Jobbo_Fett posted:

Lol, drat.

What about the 26 other contractors they outsourced the game to?

PederP posted:

You can get refunds on Steam, as long as you haven't played for more than 2 hours. I think this goes for bundles, as well.

As for the criticism of Derek's games, and I'm not talking about your review in particular, it irks me how harsh some of it is and how some people can even attempt a comparison with Star Citizen. His games are not pretending to be something they're not - they are obviously indie and niche games. They don't have the million dollar budgets of Star Citizen (and many other comparable games). There is even the usual Steam Early Access disclaimer that this should be bought as-is, may not be finished or may not end up as expected/promised/intended. Those are disclaimers not found when "pledging" for Star Citizen. In fact, Chris Roberts has repeatedly stated this game will be delivered, and essentially made pledging a pre-purchase (at least in the EU, consumer law doesn't care about pledge/purchase semantics, but about your promises). If Star Citizen was honest about being more than just their level of ambition, but also the possibility of failure, the design/technical challenges facing them and hadn't reneged on their promises of financial accountability, I don't think many of us would have an issue with it.

The fact that Derek has a sort-of similar game in development, and with a much smaller budget, and yet dares to stick his neck out and criticize CIG, is commendable. Even someone who disagrees with him should respect that. He's got a lot more on the line than anonymous goons, games journalists or even self-doxxing ex-backers.

It's deplorable how some SC backers paint him as an envious developer trying to piggyback on the fame of Star Citizen. For personal gain, he'd benefit a lot more from (even faking) support of CIG, their tech and business practices. I guess they could argue the resentment and envy angle, but even then I think it's a low blow to review bomb his games, make unreasonable comparisons and ignore the very obvious indie nature of them.

intardnation posted:

the faceware/cam company didnt get a sign off.

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Cage, particularly, is painted as a figure hard to work with. He is apparently ironically nicknamed "Papa", "God" and "Sun King" for his autocratic approach to working, for demanding long hours and for not listening to others.

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"You want to talk about homophobia?" he said. "I work with Ellen Page, who fights for LGBT rights. You want to talk about racism? I work with Jesse Williams, who fights for civil rights in the USA... Judge me by my work."

SelenicMartian posted:

boviscopophobic posted:

I noticed that unrelated text subtitles flicker briefly onto the screen occasionally, as if the guy is continually in telepathic conversation with NPCs all over the 'Verse. This isn't the first 3.0 video where I've seen this phenomenon. Just a couple of instances below:

Someone in the verse is probably interacting with the shop at the same time, and this thing broadcasts every action of every player to every client regardless of range and sublevel.

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

More likely is that everything is broadcast to everyone but the decision to show the dialogue is client-authoritative, and said client is chugging hard enough that it shows up for a split second before the client manages to figure out that it shouldn't be shown. The alternative was probably "if we default to not showing the dialogue, sometimes it doesn't show up at all".

Naturally this opens new and exciting future avenues for griefing. Competitive PvP games like Counterstrike, Overwatch, and World of Warcraft have a lot of special code server side to make sure things like "positional data for people that your client shouldn't be able to see behind a wall" aren't broadcast in the first place, to prevent client hacks like "making the walls invisible" from actually doing anything for you.

posted:

We went down to a planet to pickup a greycat and stuff it into my freelancer's cargo hold. Brought it back to olisar and drove it around inside the C terminal for laughs.

"What happens if you try and get out of a seat next to a wall?" So we science'd. Animation clips me through olisars walls and I spasm for a bit, then appear outside olisar in EVA.

I make my way back in. "What happens if you drive off the landing pad?" We tried it. Disappointingly normal results. Although the greycat does somehow come to a stop rather than continuously moving in one direction as you may expect.

"Okay, let's get it back in the cargo hold." My friend was feeling lazy so he sat in the greycat and had me bring the freelancer around. I tried to get into the freelancer through the side door and ended up in my floor. But instead of exiting to menu I started playing with the emotes. Since they're mapped to keys you can just spam them all and in some cases they displace you, so I managed to pop out. Birthing style.

Crashed when trying to get back in and during the time my friend tried to solo get the greycat back in, only to set it on fire. Still works tho. Just massively lit with an orange glow.

We also started playing with the emotes. Ever need to stop when in EVA? Hit an emote. You stop dead in your tracks and do the emote. It's also just funny to slide your fingers back and forth along the emote keys and watch the ensuing spasm. Make sure 'sleep' is one of them for the funniest effect as the animations immediately skip you to the first frame.

"What happens if we mix elevator and greycat?" So off to levski we go. I've fallen into levski and gotten stuck several times so I wanted to experiment with a vehicle. That actually worked fine. But I ended up falling out of the elevator and through the planet, after falling 20 km's into the planet away from levski I clocked I would run out of oxygen before falling the remainder 600km's to the other end.

Virtual Captain posted:

Someone in the verse is probably interacting with the shop at the same time, and this thing broadcasts every action of every player to every client regardless of range and sublevel.



I'm calling it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHLwAuM1J8c&t=9m16s
2015 Chris: "Cos really it was built as a single player game so a lot of the updating is player centric; but the problem we have is so for instance if there's sixteen players on the Crusader map and they all go to different comms arrays. Well they're all triggering different AI in different spots on the server [...] and then it's also telling every single client what all these AI are doing"

his nibs posted:

Dreams:Complete

Crobblers must be proud

https://clips.twitch.tv/UgliestAuspiciousWebCmonBruh

tuo posted:

drive-by doggo post

Solarin posted:

That dog's coat is extremely fidelitous

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posted:

Greetings Fellow Citizens, Alpha 3.0 is simply unplayable! It has been out for weeks now, and every time I try to play the frame rates are so low (they make me sick) or I simply get a hard crash. Yes, I report them. If this was any game, they would be receiving so much criticism. However, Star citizen has us hostage by our psychology to love the things we have invested so much in (Both time and money). I have read all the tricks (made changes) and I have a fast modern system with a good connection. I am not sure how so many are having such a good time. I wonder if you all are judging your experiences fairly? Honestly, RSI should be ashamed to sell this to people for $45. They should charge a fair alpha steam rate, give you starter ship to play as long as you like and the option to buy a full ship or the game if you love it. I do not understand all the adulation.
To the constant crush of defenders: I am a kick starter backer, read about the game three times a week (online or podcast), have put more than $500 in to this game. So I believe I have every right to comment on my experience. In fact I believe that anyone paying for any package has that right at anytime. However, if you are going to bring the hate or down votes, please inform me of how much money and time someone has to invest into this game in order to be able to respectfully criticize it.

Dementropy posted:

Beet Wagon posted:

Is this the part where I break out the screenshot of a reddit admin telling me they could find no link between OSC and Derek, or no?

intardnation posted:

MWO didnt die after the golden mechs? or Niko's crap? and Goons are playing it?

Dementropy posted:

Nyast posted:

Somebody mentionned that the most likely interpretation was "CIG can use Cryengine for Star citizen, and Star citizen only (at the exclusion of other CIG projects)" which would be coherent with the idea that the license only applies to a single project.

The funny thing is, if you read CIG answer, it doesn't say that. Even though that would be the easiest / strongest defense.

Virtual Captain posted:

Solarin posted:

fallen backers hahaha

Tank Boy Ken posted:

Yes.

Solarin posted:

fallen backers hahaha

Beet Wagon posted:

The last time OSC was posting heavily and backers were enraged I requested an alt check because there were enough discrepancies between the post styles I figured it was a pretty safe bet they weren't the same guy. Of course if I was wrong it would have been a blue on blue incident to rival that of Leonard Skinly, but that's just more lols for the thread. Anyway here's what I got back (I have no idea why Hogarth mentioned rules-breaking, since I specifically told him that the poster was abiding by the rules):