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Strangler 42
Jan 8, 2007

SHAVE IT ALL OFF
ALL OF IT

communism bitch posted:



Ion Storm is such a wonderful study in hubris.

Cloud Imperium is going to put them to shame when all the details come out

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monkeytek
Jun 8, 2010

It wasn't an ELE that wiped out the backer funds. It was Tristan Timothy Taylor.

Mr.Tophat posted:

Jesus loving christ that rules

My brother was involved in a couple of those projects, could never tell me everything but would always say it was loving scary what we can do with automated system nowadays. Imagine a system like that except waiting in a bunker for some poor bastards to stumble into its kill zone. It's been tested, its just held back for "ethical" reasons.

colonelwest
Jun 30, 2018

Bubbacub posted:

It's amazing how bland the game looks even when it works. The guns are a just pew pew machine guns like you're flying a Spitfire in space (but like an early variant that doesn't have the 20 mm cannons). Even the ships that are supposed to be impressive like the Idris only have dinky turrets with weak little tracers. Chris Roberts is permanently stuck with the idea that WWII in space is the pinnacle of setting design. He can't imagine anything besides gun turrets and fat torpedoes.

CIWS guns are the most exciting part of ship combat in The Expanse
https://twitter.com/S2Steercos/status/1262508865440055303?s=20

Beam cannons from Freespace 2 still look and sound good


“WWII in space but we’re the soft-fascist Space Roman Empire fighting noble space barbarians.” is literally the only creative idea that Chris has ever had. He just keeps trying to express it in new forms, thinking “this time it’s going to be my magnum opus!”

He has no understanding that even current day military technology renders that vision completely stupid and outdated, and it’s all coupled with a 10 years old’s knowledge of physics and sci-fi writing.

It’s amazing that an idiot like him can fall through the cracks and fail upwards to a 300 million dollar windfall. Just listening to him talk (dead eyes, mouth agape, hands gesticulating wildly, discordant sentence fragments split up by long series of “ahh” and “uhm”) for a few minutes should be enough to dispel any notion that he is competent.

Zazz Razzamatazz
Apr 19, 2016

by sebmojo

Dementropy posted:


:argh:: Popularity and funding records go hand in hand!

You guys from the 90daysTop haters crew just have to suck it up, eat that space crow and accept the fact that as Star Citizen gets more content and more playable it will only generate more funding as more people join the game.

As pathetic as your dumb fud shenanigans were, they only helped the game get more funding.

Thanks for pledging chumps!

:reddit:: That "Star Citizen is a Scam" thing is dying by the minute, I don't even see it anymore. And most of the haters are already in the game, the only ones left are those who are prideful enough to let go of their massive egos. Now, they just troll. They even post their stuff from refunds sub here due to lack of people reading it.


Store Citizen: Thanks for pledging chumps!

Tetrabor
Oct 14, 2018

Eight points of contact at all times!

Bubbacub posted:

It's amazing how bland the game looks even when it works. The guns are a just pew pew machine guns like you're flying a Spitfire in space (but like an early variant that doesn't have the 20 mm cannons). Even the ships that are supposed to be impressive like the Idris only have dinky turrets with weak little tracers. Chris Roberts is permanently stuck with the idea that WWII in space is the pinnacle of setting design. He can't imagine anything besides gun turrets and fat torpedoes.

CIWS guns are the most exciting part of ship combat in The Expanse
https://twitter.com/S2Steercos/status/1262508865440055303?s=20

The Expanse combat would be fun but entirely different than Croberts Space Operas. It'd be a game revolving around the evasion dance: avoiding a barrage of enemy PDC/Railgun rounds, giving your PDCs time to shoot down incoming missiles while you evade, and occasionally lining up shots with a railgun. You'd have to change the rest of the mythos though, since engagements literally take weeks to initiate and that would be Croberts level of realism in a game.

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development
New concept sale :toot:

Sales brochure: https://media.robertsspaceindustries.com/nadrf8t73pw8e/source.pdf

Image album: https://imgur.com/a/TG1rozW

And this new jpeg has LTI so can be used to upgrade your other jpegs to LTI for only $60 new cash :woop:

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development
Good news! The Sq42 video delayed from Tuesday is still delayed :holy:

Jonny Shiloh
Mar 7, 2019
You 'orrible little man

Quavers posted:

New concept sale :toot:

Sales brochure: https://media.robertsspaceindustries.com/nadrf8t73pw8e/source.pdf

Image album: https://imgur.com/a/TG1rozW

And this new jpeg has LTI so can be used to upgrade your other jpegs to LTI for only $60 new cash :woop:

:gary:

:barf:

Jonny Shiloh
Mar 7, 2019
You 'orrible little man

Quavers posted:

Good news! The Sq42 video delayed from Tuesday is still delayed :holy:



Brian Chambers too stoned to give any coherent answers? Erin approaching critical mass and shortly to collapse into a black hole?

Enquiring minds need to know!

colonelwest
Jun 30, 2018

Quavers posted:

New concept sale :toot:

Sales brochure: https://media.robertsspaceindustries.com/nadrf8t73pw8e/source.pdf

Image album: https://imgur.com/a/TG1rozW

And this new jpeg has LTI so can be used to upgrade your other jpegs to LTI for only $60 new cash :woop:

gently caress yeah! It’s a luxury-combat Space buggy! This is is really going to make the game come together.

Man they’re really scrapping the bottom of the barrel for new JPEGs to sell.

Mr.Tophat
Apr 7, 2007

You clearly don't understand joke development :justpost:

monkeytek posted:

My brother was involved in a couple of those projects, could never tell me everything but would always say it was loving scary what we can do with automated system nowadays. Imagine a system like that except waiting in a bunker for some poor bastards to stumble into its kill zone. It's been tested, its just held back for "ethical" reasons.

Pandora's box reasons

Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





Quavers posted:

New concept sale :toot:

Sales brochure: https://media.robertsspaceindustries.com/nadrf8t73pw8e/source.pdf

Image album: https://imgur.com/a/TG1rozW

And this new jpeg has LTI so can be used to upgrade your other jpegs to LTI for only $60 new cash :woop:

Just what this space game needs: another barely functional car

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

Quavers posted:

New concept sale :toot:

Sales brochure: https://media.robertsspaceindustries.com/nadrf8t73pw8e/source.pdf

Image album: https://imgur.com/a/TG1rozW

And this new jpeg has LTI so can be used to upgrade your other jpegs to LTI for only $60 new cash :woop:

https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/1263499213549326337

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

lol, what a mess.

Space Forza.

marumaru
May 20, 2013




gameplay systems delayed, need to work on making tires make handling different depending on the surface.

buy a buggy!

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Yeah, waltz up to the mission giver "Frank McGuffin" to order a set of snow tires on your space buggy using aUEC (or whatever) so you can drive around Microtech.

marumaru
May 20, 2013



Colostomy Bag posted:

Yeah, waltz up to the mission giver "Frank McGuffin" to order a set of snow tires on your space buggy using aUEC (or whatever) so you can drive around Microtech.

using the wrong tires is a criminal offense and you get sent to baby jail for 24 real time hours

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development
I'm the space man flying the space ship, without wrists.

https://i.imgur.com/pv7MMqV.mp4

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Quavers posted:

I'm the space man flying the space ship, without wrists.


At long last, footage of why that one patch wasn't on time.

Bubbacub
Apr 17, 2001

Quavers posted:

I'm the space man flying the space ship, without wrists.

https://i.imgur.com/pv7MMqV.mp4

The windshield penis is an amazing bug, probably my favorite so far.

Zazz Razzamatazz
Apr 19, 2016

by sebmojo

I'm the wheeled vehicle in a world where hoverbikes and hovertanks exist.

Strangler 42
Jan 8, 2007

SHAVE IT ALL OFF
ALL OF IT
Sixty bucks is pretty cheap in the grand scheme of Star Citizen. You get a reskinned buggy for a pre-alpha game for only the price of a real life finished game. Why not get two?

Kosumo
Apr 9, 2016

Quavers posted:

New concept sale :toot:

Sales brochure: https://media.robertsspaceindustries.com/nadrf8t73pw8e/source.pdf

Image album: https://imgur.com/a/TG1rozW

And this new jpeg has LTI so can be used to upgrade your other jpegs to LTI for only $60 new cash :woop:

Yes, but tell me what LTI does?

Bubbacub
Apr 17, 2001

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

I'm the wheeled vehicle in a world where hoverbikes and hovertanks exist.

What happened to the tank they were selling? Is that in the game?

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development

Kosumo posted:

Yes, but tell me what LTI does?

Whatever your dreams want :smuggo:

Xakura
Jan 10, 2019

A safety-conscious little mouse!

Quavers posted:

I'm the space man flying the space ship, without wrists.

Space man, more like rayman, amirite

Brazilianpeanutwar
Aug 27, 2015

Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?

Torquemada posted:

Was this the same company that thought having their programming team on the top floor of a glass roofed building in the sunniest square mile on Earth was a good idea ?

Without glare proof screens on their computers lol.
Suck it doowwwn.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

Pet me.

So goddamn delusional.

They were screwed from the very beginning signing up to do the crytek deal, they could've done something with a much better engine

marumaru
May 20, 2013



Fargin Icehole posted:

they could've done something with a much better founder / management

Xakura
Jan 10, 2019

A safety-conscious little mouse!
Pretty sure $300 million and 8 years gets you a game engine

MedicineHut
Feb 25, 2016

Quavers posted:

New concept sale :toot:

Sales brochure: https://media.robertsspaceindustries.com/nadrf8t73pw8e/source.pdf

Image album: https://imgur.com/a/TG1rozW

And this new jpeg has LTI so can be used to upgrade your other jpegs to LTI for only $60 new cash :woop:

Space Zambonis are in!

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development
Long Term Persistence Tier Zero Negative-One

:awesomelon: Consumables will no longer be tracked with Long Term Persistence as a result of changes to how it works.
Some other items will also be removed - however a communications post will be coming out soon regarding these changes
Stuff like Money will continue to be kept from patch to patch is the long and short of it.
Sourced from Baior in ETF Chat
Yeah, looks like it will be just consumables that won't go into LTP anymore. Food, drinks, missiles, mags, flares, medpens, oxycans.



What are saved-games anyway? :trustme:

Quavers fucked around with this message at 21:18 on May 21, 2020

stinch
Nov 21, 2013

Quavers posted:

Long Term Persistence Tier Zero Negative-One

:awesomelon: Consumables will no longer be tracked with Long Term Persistence as a result of changes to how it works.
Some other items will also be removed - however a communications post will be coming out soon regarding these changes
Stuff like Money will continue to be kept from patch to patch is the long and short of it.
Sourced from Baior in ETF Chat



What are saved-games anyway? :trustme:

most open development ever. just try and find another studio that talks about their fumbled attempts to store state in a database 8 years into a game.

colonelwest
Jun 30, 2018

Quavers posted:

Long Term Persistence Tier Zero Negative-One

:awesomelon: Consumables will no longer be tracked with Long Term Persistence as a result of changes to how it works.
Some other items will also be removed - however a communications post will be coming out soon regarding these changes
Stuff like Money will continue to be kept from patch to patch is the long and short of it.
Sourced from Baior in ETF Chat
Yeah, looks like it will be just consumables that won't go into LTP anymore. Food, drinks, missiles, mags, flares, medpens, oxycans.



What are saved-games anyway? :trustme:

:lol:

They’ve gone from staggered development to anti-development.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Yep, nothing I like better than waking up in the morning and find my tube of toothpaste is gone from my vanity.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

Colostomy Bag posted:

Yep, nothing I like better than waking up in the morning and find my tube of toothpaste is gone from my vanity.

Did you check if it clipped under the vanity. That happens to me a lot.

And I see the small items removal as someones attempt to reduce server load.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

Torquemada posted:

Was this the same company that thought having their programming team on the top floor of a glass roofed building in the sunniest square mile on Earth was a good idea ?

This happened to me at the Frankfurt convention centre in the late 90’s. We had to scavenge a tonne of cardboard and blackout cloth to make it bearable.

Kosumo
Apr 9, 2016

Colostomy Bag posted:

Yep, nothing I like better than waking up in the morning and find my tube of toothpaste is gone from my vanity.

You should have got LTI for your toothpaste.

Now you will be a space poor with bad teeth. Good luck being allowed on any 890 Jumps.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

monkeytek posted:

My brother was involved in a couple of those projects, could never tell me everything but would always say it was loving scary what we can do with automated system nowadays. Imagine a system like that except waiting in a bunker for some poor bastards to stumble into its kill zone. It's been tested, its just held back for "ethical" reasons.

It’s called having a man in the loop.

Russians & South Koreans have no truck with that, so their sentry guns shoot to kill.

The new swarming telepresence platforms are going to be quite scary.

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TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer
how the gently caress can't they get this poo poo working lol

oh right its just nothing but upper executives and managers and like 2 actual programmers lol

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