Quavers posted:

Staggering Development

https://i.imgur.com/4zzOgrG.mp4

Agony Aunt posted:

Mmmm... prison gameplay. Plenty of opporuntities for lurking in dark corners.

Exinos posted:

The problem with wanting Sandi to play the bad cop role is she can't play any role convincingly.

Dementropy posted:

Jobbo_Fett posted:

I saw Mirificus post in one of my threads and it WASN'T a screenshot.


I cherish that post 'til this day.

Colostomy Bag posted:

At least he made salad dressing.

Gnome de plume posted:

They also show he hates feminism

Fidelitious posted:

To make it clearer, Thunderfoot is a piece of poo poo.

Inacio posted:

Kikas posted:

<snip> what is your favourite Star Citizen moment of the decade?<snip>

Jonny Shiloh posted:

Counterpoint: note the use of the magpie bedecked in Aussie finery - a clear indication of cockiness and Aussie self-assuredness.


Adz Adama is very sure of himself in this image - he contends that the new flight model is the very height of suck.

tuo posted:

The next CD I bought was from some shady guy in Jungbusch, <snip>

Hav posted:

Is it really a christmas tane, or merely a tane set at Christmas?

Scruffpuff posted:

Here's something we can discuss that I could post in the proper thread, but I like and trust the people who frequent this one. Here goes:

I have a system build with an Intel I7-9700, and a Geforce 2700 Super. The CPU is cooled by an AIO cooler. The front of the case has 3 intake fans. The rear has 3 going out. Two at the top back, and one out the back, which is the one that flows over the AIO cooler radiator. It is a slightly positive pressure case due to the exhaust fans being behind holed screens, whereas the front fans are fully open.

CPU temps are 30 degrees idle. With a maxxed-out Prime95 stress test, it hits 66 degrees. So far so good.

The problem comes in when I stress the video card and CPU simultaneously. When the GPU gets hot enough for the fans to kick in, the hot air is forced up, and winds up primarily vented through the first fan it passes, which is the AIO radiator. Once I'm in that boat, the CPU heats up quite a bit, sometimes surpassing 80 degrees. It cools back down when the GPU fans spin down.

Ordinarily I'd have a side fan blowing into the case above the GPU to mitigate, but this is a glass case and I'd rather not drill holes into the glass.

Discuss.

Mr. Carlisle posted:

I legit hope at some point this game gets duke nukem forevered and chris says they need to throw it all out and start over on a completely new engine because it's fallen so far behind the times

Bofast posted:

I think Planescape Torment or some similar game had rat enemies that got smarter and more dangerous (to the point of casting spells?) the more there were in the same small area. I guess Citizens become dumber and/or more crazy the more of them there are in the same online forum?
Edit: old backers who woke up and left not included, of course

peter gabriel posted:

A very deep authoritative voice can be compelling though, this is why chris sounds like pingu, because he gets everything wrong

UnknownTarget posted:

No it should be fine. Games use several tricks to approximate day traced lighting, which Cryengine is doubtlessly using. One of the major ones is baked lighting and another one is a reflection probe. Baked lighting literally "bakes" Ray traced lighting into light maps (textures) which are then used to make areas darker or lighter. It costs nothing to render and as long as none of the lights move it looks just as good as Ray traced lighting. Reflection probes basically capture the scene from a general area in a 360 map and apply it to the object as color, creating "reflections" and tinting dynamic objects so they match the scene.

After that I think it's down to just having really efficient real time lighting calculations for dynamic lights.

The reason why laymen don't see the benefit to ray tracing in real time applications is because the industry had gotten so good at taking it that doing it for real isn't that noticeably different. However all the stuff I described requires work and render time, to bake out the lighting. With real time ray tracing it's a lot easier: just plop down the lights and they'll "just work".

So short answer: Star Citizen will probably look the same, real time ray tracing or not.

ggangensis posted:

I doubt that CIG has the know-how to properly integrate Raytracing into CryEngine 3. But okay, let's assume they give this task to a junior dev that reads up on this stuff and has some more-or-less workable solution ready to go in a year or so:

In true CIG fashion there will probably be one raytracing-enhanced puddle somewhere, where, when you look at it, get single-digit fps with an 2080ti. Citizens will of course be ecstatic, "Wow, look at this puddle! This has never been done before! Here, take my money!" since that`s the cycle of things.

ggangensis posted:

Afaik CIG is on CryEngine 3 (initial release oct. 2009), which might explain this:


There was some picture showing when Lumberyard was branched off and where Star Citizen stands, but I`am pretty sure they are stuck on a version without Raytracing features. Can't find the picture, though.
In a way CIG can be happy that the general pace of graphics development seems to have slowed down quite a bit compared to the 90s, this buys Chris some time.
I remember the passage from Masters of Doom where Romero saw the colored lighting in Quake 2 which convinced him an engine change was necessary. Those fundamental industry changing improvements won't happen to Chris, so he is just concerned with crossing off bullet points. Some half-assed raytracing implementation is enough for them. The Vulkan renderer they talked about? Just put in some implementation that`s worse than the D3D one, just so he can say they have it. Business as usual in SC-land.

Sarsapariller posted:

I have to ask, because I really don't understand- the bug report system has been out and in use for like, four years now. To the best of my knowledge, like six bugs have actually been reported "Fixed" in the system in that time- literally six out of tens of thousands reported. I mean, it's not like the game gets any visible fixes to long standing issues- or if it does, they have no regression testing, because poo poo gets broken again the very next patch.

Is there any evidence that CIG actually looks at or interacts with the bug reports in any way? Is it literally just a hole marked "Complaints?" People are actually still diligently trying to format correctly worded bug reports, spending their real time reproducing errors, and then filling out forms to submit to this site. Are they doing all that in the full knowledge that no human being has ever actually bothered to loving look at any of it, and never will?

If that is the case... I don't know that I've ever seen a community quite as stupid as Star Citizen's fan base.

colonelwest posted:

Yeah but can you get up and walk to the passenger cabin of your plane and serve a Hairy Roberts via complex drink mixing mechanics? I think not. Obviously it’s just another poo poo tier low fidelity game from a big publisher.

ErrEff posted:

Sometimes, the stars align.

MedicineHut posted:

Hmm, is anyone lawyery enough to easily source the full text referred to here?:


That initial incomplete statement is not really clear about it.

shrach posted:

Doubtful. Does anyone know for sure the practically of how this redaction even works? Does the filing party highlight want they think should be redacted and then the court blacks it out before/during digitising the filing or is the court deciding on its own what needs to be redacted?

I guess they are supposed to redact things that are the direct result of discovery but it seems like there's unredacted stuff that infers what is redacted.

Ghetto SuperCzar posted:

Wrong thread.

no_recall posted:

Squadron 42 : Please leave a message after the beep.

spacetoaster posted:

Derek SMART!

and space court.

NoMas posted:

oh yea add to the list the short-lived segment, "Ben tours the CIG office". He almost had a heart attack just going up the stairs...

Zaphod42 posted:

Yeah it feels pretty desperate. They haven't fundamentally done the work to make this an mmo yet.

Course battlefield has 64 player servers so 60 is hardly even a challenge.

Hav posted:

...........They’re getting *so close* now. 0 to 60 in seven years.

stingtwo posted:

to be fair, this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akwVVi6weKQ was posted here years ago and we determined it's using 3x or more than what bf1 uses so technically Star Citizen is already has a player cap of 150 fud lover.

peter gabriel posted:

A chance to put your important questions to the devs

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/calling-all-devs-january-2020-question-thread/2712737

TheAgent posted:

backs care about the shiporn, they don't give a gently caress about this new gamemode poo poo lol

its gonna star marine itself real hard

Awesome! posted:

i actually thought it was an intentional joke

Sabreseven posted:

So now we await the 'fizzle reel'.

The road to retirement 2.0.