Maltloaf posted:

Paid $10 to post this sloppy GIF, but the for hours of laughter I hope it's well spent. Thank you all.

The Titanic posted:

4) Jonny , Sys Designer
Q: What kinda of NON Combat equipment are planned?
A: Multitool, a pocket switcharmy knife thing. Multiple attachments, Cutting attachment, pocket welder and cutter. Can cut through surfaces! Repair and salvage attachment, go to the damaged part and fix your ship! Superficial damage only. Mini tractor attachment! In Zero G, can push and pull things, pull yourself towards objects heavier than yourself. So... COD IW's grappling hook? (ok i'm not going to listen to the rest)

big nipples big life posted:

what an entrance


I wonder if croberts has seen a crobear yet. I hope so.

Maltloaf posted:

Paid $10 to post this sloppy GIF, but the for hours of laughter I hope it's well spent. Thank you all.

big nipples big life posted:

It's fake as hell

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Is Beyond Good and Evil 2 more ambitious than Star Citizen?



It's a weird comparison, but they have a common (ground?) upon which they stand -- real-time, geometry-based space travel. So of the two, why do we think Beyond Good and Evil 2 is more ambitious?

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There’s an impressive video that was released a while ago showcasing the true geometry and real-time finesse required to understand, and master, Star Citizen, of a planetside entry, ship-landing and then third-person exit into a fully populated interior. And there’s no question this was an impressive display of raw design and technology. But the content we saw behind closed doors at this year’s E3 for Beyond Good and Evil 2 easily trumped that. Largely because Beyond Good and Evil 2 isn’t taking its space-faring overly seriously. Theirs is an action-RPG sci-fi future where rules can be written on-the-fly to accommodate artistic vision and fun gameplay.

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But it’s time to head to the surface via the players’ spaceships -- (which look drat cool, we might add), and it’s in this real-time transition that the gravity of the game begins to present itself, because once our players emerge into the larger game-world outside, the scene is breathtaking. Imagine cinematic worlds and marvels like Blade Runner, The Fifth Element and Ghost in the Shell, but remove the dark neon edge -- that poo poo’s for Cyberpunk 2077, anyway -- and replace it with a GTA-esque world that isn’t so much horizontal in its potential traversal, but super-vertical. Flying cars of varying design move like blood cells through a vascular system, which is poignant in metaphor, because they all also look to serve a function to the heartbeat of Ganesha City, which is the name of the place our BCD is taking place.

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It needs to be noted that at this point, the game is very impressive and shows a lot of promise, but outside of the planetside freedom, the game’s gorgeous visuals, the RPG content and some information on the social structure of Ganesha City we’re not seeing a huge amount of game-changing content. You can upgrade your spaceship, and I take note to list the modular components up for customisation and tinkering in: Modules, Gear, Cosmetic, Cabin, Energy and Engine. And rightfully at this point, it’s not a stretch to just start thinking of Beyond Good and Evil 2 as a GTA-like game in the future and in space (or Watch Dogs, to keep Ubi happy). But we’re about to be thrown a cosmic curveball that flips the script on that analogy and Beyond Good and Evil 2 goes beyond even my wildest expectations...

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“We've done many, many engines in the past and this one is by far the most ambitious that we are creating.”

The allusion here is to “game-space”. Let’s pick up where we left off before Guillaume Brunier gave us some information on their new game-engine. Our demoers have finished off the Ganesha City Police (to liberate captured pirates, for context) and now after upgrading our spaceship, we head upwards, towards the vacuum of space. Our vehicle is fighting gravity and the planet’s atmosphere and a blanket of fire engulfs the nose of our ship. It’s glorious, and behind us the view of the city shrinks -- in real-time. This isn’t a cleverly hidden load screen, either. It’s all true geometry, and before we know it, we break through the planet’s atmosphere and escape its gravitational pull. In front of us, in orbit around the planet is our Mothership -- a 500-metre long home for you and your crew.

You can dock your spaceship here and customise the poo poo out of it, too. In fact, we’re told that while the spaceship-to-spaceship combat (or “dogfighting”) in space, and in-atmosphere is cool, we’ll also engage in massive naval-esque space battles Mothership-to-Mothership, with the 360-degree battlefield that is space, playing an important part in tactics.

And right now we’re thinking “holy poo poo”.

Holy poo poo.

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In Star Citizen, conversely, while we’ve been shown impressive demos, they’ve been modular; there’s no seamlessness to the overall game-world. Or, “game-universe” in both games’ cases. Geometry is fast becoming a new platform for tech wares to be championed, and Star Citizien’s game-universe, while equally ambitious, currently doesn’t have this on-show. At least not to the level Beyond Good and Evil 2 has revealed. And again, they’ve had seven-odd years to expose the traversal nature of the game, on the whole. And in saying that, we reunite with Ubisoft and their increasingly impressive real-time, in-game demo.

Because they’re still not done. Each space pirate will have access to a special armour that protects the wearer in space, only it’s like a clear force-field type of armour. And having flicked it on, our character alights from her ship and walks across the wing to look back at the planet below. We bust out our trusty spyglass and zoom in on Ganesha City -- through it, we can literally see the original subterranean space the demo began in. But right now we’re in space. Standing on the wing of our spaceship, wearing a special clear space armour dealie. Our 500-metre long Mothership is behind us. And nothing has loaded. It’s all played out in absolute real-time and, for repetitive impact, in true geometrical space. Right now, we’re struggling to find our jaws on the floor, especially with eyes glued to the screen. Surely this is it, right?

Wrong.

While in space, with no air friction, no gravitational pull and no atmosphere, our personal spaceships can travel at great speed, and we see this play out. The planets around us get smaller and the gas giant they orbit, Dyaus, looms larger. And Ubisoft is very quick to remind us this isn’t a 2D image, or a separate part of the game, we’re witnessing a game-engine capable of populating a world with intricacy and density, where missions, artwork, character interactions and more are as fleshed out in real-time as the solar system in which you live. And you can travel freely throughout all of it, because you’re a goddamned space pirate, with your own Mothership, your own cool-AF spaceship and your own hover moped.

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So is Beyond Good and Evil 2 more ambitious than Star Citizen? Well, we ask you this: does Star Citizen have hover mopeds? Does it have geoglyphs as planetary points of interest? Does it have funky monkeys piloting huge Motherships? Does it have Beyond Good and Evil 2’s charm? Probably not. So right now, we’re firmly entrenched in the tantalising “space opera” that Ubisoft is crafting, and realistically, at this rate Beyond Good and Evil 2 will officially launch before Star Citizen anyway.

Mic.

Drop.

Maltloaf posted:

Paid $10 to post this sloppy GIF, but the for hours of laughter I hope it's well spent. Thank you all.

G0RF posted:

Also, RedBull got a look at a playable Pre-Alpha of “Beyond Good & Evil 2”.

Foo Diddley posted:

Awww, there's no comments section

Colostomy Bag posted:

Welcome, what's your story.

Maltloaf posted:

In regard to SC, backed but due to extremely poor internet only ever got it installed the once and only after much "delete your user folder" hassle. Basic reaction to the "game" was "lol wut" especially as I was enjoying Elite in small doses, and still do. Playing both and the faults just get clearer -- it's a bizarro world hare and tortoise fable. Frontier are clearly ahead and like to take naps, but the tortoise isn't going to win because Chris kicked it down the hill and it's stuck on it's back.

After the tenth crash in an hour and sixth time clipping into a dimension where we don't need eyes (and also, it seems, bones) I gave up. Never managed to install it again because delta patching was at tier-minus 1 status. Refund followed and I've kept track of it ever since because it was immediately clear they had broken the engine, and broken engines are hilarious.

So now I'm invested ten bucks into SC, just not in the way Chris Roberts would like.

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Sounds like you just don’t understand game development, friend! Frontier started work on their game in the 80s, Chris Roberts only started this year. He had to build a company first. In fact, like the UberDev he is, he went ahead and built 17. And furthermore...

(MoMA? Can you pick it up from here?)

G0RF posted:

^^^ This.

Also, RedBull got a look at a playable Pre-Alpha of “Beyond Good & Evil 2”.

Foo Diddley posted:

There are a few videos where they stream the game on Egosoft's site. It looks like they listened to everyone's complaints about Rebirth, so X4 is actually looking pretty good

Morphix posted:

https://imgur.com/28OZkbd

all that hollywood-grade mo-cap and ground-breaking animations are really paying off, not now, this is tier 0, obviously

Zaphod42 posted:

Why would you even have a scope if you're wearing a space helmet?

Why not have like a camera that sends and AR feed into your HUD or something

Mirificus posted:

Maltloaf posted:

So now I'm invested ten bucks into SC, just not in the way Chris Roberts would like.

Beet Wagon posted:

Hold on a second, is that whole thing going down because Gremlich believes the action of ejecting casings is what causes muzzle climb?

Hav posted:

He’s going to take a couple of days to figure it out.

Beet Wagon posted:

Hold on a second, is that whole thing going down because Gremlich believes the action of ejecting casings is what causes muzzle climb?

Beet Wagon posted:

Hold on a second, is that whole thing going down because Gremlich believes the action of ejecting casings is what causes muzzle climb?

Beet Wagon posted:

tbf star citizen does have hover mopeds, they just don't work and flip over every time you try and get on one.

trucutru posted:

I am sorry to inform you guys that 2 MoMAs have been let go. We wish them the best in any future endeavors they may have in their respective fields.

Beet Wagon posted:

Hold on a second, is that whole thing going down because Gremlich believes the action of ejecting casings is what causes muzzle climb?

Mirificus posted: