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I'm pretty sure we hit peak whale in mid to late 2016 and they simply won't be able to cover costs for long enough to make yet another lie to sell to idiots, since they sold all the low hanging lies already to make it to 2017. Each whale like that that goes "What, this is literally impossible and it's dumb to think otherwise" isn't being replaced by some new fresh faced idiot willing to throw down $6,000 on an obvious failed game project five years in. That's why I toxxed for April to October this year for a collapse. If they make it to the anniversary sale again then they'll get kicked into 2018. They seem to be using 2.6.2 as the next carrot and are dragging it out as long as possible so there is less time for people to get upset waiting for 3.0 through infinite sales, but I think people are getting angrier quicker and an unknown number of whales are either halting their ongoing funding or refunding altogether.
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I.N.R.I posted:It would be funny if someone in this thread committed epic murder ftw Almost as funny as if there were a troop of losers who got together on discord to organize making GBS threads up threads they dislike. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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SirPenguin posted:I know they've been frequently lambasted for picking Crysis, but are they seriously still battling the parts of the engine that think they're in water 4-5 years later? The fact that it's seemingly ship specific is even more worrying as it implies there isn't a universal physics system I don't remember the specifics but people noticed air bubbles on the admiral bishop speech, and during the sandworm demo last year the visor was splashed with water when the character rebounded from orbit to the planet and back. People say it was procedural spit from the sandworm but around Mid-2016 they had a dev interview where someone was complaining about being unable to remove the water that comes default under every cryengine map and the regular visor splashing could be reproduced in the game. Some smug backer sizzle reels last summer had inadvertent visor splashing we were mocking. There were plenty of leaks at different times about various things being held back by water. The homestead demo also had weird angle and geometry on it's water sources on that planet. The leaks said the upcoming 3.0 lie to be sold to backers has unspecified issues with water so my assumption is they are having problems programming water inside water, since they can't actually remove the water default on the map and planetary water sources cause conflicts if you try and zone them off from the invisible water covering everything that CIG probably modified to be intangible, which fucks with the lakes and pools they try to add inside that water. Don't worry though, that doesn't make this a Crysis Mod they don't even actually understand. Everything is fine.
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It would be even funnier if they began threatening former mods with permabans that never materialized.
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regrettable as gently caress.
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Space Crabs posted:Don't worry though, that doesn't make this a Crysis Mod they don't even actually understand. Everything is fine.
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Space Crabs posted:I'm pretty sure we hit peak whale in mid to late 2016 and they simply won't be able to cover costs for long enough to make yet another lie to sell to idiots, since they sold all the low hanging lies already to make it to 2017. I dunno. In that 3.0 status thread there was a Grand Admiral (15K) plus that said he was bailing, yet there have been 5 or 6 completionist packs sold in the past couple weeks.
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SirPenguin posted:This is probably old news, but I found this thread on Reddit and it seems absurd I would guess that's just their revolutionary physics grid system, which AFAIK has been jittering randomly since July 2015 http://i.imgur.com/tJat0fN.gifv http://i.imgur.com/yFkZJOS.gifv Or maybe the front of the spaceship is just a static masked image that bobs around with movement, the same as the helmet graphic. They're all valid theories in the most openly developed game ever.
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Mar 13, 2017 02:18
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Sunswipe posted:Didn't CIG hire people from Crytek to work on this? Yeah but any random person that was employed at Crytek isn't necessarily going to understand the core fundamental architecture of the engine or how to remove things like the water table. Not to mention that was years ago and they've had huge turnover since then, apparently throwing people fresh out of videogame college at the problem. So either they got the talent they needed and misused it or never had it in the first place. Either way backers aren't getting what they think they are getting and they would realize that if they ever objectively looked at the hilarious clusterfuck they've been given. Colostomy Bag posted:I dunno. In that 3.0 status thread there was a Grand Admiral (15K) plus that said he was bailing, yet there have been 5 or 6 completionist packs sold in the past couple weeks. It isn't about how much they are making, but about how much they need to make. Since this is the most open game development project of all time with a promise of complete financial accounting to the dollar if the game is later than 2015, we have no idea about any of that. But "Peak Whale" doesn't mean sales will stop, or that completionists won't be bought. Just that the behemoth Chris Roberts has designed requires X amount of funding and Backers only provide Y amount of funding. If you've hit peak whale and the Y income doesn't cover the X costs then you now have a hard time limit to either finish the game or increase the income. They are apparently not decreasing costs at all, which speaks to Chris Robert's management. Steps toward this would be eliminating the superfluous projects like motion capture, that nobody wants, but they continue to pour years and tens of millions into. Cutting the studio number down. Cutting the employee number down. A ton of things they are not doing. So that means they need 3.0 to increase the income, so it's a race to see if they can craft convincing enough lies to cover their costs and get rid of the time limit they have now of "Funds running out" by restoring the old days of complete, naked delusion and greed giving them an infinite paycheck to do whatever they want (more motioncapture.)
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TrustmeImLegit posted:Yesterday I had a nice talk with one of my fellows in my org. We talked about CR's promises, especially regarding subsumption. What you don't realize is Crobbers pulled it off!!! This game exists right now, only problem is the NPCs are having so much fun playing they won't let anyone else play. But you wouldn't want to play anyway, the NPCs would just grief you.
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HycoCam posted:What you don't realize is Crobbers pulled it off!!! This game exists right now, only problem is the NPCs are having so much fun playing they won't let anyone else play. But you wouldn't want to play anyway, the NPCs would just grief you. We play the game everyday on this thread. Its amazing.
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HycoCam posted:What you don't realize is Crobbers pulled it off!!! This game exists right now, only problem is the NPCs are having so much fun playing they won't let anyone else play. But you wouldn't want to play anyway, the NPCs would just grief you. It's like homeopathy (we're all already soaking in an enormously diluted solution of everything). Star Citizen is happening inside some computer somewhere, just without any player characters. Space Janitor is mopping epically while the clothing sellers are selling ugly jackets to each other. Checkmate, goonies!
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Mar 13, 2017 03:21
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All you negative nancies are missing the fact (set in stone!) that CIG can easily monetize the tech that they have already created. That new forum software Lowtax is selling JPGs for? Well, guess what?
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Mar 13, 2017 03:22
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Someone forgot to dye their hair before that video oops lol
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Mar 13, 2017 03:23
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tooterfish posted:It'll be a genocide to match me pouring a boiling kettle into the cracks in my paving stones. I did this with 400 degree oil to an anthill on my sidewalk. When I put my ear to the ground I could hear the sizzling and crackling as it worked its way through the catacombs, it was awesome. In Star Citizen news, game is still underwater, lol Lumberyard? more like Logjam 
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Samizdata posted:Both Chris and I both hope we never run into each other in person. He'll be on his back bleeding and whining, but unable to flail the hands I stomped into meat bags and I, well, I will be in jail. And I am not a violent man.
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ArfJason posted:Normal. Normal.
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Samizdata posted:You know it was Ben's little crowdfunded project, after all. So, I went to the source. When he didn't answer, I was considering asking his wife, who, you know, lives with him and all. I wonder why one of the people that freaked out the most when I made fun of their insane obsessive bullshit has violent death fantasies over the bad vido game. Food for thought.
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yea hey, thanks buddy, in case you missed the 982374 other posts publicly chastising him for being a weirdo plus the probation you can read this one to know you're pissing in the wind
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Hey Arf, I appreciate the "stare too long into the abyss" nature of your obsessively coming to comment on things you feel retroactively justify your ridiculous shitposting spree in this subforum, but unless you've got something worth saying about Star Citizen, get lost. Showing up a day late to point out things the moderators have already taken care of and other posters have already called out is insanely sad and dumb.
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ArfJason posted:I wonder why one of the people that freaked out the most when I made fun of their insane obsessive bullshit has violent death fantasies over the bad vido game. Food for thought. It's just a chill way for a normal guy to act.
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SirPenguin posted:This is probably old news, but I found this thread on Reddit and it seems absurd I forgot about the underwater There should be a dedicated keyboard shortcut for "But I don't intend to get into an internet argument about it."
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Beet Wagon posted:Hey Arf, I appreciate the "stare too long into the abyss" nature of your obsessively coming to comment on things you feel retroactively justify your ridiculous shitposting spree in this subforum, but unless you've got something worth saying about Star Citizen, get lost.
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 You see it's better than Elite because you can stand!
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ArfJason posted:Whatever you say old man *wheelies out on motorcycle lmfao* I'd say nobody actually talks like that but there's like three guys on my facebook proving otherwise :[
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I see FYAD is once again in the thread. Funny how everytime they show up I feel compelled to politely ask them to gently caress right back off. 
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Let the Concern Trolling begin, the thread has been getting kinda boring as of late, good thing we have those autist from FYAD with there witty zanny posting skills come and spice things back up thus making this thread less boring.
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Mar 13, 2017 04:27
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People should consider not taking very obvious bait lmao
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If people were capable of that we wouldn't even have this thread in the first place.
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SirPenguin posted:I know they've been frequently lambasted for picking Crysis, but are they seriously still battling the parts of the engine that think they're in water 4-5 years later? The fact that it's seemingly ship specific is even more worrying as it implies there isn't a universal physics system
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That's what happens when you become ships while sitting in them. Edit: Cat got scared 
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SelenicMartian posted:That's what happens when you become ships while sitting in them. In the Fourth Stimpire one passenger of each transport is selected to be turned into the ship.
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What's the latest on sad seal guy? Is he in jail yet?
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trucutru posted:For me, more than a kiddy diddler (innocent until proven guilty and all that poo poo), he's an incredibly incompetent film director. I mean Crobberts has a better idea on how to direct a scene. directing films is easy. *waves hands while Gary Oldman looks in disgust*
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Beet Wagon posted:People should consider not taking very obvious bait lmao I mean, nothin else to do right now might as well right? whats the worst that could happen??
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HoneyBakedMAN posted:directing films is easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbNh8Z-ILcI watch that and come back to tell me again it's easy.
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Sunswipe posted:Didn't CIG hire people from Crytek to work on this? The story is that CR pinched a bunch of pretty good programmers form Crytec when they had financial problems a few years back. This soured the relationship between RSI and Crytec and is the main reason they switched to lumberyard.
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HoneyBakedMAN posted:What's the latest on sad seal guy? Is he in jail yet? every day is a new jail for that guy
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