tuo posted:

Completely offtopic, but this would be so cool.

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

Makes you think how important proper game mechanics truly are, and how irrelevant graphic fidelity can be.

Then again, I guess if someone never experienced the original X-Wing and especially TIE Fighter, hey will look at this and simply shrug

Decrepus posted:

Alot of these polished features were built into the Cryengine, so they realy arent spending millions on it.

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Just what's in the game is already fairly fun, and if they were to stop development and just polish what and add some maps, they have could probably release it there.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

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

Didn't see this posted before. Game plays better than he expected.

Quavers posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H2QRvbvtz8

Hav posted:

Development started Two Weeks ago;

D_Smart posted:

Star Citizen Tracker has been updated. All backers are welcome to contribute to this evidentiary effort.

https://starcitizentracker.github.io/

boviscopophobic posted:

CIG designers have some kind of ideological bias against being able to see things (e.g. helmet obstructions, Starfarer interior...) Their latest concept ship is no different. View from the pilot's seat:

Spatial posted:

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A longstanding dream: Video games will evolve into interactive stories, like the ones that play out fictionally on the Star Trek Holodeck. In this hypothetical future, players could interact with computerized characters as round as those in novels or films, making choices that would influence an ever-evolving plot. It would be like living in a novel, where the player’s actions would have as much of an influence on the story as they might in the real world.

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The problem becomes increasingly intractable over time. Incremental improvements in visual fidelity make 3-D worlds seem more and more real. But those worlds feel even more incongruous when the people that inhabit them behave like animatronics and the environments work like Potemkin villages.

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...cinema envy. The game industry has long dreamed of overtaking Hollywood to become the “medium of the 21st century,” a concept now so retrograde that it could only satisfy an occupant of the 20th.

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

Also lol at Chris just being the most thinly veiled "head in the clouds, everything is fine" motherfucker in the world.

ripptide posted:

Didn't they also lose the new "networking savior code" from the 3.0 release? I know it's a very minor thing with an MMO, but hey....

TheAgent posted:

here's how things go, as was told to me last year

since Roberts has final approval on everything, artists or designers send the absolute best version of whatever they have to him. this includes hi res, hi poly mods that will not be used in game, as well as ultra res textures. if Roberts kicks your poo poo back down to you, you get a pretty severe dressing down, usually during a meeting. one of my friends (she's working on the new SW game) got talked down to in front of her entire team, causing her to quit.

but it doesn't end there. he places a flag on your work afterwards, so he will always double check for "problems" with whatever you send him. keep in mind he receives hundreds of emails like this a week, so the shitlist people get looked at first.

what he doesn't check is anything gameplay related. assets are what he really cares about, and as my friend said, "the cinematic feel" of said assets. one of the things Roberts used to go on about is that "gameplay organically grows" from what they create.

I know I posted about all this before in some fashion, but it's been awhile

Quavers posted:

My other remark is that the production report CIG gives us is getting more and more inconsistent week after week. Text is contradicting images on an increasing number of tasks, and the global schedule is itself drifting away from the 3.0.0 schedule on their common tasks. I'm doing my best to maintain consistency in my reports, but don't be surprised if there are a few dates jumps here and there. CIG, if you need any proofreading, I can help!

DarkRefreshment posted:

Standard prison rape fantasy in SC fan fic. Nothing new here

AP posted:

Amazing Zimmo posted:

Gameplay, the basics of fun in a game, is only supposed to be available a day or two after the armadillo testing. This is from CIG's own schedule, the same schedule that they keep on adding another week to every completion date and yet dipshits like obey_the_fisting still think that this will be the miracle to make the world weep tears of joy and convert us all to the cult.

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/GhandiSardiner/status/872184009803128832

fuctifino posted:

Sadly not commando. That's the black space janitor with his mocapped mop and bucket.

Hav posted:

Are you comparing train wrecks, or suddenly realising that this is about an absolutely stupendous amount of cash?

An F-16 was $15 million.
M1-Abrams is $10 million
AH-64E is $64 million

How about an Island? http://www.vladi-private-islands.de/en/islands-for-sale/usa/florida/ballast-key/

$15 million.

Edit: Pineapple is as valid a topping as buffalo chicken, you goddamned snobs.

The_Groove posted:

examples of serialized booleans used in Door 2.0 technology have been leaked:

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Amazing Zimmo posted:

https://twitter.com/Jorunn_SC/status/875557481652641792

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* CIG you need to stop getting the community to do the recruiting and marketing for you. We already put in a lot of time explaining everything to new players. We already defend the game in other subreddits, other forum posts and whatever. You need to get the game to a point where it can stand on its own, stop pushing the community to make the excuses in your stead.

peter gabriel posted:

I've never ever seen such hilarity as backers trying to explain that getting a loan does NOT mean CIG need money. This truly is something to behold

Richie Stardust posted:

It is a cool box though. If CIG would have made all their jpegs look like sleek boxes with neatly scooped out faces and the top plane really flat and linear then they would have had an art style. Something with their stamp. Then we could have looked at it and said, "Oh that's a CIG style ship." Instead we have this.




And this one, which I hope is fake.


These jpegs are poop stains on the internet.

MinorInconvenience posted:

This "design note" was posted precisely two years ago this week (June 26th 2015). It is incomprehensible to me that grown adults who claim to work in the game industry would ever publicly announce that they wanted to add this completely stupid, un-fun, unworkable poo poo to a video game. And not be drunk or high. Morons.

Amazing Zimmo posted:

zcrow posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-AJ9d6A2Yk

AbstractNapper posted:

Does anyone remember that animation video they showed in the last CitCon, with commentary about a war and resistance and poo poo, which almost everyone thought it was a trailer for SQ42, until it was revealed to be a concept ship promo at its end?

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/885264286112772096

Thrilling to see., Around the Verse episode 342 teaser.

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Of course there's a plan. You don't start with a long history of game development only to dive head-first into a crowdfunded project gripping millions and 300+ employees with no plan. Whether the community will like that plan or not is yet to be seen, but I guarantee you there's a plan.

Daztek posted: