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bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost

The Kins posted:

Crytek has its own colossal share of problems, that, while there is some intermeshing of the two, are largely independent of CIG's. I suspect the Amazon partnership is in part because of Crytek being expected to keel over at any given moment.

There's no "partnership" here: a year ago someone went to the GameLift tab in the AWS console and clicked "get started".

I would recommend anyone with an Amazon account does the same. Head over to the console and see how quickly you can get something up and running. You can even start servers in Europe and Asia with a couple of clicks!

You'd better do things in the AWS way though, if you try and do a lot of custom or non-standard stuff you're going to be constantly fighting the platform. If CIG really have done stupid poo poo like change the precision of the positioning code there is zero chance they're going to be able to just patch it into the Lumberyard code and have everything else just work.

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bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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It was a bad post.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost

TheAgent posted:

it did and like every other piece of news about this poo poo project, it isn't being covered by anyone

makes u think

Oh, weird.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost

scrubs season six posted:

Doesn't regional servers in this case consist mostly of them sending an email to Amazon saying "hey, put our poo poo on your hardware in a few different locations"?

There's no email. Unless they're spinning up thousands of instances, it's likely no human being will ever know. If you already have an Amazon account, you too could be launching servers in Australia in minutes!

The only reason they've "solved the problem" of Australian servers is that Amazon launched a region in Sydney. Before that Singapore would have been the closest.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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I've been playing home computer games basically since there were home computers, and this is an insane thing to think.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost

gently caress these idiots

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
Ah, code reuse, the software panacea!

Space ships, space stations, they're basically the same, right?

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost

shrach posted:


Also to answer the obvious question. Coutts & Co were the bank. Coutts is owned by RBS. RBS is owned 73% by the UK Government.

Also known as the Queen's bank!

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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This is the first of these I've actually watched and holy poo poo this company is broken,

Trying to reproduce ship bugs in the same fake manufacturer, and between the other fake manufacturers in case.... they have a fake common design flaw... in their fake design offices? what?

These devs all know this is bullshit. I've seen that look before



wrist computer is the worst loving ux




can't wait to get it into player's hands! every eight months or so!








not cheating in this video to achieve the same loving visual effect im loving dead

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
wow

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Is that dude literally wearing a shirt that says "lying"?

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/177694633?t=47m21s

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost

gently caress these people

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost

Rugganovich posted:

Humble Bundle have a thing on for Java books
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/java-books

Someone with the knowledge should say a yay ot a nay for that.

That's an incredible selection of books for $15.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost

Quavers posted:

:lol: yep


From the patcher:


This is what terminal technical debt looks like.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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This is nothing. Just nothing.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
Ah, all the animations playing at the same time is a feature.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
Any news on the player's rank?

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
You know what? They might actually be able to make this interactive movie.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
A loving KNIFE

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
Surprisingly high level of ketamine use on this vessel.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
What is even happening? Why is everything so loving slow?

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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I admit I wasn't paying a lot of attention to the mission briefing, but wasn't it about a spaceship?

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
Space knifed 'em!

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
This is aggressively bad.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
Thank gently caress, something's happening. Ship sales, but still.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
Massive tonk.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
Absolute nonsense.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost

SelenicMartian posted:

This GUI is garbage.

It really is. They've made the most clunky, awkward choice at every opportunity.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost

Mu77ley posted:

Who's this "they" you're speaking of? It's Crobbers who decides exactly what shade of green every pixel will be, this is all entirely his lovely design.

The royal they.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Weird that he still can't make the game he wants to.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost

juggalo baby coffin posted:

uuuh what tech have they actually built though? they're just using cryengine, badly.

the crysis mechwarrior mod added more tech to the engine than star citizen has

This is what stands out to me as well. There's all this talk about incredible advances, huge leaps forward, but to someone who knows nothing of game development they don't seem to doing anything you couldn't do in CryEngine hacked to support 64 bit positioning. People that do know, is there anything else there?

The stuff that will be genuinely groundbreaking, like dynamically partitioning players and physics simulations based on moment-to-moment load calculations, they appear to have done literally nothing on.

A $175 million prototype-in-production.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Some really good posts in the last couple of pages.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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G0RF posted:

But let’s say that that you want to go to the moon Cellin, and it’s on the other side of Crusader from you. You obviously can’t fly a straight line from Port Olisar to Cellin without crashing into Crusader.

Also, since the game is nowhere near finished, Crusader hasn’t actually been built yet.

Instead, you have to travel between a series of navigational beacons that sit in high orbit around Crusader. Once you move to the right beacon, the planet is no longer in the way, and you’ll be able to plot a straight line to Cellin.

Wait, what? Is there an invisible planet you have to navigate around? It is just on the space sky box? Is there a magic "planet TBA" exclusion zone? What does this even mean?????

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Oh this is just precious.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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XK posted:

That was just tasteless. If you want to be better than them, then act like it.

Derek Smart has never, not once, wanted to be the better man.

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

I rent from a big corporate entity instead of a random landlord and I'm compelled to stay for the sole reason of "they figured out how to do online automatic billing" and I don't have to drive into town to drop a check through someone's door slot anymore

It's literally 2018...

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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Nap Ghost
Finally

bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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anime good after all

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bbchops
Jul 26, 2001

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shrach posted:

Foundry 42 Ltd has independently audited figures for employees and their payroll. There's no way they are doing anything dodgy with their payroll/paye. Their staff has consistently grown.

to Dec 2014 - avg 52 employees
to Dec 2015 - avg 132 employees - ~$9m (~$7.2m after tax credit)
to Dec 2016 - avg 221 employees - ~$13.4m (~$10.7m after tax credit)
to June 2017 - avg 284 employees - ~$7.6m (~$6.0m after tax credit) (this is 6 months, not 12)

Given how averages work and the way the numbers have grown, it's most likely that Foundry 42 Ltd employed ~300 people at June 2017 and could have continued to expand since.

Based on the first 6 months of 2017 and not factoring in any growth in the latter 6 months, the full year looks like costing around $16m for 284 employees, $6.5m other production costs and some $1.3m in administration costs. When you take off a tax credit, all in cost for 284 employees comes out at ~$19m in the UK for the calendar year 2017.

They employ a lot of people in the UK and it appears relatively cheap on paper. It looks expensive when you consider the lack of product.

Interesting. I wonder where they are they are then. I find it incredibly hard to believe they're in Wilmslow, I know Wilmslow. It's a nice enough market town some distance outside Manchester.

Start here and keep zooming out. This is not a vibrant tech hub.

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