Liquid Dinosaur posted:

He knows people play games on consoles and they get patched when needed and it’s all good, right? Or is he admitting that even if SC released they’d be swatting “killer door” bugs every day forever?

Also while cross play is bad and puts console players at a disadvantage, I don’t see how that would be terribly relevant here. I mean, you’re supposed to play with a joystick. Why not an analogue stick?



Which reminds me, Chris saying how combat will be more “lethal” than CoD makes me confident he’s just throwing out what he knows to be “a bad dumb game for casual chads,” since in my limited experience playing CoD multiplayer, if you see someone and fire off a burst at them, they’re most likely dead.

Way lower relative health threshold than say, Halo with its shields, or Overwatch with its abundance of escape abilities and solid stage design which means even if you’ve never played on a map before, you KNOW you can find a medkit in any darkened sideroom, or at the bottom of any flight of stairs.

Liquid Dinosaur posted:

WHY DON’T THESE PEOPLE JUST PLAY EVE?! Aren’t there some formidable corps out there who are checks on Goon power? I know you guys got your asses blown out like 2 years ago by some big coalition.

The Titanic posted:

There's a lot of mystery here, but there's only one thing I know for certain: he never actually plays his game.

Lord Stimperor posted:

Hello fellow fud buddies,

I am a long time lurker in this thread and wanted to let you know my appreciation of all your hard, eh, work. This is actually not my first account - last year I bought an account already, but I never got the login information in my mail and lowtax stopped responding to my messages. But I guess this thread is worth the even double the .

I was lurking in this thread since the summer of 2015, when Derek blew his cap and Crobbers published an absolutely unhinged, paranoid response on his web site. I felt pretty alone when I pointed out that the response is kind of weird to people who aren't in the know of the details of the entire affair. After that I was witnessing CIG throwing out all the work on Star Marine, which was at one point super important and central to their work, and then suddenly not anymore at all. Through your thread I witnessed the live stream where the Crobber pretty desperately tried to play his own game, failing horribly. What I found particularly telling is that he was ranting pretty hard and indignant about the chat system, which months before he was praising as an absolute innovation in the context of the social module. The guy had absolutely no idea what his underlings were working on.

I finally pulled the plug and got my 250 bucks back in the winter of 2016/2017. Up until then I kept my pledge because I wanted to have a physical copy of one of the biggest gaming disasters in history. But I thought it'd be at such a price, it'd make a poor conversation piece because you'd have to explain to everyone the long-winded and boring story that is Star Citizen first in order for them to get the joke. The money from the refund went into a bunch of equally frivolous and nerdy hobbies, but at least they exist and are fun.

A long time has passed between 2012 and now and it's absolutely astounding how much has changed in my life while Star Citizen remained sort of a constant, if not one that has been prominent at all times in my life. I finished my Bachelor's Study, found a partner to share my life with, moved town, finished my Master's Degree, moved again, bought a house, got a dog, started and stopped taking flying lessons, got into sim flying instead, became a lovely woodworker, learned how to program microcontrollers to make custom keyboards and game controllers, got fat, got thin, became the uncle of two wonderful girls, and many other things.

Meanwhile, at CIG they're still figuring out how to make people not slip through the floor after 6 years of development. During my PhD I've sometimes doubted myself because my project was super long-winded. And then I look at what CIG did during the same time frame and I think 'Nah, I'll be okay'.


I've procrastinated far too much in this thread as a lurker and I'd like to thank all of you for the entertainment. I would also like to point out that some people have really horrible opinions about food and Fallout 4 and should be shamed for them. Believe it or not, there is something therapeutic in a thread where people do nothing but watch and chronicle a dumpster fire. It puts things in perspective and you can use it to anchor your own point of view.


With that I think I'll close this wall of text. There are too many posters that I'd like for the things they've done and said in this thread. I also feel mighty creepy for pointing out individuals that have never spoken to me. Guy who works at Stellaris, I'm picking up your game as a result of your sane view on game design. Jobbo Fett if for nothing else you'll be remembered as the guy who defeated Derek Smart. BNBL I am glad you stuck to your avatar. Bootcha your series is awesome and I'm glad you fixed your sound. Pgabz once you find it in your heart, get back into the 'verse. Maybe on a Free Fly I'll glitch by your side for moral support. MOMA I don't get what you like about belts so much but that's cool. I like keyboards and planes and weird retro music. Let's rub on our fringe hobbies. Also I believe the blue cheese and yoghurt thing. Beet, give Kayak a big hug from me. I wish I get introduce her to our pupper, they'd be best friends I bet. The Dude with the Darth Vader avatar and the bunny and the others who always photoshop pictures, I love you for what you're doing. GORF I don't know how you find it in yourself to keep writing all those effort posts to the citizens all the time. But I appreciate that you do and I'm sure there are a couple who all your effort posts have brought back into reality. Streetroller hope you're okay and your silence doesn't mean that a citizen has gotten to you. Titanic you're cool. There are many more posters that float through my head but all the avatars and names are just floating in front of my head now.
Also mirificus, you're doing God's work but boy do I fear for your sanity.


Stay frosty and .

Dr. Kyle Farnsworth posted:

I hang out in a Discord with one of the SC Kool-Aid drinkers. I think he's in TEST. The stories he tells make it sound like the game is nearly complete but it's all spun up out of whole cloth and I don't know if he's lying or just that out of it. It's like "Yeah my alliance is going to have a mining wing and I'm going to be a part of that, there's going to be a formation of us mining over here and I figure we can move about so many credits a day, so we start upgrading ships and move on to this other place, and then the money is really going to be rolling in." He is, naturally, terrified of goons, so this always involves a meandering side story about how goons are going to try and PvP them but they're ready for goodfites with e-honor because they are the space elite. It's like listening to a 6 year old babble.

doingitwrong posted:

I agree that Star Citizen is never coming to consoles, but I have a different set of reasons why.

Agony Aunt posted:

Always amazes me about how they talk about things planned for SC in the present tense, but when panning ED (or other games) they compare future SC with current (insert other game). Yet if you say something like "Well, ED will probably have space legs in the future" they say "Ah, but it doesn't have it now!".... and i'm like... but... but.... you are bringing up future SC as though its now!

Spiderdrake posted:

Basically everything else is reality maximum, potential zero. Except SC, and the goons / derek smart are some sort unfinished infinite unstoppable demon horde who are all jealous we can't afford their big guns / cig beat us and/or are trying to tear down everything good.

redreader posted:

Hard to ask this without sounding like a troll: what game is "ED"?

redreader posted:

Hard to ask this without sounding like a troll: what game is "ED"?

EvilMerlin posted:

They are 500 a pop because the 1080's are getting snapped up by miners. Yep, computer labs are expensive... I get that.

As for the minimum to play? Its listed on the site. But since the game is still in Alpha do you really expect it to run as a full release would?

I can tell you on a i7-8700k, 32 GB RAM, 1080Ti and an SSD game drive, 3.2 has been around 30-40 FPS MOST of the time... Yep, occasionally there is some hits down in the 20's, but its a lot better than 3.1 and 3.0 were.

Liquid Dinosaur posted:

What’s been removed? Surely not dead-eyed mowhawk dude who stands a foot behind the desk?!

The Rabbi T. White posted:

Erectile Dysfunction. You play a 50 something year old failed movie director who married a softcore porn "actress" who can't get hard due to the amount of blow you have do. The object of the game is to balance the amount of coke that you need to suppress any morals so you can lie to people with autism to get more money for more coke, with Viagra and avoid having a stroke.

Daztek posted:

Elite Dangerous

redreader posted:

Wow. Where can I buy this?


Clearly you're trollling me! (thanks for the answer)

redreader posted:

Hard to ask this without sounding like a troll: what game is "ED"?

EvilMerlin posted:

They are 500 a pop because the 1080's are getting snapped up by miners. Yep, computer labs are expensive... I get that.

As for the minimum to play? Its listed on the site. But since the game is still in Alpha do you really expect it to run as a full release would?

I can tell you on a i7-8700k, 32 GB RAM, 1080Ti and an SSD game drive, 3.2 has been around 30-40 FPS MOST of the time... Yep, occasionally there is some hits down in the 20's, but its a lot better than 3.1 and 3.0 were.

SCSUcksDealwithit posted:

SUBSUMPTION is coming!

Daztek posted:

https://i.imgur.com/vPTAIuM.gifv

The Rabbi T. White posted:

Erectile Dysfunction. You play a 50 something year old failed movie director who married a softcore porn "actress" who can't get hard due to the amount of blow you have do. The object of the game is to balance the amount of coke that you need to suppress any morals so you can lie to people with autism to get more money for more coke, with Viagra and avoid having a stroke.

Combat Theory posted:

Sometimes I wonder if you guys even play the new patches anymore before trying to shill them.

The performance increase is due to cig removing a large number of static and per player NPC ships and characters.

Since the age of 2.0 the per player performance for a given server has been largely the same. The only difference has been what cig tried to stuff in the instance regarding ship models and NPC fluff.

E: after reading through another 10 pages of verbal diarrhea im sorry for writing that. You clearly belong here friend. Please tell me more how gpus that run any vehicle combat simulation in existence at max settings and UHD are actually bad and outdated.

Daztek posted:

https://i.imgur.com/vPTAIuM.gifv

Daztek posted:

https://i.imgur.com/vPTAIuM.gifv

HoneyBakedMAN posted:

Just use Agisoft with 100 close-up pictures of the person's eyes. They won't animate, but they'll be super fidelicious.

Edit; wow, bitcoins are still relevant?

Dementropy posted: