Sillybones posted:

Does this not make you sick as a dog almost immediately?

Warhawk109 posted:

So I got a response from BFI regarding my FOI request on CIGs submitted documents required for British Video Game certification:

“Apologies for the delayed response. We are just waiting for feedback from relevant departments.

The delay has been caused by staff absence and sickness.

We will aim to provide a response before the 27th of October.

Once again

Best regards,

BFI”

I am hopeful.

AlbieQuirky posted:

Friday, October 27, begins at noon UTC (in Offenbach, Germany). Or maybe not, because as usual the RSI site is poo poo and has outdated information compared to this press release. So it may actually begin at 2 or 2:30 UTC.

D_Smart posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/76ti3f/wtf_where_do_i_need_to_go_from_here_any_help_is/

D_Smart posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/76ti3f/wtf_where_do_i_need_to_go_from_here_any_help_is/

D_Smart posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/76ti3f/wtf_where_do_i_need_to_go_from_here_any_help_is/

D_Smart posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/76ti3f/wtf_where_do_i_need_to_go_from_here_any_help_is/

Blue On Blue posted:

Is it really fair to call it crowdfunding when that campaign ended with kickstarter?

SpaceCurtisLeMay posted:

Thing is elite has a decently solid core that needs gameplay added. Star citizen doesn’t even have a solid core

thatguy posted:

Chris needs to be Necromancy/Summoning.

Scruffpuff posted:

I have an anecdote that reminds me somewhat of Star Citizen.

Several years ago my wife and I were playing World of Warcraft. We had just killed a crocolisk and after it died, my wife commented that she liked when they flipped over when they died and had their feet up in the air. I looked at the recently killed creature on my monitor - clearly right-side-up with feet tucked underneath. I asked what she was smoking, she asked if I was blind, and this escalated rapidly into a series of increasingly heated insults into the other person's mental faculties until finally one of us thought to look at the other person's monitor.

Lo and behold, on one of our monitors the creature was dead right-side-up, on the other, he was upside-down. A light bulb went off in my head - of course it would work this way! What better way to create some simple variation in the gameplay while limiting network overhead then having important states, such as the location of an enemy and its status as alive or dead, transmitted by the server, and unimportant gameplay states, like the noises its making, its attack animation choice, and which model is used for after it's killed, handled by the client?

After all, what kind of lunatic would care that everyone saw the exact same thing even if it has absolutely no impact on gameplay?

That question was answered by the frantic handwavings of an aging, overweight, autistic man in November of 2012.

Combat Theory posted:

wheeeeeeeffffff chchchchchchch

Solarin posted:

This post is really good

Cao Ni Ma posted:

3.0 is at least a month and a half away from release and that's good enough of an excuse to block refunds.

Can't wait till a no bullshit AG rips them apart

Lt_Tofu posted:

So a theater near me is playing American Satan but I don't know if there is enough comedy value to justify the ticket...

Thoatse posted:

Rad Russian posted:

I think the burning question is whether ANY scenes with Mae Demming made it in. It would be hilarious if she got completely cut since she's not mentioned on any marketing materials at all. Go for science!

The fact that she dragged Croberts to the premier and walked out of there with a death face would make it even funnier that way. Obviously buy a ticket to an actual good movie like Blade Runner and then sneak into American Satan. Don't give them any money.

Toops posted:

loving cat bird drugs is who wrote these patch notes:

Toops posted:

idk, I don't think the server needs to run the full physics sim for each ship, nor do the physics ticks need to be synced. Client calculates all the physics, sends position/rotation and velocity to the server, server sends it to the clients who need to know, after doing sanity checks to make sure the parameters aren't haxmode. Other clients handle interpolation, etc.

I'm just spitballing, so let's think of some edge cases.

What happens when two ships are about to collide? Well, the server is sending ship_1's position and velocity to ship_2, and vice-versa, and each client knows what type of ships are around them (from which you can get other ships' mass), so maybe collisions can be handled client-side. Every client can calculate collision force with mass and velocity (p = mv, F = dp/dt).

Let's say in this example, ship_2 is a plucky Aurora trying to ram ship_1, a Connie. If this game is ever released, seems like the prototypic Goonrathi use-case. From ship_1's perspective, you would see ship_2 approach, rotate to optimal ramming trajectory, accelerate to ramming speed. Because the server is sending ship_2's position data at (tick rate), and you're interpolating between ticks, you should have enough info to calculate when the collision will happen, where the impact occurs on your hull, and what the imparted force will be. You apply the collision force to yourself locally, and keep sending position/rotation/velocity data to the server as you rapidly change direction and rotation from the resultant force of impact. ship_2 does the same as it responds to the collision.

The challenge here is network latency and resolving when and where the collision happened between different versions of the simulation (client_1, client_2, and server). Both clients will see something slightly different, and it's easy to envision a scenario where both ships wind up clipping through each other. If ship_2 thinks the collision happened 100ms later than ship_1, then ship_2 is still moving "into" ship_1 after ship_1 handled the collision and is spinning around. In this case, you'd have to do something clever to reconcile the 3 simulations. If the server "takes over" and imparts the collision forces on both clients, that could help. Definitely want to add logic that says "if collision happened < Xmsec ago from object Y, don't allow another collision with object Y."

Overall it's a tough problem to solve, but I still don't think you need the server to run a full physics sim for each ship. Just need clever tricks to reconcile the 3 sims in/around a collision.

Rugganovich posted:

This very problem has been the bane of racing games. I'll use Project Cars/2 as an example of where they have never been able to get this right in Single player, which then extrapolates into MP. Their collision physics and deformation are probably up there with the worst out there.
When this was raised during the PCars alpha, Ian bellend trotted out the urban myth about manufacturers not allowing it, lol. Yet other racing games have visual deformation/damage of licensed cars.

With that said, are there still bad collision registrations in the hacked SP in Star Citizen, because if so................

Lt_Tofu posted:

So a theater near me is playing American Satan but I don't know if there is enough comedy value to justify the ticket...