Danknificent posted:

Wait wait -- was this guy staging an actual escape and then falls through the floor before reaching the ship there to get him? Is that what happened there?

Danknificent posted:

Yeah, but is there a mechanic where you can legit escape from the prison? Or did he glitch his way to freedom?

Do the mechanics of the game actually support in some way escaping prison, then getting a lift from your mates in their ship? If so, that's pretty gangster. I know none of it works, but the potential.

Popete posted:

Isn't escaping just randomly wandering thru tunnels until you find the exit? There's no guards to stop you right?

Danknificent posted:

Wait wait -- was this guy staging an actual escape and then falls through the floor before reaching the ship there to get him? Is that what happened there?

trucutru posted:

As a final "gently caress you" there are a couple of steps missing in the last ladder before you escape prison, which is actually great rear end in a top hat design. You can reach the surface of that moon afterwards.

The surface temperature on that moon is 240 degrees Celsius so you get fried in a minute or two. Fortunately there is shack there for protection

The shack has a password protected door, so you die unless you noticed some numbers that are the password during your escape. There is a rover inside which you can drive to your freedom

The path is full of rocks that launch your janky rover into the air and destroy it, so you have to drive really carefully to finally escape.

After you escape you're still playing SC.

The aristocrats!

Inacio posted:

i legitimately can't tell if this is true or not, but i somehow do not doubt it

Kosumo posted:

There is even a space "Sandiworm Ate My Turtle" mission giver where you have to work your way up the charts.

trucutru posted:

As a final "gently caress you" there are a couple of steps missing in the last ladder before you escape prison, which is actually great rear end in a top hat design. You can reach the surface of that moon afterwards.

The surface temperature on that moon is 240 degrees Celsius so you get fried in a minute or two. Fortunately there is shack there for protection

The shack has a password protected door, so you die unless you noticed some numbers that are the password during your escape. There is a rover inside which you can drive to your freedom

The path is full of rocks that launch your janky rover into the air and destroy it, so you have to drive really carefully to finally escape.

After you escape you're still a criminal and still playing SC.

The aristocrats!

Sillybones posted:

The Dirtiest Harry posted:

"Not engaging with boring mechanics is a crime, punishable by several hours of forced engagement with boring mechanics, citizen."

I haven't properly looked at a Star Citizen video in a couple of years. I took a look at that video above of the person purchasing an individual bottle off the shelf, and playing an animation of them unscrewing and re-screwing the lid, and that is it for me. This game will never be finished. Imagine every time someone wants to add a new consumable, this simple addition is blocked by someone else having to remember to spend god-knows-how-long to create the maximum-fidelity package-opening animation, and literally assign it physical shelf space in every vendor in the universe. And then keep track of it, and remember to update the animation when the model of the bottle, or the hand, or the vendor shelving changes, etc etc ad infinitum.

Now imagine this stupidity, but for every single tiny little thing in the game. For every minor change and addition you need to trace 26 different requirements across every department in the studio, because if someone forgets to correctly and "realistically" program the weight of the new wrench you added to the game, it will fly around your ship's cabin at light-speed and kill everyone inside.

Is there a tiny, tiny piece of grognard deep inside my soul that likes the thought of a perfectly simulated second life in the far space-future? Yeah, sure. But in reality it would be utterly impossible to create and maintain, and would be soul crushingly boring because most of the discrete actions people take on a daily basis are tedious busywork on the path to a productive goal.

trucutru posted:

The surface temperature on that moon is 240 degrees Celsius so you get fried in a minute or two. Fortunately there is shack there for protection

Danknificent posted:

Wait wait -- was this guy staging an actual escape and then falls through the floor before reaching the ship there to get him? Is that what happened there?

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

Oh, and you can just drop the bottle on the ground when you're done drinking?

I'm sure no one will ever drop hundreds of them in one spot and crash the server...

trucutru posted:

As a final "gently caress you" there are a couple of steps missing in the last ladder before you escape prison, which is actually great rear end in a top hat design. You can reach the surface of that moon afterwards.

The surface temperature on that moon is 240 degrees Celsius so you get fried in a minute or two. Fortunately there is shack there for protection

The shack has a password protected door, so you die unless you noticed some numbers that are the password during your escape. There is a rover inside which you can drive to your freedom

The path is full of rocks that launch your janky rover into the air and destroy it, so you have to drive really carefully to finally escape.

After you escape you're still a criminal and still playing SC.

The aristocrats!

BiggestOrangeTree posted:

Yeah well uh, in fact, a thousand Butcher Bays could fit into a single crater in Star Citizen, so, I think you should consider that, also fidelity, in fact I would not be surprised if Vin Diesel asks CIG to make his next movie in Star Citizen

iron buns posted:

Reddit discovers the Monetisation Designer:

They really should just charge a monthly fee. If no monthly fee is part of the Kickstarter promises then exempt Kickstarter backers from it, or weasel out of it somehow. Doesn't matter what they call it, whether it's "life insurance" or "pilot's license fee" or whatever.

I would like to see sponsors around the vers (like the AMD themed ship. I think there's some good money to be made there and shop long as the ads are carefully placed and not over done, I don't mind. Shirts, billboards, ship skins ect... I can see a hull-c with a Monster energy drink ad plastered on the side of it. In my opinion, it would ad to the immersion and generate revenue.

The language they use is a giant red flag for me. KPIs, player retention. Monetization maximization. Look at other games to stay at the forefront (in terms of monetization). This looks horrible! I don't mind monitization, but this seems to be wirtten by corporate commander himself.

I don't mind if they keep selling ships beyond "release". I don't really give a poo poo if some other person grinded for their ship or bought it. I don't see the point in stopping to sell ships. If it's okay now (and it is), it's okay after "launch", and it's an awesome and steady source of revenue. There's gonna be p2w arguments anyway, so gently caress it, go for it.

Hello EA my old friend...

I personally want a subscription based travel visa, where I can play for free in a few systems, or pay for a travel visa that let's me visit new systems, etc... I'm 1200 bucks into the game though, and as long as they count some (or all) of that money towards my subscription fee, I'm more than happy to have a subscription. Its really the best way to go.

Scruffpuff posted:

As much of an inept moron Chris is, and as much as this entire debacle can be laid directly at his feet, he has to know that what the project currently is is nothing like what he "envisioned." All his early days talk of epic space opera and shootyships action and fleet battles and boarding etc. has given way to broken VOIP, turtles, ice cream cones, and prison gameplay which is the logical conclusion of CIG's ability: a guy in an empty room. Finally something (mostly) within their ability!

We know he's arrogant, and we know he's not afraid to be tough on his employees, we have all that documented from the people who've worked with him over the years. So HOW is any of this complete bullshit hitting prime time? Why isn't he having an absolute loving stroke at the moment? None of this is even close to what he himself wanted to make.

I think, ultimately, that starting a couple years ago, he has no actual say any more. He's a figurehead and nothing more. It was one thing to have more and more ridiculous types of ships for imagined gameplay, that lined up with his goals. But in the last couple years, "caves," "prisons," etc. but no progress on the core experience. And he's trapped watching a fire he set rage out of control while the "game" morphs into an unrecognizable blob of pure poo poo that nearly the opposite of what he originally wanted.

That is beautiful justice in its own way.

Dynastocles posted:

Even better, since this is the only way to escape, everyone will have to repeat all of these steps every single time they want to escape. And if multiple people try to escape at the same time, you'll have an immersion-breaking cue of people waiting for their turn to get into the shack and steal the rover once it respawns.

But at least it's aMbiTiOuS!!!

Viscous Soda posted:

Even better, if you look at the end of the video the bottle still exists even after the player throws it into the trash. So I'm guessing the bottles just exist no matter what until some sort of house keeping script cleans them up... or maybe there is no cleanup and CIG just relies on server restarts to get rid of them.

The Titanic posted:

Can't believe this poo poo got past CR.

This looks like the same texture with a different color for a different flavor.

Who the gently caress green lit this travesty of immersion breaking?!

CR is dedicated to making procedural eggs so every plate of eggs is different. And... THIS is the ice cream we get with those eggs?!!??

This is it.

My wallet is loving closed now.

Pixelate posted:

Inacio posted:

quote:

As of today the redeemer has now been pledgeable for 2000 days.

What were you doing back in the 1st of November 2014? Some of you reading this might have pre-ordered the Four Horseman's Aegis Redeemer the day it came out, and have been waiting ever since. That was now 2000 days ago now we still don't have it and you can say it's gone backwards since that time too as you can no longer access it's interior.

Now there are many old ships in this game that aren't ready yet that I understand since the tech required isn't there yet, or are not suited with the game's current state (but that hasn't stopped some being made anyway). But that hasn't ever been the case for the redeemer since 2.0. There is no major tech halting it's capability and that is to me what makes it the most frustrating ship to wait for.

Yes it needs a major redesign I don't think that is a fair excuse when this is THE community ship that brought people together in a different era of CIG. It just feels disrespectful at this point so many new ships are being made when I was still waiting for this all these years. I contacted CIG support a month ago and actually was able to downgrade to a different ship and have store credit, usually they never allow this but was granted an exception due to the major delay of this item.

It's 5 and a half years now, you owe us this one CIG. Can we atleast get a confirmation of it being on the roadmap by 2020?

Quavers posted:

The Banu Merchantman was first sold 2346 days ago

biglads posted:

They should have got the pedo ship designer guy to help with the prison gameplay.

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

Yeah, lol.

I'm thinking back to Skyrim videos I saw where a player would spawn in a bunch of cheese wheels or cabbage and bring the game to a standstill. And this was before my time in the game, but Eve used to have mines and had to remove them because they would negatively impact performance. (SC isn't gonna have mines in the game will it? )

And that means that the server is going to have to tell every player in the game about the water bottle Player X dropped on the floor right? Or did they fix that yet?

monkeytek posted:

This brings back memories, back in the day it was cans in EVE. We'd dump as many as we could in gate spawn locations, made piracy so much easier, and the tears were worth every mind numbing hour we would camp.

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

Yeah, lol.

I'm thinking back to Skyrim videos I saw where a player would spawn in a bunch of cheese wheels or cabbage and bring the game to a standstill. And this was before my time in the game, but Eve used to have mines and had to remove them because they would negatively impact performance. (SC isn't gonna have mines in the game will it? )

And that means that the server is going to have to tell every player in the game about the water bottle Player X dropped on the floor right? Or did they fix that yet?

Inacio posted:

now post this on the subreddit but make it sound like a citizen wrote it

...just copy paste what you wrote.

Bumble He posted:

this is out-of-this-world

“
This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!
This game is as appealing as a loving ooze-infested dirty loving sewer rat poo poo!
I've had more fun playing with dog turds!
Shredder's my rear end and Splinter's my balls, this game is an inside-out rear end in a top hat regurgitated putrid anal fecal matter!
I'd rather loving yank all the hairs out of my scrotum! I'd rather drink diarrhea vomited out of a buffalo's anus!
“

- james rolfe / avgn

Scruffpuff posted:

We know he's arrogant, and we know he's not afraid to be tough on his employees, we have all that documented from the people who've worked with him over the years. So HOW is any of this complete bullshit hitting prime time? Why isn't he having an absolute loving stroke at the moment? None of this is even close to what he himself wanted to make.

Quavers posted:

The Banu Merchantman was first sold 2346 days ago

Extra Large Marge posted:

Does your heart still explode if you run too much in game?

The Titanic posted:

You guys are really hell bent on dicks and shoving you balls into things lately.

Time_pants posted:

I'm pretty sure it's because he's still getting to pay himself an unconscionable amount of money in perpetuity, and, ultimately, that's vastly more important to him than seeing whatever dopey "vision" he had of this shitshow through to completion.