TheDeadlyShoe posted:

Earth from Another Sun looked interesting to me, but i cringed out of existence when i looked at the preorder page and realized i could pay more to upgrade my waifu

Mirificus posted:

The Sickening and Heartbreaking Truths of the Fourth Stimpire

BattleMaster posted:

I like this response. Yes the Fouth Stimpire guy is a "social justice warrior." He is "woke" and posting his weird fan fiction is "virtue signalling"

ashpanash posted:

Or was it because there was even the slightest implication in the torture fanwank that such a situation was undesirable?

Hizawk posted:

I thought the stimpire was canon. Is it? Does it even matter? For a game that never releases, everything is canon.

Popete posted:

Anything on the blockchain is an instant no.

Sandweed posted:

Having a lot of open positions signals to investors that you are growing.

Popete posted:

I think they leave a ton of job openings up because a lot of them are lead/senior positions and CIG probably would love to hire anyone with experience making actual video games. Problem is anyone with that experience is unlikely to want to work for CIG at this point so they are going unfilled.

I said come in! posted:

It’s this, CIG is also not paying anyone with senior level experience anything close to what they should be paid. So they can’t find anyone with the experience to help lead this project, hence why it is stuck in development hell. The handful of people with years of experience in the game industry (Chris Roberts) are not active on the project at all and have no idea what is actually going on. He doesnt care if Star Citizen is ever actually finished or not, he just expects to see a large deposit into his bank account each month, and once that stops happening he will be active on the game again.

Hizawk posted:

I thought the stimpire was canon. Is it? Does it even matter? For a game that never releases, everything is canon.

Rugz posted:

I must admit I have lost track of what the company line is on the main focus of development. Is it SQ42, Arena Commander, Star Citizen or Theatres of War?

trucutru posted:

It's both SC and SQ42 (ToW has joined sataball in limbo). They need to work on SC because its tech is required for SQ42. But they cannot show anything about SQ42 because spoilers.

Why is the tech for an online multiserver MMO required for an single player space adventure? Well, it's because that's how game development works.

trucutru posted:

It's both SC and SQ42 (ToW has joined sataball in limbo). They need to work on SC because its tech is required for SQ42. But they cannot show anything about SQ42 because spoilers.

Why is the tech for an online multiserver MMO required for an single player space adventure? Well, it's because that's how game development works.

lobsterminator posted:

It's hilarious how protective they are regarding spoilers. Which of course is just an excuse. I'm sure even the most passionate backers know that the story will be a simplistic B-movie story starring generic scifi tropes.

I doubt it will even have any good humor like the Wing Commander movie bulldozer scene.

Only Kindness posted:

10 No progress on SQ42
20 It's because everyone's on SC
30 No progress on SC
40 It's because everyone's on SQ42
50 GOTO 10

Randalor posted:

I thought that SC was waiting on tech for SQ42 to finish being designed and backported to SC so work could continue, while SQ42 was held up waiting for tech to finish being designed for SC before it could be backported to SQ42 so work could continue?

Scruffpuff posted:

Where are we on bedsheet deformation?

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There are very good reasons to purchase multiple copies of Squadron 42.

You are creating a unique character in Squadron 42 with their own history, it is not like other single player FPS games where the character you play is fixed and named, endless playthroughs because nothing changes. There will be choices to make during the campaign and those choices have to be unique to your character history, you can't go back and change your character history by trying all the choices - you will be able to replay the combat sections to improve your score, probably in the combat training simulator (It's the one they use for Arena Commander), that simulator performance does not affect your characters history arc. If you want to replay the whole campaign to try different choices you have to start with a brand new character from the very beginning. In the early days Chris talked about selling extra character slots to existing game owners.

Each character you create can/will retire to the PU with all history, possessions and benefits they accrue in Squadron 42. From the perspective of the PU Squadron 42 will be the most massive Squadron that ever existed because there will be hundreds of thousands of Squadron members who all fought in the same place at the same time but each making a unique set of choices during that military service. Chris has done this (in a somewhat more limited fashion) in his other games. Wing Commander Prophecy, you can't change choices once made in the story elements and you can only replay combat sections of the game in the simulator. You can start the WCP game from the beginning with the same character, however, that wasn't his choice. Squadron 42 is not an 'on rails' game.

There will be effects on your ex-military PU character depending on what you did during your military service... the PU AI will know you! Some may be very happy with you because of Squadron 42 and what you did, some may not like you at all because of what you did with that character. That's why Squadron 42 has to be single player even though it takes place in the exact same universe as the PU - as Jared puts it 'Squadron 42 is basically one huge dynamic mission set inside the PU', it's set in recent history.

That's what Chris is referring to when he talks about going back into more exploits with YOUR characters that YOU created. You aren't paying to play a game, you're paying to create totally unique characters in this game universe and live out their lives, and that life includes Squadron 42. Your first experience of that 'alive' populated 'living breathing universe' will be in Squadron 42. The PU will likely remain unreleased until it is capable of taking all of that Squadron 42 universe because they are intimately connected.

Suggesting that CIG should drop Squadron 42 only shows that the person making that remark has no idea what Squadron 42 is and how it relates to your characters' life in the PU. You can create and play a character in the PU who never served in the military, but that character will have a very different experience of the PU than the one who did do military service.

Only Kindness posted:

Ah, that's PeeCat Classic Edition.

You could literally just put Nope! after the end of every sentence of that.

Also note the last paragraph that gives the ruse away - it's not "an explanation of SQ42", it's "an attack on those that have wrongthink" about the cult.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

He commits everything ever said by a dev to memory and treats it as gospel, even if it's obvious it's not happening. He probably still thinks they're going to do the passenger plane with the steward gameplay, including the drink mixing minigame.

Mirificus posted: