Star Citizen: Death of a Space Thread?

The Something Awful Forums > Archives > Comedy Goldmine > The Goodmine > Star Citizen: Death of a Space Thread?

«‹›6530 »

Mirificus: Oct 29, 2004; Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

# ? Dec 5, 2017 01:50

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? Apr 23, 2024 21:02

Abuminable: Mar 30, 2017; Now, aside from the Abuminable, business goes on as usual.

Zzr posted:

That has nothing to do with star citizen, none of CIG's worker appeared in this movie.

Thanks MrHerpDerp

# ? Dec 5, 2017 01:51

Dogeh: Aug 30, 2017; ShitMeter: -------------|- 99%

Zzr posted:

That has nothing to do with star citizen, none of CIG's worker appeared in this movie.

CIG money might have ended up in this movie so that Sandi could get a part?

# ? Dec 5, 2017 01:51

D_Smart: May 11, 2010; by FactsAreUseless; College Slice

Mirificus posted:

oh-oh OSC v2.0 spotted. :laffo:

----------------
This thread brought to you by a tremendous dickhead!

# ? Dec 5, 2017 01:55

juggalo baby coffin: Dec 2, 2007; How would the dog wear goggles and even more than that, who makes the goggles?

my reddit said, to get ships done, you better not mess with major crob

# ? Dec 5, 2017 01:55

Strangler 42: Jan 8, 2007; SHAVE IT ALL OFF
ALL OF IT

D_Smart posted:

I'm calling it right now: They dumped the UK tax credit into the funding tracker before they paid back Coutts with company funds.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 01:57

boviscopophobic: Feb 5, 2016

Zzr posted:

That has nothing to do with star citizen, none of CIG's worker appeared in this movie.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 01:57

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

Mirificus posted:

1-6 fps is playable.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:02

Sum Mors: Feb 21, 2008

hot balls man no homo posted:

I'm calling it right now: They dumped the UK tax credit into the funding tracker before they paid back Coutts with company funds.

alternatively, the sale is at the beginning of the month when they got their government assistance

e: they being addle brained backers

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:09

Milkfred E. Moore: Aug 27, 2006; 'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'

SomethingJones posted:

Ask yourself what purpose the funding tracker serves and what would happen if it tanked during the biggest sale they've ever done.

At best those figures are from a round of internal funding, at worst they are completely made up. Those aren't sales, not a chance.

Not only the biggest sale, but the biggest sale after their weakest year where there was a lot of buzz about a particular loan.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:10

thatguy: Feb 5, 2003

If you're upset about record funding numbers then you're playing Star Citizen wrong.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:14

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Sum Mors posted:

alternatively, the sale is at the beginning of the month when they got their government assistance

e: they being addle brained backers

I do not get the impression these are people struggling to get by. These are people with credit and an income. That's why the scam works so well, they "pledge" money within their mental comfort zone. It's going to financially ruin lots of them, though, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are a wave of personal bankruptcies when the game itself goes defunct.

Instead of going out with friends, having children, getting a new car or all the normal expenditures they're pledging thousands to Star Citizen. They can bear this load. The scam continues.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:15

One in the Bum: Apr 25, 2014; Hair Elf

Does cig have any sort of actual design document? Even if it's just "do space things" scrawled on a used napkin. They had those in the 90s, didn't they?

One in the Bum fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Dec 5, 2017

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:19

Sunswipe: Feb 5, 2016; by Fluffdaddy

Are we at the end of the sale yet? 'cos my ten million prediction was looking pretty good.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:20

MarcusSA: Sep 23, 2007

Krycek posted:

Does cig have any sort of actual design document? Even if it's just "do space things" scrawled on a used napkin.

Lol that�s a good one.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:21

D_Smart: May 11, 2010; by FactsAreUseless; College Slice

Zzr posted:

That has nothing to do with star citizen, none of CIG's worker appeared in this movie.

----------------
This thread brought to you by a tremendous dickhead!

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:21

AlbieQuirky: Oct 9, 2012; Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

Zzr posted:

That has nothing to do with star citizen, none of CIG's worker appeared in this movie.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:29

Combat Theory: Jul 16, 2017

Krycek posted:

Does cig have any sort of actual design document? Even if it's just "do space things" scrawled on a used napkin. They had those in the 90s, didn't they?

they had a bunch of them

the people that wrote them dont work for CIG anymore

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:44

Golli: Jan 5, 2013

Another funding chart:

Enron's Earnings per Share (in blue) is the funding chart that they used to boost investor confidence.

See any similarities?

# ? Dec 5, 2017 02:58

MilesK: Nov 5, 2015

Spiderdrake posted:

Instead of going out with friends, having children, getting a new car or all the normal expenditures they're pledging thousands to Star Citizen. They can bear this load. The scam continues.

From Reddit

# ? Dec 5, 2017 03:11

Raskolnikov: Nov 25, 2003

MilesK posted:

From Reddit

This actually made me feel bad for them for two seconds.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 03:15

Combat Theory: Jul 16, 2017

MilesK posted:

From Reddit

# ? Dec 5, 2017 03:19

FailureToReport: Nov 25, 2017; Warlord in training

Combat Theory posted:

I mean, erm, Guys just give it time!

# ? Dec 5, 2017 03:37

intardnation: Feb 18, 2016; I'm going to space!

SomethingJones posted:

SUPPORTIVE COSTUMER BASE

So the testers can't test anything, anyone firing it up with the offline hack just to see it gets a ban, you need to pay $10 space dollah to get access to it, no one can complete a single mission in it, it runs like poo poo, looks like poo poo, moves like poo poo, it's over 3 years late and 3 times over budget

Aaaand according to CIG this pulled in $9m in less than 40 days

CR is dead, long live CR.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 03:49

SelenicMartian: Sep 14, 2013; Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Combat Theory posted:

the Tick

Spoon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEBmh_zE9Yo

# ? Dec 5, 2017 04:17

Sarsapariller: Aug 14, 2015; Occasional vampire queen

One of my favorite things about Star Citizen is that none of the bugs ever seem to get fixed. We can look forward to the spinny torpedo for a long, long time.

https://clips.twitch.tv/SquareAmericanPoultryHeyGuys

# ? Dec 5, 2017 04:32

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Sunswipe posted:

We should start a campaign to get Braben knighted.

Or just call him Sir Braben anyway.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 04:34

Sarsapariller: Aug 14, 2015; Occasional vampire queen

I also really like that that is the kind of clip being posted on the subreddit as an example of good gameplay. It's amazing how many levels it sucks on- you can just dissect one 20 second clip forever.

1) You can lose your ride and be completely stranded in one shot
2) The torpedo doesn't even work properly, a known issue for months to years now
3) The explosion randomly puffs like the ship was moving at high speed
4) The rest of the ship (Every animated piece, looks like) just hangs in place instead of collapsing to the ground
6) The shields randomly turn off several seconds later
7) Just standing there watching it is causing one spaceman to jitter uncontrollably

# ? Dec 5, 2017 04:37

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

3.0 af

# ? Dec 5, 2017 04:43

Thoatse: Feb 29, 2016; Lol said the scorpion, lmao

Thoatse fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Dec 5, 2017

# ? Dec 5, 2017 04:45

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

If you slow it down, it looks like the flames are actually forming the destroyed structure, like they're still walled in by it. Hard to say.

And yeah the game as is would be a griefing paradise. Blow up their ship, fly around making parp noises as they desperately fire their crysis 2 gun at you from below.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 04:46

boviscopophobic: Feb 5, 2016

Tokamak posted:

3.0 af

Is that the current version number?

# ? Dec 5, 2017 04:58

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

yes, and yes

# ? Dec 5, 2017 04:59

Dusty Lens: Jul 1, 2015; All Glory unto the Stimpire. Give up your arms and legs and embrace the beautiful agony of electricity that doubles in pain every second.

Sarsapariller posted:

One of my favorite things about Star Citizen is that none of the bugs ever seem to get fixed. We can look forward to the spinny torpedo for a long, long time.

SC's code must be 80000 layers of hastily assembled undocumented last second garbage to keep the show running from one presentation and jesus patch to the next. The relief of knowing that no one will ever ask you to stop assembling garbage code to go back and try to untangle the wet noodle knot that is the legacy work of people who were fired two years ago must be tremendous.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 05:03

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Theorycrafting is off the chain. Also another example of how CIG doesn't have a plan for how any of the poo poo they've promised will actually work.

Tokamak fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Dec 5, 2017

# ? Dec 5, 2017 05:03

Pantsbird: Nov 12, 2017; by Lowtax

Deskeletonize the patient before performing first aid.

Or pump painful resistors into the body for 2 hours. The pain they will cause is so bad, the victim will freeze in a tense position.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 05:09

no_recall: Aug 17, 2015; Lipstick Apathy

I personally have no idea how gamedev works; from what I've been shown from CIG's vids.

- It's all about the meshes / objects / designs / stuff to buy.
- Its always and forever about talking of how things will eventually work.
- Every person on screen talks about how good things are and how good things will eventually be.
- There is absolutely no talk about test results, or any result of their work for that matter.
- It never showcases actual live gameplay aside from some bullshots from the editor
- CR never talks about how fun the game is, only mechanics of how things will be. e: actually no one talks about how fun the game is.
- No mention of how netcode will work, technical aspects of anything dealing with the networking side. Wait, this IS AN MMO, right?
- No mention of how servers will spin up / spin down (lol) and explanations of how this glorious magic will occur in real time, and the mechanics thereof.
- No mention about the state of the engine, and its current capabilities.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 05:18

Abuminable: Mar 30, 2017; Now, aside from the Abuminable, business goes on as usual.

Tokamak posted:

Theorycrafting is off the chain. Also another example of how CIG doesn't have a plan for how any of the poo poo they've promised will actually work.

Goonfear tracking right along with SC funding. Every time I see posts like those, I know we're doing the Lord's work.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 05:21

Experimental Skin: Apr 16, 2016

Thoatse posted:

An artists impression The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Stupid Crowdfunding Accomplishment Mausoleum > Star Citizen: Eventually I found the buttons to kill myself.

# ? Dec 5, 2017 05:46

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? Apr 23, 2024 21:02

Spiderdrake: May 12, 2001

Pantsbird posted:

Or pump painful resistors into the body for 2 hours. The pain they will cause is so bad, the victim will freeze in a tense position.

I believe in engine this can be seen by the spaceman jittering but it is difficult to determine the actual state of the victim

From streams they do seem uneasy about further Star Citizen though

# ? Dec 5, 2017 05:55

The Something Awful Forums > Archives > Comedy Goldmine > The Goodmine > Star Citizen: Death of a Space Thread?

«‹›6530 »