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4th Stimpire Queen posted:More tales from the bestest, most friendliest gaming community ever. Elon loving gamer dads? Harassing others on the internet for merely existing? Why I never. E: drat another snipe I'm on a roll. 
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Idle speculation (and to be honest I don't really give a poo poo about accuracy or truthfulness when discussing a failed crysis mod that somehow cost half a billion dollars and still isn't released after a decade) but I would think the reputation of the "best community" is buoyed by anyone shilling/streaming/youtubing it logging into their second session and finding they've been gifted millions of credits. Wow, they say, how generous of the community, they must be good people - not realising that this conclusion doesn't flow from the premise.
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4th Stimpire Queen posted:The Star Citizen FPS experience Well then.  I always like seeing the reality of dreams and that it takes over a decade to make shooter man AI that is even quasi decent, and yet the mark is still missed. Good thing the graphics look good and the eyeball of each guy that was shot was like an 8K PBR texture reflecting the world around them. Gameplay is secondary to ensuring that kind of fun is present. Honestly it didn't hit the mark either because I didn't see a river in the video either. 
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Only Kindness posted:Meanwhile, and apropos of nothing really, I'm 20 hours into Death Stranding, another relatively niche game all about moving boxes around, and it's still throwing new mechanics and ever more insane poo poo at me. An industry veteran, creating a new studio, took 3-4 years to make it. Mocap up the wazoo on recognisable named actors, pin-sharp modern graphics and art direction, licensed songs on the soundtrack, runs like butter on a 900-series card, and Epic gave it away for free a bit ago. The only comparisons you can make are against stuff like Duke Nukem forever and Elite: Dangerous. Any time you exit that playing field and compare cig against actual industry peers who also did the same thing cig did, Chris' rampant incompetence is difficult to justify.
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Fidelitious posted:This is exactly the thing I've mentioned before. There are no metrics behind any of the claims. I don't think cig said anything about it-- they just want to pretend it is all perfectly fine. Everything cig is doing in regards to the MMO or anything that doesn't involve graphics or pre-rendered videos is second rate and far beyond their capabilities. Even in the video I posted recently of one dude going through some campaign level, only about 10% or less of the NPCs moved or reacted in any way. The rest just stood around waiting to get killed. And none of them recognized their buddies were taking fire or they were taking fire until they actually got hit. If this is after a decade... I don't know how long it will be before you have even serviceable combat from even shovelware-grade games in sc. And if this is the kind of nonsense they're also dealing with in the single player sq404 game, I can see why it's not being released. Not even the most dedicated person would enjoy a single player experience that is barely reactive and you just walk through sterile levels killing static NPCs, and fighting in space ships takes 15+ minutes just to kill one bad guy.
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Only Kindness posted:Idle speculation (and to be honest I don't really give a poo poo about accuracy or truthfulness when discussing a failed crysis mod that somehow cost half a billion dollars and still isn't released after a decade) but I would think the reputation of the "best community" is buoyed by anyone shilling/streaming/youtubing it logging into their second session and finding they've been gifted millions of credits. I think the core issue there is the economy is hugely devastated despite Tony Z's incredible experience in the realm of MMO economics (he has zero experience but can write on a whiteboard nonsense). What happens is the players who do play the game gift anyone who wants it, or they know who is playing the game for an audience, to have the best player experience they can possibly have, so they gift them enough money to buy everything and anything they want. It helps the streamer show off whatever, but it belies the fact that the game isn't a functioning game in any way and money is utterly useless. This results in cig wipes regularly because they only way to fix their broken economy is to reset all the money back to 0 again, and then also all the stuff people earned which they didn't buy with real money also disappears... so it's that added inconvenience factor to continue to convince people to buy ships with real money. It's just broken at core, foundational levels, and the players want to help make it look good and make it fun for new people by basically making playing the game pointless. Just buy the biggest ship and best armor and go have at it and discover the brokenness.
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Buy! Buy now! We evaluated the value! Pick it now at the expected current price! Now, before the sale is over! The upgrade value will increase! Buy now!  at "price adjustment (increase)", as if CIG ever lowered the price of anything.
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Jan 23, 2023 02:56
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And we all like making GBS threads on Star Citizen, but what other game has breakdancing starships!? https://v.redd.it/zjt133gh3oda1/DASH_1080.mp4
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Jan 23, 2023 02:58
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someone gave that ship the covid vaccine
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Only Kindness posted:Meanwhile, and apropos of nothing really, I'm 20 hours into Death Stranding, another relatively niche game all about moving boxes around, and it's still throwing new mechanics and ever more insane poo poo at me. An industry veteran, creating a new studio, took 3-4 years to make it. Mocap up the wazoo on recognisable named actors, pin-sharp modern graphics and art direction, licensed songs on the soundtrack, runs like butter on a 900-series card, and Epic gave it away for free a bit ago. I'm really excited about Kojima's Xbox project if for no other reason is he went to a bunch of publishers, and they all said the idea was too crazy. He sold Sony on a delivery simulator video game, but that project was too out there.
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4th Stimpire Queen posted:The Star Citizen FPS experience Good to see Line Of Defense has at least slightly improved
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The Titanic posted:I think the core issue there is the economy is hugely devastated despite Tony Z's incredible experience in the realm of MMO economics (he has zero experience but can write on a whiteboard nonsense). It's not nonsense. Let me show you: We begin with high-level mathematics, much like the equations leveraged by CERN laboratories:  Here we see a rough outline of how server meshing will work.  The mathematical basis for the physics-based flight model:  Proof that proper scientific research on space was involved in the project from the beginning:  Tier-0 implentation of quanta:  A molecular closeup of a pixel changed from green to blue:  Server meshing, advanced:  Some brainstorming for possible types of missions:  And, finally, we see an image with his plans for dinner that evening: 
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Jan 23, 2023 10:46
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4th Stimpire Queen posted:Buy! Thinking about all the citizen cognitive dissonance of being ok with this, probably excited if they own this jpeg and also that of course, you aren't pledging for a ship, you're supporting development and just getting a ship as a thank you.
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Scruffpuff posted:It's not nonsense. Let me show you: Ok, first things first.  My fave gameplay, hopefully coming soon!  Obvious Scorpius concept art.  CIG's development model:  For bonus lolz, the whiteboard is from this 2014 article...9 years and 450ish million dollars ago.  Now do this one Scruffpuff! 
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Jan 23, 2023 13:24
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4th Stimpire Queen posted:Buy! I think it'd be interesting to know how this kind of thing works in conjunction with the spirit of everything just being an innocent donation and not a purchase for some product. Sure seems like a purchase of a product with value to me. 
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Scruffpuff posted:It's not nonsense. Let me show you: I can definitely see the value there and so the critical thinking that went into making that, likely 20 whole minutes before it was shot on video.
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Jan 23, 2023 14:31
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4th Stimpire Queen posted:Now do this one Scruffpuff! I think I'll skip out on that. The entire thing is bullshit - I've seen more convincing whiteboard backgrounds in Hollywood films. How that's fooling anyone is beyond me.
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Scruffpuff posted:How that's fooling anyone is beyond me. Copium causes impaired judgment even at low doses.
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Scruffpuff posted:I think I'll skip out on that. The entire thing is bullshit - I've seen more convincing whiteboard backgrounds in Hollywood films. How that's fooling anyone is beyond me. Agree - given that picture, in a vacuum and knowing nothing else I would sympathise with his schizophrenia and dementia, but since it's not real and just a grift for idiots, I won't.
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Bored Ape Yacht Club the NFT grift from 2021 which has raised over $450 million in funding released a game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR9N0QXiPLo Granted it's not a good game but considering they started as a literal JPEG seller and they still managed to put out a game before CIG.
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MarcusSA posted:I Watch his channel regularly but I’m not even sure he could do this poo poo show justice. Could anyone? even those here can't scratch the surface of the sheer amount of incompentence that has and keeps happening at CIG from both at the game and company level. His wha happen series could be 20 parts and still only get the 1st year of development covered.
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Had a friend tell me he was stoked for Star Citizen to come out eventually out of nowhere. Just told him to play X4.
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Star Citizen, being the first AAAA space opera MMO, totally needs stomach ache and puking.
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4th Stimpire Queen posted:Star Citizen, being the first AAAA space opera MMO, totally needs stomach ache and puking. To be fair, GTA san andreas had puking after eating too much, and you would also get fat from eating. Not that it added anything to game, but it is just something that existed in 2004 game (I also assume that install size was about size of star citizen toothpaste textures), that won't ever be in best darn space life simulator.
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commando in tophat posted:To be fair, GTA san andreas had puking after eating too much Not sure how many citizens played it tho, due to being forced to play as a *gasp* black person.
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ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FINISH THE drat GAME C
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Bored Ape Yacht Club Dookie Dash posted:When is this critical feature coming to SC?
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4th Stimpire Queen posted:The Star Citizen FPS experience I shouldn't be surprised that they couldn't even meet the bar set by Elite Dangerous' space legs but seeing it in action is pretty lol
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4th Stimpire Queen posted:Star Citizen, being the first AAAA space opera MMO, totally needs stomach ache and puking. Better get Tony Z to write up a wall mural explaining how hunger works. Or maybe Erin could help here. He seems to be an expert in food consumption mechanics.
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I don't know why but I guess I done screwed up my YouTube again has some star citizen crap in it occasionally. However I did get to laughing at one video of what looked like an ad for some group who wants to be doctors or something. They do like emergency doctor healing or something, and rescue. But the whole thing was them flying in and shooting up a bunch of guys and then kneeling over some dude and asking if they can stand up multiple times. Then they blasted their way out again. I can just imagine doctors shooting a place up to help one person, then killing everyone on their way out again. The space future of healthcare is pretty grimdark.
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The Titanic posted:I don't know why but I guess I done screwed up my YouTube again has some star citizen crap in it occasionally. That's just Crashcart and DocWagon from Shadowrun. I'm sure there was some equivalent in some Cyberpunk splatbook too, but CP was not my scene back in the day. Standard Star Citizen creativity and innovation, really: take an idea from 1991 and make nothing with it. …unless you mean this medical service, of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwjj4e1VRfc Tippis fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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Tippis posted:I'm sure there was some equivalent in some Cyberpunk splatbook too Trauma Team! There's a very early mission in Cyberpunk 2077 and one of the options in it is to sneak in to the person you're looking for, clear the thing blocking their Trauma Team signal from working, and then the team comes in blasting to save them. That video is almost certainly mirroring that mission.
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Fidelitious posted:This is exactly the thing I've mentioned before. I've been on servers with very good tickrates and absolutely no server performance issues to dump AI into a "dogshit" secondary concern. All this changes is that the enemies will begin near instantly firing through uncovered line of sight with relentless accuracy, and because players take lethal damage in seconds even with the heaviest armor, it's an instant kill for the unaware. Fortunately, they're still easy to beat at peak server performance, because their very simplistic threat response and pathing makes it so that you can easily corral them into deathtraps or kill them during their stale animations like crouching behind a wall. So the truth of the matter is that the artificial intelligence / battle behavior for ground enemies is absolute dogshit even outside of the issues of the game's wretched server performance concerns. It's just that when you add the server concerns, the enemy AI is typically unable to respond to you unless you give them 4.5+ seconds of unimpeded and unadjusted line of sight. I could hop onto a server right now and take out an entire bunker unarmed and naked. The largest threat to my safety is if I accidentally overlap a melee takedown attack on an already fallen enemy, because this tends to lock up your character and leave you immobile and defenseless. Outside of that...
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On a related note, the minimal change to damage survivability that armor provides makes it so that heavy armor is usually uselessly stupid outside of some fringe cases of needing temperature resistance. Medium armor used to justify itself by being the minimum tier that could hold two equipped weapons, but now a light armor core with a backpack holds two weapons, so ... just slap that on and you're good. The weapons themselves have an amazing amount of terrible balance conditions present, as well. Much of this game is so underbuilt in terms of core gameplay that it continues to impress.
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So underbuilt in terms of it's core gameplay OR as a pre-alpha, miles ahead of many finished AAA games ..... Have you seen how much money it has raised? How can it not be amazing!* * Chris Roberts
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PEScat knows "how to gauge the culture of a workplace very quickly," Jared explained to him how "Chris prioritises what is right for the backers, rather than the company".  quote:
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