Mr Fronts posted:

If I were in charge, I'd fix Star Citizen by dubbing Gary Oldman's voice into COD Infinite Warfare, and changing its title screen to say "SQUADRON 42". I would then modify Elite Dangerous so you can only by the ships with real money, and call it "STAR CITIZEN".

Quavers posted:

Pre-pre-alpha 3.7 going to Evocati today

https://clips.twitch.tv/TacitYawningToothFeelsBadMan

e:
https://i.imgur.com/ID6KeUr.gifv

Bubbacub posted:

They keep touting caves and weapon attachments. The original Crysis game already had both of those, so the implementation should be pretty trivial.

Sabreseven posted:

I like the way the bed is now an engine/thruster.

Fidelitious!

Sarsapariller posted:

So here's a fun graphic illustrating how hosed the in-game economy is. This is the supply/demand chart for all materials currently tradeable in game. See, every "Tick" of server time, which I think is like 5 minutes, every base in the game will increase its supply and/or demand for a resource by the amount specified here, up to some predetermined cap.

Sabreseven posted:

LMAO @ the foip guy at the very end literally made me spit coffee, I won't spoil it for everyone but it's an awful and hilarious display of foip.

Tippis posted:

I wonder what tech achievement he's talking about, though. Being so unoptimised that you can't play a fairly bog-standard game without the latest silicon kind of goes in the opposite direction…

Zaphod42 posted:

There is 0% chance of this happening because there is no star citizen engine. If you gave me every line of code CIG has made and asked me to produce a space MMO, I would start by DELETING EVERYTHING.

And that's not spiteful, that is honest to god the absolute smartest move they could make right now. What they have is an unmaintainable nightmare. Its a loving disaster. Its pure tech debt.

So this doesn't make sense. Everything that looks good about SC wasn't made by CIG, its just Cryengine/Lumberyard. Anybody who wants Cryengine can already license Cryengine, and you do it from Crytek, not CIG. There is literally nothing to license from CIG, they have not made anything other than JPGs. They do not understand how to design new game systems, so all they do is hack things together to give the illusion of progress. They have nothing. I cannot stress this enough. They have nothing.

Beyond that, you really think that if Elite Dangerous finally fulfills all the vision of SC, that star citizens are gonna be cool with that? I mean, they'll definitely jump ship, but they'd be pissed at Chris for wasting their money while David Braben showed that what they wanted was easily achievable without even busking for their cash.

Sanya Juutilainen posted:

Today the players can dissect your engine and analyze it better than you within a week, this wouldn't really pass. Took days to completely analyze (lack of) NMS's multiplayer. And CI isn't competent enough to cover it up successfully.

quote:

Greetings Citizens!

Recent controversies have made clear that we at CIG have not succeeded in creating virtual characters with the level of fidelity that we (and you) demand in a next-gen game like Star Citizen. I have full faith in the team's ability to create hyper-realistic representations of our avatars in the 'Verse, but time and study resources have definitely been a constraint. That's why today, we're excited to announce a new ship : the Endeavor Mutilator. Fully equipped with all the medical and scientific tools needed to experiment on subjects, along with the means to restrain and sustain them as long as experimentation proves necessary. Along with this new ship comes an exciting new way to contribute to Star Citizen. The Mutilator will only be available through a limited program exclusively for those willing to donate their skin to contribute to improvements in the Star Citizen character rendering pipeline. Not only will you have a unique ship, but you'll have made a truly valuable contribution to a game so immersive that it will end your need for real-life skin. As a bonus, each Endeavor Mutilator comes with the ability for the owner to swap out his in-game skin for a high-quality replica of his former skin. After a short deIay for the development process, it'll be like you never lost it to begin with. Act now, availability for this program is limited!

-Chris

AbstractNapper posted:

Lol, they've already said that SQ42 will be episodic, albeit with episodes larger than AAA titles. They've already "sold" the second episode to early backers (or was it only for those of a high enough tier?). And then they talked about a prelude, and/or a prologue, and now it's anyone's guess what the gently caress they're going to be releasing.

Inspector Gesicht posted:

Assuming Roberts wasn't blinded by the dollar-signs in his eyes what would have been a good engine to licence in 2012? Something built for moving in a fully 3d space and texture streaming that negates the need for loading-screens everywhere, and accounts for multiplayer?

Duke Nukem Forever feels quaint next to this game's development.

G0RF posted:

^^^ This.

Imagine a game where every crater on every moon has more content than Skyrim. Now imagine a universe of such moons. Add planets, wormholes, spaceworms, myriad sentient alien races each with their own languages, all of this tied together with a Quantum economic simulator.

Now stop imagining, and start spending.

Star Citizen.

Quavers posted:

As a community, we're doing ourselves a disservice.

Dear members of r/starcitizen,

I write this post today to express a concern of mine, while likely controversial - I ask you to bear with me. Criticism of CIG is widespread, that is a fact that cannot be disputed. I wish that you would take a moment and read, even if you disagree.

The majority of us that partake in daily conversation on this subreddit are enthusiastic individuals eagerly awaiting patches and supporting/advising inevitable inquiries of new and old players/supporters, alike.

Regardless of how much or how little you have pledged in support of this project, you are well aware of the skeptical viewpoints of the broader gaming community in regards to the legitimacy of the project. While I personally do not question the legitimacy of the project - I have come to that conclusion through extensive research and inquiry. The information is out there - and that is part of the problem, as people can clearly see where the money goes and thus are able to critique it's use. In all my years of gaming, I have never seen a company so openly share it's development cycle and financial statements.

On this subreddit, negativity towards the project is usually met with negativity. I've been here long enough to witness a plethora of posts, often made in poor taste - get obliterated and deleted.

While *I DO NOT* condone blantent misinformation and uneducated criticism/negativity towards the project; I suggest we meet those (so called haters) who doubt the project - from a much different angle.

Instead of downvoting them into oblivion, we should upvote their criticism, upvote the misinformation and make popular those such posts made in poor taste.

Why would I, a very devoted member to the community, do such a thing?

If we instead approach the criticism head on, and face it for what it is (likely misinformation and lack of knowledge in the subject) and provide the user with ACCURATE information and evidence to support and build upon what we already know as a legitimate project - I would believe the community would grow rather than shrink.

Thus I repeat my the title of this post: as a community, we're doing oureselves a disservice by closing doors to those skeptics.

Instead I propose that we open new doors and win the support of those individuals that are unfortunately ignorant of a very legitimate project.

Thank you,
See you all in the Verse!


Edit: Objective is to be honest, and as always grow and foster a healthy community.

Edit 2: Example of what I don't believe is necessary: http://imgur.com/a/jOva6EG

Inacio posted:

"fixed" is an exaggeration - it's just less awful for cheaper ships. ymmv.

also Citizens have said that it might be just for the PTU, too - you can now QT from 10,000m, which means that once again it's less tedious immersive and might leave after PTU

Bofast posted:

I wouldn't be surprised if the whole crunch culture has driven a lot of the best engine programmers out of the video game industry and thus made the overall quality of code drop a bit.

Agony Aunt posted:

Due to shared resources and prioritization being placed on Prison Gameplay,

colonelwest posted:

Well guys all of this Carrack hype and talk of a white paint job for $25, has finally pushed me over the edge. I am a Star Citizen now. I bought two Carracks, one for me and one for my soon to be Ukrainian wife. Unfortunately the potato harvest on her family farm was bad this year, so she can’t make it to the US for a few more months. But when she gets here, I can’t wait to do some couple’s touring in our matching white Carracks! Really, they were a bargain at only $1250.00. It’s much less than the money I’m sending each month to her via her brother Boris who lives in Russia, and what I’ve been spending on hair plugs, testosterone supplements, and various erectile dysfunction remedies. Anyway I can’t wait to show off all of my girls in the ‘verse! (Carracks and the new wife tehehe!)

trucutru posted:

Just add these together

Inacio posted:

Quavers posted:

Never been done before

Quavers posted:

If a player force closes the game when killed by security they will spawn in prison retaining their loadout. Please do not do this.

TheDarkFlame posted:

Am I reading this right, that post is saying "most adult hobbies" whatever that means will cost you hundreds to thousands of dollars, just over a day? I know I said some people might have expensive tastes, but I'm curious, what kind of hobbies are you smoking here if you're spending that much a day? Or are you spending this much to indulge yourself once a month as a special day or for some big event or something? I can see some particular things being this costly, something that involves buying or renting expensive hardware and equipment. Maybe if you had a decrepit car you were lovingly trying to restore. It just seems like so much more money than I could justify on anything that wasn't actually my life.

Strangler 42 posted:

getting scammed is not a hobby. Telling everyone and yourself that you're having fun is a coping mechanism.