Star Citizen: Death of a Space Thread?

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Kakarot: Jul 20, 2013; by zen death robot; Buglord

Breetai posted:

Hi I.N.R.I., it is already Christmas Eve here in Australia, and I am over at my mum's place helping her make the pavlova for the family get together today.

As you can see, it's coming along quite nicely, and if you're careful you can just catch her reflection next to me. I hope that you take some time off from screaming at a thread on a comedy forum devoted to laughing at stupid poo poo on the Internet, because they are laughing at stupid poo poo on the Internet in a manner that you do not approve of, and give your mum and dad a big hug for me.

nice job, everyone should doxx their parents on Christmas

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:21

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Decrepus: May 21, 2008; In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.

Kakarot posted:

nice job, everyone should doxx their parents on Christmas

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:23

Raskolnikov: Nov 25, 2003

Kakarot posted:

nice job, everyone should doxx their parents on Christmas

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# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:27

peter gabriel: Nov 8, 2011; Hello Commandos

i'm dying

the nectode of lumberyard was developed for beat-em-up killer instinct.

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:31

peter gabriel: Nov 8, 2011; Hello Commandos

Amazon Lumberyard is available today in beta for developers building PC, console, and mobile games. VR platforms coming soon.

it is still in beta :negative:

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:33

Kakarot: Jul 20, 2013; by zen death robot; Buglord

Propagandist posted:

nice way to spend Christmas

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:33

Xaerael: Aug 25, 2010; Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

Was thinking of the poor sods still working at CIG while crobbler and Sandi are probably jetting off to a sunny retreat for a fortnight.

Here's a song to cheer up you poor sods that are still stuck trying to resolve all the delirium that the unexpected engine change has generated...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8051Hipbmmw

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:36

Maw: Feb 18, 2013; Mere minutes after discovering the new technology, it was used to send me a crude ASCII dong.

You guys are all looking at this wrong. This means SC has now been in development for not even a year. The future is bright!

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:37

Mirificus: Oct 29, 2004; Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/812660012610973697
https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/812727679552290817

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:40

tooterfish: Jul 13, 2013

Propagandist posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ55YIpSEig&t=68s

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:40

Rudager: Apr 29, 2008

Reading citizens complain about how bad the Net code is and hopefully the new net code will fix everything made me realise that "new net code" has probably been code for the lumberyard and AWS move all this time.

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:40

Chin: Dec 12, 2005; GET LOST 2013
-RALPH

peter gabriel posted:

it is still in beta

beta cuck game engine. Star Citizen is alpha male.

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:41

Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

Sooo what will we call CIG's hack job?

Lumberjank? Staryard?

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:42

Xaerael: Aug 25, 2010; Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Sooo what will we call CIG's hack job?

Lumberjank? Staryard?

Junkyard

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:44

Mirificus: Oct 29, 2004; Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:48

Phi230: Feb 2, 2016; by Fluffdaddy

Mirificus posted:

The insight into the mind of a perfectly sane and healthy person

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:53

Gravity_Storm: Mar 1, 2016

Mirificus posted:

Do you think this guy ever remembers he is talking about a computer game..?

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:54

Mirificus: Oct 29, 2004; Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

Mirificus posted:

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:54

Young Freud: Nov 26, 2006

Those WTFSaurus streams where he's reacting to the engine change are golden. I'm actually hoping that he gives up playing Star Citizen during one of his streams and starts playing another game.

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:55

skaboomizzy: Nov 12, 2003; There is nothing I want to be. There is nothing I want to do.
I don't even have an image of what I want to be. I have nothing. All that exists is zero.

That is what the killer from Se7en was writing in all those notebooks

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:55

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."

dude sounds like a goon

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:56

TheLastRoboKy: May 2, 2009; Finishing the game with everyone else's continues

Well I had a good sleep and Merry Christmas to everyone from Australia but holy poo poo, it's real and it's insane. Lumberyard.

Truly, this thread gave me the greatest present of all. Complete bewilderment.

# ? Dec 24, 2016 22:56

Mirificus: Oct 29, 2004; Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

Mirificus posted:

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:00

ripptide: Jul 28, 2016

peter gabriel posted:

Amazon Lumberyard is available today in beta for developers building PC, console, and mobile games. VR platforms coming soon.

it is still in beta

But aside from the year they just spent on the changeover, the changeover took no time at all!

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:10

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

peter gabriel posted:

Amazon Lumberyard is available today in beta for developers building PC, console, and mobile games. VR platforms coming soon.

it is still in beta

This is good for Star Citizen because it means that not only does Lumberyard offer the flexibility to include custom SC required functions in the future, but it will remain permanently one step ahead of SC itself (alpha<beta)

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:10

Kosumo: Apr 9, 2016

Merry Tanemass and a Happy New Tane.

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:13

Propagandist: Oct 23, 2007

Xaerael posted:

Junkyard

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:14

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK: Sep 11, 2001

peter gabriel posted:

i'm dying

the nectode of lumberyard was developed for beat-em-up killer instinct.

KI had really bad netcode at launch where desyncs were quite common(and it may still be terrible).

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:14

Daztek: Jun 2, 2006

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

KI had really bad netcode at launch where desyncs were quite common(and it may still be terrible).

Sounds like an improvement for Star Citizen

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:18

Dooguk: Oct 11, 2016; Pillbug

Star Citizen: Not eligible for Amazon Prime

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:23

tooterfish: Jul 13, 2013

Daztek posted:

Sounds like an improvement for Star Citizen

Two* concurrent** players!

*sometimes one
**sometimes not concurrent

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:25

The Titanic: Sep 15, 2016; Unsinkable

AP posted:

I think nothing works, SQ42 is hosed, everyone experienced at CIG either left or is just waiting the end out. I think Chris Roberts will expect Amazon to help them unfuck everything to try to get something out in 2018 (so given his time estimates it will really be more like 2020).

Take a look at the The Lumberyard FAQ

Check out https://gamedev.amazon.com/forums/tutorials

This is my assumption too. Chris managed himself into a predicament we called months ago where the engine was barely hanging on and nothing could be added any longer without dire consequences.

I'm pretty sure Chris probably has some level guys and scripting people, but all of his hardcore engine grade programmers dumped ship a long time ago. CIG is basically up a creek without a paddle.

I'm willing to bet Chris is going to try to get involved with the direction that this Lumberyard product goes, trying to usurp Amazon talent because he got none. I'm not sure how long that will last or how long it will go for, but it's better than having nothing.

Given this new turn of events, I'm willing to get the spotlight will move away from space ships and onto interpersonal mechanics and FPS gameplay. Also some ground vehicle stuff too. This will be because they're once more at ground zero of CryEngine, where the FPS game isn't destroyed by their crap coding, and basic vehicle interaction is still available.

So expect 2017 to feature a big push into the FPS and social arenas. Stock CryEngine is back, baby!

Also I hope everybody is having a good Christmas/Christmas Eve.

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:26

orcinus: Feb 25, 2016; Fun Shoe

Serak posted:

I'm sorry, but 'Actually, This is a good thing�' is already the trademarked slogan for Bitcoin.

However, as they both share a similar development history, community and level of success, I'm sure a licensing deal could be struck - I heard CIG is big on those these days

No need.
They can just archer it.

See, it's modified, so this is fair use, it's fine.

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:30

The Titanic: Sep 15, 2016; Unsinkable

Beet Wagon posted:

I'm pretty sure you can just copy/paste all your super deep modifications of CryEngine 3.7 over though, right? It probably only set them back a day or two and is in no way related to the immense lack of progress they've shown all year.

I bet one of their programmers did it over the weekend while also sipping tea and looking over an old garage door opener.

Engine switch is literally just take all the source code and paste them together and hit compile. Easiest thing in the world really. Same with layering the code behind the ideas.

Everybody knows the hard part is coming up with all these ideas. Good thing they have Chris Roberts for those! His latest great idea of "dump everything, revert to a free engine based on CryEngine!" was literally phenomenal. I hope he gives himself a huuuuge Christmas bonus for that one!!! :allears:

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:33

orcinus: Feb 25, 2016; Fun Shoe

HycoCam posted:

You clearly don't understand the brilliance of Chris Roberts. This is only the first engine swap. Before Crobbers is done, he'll want to switch engines at least twice more before announcing CIG will develop their own proprietary engine. Most games you see only need one engine, some have used two--but Star Citizen is so revolutionary, it will need five.

The ultimate plan is to have 20 engines and have them switch at a rate of 20 Hz, so each frame of one second of gameplay is rendered by a different engine, therefore increasing the overall efficiency because there is no downtime.

The inspiration for this came from CIG's revolutionary use of multiple studios across multiple timezones to increase productivity.

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:33

The Titanic: Sep 15, 2016; Unsinkable

Combat Pretzel posted:

So anyway, is Amazon going to continue proactive development on Lumberyard to stay on edge with any new stuff NVidia, AMD and whoever else researches rendering tech? Or is this going to wither in maintenance mode?

Not a chance, I'd guess. Lumberyard isn't going to take off any more than CryEngine did for the past few years. When stuff like Unreal Engine is out and Unity is making huge strides, building a half-assed engine based on a failed engine company isn't something they're going to throw huge resources at.

This is probably a pet project for Amazon to test the waters and see if it takes off or not. AWS integration is gonna be a big draw, but I can't see Amazon ever developing Lumberyard out to actually compete with the dedicated engine companies.

This may end up with Amazon building out a multiplayer AWS plugin that works with Unity or Unreal though. That would probably net them more money than trying to keep up with the Jones's.

But who knows! Now that Chris Roberts is involved, really the sky is the limit for how far the crazy train will go.

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:39

Madcosby: Mar 4, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

orcinus posted:

LMFAO, i got accused of deleting my comments in /r/sc before posting in /r/cults.

Never mind the fact the only two times i ever posted in /r/sc was about 3 posts exchanged with Cymelion and 1 post when they announced they're ditching VR support like 2 years ago.
Never mind the fact i wouldn't post there if you'd pay me.

Sure, i posted there and then deleted all my comments to appear like i'm... what exactly...?

Lol

Ok sure

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:48

AlmightyPants: Mar 14, 2001; King of Scheduling; Pillbug

Star Citizen: My Hairy Roberts Brings All The Shitizens To The Lumberyard

# ? Dec 24, 2016 23:59

Gradis: Feb 27, 2016; GAPE APE

Mirificus posted:

Before

After

thats loving gold

# ? Dec 25, 2016 00:05

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Solarin: Nov 15, 2007

Some poo poo from old thread that is still hilarious

Dark Off posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvule1cD_zk#t=1687s

"we are talking about some stuff we are doing with the network where we are going to have this sort of mesh of servers so we will be able to have hopefully you know a large amount of players all in same area so we dont have to instance it in the way we were originally going to we were thinking we were going to have to instance it. we have a kind of different server(or service) design now that could potentially have thousands of players all in same sort of area at the same time which would be really cool, because thats something again its not something you could get from year ago or 10 years ago but with you know sort of newer tech the power in the machines kind of sort of stuff you can do in the cloud possibility is sort of opened up and you want to utilize it"

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3748466&pagenumber=5016&perpage=40#post462976045

Something Jones posted:

"we are talking about some STUFF we are doing with the network, where we are going to have this SORT OF MESH OF SERVERS... so we will be able to have hopefully, you know, a large amount of players all in same area...

So we don't have to instance it in the way we were originally going to... we were thinking we were going to have to instance it.

We have a kind of different SERVER DESIGN now that could potentially have thousands of players all in same sort of area at the same time which would be really COOL, because that's something... again its not something you could get from a year ago or 10 years ago... but with, you know, sort of NEWER TECH the POWER IN THE MACHINES kind of sort of stuff you can do in the CLOUD POSSIBILITY is sort of opened up and you want to utilize it"

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3748466&pagenumber=5028&perpage=40#post463012985

Something Jones posted:

From 10 for the Chairman: Episode 77
Feb 29, 2016 @ 02:29
"we're doing things like we're... we're... you know, pushing more and more into MULTIPLE CORES, more... MULTI-THREADING to, you know, be able to do more... you know... PHYSICS PROCESSING at the same time as we're doing more sort of entity updating and simulation. So ehm you know, part of the benef... part of the result of that is moving to more players in, eh, CRUSADER, we'll continue and we're expecting to continue to sort of push that over time, eh, to get more and more and uh, you know we're actually working on... some ah, BACK END SERVER MESH TECH uhm, that will allow us to ah, sort of MESH A LOT MORE... players all in essentially what will be kind of sort of the same, ah, INSTANCE"

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3748466&userid=217426&perpage=40&pagenumber=33#post463016103

# ? Dec 25, 2016 00:06

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