Dementropy posted:

Sarsapariller posted:

So, on the topic of neural nets: AI Dungeon 2 is finally ready and it is loving incredible. I used it to have the world's most fidelitous Star Citizen adventure earlier. Note- I entered the commands in the carets. All the descriptive text came from the neural net. It got it just about right though.

Adventure Begins:

Dogeh posted:

So which planet is BadBitch on?

quote:

You are a tired network coder at Cloud Imperium. You are desperate to get SSOCS
and Server Meshing working. You are at your desk eating a large slice of Hawaiian
pizza when you see the ad on TV for the new game that is going to be released
in a few weeks called Star Citizen

The Titanic posted:

You're welcome I think. Literally rigged it hard too, including getting loans from shady Saudi Arabian millionaires to help ensure I am successful!

TheAgent posted:

holy poo poo, I didn't even write anything past the bolded part holy lol

just lol

Sarsapariller posted:

So, on the topic of neural nets: AI Dungeon 2 is finally ready and it is loving incredible. I used it to have the world's most fidelitous Star Citizen adventure earlier. Note- I entered the commands in the carets. All the descriptive text came from the neural net. It got it just about right though.

Adventure Begins:

You are a wing commander in the galactic imperial republic. You are hunting bounties
in the local pirate bar. A group of shady men enter the room and walk up to
you. The man in the lead says, "We have been hired by one of your clients".

> Shoot him and claim his bounty

"Who is this?" you ask.

The man smiles, "This is my client". He points at you,

> Nod in understanding

"Very good", he says, "I will be back with the payment soon". He walks out of
the room.

A few minutes later, you return to find that he has returned with a large sum
of money. He hands it to you and smiles

> Buy a spaceship

You take the money and walk outside. You see an old man sitting on a bench, smoking
a cigarette. He looks like he's been crying for awhile now.

> Ask if he has any spaceships

He nods, "Yes I do! My son has one!"
You nod, "What kind of ship is it?"
He pauses,

> Clip through the floor

He nods, "It's a small craft, but it can travel great distances, it was given
to me by my friend".

> Offer to buy it

He smiles, "Well, you could have it".

> Take the ship

He nods, "Thank you sir!". He begins walking away.

> Get in the ship

You sit down in the chair and look around. The interior of the ship is very simple,
just a bed, some chairs and a computer screen. A door opens up into another
room. On the wall there are several pictures of various ships, from different
eras

> Enter waypoint for Hurston

You walk over to the door and open it. Inside you see a woman wearing a space
suit. She stares at you, as she slowly turns her head to stare at your face.
She sits down next to you and puts her hand on your shoulder

> Live out wild space fantasies

"Hello, I'm Samantha Hurston. I've come here to meet my father".

> Have mind blown by this revelation

"My father? Oh yes, he's a famous explorer who lived many years ago. He was a
member of the Federation, which was a group that tried to unite all the planets
in the galaxy under one government".

> Shoot her and claim her bounty

She shakes her head,

> shoot her shoot her shoot her

You fire your pistol at her, but miss. Her body falls backwards onto the ground.
You quickly run over to her and begin kicking her corpse.

> Shout "The inevitable consequences of piracy!"

You turn around and start shooting at the other pirates. They fall dead one after
another. You then hear the sound of a helicopter approaching. You quickly climb
up the ladder and jump off the side of the ship. You land near the helicopter,
where you're met by two men in suits

Scruffpuff posted:

I don't see how they possibly can. Even now they're still touting that the game runs like poo poo because it's got such incredibly fidelity, instead of the reality which is that it requires a top-end PC so it can brute-force the code's crippling inefficiencies. They couldn't optimize poo poo like this for a console if their lives depended on it.

TheAgent posted:

> Watch the cool thing.
The cool thing is server meshing. This means that you would connect two computers together in order to share resources. It was developed by Chris Roberts as a way of making the game more scalable
> But that's what I am working on! I can't get it to work!
"But wait, you said it was a secret! How could I possibly tell you?".
> Descend slowly into absolute madness.
You begin to rant incoherently, which causes people to leave your room. One day
you wake up in the middle of the night, and you realize that you no longer care
about anything. You feel like you are living inside a computer simulation
> Am...am I living inside Star Citizen?
You are living inside Star Citizen.

TheAgent posted:

Btw every loving time and elevator kills you, thanks this guy

https://mobile.twitter.com/obj_calavera/status/862373564024070144

Sarsapariller posted:

You are Chris Roberts, visionary and master of space ships. You are days away
from releasing your biggest game ever when you are kidnapped by SPACE PIRATES!
Now you are trapped on board their starship with only a small group of pirates
to help you escape.

Can you make it back to the Starship Titanic in time? Can you survive long enough
to get off this ship before it is destroyed
> why is this ship going to be destroyed

The Titanic has been attacked by Space Pirates. The Space Pirates have taken
control of the ship and are planning to blow it up with all aboard inside. You
are the only one who can stop them.
It's not an easy task
> free yourself from your prison

You quickly break out of your cell and run as fast as you can towards the exit.
Unfortunately, there is no way to open the door since it was sealed shut years
ago
> shout "goddamn DOORS"

You yell at everyone to get ready for a fight. Everyone is scared but they don't
want to lose their lives so they go into battle mode. They begin firing their
weapons wildly in every direction. You see that the room is filled with dead
bodies
> search the bodies for carryable mission boxes

You look around and find several mission boxes lying on the floor. You pick one
up and read the labels carefully. It reads:
"Operation: Escape From The Titanic".
You feel like crying when you read this. You know that you're going to die here
on this ship
> Muster your resolve and fight on!

You decide to continue fighting. You grab another mission box and read the label
again. This time it says:
"Operation: Rescue The Survivors Of The Titanic".
You smile to yourself as you think about how you'll save those people trapped
on the Titanic.
> Ask the other pirates for some money

You walk over to the pirates and ask if they've got any money. They tell you
that they do, but they need to trade it for something first. You agree and they
give you 100 gold pieces each. You take the money and buy a few things before
heading back to your room
> Steal a ship and escape

You head back to your room and start looking through the ship's cargo hold. You
find a small boat and some rope. You tie the boat to the mast and climb down
the rigging. You swim away from the ship and make your way to the shore
> I think you entered the wrong genre there Chris

You think you've made a terrible mistake. You enter the wrong genre. You thought
you were entering a game where you had to rescue a princess from a castle, but
instead you're playing a pirate game? You should have known better.
> You should have. Find the Starship Titanic

You try to remember what the name of the starship Titanic was, but you can't
remember it. You call up the computer and type in the name. You get a list of
possible names. You select the Titanic and press ENTER.
> This is bullshit

You realize that you've made a huge mistake. You've entered the wrong genre.
You shouldn't have done that. You should have gone back to the computer and
typed in a different name.
> Yell at Jared until he fixes the computer

You angrily shout at Jared until he fixes the computer. He tells you that the
name of the ship will now be changed to Starship Titanic. You thank him and
leave his office.
> Fly to the Starship Titanic

You hurry along the corridors of the ship. You hear voices calling out to you.
You turn around and see two men dressed in black suits. One of them points a
gun at you and orders you to come with him.
> Ask him if he's an auditor


And then it crashed. Appropriate end, honestly.

Hav posted:

Quick reminder that this is so close to the gates in X:beyond, X2:The Threat, X3:Terran Conflict (Reunion/Albion Prelude), X:Rebirth and X4:Foundations that it stretches the credulity of 'un homage' and starts to become the full Archer.

Sarsapariller posted:

Fly through of the new city: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ov1es

Pros:
* Buildings look nice

* Snow on the rooftops is a nice touch

* Little clusters of buildings and bridges look neat to fly over without thinking too hard about

Cons:
* Geographically the city makes no sense. Why is it located there? What is it accomplishing that justifies putting it in the arctic rather than in the (apparently) temperate zones on the planet. Does literally everyone in the future live in densely packed high-rises in the middle of otherwise uninhabited landscapes? I salute their ecological sensibilities but where are the loving farms and suburbs? The world doesn't just go nothing, nothing, nothing, CITY, nothing, nothing. Star Citizen is a game of, apparently, giant space stations and cities and no other signs of human habitation anywhere.

* Architecturally the city makes no sense. Why do they need towering bridges over ice-lakes that are frozen year round? Why do they need docks and port buildings? What the gently caress?

* Speaking of- remember that "Revolutionary road tech" they advertised, like, a year ago? Guess it didn't go anywhere because the cities are clearly not being built with roads in mind. There's no way that anyone is going to add driveable paths to this mess without rebuilding it from scratch.

* The entire thing is completely lifeless, no traffic, no NPC's, no lights- it looks like the player is noclipping through a static model because that's literally what is happening.

* The design is once again not built for ground gameplay in any way. Look at the buildings. There are no roads between them. No two are at the same elevation. Bridges jut from nowhere and end up nowhere. The whole thing is clearly built to be a backdrop as you fly in and out of the spaceport, the one part of the planet that will have any on-foot elements. This is stupid. You have a whole goddamn planet of empty space and one point of interest, and it's the one place you can't actually walk around.

* Critically though, they forgot to build a bunch of big walls around the city this time. At Loreville you couldn't get into the city without going through a bunch of little doorways on foot. This one sure looks like an enterprising player could land on the edge of the no-fly zone, get out, and walk right into the clearly-not-designed-for-them city. That's gonna lead to some embarrassing videos within a week of release, or a no-walk-zone, further damaging immersion.

* Fixing any of these cons just screams "Enormous tech debt."

colonelwest posted:

functionless $600 nerd chariot

Mirificus posted:

Inacio posted:

what the gently caress

Rugganovich posted:

Thunderfoot's videos show why something can not work. And he does that by using science, that is provable and the results repeatable.

Sarsapariller posted:

Check out that wormhole at :47 in the video. Space colonoscopies are real and ancient

Raskolnikov posted:

I can't get enough of Reddit

Mirificus posted:

Mirificus posted:

quote:

Yes, Chris still does code work

mdxi posted:

Does the mom in this mortgage ad look familiar? Asking for a friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGo3_FZxBpI

A Citizen posted:

SC we have known is about to change forever! Can't wait!

Another Citizen posted:

What we're getting in 3.8 is first implementation, very bare bones. Its not the kind of feature that can be implemented all at once, it's going to be implemented one step at a time and this is the first step. Ssocs v2 is the next step. Persistence and meshing will need to get their first implementations in too in order to hook everything up together, and then theyll be able to get those features to a "completed" state, though theyll likely continue to receive improvements for a long time.

A very wise Citizen posted:

It’s tier 0 of it so I wouldn’t expect anything crazy. Evocati leaks already say it doesn’t improve performance any, just allows for even more destinations in the system

A citizen who's too excited posted:

this should give us a SIGNIFICANT performance boost! and right around christmas

A more moderate Citizen voice, just in time for the release posted:

You have been mislead, this won’t give client side performance boosts. It will improve server performance, meaning fewer server crashes and less brain dead AI. Once it’s all properly working that is.

A citizen who has learned patience posted:

Just to mitigate expectations, this is a big deal, but it is unlikely to boost client side performance in a significant way.

The server to client actor networking scheduled for 4.0 is the next big boost in performance that we will see. This is more focused on rubber banding.

Server meshing will allow for MMO-size populations...I think. This might be where we see the planetary systems split to their own servers. This is not on the current roadmap, but I think the expectation is late 2021.

SSOCS is a first step to these. I think it helps with persistence, too, but don't quote me.

colonelwest posted:

It all looks fine enough from a distance, if you ignore the horrible FPS, dropped frames, and pop-in. But, it’s again just represents years of effort to pump out a hollow lifeless city-scape that just serves as a back drop for two small Cryengine maps of space shopping malls, which you are forced to ride a train between.

It’s all just more empty space for you to fly over in your functionless $600 nerd chariot and project your favorite sci-fi fantasy onto.

Mirificus posted: