TheAgent posted:

beet we gonna discord live stream sc during the crobbo presentation tomorrow?

Jobbo_Fett posted:

I would've written "Nice Meltdown" but being limited to 1 post per 10 minutes kinda fucks with that.

RubberJohnny posted:

Big list of bugs from Day 1 and 2:

• Falling appears to be a set speed, no acceleration to terminal velocity
  
• Falling characters don't seem to get locked to a ships physics grid
  
• Ships physics grids still end up grabbing other ships and bits of debris in the environment
  
• Gravity seems to only affect character models, not ships, they can hang in the air while powered down
  

That's just the stuff that isn't turned off because it was too buggy, like Quantum Travel, MobiGlas, NPCs, Missions, Cargo, etc.

The netcode is the best though, even with a dedicated line, a powerful server right next to them, players are desyncing, appearing as invisible, or not synchronising animations on other players screens - something is just fundamentally hosed there.

HycoCam posted:

I gotcha covered with my weekly Reddit post.

Beet Wagon posted:

"P-please... Kill m-me...."

Sabreseven posted:

Surely a gun of that size, firing a large explosive projectile, even if some sort of railgun, would knock the operator down if they were firing while standing? Conservation of momentum is a thing.

Cao Ni Ma posted:

just like the card game is not really a card game, it is just a vehicle to get chris roberts more money

ManofManyAliases posted:

Tell me who I am. Who do you think I am, what makes you think that, and how can you be so sure without proof? I'm a lowly backer and that's all you need to know.

Mirificus posted:

3.0 Jesus Patch posted:

I know whom you are, and were you reside, amongst other things

Coulda/Shoulda used a better proxy service that doesn't keep logs...

3.0 Jesus Patch posted:

I know whom you are, and were you reside, amongst other things

Coulda/Shoulda used a better proxy service that doesn't keep logs...

Beet Wagon posted:

Whatever is going on here, stop the 'doxxing chicken' please.

G0RF posted:

I am sure whatever they show on Friday will deliver the cinematic sizzle we've all come to expect from CIG -- even when not knowing what to expect.

Perhaps it's the Squadron hype reel, and will let Roberts tap in to the huge reserves of good will and star power that Hamill and the gang enjoy. It would make for a wonderful distraction if Roberts needs to bolster eroding confidence resulting from the 3.0 delays... It seems like a great move if Roberts wants to talk past his own increasingly frustrated backer base to the profane masses who haven't yet bought in.

Yet if it is that, what a desperate non-sequitur it would be. Chris was so annoyingly silent about Squadron for much of the year, making 3.0 their central focus. If he changes the subject to Squadron on the one year anniversary of the 3.0 announcement, there would be no avoiding the dire subtext and frankly, the insult of it to longtime backers. He's never minded that, of course, he's making his game, for him -- the backers are just yesterday's money. He owes them nothing more than to be true to his vision, and if they've forgotten that, well, he can always find new ones....

Then again, maybe Roberts will focus on selling what 3.x will be. Maybe it's a show reel of all they want backers to hold out hope for as the indeterminable march to deliver the first 25% of last year's 3.0 slogs painfully, boringly forward?

This, too, is problematic - but at least he wouldn't seem like he was desperately changing the subject. Instead the dissonance would emerge from the bleak, unavoidable deja vu-iness of it all. Hyping 3.x, however he might choose to do it, would see Roberts engaged in his most brazen act of self-parody thus far. It would show just how completely blind he is to the ludicrous optics of his words and actions. Only a man in an impenetrable bubble of delusory self-regard would think it reasonable rather than an absurd act of Chutzpahphrenia -- yet he might just well by such a man.

I'm reminded of the plot of Infocom's final title in the Enchanter series, the painfully difficult Spellbreaker. The first game, Enchanter, sees the player as a novice user of magic. By its end, having defeated a powerful Warlock, the player is welcomed into the company of his wizardly betters. The second game, Sorcerer, has the more powerful magic-using player casting greater spells, working mightier works in attempts to save his mentor from a powerful demon.

Spellbreaker sees the player now the head of the very guild itself. He can ascend no higher, yet it is against this backdrop that the very forces of magic itself begin crumbling. All former practitioners are dispensed with early in the game, save the player, and by a shadowy figure of unknown motive and power. Over the course of the game, as magic falters around you, the enemy eventually becomes clear -- he is a shadowy photonegative of yourself. All the actions taken to advance your power also served to increase the power of your doppelgänger enemy and the instability of magic is the byproduct of your embrace of it.

This may seem a great tangent, and if so I apologize, yet it feels to me like this tale is not unlike Roberts arc. At the height of his enchanted ascent, his magic is faltering. One spellcast succeeding, the next fizzling out, and the shadowy enemy has finally come into crisply detailed view -- and it is he. Perhaps he will go onstage again, display his wizardry, and enchant the masses yet again. Or perhaps his wand will crackle with sparks and fizzle out. Either way, there will be no avoiding the unwelcome presence sharing the stage with him this year. It is himself cloaked in the shadows of Gamescom 2016, and his very presence threatens the magic Chris might attempt to perform.

The one act I least expect is one that might improbably help. It is a spell of only two words, words when earnestly spoken have powers of to renew and clear away shadows for a season of proving. However simple they are to utter, I have seen their remarkable curative potency in lives around me and my own. But only those who can see a fool staring back at them in a mirror can say them, and I fear they are beyond a man like Chris.

Here they are, would that you could say them and mean them, Chris.

"I'm sorry."

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

CIG's channel just put this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ik9FwfKaNM

"Burndown Episode 3"

3.0 Jesus Patch posted:

I know whom you are, and were you reside, amongst other things

Coulda/Shoulda used a better proxy service that doesn't keep logs...

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

CIG's channel just put this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ik9FwfKaNM

"Burndown Episode 3"

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

CIG's channel just put this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ik9FwfKaNM

"Burndown Episode 3"

no_recall posted:

Has anyone asked how Subsumption AI toons will interact with hundreds / thousands of players at the same time?

TheAgent posted:

man I'm making a lot of never forget posts but never forget
https://i.imgur.com/UG7z54e.mp4

3.0 Jesus Patch posted:

The Titanic posted:

I never forgot!

I always loved the middle loading system because it truly was another epitome of over engineered lies that would never see the light of day.

But still folks believed it.

Crazypoops posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ik9FwfKaNM&t=326s

So I'm testing our highly complex suspension collision and physics system before we've mastered the on/off switch here at CIG.


...and then he's like "there's my bug!" like he didn't just showcase a colossally broken game engine with no hope of recovery.

I'm not kidding. I'm a hobby game designer and if anything in my game did poo poo like that I would start loving crying because I would KNOW that something is fundamentally hosed in my scripting.

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

CIG's channel just put this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ik9FwfKaNM

"Burndown Episode 3"