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Hobold
Jan 10, 2012


I love my Cutlass
I love big stompy mechs
I love my HOTAS
I love to salvage wrecks
I love Star Citizen, and all it's craziness
GOONDEYADA, GOONDEYADA, GOONDEYADA
College Slice

Is that really any worse than people paying money to the google Ad words program to get their referral code out there?

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Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo
chris wont allow hair until each strand is individually rendered and acts independently

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

hairsumption

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

Snazzy Frocks posted:

chris wont allow hair until each strand is individually rendered and acts independently

I just can't wait for the in-game wig shop, complete with stylish salesmen

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo
[salesman]: And on this shelf, sir, we have some very flattering, stylish cuts of blonde, perfect for the discerning gentleman looking for something that can weather the sweaty helmet for minutes and still come out fresh as a virgin's fart, or slightly less to be perfectly frank
[commando]: (stares blankly into space)
[salesman]: Or if the gentleman wishes to live dangerously, this little bounty will clip right through the roof of your Mustang and flow like a graceful walrus in the sun wind,
[commando]: (stares blankly into space)

Loxbourne
Apr 6, 2011

Tomorrow, doom!
But now, tea.

The Rabbi T. White posted:

I like that Pusher is the 2nd best pilot. And is only referred to by that name twice throughout the entire script.

I always love this. Someone, possibly Sandi herself, put CIG's opinion of her job right in her character's name. "Pusher". It's so audacious you don't realise she's mocking her ability to sell JPGs to people as if they were hard drugs and she's doing it in plain sight.

Seriously, when the tell-all memoirs come out and the grave, grey discussions of the Great Star Citizen Scam get published, people are going to refuse to believe anyone could so openly declare their contempt for their customer base.

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
Questions I would like to see answered by Chris Roberts:

When is Star Citizen coming out?

Where is the game?

What did you do with all the money?

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
How could we be so remiss as to not pay Stimpire tax on page 1200?



In our setting of Banshee, there were ten stimpires which were united under ten galaxies. They were all allied as the United Galactic Stimpires, until one day, when the Sixth Stimpire noticed that the Fourth Stimpire was adopting laws that were against the regulations of the UGS. High-ranking military servants noticed that at the end of their favourite sporting event, the losing side was being rounded up, with all 11 players wailing in despair. They then noticed that the center of the stadium was now revealing a large, cylindrical container with a sharp floor. The floor was in the shape of a grinding grater, except there were several discs each turning very slowly, one being further out than the other from its center point. They were then pushed in by very powerful cybernetic stadium security officers, and the container was sealed up. It was then, to the horror of the colonels, that there was blood being smeared against the glass of the machine. They both left for their transit van, only to be stopped by Fourth Stimpire Enforcers. They demanded that they get past, only to be told that the Fourth Stimpire is a sovereign, socialist empire which listens to its people. They were then being transported to a greyscale soundproof room, with very sharp machinery decorating the room from all over.

They were never heard from or even seen again. The only traces of them were blood trails located in the very room. The Fourth Stimpire had announced to the UGC that it was now allied with Vanduul forces, and any attack will result in immediate deplanetation, much to the dismay of the UGC. The Seventh Stimpire warned them that the other nine would revoke their UGC rights if they carried on, but they did far from what they were demanding. The Fourth Stimpire didn't massacre the First Landmass population, but left them in the worst pain known in the universe for eternity. The drug was capable of keeping the victim the same age as they were, halting growth and aging, whilst keeping them alive forever. All growth cells are killed and the drug repeats any respiratory cycles.

The other nine declared war on the Fourth Stimpire, which ultimately led to the demise of the First, Eighth, Ninth, Fifth and Tenth Stimpires. They were deplanetated, all of their planets were razed and reduced to nothing but an asteroid field, a reminder of the power of the Fourth Stimpire, and a historical monument, and a book, a tale of what was once a mighty, populated planet.

The Seventh Stimpire ordered their planets to be relocated out of the range of the Fourth Stimpire Satelitation Force through the use of planet movement technology. As the Seventh Stimpire was completely artificial, the planets were able to be relocated to a faraway place in the universe. The Second Stimpire however were unable to relocate, as they were natural to the full extent and had a ban on fighting on any kind. Weapons were not permitted in the territory, and anyone caught fighting would be exiled permanently from the planet. They were the Second Law, as the rest of the universe know them by.

The other stimpires were unable to relocate aswell, and ordered their planets to be mined until they were fresh clean, and turn artificial, so they could be moved away from threat. They did not want to meet the same fate as their brethren. As a result, the war that remains going on to this day, is now a fierce, stalemate battle. The United Earth Empire eventually joined to help them against the Fourth Stimpire in 2754, 100 years after the war began, but this would also lead to Vanduul interception, as the Vanduul were warmongering to the point of following the UEE's every move and intercepting it.

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.

Hail Stimperor!

XxXCaptainNoxXxX
May 18, 2017

by zen death robot
todays ATV is about the incoming in game ads system

lol

XxXCaptainNoxXxX
May 18, 2017

by zen death robot
also they showed the stamina system. Dude ran like 100 feet and the screen was blurred out and the dude was half dead.

A fidelitious take on if a backer attempted that feat

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

XxXCaptainNoxXxX posted:

todays ATV is about the incoming in game ads system

lol
I can't tell if this is a joke.

XxXCaptainNoxXxX
May 18, 2017

by zen death robot

Sunswipe posted:

I can't tell if this is a joke.

take a guess

Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo
like legit RL ads or in-game store fluff

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

:smith:

XxXCaptainNoxXxX
May 18, 2017

by zen death robot

Snazzy Frocks posted:

like legit RL ads or in-game store fluff

ship commercials, which is what they sell. McD's isn't going to rent ads in that POS alpha. But they;re setting up the infrastructure to get RL ads in there. They even mentioned gathering user data in game to target ads

https://gfycat.com/TatteredGiddyAsianpiedstarling

citizenry is pleased

quote:

So this is how they are going to fund servers post purchase. I approve.

XxXCaptainNoxXxX fucked around with this message at 23:29 on May 25, 2017

XxXCaptainNoxXxX
May 18, 2017

by zen death robot
theyre selling pink gun skins

XxXCaptainNoxXxX
May 18, 2017

by zen death robot
i dont actually watch ATVs. I dont think ive watched a single second in a long time. So when i read a summary I feel like some citizen has decided to get one over on some goons with some of this poo poo.

ok someone linked this. look at this poor bastard chambers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZIzExVmZMo&t=334s

XxXCaptainNoxXxX fucked around with this message at 23:32 on May 25, 2017

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

XxXCaptainNoxXxX posted:

also they showed the stamina system. Dude ran like 100 feet and the screen was blurred out and the dude was half dead.

A fidelitious take on if a backer attempted that feat

What the gently caress, they placed monitoring equipment on Lesnick?

XxXCaptainNoxXxX
May 18, 2017

by zen death robot
"THE GAME PROGRAMMING TEAM IN FRANKFURT HAS GROWN IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS. IT IS NOW 3 PEOPLE. THEY DID A PASS ON DOORS."

citizens actually watch this poo poo every week and are ENCOURAGED by this? holy gently caress

XxXCaptainNoxXxX
May 18, 2017

by zen death robot

Colostomy Bag posted:

What the gently caress, they placed monitoring equipment on Lesnick?

I said "ran', So obviously not.

XxXCaptainNoxXxX
May 18, 2017

by zen death robot
Chambers spent about 30 seconds describing the most basic simple stupid functions of any game server. Then said "Its still in the research phase and is a long term effort, but we are confident we are on the right track"

someone help me

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRy04FdwTLk

Just released, can't wait to try it!

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

Wow it will be just like the future , when you walk past a tv wall and the speakers blare out a targeted ad just like that space movie with Tom Cruise

"HELLO MR SMITH ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THE NEW AND IMPROVED ELECTRO ANAL BEADS.... NOW WITH FREE 1 DAY SHIPPING WHEN YOU SIGN UP FOR AMAZON SPACE-PRIME"

Can't wait for holo grabby hands so you can pretend to shove the jpeg of anal beads inside your virtual anal cavity

Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



Evrart Claire
Jan 11, 2008

XxXCaptainNoxXxX posted:

also they showed the stamina system. Dude ran like 100 feet and the screen was blurred out and the dude was half dead.

A fidelitious take on if a backer attempted that feat

This is why I usually hate stamina system for running in games. It just ends up having like superhuman protagonists that can only sprint for about as long as my fat goony rear end can.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Bought this on sight because Oculus Rift support, I'm such a goddamn mark.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

XxXCaptainNoxXxX posted:

I said "ran', So obviously not.

My apologies and I stand corrected, Unless it was a block away from a Taco Bell.

Spatial
Nov 15, 2007

XxXCaptainNoxXxX posted:

i dont actually watch ATVs. I dont think ive watched a single second in a long time. So when i read a summary I feel like some citizen has decided to get one over on some goons with some of this poo poo.

ok someone linked this. look at this poor bastard chambers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZIzExVmZMo&t=334s
lol, the guy looks like he has a gun trained on him.

i believe it was a... fibelity accident. ...i... have to go now.

WarpDogs
May 1, 2009

I'm just a normal, functioning member of the human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.

lol, still "working" on the single new NPC they showed in that 3.0 demo nearly a year ago

yeah, that makes sense

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

Taintrunner posted:

Bought this on sight because Oculus Rift support, I'm such a goddamn mark.

Yeah an actual game with actual vr implementation , How dare you buy it instead of giving your money to Chris so he can 'dream' more

Dreams = poop fyi

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

Spatial posted:

lol, the guy looks like he has a gun trained on him.

the dude is reading a teleprompter. He either has no idea what the script is or just is bad in front of a camera.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I hope Star Citizen comes with a barf bag to deal with how poorly their VR support is going to be implemented.

edit: I've been playing a lot of Star Wars Mod for X3:AP, which is some guy slapping Star Wars into X3. It's good.

Kellanved
Sep 7, 2009
Played the poo poo out of Everspace while it was in alpha/beta. It gave that warm FTL-like feeling, worth the bux I paid for it.
It apparently has a story now, gently caress yeah!

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

Did anyone ever track down the file footage of busy office scene 3 used in the background of those developer interviews ?

Although it's possible they made their own background video before firing all the staff

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
It's is going to be difficult to recognize which one of the bald npcs is the one you're looking at.


Just kidding, there are going to be like a dozen (all bald) npcs total in the "game".

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

trucutru posted:

It's is going to be difficult to recognize which one of the bald npcs is the one you're looking at.


Just kidding, there are going to be like a dozen (all bald) npcs total in the "game".

all their leather jackets are going to be different shades of brown goonie fuder

MilesK
Nov 5, 2015

SirPenguin posted:

lol, still "working" on the single new NPC they showed in that 3.0 demo nearly a year ago

yeah, that makes sense

Whichever Goon made up the leaked report that Croberts is obsessed with refactoring leather jackets did a good job.


Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

Yeah but to be fair the 2nd jacket is super detailed

And it only took over a year

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

The Negan Jacket.

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Beer4TheBeerGod
Aug 23, 2004
Exciting Lemon
Oh look he's wearing some kind of space shirt to go with his space leather jacket. Clearly the last nine months have been time well spent.

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