thatguy posted:

Imagine how much better the thread would have been if talking about LOD was banned instead of anime.

Mr.Tophat posted:

I've been shitposting for the last five hours

and I didn't come here to do it

I got the withdrawal shakes, but like, not the shakes, like the opposite of that in a strange, new, exciting and thrilling way, like if you were did a load of acid when you're used to mushrooms and when you come back to mushrooms you're like

I remember you

Is any of this getting through to you? Is any of this making any sense at all?

Mr Fronts posted:

THE TRIAL

Good morning, Judge, your honour.
Crytek will plainly show
Chris Roberts who now stands before you
Was caught red-handed selling spaceships.
Selling spaceships of a high-fidelitous nature;
This will not do.

(call the warlord)

I always said I'd totally call it
In my July blog post.
If they'd let me loving finish
I'd have burned it down, the end.
But my hands were tired from all
the tweeting and the blogging.
Roberts got away with millions,
Let me revisit how this all started (not MY choice, but now it's war) back in 2015, when their bullshit refund (bad move) closed my account without my having asked for <...4230 words deleted...>

Spaceships,
Gullible nerds will buy spaceships,
We're going whaling.
We keep pretending we're writing a game.
Spaceships,
gullible nerds will buy spaceships.

(call the wife)

You little poo poo you're in it now,
I hope they throw away the key.
You should have put my name
ahead of Gary O, but no!
You had to take forever,
now they'll never see my A-list acting.
Vic's Mom is beneath my station,
Wait, where'd that scene go?!?

(call the master of ships)

Baaaaaaaaaabe!
Come to Benny, baby, let me hold you
In my arms.
M'lud I only wanted him to
remake Wing Commander.
Why'd he ban me from the building?
Judge, your honor, let me feel his hair.

Spaceships,
Millions of dollars of spaceships,
tanks, bikes and land plots.
We even made a door for the cafe,
which looked like a...
spaceship,
gullible nerds will buy spaceships.

(the judge)

The ownage from this Ortwin guy is
incontrovertible,
there's no need to hear
arguments at all.
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before
a smackdown so amazing
it transcends the rule of law.
The way you rekt the critics,
with your canny analytics,
Fills me with the urge to buy an Idris!

Since, Cry-REKT, you're a bunch of no-good geeks,
I sentence you to watch an episode of Bugsmashers every week!
TEAR DOWN THE CODE!
TEAR DOWN THE CODE!
TEAR DOWN THE CODE!
TEAR DOWN THE CODE!

D_Smart posted:

It's false. And the manual was about 120 pages. They shipped a butchered version that was under 30 pages because they didn't want to freak gamers out. This despite the fact that the game was already billed as a hardcore simulation.

D_Smart posted:

Universal Combat series is the spiritual successor to Battlecruiser series. I branched it off after adding new tech, including fps etc. More here.

It's currently on Steam for $9.99 and I am currently working on updating it through DLC purchased separately. The LP stream above is from TLC (see below). I played for 6hrs straight. No bugs. No crashes. No performance issues. And I didn't even get to cover 50% of the game's features.

UCCE - Lyrius Conflict (DLC)

http://3000ad.com/games/universal-combat-lyrius-conflict/

http://3000ad.com/ucce30-changelog/

UCCE:

http://3000ad.com/games/universal-combat-collectors-edition2-2015/

http://3000ad.com/ucce20-changelog/

ManofManyAliases posted:

And did BC even have 120 pages of poo poo worth to do?

ManofManyAliases posted:

Any goon discounts?

Bootcha posted:

I want to share thoughts about what's going to happen ITYOOL 2018:

5) People are really disappointed by Sunk Cost Galaxy, but still prefer it to reading Derek's blogs which strangely will have more actual info but gently caress if anyone can be bothered to read it. SCG gets a mention on Kotaku and RPS, Polygon and PCGamer summarize like they knew all along. Eurogamer retro plays Wing Commander 3 and has epiphany.

thatguy posted:

Imagine how much better the thread would have been if talking about LOD was banned instead of anime.

thatguy posted:

Danknificent posted:

I personally find LOD fascinating. Even though nice people in the thread have tried to explain it to me, I still don't understand what it's supposed to be. I've gone to the steam page and looked. The same with Battlecruiser and all that; I'm still struggling to understand what genre it falls in or who it's for.

So I guess what I'm saying is I'll take posts about LOD over posts about anime any day.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Oh look the fun police.

alphabettitouretti posted:

Derek what is this about beating up a Coke machine. This is the first time I'm hearing this story.

Danknificent posted:

I personally find LOD fascinating. Even though nice people in the thread have tried to explain it to me, I still don't understand what it's supposed to be. I've gone to the steam page and looked. The same with Battlecruiser and all that; I'm still struggling to understand what genre it falls in or who it's for.

Danknificent posted:

I personally find LOD fascinating. Even though nice people in the thread have tried to explain it to me, I still don't understand what it's supposed to be. I've gone to the steam page and looked. The same with Battlecruiser and all that; I'm still struggling to understand what genre it falls in or who it's for.

So I guess what I'm saying is I'll take posts about LOD over posts about anime any day.

Hav posted:

Have you ever worried about your catapults being cleared quick enough to get another BARCAP into the air? Have you ever done a quick back of the envelope calculation to figure out the fuel consumption of a tank column? Have you ever had to reduce energy allocations to HET your way out of a hellbore attack? Have you ever hankered after a game where you could be seriously in the poo poo but limp your rear end back to base?

It's a grognardy game for grognards. Some of the finest simulations out there have the worst loving interfaces because that's not why you bought them. I'm a huge fan of CMANO because it does a fairly decent job of simulating air and sea warfare, but it's literally a windows application. Combat flight sims get even worse, because the amount of bullshit that you'll put up with to fly a fidelitous Bf-109 is quite high if the flight model is sound.

Hell, we still play Silent Hunter III because it's the best wartime sub simulator there actually is. So Derek's stuff _appeals_ to that segment of the population.

It's more the fun-sharia. You have to voluntarily follow thatguy's rules rather than their being mandated.

Preen Dog posted:

Me too. Derek, would you be generous enough to elevator pitch LOD for us? Honest to God, it's not clear from gameplay videos or the website.

Like:

In Mario Brothers the goal is to get to the end of the stages before the timer runs out. The challenge is from hazards and enemies that kill you. You win by avoiding the hazards and completing all the stages. You lose by running out of lives.

In Counter Strike the goal is to defeat the opposing team by either 1) killing all the opposing team members or 2) completing some kind of objective before the clock runs out. The challenge is surviving the hostility of the opposing players. You win if your team survives or completes your objective within the time limit. You lose if the opposing team survives or completes their objective with the time limit.

SomethingJones posted:

Culling All Devs

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Oh look the fun police.

D_Smart posted:

It's rubbish invented by Take Two execs in an attempt to hurt my credibility after I went public that they had shipped the game knowing that it was not ready. It was also the first time that I took legal action against a publisher. And won.

D_Smart posted:

It's a combined arms online-only game. It's played primarily in fps mode, but also has air/space craft, as well as ground vehicles and naval craft.

It's like Planetside without the complexity.

D_Smart posted:

Precisely. I think the manual is also a dead giveaway

D_Smart posted:

Sure. Read all three tabs (About/Key Features/Player Guide)

http://lodgame.com/info/

D_Smart posted:

It's like Planetside without the complexity.

thatguy posted:

Then, people can tell me that my posts are, in fact, bad.

thatguy posted:

Then, in a few pages someone can bring randomly bring up LOD again and we can repeat the process.