VengerTL posted:

Ah I kinda get it now, I have never heard of lumberyard before this. All new water to me.
Any one here worked with lumberyard and knows more details about it?

Mr.PayDay posted:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link//15653-Star-Citizen-Alpha-260

And only like 6 months late

sorla78 posted:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/media/hr6txd91ghvyur/source/SC-And-Lumberyard-FINAL.pdf

Official PR

Also David showing off his PR skills... talking about Amazon, Lumberyard in a CIG PR but only putting the about sections in for CIG.

ComfyPants posted:

From Discord:

thedereksmart - Today at 7:59 PM
just got this:

Hey, hi I'm following you since a good amount of time and thanks for everything, the patch 2.6 is now live as you should already know, but something strange happened on their website. On the voyager store where people can buy stuff with in game credit a good amount of missile were "sold" for free for something like 5 minutes. I was able to purchase 1000 item (the cart limit) the amount is estimated as 33,200,000 uec. As for 1000uec = 1$ I bought for 33,200$ of free stuff. I hope I was clear on what I'm trying to say as I'm not a native american-english speaker.

MeLKoR posted:

6 months late, Star Marine is full of gently caress and the only new Star Citizen gameplay is one new quest. Oh, and a bar. I hope these content locusts aren't too hungry because they'll have to make do for 2017.

MeLKoR posted:

WTF, I must have missed the link to the official CIG statement. I'm reading the article mentioning it but it doesn't link it.

Help.

quote:

There is one other big announcement we would like to make with the release of 2.6. We are now basing Star Citizen and our custom technology development on Amazon’s Lumberyard Engine. Since the beginning of the project, we’ve had to make a huge number of changes to the CryENGINE code and tech to enable us to deliver Star Citizen. While the original CryENGINE had great strengths in many areas like rendering and cinematics the needs of our game were well beyond what came ‘out of the box’. So we have, over time, changed significant parts of the engine for our technology, such that only a baseline of the original engine truly remains. In the future we will continue to make significant changes to AI, Animation and Network code and systems.

When Amazon announced Lumberyard back in February 2016, we were immediately interested. While based on the same baseline technology as Star Citizen, Lumberyard is specifically designed for online games, utilizing the power of Amazon’s AWS Cloud Services and their Twitch streaming platform. Amazon’s focus aligns perfectly to ours as we’ve been making significant engineering investments into next generation online networking and cloud based servers. Making the transition to Lumberyard and AWS has been very easy and has not delayed any of our work, as broadly, the technology switch was a ‘like-for-like’ change, which is now complete.

As an added benefit Amazon AWS data centers are spread around the world from North America to South America, Europe to China to Asia Pacific, which will allow us to better support the many backers across the globe as we scale up Star Citizen.

Finally, Amazon has made Lumberyard freely available for anyone building their own game. That means that technically-inclined members of the community can have a better view 'under the hood' of our game than ever before. It's also a great path for anyone interested in game development professionally; I fully anticipate that in the coming year we will be hiring programmers who have taught themselves using Amazon's Lumberyard resources!

As we move forwards, we are confident you will see great benefits from our partnership. Amazon will bring new features to Lumberyard to assist in creating online persistent games, adding great support for their products like Twitch (which we use extensively) and of course investing heavily in engine research and development for years to come. We could not find a more stable and reliable engine partner than Amazon, so with this partnership we are sure we have secured the future development and continuing technical innovation for Star Citizen.

With that I would like encourage everyone to download and play Alpha 2.6. It is a lot of fun and I look forward to seeing you in the ‘verse!

Happy Holidays!

-- Chris Roberts

Rad Russian posted:

Amazon's engine, while an active fork of CryEngine, definitely does not have networking support for 1000 player instances and definitely doesn't have procedural generated stuff after only a few months of being an active fork. So RIP two main features of this scam.

CIG porting that in already is complete BS, as that would fork the engine again and defeat the purpose of being on Amazon's platform. I'm sure ALL of Amazon's backend cloud tech requires you to be on the latest version of their official engine and not some custom crap you come up with. So basically they need to wait for Amazon devs to add any new features before they can be introduced into Star Citizen. ETA 2020 for poo poo promised, maybe?

ripptide posted:

Wasn't it at Gamescon (or ShitizenCon) that they were still touting their great StarEngine? So basically, they're admitting they lied about what they were developing, or they're lying about the transition already being done. Either way, normal CIG.

Mr.PayDay posted:

Woah, a Goon with RUSSIAN in his nickname wants to tell us that Chris Roberts is not telling the truth?! How DARE you?

MeLKoR posted:

OH. MY. loving. GOD!

IT'S TRUE!


Holy poo poo, I truly never believed they would do something like this. They just loving dumped the magical game engine that only the mind of Chris Roberts could design, millions of dollars, untold man-hours. Down the loving drain! Subsumption? Items 2.0?

3.0 is never coming out with the features it's supposed to include. And these chumps will eat it all and praise the genius of the Croberts. It was all part of the plan, the Lord works in mysterious ways.

ComfyPants posted:

These people are loving delusional

Ash1138 posted:

i have the feeling that one of the two parties in this "partnership" is going to get boned

either amazon finds out that cig is a bunch of amateurs run by an idiot man and they're gonna spend a ton of time and money holding cig's hand

or

cig will find out that there's a huge catch to this deal, like amazon's cloud services cost way more than they can afford, lumberyard can't be twisted to do what they want to do, and/or amazon has some sort of ownership of the things created with lumberjack that severely restricts cig's freedom to sell their game

or maybe all of the above and we're all gonna need more popcorn for 2017

AP posted: