thatguy posted:

Will I be able to juggle in the 'verse?

D_Smart posted:

New schedule:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/schedule-report

Diff report (one month):

https://www.diffchecker.com/n6acsRz1

My sources were right about more cuts. Levski is out. wow

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/862688996035637248

DarkRefreshment posted:

Hyperbole aside Derek, how can you say S42 is dead? Do you mean for this year? I would assume they are still trying to push some gimped up S42 at some point or why would they be still doing mocap as our #actress friend was showing?

DarkRefreshment posted:

Checks out since the first step as we all know according to to the Book of MoMA 42:1-42:5

Thou shalt design the UI first
Let there be no code written until thine health meter display is most fidelitous
And say unto the network engineers, 'Nay, do not fix thine net code until we hast refactored the patcher music'
Ye shall know the coming of the game when thou female avatars walk upon the station
Praise be to Roberts, first of his name. Programmer of programmers.
So say ye prophet of the Lord,
Ben Lesnick, Developer

Danknificent posted:

I too am curious about how SQ42 can be dead.

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I've never watched any of their Bugsmashers videos. I made the mistake of wasting that 9 minutes of my life today and feel grief. Here's my notes:

Empty chairs all around him, maybe because he's starting work before 9 AM, wonder if that's against any california regulations.
10k lines of code in a single file? WHAT.
Lazy resets of object states - this is a hilariously bad practice that will cause no end of subtle bugs, was probably done as a lazy way to maintain thread safety instead of learning what a lock statement is
Passing state objects around by reference, but it's not clear who owns the original copy of that reference or when it can be updated or changed. It seems that they get them in different ways if they're vehicles or ships. This is unclear and will lead to subtle bugs down the line.
#ifdefs littered throughout for debugging - yet they're not enabled while he's debugging, which tells me that they're for testing 'experimental' code, which should never, ever be left in a production branch or you're going to end up with mountains of them that no one is really sure what does or what they break or depend upon to function.
getphysicsstatus, getphysicsstatusmain? WTF is the difference between these two objects, I'm going to assume that he's trialing replacing the system with something new, but why is it in this branch of code if he's not specifically testing replacing that system - this reeks of the same type of 'I don't really know wtf I'm doing, so I'm just throwing code at the wall until something sticks'.
'you have mixed tabs and spaces' warning files is just because that should be standardized and automatically enforced by whatever source control system they have in place.
animMode flag for... doing what? he never specifies why it would be there in the first place or why the track system would need it disabled, nor why it would substantially change what an object's function is, which is already a poor design choice that is now compounded by lack of clarity.
Also, because the true variable is reading as (4) instead of (1) in the debugger, it's almost certainly going to be an uninitialized variable, which is like the most basic C++ 101 programming error you could ever possibly make.
IT IS LOLOLOL
45fps in a basic test scene with lighting disabled on a dev machine, hopefully they have a TON of debug flags enabled that is causing that (spoiler: it shouldn't happen even with a debugger attached unless it's hosed).

The bug in the first place was either incredibly forced and contrived, or CIG really do have programmers that couldn't finish an intro to C++ class.

quote:

- Horrific spaghetticode in their destructor. Why is there different functionality based on whether or not a "pLocalPlayerInteractionPlugin" flag is set? Why is that logic not included in the LeaveAllPlayerPlugins function? Why are these plugins not responsible for cleaning themselves up? Why is HUD being informed of these events from here?!?
- He calls the function "ExitInit" but it's clearly spelled as "ExitInt". This implies the exact opposite function that he's referring to. It takes all of two seconds to right click -> rename identifier in VS. And save the next poor soul who inherits that godforsaken codebase two hours as he struggles to figure that out.
- The 'check that the player can exit the vehicle from somewhere' is a horrible mess of spaghetti dependencies.
- There is no rhyme or reason for how values are tested. Why do some use an IsEquivalent(ZERO) while others are not.
- Why is a Matrix34w struct being used in this block of code. If there are multiple formats of matricies being used, how does one know what each function returns and what each function expects? If all matrix types are assumed to be the same, why is it not abstracted out to a single, impossible-to-mistype Matrix struct? If not, why is there no built-in function documentation clearly defining what is expected? And does each function religiously check that the types are what are needed (spoiler: the codeblock in that section already failed this). In which case, we now have a pretty good idea why T-posing commandos are so commonplace.
- Why are there thread exiting while the debugger is stopped? What are they doing in the background that necessitates spinning up and killing threads while the game is running? Why are they not pooled?!?
- Why is there anything at all relating to missiles in seat class?!
- Lua errors popping up. They're using Lua for parts of the game. I would love so dearly to see how they're integrating that and what parts of their logic they've moved to script.
- "Execute Exit will run an animation and then eventually execute Execute Exit" have I stepped into an alternate reality where Dr. Seuss writes code designed for torturing programmers? There is literally nothing about this that is not wrong.
- I'm almost getting epilepsy from the warnings and errors whizzing by. What is the purpose of enabling a warning system if you're going to ignore their output? I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume he was working from a branch that someone was in the process of overhauling that system in. I can't stomach the alternative.
- Again with the thousands and thousands of lines of code per file. No wonder he can only get around them by ctrl+f.
- His 'fix' involves adding yet more vague and unclear spaghetti code to the mess. Even with his description of what the code does, I would still need to look through all of the surrounding code and what is called to even begin to unravel what exactly it's trying to accomplish. The variations of "Exit" actively work against informing the reader what "Exit" means. Well written code can be understood just by reading it - this is not well written code.
- He describes why the server should be authoritative over these events. This is true and good. Except he had just described earlier how players are responsible for other state changes, which does not follow the design he just mentioned.
- "It won't reset his entity id when he leaves the seat". Why would an entity ID ever change, especially just when they change from sitting to standing? This is just agonizingly wrong. The only plausible explanation I can come up with is that they're sharing player data with ship data based on whether or not the player is sitting - so when the player is sitting, he 'becomes' the ship. It pains my soul to even contemplate the amount of subtle bugs that will allow. And it could be solved so much more cleanly and simply if it had been designed properly from the beginning.
- m_isEntering. Why is player state controlled by a set of multiple flags instead of a proper state machine? This is My First 2D Platformer Tutorial levels of terrible.
- "Failed to init PositionAdjust due to missing pa[ramater?]" sounds like yet another wonderful byproduct of spaghetti.
- "I just realized that that true enables transitions and we don't want transitions" - Because you're writing horrible kludges to duct tape spaghetti together.

D_Smart posted:

Dead as it in never coming out as pitched. In fact, my main source is so certain that it has a high risk of never coming out, that they claim it's now just a "show of appearances" for Chris and Sandi.

Oh, latest newsletter. Buy a mystery ship.

http://mailchi.mp/cloudimperiumgames/meet-the-defender-of-the-banu-140369?e=c733d8e2e6

Dark Off posted:

so here's what happens when you let programmer watch bug smasher.

https://youtu.be/zVNyMMiZaj4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRfhLvSSGJo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLVct2QDhDrB3tDp7Sk8z_LKNaR0hDtazF

fuctifino posted:

D_Smart posted:

Oh, here is the updated newsletter talking about new concept ship sale coming May 19th for $275

And they're going to be skimming an additional $5 off the top of CCU accounts now.

TrustmeImLegit posted:

Schedule updated.

Apparently Levski (NyX COMING SOON 2015) has been cut out of 3.0

Thoatse posted:

dad?

TheAgent posted:

lol if crobbers got hit with wannacry

Sunswipe posted:

Next sale will happen very soon, and payment is only accepted in Bitcoin.

Alternatively, this would be a great excuse for them to use. "Someone who is no longer with CIG opened an infected email, and before we could stop it, several key computers were locked. As good Americans, we won't give into terrorism, so 3.0 is going to be delayed while we recreate the work that had gone into it. We hope our loyal Citizens will understand how this completely real and not our fault situation arose. Also, why not buy a poster of our totally unique mascot, Bonjour Puddytat, shooting a space hacker in the face? Only $14.99 plus $29.99 S&H."

D_Smart posted:

Oh, here is the updated newsletter talking about new concept ship sale coming May 19th for $275

And they're going to be skimming an additional $5 off the top of CCU accounts now.

Chin posted:

Ok so we all saw the guy picking up random objects and placing them around a confined area with a sink or something right? Then I realized. What's cooler than doing a Sims type decoration of a home? Getting a home and getting things yourself. Want a couch? You have to go to the store, have it either shipped to your ship, or to your home (more expensive) and especially for a couch, you'd need a hover dolly or whatever. It would feel soo cool to actually go buy a bunch of stuff and load it in my ship, and drive it home. Then I could unload and place things around as I see fit. Anyone have any other ideas that sparked from the ATV?

Dark Off posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRfhLvSSGJo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLVct2QDhDrB3tDp7Sk8z_LKNaR0hDtazF

quote:

- "It won't reset his entity id when he leaves the seat". Why would an entity ID ever change, especially just when they change from sitting to standing? This is just agonizingly wrong. The only plausible explanation I can come up with is that they're sharing player data with ship data based on whether or not the player is sitting - so when the player is sitting, he 'becomes' the ship. It pains my soul to even contemplate the amount of subtle bugs that will allow. And it could be solved so much more cleanly and simply if it had been designed properly from the beginning.

Sappo569 posted:

Can someone explain what a ccu is , And how much they cost before ?

They're the upgrade tickets right ? So you take a generic space ship A and CCU it to a generic space ship A with hyper lasers

Sappo569 posted:

Remember when that developer fell off his bike and broke his wrist , And it delayed everything by 4 weeks ?