Bumble He posted:

especially antigrav stuff would make 90% of what we spend our time with irrelevant. also “atmospheric flight“
(yeah i calculated that and it exactly 90%)

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I think you guys, (and most SC backers who perpetuate the "lul they dont want it to be released because ship sales are their income") dont really understand just how important SQ42 is, not only for CIG but also for the future of the PU.
I will show you guys some examples, that you can compare with the "measely" 300mil that has been raised so far through subscriptions and ship sales. THEN you will understand why SQ42 dwarfs ALL that.

GTA5 sold 135 million copies and earned about $6 billion in worldwide revenue.
Ghost of Tsushima sold 2.4 million copies IN THE FIRST THREE DAYS.
2.4 million x 40 dollars = 96 million dollars in 3 days.
CD Projekt Red has made around 250 million dollars in total from the Witcher 3 revenue.

Now do you understand?
Squadron 42 Chapter 1, on its own as a single game, could earn as much money as CIG has already raised DURING EIGHT YEARS, in just the first month (or lets be conservative and say first year) that SQ42 releases.
THIS is why it is such a priority, even if you only care about the PU.
Because SQ42 can literally secure funding for the next half decade for CIG.

We're talking big money, far more than 300 million over 8 years.
CIG doesnt "have" 300 million in the bank today. They've spent it on salaries and development (and PR).
That number doesnt actually represent money that "exists".
So earning 250 million or even just 100 million from SQ42's release would be a huge boon to the entire project.

People who say they intentionally delay the release to keep ship sales going, are immature native people who dont actually comprehend the scales of profit we're talking about regarding FINISHED released AAA games (or movies).
The money CIG has the potential to earn through SQ42 completely dwarfs anything they've raised so far.

Mirificus posted:

earn as much money as CIG has already raised DURING EIGHT YEARS, in just the first month (or lets be conservative and say first year)

Dwesa posted:

They are chilling with SQ56, 99 other star systems, 100k person servers, Theatres of War, MISC Endeavor, Banu Merchantman and other friends.

Quavers posted:

Astropub, Noobifier, and HCVertigo put targets on their backs by talking about CIG's fuckups for two hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l77x5RV-7sI

Dwesa posted:

I think sales of SQ42 should be rather compared to sales of Duke Nukem Forever.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

The name is dumb. You cure life? That's a regular gun.

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what you dont understand is almost every aspect of SC is icebreaking. if it were another game the bartender would do the same action every single time and it would be faked to save the company from having to simulate the entire life of that bartender.
another game company wouldnt even consider the next shift of bartender or how a bartender reacts to what you do aside from a set few interactions.
you are comparing the difficulty of making a grilled cheese to a 5 course meal & a profession chef making the grilled cheese while the other is making these meals for the very first time ever.
what other company is making icash, socks, & quanta? which is making all three at once?

Mirificus posted:

happyhippy posted:

HCVertigo posted:

one of my biggest complaints; when people tell me like "[...] you don't know game development!" Well apparently CIG doesn't know game development either.

peter gabriel posted:

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I have my magnifier out but still cannot see:

Fun

Jobbo_Fett posted:

That is dumb.

It looks dumb.

The name is dumb. You cure life? That's a regular gun.

Whatever the bottles are, they arent the same. No i dont care if they have two different compounds its dumb all the same.

The front of the gun makes no sense.

The frame-thats-actually-a-trigger-guard is exceptionally dumb. Nobody will ever have gloves thick enough to warrant that poo poo. In no way, shape, or form does that thing generate enough recoil as to need a second spot to grip/brace. And no, i dont care to know what the button is under the trigger. If its a safety device its double dumb.

Why does it have a flanged side? Why is it so dumb?

Whatever the magazine thing is on the right doesnt fit onto any part of the pistol. Theres nothing that conforms to that shape or the dimensions thereof.

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"...we settled with Microsoft on the PC side because they seem to have the most patience, and they have long term goals that fit with what we're doing".
...
"Right now, I don't think there's anyone in the building who hasn't had more than five years experience developing computer games," he says, "and that's quite a different experience than what we had at Origin where we hired people straight out of school and they had to be trained and once they were trained they went somewhere else. At times, it felt like Origin had become a placement agency for the rest of the industry."

Pixelate posted:

https://v.redd.it/0vuwiw1byyk51/DASH_480.mp4

with sound

Lammasu posted:

So is quantum fuel as stupid as I think it is? It's a liquid fuel that powers the FTL drive and is separate from the fuel that powers the rest of the ship? Like what exactly is it and where does it come from? Why does the FTL need a different fuel? That's like having a fighter jet that has a different type of fuel for Mach speeds.

Lammasu posted:

So is quantum fuel as stupid as I think it is? It's a liquid fuel that powers the FTL drive and is separate from the fuel that powers the rest of the ship? Like what exactly is it and where does it come from? Why does the FTL need a different fuel? That's like having a fighter jet that has a different type of fuel for Mach speeds.

AbstractNapper posted:

A maverick has appeared...



Article on PC Gamer, back on November 1997. Good for a few laughs. Also the Crobbl-portrait.

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Roberts says that proving the game concept and technology allows them to avoid potentially costly mistakes. "A lot of times, you'll hear of software projects that have gone on for two or three years and racked up a cost of six or seven million dollars, and it comes to the point where a company simply has to release the game in order to make some of their investment back."

happyhippy posted:

Here we see a surgical team operating on a sedated commander.

A healing round passes through the skin’s surface, which scrubs off some of its healing energy....

Edit: Each organ, vein, and testicle will be modeled in real time to double floating point precision.

The Titanic posted:

If you get this worked up over quantum fuel, I hope you never find about about the gravity goo system.

Mirificus posted:

tuo posted:

Escuse me, but every game developer knows that you first need a persistent database, then you need a solid anti-shmeg concept. This is followed by a very thick layer of OCS, by OF COURSE (I mean, did you even pay attention?) by another layer of SSOCS on the side of the developer. These layers have to settle a bit, they need to "mature" if you want to call it that.

Once they settled, you CLEARLY (did you even listen?) need some kind of iCache because the persistant database which gets desmegged might get resmegged by a dirty SSOCCS cache. So you need a clean iCache. This is basic software development, really. Once you now have a clear iCache downstream which removes the dirt from the ugly SSOCS, you can think about draining them all into a big sink, where all of the players can live in, and enjoy the verse.

It's not that hard to understand, seriously.

Lammasu posted:

Wait, what?