Mirificus posted:

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

Currently the plan is to go straight to release with sq42. It will be the first thing they put out that isn't WIP, meaning it will be subject to critical review. Should be interesting.

The Titanic posted:

Whew. Glad page 42 is over. That was a tough one!

TheLightPurges posted:

I legit dont understand when the citizens talk about exploration and discovery of new star systems as a mechanic. To the point of buying a 1200 dollar exploration package. I thought all the systems were fleshed out and had all this lore? Whats to explore? Why can't I do this in a fighter? Is a derelict begal invisible to a fighter?

Tippis posted:

I'd imagine some kind of overhead gantry crane that just pushes the ship outside the hangar and closes the airlocks (if for some moronic reason you need a pressurised hangar to begin with). Then push off with RCS and be on your merry way.

Maybe someone should show Aliens to Chris — it's even from the same year as Top Gun and it is a far more sensible source to Archer from.

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• 2.6 is being rebranded as 3.0 (with flight model and "sm"). 3.0 is now 3.1 and will come out "later"
  
• chris is currently trying to see if he can spin the problems with crytek as the reason for the current delays
  
• holiday bonuses for VPs only
  

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

what? No way, that doesn't make sense.

Tippis posted:

Because E:D is a lovely exploitative game, with its ridiculously expensive episode DLC and silly ship skin MT, its lazy procgen design, and its unrealistic flight model that limits how quickly you can yaw so as to not break your neck. Oh, and it has completely fractured the community by having this nonsensical single-player/co-op/MMO-style multiplayer split, and DBOBE stole all his ideas from Chris anyway which is why he's only ever produced the same Elite game over and over again. He's so desperate he's jumped on this VR dead-end, which just makes the game look stupid. And, I mean, the game is two years old by now. Yawn-o-rama.

It doesn't stand a candle to SC, with its sweet episodic content, its excellent ship store, its revolutionary procgen design, and its hyper-realistic flight model where they've tweaked the thruster response curves so tightly that it almost seems like you're not flying a huge space ship at all. Oh, and to appeal to the largest possible audience, it will have single-player, private co-op servers, and MMO-style multiplayer. It takes the tried and tested ideas of games such as Frontier and WC:Privateer and adds an exciting new Chris-style twist to it, like the eventual addition of VR to offer unprecedented immersion. When it comes out in two years, it'll be great.

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• cig is actually making better progress than expected, so theyve decided to merge the 2.6 code base into 3.0 earlier than expected
  
• because of that, they are going to halt the public release of 2.6 instead of wasting dev cycles on a dead branch
  
• 3.0 will also be getting pushed back slightly while they work out the merge
  
• overall ahead of schedule
  

I.N.R.I posted:

Hi, hope you're all enjoying doing Stalking on people associated with this videogame. i just want to offer a quick reminder for you all to call or visit your parents wherever possible because they love and care about you

spacetoaster posted:

So how much is a bean babby worth these days?

alf_pogs posted:

i have come fully around to arfjasons timely reminders

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qZoA3byeoI

This is amazing. Depending on how it looks once EA hits I may buy in.

Crazy_BlackParrot posted:

The thing I love most is the docking system.
Like seriously, is CIG gonna re-do all ships to add a docking door?

But is just one of those things Shitizens don't wanna think about it.

Thoatse posted:

Crazy_BlackParrot posted:

So I'v been wondering.

Chris said that 2.7,2.8 and 2.9 will be put in 3.0.

Does that mean that once 2.6 is released shitizens will have to wait over a year for one patch lol?
I mean it took em 4 months to produce half of what was promised for 2.6 lol.

MeLKoR posted:

The archering was coming from inside the thread all along!

Say it ain't so, ! Say it ain't so!

ripptide posted:

What, did you ask if Grabby Hands was in 2.6?

Hav posted:

He's talking bullshit about the infrastructure. Clustering and Swarming are completely different technologies, so he's just invoking 'der cloud' there. Clustering is balancing, swarming is capacity management.

Back in the early days, you could spunk UDP at things. Then people started loving with the stream for competitive advantage, so everything moved to transactions, and for a limited amount of traffic, all was good.

The problem they have scaling up the number of clients in any single volume of space is the updates required between the client and server; weirdly, even today, automagic scaling is something that keeps people busy for loving weeks - if you're interested, Netflix literally publishes everything they produce on scaling out video delivery.

Eve Online is pretty much the game for this, mainly due to it's 'single shard' claim, and they literally built out new ways to do things, from a memory only database to the largest collection of SSDs gathered together; it's not a new problem.

Mu77ley posted:

Frontier did an interesting talk at AWS re:Invent 2015 about how they use AWS for Elite: Dangerous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvJPyjmfdz0

Scruffpuff posted:

There is literally no way to reconcile the desire to create a groundbreaking space game that will supposedly be better than everything else ever made, and the expectation that they can make it all run on a generic cloud provider instead of a dedicated platform built from the ground up to address the very specific challenges Star Citizen brings to the table.

Hav posted:

AWS' European endpoints are Frankfurt, London and Ireland, and there's literally no reason, other than they can't split their traffic, to route someone to the access point, then use the fat pipe in the back. Other than expense.

peter gabriel posted:

Lumberyard working well

cool new Polack jokes posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG-82TakEqk&t=32s

I'm starting to get a little bit flustrated with all these total thefts of intellectual property homages

e: good thing nobody owns that jump cut huh

The Titanic posted:

Wow. That's pretty deceitful.

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I don’t mean to sound like a curmudgeon, except yes I do: Being Richard Garriott isn’t enough to persuade me to hand someone cash to make a game. Garriott’s track record — and I think I’m being generous here — has been pretty spotty since the early 1990s. I don’t believe in patronizing celebrity designers for nostalgia’s sake, or that someone who knew how to design something 20 years ago necessarily understands what it takes to break the mold today and simultaneously dot the i’s and cross the t’s.

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But then we’re looking at the disjointed scraps of something that’s not even a game yet. The apparently high school-age audience (that mistook a space sim demo for a sporting event where dimwits shout half-intelligbly) didn’t seem to mind. Yes, the demonstrator bounces off an asteroid toward the end (several times). Did you think that was a feature? That you were watching a representation of what you’ll play in one or maybe two years?