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All of the engine features and tooling are complete. Now real development of Squadron 42 can truly begin... starting now.
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J33uk posted:Wow the SC reddit seems even more demented than usual. People tearily thanking Chris, knowing that they just had to stay the course and that they'd never lost faith. All for the same announcement we've heard in various forms for years, that the feature work is (almost) done and they just need to polish it up and get it out of the door. It'll be interesting to see how they deal with the Pyro launch almost certainly being the usual level of shitshow that everything with this game is. Note, interesting, not surprising because they'll just spin the usual web of bullshit rationalization. But but Pyro access is going to be given to the most privileged few starting next week, on a test server that won't allow you to go back and forth between the two systems (don't worry though, that seamless loading is definitely coming I swear). That means that Pyro is almost here, and definitely won't stew on this new alpha channel for half a year and then stew on the PTU for another 9 months after that!
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Oct 24, 2023 00:44
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Happy Sisyphus posted:The reasonable take has always been that both sides of the Star Citizen obsessive spectrum (from CIG cultist to rabid hate-watcher) will be disappointed, in some sense. They are prepared for mediocre gameplay, I'm not sure they'd be prepared for mediocre sales.
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Oct 24, 2023 00:59
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that squadron42 video is a powerful sedative. the only thing that kept me going was the cavalcade of famous actors who proceeded to deliver incredibly boring lines (at 11.25kHz??) it's not even bad writing. bad writing could make me feel something. the room made me laugh at least. sq42 made me get up and do some laundry.
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Oct 24, 2023 01:05
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Cutedge posted:But but Pyro access is going to be given to the most privileged few starting next week, on a test server that won't allow you to go back and forth between the two systems (don't worry though, that seamless loading is definitely coming I swear). That means that Pyro is almost here, and definitely won't stew on this new alpha channel for half a year and then stew on the PTU for another 9 months after that! Of course it won't. It'll just disappear entirely one day, and after a week or two of stonewalling, CIG will grumble something about how they were just testing Pyro, and they got all the information they needed from that test so there was no reason to continue it, and anyway Pyro will be back "soon," once they've got the tools for whatever made-up buzzword is currently standing between them and server meshing, and on top of all that HOW VERY DARE YOU ALL, asking questions about a game that's only just started development. Buncha entitled snowflake haters, just demoralizing the devs and taking all of the fun out of Star Citizen for everyone. Also, here's a fun fact: Squadron 42 is still 404 on CIG's storefront. I guess that's their famous marketing acumen at work; stoke interest with the amazing (lol) news and video of a "feature complete" Sq42, and be ready to turn that excitement and hype into sales in, uh,...a few years or so, when they figure out if they'll actually ever manage to get something they could sell finished, maybe.
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Oct 24, 2023 01:20
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Ash1138 posted:that squadron42 video is a powerful sedative. the only thing that kept me going was the cavalcade of famous actors who proceeded to deliver incredibly boring lines (at 11.25kHz??) Yeah that really captures it. The writing isn’t even bad. It’s not even there.
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Oct 24, 2023 02:53
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Magrov posted:Is it time to buy an Idris yet? the answer is always and forever will be "YES" and also 'you only own 1? ha pleb!'
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Oct 24, 2023 03:21
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Dunno 'bout youse lot, but I am jonesing for the first post-con-- I mean, post-Con Pea-Catte Poast.
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 Fresh Ink posted:After backing way back in December 2013 I always knew I wanted some Star Citizen ink at some point but I kept putting it off because well.... You know. After CitizenCon I finally decided it was time. I may be riding the hype train hard and some of you will call me crazy but I've been following Star Citizen more than half of my adult life and even with it's ups and down I regret NOTHING. I am a Star Citizen and always will be.
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Oct 24, 2023 03:40
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i appreciate someone that enjoys a video game, i have spent hundreds of hours on some games over my entire gaming life time but holy yikes my dude this is beyond the pale
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Oct 24, 2023 03:53
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Its nice how every article about SC is now full of people going "They showed server meshing and its revolutionary, its more important then 3d graphics" but never actually explaining how or why. It just is.
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Since I'm the type of person who can't keep from constantly touching a wound despite it hurting me, I looked at their big opening flyover. It looks goddamn awful. Their "physicalized water fx" look goddamn awful. The whole thing looks like a cinematic from an age when you'd have to stream it off a cd. The framerate is awful. Their big chance to fake a presentation for a fake game and it looks like something with the [Retro] tag on steam. I demand a higher quality lie. 
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Oct 24, 2023 05:46
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CitizenKain posted:Its nice how every article about SC is now full of people going "They showed server meshing and its revolutionary, its more important then 3d graphics" but never actually explaining how or why. It just is. It may very well be those things. It's just that every other game in the history of the world has been done without them because it's totally unnecessary.
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Oct 24, 2023 06:14
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All of this Star Citizen bullshit and seeing Sandi's in-game character reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd_mNF5kKm8 Still hilarious Edit: lol I just realized that the little girl saying "You need to take care of YOU first" is actually Sandi Roberts's daughter. That's really something.
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Oct 24, 2023 06:20
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That's the thing, server meshing itself isn't impossible the argument has always been that it's dumb and won't work at scale like CIG have described it. Making a demo with 5 players in a tiny greybox room is one thing, now turn that up to a few hundred players with ships/lasers/ballistics and whatever else they want to simulate and it's just going to break.
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Oct 24, 2023 06:23
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Piell posted:Well I guess if you decide that actually you aren't going to do 95% of what you promised and are just going to ship what you have done now, that is technically "feature complete" After ten years of this BS you guys should be able to understand CIG-speak. "feature complete" just means that Chris has agreed not to ask for new features to be added to the game. That's it, it'll just have the current list of planned features (which is a microscopic subset of the dreamed ones) . This doesn't mean that the features are working, hell it doesn't even mean that they have started work on those features, just that there won't be more surprise features ahead.
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Holy poo poo reading threads about this on Reddit has really been something. I can't believe how deluded these people are.
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I dunno if I forgot or never knew it, but finding out the solar systems are 1/10 scale had me giggling over how deluded backers are if they really think they want true fidelity astronomical distances.
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They also believe that 100 sextillion kilometres is a lot of space, since that's what CI¬G has told them. Kilometres. As a measure of space. Not realising that you can trivially fit that distance inside a modestly sized bathroom.
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Oct 24, 2023 08:32
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JammyB posted:All of the engine features and tooling are complete. Now real development of Squadron 42 can truly begin... starting now. All it took was 13-14 years of preplanning!
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good to see goons being wrong again, you have all been beaten by the master chris roberts, he has released the trailer to the world and announced that it's for real this time, it's feature complete. See you space janitor
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is the 26 minute video on youtube saying i held the line the actual trailer? wtf
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Mellow_ posted:All of this Star Citizen bullshit and seeing Sandi's in-game character reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd_mNF5kKm8 How can your acting be so loving bad you can tell from a voice over? And Sandi’s daughter is wayyy better at acting
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Mellow_ posted:All of this Star Citizen bullshit and seeing Sandi's in-game character reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd_mNF5kKm8 Sandi has that uncanny valley speaking voice that sounds like Siri. Reminds me of this (timestamped link). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1QJazEHMUo&t=1132s
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Everything about Sandi is so Uncanny Valley that I still am not convinced she is a real person
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So did that guy ever shift all his hotel rooms for the con? Edit: this is also a super minor thing but something that annoys me. In game the voice over is always going on about heading like theyre aircraft but they're not, they're in space what does setting your heading to 260 even mean in space. Aramoro fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Oct 24, 2023 |
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Oct 24, 2023 13:04
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Aramoro posted:So did that guy ever shift all his hotel rooms for the con? Even in aircraft you'd get heading and flight level (altitude). The server meshing is all bullshit. Networking code is a whole other bag of enchiladas, and I refuse to even begin to believe that whatever they have come up with is anything other than bullshit. Just an excuse to tell backers that can't be easily refuted, because network code (real) may as well be black magic to most people.
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trout_yossarian posted:...because network code (real) may as well be black magic to most people. Network code isn't real and stop trying to scare the kids into think it is.
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Incidentally, did they say when Pyro was coming to the live game?
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lobsterminator posted:Sandi has that uncanny valley speaking voice that sounds like Siri. Reminds me of this (timestamped link). I was convinced it was generated voice over cut up footage because it never shows her physically talking on camera. What the gently caress that is the worst line reading I have ever heard.
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lobsterminator posted:Sandi has that uncanny valley speaking voice that sounds like Siri. Reminds me of this (timestamped link). I'm pretty sure she took too many speech classes or whatever to erase her Australian accent in hopes that it would help her film career once she got to LA. It makes her speech very carefully enunciated which makes her sound like she's constantly reading lines off a script, but it's like the first time she's ever seen the script. The end result is a pretty odd speech pattern which ironically probably made her mostly unhirable as an actor.
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Fidelitious posted:I'm pretty sure she took too many speech classes or whatever to erase her Australian accent in hopes that it would help her film career once she got to LA. Or just go in guns blazing with your natural accent and learn how to mimic other accents as you hone your craft like every other actor in the world has done How many people in here didn’t even know -insert actor name- was even -insert nationality- Sandi the snake queen is not one of those folks She will forever be known as the rich wannabe actress who using her husbands bank account linked directly to the CIG coffers bankrolled some art student projects which flopped at the cinema , and is now forcing her children into her foot steps
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I forgot to mention one piece of game design i regarded as, um, dubious. They're making warping out into a thing where you have to hold the stick against turbulence for like 15 seconds or else you just fall out of warp. It sounds like the sort of thing that gets real old, real fast, especially if you need to jump up to answer the phone or the door or something. On the plus side you can jump to nearby objects without doing the whole rigamarole. Happy Sisyphus posted:Incidentally, did they say when Pyro was coming to the live game? I didn't see them say it directly, but what I recall reading is that they're gonna put it on the 'preview channel' (???) for whales 'soon'. Then later move it to the test server, then theoretically put it to live. Word is that it will be a separate login and you can't jump there (lol they are so bad at this. the most basic function of an MMO, c'mon.) TheDeadlyShoe fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Oct 24, 2023 |
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Aramoro posted:So did that guy ever shift all his hotel rooms for the con? Well Star Trek always talked about setting course and Star Citizen has never had a single original concept in its development cycle so of course we had to bring that in I don't really know what setting headings would mean in the context of space travel, you'd want to set courses instead because it's not the 1930s and we're not manually having to calculate wind drift and magnetic variation.
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:I forgot to mention one piece of game design i regarded as, um, dubious. They're making warping out into a thing where you have to hold the stick against turbulence for like 15 seconds or else you just fall out of warp. It sounds like the sort of thing that gets real old, real fast, especially if you need to jump up to answer the phone or the door or something. inb4 they sell a special computer module that you can plug into ANY ship, and it will take care of that pesky turbulence for you! hazaa
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If Microsoft hadn't booted Roberts off of Freelancer he'd still be "developing" the drat thing lol
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To Chris From the Community posted:CitizenCon 2953 - Chris and Team quote:I HELD THE LINE (and my wallet ready) o7! quote:
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