Quavers posted:

[i]May 6th, 2020

Attention Recruits,

What you are about to read is the latest information on the continuing development of Squadron 42 (SCI des: SQ42).

Our top agents went into deep cover and managed to extract information on work on the Javelin's weapons and engineering sections, as well as key info on the next step of cinematics.
The information contained in this communication is extremely sensitive and it is of paramount importance that it does not fall into the wrong hands. Purge all records after reading.

Agony Aunt posted:

like the orbital cannon... not that many people use it unless they are cheaters, because the drat thing costs a crapton of money to fire. Its effectively a godmode weapon where you sink in your facility and fire upon someone anywhere on the map killing them.

Pixelate posted:

Hav posted:

The revolution will be de-skeletonized

Pixelate posted:

'It’s not a game...'

Asmodai_00 posted:

I've never seen someone complain about bartenders that looked at the bigger picture.

If you see a post about the bartender, you can guarantee, it involves 100% emotion and zero research.

The Titanic posted:

End of life dates are for losers who didn't invent programming back in the 90's.

You just start editing all your dependencies at their code-level and then you just do it better and then keep up with all of them because you are a literal programming goddess and can do no wrong and everybody else did it worse than you.


The only way they'll probably upgrade to a neeer version is a complete rewrite. And the good news is that I think CIG already did this once, and within like 2 months was right back into knee deep frankencode nobody could work with. So don't worry, if they do have to do a rewrite, it will only be a few months before nothing works again. You won't be lonely long with a working game because it's 99% unfucked by CIG.

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

MT METROLOOP... What does "MT" stand for here? Mountain?

Just another day trying to hike up Mt. Metroloop...

Dr. Honked posted:

As a coder, you MUST know 3d maths well to work on many areas of a 3d game. There is a shitload of stuff that requires it, not just performance-critical graphics code. You can maybe get along for a while using the various helpful linear algebra functions that your engine has, but in the end, you're going to need to know this stuff. I won't hire juniors who don't know basic linear algebra.

Sarsapariller posted:

Man this is why I don't play anything with any kind of public matchmaking game anymore. gently caress allllllll of that. I didn't pay 60 bucks to provide a nice target for people cheating, or lose access to the game because I'm adjacent to people cheating. And I'll stay way the hell away from any game that decides I have to wade into the brown sea to progress because having it my own way isn't "Authentic" enough or whatever. gently caress it forever.

Agony Aunt posted:

Yeah, i hear you.

Unless a dev is really good at catching cheaters, they can really ruin any sort of public play, whether it be a PvP or PvE game or a hybrid.

Its one reason I push back whenever someone suggests FD should remove PG/solo from ED. The other main reason being there are lots of people out there who flock to online games with the sole intent of screwing the game up for others in one way or another.

GTA allows me the same, to play solo or just with friends (even though the devs didn't intent that, but hey, screw them).

And here we have Star Citizen, a game with a single mode only, with (in theory) thousands of players on the same server. Yeah, that's going to be a fun world to play in. From what we've seen as well, CIG haven't even started to address the issue of cheaters.... well, it is alpha!

Agony Aunt posted:

Yeah, i hear you.

Unless a dev is really good at catching cheaters, they can really ruin any sort of public play, whether it be a PvP or PvE game or a hybrid.

Its one reason I push back whenever someone suggests FD should remove PG/solo from ED. The other main reason being there are lots of people out there who flock to online games with the sole intent of screwing the game up for others in one way or another.

GTA allows me the same, to play solo or just with friends (even though the devs didn't intent that, but hey, screw them).

And here we have Star Citizen, a game with a single mode only, with (in theory) thousands of players on the same server. Yeah, that's going to be a fun world to play in. From what we've seen as well, CIG haven't even started to address the issue of cheaters.... well, it is alpha!

Agony Aunt posted:

The other main reason being there are lots of people out there who flock to online games with the sole intent of screwing the game up for others in one way or another.

Scruffpuff posted:

As much as I hate the cheating parts of online play, if and when SC is in any shape (it won't ever be) I am going to dedicate a not-insignificant amount of energy into being exactly what I hate. I've never seen a community more deserving, and one that can handle it less.

Scruffpuff posted:

I am going to dedicate a not-insignificant amount of energy into being exactly what I hate.

Pixelate posted:

But forget all that, here is my taxxe

CIG have been struggling with marketing since Strangli left. So I remade their 3.9 trailer for them:

Star Citizen: 3.9 - Cocked Up & Coded

(lovely quality / size, but if anyone wants to stick on a proper video site go for it)

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Hav posted:

Or matrix transforms. Luckily commercial programming is more about strings and remembering how to count.

Sample_text posted:

A story told in 4 jpegs.

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... I find it kinda silly to get all worked up about things not working in a super early alpha,like did you expect a full game? You're paying into what is essentially a continuation of the kick starter that made the creation of this game possible.

Star posted:

Someone in the thread complained that missiles at least worked back then and got this reply

iron buns posted:

On the topic of 3.9, on the main subreddit, a new poster(won't say who cause doxxing isn't cool) has mysteriously appeared, has an account that's only 11 days old, yet has consistently been posting mostly concern threads, and appears to be trying to push for the community to get mad about skins possibly costing money in the future, despite the community consensus generally been skins can be an effective monetization post ship-sales. Reminds me of when wahhhlord had his alt-account, tho if this account is trying to stir up poo poo they're a lot more coy about it.

Sarsapariller posted:

Man this is why I don't play anything with any kind of public matchmaking game anymore. gently caress allllllll of that. I didn't pay 60 bucks to provide a nice target for people cheating, or lose access to the game because I'm adjacent to people cheating.

orcane posted:

"Super early alpha" 90 months after the crowdfunding sure is a take.

Asmodai_00 posted:

That's the ugly side of Alpha. SC is amazingly well polished for an Alpha, but it is still an Alpha, and that does mean that from time to time nasty bugs will get into the 'live' release.

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While doing some bounties with my prowler a police ship approached me, marked as red pirate. So anyway I started blasting. Suddenly the ship turned blue but the prowler destroyed it immediately -> crime stat 3.

I became what i sought to destroy.

I got killed by my headhunter buddy and landed in prison. Here is where the story begins.

6.00 pm - I spawn at Klescher, head to the station computer and see: 1:58Hrs sentence. I want to play star citizen again so I head to the mining area take out my mining tool and a few meters later i clip into the ground. I have to suicide.

6.20 pm - I spawn at Klescher, head to the mining area. Multitool gone. I suicide.

6.25 pm - I spawn at Klescher, head to the mining area and see i can get a new mining tool at the station. I get one but its not working. It simply gets put away everytime I take it in my hand and the laser does not trigger. I find the previous laser on my leg. This time it spawned when I suicided.

7.00 pm - I mined some stuff at the entrance, clipped once again through the ground and fell comletely inside the moon.

7.10 pm. - I spawn at Klescher. Now having both mining lasers I try it all again. The laser from the station still does not work so I throw it away and mine some stuff at the entrance.

7.20 pm - I want to deliver those minables so I head to the station where you exchange the minerals for your time. Well. Its of course bugged so I can not click on the display.

7.30 pm - I reconnected to 12 different servers, still not being able to click on the screens. I give up.

7.30 pm on the way back I found a group of 4 prisoners trying to escape. Well, seems fun I'd like to test out and see how it looks like to escape.

ONE OF THE WORST DECISIONS IN MY HISTORY OF GAMING WAS MADE HERE

After I followed them they killed me 3 times, because somehow they had guns. OK. I wrote in the chat we became friends and they showed me the way out. At the end i died because i missed a hole in the very last stairs.

9.00 pm - I spawned at Klescher. Once again. I checked my timer and it went up to 3 hrs. gently caress so there is no other way than escaping now.

1.50 am (right now) - Long story short; I escaped 20 times, i can speedrun the escape route. But every time someone picked me up with his ship the game crashed completely. ONE TIME I was able to reconnect but on the way to Grim Hex my buddy and I suddenly died without any reason in the back of a cutlass black. so...

I spawned at Klescher. Sentence timer says 5:48 Hrs. I am a prisoner for already 7 Hrs. because of a series of game breaking bugs. And I know that I will spawn there tomorrow and enter the exit elevator and get a bug that will force me to reset my account and ONCE AGAIN lose 700k aUEC, all my armor, weapons and all prospector and prowler components since 3.9 release.

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Edit 2: 12.00 pm. The next day. As I already thought:

I spawned at Klescher. I am a free man. I go to the prison exit elevator and get stuck in a black screen. Game crashes. I restart it and one last thing happens before I stop playing until a new patch:

I spawn at Klescher

Sillybones posted:

Reading this gives me a sick feeling. Why do they put themselves through this? When a game is that lovely I just uninstall it immediately and forget about it.

Reminds me of playing DayZ Standalone. And that is a terrible thing.