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TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer
first thing I ask myself before buying any type of space game is, does this space game have the majority of its content not set in space? if so, its a solid purchase for me

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radd
Jun 16, 2001

Super Spacefortress

The Titanic posted:

The FPS side though can be done because it's CryEngine. :grin:


I don't think you realise that this is being developed by CIG.

TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_rSQGavuiI&t=687s
IM NOT JITTERING IM NOT JITTERING IM NOT JITTERINNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

DapperDon
Sep 7, 2016

big nipples big life posted:

The Stimpire is clearly in the US, look at Washington DC

Been back for 4 days now. Can confirm. A lot of career people have handed resignations or taken retirement. People are getting spooked.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

TheAgent posted:

christ I forgot that half the programmers they brought on worked on gizmondo

this whole loving thing has so many twists and turns I can barely remember 10% of it

You should read my blogs. :grin:

Ash1138 posted:

to be fair, dsizzle reported the gizmondo/roberts brothers connection a long rear end time ago

Yup. Pretty extensively too.

Interstellar Pirates, 11-04-2015

TheAgent posted:

you mean he read this thread and wrote a blog about it

heh, yeah, right.

TheAgent posted:

right now their servers probably only have maybe a hundred or two hundred people online at any given time. when 3.0 hits its going to be a mad loving rush to play and every goddamn thing, from authentication servers to world servers to the coffee machine, are going to start melting down

people are going to see single digit frame rates, crashes, but the best, the loving best

is going to be their pretty, pretty ships that have all been reworked and changed again. that is what's going to cause people to flip right the gently caress out

its going to be fantastic

No, it doesn't work that way. The game is instanced, and runs on EC2 instances. So they're not going to have any server issues whatsoever. Cloud is scalable.

Any and all issues are going to be same: frame rate, connection issues, networking performance. None of which have anything to do with the server backend.

D1E
Nov 25, 2001


D_Smart posted:

You should read my blogs.

LOL

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

his nibs posted:

Heh, jokes on you goonies:

"You originally stated that Star Citizen’s development would not be delayed by adopting Lumberyard. Is that still the case now that you’ve been working with it for several months?

Yes – the change to Lumberyard hasn’t delayed us on the project. In fact, in some cases, such as utilizing the new graphics features implemented in Lumberyard, it saved time and sped things up compared to the very drawn out process of creating that work from scratch."

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/star-citizen-re-built-in-amazons-lumberyard/

I remember back in Apr 2016 when I TOTALLY CALLED it before anyone even suspected those bastards would change engines - 6 years later; let alone to LumberYard in Dec 2016.



Ah yeah, fun times. :grin:

ps: OSC reminded me of this today, in one of his Reddit posts

D1E
Nov 25, 2001


D_Smart posted:

I remember back in Apr 2016 when I TOTALLY CALLED it before anyone even suspected those bastards would change engines - 6 years later; let alone to LumberYard in Dec 2016.

LOL

Kromlech
Jun 28, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
in summary:

-don't read derek's blogs

-Chris Roberts is incompetent

-Sandy is a racist who hates pubes

-Ben is fat

nawledgelambo
Nov 8, 2016

Immersion chariot

big nipples big life posted:

wtf does ben lesnick, (not actually a) developer need 2 computers and 3 monitors for?

somebody's grand king lord poobah package paid for that poo poo and they should be asking questions.

Is he playing Wing Commander on one of those monitors? Any of you CIG devs reading should PM me and honestly tell me what he does on a normal weekday, because gently caress me if I'm in the wrong line of work

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Hi guys is Star Citizen dead ye...

D_Smart posted:

I remember back in Apr 2016 when I TOTALLY CALLED it before anyone even suspected those bastards would change engines - 6 years later; let alone to LumberYard in Dec 2016.



Ah yeah, fun times. :grin:

ps: OSC reminded me of this today, in one of his Reddit posts

:eyepop:

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

I mean I could understand trying to tell other threads that he doesn't crib all his info from this thread but trying to pull it off in here is just retarded.

Kosumo
Apr 9, 2016

Kromlech posted:

in summary:

-don't read derek's blogs anything

-Chris Roberts is a incompetent scam artist

-Sandy is a racist tickle porn actress who hates pubes

-Ben is totally fucken fat as in you feel sick looking at pictures of him fat

I think I fixed a few mistakes in your post.

XK
Jul 9, 2001

Star Citizen is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it's fidelity when you look out your window or when you watch youtube

Now even Derek is trolling us.

:smith:

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

RubberJohnny posted:

So Scaleform, which Star Citizens entire UI is in is no longer being sold or getting updates

https://www.autodesk.com/content/autodesk-game-middleware

Good. Never liked Scaleform. Even the games where it's tolerable have big and clunky interfaces.


Obviously OSC is Derek Smart, and not a goon trolling the poo poo out of them.

Gravity_Storm
Mar 1, 2016

The ships punch far above their price, youll be flying your $700 jpeg chariot and feeling the luxury of $900 performance.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.



Why are derelicts still on fire?

Percelus
Sep 9, 2012

My command, your wish is

fidelity that's why

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

TheAgent posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_rSQGavuiI&t=687s
IM NOT JITTERING IM NOT JITTERING IM NOT JITTERINNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

5 gigabyte textures and super smooth smoke effects, while a ship silently jitters away in the background

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

OK, references to Money are going to get extra confusing.



I guess, CIG's putting their money where their mouth is?

Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo
holy poo poo i wish i were named Rich Money

(or Dick Money)

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Found a scene where they get 70 fps!

...

Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"
http://i.imgur.com/9EH7jIS.mp4

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

Trillhouse posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_rSQGavuiI&t=203s

lol. This is practical and realistic in an mmo. Glad realistic cup physics are a priority though.

Love Cargo being reduced to stacking grabby hands boxes. Blow up a ship and a half dozen grabby hands boxes come out. Pick them up one at a time, and then tetris them inside your hold. Can one of those boxes even fit inside a starter ship? I don't think there is even enough room in the Aurora to fit a box without trapping yourself inside. Not sure why citizens will be able to influence the economy when 10,000,000 NPCs are being simulated though.

I'm glad that they are placing their No Man's Sky points of interest by hand. This makes it much better somehow. I can't wait to explore Starfarer crash site #8 with the 12 clone stamped windpumps. I bet the outlaws will be guarding a valuable grabby hands box. Think of the unlimited gameplay this will provide. The dreams are coming together.

Also, I called derelict ships being a rehash of their last two presentations :smug:

VealCutlet
Dec 21, 2015

I am a marketing god, shave that shit

Pages behind but this is amazing.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



SelenicMartian posted:

OK, references to Money are going to get extra confusing.



I guess, CIG's putting their money where their mouth is?

I got that diaper money, I'm a grown-rear end man.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.



Fidelity...

And it's well researched according to the office footage

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

SelenicMartian posted:



Fidelity...

And it's well researched according to the office footage



You guys look at this. Look at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_rSQGavuiI&t=216s

The most fidelious game EVARRRR!!!!!!!!!!

Drinks will react with all the different gravities!!!

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Sandi reacting with a few drinks

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.



It takes talent to have a 3D engine and still make it look like the guy is walking over green screen

http://i.imgur.com/S9lkyox.mp4

The latest in black and white fashion. Someone has stolen the clothes off that 'female model.'

And the thread's favourite:

http://i.imgur.com/5aMljC8.mp4

That was their best take.

Atheist Sunglasses
Jul 26, 2003

All the candy you want. Crotton crandy, crandy apple. I like to go on the best ride first. Name of roller croaster.


lol wtf. ouch

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

celewign
Jul 11, 2015

just get us in the playoffs
Escaping from the stimperial troopers was pretty hard these days. They always show up and try to pull out your skeleton.

Today started when some rear end in a top hat asked me to hack a relay station. I hopped in my mustang Delta and promptly exploded. Reload. gently caress the mustang it's time to use the hornet. Luckily I had a lot of ships, I know how to save my disability checks for the important things.

On the way out to the hornet I got caught in the airlock and had a seizure followed by a tpose. God my head was killing me. I smashed "t" to open the airlock and zoomed outside.

A corpse floated by me, idyllic.

The rings of the station were twitching back and forth, must be a bad batch of gravity goo again. Now that the Stimps had entered the system commodities were hard to get. We we're running low on gravity goo.

Above me the sun cast blinding reflections in my visor, a good sign. The landing platform was empty except the corpse and another guy stuck in the floor. My hornet was gone of course, stolen by another player. I stared out into space, zoning out. Some guy named "commander tom" smashed a stolen hornet into my body - geez. I reloaded, it only takes about 15 minutes.

This time my new ship was waiting for me, an Aurora. Who names this poo poo? It sounds like something my 8 year old son would have chosen for a name. I miss him, he died when we went to a restaurant and he was ground up.

The relay was out there, nearly 16 sextillion klicks away. My quantum drive got me there in a couple seconds. I quickly EVAd out of the Aurora and entered the relay. A couple textures were flickering, that's weird. No prob. I'm smart I can make it work.

There's the console: a quick fix and I'm on my way.

Back at base, the rear end in a top hat who gave me the mission was gone. All I saw left was a really detailed leather jacket and the top of his head inside the floor.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

I like the part where the single upvote stopped happening.

DoctorStrangelove
Jun 7, 2012

IT WOULD NOT BE DIFFICULT MEIN FUHRER!

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.

TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer
I just ran into jeff kaplan at a salsa dancing class of all loving things lol

BeefThief
Aug 8, 2007

it only took a few days to replace my skeleton with lumberyard

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Does anybody remember where/when Sandi Gardiner sang the Nazi anthem in German?

I'm trying to find it (it's probably been edited out of whatever official video it was on).

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Sabreseven
Feb 27, 2016

SelenicMartian posted:

And the thread's favourite:

http://i.imgur.com/5aMljC8.mp4

That was their best take.

Needs a speech bubble with the word "HHNNNGGGGGG!!" in it :)

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