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Ok I added these two to The Tracker as I promised to add them 300 pages ago: Customizable NPC crew - 9/27/2013 "The difference between a Game Character slot converted into a NPC crew member and a regular NPC crew member is that you can customize the Game Character NPC’s look, name and backstory." Asset inheritance - 2/5/2013 "There is an additional bonus of being able to specify one of your Game Character NPC crewmembers as your successor in the event of your main characters death (See Death of a Spaceman), at which point the Game Character NPC will become playable again, with the assets of your deceased old character conveying." Skimmed through the list and marked some 3.0 stuff as complete/in alpha/broken. As always I was plenty generous; for example nobody would call loading a couple boxes in on a ship for a preset mission "Cargo Transport" but I marked it as 'in alpha' anyways. I believe this to be accurate, not 100% sure about Day and night cycles though.  I got banned from the Frontier Forums which was my main source of impartial google sheet editors so msg me if you want to waste time reading stuff like https://pastebin.com/9U1PzfNV
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Bofast posted:Welcome, neighbour! I feel like I've seen some of your footage. Are you the guy who compared an elevator sound to the charge shot sound from a Megaman game? Tolerable to Good when fresh, depending on the source. Absolutely gross when reheated.
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One of my favorite moments streaming the game for goons was when I kept running into a group of three guys in superhornets blockading Port Kareah or whatever the gently caress the only interesting place in the PU is right now. It was so beautifully simple: an aspect of the game funneled me and anyone else caught in it to one place, and so these guys parked there and immediately blew up anybody that showed up. Now, as any good Citizen will tell you my Aurora should be just as capable in the hands of an expert pilot as a Super Hornet is in the hands of a mediocre pilot, but after the third time I got blown up immediately on exiting QT, I kind of started to wonder if that might not be the case lol. It was brilliant on the part of those guys though - there was no fun in the game so they made their own, and CIG made it so incredibly easy for them. They might as well have been clubbing seals, and I can't loving blame them for it, because it's exactly what I would have done in their shoes too. That's part of the reason why Star Marine is my favorite thing to show people who don't know about SC. Here you have this "incredibly tactical" first person shooter that was billed as being like ARMA and "More lethal than COD" and you go "okay yeah, TTK is gonna be super quick" but then wait a second, here's a 10-page design document detailing how death is going to be permanent and you're going to have to roll a new character to inherit all your poo poo. Something's not jiving here, but maybe the shooter isn't as bad as you thought. So you go play a round and people are dropping like flies. You don't even have to aim really, you just hose someone down and they die almost instantly. So you think "Okay, well... there must be some way to mitigate this, maybe move super tactically like ARMA or maybe there's some kind of gadgets or abilities to help you survive like Titanfall or something." Nope, haha, go gently caress yourself. The movement is horribly clunky and there's no 'sneaking' anywhere because of the poo poo level design, and if you thought gadgets were here well actually no because see that was the Illfonic build and it wasn't up to Chris's standards so now gadgets are coming in 20XX. Just... none of this poo poo works together even the tiniest bit, and it's amazing in how complex the stupidity of it all really is, especially when you see people defending it all by handwaving their own inability to cope with it away by being like "Oh well I'll always have an escort," or "I'm only going to stay in high-sec zones," or "I'm just that good" like FTR said. Citizens are the "Some day I'll own this boot" meme come to life and given a reddit account. 
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This shouldn't be overlooked. This is, in a nutshell, what happens when crobbler is in charge of a game's development. This is why it took 3 years after Microsoft took over Digital Anvil to release Freelancer. This is a snapshot of what's in his brain. He had to literally have told someone to track argon levels. The backers want cargo, trading, bounty hunting, exploration, farming, repair scaffolds. They want research and design on weapons, power plants, and various ship subsystems, countless other things. Argon is being tracked. This image alone is a stunning shot of why this project is in a death march.
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Beet Wagon posted:Just... none of this poo poo works together even the tiniest bit, and it's amazing in how complex the stupidity of it all really is, especially when you see people defending it all by handwaving their own inability to cope with it away by being like "Oh well I'll always have an escort," or "I'm only going to stay in high-sec zones," or "I'm just that good" like FTR said. During every one of my excursions to the PTU over the weekend, I ran into people in chat bitching about griefers and complaining that people who were there just to ruin their experience needed to get out. Now keep in mind this is a build that lags so badly that ship combat is physically impossible and basically every space port is a no-fire zone, so nobody's shooting FPS weapons either. I barely even saw other players for the most part. Your ships are now completely locked to the person spawning them (including turrets, so nobody else can crew the loving thing). There's basically no way to actively interfere with another player short of ramming or physically blocking them. Doesn't matter, Citizens still feel grief. It's going to be the world's saltiest loving playerbase if the game ever manages to come out.
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Beet Wagon posted:That's part of the reason why Star Marine is my favorite thing to show people who don't know about SC. I take none of the limb damage mechanics, or body dragging mechanics, or blood loss, etc. are in this tactical sim?
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Codezombie posted:I began to lose faith in SC the first time I loaded the hanger module (back when that was all there was) and it was a janky mess for a walk around a ship based on Cry Engine. That set off alarm bells. Then I forgot about it for a few months (or a year?), until the refund scandal and that Kotaku article about the nightmare that SC development was. And the final straw was GamesCom 2016 about the soon-to-come 3.0, which to me looked obviously fake gameplay in most parts and people kept defending it. That and: - The whole attitude of "lol we missed out set target dates, but we have a fix. No more estimates in the future". Because that's professionalism right there. - And then of course they realize they need more money, so they make new "schedules" anyway. - SQ42 in which I was the most invested in, turned out to be a trilogy (!) with a prelude (!) each chapter having the size of AAA games. From a company that has released NOTHING. And there's zero confidence that even the prelude will be received positively. - And all they've showed of SQ42 is some crappy footage (now about 3 years old), and then canceled relevant demos from every major event for the last 2 years. And most of that was before I even started following up with the relevant threads here on SA and found out how deep the loving rabbit hole goes and still keeps on going. I also realize now why SQ42 is not coming out anytime soon. Yes, it's probably Crobblers obsession with the motion capture and fidelity, but most importantly as a standalone single player game it HAS TO eventually have a proper release. It can't adhere to their ingenious model of "well the game is already out and people are playing it, and we are improving it as we go." That poo poo can't stick with SQ42.
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XK posted:This shouldn't be overlooked. This is, in a nutshell, what happens when crobbler is in charge of a game's development. This is why it took 3 years after Microsoft took over Digital Anvil to release Freelancer. Tracking CO2 I get, I'd even get if they were tracking CO (for killing people quicker with on board fires) but tracking nitrogen levels and Argon! Why? For breathing purposes all that matters is the ratio of O2 to CO2. But, FIDELITY!
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It accounts for the mass of the gasses in the room, the cross sectional area of the doors, and the flow rate through the doors. What the gently caress? Why? Who gives a poo poo about argon? I'm so upset about argon!
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EightAce posted:there will be a Pusher thing though. Ive seen it....................... Can The Curse really be broken after all this time, EightAce? I know Foundry has some magic Germans on the payroll but we’re talking seriously dark mojo at work here considering all the projects she seems to have either tanked or been cut from. “The Doll” - Crowdfunded web series, with Sandi Gardiner putting in an extremely delicate and nuanced performance as Sunny Maaraw. STATUS: Abandoned? “The Eighth House” - Independent feature starring Sandi as Mathilda, a psychic prone to exaggerated reactions of diabolical evil. STATUS: Foreclosed. “American Satan” - Independent feature with Sandi as the conservative religious mother of a boy who joins a band that rocks for The Devil. STATUS: Role exorcised from final cut, allowing the film to see theatrical release (which Chris & Sandi apparently despite her excision.) And that’s just scratching the surface. We still don’t even know what part called for the constant tattoos, unless she got that feral viper gig she was talking about on RTV years ago. It too perhaps was shot then cursed then binned... I guess The Curse occasionally faltered, like when she got a word in as a focus group member on Hulu’s “The Mentor”. But for the most part, everything she appears in gets blackholed or removes her so it can escape The Curse. Will Squadron somehow break this dark magic that prevents her and Chris’s entire “let’s move HQ to Hollywood and backdoor our way into the industry we both really prefer to making stupid game?” Those Germans better bring some Istari-level wizardry to the occasion or I fear they shall not break the spell... (But I hope hope hope they do!)  Pure gold!
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Sarsapariller posted:During every one of my excursions to the PTU over the weekend, I ran into people in chat bitching about griefers and complaining that people who were there just to ruin their experience needed to get out. Also, keep in mind that this is still PTU, so most of the people who literally are going to be there specifically to make citizens feel grief (read: goons) aren't in yet. When this thing goes live it's gonna be loving incredible. 3.0 by itself is a masterwork of "how not to do things in your video game." Colostomy Bag posted:I take none of the limb damage mechanics, or body dragging mechanics, or blood loss, etc. are in this tactical sim? Blood loss is in, in the sense that if you get shot it starts a timer and if you don't heal fully with one of the little injection healthpack thingies you'll eventually just keel over. Same as how it works if you take even the slightest damage in the PU, like when you bounce too hard and hurt your legs. One of my streams I couldn't get the landing from "EVA" to "walking on the landing pad" right and would hurt my legs and I had exactly the amount of time it took to get in my ship's spacechair before I died. It happened probably a dozen times because I was laughing so hard at the idea of dying from falling a couple feet in a zero-g environment I couldn't convince myself to stop doing it.
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The Titanic posted:I hope that some day we get a quality post mortem from this. I’d love to know how many of the problems CIG faced and continue to face are because Chris Roberts felt like everything was an easy task that should have been done in a week. Harvard Business School cases will be written on the incompetence/mismanagement of this project.
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XK posted:This shouldn't be overlooked. This is, in a nutshell, what happens when crobbler is in charge of a game's development. This is why it took 3 years after Microsoft took over Digital Anvil to release Freelancer. How can I accurately predict crop yields from my solar farm if I don't know argon levels, smartass?
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FailureToReport posted:This is a big part of how people get caught up in it honestly, I've seen so many people come across my channel with this grand fully worked out scenarios they 100% expect to be in game based off a tiny snippet that Chris or someone else at CIG says about a mechanic they would like to one day make. The term is theoricrafting done by theoricrafters Over here it may also be referred to as Dreams or Dreeeeeaaaaaams
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"The best part? It's coming in 2017" made me lol. I'm glad SC ages all the commentary like fine wines. drat these need to come back...
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AbstractNapper posted:I also realize now why SQ42 is not coming out anytime soon. Yes, it's probably Crobblers obsession with the motion capture and fidelity, but most importantly as a standalone single player game it HAS TO eventually have a proper release. It can't adhere to their ingenious model of "well the game is already out and people are playing it, and we are improving it as we go." That poo poo can't stick with SQ42. SQ42 should've been the easier thing. It shares its engine and content with SC. They can't release SQ42 until they finalize the mechanics of SC. Even if they figured out all the issues with the expensive actors' motion capture performance, Crobbler still checkmated himself on the single player game. 
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Beet Wagon posted:Dreamers, man. They're dreamers. By never actually giving them anything but fancy "lore" posts and ship brochures, CIG has enabled them to make their perfect game in their own heads. I can distinctly remember spending time thinking about how running a Retaliator was gonna work, because at the time all I had to go on was this: WAIT! You saw a design of a bomber that had a captains quarters on one side and the bombs and bombing bay on the other side and didn't think that was the most retarded thing ever for a ship that is supposed to enter a gravity well?
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Sarsapariller posted:During every one of my excursions to the PTU over the weekend wait, you bought back in AND have a subscription?
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Daztek posted:Some of the moons have different gravity, I think They all happen to be between 0G and 1G so it's all good.
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Lladre posted:WAIT! Actually, if we want to get really technical, I didn't see that until after I had bought it, I think. At the time I'm pretty sure  I don't think we got the layout until later, in a Jump Point or something. Not that it mattered, because that ended up being nothing like the final internal layout anyway. And, if we're being really honest that doesn't even matter either, because there's no defense against the accusation that buying a ship from CIG is an absolutely stupid loving thing to do. They're all terrible in their own unique way and much like  you should never give CIG money.e: most of it was external, there were some inside shots of the cockpit and stuff Beet Wagon fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Nov 28, 2017 |
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Codezombie posted:Tracking CO2 I get, I'd even get if they were tracking CO (for killing people quicker with on board fires) but tracking nitrogen levels and Argon! Why? Technically, all that matters is the partial pressure of O2. You can breathe high levels of CO2, as long as there is enough O2. Your mind and body might completely freak out, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbogen
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XK posted:Technically, all that matters is the partial pressure of O2. You can breathe high levels of CO2, as long as there is enough O2. Your mind and body might completely freak out, though. Well it's true, you *do* learn something new everyday. Thanks commando.
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sorry for any confusion on this. Sq42 is not coming out any time soon. In fact it will probably never come out at all. There is currently a move to roll it into the glorious vision that is Star Citizen. Anyway that's not the point. At some point over the next month you will see some A lister movie trailers (And Sandi). A black gentleman sitting in a canteen. A space ship battle of epic epicness and some mopping for the real die hard fans who have followed development. Chris has some new shoes especially for the Christmas show and a new jumper
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Virtual Captain posted:"The best part? It's coming in 2017" made me lol. I'm glad SC ages all the commentary like fine wines. Did you know that Cloud Imperium Games is dedicated to bring Girl Power back to gaming, Virtual Captain? Whether by demonstrating equitable hiring practices or by accurately, lovingly modeling the female form — both assets and animations like Hip Sway (rowr!)— CIG is studio at the forefront of a revolution of fairer treatment of the fairer gender! 
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EightAce posted:sorry for any confusion on this. Sq42 is not coming out any time soon. In fact it will probably never come out at all. There is currently a move to roll it into the glorious vision that is Star Citizen. Anyway that's not the point. At some point over the next month you will see some A lister movie trailers (And Sandi). What about the canteen scene, will there be lots of sitting And by sitting I mean glitching through the chairs
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AbstractNapper posted:Has there ever been an article about common red flags one should look for in crowdfunding to avoid scams? I've thrown a couple of things in here about what to look out for in a pitch, but kickstarter actually changed their rules because of some high profile failures, requiring a prototype for physicals as people got gipped for laser-driven razors and poo poo. There's literally an industry of people chasing VC money for pitches. My uncle is one such dodgy bastard who was on the run recently for securities fraud. I think he's currently attempting to extract cash from people on industrial level hydroponics, and usually this stuff is magnifying the upsides and minimizing the challenges. Hell, I think 'Only Fools and Horses' is probably a good primer.
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Beet Wagon posted:One of my favorite moments streaming the game for goons was when I kept running into a group of three guys in superhornets blockading Port Kareah or whatever the gently caress the only interesting place in the PU is right now. It was so beautifully simple: an aspect of the game funneled me and anyone else caught in it to one place, and so these guys parked there and immediately blew up anybody that showed up. Look at this IDIOT who knows nothing about the ingame lore. Star Marine is a game within a game in a cyberworld where you connect to Electronic Access and play ActiveView games such as Star Marine that will have organized esports teams where youll be able to compete for prizes. This was all explained months, if not years, ago and its clear that you are pushing a god drat agenda. Now, to take a page out of my good friend and associates book, Go gently caress yourself! 
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XK posted:It accounts for the mass of the gasses in the room, the cross sectional area of the doors, and the flow rate through the doors. Did you miss the memo from CR where he asked to change the pitch of your voice if you inhale Helium ?
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EightAce posted:sorry for any confusion on this. Sq42 is not coming out any time soon. In fact it will probably never come out at all. There is currently a move to roll it into the glorious vision that is Star Citizen. Anyway that's not the point. At some point over the next month you will see some A lister movie trailers (And Sandi). Will there be carefully placed toilet rolls?
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Golli posted:What's the term for people who buy tons of GW figures, maybe paint them, will theorycraft endlessly, but never actually play more than a couple of hours for any number of reasons? Goon? Warhammer is a bit loving vertical for me because I'm either looking for pickup games with the kind of middle-aged man that plays Warhammer, or teenagers. The painting keeps my fine motor control in, and the fluff is pretty extensive, going back to 1980, when it was funnier and less grimdark. I also occasionally build spaceships and submarines. What you're looking for is Grognard, and they're everywhere. Ben's a Grog. FailureToReport posted:That would absolutely be me and why I never bought an Army and kept hoping one day GW would come out with a decent 40k universe computer game. I die a little more inside each time some studio tries and flops. :hifive:
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Quavers posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps1ZL4kxJLI What I don't get with the cultists is they preach fidelity graphics etc etc but the movement of every person and ship I've seen is so janky and weird. It's the opposite of fidelity and is so unrealistic. Makes you not want to play. LIke how do they not see that? Overwatch characters move way way better by comparison.
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Beet Wagon posted:Citizens are the "Some day I'll own this boot" meme come to life and given a reddit account. "Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
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I hope Chris will see another ww2 battleships movie soon starring the kaiten, and that he decides to include it in sc. That would be the perfect goon vessel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiten
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EightAce posted:A black gentleman sitting in a canteen. A space ship battle of epic epicness and some mopping for the real die hard fans who have followed development. Will it be black? I'd be incredibly disappointed if it wasn't in black. Also, I hope your calls prove correct, it would be funny.
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The Titanic posted:Women, or should I say females!? In the space game of killing and pirates!? Pshaw! I thought the ratio would be 10 females to each male.
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Hav posted:"Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." It was chilling to hear Sandi saying that during that recent CIG meeting that was secretly recorded.
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Bayonnefrog posted:What I don't get with the cultists is they preach fidelity graphics etc etc but the movement of every person and ship I've seen is so janky and weird. It's the opposite of fidelity and is so unrealistic. Makes you not want to play. LIke how do they not see that? Overwatch characters move way way better by comparison. Man, even every shot of the planet I've seen looks like poo poo. Star Citizen honestly looks like little more than a Steam Greenlight asset flip thrown together with 40% more care than most.
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