Mr Fronts posted:

"Oh, Miles!", she exclaimed breathlessly, taking off his jacket and throwing it aside. "I only have a moment before I need to mix those drinks."

"What, you're going to ditch me for a Hairy Roberts?", Eckhart purred, taking off his jacket and dropping it on the floor. It crumpled and folded in a highly realistic manner.

She pulled him close with one hand, tugging roughly at his jacket with the other, feeling the soft fabric of his jacket underneath. "Hurry, Miles! I need to feel your skin on mine", she purred.

Eckhart shrugged off his jacket. Hungrily, she eyed his one-of-a-kind Shroud of the Avatar leather pants and codpiece.

"Come here, Annabelle!", he growled.

"Please", she said, "Call me 'Boo'!"

She ripped off his jacket.

Pixelate posted:

We understood that players struggled with knowing what to do in the game.

quote:

Ships are now a mirror matchup to ensure player skill is what truly shines in the skies.

Pixelate posted:

New and improved ToW hitting evocati!

The Titanic posted:

organs of unknown nomenclature

Colostomy Bag posted:

50 Shades of Grift

IAbsolveMyself posted:

40 entire players. Impressive.

Popete posted:

lol at 24 player battlefield in the year 2021. Really pushing the boundaries!

trucutru posted:

We just learned that TOW meant totally outsourced work instead of theaters of war. And that it will take a biiiiiiiit longer and cost a biiiiiiit more than expected.

CeeJee posted:

We understood that players struggled with knowing what to do in the game

This level of honesty is quite refreshing.

quote:

What stage is server meshing "more" in?

#1 Research Phase: "We aren't sure how it will work yet, but are looking into it."

#2 Production Phase: "We know exactly how to do it and have a (mostly clear) roadmap internally for what milestones to hit to achieve it."

Clive Johnson CIG@cjohnson posted:

Definitely production phase. We spent a lot of time and effort planning out server meshing until we were confident we had addressed all the major risks and unknowns for the first version. This roadmap includes several integrations of our code back to the development mainline so that our changes are being tested by as many of our fellow developers as soon as possible, and get included in the following quarterly release. Some of these integrations only affect things beneath the surface and haven't, or won't have, any noticeable impact on how players experience the game as whole or its performance. From the outside it may sometimes look like not much progress is being made.

The plans for server meshing beyond its first version are still in the research phase. We have pretty clear ideas of what we want to do and how, and will continue to flesh out these ideas as we work towards the first version. However, these plans can't be finalised until that first version is in your hands and working well enough for us to see what the problems with it are. Building incrementally like this allows us to be sure of our footing along the way, and address any unforseen issues as they arise.

Pixelate posted:

Last we heard on ToW it was moving closer to PU norms to serve as a better testing zone

Ok so they’ve opened the maps up. But now vehicles are spawn points, ships insta-spawn, there are staged objectives with lots of UI indicators, and a custom map view. Just like the PU...

commando in tophat posted:

I like to imagine there will be a clown car parked from which there will be constant streams of respawning commandos

Pixelate posted:

T0 static server enmeshination in the production stage!

Pixelate posted:

Question: Server Meshing: "Research" Phase or "Production" Phase?

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The plans for server meshing beyond its first version are still in the research phase.

T0 static server enmeshination in the production stage!

Clive Johnson CIG@cjohnson posted:

reddit posted:

Borderlands wasn't cellshaded until months before release, 4 years into development.
Fortnite didn't have a Battle Royale mode nor multiplayer at all until after it's release
Darkest Dungeon didn't have corpses until weeks before release.
Diablo 1 was turn based for almost it's entire development. The change was so last moment that it's to this day there is a fully functioning turn based system under the hood that is run on auto 20 time a second.
You'e acting like this is some unsual circumstance, Games are not like houses, game development is not a series of linear steps that are either done or undone.
Core tech is almost never done and dusted early and forgotten, you're hacking, refactoring and slapping that poo poo around right up until you have to go gold.
Core tech usually ends up dominating the release schedule, because you can't scale code by throwing more bodies at it like you can with every other aspect of development. That's how pedestrian research and planning core tech late in a cycle is.

reddit posted:

Obviously you don't understand game development.
There is nothing as ground breaking and ambitious as Server meshing that has been ever done in the history of video games.
General relativity or the standard particle model was not made in 1 year.
It's the most crucial part of development, they can't make mistakes because everything will be built on it, we are talking about the foundations !
If there is a weakness in this foundation it is the whole building that risks collapsing when construction begins.
So CIG need to take all its time to ensure that the foundations are strong and will keep the game built for decades to come is most important.
It doesn't matter if it takes another 2, 5 or 10 years, the only thing that matters is that the core techs are well implemented because this is the only thing that will transform Star Citizen from dream to reality.

Pixelate posted:

loving

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commando in tophat posted:

Well it's good that game development isn't like building house, because if you just started thinking about these foundations in year 9 of your house building, you're not in a good place

Pixelate posted:

Question: Server Meshing: "Research" Phase or "Production" Phase?



T0 static server enmeshination in the production stage!

Pixelate posted:

They made ToW look like Endor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vyrO0NzPU

I mean the PU

Pixelate posted:

loving

reddit posted:

Borderlands wasn't cellshaded until months before release, 4 years into development.
Fortnite didn't have a Battle Royale mode nor multiplayer at all until after it's release
Darkest Dungeon didn't have corpses until weeks before release.
Diablo 1 was turn based for almost it's entire development. The change was so last moment that it's to this day there is a fully functioning turn based system under the hood that is run on auto 20 time a second.
You'e acting like this is some unsual circumstance, Games are not like houses, game development is not a series of linear steps that are either done or undone.
Core tech is almost never done and dusted early and forgotten, you're hacking, refactoring and slapping that poo poo around right up until you have to go gold.
Core tech usually ends up dominating the release schedule, because you can't scale code by throwing more bodies at it like you can with every other aspect of development. That's how pedestrian research and planning core tech late in a cycle is.

Pixelate posted:

Diablo 1 was turn based for almost it's entire development. The change was so last moment that it's to this day there is a fully functioning turn based system under the hood that is run on auto 20 time a second.

Pixelate posted:

They made ToW look like Endor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vyrO0NzPU

I mean the PU

quote:

We spent a lot of time and effort planning out server meshing until we were confident we had addressed all the major risks and unknowns for the first version

Pixelate posted:

Question: Server Meshing: "Research" Phase or "Production" Phase?



T0 static server enmeshination in the production stage!

Paranoid Peanut posted:

Game out?

cirus posted:

I mean come on it's not like general relativity or the standard particle model were made in 1 year!

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/CloudImperium/status/1372987067479830536
https://twitter.com/CloudImperium/status/1372987205648531461
https://twitter.com/1Big_Johnson/status/1373029487185702919
https://twitter.com/Bonzai_Badger/status/1373156893363953665
https://twitter.com/AvalonTarkov/status/1373025567818276870

Torquemada posted:

Doesn’t literally every game ever made have pricks like this in the fandom?

hottubrhymemachine posted:

I feel like both phrases, “black lives matter” and “defund the police” are, in hindsight, really easy for disingenuous dickheads to attack. “Black lives matter too” and “restructure the police” (or something better) would give them less room to do their “all lives matter” bullshit. I know most decent people don’t think people saying Black Lives Matter is saying white lives don’t matter, but they would at least have to work harder to be secret nazis. Does that make sense? Sorry, bit of a stream of consciousness post.