reel material they needed to start working on for Q4’s big sales push. And the only things that look remotely like what Jake Ross described in that January of 2016 we’re animations and assets later redeployed for a ship sale commercial in a series of year-end commercials to sell yet more ships in a space sim Mining, Bounty Hunting, Trade, Mercenary work, an Economy, Female Players, a satisfying Flight Model or any kind of combat AI...

And now it’s over a year and a half later, and the AI we’ve heard about for years yet hardly encountered in game is proving a big challenge to implement for Shopkeepers — the benign, passive, generally stationary non-entities that are the absolute flotsam and jetsam of MMO-dom...

—

Just give up, Chris. You lost the plot and with more money than you deserved in a dozen lifetimes you’re fighting for your life to salvage something, anything playable amidst the debris field of the once soaring opportunity fortune granted you. You’ve saturated your potential niche market, milked the hell out of the most gullible, and the deflation of the hope bubble is so violent now it sounds like a 130 decibel whoopy cushion eruption under the rear end of the god of folly.

The spectacle of you and Sandi trying to be cutesy in your lead-in to Burndown every week is absolutely nauseating. The very need to have a weekly show dedicated to ongoing excuse-making as to why you STILL can’t deliver on a nearly year-overdue update on your Year 5 pre-Alpha is bad enough without the glib, chatty wink-winks that kick it off. Each new installment only adds another chapter to the epic tome “Why Chris Roberts is a terrible game developer, project manager and company leader.” If you lack the awareness to not be embarrassed with each new delay and lack the humility to not be ashamed, plant two other people in that chair who might and use you and Sandi’s time in ways more likely to help the project. Like year long vacations or joint resignations.

—

(And now an elliptical, stimperial message for Chris from L.A. space rockers Autolux...)

Jobbo_Fett posted:

PLEBS! PLEBS! PLEEEEEEEBBSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

big nipples big life posted:

lol, backers are going to get like 1/20th of the game they paid for.

Toops posted:

Midnite Vulture is my favorite.