pokie posted:

Legal reality is always so dull :/.
I am itching for a tell all book from Ben or whoever.

quote:

This has been a really good year for space toilets. AD managed to screen cap some really good shots of the toilets in the Wing Commander Movie a couple months back, and now LOAF has discovered the Wing Commander Academy equivalent. Or rather, since this is Damon Karnes' holding cell from the episode The Last One Left, these are borderline space holes-in-the-ground. He recently got ahold of a concept art piece which shows a pair of basins at the foot of their cell beds. From this angle, their purpose seems fairly obvious. They're actually pictured in the episode itself, but with all the other action going on, nobody has ever called these out as far as we can tell. Now you know!

This is a Wing Commander Academy concept painting. These were done in the US as reference for animators in Japan and Korea painting the production backgrounds. It's from The Last One Left and reveals the pirate prison has space toilets I would never have noticed!

Sanya Juutilainen posted:

...follow the drat train, CJ!

Scruffpuff posted:

There we go - Dawn of War was just about perfect in terms of pacing, at least for a game focused overwhelmingly on the combat itself. The bases were rather anemic and served more as troop unlocks than an actual defensible structure, but for the genre I feel it still hasn't been topped.

I'd kill for a similar game that went just a little bit the other way - more base focus, with walls/turrets/defense structures, but which lets you take your time building up and out. I think I might need to revisit Age of Empires at this point, I seem to remember that being a well-paced builder.

Kosumo posted:

I'm waiting for the re-re-remaster of Star Citizen thanks.

Thoatse posted:

garbage art a drunk 4th grader could produce but succssfuly conned influencer idiots in the art scene into paying millions of dollars for it

lobsterminator posted:

What if Star Citizen is just a Banksy piece. When the funding reaches a billion dollars SC will go into a shedder.

lobsterminator posted:

What if Star Citizen is just a Banksy piece. When the funding reaches a billion dollars SC will go into a shedder.

commando in tophat posted:

It would maybe even work better if it went through shredder

aBacker posted:

Last update April 6th 2013.

anotherBacker posted:

Estimated delivery, November 2014.

yetAnotherBacker posted:

Estimated delivery Nov 2014

aBackerWhoIsBackAgain posted:

I am back again to remind anyone that it has been years and neither game has been released or have an ETA. It is still all a scam and RSI screwed over their Kickstarter backers and Kickstarter did nothing about I.

aBackerWhoJustThinks posted:

Just think.

If Chris had just delivered the Wing Commander he promised, we could have had a couple of solid expansions like the old days of secret missions etc. Maybe one free for the Kickstarter backers.

Store Citizer kickstarter page posted:

Reclaim the stars in the exciting new Space Epic from legendary game designer Chris Roberts.

Created by
Cloud Imperium Games Corporation

Colostomy Bag posted:

There was a video they posted years ago where they gave a tour and showed the QA department. It was literally like 4-6 people.

lobsterminator posted:

What if Star Citizen is just a Banksy piece. When the funding reaches a billion dollars SC will go into a shedder.

Quavers posted:

Only top-level qualifying comments will be counted for the raffle. After one week, we will randomly select one of the comments and announce the winner.[/i]

Spuckuk posted:

A lot, a LOT of the QA staff left in the last year in the UK offices.

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Let me tell you a story(of poor customer support...)

Back in 2013(mind you, its been a long time) I decided to support the game and bought what was the Digital Mercenary pack.
Time passed...a lot of it...
Eventually, a few years back, I added an authenticator token to my account, so far so good.

Skip forward to 2020. I've moved from Austria to Bulgaria and it's Corona lockdown and i'm thinking to myself, hey, why not pick up star citizen again and see what the current state of affairs is(havent touched the game in years at this point).
Try to login and ofc it asks for the authenticator code which I dont have since I canned the phone I had it setup on years ago.

No biggie I think to myself, just get in touch with support, provide some proof that I am I and all will be good...or you would think.

The only thing I get back from support is that there is "fraudulent activity" on my account. Now I do know a thing about IT security, after all, its what I do for a living, and so I think to myself, the account had 2FA setup...how would anyone gain access to it. Conclusion, since im in a different country now they think it isnt me.

The clue here is, they tell me the account is under investigation(as i said, that was 3 weeks ago...). And also, I cannot really get in touch with support anymore since they now locked my goddamn account and I cant even look at the support ticket in question. I did respond to the e-mail(which said it would get added to the support request if I respond) but never got a reply back that the support request was updated and as i said, i also cannot view the support request since the account is locked out(genius mechanic there fellas, really, give a medal to the person that came up with that idea).

So now im sitting here with an account I cant use(but paid for), utter silence from customer support and no real means of getting in touch with them either.

pardon my french here but gently caress...that...poo poo ...

peter gabriel posted:

it is shapcaps time to shine

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It seems like a lot of people are against the inclusion of hunger and thirst mechanics, and while I understand why, I'm pretty neutral towards it. What I can't understand is why it's being added before fully functioning inventories, and while our ships' dining areas are still just placeholder decorations.

his nibs posted:

has anyone said shatcrap yet?

Asmodai_00 posted:

Why are we getting hunger and thirst when our ships' dining areas are still nonfunctional?


Because its ready now, just letting functionality sit unused is a bad idea, this way they can test it out properly together with stores now and keep the functionality maintained as they add new functionality.

It's also probably needed for Squadron 42, its a system that will also be used by AI.

I believe being able to deck out our ships is coming, if you look at the latest cargo deck work. It also probably relies on iCache, which should be in its latter stages of development now.

Asmodai_00 posted:

As a security professional, I think you'd appreciate that they make it difficult for an outsider to gather information on your account.

Asmodai_00 posted:

It also probably relies on iCache, which should be in its latter stages of development now.[/i]

Hav posted:

Don’t know what they’ve been doing for the past seven years. Not Assuring Quality.

peter gabriel posted:

No one has to

Quavers posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3QfmXZ9M7k

Quavers posted:

PSA: Stay away from the game until they fix the gamebreaking bugs. Your account degrades over time.

Don't make the same mistake I did: sinking more and more hours hoping the hotfixes and promises of a fix would help.

Don't play until 3.9.1 and community confirmation that the game is fixed.

Otherwise, the consequences for you will certainly be the same as they have been for me:

- I now have 5 duplicate Sabres and 4 Duplicate Cutlasses. One of each is usable.
- I am missing 1 million+ worth of components (each of my 5 resets has deleted all componentry)
- Two out of four hardpoints on my Cutlass no longer exist. The remaining two cannot be customised.
- I typically go 0-2 hours before I need a Character Reset in order to continue playing.
- But most importantly, my account has gotten perpetually worse each time I've been forced to Reset.

The game is now unplayable for me immediately following a Character Reset.

Stay away, don't risk your account being corrupted like mine.
Personally I'll be waiting until the next patch to see if that resolves anything and then filing a ticket. IDK what they can possibly do though. In the meantime I've made a number of Issue Council posts and twice as many contributions. Hopefully we get this sorted soon.

Spuckuk posted:

My mate worked there until June last year. Plenty of bugs get filed, the backlog is just so immense and the project so hosed that stuff won't get actioned.

Xakura posted:

What if they can't fix it What if it just gets worse and worse, until accounts, servers, everything just stops working.

Spuckuk posted:

My mate worked there until June last year. Plenty of bugs get filed, the backlog is just so immense and the project so hosed that stuff won't get actioned.

Quavers posted:

Good on your mate getting out of there. Any good gossip?

Spuckuk posted:

Nothing the thread doesn't really know already.

-Chris shoves his nose into everything and fucks it up on the regular.

-Big exodus of talent leading to 22 year old 'leads'

-poo poo wages

-Citizencon demos were extremely tightly controlled and still fell apart constantly, they took weeks out of production to glue together each time.

He's personally convinced it will never be released in a playable form, and hell, same.

AbstractNapper posted:

Sarsapariller posted:

In other space game news:

Skywanderers got rename to "Starship EVO" and is now heading to early access. For a singe-dev kickstarter game, this one's got a lot of very impressive features and a very nice minecraft 2.0 aesthetic and mechanic set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLMm-unFteM

Please excuse the dev for his extremely heavy French accent and Roberts-esque tendency to just kind of stammer-babble; He's actually a really brilliant coder. The video itself is very cool and the game looks like it is substantially more mechanically complete in terms of ship design and physics than Star Citizen.


E: Actually this recent trailer's probably better than watching a devlog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fY5FbaAlNs