DigitalPenny posted:

I was really surprised at the time. After being primed about how it was going be a hard kore space Sim focused around a story living on carrier, I took the mature comments to be leaning towards the DCS or MS Flight kind or route. (Not space rape and packing bodies into boxes more effecintly)

I got a plucky rookie F22 pilot goes of mission in his multi million dollar fighter, parks it in down town Bagdad to knife fight ISIS in order to save his girlfriend.

Ultra cheesy plot written by a school boy, what ever it's a game but like mr.vision man how come your words of what you are trying to achieve from what you do. Just say cheesy over the top Hollywood quick action game and own it.

The Titanic posted:

With that said, I sure hope watching people react to winning an arcade game in the dynamic ai mess hall is really impactful gameplay, because that's apparently what Chris thinks is going to be the winning formula.

Trilobite posted:

(Quick, someone get Monocle Cat to whip out a tight 5,000 words on how players will be able to bet in-game currency on arcade championships!)

Pixelate posted:

I have condensed time

7 years of Tony Zzzzz

marumaru posted:

also:

.random posted:

It’s funny to me how supposed “backers” can continue to deny what is evident in front of their eyes. If they were to approach things in good faith, do you have any doubt they would discover how wrong they are? But that’s the thing: they refuse to engage “in good faith” and instead prefer to throw “bad faith after good.”

Some “original whales” come around and say how “arcade AI isn’t what CIG promised to spend my money on!” “My money” as though their contributions are very meaningful to this day when I have shown - through many well researched and sourced posts - that the majority of funding continues to be new backers and small backers… and not these huge “whales.” But that’s the thing. They think this game is being made for them, and they get angry when they hear it’s actually being made for all of us - those of us here in this subreddit now and those who have yet to find out about Star Citizen - and there are very many of those, fear not! But they will and funding will only accelerate.

But let’s take a look at the premise - that somehow arcade gameplay AI is not “important” to the ‘verse. At first, this seems valid - after all, some people in this world we live in may in fact never live to see - much less play - an arcade game, but their lives aren’t necessarily empty and meaningless. So, surely it’s ok if people (notice I don’t say “NPCs” or even “quanta,” since we all should realize by now what is being built here isn’t some lifeless Skyrim V clone or FIFA COD flavor of the week, but rather a living, breathing universe as Tony Z has said, where these INDIVIDUALS (yes, they are individual! Each with their own life and backstory and face and personality!) will live their life and what is the difference whether there is a human behind that or not at this point, so let’s just call a spade a spade) don’t get to play arcade games in the verse, right?

Wrong. The ‘verse is not our world (or else how boring would it be!) but rather what the future we can only hope for, and as such let’s consider even today’s trends. Today, we see sites like YouTube and Twitch featuring handsomely recompensed streamers playing games before huge audiences - some even playing Star Citizen, I’ll remind you. And their viewers feel engaged in the gameplay sometimes even more so than if they were even playing the game themselves. What is the logical next step here? Well I don’t know, maybe that we can begin to watch people play games within the ‘verse, live in person or streamed over Spectrum? How interesting that they are building core artificial intelligence so that not only can we have humans competing in such events, but other people now too.. almost as though they are planning to fulfill their promise such that you won’t know when you’re competing at the highest levels of ‘verse eSports, “hey, is my opponent another human? Or ‘just’ an NPC?”

It’s funny how people who supposedly want CIG to succeed magically appear to question these critical blocks to making the world one we all want to live in before they’re able to become implanted into the core gameplay loops, before they’re able to be fully realized and celebrated for what they are. It’s almost as if these bitter hate squads are worried that once these pieces of the game are fully implemented, it will be too late because we, the true supporters of the game, will finally see how amazing CR and Tony Z’s vision really is and we will fight tooth and nail to keep it. It’s almost like there’s a conspiracy to stop CIG before they can do these things, before it becomes too late to call Star Citizen a failure (whoops! It’s already too late for that, as I have shown in repeated posts demonstrating that CIG is on more solid ground than ever before and Star Citizen is more advanced than any other game out there but also still so full of possibility that the only failure here is their reading comprehension or their morality, you decide) and the public at large celebrates it for the success it is. It’s almost like that indeed.

.random posted:

It’s funny to me how supposed “backers” can continue to deny what is evident in front of their eyes. If they were to approach things in good faith, do you have any doubt they would discover how wrong they are? But that’s the thing: they refuse to engage “in good faith” and instead prefer to throw “bad faith after good.”

Some “original whales” come around and say how “arcade AI isn’t what CIG promised to spend my money on!” “My money” as though their contributions are very meaningful to this day when I have shown - through many well researched and sourced posts - that the majority of funding continues to be new backers and small backers… and not these huge “whales.” But that’s the thing. They think this game is being made for them, and they get angry when they hear it’s actually being made for all of us - those of us here in this subreddit now and those who have yet to find out about Star Citizen - and there are very many of those, fear not! But they will and funding will only accelerate.

But let’s take a look at the premise - that somehow arcade gameplay AI is not “important” to the ‘verse. At first, this seems valid - after all, some people in this world we live in may in fact never live to see - much less play - an arcade game, but their lives aren’t necessarily empty and meaningless. So, surely it’s ok if people (notice I don’t say “NPCs” or even “quanta,” since we all should realize by now what is being built here isn’t some lifeless Skyrim V clone or FIFA COD flavor of the week, but rather a living, breathing universe as Tony Z has said, where these INDIVIDUALS (yes, they are individual! Each with their own life and backstory and face and personality!) will live their life and what is the difference whether there is a human behind that or not at this point, so let’s just call a spade a spade) don’t get to play arcade games in the verse, right?

Wrong. The ‘verse is not our world (or else how boring would it be!) but rather what the future we can only hope for, and as such let’s consider even today’s trends. Today, we see sites like YouTube and Twitch featuring handsomely recompensed streamers playing games before huge audiences - some even playing Star Citizen, I’ll remind you. And their viewers feel engaged in the gameplay sometimes even more so than if they were even playing the game themselves. What is the logical next step here? Well I don’t know, maybe that we can begin to watch people play games within the ‘verse, live in person or streamed over Spectrum? How interesting that they are building core artificial intelligence so that not only can we have humans competing in such events, but other people now too.. almost as though they are planning to fulfill their promise such that you won’t know when you’re competing at the highest levels of ‘verse eSports, “hey, is my opponent another human? Or ‘just’ an NPC?”

It’s funny how people who supposedly want CIG to succeed magically appear to question these critical blocks to making the world one we all want to live in before they’re able to become implanted into the core gameplay loops, before they’re able to be fully realized and celebrated for what they are. It’s almost as if these bitter hate squads are worried that once these pieces of the game are fully implemented, it will be too late because we, the true supporters of the game, will finally see how amazing CR and Tony Z’s vision really is and we will fight tooth and nail to keep it. It’s almost like there’s a conspiracy to stop CIG before they can do these things, before it becomes too late to call Star Citizen a failure (whoops! It’s already too late for that, as I have shown in repeated posts demonstrating that CIG is on more solid ground than ever before and Star Citizen is more advanced than any other game out there but also still so full of possibility that the only failure here is their reading comprehension or their morality, you decide) and the public at large celebrates it for the success it is. It’s almost like that indeed.

quote:

What we currently have in Star Citizen is a lot of really cool environment, but pretty much no AI.

quote:

we are at what we call Phase Zero, the Engineering Phase.

Dwesa posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3sXyeuScN8

Some quotes:



Early years

Rugz posted:

Is phase zero before or after tier 1?

.random posted:

It’s funny to me how supposed “backers” can continue to deny what is evident in front of their eyes. If they were to approach things in good faith, do you have any doubt they would discover how wrong they are? But that’s the thing: they refuse to engage “in good faith” and instead prefer to throw “bad faith after good.”

Some “original whales” come around and say how “arcade AI isn’t what CIG promised to spend my money on!” “My money” as though their contributions are very meaningful to this day when I have shown - through many well researched and sourced posts - that the majority of funding continues to be new backers and small backers… and not these huge “whales.” But that’s the thing. They think this game is being made for them, and they get angry when they hear it’s actually being made for all of us - those of us here in this subreddit now and those who have yet to find out about Star Citizen - and there are very many of those, fear not! But they will and funding will only accelerate.

Dwesa posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3sXyeuScN8

quote:

Fantastic work so far. Curious if dynamic pupil sizing is planned in the future.

.random posted:

It’s funny to me how supposed “backers” can continue to deny what is evident in front of their eyes.
[...]
It’s almost like that indeed.

Trilobite posted:

Well, that's the kind of gameplay that their backers apparently cherish above anything else: just strolling through an environment casually, taking in the sights. So far they've been denied the full experience there, between parts of the world not loading in or NPCs T-posing on chairs or whatever, so you know that if CIG can manage to pull off an animation of some NPC fist-pumping to celebrate their high score on Super Sataball Commander, it'll be in every Star Citizen streamer's highlight reel for the decade.

Plus, Tony Z's magic quantum powers mean that some NPCs will get so good at winning arcade games that Star Citizen will spontaneously create its own in-game eSports sensation. (Quick, someone get Monocle Cat to whip out a tight 5,000 words on how players will be able to bet in-game currency on arcade championships!)

Jonny Shiloh posted:

LOL, they've also invented this never-before done before thing called a "navmesh"! What sorcery is this????

marumaru posted:

"sadly we can't scan more people's faces"
...do you not have 3D artists at CIG?

also this comment:

Thoatse posted:

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/UnripeAssuredBuckeyebutterfly-mobile.mp4

doingitwrong posted:

marumaru posted:

Fantastic work so far. Curious if dynamic pupil sizing is planned in the future.

quote:

It would be nice to add more work to the reality of locations, for example on planets and stations. Why wouldn't someone be able to pick up a job, such as a cleaner to relax. Take people like a taxi. It would add more atmosphere and liveliness. If people played a song, for example, etc ... Of course, it would be a paid job. Of course when you add a hairdresser it will be great.

Rad Russian posted:

You people were joking at mocapping janitors but apparently that's a highly requested profession and gameplay loop for players diving into a game that takes place in the year 3000.

marumaru posted:

meanwhile in bad & unfidelitious character creators (that probably dont even use 5000+ hours of mocap)

https://twitter.com/jadedpublic/status/1493980428662976514

FishMcCool posted:

Speaking of bad & unfidelitous character creators, has Dragon Dogma ever been outdone?

marumaru posted:

meanwhile in bad & unfidelitious character creators (that probably dont even use 5000+ hours of mocap)

https://twitter.com/jadedpublic/status/1493980428662976514

No Mods No Masters posted:

I think it's been heavily rumored, if not outright confirmed by the capcom hack, that dragon's dogma 2 is in development. I'm certainly looking forward to it

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Man Dragon's Dogma was such a cool collection of concepts that was over much too soon. It's a shame it hasn't been iterated and expanded on yet except for that dire, dire Netflix anime.

marumaru posted:

https://twitter.com/jadedpublic/status/1493980428662976514

Jobbo_Fett posted:

And thats like half the stuff that happened. And im barely scratching the surface of the game itself.