lazorexplosion posted:

Half of last night's xcom squad was captured after being unable to get a door open. Doors!

TheAgent posted:

I've been up all night creating an entire neighborhood for the roberts and smart roomie experiment. traits and looks were assigned randomly to thread crew peeps


I've got:
Chris Roberts, Sandi, Erin Roberts
Ben and Alexis Lesnick
Brian Chambers
Derek Smart
WTFOSaurus

then:
me

then:
the titanic and raslovinikov

then:
the mod squad (beer and beet)

then:
the thread crew 1 (hav, XK, AP, meridian, pgabz, tijuana bib, colostomy bag, zen)

still putting the finishing touches on lazrin, moma, and other thread regulars

just thought I'd update y'all that about something I thought was significant:

ModernSociety posted:

So...Why did Derek get banned this time?

Mirificus posted:

Crazy_BlackParrot posted:

Something something stepford wives

Jobbo_Fett posted:

He's not.

Enchanted Hat posted:

You know, the wheel thing and the lack of windows are stupid from a realism perspective, but in a video game you'd just code it so they wouldn't be a problem.

The sale page says that it's meant for cargo transport. How many of those standardised cargo crates that CIG were showing off for 3.0 do you think you could fit in the back of this thing? I'm thinking maybe two. If they want to make a land-based cargo vehicle, why not make it a truck or something? Something that could actually carry a bit of cargo.

ModernSociety posted:

Today's breaking news: I'm a moron.

quote:

After 8 years development, for gold only 5 Systems?

If Star Citizen goes Gold in 2.020 that would be 8 years of development

For the gold, will be only 5 to 10 Systems of the 100 should be? Thats a 10% or less of the promess!!!!

And they now when there are at least 3 years or so for the gold? Stop doing more ships and work more on one of the more important things of the game, Systems to travel and do things.

We have been very patient with the development time, we understand you need time to do a game of this size but:

5 Systems for the gold is unacceptable.

terminally bored posted:

Hey, remember when Eric "Wingman" Peterson and a group of other people left Star Citizen and then raised $600 on KS for a new game using the Descent name which they somehow bought the rights for (they even named their studio Descendent)? No?

Well, suprise because they posted this little gem on Steam 4 days ago:

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Descendent Studios posted:
Hello Descenters,

Some of you have asked why we have been far less active these last few months.

In fact, we owe you an update.

We took a long, hard look at the scope of our project and how long it would take us to finish the game we described on Kickstarter. We always intended Descent: Underground to be a starting point to a larger universe. Plus, being huge Descent fans, we knew that some things had to be done right, and to a production level that exceeded expectations.

So, for the last few months, we’ve been digging deep into our own processes and working out ways to finish the game faster and still support a live product with a great community. We discovered that over the course of the project we’d been spending between half and two-thirds of our time on things like tech support, bug fixes, and community outreach. Those kind of delays can be devastating to a small team.

Luckily, we have some pretty cool friends and they’re helping us work through solutions to continue great community outreach while ramping up development.

We invite you to help us test a new community platform called BrightLocker as the first of these solutions!

BrightLocker is the brainchild of some game development veterans who are friends of ours from way back in our Origin Systems days. They asked for our help (and yours) to make sure BrightLocker supports awesome communities for cool games.

Just to be clear- this isn’t about asking you for more money. While BrightLocker does forever crowdfunding and you’ll see rewards offered, that is not our main reason for making the switch. Our goal is to find better ways of communicating with our community without having to develop all the tools ourselves. BrightLocker is building those tools.

We also want to help BrightLocker become a useful resource for those of you looking to start your own game project someday!
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tl;dr: The game is still in early alpha, there is no single player campaign in sight (they refuse to even mention it in their updates with "info incoming" but only on the SIZE of the SP campaign) and they're launching a "forever crowdfunding platform". Yes, that's a quote.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

I love Derek's new avatar.

Combat Theory posted:

With all the shortcomings of our armament contracts here (g36 that loses accuracy after a single mag, eurocopter ordered without a Cannon....facepalm...) I am quite impressed still by the performance of our mechanized hardware, namely our MBTs and IFVs like the Leopard, Marder and Puma.

D_Smart posted:

LOL!! I just noticed it. OK, which one of you clowns (or Spergs) did this?

Tank Boy Ken posted:

Guess what metal does when you heat it like that. It bends.

Colostomy Bag posted:

lol

Just noticed that you can't CCU the El Camino into a space ship. Only can do a CCU to another vehicle. Man, I can't wait to see what scumminess they come up with next.

grimcreaper posted:

That desk. I never really thought about it before but holy poo poo. Holy loving hell look at it. If you want to use that desk for writing, you cant.

All those screws would... screw your ability to actually write. What a lovely desk design.

SelenicMartian posted:

I love the camera held by a wheezing fat man. But without it you'll see that ship's moving in straight lines.

TheAgent posted:

good for you ben, good for you

also I nearly killed sandi by keeping her out in the sun too long, gave her a nice coffin to rest in now. all is well

Tank Boy Ken posted:

The G36 only has accuracy issues if you go full auto on the magazine. Which is not the intended use of Assault Rifles. That's why you're supposed to buy the LMG barrel for squad support. Guess what the Bundeswehr didn't buy. The Peschmerga who received it were skeptical at first, but after using them in combat wanted more of them. There isn't a single complaint from Bundeswehr personnel concerning the accuracy of the G36. The whole thing was blown up by dumb journalists. The accuracy did drop in lab tests. IF you did heat up the G36 from one side. Guess what metal does when you heat it like that. It bends.

trucutru posted:

Well. I find that AI amazing. Imagine, it has to control each muscle individually on each leg and arm to climb those stairs and interact with the ship controls.

Combat Theory posted:

Thanks a lot, I have been reading into the whole thing for only a bit now, to my understanding it was a problem with the mechanical bedding of the metal components in the composite frame. I am looking forward to a job for the baainbw one day so I'm trying to find as much information about armament systems and their little kinks as possible, but the side of handguns and the like is still very much early steps for me (I come from a vehicle background)

Hav posted:

More kickstarter thread; Terminally Bored produced;


https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3473379&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1112#post474577740

https://www.brightlocker.com/
Because I'm mental, I start with the terms and conditions. They appear to have cut'n'pasted them and forgot to update references.

Combat Theory posted:

Fun story by the way... Tonight a dude got banned from the NDA test group for posting an underwater blowjob picture and angry reacting with the team America theme song after the picture got deleted.

big nipples big life posted:

a volunteer!