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WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)
So I haven't followed this thread I think since like October, any hugely funny things?

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Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

So I haven't followed this thread I think since like October, any hugely funny things?

CIG did a couple of presentations.
It was hilarious every time.

WarpDogs
May 1, 2009

I'm just a normal, functioning member of the human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.

hardycore
Nov 4, 2009
What game would you make with 140 million, endless time, and a legion of devoted followers?

I'm thinking the ultimate nostalgia bomb Secret of Mana-esque couch-coop ARPG, or a city builder taking the best parts of SC4 and Skylines, adding a lot of cool procedural stuff, and adding the ability to start in city in pre-industrial times and build into a dazzling 21st century megapolis, with each era its own distinct, fleshed out experience.

Das Butterbrot
Dec 2, 2005
Lecker.

a very well known and popular german politician (Helmut Schmidt) once said this:

"If you have visions, go see a doctor"

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

hardycore posted:

What game would you make with 140 million, endless time, and a legion of devoted followers?

I'm thinking the ultimate nostalgia bomb Secret of Mana-esque couch-coop ARPG, or a city builder taking the best parts of SC4 and Skylines, adding a lot of cool procedural stuff, and adding the ability to start in city in pre-industrial times and build into a dazzling 21st century megapolis, with each era its own distinct, fleshed out experience.

The Tracy Jordan porn game from 30 Rock

(it's actually probably either the exact same ARPG you described or a Total War/CK II style thing based on the Exalted RPG setting)

XK
Jul 9, 2001

Star Citizen is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it's fidelity when you look out your window or when you watch youtube

I'm watching WTFosaurus replay of him watching the holiday stream. He starts watching at about 1:57:30, and starts trashing it almost from the beginning, but he really starts losing it about here:

https://www.twitch.tv/wtfosaurus/v/107831224?t=2h19m52s

Beer4TheBeerGod
Aug 23, 2004
Exciting Lemon

hardycore posted:

What game would you make with 140 million, endless time, and a legion of devoted followers?

Gorkamorka MMO.

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

hardycore posted:

What game would you make with 140 million, endless time, and a legion of devoted followers?

I'm thinking the ultimate nostalgia bomb Secret of Mana-esque couch-coop ARPG, or a city builder taking the best parts of SC4 and Skylines, adding a lot of cool procedural stuff, and adding the ability to start in city in pre-industrial times and build into a dazzling 21st century megapolis, with each era its own distinct, fleshed out experience.

Probably some kind of co-op Shadowrun Returns-alike, with higher production value and a more detailed world and story.
But I'd be happy with your suggestions too. Procedural Civ Skylines sounds like it would completely ruin my life forever.

Das Butterbrot
Dec 2, 2005
Lecker.

hardycore posted:

What game would you make with 140 million, endless time, and a legion of devoted followers?

The scale of WW2 Online, mixed with the infantry level fidelity of BF1, mixed with the aircraft fidelity of DCS

hmmmm, maybe i should get a kickstarter rolling...

Amarcarts
Feb 21, 2007

This looks a lot like suffering.

hardycore posted:

What game would you make with 140 million, endless time, and a legion of devoted followers?

I'm thinking the ultimate nostalgia bomb Secret of Mana-esque couch-coop ARPG, or a city builder taking the best parts of SC4 and Skylines, adding a lot of cool procedural stuff, and adding the ability to start in city in pre-industrial times and build into a dazzling 21st century megapolis, with each era its own distinct, fleshed out experience.

Warhammer 40k MOBA

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Das Butterbrot posted:

The scale of WW2 Online, mixed with the infantry level fidelity of BF1, mixed with the aircraft fidelity of DCS

hmmmm, maybe i should get a kickstarter rolling...

I wonder how long you'd be able to run a legacy Planetside 1 server for that kind of money…

Oleyo
Mar 28, 2016
Prophetic?

http://imgur.com/a/fqU6T

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

fuctifino posted:



I'm wondering if it was a deliberate spelling mistake by a disgruntled employee?...

You should set your Honesty dial to 0, and ask your inner heart of hearts.

These things are basically the artists telling people to avoid the lies.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Spatial posted:

I crafted a fantastic device. It will open a portal to another world. A world of dreams...

It just needs to mounted on the top of a Christmas tree like so; the power of the pledge will do the rest. Whoa, it's shaking already!


Powering up!!


WHOA IT'S OUT OF CONTROLLLLL


*poof*

I don't know what you have done here, but I choked on some tea. Good job!!! :3:

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

The Vandull are basically hairless Kilrathi.

Which was basically the Wing Commander movie kilrathi.

Good job backers, hopefully you'll get Wing Commander: The Movie: The Game!

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen

Chin posted:

CIG must have massive, doomsday level problems in their performance capture, modeling, and animation pipelines. It's been a full year now since they showed any hint of SQ42 cast in-game with John Rhys-Davies' character model spinning in place on the last holiday live stream. And the last character in motion they showed was in the Old Man teaser a month or so before that.

Derek intimated in the live chat today that Chris is terrified to show SQ42 before it's "Ready" because he thinks a bad first reveal will cause overwhelming reputation damage (he's probably right). So there's likely a mountain of buggy, half-finished single player content that they're sitting on but can't release, and instead we get Disco Lando in a clown suit.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

This anniversary ranks up with the 50th of the Declaration of Independence when Adams and Jefferson died hours apart.

Last words Roberts will say before he drifts off to sleep will be "Derek Smart is still alive."

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

peter gabriel posted:

Ha ha ha wtf? So Port Ollisar is off the menu? That is amazing, this game is loving shrinking as time goes by, it's like the saddest grape left out in the sun slowly shrinking to become a raisin I guess? I didn't really think this through

Counterpoint: Raisins are good.

Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌
Please help me my schadenfreude boner can't stop cumming and for the last 20 minutes it's been nothing but dry ashes and stimpirial ghost loads rushing out of me.

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

Star Citizen: nothing but dry ashes and stimpirial ghost loads rushing out of me.

Spermanent Record
Mar 28, 2007
I interviewed a NK escapee who came to my school and made a thread. Then life got in the way and the translation had to be postponed. I did finish it in the end, but nobody is going to pay 10 bux to update my.avatar
That was beautiful. Can't wait to see you guys in the 'verse.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
I'm glad that even after all the other poo poo 2016 has thrown at me, I can still count on CIG to be irredeemable fuckups. :allears:

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
It's beautiful

Get it while it's hot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdQrKas8Vu0
o9

flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

agg stop posting
College Slice
I'll have you know I got the first paragraph of the stimpire text out in twitch chat before I was permabanned today o8

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

TheAgent posted:

who won the thing

I have a feeling nobody? It pretty much surpassed every conceivable idea people had, in a negative direction.

Lee doing what you do, CIG! :homebrew:

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012


Can someone time stamp the hot mic incidents. I want to see if I can hear anything worth quoting

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

The Titanic posted:

If you do, just get a base package. At least at that you won't be out a huge amount of money. And maybe you can take part in the eventual class action lawsuit and get a 0.65 refund in 2023.

But I am already really smug. I don't WANNA BE SMUG, IGNORANT AND DELUSIONAL! Please, help me. You all are my ONLY HOPE! :cripes:

ComposerGuy
Jul 28, 2007

Conspicuous Absinthe

Ahahaha they cut out the first half hour.

Zzr
Oct 6, 2016


" New! Be advised that you will need to restart the client after every Star Marine or Arena Commander match or you will be unable to join a new match. " I love you CIG please continue to be funded for years to come. Toast must find it fun to relaod the game each match, these new loading screens have to be worth a look.

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

ComposerGuy posted:

Ahahaha they cut out the first half hour.

Really ? I hit play and heard sandi and Chris talking about whatever with the logo on screen

They left that in ? How bad was the rest ? Lol

XK
Jul 9, 2001

Star Citizen is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it's fidelity when you look out your window or when you watch youtube

WTFosaurus is live and currently downloading 2.6. He's only got a few meg left. Might be hilarious.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable
So I guess now we're on a timer for the "Road To The Christmas Sale" video wherein we are relegated with sad programmers trying real hard, Chris in shorts yelling at people, and more heartfelt emotions. Maybe they can even convince some people to cry for them on camera.

I hope they end it on the screen of the destroyed monitor that died for your entertainment.

This is all well and good. I'm sure the patch that fixes everything is right around the corner! Come on guys! Look at that funding tracker plummet! It's time for some serious spite pledges to show goons you still believe in Chris! :allears:

Viscous Soda
Apr 24, 2004


You know what really gets me about Sandi? Everything about her stage persona is more annoying then the "real" Sandi. Even though she's got a really bad case of resting bitch face, it's still much better then the twitchy movements and rictus grin of her stage persona. And with the hot mike at the beginning where she and Chris are discussing the blankets her actual "sorta Australian" accent is much more appealing then her on stage American accent. It's weird, especially since she fancies herself an actor.

Kavak
Aug 23, 2009


hardycore posted:

What game would you make with 140 million, endless time, and a legion of devoted followers?

In order:

-Get White Wolf from Paradox and make New World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness games.

-Revive Siren and/or Eternal Darkness.

-Red Dead Revolution: Set in the Russian Civil War, prominently featuring this dude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

nawledgelambo posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5irwlv/evocati_26_screenshot_and_livestream_restrictions/

2.6 going to PTU now.

I can only imagine crobbers said, "Well gently caress it! It can't get any worse at this point!! Send it to the PTU!"

Yes. I called it. That's precisely what my sources told me; in addition to no SQ42, no 3.0, major studio downsizing, key people on their way out etc

quote:

D_Smart posted:

My 5 predictions:

  1. croberts will recite, then write a cringe-worthy missive asking for money, making excuses, making new promises for 2017
    CALLED IT! // see latest newsletter
  2. 2.6 will be delayed; and if they are smart, pushed into 2017. the schedule will be updated to reflect this CALLED IT!
  3. they will play 2.6 Star Marine on local LAN because doing it across the internet - the environment it was designed for - is shite it was 8v8 (the max before CE3 falls over) over the Internet. so much for 12v12 <--- lol @ MoMa
  4. no meaningful SQ42 reveal - of any kind CALLED IT!
  5. no meaningful 3.0 reveal - of any kind CALLED IT!

BOMBSHELL BONUS: They won't mention anything about i) no money to finish the game ii) on-going Federal investigations, iii) the fact that quite a few key team members have either recently left or have put in their notice (Dec being their exit month) to leave, iv) they are going to be down-sizing the studios in 2017

ps:

As of Dec 16th, with 2.6 still MIA and 3.0 still a pipe dream, these are the major releases this year since 2.0

v2.0 (patch notes), Dec 12, 2015
v2.1.0, Jan 15, 2016
v2.2.0, March 4, 2016
v2.3.0, March 26, 2016
v2.4.0, June 9, 2016
v2.5.0, Aug 25, 2016

And during this period, these are ALL the Star Marine updates. Yet, here we are, over a year later, and they still can't get it working.

AUGUST 22ND 2015
AUGUST 29TH 2015
SEPTEMBER 19TH 2015
OCTOBER 23RD 2015

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable
My predictions:

The Titanic posted:

Here's from my earlier prediction:

1: There will be a Sq42 cutscene, this will prove without a shadow of a doubt the game nobody wants is real and is nearly done -WRONG
2: 2.6 will be released, but it won't have Star Marine, only the usual refactors you know and love - RIGHT
3: we will see more high detail actor models, possibly one of them animated and speaking. This may be part of the Sq42 cutscene - WRONG
4: We won't see Gillian or Gary, not even as CGI - RIGHT
5: there will be no live play demo of Sq42 gameplay - RIGHT

I'm assuming that the cobbled 2.6 lacks Star Marine though.

Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



The Titanic posted:

My predictions:


I'm assuming that the cobbled 2.6 lacks Star Marine though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5isc0r/so_if_i_subscribe_right_now_i_can_play_26/

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XK
Jul 9, 2001

Star Citizen is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it's fidelity when you look out your window or when you watch youtube

Currently on WTFosaurus:

Looks like they're going to try to do Star Marine.
Customize loadout apparently crashes you out.
Crashed out adding someone.

They can't figure out what menus to use to start a game. Can't figure out how to get everyone in. Have started over the process of trying to setup a game at least twice.

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