Kosumo posted:

CIG don't need raytracing they have Ryan Archer tracing.

Scruffpuff posted:

I'm impressed by the fidelity of the comb not being in his hand, but actually stuck to his forefingers.

Also impressed that my space shooter doesn't have proper space, ships, flight, or shooting, but does have combs. Which mental illness is this again?

Edit: I'm sorry, apparently the comb has clipped through his fingers. Hard to see black on black, but I can't believe I didn't just assume by now that everything is always clipping through everything else.

Sarsapariller posted:

Always fun when the people actually playing the game run into the cultists

"The game barely functions! The guns don't even fire in the right direction!"

"Oh I see you're a complainer. Goons forum is that way."

Hav posted:

Meow

Sarsapariller posted:

Here's a quote from a player


Hmmm, that description sounds EXTREMELY FAMILIAR where did I see that:


Oh yeah! I said that! Because it was loving obvious

Entire flight model is now "Slow down and fight me, coward!"

Beet Wagon posted:

I'll spare everyone the 500000000 reddit comments about jacking off to new female models, but uhhhh what's happening here? Did they still not fix the "lol you're actually underwater" issue?

SabinBlitz posted:

Does anyone remember an old school space MMO called JumpGate?

Strafing combat eventually became the norm on how to fight. The devs of the game even embraced it once it started becoming meta and instead of loving with their physics instead adjusted ships to better or worse at that combat. You have fast, less weapons/armor scout ships that they released and they also released heavy fighters that couldn't go as fast but had more guns/shields.

It came down to pilot skills/preference/how bad they lagged.

Not to mention a few fighters in between to fulfill niche roles. Some we're better at circle strafing as opposed to jousting, etc. Others had more missiles to spam instead of doing the joust. Each faction had their own unique ships that helped fill different slots and it came together awesomely.

It was a great space MMO.

Star Citizen is not a great space MMO.

Edit: and holy poo poo. It's still going! http://jumpgate-tri.org

Mirificus posted:

Quavers posted:

Beet Wagon posted:

I'll spare everyone the 500000000 reddit comments about jacking off to new female models, but uhhhh what's happening here? Did they still not fix the "lol you're actually underwater" issue?

Amazing Zimmo posted:

hmmm... grew up playing games about sinking ships

Sarsapariller posted:

(Sars, Squidget, Zeond, mateo360) A short mission using the original series bridge. It goes... poorly.

Taintrunner posted:

This store is weird. Apparently they're selling a map for 5 bucks? https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Add-Ons/Game-Universe-Map

Agony Aunt posted:

LOL, the one thing that is actually a JPG, they don't show a picture of.

Agony Aunt posted:

LOL, the one thing that is actually a JPG, they don't show a picture of.

Colostomy Bag posted:

This dumpster fire really defines irony.

quote:

Want to show big publishers you’re voting with your credits? Pick up this special spacecraft skin honoring the RSI crowdfunding campaign!

Note: The functionality to apply skins has not been implemented yet and will be available at some point in the future!

Taintrunner posted:

Front page of /r/gaming this week, lmao



sad!

trucutru posted:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Add-Ons/Shut-Up-And-Take-My-Money

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

"Star Citizen is good now and has everything I could want in a game" -This kid

The Titanic posted:

Back in the day, Descent had really fun combat, and the starting in the game was really cool and intriguing to play.

Meanwhile in Wing Commander the whole game was "who can turn faster" so naturally the player ship always seemed to have the faster turn rate. This wasn't as engaging or as fun. You basically had to find that perfect match of "how slow can I go where I can out turn the opponent while not becoming a sitting target".

Freespace did it better because everything felt weighty, but it came at the end of an era where space was starting to run dry on the people caring. It was cool but nobody really cared.

But in any case..! Having "strafing" in your space game can be fun because you can use that 6DoF pretty cool, but the cost there is that you also can't have high speed. So you can get the fun of Descent but you can't do it in a giant open world because it becomes worse and crappy and there's no cover to make engaging gameplay.

This is a challenge of space games. Flying straight at people and shooting is boring. Having these WWII dogfights requires even slower speeds making the gameplay and world feel smaller. And then having 6DoF gameplay requires even slower combat and stuff to weave in and out of arrayed around.

I have no doubt the SC will totally not figure out the magic recipe here for an awesome space game. They will continue to bobble through it, breaking more than they fix while making the FPS section better and better (because there's tutorials for those).

trucutru posted:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Add-Ons/Shut-Up-And-Take-My-Money

Fashionable Jorts posted:

I wonder if the image is unavailable because they know if they show the fry-clutching-cash jpg they'll get sued. This way fans can buy it thinking that's what they'll get and forget about it in three months.

Amazing Zimmo posted:

https://twitter.com/Mysticstar80/status/1110369165842501632

seriously the graphics are now at the level of early PS3 games.

I guess that works well with the whole brown colour scheme they got going on with the planets.

no_recall posted:

I feel sorry for typing this out, but fidelity doesn't equate packing in as many features and tech samples into your game as you can. The game doesn't have any art direction whatsoever. There's no aesthetic that separates it from being a generic looking space game.

Hav posted:

I'm shutting down an old internet brand at the moment and we keep finding out neat stuff, like the unit that was investigating using TLS backscatter to provide deep fingerprinting to get around people anonymising their IPs. Yeah, companies have been trying to get around the security things as much as states and criminals, which is why I'm coming off a hell of a Spectre/meltdown mitigation bender.