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I'd be surprised if most of the people bitching actually regretted buying the game. I certainly don't. The jank was plain to see on twitch, anyway. It's disappointing they're so slow to capitalize their success into improvements of the game, but the game is still fun as it is. If it stalls and fizzles out I still got to play it while it was popular, and if improves and builds from here, I got in early (ish). E: The other aspect is that the early access badness is part of the fun. Your motorcycle suddenly flew in the air and exploded? There were 99 other people; you weren't going to win anyway. Have a laugh and enjoy your new gif. Modus Pwnens fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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To all the people suggesting throwing money at this game will solve the issues, just lol.
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Oct 3, 2017 18:55
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I mean typically you use the money to hire coders/testers/animators etc. Buy yeah, it doesn't help if the code base is a mess and nobody's used to managing a larger team, and results don't happen immediately.
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Oct 3, 2017 19:02
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Combat Pretzel posted:Given all the money they got from this game, it's time to hire some people and rip subsystem after subsystem out and do it properly. Like DayZ? See you in 5 years.
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Oct 3, 2017 19:07
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underage at the vape shop posted:Thats literally why vaulting is taking so long, they came up with the idea after they made the map. Instead of surfaces being tagged as vaultable, they are making a system that dynamically scans the geometry around you and decides if its vaultable/how your character should vault it. Testing takes time. It would have been so much easier to just announce that the current map is beta only and build their next map with all these features in mind.
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Oct 3, 2017 19:47
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I definitely don't regret buying the game. I've had a lot of fun playing it and I'm pretty sure at this point I've sold enough crates that the game paid for itself anyways. Between that and early access I'm willing to cut them a lot of slack. That said their rate of visible progress on some longstanding issues is getting concerning. Here's hoping that means they're just quietly working on a lot of things, but I'd definitely prefer more open discussion. Rex-Goliath posted:It would have been so much easier to just announce that the current map is beta only and build their next map with all these features in mind. wolrah fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Oct 3, 2017 19:54
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Modus Pwnens posted:I mean typically you use the money to hire coders/testers/animators etc. Buy yeah, it doesn't help if the code base is a mess and nobody's used to managing a larger team, and results don't happen immediately. "You can't make a baby in one month with nine women" Presumably a lot of the stuff they're working on is just going to take time and we have to accept that. Keep in mind that CS:GO took, what, two years after release until it was finally good?
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Oct 3, 2017 19:58
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What you guys miss is this. Don't loot houses, loot bodies. Thats why you drop Pochinki or military.
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Oct 3, 2017 20:48
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There's only one type of building worth looting, and it's this:
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Oct 3, 2017 20:52
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slap me and kiss me posted:There's only one type of building worth looting, and it's this: That's a pretty cool picture.
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Oct 3, 2017 21:00
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who the hell is throwing those drat tires all over the place
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Oct 3, 2017 21:18
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Rex-Goliath posted:"You can't make a baby in one month with nine women" Yes in biology that's true. Anyone applying that "logic" to programming is an idiot.
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Oct 3, 2017 21:40
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ChesterJT posted:Yes in biology that's true. Anyone applying that "logic" to programming is an idiot. Yeah the software version is "adding human resources to a late software project makes it later" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
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Oct 3, 2017 21:43
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odiv posted:These: With $150k you could corner the market.
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I'm not a finance guy, but I don't think that's remotely the case?
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Oct 3, 2017 21:47
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ChesterJT posted:Yes in biology that's true. Anyone applying that "logic" to programming is an idiot. I should probably quit my job managing software projects then. I had no idea wolrah posted:I think this would be a great idea if they had a half dozen or so new maps, but for now while they have one released and two more at some stage of development I don't think they can stand to lose one just yet. Now this on the other hand is something that could definitely be parallelized and with what little we've heard they may actually be doing. Who knows. I wouldn't be at all surprised if most of their effort and concentration at the moment is on the server backend. Going from zero to 1.5 million concurrent players in the matter of months has probably been nothing but headaches for them. PIZZA.BAT fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Oct 3, 2017 22:08
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Someone in the subreddit made an offhand comment about the Unity store-bought assets in the game. Is that true? If that's the case, have they said anything about planning on replacing everything with their own stuff at some point? I ask mostly because I haven't really hard much of anything regarding that from people, and usually games using store bought assents get a ton of (I feel deserved) flack that this game hasn't been getting (that I've seen anyway, I'm pretty new to following this game). I mean sure it's Early Access but the game has been around for a bit now
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Oct 3, 2017 22:13
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It's not unity, and personally I don't give a poo poo about premade assets dunno why anyone would
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Oct 3, 2017 22:15
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Because they prefer their game assets locally grown and artistically handcrafted by true artists using only the finest of vertices and shaders. Anything else is a sure sign of a greedy developer laughing all the way to the bank as they extend early access targets forever.
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Oct 3, 2017 22:29
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mashed_penguin posted:Because they prefer their game assets locally grown and artistically handcrafted by true artists using only the finest of vertices and shaders. Yes, I would generally prefer that the game assets were made with a cohesive style and designed with the gameplay of that game in mind, and I probably don't need every molar modeled on my shootmans characters. E: Look, PUBG is a huge success for good reason, and it's an incredibly ambitious effort from a small developer (who suddenly got way more money and exposure than anyone could have expected). But come on, of course store-bought assets are going to look and play like a hodge-podge of store-bought assets. Modus Pwnens fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Oct 3, 2017 22:33
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mashed_penguin posted:Because they prefer their game assets locally grown and artistically handcrafted by true artists using only the finest of vertices and shaders. I mean yeah? Well made nice looking art assets are a good thing The game selling gangbusters shows that I guess that people mostly don't care that the game is so ugly but I feel people should care a little bit
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Oct 3, 2017 22:41
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Rex-Goliath posted:"You can't make a baby in one month with nine women" With $100,000,000 you can buy the best women in the world.
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Oct 3, 2017 22:41
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Macaluso posted:I mean yeah? Well made nice looking art assets are a good thing In 5 years or so, someone will come out with a nice looking version. In the meantime, I'll continue to get my rear end kicked with what is available at this moment.
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Oct 3, 2017 22:50
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I mean the player models and stuff are fairly horribly optimised so there is that. Also got killed by this guy just now: https://pubg.me/player/wukok/squad Was so fun. Surely, surely these hackers should get picked up within like 3 games. If you get like 20 kills per game 5 games in a row either you're the best player in the world or you're a cheating fuckstick. Shouldn't be hard to find and ban them. Also just found this guy: https://pubg.me/player/tangtou Seems legit. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Oct 3, 2017 22:55
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Macaluso posted:I mean yeah? Well made nice looking art assets are a good thing Their next map will probably be pretty telling in terms of quality going forward. They don't have the limited resources excuse any more.
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Macaluso posted:Someone in the subreddit made an offhand comment about the Unity store-bought assets in the game. Is that true? If that's the case, have they said anything about planning on replacing everything with their own stuff at some point? UE4 assets and yes. There are links on reddit to the exact assets. Mylta Powerplant for example is supposed to be used as an entire map for a game and there is a disclaimer on all the buildings saying they need to be significantly scaled down/reduced polygons or whatever to use in an actual game.
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Oct 4, 2017 00:57
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I mean, it's still the most fun game I've played in the last 15 years. Why do I care if they used Unity store-bought assets? Using off the shelf parts/components is a good idea in pretty much every engineering discipline.
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fletcher posted:I mean, it's still the most fun game I've played in the last 15 years. Why do I care if they used Unity store-bought assets? Using off the shelf parts/components is a good idea in pretty much every engineering discipline. It's a video game though, not fixing a coffee table
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Finally won my first solo queued Squad game. It took a lot of ratty play but fog really is the great equalizer when you're outnumbered Managed to knock out several members of the last three squads, creating total confusion until it was an easy 1v2 left 
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Jerkface posted:UE4 assets and yes. There are links on reddit to the exact assets. Mylta Powerplant for example is supposed to be used as an entire map for a game and there is a disclaimer on all the buildings saying they need to be significantly scaled down/reduced polygons or whatever to use in an actual game. The intro when you open the game mentions Simplygon, a tool for automatically reducing the complexity of models, so presumably they did actually scale the asset down. If they didn't then the Simplygon license was a waste of money 
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WhatEvil posted:Also just found this guy: https://pubg.me/player/tangtou  lol
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60 kills in one match? Get good, shitters.
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i don't care about prefab poo poo on maps. Can one of you build a new map and put it in the asset store
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Hellsau posted:
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plus i think i they were optimistically looking at 100k in sales in the first year, not literally the fastest selling game of all time. would make sense to start with store assets. doesn't matter either way though, a game just has to be fun.
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Zo posted:plus i think i they were optimistically looking at 100k in sales in the first year, not literally the fastest selling game of all time. would make sense to start with store assets. There was an article a while back where PU said he'd bet that the game would sell a million copies when he talked to the CEO of Bluehole. Of course, no time limit was attached to that statement. Edit: As far as that valuation goes, it's probably too optimistic given Bluehole's controversial past. Also, I can't help but wonder if we're going to hit market saturation soon and sales will slow. VulgarandStupid fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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Rex-Goliath posted:I should probably quit my job managing software projects then. I had no idea Work at Bluehole by chance?
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VulgarandStupid posted:Edit: As far as that valuation goes, it's probably too optimistic given Bluehole's controversial past. Also, I can't help but wonder if we're going to hit market saturation soon and sales will slow. and then they'll finally start banning the cheaters and team killers
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Bohemian Nights posted:
there's not much you can do to stop that. like when i used to bot diablo 3, my accounts would get banned every week like clockwork, but i just bought more.
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Over 12 million in sales. Let's push for servers defaulting to NA after a match ends by Q2 2018.
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