Michaellaneous posted:

taxxe:



SC is stupid. Hellion is cool. EFT is fun.

DapperDon posted:

I am really looking forward to Hellion as soon as I see some more progress.

Sappo569 posted:

Ditto

I bought it during the initial craze when it went into beta , and I'm going to sit on it until there is enough content / bugs are resolved to make it fun for more than 15 minutes at a time

I'm happy to do that , spend $30-60 to help a game develop early on and have a free ticket to the show once it's officially released

I am not however prepared to add a few zeros to the end of that amount like some of the idiots backing SC have done

Drunk Theory posted:

Ben did not get fired. Instead he was removed from being an outward facing employee. Now instead he works the important job of apparently digitizing something..."I have no idea what, more Wing Commander poo poo". Very much a "knows where the bodies are buried" situation.

As for bullet points.

• Star Marine is out, it's a terribly buggy arena shooter, but finally they managed to release an FPS in Cryengine
  
• More ship sales, more demos claiming to be real gameplay.
  
• Patches continue to get less and less substantial.
  
• Communication has gone down the space toilet. Unless you count Sandi posting on twitter about Mocap or art assets to be open development
  
  
• In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis. The Fourth Stimpire has origins from the Ten Empire War in which 10 of the United Stimpires revolted against each rules. All empires except for the fourth swore freedom upon their citizens. There is no free speech in the Fourth Stimpire, and all self-controlled transportation has been made illegal without undergoing painful medical verification methods, in which arteries are severed without pain resistant, operated entirely by machines. The way they work claim to be the most hygenic and healthy way possible, but these machines often rub against pain points, causing great deals of pain to patients. The heart is then extracted from the body and placed into a glass grinding machine. Various energy centers are also dissected and replaced with dangerous transplants. After the painful, 52 hour surgical procedure, patients will then have to use a fused guidance tool, which pumps painful resistors into the body every 2 hours. The pain they have caused is so bad, the victim would freeze in a tense position. They would then collapse afterwards.
  
  Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will.
  
  Otherwise, offenders would be tazed with the worst type of electricity in the systematic district, causing so much pain, the victim would scream and flail in madness. The pain would also triple every second, but no death would be incurred. This is also used in combat against enemy units, which is why all UEE forces must wear the upgraded suit to block this effect.
  
  However, enertainment is also questionable in UEE grounds. Sporting events end with the losing team being rounded into a grinder and shredded on live television, boxing matches end with the loser having their hands removed without anasthesia, flight races would end with the losers having their arms and legs removed, then being injected with insanity, for entertainment. People are also forced into these events, by undergoing a painful 127 hour procedure which involves tweaking the muscles so they will not listen to brain commands, and then having a painful drug injected which also causes madness if the player is not sporting. This is all for entertainment, and anyone not watching any of it during sporting times and cheering for the winning team, they will be imprisoned into galactic camps.
  
  Snuff films are also broadcast, and actors are actually murdered just for entertainment. Stealth droids also guide these forced actors into behaving exactly as the director dreams, otherwise they will be punished by being placed into a macerator and having their execution written into the film. Any film that does not feature someone being murdered will be burned and the entire crew behind it will be executed in the most grotesque way possible - vivisection.
  
  All executions are broadcast, and anyone who misses even a millisecond, even by blinking, will be executed. All citizens must boo to the person being executed, and the family is gathered to be injected with eternators, which cause pain forever, making them immoral but feeling the pain tenfold every millisecond. They cannot pass out, but they will feel like it forever.
  
  Conquests by this Stimpire end in the planet being razed, and all the citizens being executed in the same way as their citizens are. The planet is then destroyed and all remnants of it are removed, and any memories of it will be erased instantly from civil minds. People who are also killed are also erased from memories, and all memories of them, including toys and pictures, are destroyed.
  
  Prisoners undergo 40,000 years of relentless and endless labor, and anyone not complying is sentenced to the eternator injection. All prisoners injected with eternators are placed into capsules and launched into far space, then the room is closed tight to ensure maximum insanity. Some prisoners are also subjected to the removal of blood, the lungs, the liver, the genitals, the skeleton, the muscles, the eyes, and even the injection of pressure. Prisoners sentenced to pressure chambers are locked in until they are inflated to a high level. The decompression is then stopped to make sure they are inflated and uncomfortable.
  
  Children born on the 14th of July are subjected to the removal of their skeleton and an implant of a silver liquid to replace it. The nervous sysem is also injected in various parts to ensure it is five times more sensitive than the average.
  
  Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal. They are cooked alive, undergoing extreme pain, and are then subjected to industrial grinders and blenders. The Stimpire orders at least 1 million citizens to be dispatched every day, as they are afraid the population may overthrow them. But only one planet is cared for, and the rest are banned from eating, drinking, talking, using technology, touching anyone, wearing unauthorized clothes, touching buildings, or walking a centimeter out of designated routes. Civil enforcers are on every planet, and they are engineered so that they are 40 times larger than the 300 quadrillion population. At least 7 billion die every 12 hours under this rule.
  
  Thoughts are also surveyed, and anyone who does not think anything to loving the Stimpire with more than their capabilities will be sentenced to a prison. Prisoners who are punished for this violation will meet their greatest fear, only to have it amplified so they will turn insane as they imagine it exactly as they fear it. They then undergo a painful extraction of all fluids, to be replaced by a toxin which causes permanent irritation. The unknown substance keeps the subject aging normally, except they will never die. Prisoners punished in this way are unable to be reverted, despite many efforts, and they will never be able to be disposed.
  
  The sickening truths have been revealed only today, and invigilation teams are still investigating the truths without setting foot in the galactic space of this sickening empire.
  

MeLKoR posted:

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

time for the 2nd anniversary memorial Benjamin J. Lesnikc challenge

you gotta pound it to this



then admit to it in the thread

DapperDon posted:

THAT is loving sad right there.

Samizdata posted:

Can I don't, say I did, and do the original Lesnick challenge twice in a row?

boviscopophobic posted:

It's not surprising, though. After checking last week's numbers, Star Marine was down to 17 concurrent players on average (estimated) and Arena Commando was at 31. The racing mode was at 2.6.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

time for the 2nd anniversary memorial Benjamin J. Lesnikc challenge

you gotta pound it to this



then admit to it in the thread

Michaellaneous posted:

I also forgot to mention.

Doom still best game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMg9ryeWOw

DoctorStrangelove posted:

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

DoctorStrangelove posted:

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

starkebn posted:

my guess is that the 'megamap'; used to 'improve load times' is just putting all the levels in one map spread out and just loading people into different locations

so loading everything into memory at once, what's the performance like?

quote:

Some players are also reporting death upon EVA in/out of a ship. If you encounter this please ensure you can repeat the issue 10-20 times before posting an IC! Be sure to include what ship you were testing and please try and conduct your tests near Port Olisar if at all possible!

VIDEO EVIDENCE IS REQUIRED FOR THESE TESTS!

Jason Sextro posted:

everything's on the Amazon cloud, it's magic

happyhippy posted:

Q. Does the Vending Machine actually vend anything?

Michaellaneous posted:

I also forgot to mention.

Doom still best game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMg9ryeWOw

Raskolnikov posted:

tim tams

Sappo569 posted:

I think it's hilarious they posted the road map showing all mocap was done officially and then the past 2 days have been nothing but 'Look at all the mocap we're doing with this new expensive gear!'

AP posted:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/130888264?t=4h25m30s



When you're nearly 4 and half hours into your stream and mention that nobody is playing Star Marine and you've only managed one match.

boviscopophobic posted:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/130888264?t=4h28m21s

WTF debunking backer dreams about megamap and the PU.

AP posted:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/130888264?t=4h25m30s



When you're nearly 4 and half hours into your stream and mention that nobody is playing Star Marine and you've only managed one match.