Star Citizen: Death of a Space Thread?

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hanales: Nov 3, 2013

Beet Wagon posted:

It's a wonderful fact of the internet that the guy who yells "I'm not mad" the most is in fact the most mad. If nothing else, KC can rest easy in the knowledge that for a brief moment the night sky was lit like daylight by the brilliant flare of his meltdown.

What if you're legitimately not mad though.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:28

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 05:09

IncredibleIgloo: Feb 17, 2011

Colostomy Bag posted:

This game makes the release of WWII Online look benign.

WWII online was my personal SC. I have never been so ridiculously excited for a game and then so immediately disappointed. I was a forum commando and made my first website in preparation for the game. Turns out waiting 15 minutes for someone to spawn a truck, driving twenty minutes to get to the action, then hit a speed bump and float away and eventually die is pretty frustrating. The game was such hot garbage.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:29

SelenicMartian: Sep 14, 2013; Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

boviscopophobic posted:

So you go to all the effort and expense of mocapping something as mundane as a guy mopping the floor, so that even the smallest details will be realized with the highest fidelity... and then you don't give him a mop head to work with? There's no way that motion will come out correctly.

Then in transition to in-engine models they made the bucket more spacey and changed the mopper's race.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:44

Hav: Dec 11, 2009; Fun Shoe

Ayn Marx posted:

I was hoping that one day I could be the most worthless poster in this sub-forum
I gave it my best but there is so much competition

We're refining only the highest quality of shitposting here, but a good high bar can only make things better.

Speaking of quality;

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/24/525443040/-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-author-robert-m-pirsig-dies-at-88

Incredible book, Zen.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:47

stinch: Nov 21, 2013

EightAce posted:

Purely hypothetical of course and totally NOT true in any way .
But imagine if Gary Parpman was promised a royalty based on his performance , imagine that he took a slight pay cut for this . Imagine he signed a specific deal for the use of his likeness.
Now imagine that somehow CIG were deemed to have used his image inappropriately. Say like releasing pre-production mocap set ups and unauthored textures of his face etc . Now let�s pretend that CIG have slipped ever so slightly behind with sq42 and those royalties seem less and less likely, even so far as Mr Parpmans original contract clearly specified a date that has now sailed past . Let�s say that Mr Parpman has called his agent ....

Now lets check if Mr Parpmans agent is the same one he had when filming Sq42

Like I said, just a hypotheseis from a low level wig technician that once walked past the LA office

# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:47

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

EightAce posted:

Purely hypothetical of course and totally NOT true in any way .
But imagine if Gary Parpman was promised a royalty based on his performance , imagine that he took a slight pay cut for this . Imagine he signed a specific deal for the use of his likeness.
Now imagine that somehow CIG were deemed to have used his image inappropriately. Say like releasing pre-production mocap set ups and unauthored textures of his face etc . Now let�s pretend that CIG have slipped ever so slightly behind with sq42 and those royalties seem less and less likely, even so far as Mr Parpmans original contract clearly specified a date that has now sailed past . Let�s say that Mr Parpman has called his agent ....

Now lets check if Mr Parpmans agent is the same one he had when filming Sq42

Like I said, just a hypotheseis from a low level wig technician that once walked past the LA office

Would explain a good amount, though not the dearth of footage of in-game Gillian Anderson or anyone really outside of brief glimpses of Hamill, a blurry Mitra, hoarse underwater Oldman, and t-posed Rhys-Davies. Obviously there's general incompetence as an explanation but that implies someone inside CIG is competent enough to recognize that their cinematics look like poo poo.

The fact that champion paralegal MoMA and veteran lawyer Man in Black were probably the ones who wrote up the ironclad contracts casts some doubt on your hypothetical scenario.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:47

Colostomy Bag: Jan 11, 2016; C-Bangin' it

IncredibleIgloo posted:

WWII online was my personal SC. I have never been so ridiculously excited for a game and then so immediately disappointed. I was a forum commando and made my first website in preparation for the game. Turns out waiting 15 minutes for someone to spawn a truck, driving twenty minutes to get to the action, then hit a speed bump and float away and eventually die is pretty frustrating. The game was such hot garbage.

Ha, yep. Remember the forums...where everyone was excited they could parachute out of an airplane. Folks were coming up with the first scenarios to destroy Paris and the Eiffel Tower.

WWII Online is the parallel of how this is going to play out.

Had it all...

1) Huge patch sizes (this is the one that doomed the thing back in the 56K modem days)
2) Could do anything
3) Military rankings based on performance
4) Multicrew
5) etc. etc.

Will give them this though...you could literally run on foot for a few hours and steal a base behind enemy lines.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:50

AP: Jul 12, 2004; One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them; Grimey Drawer

Chin posted:

Would explain a good amount, though not the dearth of footage of in-game Gillian Anderson or anyone really outside of brief glimpses of Hamill, a blurry Mitra, hoarse underwater Oldman, and t-posed Rhys-Davies. Obviously there's general incompetence as an explanation but that implies someone inside CIG is competent enough to recognize that their cinematics look like poo poo.

The fact that champion paralegal MoMA and veteran lawyer Man in Black were probably the ones who wrote up the ironclad contracts casts some doubt on your hypothetical scenario.

I fully suspect in the end we'll find out that the 63 days of shooting in the most expensive motion capture studio in the world, using very expensive talent was binned as unusable due mostly to the idiot they had in charge.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:58

his nibs: Feb 27, 2016; Welcome to the
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How respond Dr Smart?

his nibs fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Apr 25, 2017

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:02

SelenicMartian: Sep 14, 2013; Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Colostomy Bag posted:

Ha, yep. Remember the forums...where everyone was excited they could parachute out of an airplane. Folks were coming up with the first scenarios to destroy Paris and the Eiffel Tower.

WWII Online is the parallel of how this is going to play out.

Had it all...

1) Huge patch sizes (this is the one that doomed the thing back in the 56K modem days)
2) Could do anything
3) Military rankings based on performance
4) Multicrew
5) etc. etc.

Will give them this though...you could literally run on foot for a few hours and steal a base behind enemy lines.

Can you still do it? I think tried years ago and watched a flak crew drag their gun in and out of a blown building to hide from tanks and whack planes.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:04

Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

his nibs posted:

How respond Dr Smart?

You really can't write something like that without the benefit of an explicit mental image

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:17

Hav: Dec 11, 2009; Fun Shoe

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

You really can't write something like that without the benefit of an explicit mental image

A real warlord would have someone to rub his nips.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:19

Lladre: Jun 28, 2011; Soiled Meat

Hav posted:

We're refining only the highest quality of shitposting here, but a good high bar can only make things better.

Speaking of quality;

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/24/525443040/-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-author-robert-m-pirsig-dies-at-88

Incredible book, Zen.

That book destroyed my bike as my older brother took it upon himself to dismantle my Yamaha 750 Special and leave the parts strewn about in the Florida sun while i was away on a trip.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:26

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

This might be the dumbest post I've seen in a while lol :iiaca:

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# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:27

Skip My Posts: Aug 15, 2005; by FactsAreUseless

A bored QCS troll? Are you that loving retarded? Actually yes, you are that retarded. nvm

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:31

Colostomy Bag: Jan 11, 2016; C-Bangin' it

SelenicMartian posted:

Can you still do it? I think tried years ago and watched a flak crew drag their gun in and out of a blown building to hide from tanks and whack planes.

I don't know. Amazing how 15 years ago they figured out how to hitch up guns to tow around and have around 8 players loaded up in the back of a truck. They were good times, a lot of people made the best of it. Actually was somewhat cool when I think about it. But like I said, there were a lot of dreams and when the final product was produced this is how SC will come out.

Sorry to derail the thread.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:33

Enchanted Hat: Aug 18, 2013; Defeated in Diplomacy under suspicious circumstances

Beet Wagon posted:

This might be the dumbest post I've seen in a while lol

The analogy kind of works, assuming that by "take the prototype on the testing ground" he means that you get to run around with a single detached side view mirror, because that's all they've designed.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:39

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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

You really can't write something like that without the benefit of an explicit mental image

More concerning is that there's a specific time period suggested for the rubbening

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:41

peter gabriel: Nov 8, 2011; Hello Commandos

Beet Wagon posted:

This might be the dumbest post I've seen in a while lol

I too would like to join the program where you volunteer to be in multiple car crashes :psyduck:

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:48

HycoCam: Jul 14, 2016; You should have backed Transverse!

IncredibleIgloo posted:

WWII online was my personal SC. I have never been so ridiculously excited for a game and then so immediately disappointed. I was a forum commando and made my first website in preparation for the game. Turns out waiting 15 minutes for someone to spawn a truck, driving twenty minutes to get to the action, then hit a speed bump and float away and eventually die is pretty frustrating. The game was such hot garbage.

WWIIOL is still kicking. 15 years is a long time for hot garbage to exist. Refunded everything I could for Star Citizen. Yet still have two WWIIOL accounts and supported their last round of crowdfunding even though I haven't played the game since 2012ish. Don't know of a better combined arms game. There are lots of games with better graphics, but none have done the infantry, armor, artillery, planes, and ships better than WWIIOL.

SelenicMartian posted:

Can you still do it? I think tried years ago and watched a flak crew drag their gun in and out of a blown building to hide from tanks and whack planes.

Got much harder to solo cap a town. Over the years the Rats figured out how to focus players into hot spots. Made taking towns much more of a team effort and stopped players from dramatically altering the map during low population hours.

The combined arms was one of the reasons I used to have so many WWIIOL accounts. Would spawn a half track, an 88, and an infantry unit and hide in the hills overlooking Namur flaming tanks. Some of my best gaming moments where had in WWIIOL.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:46

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

Once again, Citizens are obsessed with Derek Smart's penis/penile activities.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:46

Colostomy Bag: Jan 11, 2016; C-Bangin' it

HycoCam posted:

WWIIOL is still kicking. 15 years is a long time for hot garbage to exist. Refunded everything I could for Star Citizen. Yet still have two WWIIOL accounts and supported their last round of crowdfunding even though I haven't played the game since 2012ish. Don't know of a better combined arms game. There are lots of games with better graphics, but none have done the infantry, armor, artillery, planes, and ships better than WWIIOL.

I think the best part is a few months ago they wanted to raise around $6K or so to afford new servers. Meanwhile SC blows that on a loving desk.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:50

milk milk lemonade: Jul 29, 2016

Kiowa guy posts a lot like Brendan just saying

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:50

Sir Simon Milligan: Mar 27, 2003; Yes, I have walked along the path of evil many times, it's a twisting curving path, that actually leads to a charming block garden, but beyond that evil!

Colostomy Bag posted:

I think the best part is a few months ago they wanted to raise around $6K or so to afford new servers. Meanwhile SC blows that on a loving desk.

I read that as does 6k of blow off a desk, either works probably.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:52

Thoatse: Feb 29, 2016; Lol said the scorpion, lmao

boviscopophobic posted:

So you go to all the effort and expense of mocapping something as mundane as a guy mopping the floor, so that even the smallest details will be realized with the highest fidelity... and then you don't give him a mop head to work with? There's no way that motion will come out correctly.

Heh this is exactly what I was thinking... the movement looks unnatural as gently caress because he's just waving a stick around with no drag and almost no mass that would make him use the muscles required and therefore output believable motion for the given task. In other words, perfect for star Citizen!

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:56

Viscous Soda: Apr 24, 2004

EightAce posted:

Purely hypothetical of course and totally NOT true in any way .
But imagine if Gary Parpman was promised a royalty based on his performance , imagine that he took a slight pay cut for this . Imagine he signed a specific deal for the use of his likeness.
Now imagine that somehow CIG were deemed to have used his image inappropriately. Say like releasing pre-production mocap set ups and unauthored textures of his face etc . Now let�s pretend that CIG have slipped ever so slightly behind with sq42 and those royalties seem less and less likely, even so far as Mr Parpmans original contract clearly specified a date that has now sailed past . Let�s say that Mr Parpman has called his agent ....

Now lets check if Mr Parpmans agent is the same one he had when filming Sq42

Like I said, just a hypotheseis from a low level wig technician that once walked past the LA office

That's almost exactly what happened with Ascendant Pictures and Kevin Costner isn't it?

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:02

Colostomy Bag: Jan 11, 2016; C-Bangin' it

p. nice Wolf Parade ref posted:

I read that as does 6k of blow off a desk, either works probably.

When it comes to Star Citizen, Suck and Blow are interchangeable.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:02

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

Suck My oval office Part Deux: The Chiefening

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:04

Enchanted Hat: Aug 18, 2013; Defeated in Diplomacy under suspicious circumstances

Thoatse posted:

Heh this is exactly what I was thinking... the movement looks unnatural as gently caress because he's just waving a stick around with no drag and almost no mass that would make him use the muscles required and therefore output believable motion for the given task. In other words, perfect for star Citizen!

You don't get it, goon. This isn't Chris doing the mocap for the "commando mopping a floor" scene, it's the mocap for the "doing the mocap for the commando mopping a floor scene" scene. In SQ42 you play as Chris Roberts trying to finish Star Citizen while fending off the dinks, leavers and snowflakes.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:03

his nibs: Feb 27, 2016; Welcome to the
Dream Factory; Grimey Drawer

p. nice Wolf Parade ref posted:

I read that as does 6k of blow off a desk, either works probably.

I actually read yours as a 6k blow off a desk

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:03

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Dream Factory; Grimey Drawer

must be all this winky talk

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:05

Viscous Soda: Apr 24, 2004

Thoatse posted:

Heh this is exactly what I was thinking... the movement looks unnatural as gently caress because he's just waving a stick around with no drag and almost no mass that would make him use the muscles required and therefore output believable motion for the given task. In other words, perfect for star Citizen!

Not to mention that he's not keeping the "mop" handle a consistent height off the floor, so when you add a mop head it's going to be bouncing all over the place and clipping through the floor. Of course this is Star Citizen, so that's kinda a given no matter what.

Edit: Too lazy for cat tax today.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:09

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Viscous Soda posted:

Edit: Too lazy for cat tax today.

welcome

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:16

Propagandist: Oct 23, 2007

Viscous Soda posted:

Edit: Too lazy for cat tax today.

we got you fam

e: awwww

Propagandist fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Apr 25, 2017

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:18

Propagandist: Oct 23, 2007

Also Mother's Day is coming up pretty quick. Just a heads up.

And pette dags, call 'rents, post buns etc

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:22

Bubbacub: Apr 17, 2001

Maybe I've spent too much time reading this thread, but I can't read an article about video games without imagining the writers making GBS threads on Star Citizen.

quote:

A longstanding dream: Video games will evolve into interactive stories, like the ones that play out fictionally on the Star Trek Holodeck. In this hypothetical future, players could interact with computerized characters as round as those in novels or films, making choices that would influence an ever-evolving plot. It would be like living in a novel, where the player�s actions would have as much of an influence on the story as they might in the real world.

...

The problem becomes increasingly intractable over time. Incremental improvements in visual fidelity make 3-D worlds seem more and more real. But those worlds feel even more incongruous when the people that inhabit them behave like animatronics and the environments work like Potemkin villages.

...

...cinema envy. The game industry has long dreamed of overtaking Hollywood to become the �medium of the 21st century,� a concept now so retrograde that it could only satisfy an occupant of the 20th.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/video-games-stories/524148/

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:23

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

his nibs posted:

welcome

BUNNYTAKER LANDS A VICIOUS SUPLEX AND CEREALBOX IS NOT WALKING AWAY FROM THAT. OH MY GOD HE'S BROKEN IN HALF.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:25

Propagandist: Oct 23, 2007

http://i.imgur.com/QFaeljD.mp4

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:28

ArfJason: Sep 5, 2011

Bubbacub posted:

Maybe I've spent too much time reading this thread, but I can't read an article about video games without imagining the writers making GBS threads on Star Citizen.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/video-games-stories/524148/

oh yeah me too for sure i see completely unrelated things and associate the space videogame to them due to a completely insane obsession like a schizo

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 05:09

ArfJason: Sep 5, 2011

Why are you all so completely insane that you cant stop seeing star citizen in your daily lives like the movie 23 but infinitely sadder and embarrassing

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:36

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