kw0134 posted:

Literally perpetual motion, which raises the question of what is the loving point.

kw0134 posted:

Ah, but fighters are "short-range" flyers who go from a base, do their thing, and come back. So even in the braindead implementation of the mechanic it's not really an impediment to craft such as those. Many of the other larger ships have it by default, so that leaves some cut-rate larger ships that might be inconvenienced by this. Assuming this ever actually gets implemented in any meaningful way and it doesn't go the way of the Hairy Roberts.

VictorianQueerLit posted:

Similarly
https://www.wired.com/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/
(This article is almost ten years old)









You could pretty much replace George Broussard with Chris Roberts and Duke Nukem Forever with Star Citizen and it's the same thing. The article only diverges in the last half because at that point in time the company went out of business so there were all kinds of things known about the money issues and employee problems and plenty of people to talk about them. We aren't at that point yet.

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/TheRealGremlich/status/985541759798308864

Krycek posted:

The judge ruled against cig's motion for protection from skadden's discovery request. But then he said since it's just "early discovery" cig isn't actually compelled to do anything they don't want to do. Only that it's "highly encouraged" so as to expedite the process later.

Citizens declared victory, that this is good for star citizen and that crywrekt should post their balls.

G0RF posted:

It’s like you guys are pretending this doesn’t exist?

This videogame song changed everything. Forever.

End of discussion.











I really liked the earlier game, grabbed this thing day one. And I just remember popping this disc in and hitting this part and sitting there muttering with increasing alarm, “No no no. No. Oooohhh nooooo. Please just... oh crap what are you dooooing?”

I could not believe it was really real. After the epic bravura nuttery of the first game’s opening, the sequel’s answer felt like the campiest fan service schlock possible.

There was only one way to proceed and such was my affection for the first game (warts and all) that I took it,

“Alright... Let’s play this garbage...”

And I did. And I made note of improved mechanics where they existed, played a lot of the mini games (“sure I’ll dress up as a Moogle and hand out balloons for a while...”), and gradually worked my way through the campy misadventure of it all and spent I don’t know how much time in red-faced explanations to my snickering Wife.

And dozens of hours and weeks later it was done, and I popped the disc out and put it away. My wife eventually asked, “Welp? Did you and your girl band save the day?”

”Yeah...”

”Did you find your boyfriend?”

”Okay first off, Tidus wasn’t my boyfriend. Tidus was ME..”

”So, no?”

Sigh.

”He’s in my heart or something...”

Mirificus posted:

XK posted:

2,400 seems like a lot to me too, both for theater size, and amount of people willing to pay to travel long distances to a marketing event.

Krycek posted:

Evil publishers and their mindless, drooling, console kiddies.

Pixelate posted:

It seems to me the calls of ‘this game is a game’ have been effectively silenced by 3.0/3.1

Agony Aunt posted:

Perhaps goons could make up the shortfall.

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/CliffordakaMiku/status/994215898360709121

Colostomy Bag posted:

The Warlords tome on this fiasco will make the Encyclopedia Britannica look like a Post-it-Note.

TheLastRoboKy posted:

Nobody forms the head.

G0RF posted:

CIG isn’t to blame for all of it obviously but they’ve done nothing whatsoever to try to change it either. Deep down, they love their psychotic defenders.

Thoatse posted:

Dementropy posted:

Mirificus posted:

Ramadu posted:

I don’t even know what anti material rifle means lmao guncucks are amazing at coming up dumb names

Slow_Moe posted:

Can we just for a moment stop and appreciate the sheer stupidity of making a replica spaceship of the race "we" are at war with. I'm sure there won't be any misunderstandings with law enforcement at all.

Chev posted:

but doesn't that just means the aliens will just as easily be able to tell it's a fake?

Amazing Zimmo posted:

Also taken from reddit:



The inevitable consequence of fidelity.

Spiderdrake posted:

Also what are you guys running that a webm lags your machine? My lovely seven year old ivy bridge desktop doesn't mind.

And yes I'm waiting for Zen2 because ZEEEENNNTTOOOOOOOOOO

Bofast posted:

I'm even more confused now

Virtual Captain posted:

Quavers posted:

TexasSkulls: "25v25 King of the Hill - The Reason I Backed" http://clips.twitch.tv/ColorfulDeliciousDurianSeemsGood

Edit: Part 2: https://clips.twitch.tv/LivelyWittySashimiCmonBruh

Colostomy Bag posted:

What the hell is that poo poo?

Rad Russian posted:

I mean this was even acknowledged by Civilization devs because people have been becoming more and more frustrated with A.I. in the games, as it became worse and worse since Civ 2. As far as programmer time goes, good A.I. takes a huge amount of time, and from ROI perspective does not help sell games except to a niche hardcore section of gamers. Civilization has transitioned to a "story-telling" mode where you just play through your civilization to build and research things and the rest of the world is just there as extra obstacles. I think in latest Civ VI the A.I. can't use close to 70% of the new game systems they added to keep the player entertained, not to mention they again shipped a game where A.I. can't do landing invasions or handle ranged units.

People buy games for graphics and cool stories to play through, no one except the 1% of gamers stays around and plays games for a 1000 hours where A.I. shortcomings are noticed. Plus most of the industry has shifted to multiplayer model with rudimentary dumb mobs so they can focus on other things.

Outside of indie space good A.I. is very rare. The only complex game I have seen in last 3 years that made me go "wow gently caress you A.I.!!!! that was pretty smart" many times was Battle Brothers. It's pretty sad.

trucutru posted:

I mean, she lives in a world where being really good at Karate lets you travel to other dimensions, including cyberspace. In other words, it's actually DBZ. Ever-changing super powers are part of the deal.

trucutru posted:

Never seen that.

In exalted, can you encode your DNA and memories into the motion of the air itself? You know so that the air can rebuild you if something happens to you? that's a pretty nifty trick.

Foo Diddley posted:

Well, I can understand the "one bit at a time" thing--I own all the CK2 DLC, for example--but the thing is, every expansion that Paradox put out was fully functional and working on day one. I never gave them money for something that might be cool someday, sometime in the future, if I just have faith. Each time, I put down my fifteen bux and got a working expansion to the game, right there

happyhippy posted:

Wow servers had a max limit of 5000 per realm at launch.
Now, maybe 20k or more as they are connected into groups.
And if too many goto one zone, that zone crashes, not the overall server.

WoW has watermelonst.

monkeytek posted:

HAHAHAHAHA! The first shot will always miss, so that aggressors won't have an unfair advantage.

I am so close to buying this game simply to kill this guy over and over.

TheAgent posted:

that "doubled it" quote stems from a huge underlying problem in online games: the players

in this case, there was an endless stream of "don't make diablo 3 for console kids" and "I want something HARD AND CHALLENGING" and "only a few people should get good equipment" and for some reason good ol idiot jay really, really bought into all that

however, as its been shown about a zillion times, the louder people are about "difficult content" the less they actually play it. so when they realized that group actually made the game too hard and that legendaries were trash and that a basic cookie cutter builds were going to dominate, they left because they really don't understand how hard hard really is

the other contingent, who was making huge loving bank off the AH, said things like "no, no the game is perfect! we need to keep the AH! we need the difficulty to keep out idiots and console players! this is our chance to show them what PC gaming is about!!"

seriously, this is why the backers of star citizen aren't unique, they're just another flavor of the online gaming "elite" that wants to feel special somewhere (and potentially make a shitload of real money)

Awesome! posted:

defending jay wilson is a weird stance to take

TheAgent posted:

"I am also a little happy, which I hate to say, it shows that the people that were involved in Diablo really did matter, and so I am happy that it has come to light that how talented that group was and how unique and special that group was."