Ghostlight posted:

He rebranded when he moved into pretending to be the anime in his avatar on VR Chat.

Sarsapariller posted:

The real answer is, they don't have one because their game isn't coherent and doesn't respect physical law. In most games this wouldn't be a problem- you'd just make stuff move how you wanted it to move, and gently caress physics. But Chris insisted that the game have all these physically modeled systems including thrusters, and that they actually provide the force that propels the ship around, with the point of origin at the thrusters themselves.

So every thruster has to be modeled on every ship. But they didn't build the ships around this so most of them would be terribly unbalanced.

Also, they decided that there should be a speed limit so that the ships could continue to emulate ww2 dogfights in space.

But wait! Space is real big and they don't want the player to QT everywhere, so now there are TWO speed limits- one for maneuvering and one for flying real fast in a straight line.

But wait! The big "Engine" on the back of the ship would have to be pointed in the direction of travel to slow down rapidly, if it were the only thruster on the ship of that strength. That made combat and also deceleration from super-cruise feel real lovely, so they did the obvious thing- all the thrusters on the ships have exactly the same strength as the main engines.

But wait! That meant that ships could accelerate or decelerate at exactly the same speed in all directions!

"Yes, what's the problem with that?" Asked Chris.

And thus the flight model was born.

colonelwest posted:

Oh and the whole Epic Store freakout that PC gamers are having is loving stupid. It’s completely understandable that other companies don’t want to hand over a big chunk of their revenue to Valve. Steam itself is an anachronistic piece of crap storefront that looks and operates like something from the late 2000’s, it blows my mind that anyone would want Valve to have a monopoly. Hell they only added a refund feature after loving EA had one on Origin for over a year.

colonelwest posted:

Oh and the whole Epic Store freakout that PC gamers are having is loving stupid. It’s completely understandable that other companies don’t want to hand over a big chunk of their revenue to Valve. Steam itself is an anachronistic piece of crap storefront that looks and operates like something from the late 2000’s, it blows my mind that anyone would want Valve to have a monopoly. Hell they only added a refund feature after loving EA had one on Origin for over a year.

colonelwest posted:

Oh and the whole Epic Store freakout that PC gamers are having is loving stupid. It’s completely understandable that other companies don’t want to hand over a big chunk of their revenue to Valve. Steam itself is an anachronistic piece of crap storefront that looks and operates like something from the late 2000’s, it blows my mind that anyone would want Valve to have a monopoly. Hell they only added a refund feature after loving EA had one on Origin for over a year.

colonelwest posted:

I’ve been playing some Metro Exodus. Pretty good so far, though there are a lot of unskipable cutscenes/barely interactive “gameplay” in the beginning that gets really annoying. It’s like they brought in Chris Roberts to direct the first 2 hours. After that though, it’s pretty much just Metro Last Light with a series of more open/varied environments. If you want more Metro you should check it out, but if you’re looking for a huge departure gameplay wise you’ll be disappointed.

tooterfish posted:

It is understandable, monopolies are bad!

When a large publisher opens its own storefront they're not trying to liberalise the marketplace though, they're just trying to create their own monopoly (as evidenced by all the "exclusive" fuckery). So lets remember not to gobble too much corporate cock in an effort to lay the boot into Steam.

Sarsapariller posted:

Also the actual SRD thread about Star Citizen is great. Apparently SC drama is a regular viewing event there. Reminded me of this thread, in a way.
https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/aqk1oe/star_citizen_is_very_much_alive_and_kicking/?st=js708nbc&sh=a70c6b5f

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ITT - people bashing on Star Citizen. Again. Give it a rest people. Just let people be and do what they want. The people who have spent their money are having fun. That's all that matters.

I definitely am not having fun, I bought in in 2014 when the promise was 2016 alpha, and we've got gently caress all. I don't want to play little bits and pieces of a game and have my progress wiped away every significant patch. I want them to release something I can play, even if it doesn't match all their stretch goals.

Quavers posted:

Star Citizen graphics are so last gen

Mirificus posted:

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/TheRealGremlich/status/1094670493079269377
https://twitter.com/TheRealGremlich/status/1094633954701963264
https://twitter.com/TheRealGremlich/status/1095492619524812800

Quavers posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiQv32imK2g

Star Citizen graphics are so last gen

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Since real-time ray tracing is the hottest thing these days, some PC gamers wanted to know whether ths highly anticipated space opera game, Star Citizen, will support it. And while we don’t have any confirmation yet, Cloud Imperium’s Ben Parry has shared his thoughts regarding this new tech...

As Parry said when asked about RTX, he expects that if Cloud Imperium uses it, it’ll be a massive headache and time-sink but might give them some subtle improvements in looks or performance if they get it right.

When asked for clarification as real-time ray tracing is said to be easy to implement and could actually make the life of game designers/graphics artists easier, Parry said:

PARRY: “It’s more likely to be a case of “We’ve got a test-bed scene for a ray-based environment lighting technique, it works for one type of light so far, here’s a list of things you can no longer safely have in a room without it breaking, with rough probabilities of how likely we are to work out a solution”

The added headache is that whatever we offered would have to be an “as well” feature rather than an “instead”, developing a feature for a single manufacturer’s top-end cards means also maintaining feature parity for everyone else’s hardware.”

Parry then expanded on what he meant with “as well”.

PARRY: “Sorry yes, I should have been clearer. By “as well” I meant we’d have to maintain support for two modes:
1) A mode that uses raytracing (though probably not exclusively) in some way to get its results
2) A mode that doesn’t use raytracing, but can achieve a similar look without changing the art assets or lighting setup.

As an example, when we ported over the voxel fog, we intended for it to be an “as well” feature because it’s expensive to run, but eventually ran with it as an “instead” feature because it interprets the fog parameters totally differently, and drastically changes what does/doesn’t work in terms of light placement.”

Parry admitted that he’d love to use real-time ray tracing in order to enhance the game’s shadows. Parry also admitted that real-time ray tracing is currently – and for the foreseeable future – the only technique via which game developers can offer correct reflections in their games, however that’s also something that will need additional workload.

PARRY: “The “headache” part is writing all the management code that will be needed, eg. to calculate lighting/shadowing on objects that aren’t on screen.”

In conclusion, Parry admits that real-time ray tracing is an exciting new tech and that he’d love to experiment with it, however it will bring additional headache to the team, and right now Cloud Imperium has other high priority tasks on the roadmap.

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/TheRealGremlich/status/1095837975085281280

Morphix posted:

https://twitter.com/Rexzilla/status/1079923857862127616


hahahaha

such organic hype

woooooo were all standing heree

woooooooooooooooo standing 2019 just HAVINFG FYUUUUUUUUUN

IncredibleIgloo posted:

I just looked through Rex's Twitter feed and it looks like he has actually been streaming for a few years and was at some point playing PUBG in a semi professional capacity. It looks like he has a fairly sizeable following as well. It also appears he is a cinematographer as well. One thing that is apparent is that he has been dedicated and positive in his social media presence and seems to have avoided using any "gamer language" or do any other embarrassing meltdown activities. Probably a pretty good choice for the new face of CI!G.

Thronde posted:

Alright Goons, I'm on the hunt for a new time killer. Kind of want something single player / comp stompy like I do in CoH2, but I'd also be interested in a good scifi isometric rpg like the old Baldurs Gates.

Any recommendations?

Agony Aunt posted:

ITS WORKING! ITS WORKING!!!!

The poor dumb fucks....

Morphix posted:

When you say open environments, do you mean more like Stalker or just bigger Metro levels? I played Metro at a time when I was bored of corridor shooters with waves of enemies and the game never really clicked with me.

Thronde posted:

Alright Goons, I'm on the hunt for a new time killer. Kind of want something single player / comp stompy like I do in CoH2, but I'd also be interested in a good scifi isometric rpg like the old Baldurs Gates.

Any recommendations?

Agony Aunt posted:

Hmm... you're making me think... bastard.

But it might somehow be related to the complete rework of missions they are doing. Maybe the original missions were based around the super duper amazing NPC AI that was planned and other features. But when they understood they had to actually ship a product sooner rather than later they understood that nothing was going to be ready for the missons as planned so instead are now going for 100% scripted gameplay with limited choices on the part of the player.

I guess we will see when (if) SQ42 releases.

TheAgent posted:

- crawling/wall/fast attacking vanduul were too "problematic," will now stand and fire normally
- AI still broken (shooting through walls, instakilling the player, animations not firing correctly, spazzing out into the great beyond on death anim)

Spiderdrake posted:

I'd rather Valve doesn't gain or maintain a monopoly as the company, while lacking malice, is pretty loving poo poo for no reason. Like here's a great little treat:



Yeah it automatically pops up even if every single activation is legit. I asked my one friend still at Valve and he was like "huh that's weird". And the thing that got everyone to love Valve, the sales, are just turds pushed by PCMR weirdos now. The line "You just own everything so of course nothing good goes on sale / will go on sale / is too recent to go onsale" lost its merits in year five of waiting for poo poo to drop to a good discount but eh, once the money's good, why bother pushing anymore right? You see better discounts on sites that actually need to compete instead of turn on the money faucet. Sales are a joke, the UI is a joke, they put in the market and like just left it there requiring nine million clicks to do anything, etc.

The refund feature was forced on them by legal action. It's kinda weird how in spite of their corporate culture somehow they still turned into a money grubbing flock of goose fuckers but who knows.

But that being said the Epic Store tried to push a bunch of Star Citizenesque eula crap and stuff about agreeing to not sue for any reason and not participating in class action lawsuits.

Granted Valve probably has that too, but eh?