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Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
I adore their complete inability to do a single audio/video transition properly.

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LastCaress
May 8, 2004

bonobo
Can this get any worse?

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

The credits for community content flew past at light speed.

Atheist Sunglasses
Jul 26, 2003

All the candy you want. Crotton crandy, crandy apple. I like to go on the best ride first. Name of roller croaster.

who put holy crap in there

dear lord

TheLightPurges
Sep 24, 2016

by exmarx
oh my loving god justin behind those two get a screengrab

Crazy_BlackParrot
Feb 1, 2016

Christ Roberts is way better than toilet lord...
:gary: :lesnick: :yarg:
:pgabz: :fuzzknot: :eonwe:
:wtchris:
What worries me most is, is no one looking at the twitch comments?

Ramadu
Aug 25, 2004

2015 NFL MVP


dot se? isnt that a swedish site then?

is pepsi ok
Oct 23, 2002

Atheist Sunglasses posted:

who put holy crap in there

dear lord

someone who is currently being fired

TheLightPurges
Sep 24, 2016

by exmarx

MedicineHut posted:

loving copy paste please.

Greetings Citizen.

This past week has been a very busy one, with everyone across the company heads down with the push to get Star Citizen Alpha 2.6 released to you. The help of the Evocati has been invaluable, identifying bugs for us to smash and giving us critical game balance feedback. We had hoped to able to go to Live today but there are still some final UI elements that need to be finished and we still have a few serious bugs being tracked down and fixed.

We're circling a PTU candidate which will go to the Evocati later today, and, if this is successful, we will be pushing it out to a wider PTU test over the weekend so we aren’t too far off!

If you’re interested in the remaining tasks and how we tracked from last week please visit the project schedule page for a more detailed breakdown.

Today is our Holiday Livestream, where we will dive a bit deeper in what’s in 2.6, including showing the bigger Star Marine map in an epic faceoff between our US and EU studios!

There’s a huge amount of new functionality and content in 2.6. It represents a good portion of the last 4 months of the work that the entire company has been doing in our main development branch and moves us significantly closer towards 3.0.

Star Marine, the dedicated FPS game mode, is the big headline, but we also revamped the whole flight model in Star Citizen. This makes it more accessible for new players, but maintains nuance and complexity for veteran pilots. Eight new ships are flyable in 2.6, including the massive Caterpillar, which is a sight to behold! Arena Commander has been given some love too, with tweaks to the scoring, new pickups and VFX. There is a completely new front-end and UI that improves lobby flow for Arena Commander and Star Marine and introduces the ability to customize loadouts for your character and ships, as well as check out where you stand on the Community leaderboards. Finally, there are quite a few new missions in the mini PU, a ship graveyard to explore and a bar in Grim HEX to hang out in!

In anticipation of today's Live Stream, I did want to address one thing that I have been seeing speculation on in the forums: whether or not today's Live Stream will feature the Squadron 42 Vertical Slice.

After we made the decision before CitizenCon that the Squadron 42 vertical slice wasn’t ready to be shown publically, we spent some time on reviewing how far off we were and what we wanted to achieve in order to be comfortable showing a full chapter of S42 gameplay. After all the effort we expended for CitizenCon, we didn’t want to spend additional developer time polishing intermediate solutions if it wasn’t going towards the final product. A slick demo isn’t that helpful if it pushes back the finished game, so we decided that the priority should be completing full systems over getting the vertical slice into a showable state.

Item 2.0, Subsumption AI, Subsumption Mission System and asynchronous Object Container Streaming are all core systems that will power Squadron 42. In addition, there is some significant low level animation and lighting tech that we need to finish up to realize the goal of real time player interactions and conversations at a level that would previously only be possible with pre-rendered cinematics. We want moving around and talking to the crew to be as fluid and look as good as pre-rendered cut scenes from other games.

Finally, we wanted to be able to focus the team on getting 2.6 out the door and knew we didn’t have much time left in the year to do this (as hard as it is to believe CitizenCon was only 9 weeks ago, which isn’t very long in development terms). One of the lessons we learned from the last CitizenCon was that by attempting to show both the VS and Homestead, we overloaded our pipeline. Even with a team of our size, working on two big deliverables for the same release window becomes problematic because things can take longer or turn out more complicated than expected, and when there are tricky-to-solve bugs or performance issues, we need to assign our top developers, which usually ends up being longer than we like and takes them away from core tech development, pushing back the schedule on later releases. Last year’s release of 2.0 and the 3.0 preview at Gamescom worked so well, because there was a clear priority and everyone came together with a singular focus to deliver them on the ascribed dates.

Since CitizenCon we’ve been working towards 2.6 as our priority, with Squadron 42 core tech being second priority, followed by 3.0 development. Almost all Squadron 42 core tech is also needed for 3.0 and the aspects that aren’t, like Networking, have their own team who don’t get distracted by Squadron as it’s a single player game.

So while it may be disappointing not to see something this year on Squadron 42, I believe it’s the best choice for the long term good of both Squadron 42 and Star Citizen. It’s critical that we focus on finishing up the core systems we’ve designed to handle the needs of both games, as without them, other parts of the development team are blocked from finalizing key gameplay.

It is all of your support and patience that allows us to make difficult decisions like this and we greatly appreciate it as it is allowing us to create what we believe will be a very special set of games in Squadron 42 and Star Citizen.

One thing that I think helps to understand the challenges of working on such a big complex project in the open is the visibility into our internal schedules. Sharing the 2.6 schedule was an experiment that a lot of people internally were very worried about but now everyone agrees it was the right move as transparency helps build trust.

As such we will be applying the same visibility to 3.0 and ultimately Squadron 42, although it will take a little time to get them ready for public consumption. We are still in the process of finalizing sub tasks and getting updated bids on the tasks from the appropriate team members, and this in turn has been slowed down by their focus on getting 2.6 finished.

For now, please join us for the live stream to have some fun with the devs and let’s celebrate all the great stuff we have now in Star Citizen 2.6, as there’s a lot of it!
-- Chris Roberts

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

TheLightPurges posted:

oh my loving god justin behind those two get a screengrab
I'm dying here...

LastCaress
May 8, 2004

bonobo
Sound can't escape Ben's gravity!

WarpDogs
May 1, 2009

I'm just a normal, functioning member of the human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.
uhhhh what the hell is even happening

Kosumo
Apr 9, 2016

Ok, fell off my chair at how this is falling apart like there ships

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

LastCaress posted:

Can this get any worse?
It's literally getting worse by the minute. This is fantastic.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Mute Ben.

Star
Jul 15, 2005

Guerilla war struggle is a new entertainment.
Fallen Rib
I haven't seen a live Starcitizen stream before, but this is awesome. I am laughing my rear end off

Xaerael
Aug 25, 2010

Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

This loving stream, holy poo poo this loving stream. WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW MOMA?!

Atheist Sunglasses
Jul 26, 2003

All the candy you want. Crotton crandy, crandy apple. I like to go on the best ride first. Name of roller croaster.

Ben looking more awful than ever

hardycore
Nov 4, 2009
oh my god this is unraveling before our very eyes

Crazy_BlackParrot
Feb 1, 2016

Christ Roberts is way better than toilet lord...
:gary: :lesnick: :yarg:
:pgabz: :fuzzknot: :eonwe:
:wtchris:
how could this get even worse

kikkelivelho
Aug 27, 2015

A surprise single player release is still a possibility

TheLightPurges
Sep 24, 2016

by exmarx
this is a disaster.like even more than usual. and i say that every time.

The people with the hot mics are snickering at ben lol


ITS SANDI

is pepsi ok
Oct 23, 2002

lol people trusted these idiots with 140 million

Acquilae
May 15, 2013

I thought it couldn't get worse than the CRobbers playing his own game, but here we are.

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

please someone be making a full recording of this stream, it is unbelievably terrible even by CIG's standards

Armadillo Tank
Mar 26, 2010

what the hell happened? did the video cut out and then ben and sandi snickering with her mic still on.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Best loving stream.

Lime Tonics
Nov 7, 2015

by FactsAreUseless


yep.

WarpDogs
May 1, 2009

I'm just a normal, functioning member of the human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.
desperately hoping for some hot mic nonsense as clearly the wrong thing is activated

A Neurotic Corncob
Nov 12, 2016

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
jesus gently caress

Xaerael
Aug 25, 2010

Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

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

Ramadu
Aug 25, 2004

2015 NFL MVP


Goodness. The sound problems.

I guess you can't be toooo hard on them for the sound, even poo poo like Valve's The International and Riots Invitational had major sound problems. But they fixed that poo poo.

mike12345
Jul 14, 2008

"Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."





holy poo poo this stream

LastCaress
May 8, 2004

bonobo
Someone said "scary"

TheLightPurges
Sep 24, 2016

by exmarx
Sandi just whispered ben is scary lol. hot mic

Inkel
Feb 19, 2004

College Slice
This is so much better than any of us could have ever dreamed of, outside of Chris and Sandi taking a dump on a huge pile of backer's money.

Brazilianpeanutwar
Aug 27, 2015

Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?
It's like ben's in a hostage video and he's about to be beheaded any second, loving hell this is so amateur!

Atheist Sunglasses
Jul 26, 2003

All the candy you want. Crotton crandy, crandy apple. I like to go on the best ride first. Name of roller croaster.

mics are hot and you can hear sandi whispering WTF?!

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Did he eat the mike?

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Crazy_BlackParrot
Feb 1, 2016

Christ Roberts is way better than toilet lord...
:gary: :lesnick: :yarg:
:pgabz: :fuzzknot: :eonwe:
:wtchris:
you can hear sandi omfg.

please say something disrespectful

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