orcinus posted:

Goons are whatever the ~dreams~ require them be.

a cyberpunk goose posted:

You can't just make shifty vague posts all the time padded by 4 paragraphs of ancillary details that we all already know and act like you're bringing anything to the table

TheLastRoboKy posted:

Everyone likes to throw out the what-ifs for the completely unlikely event of SC being released as a possible win for people from here but even if it did, would anyone seriously want to give Chris Roberts money? After all this?

I don't think trying to fill a bucket with commando-tears would be worth the price of admission if it meant giving a single dollar to these people.

Amarcarts posted:

I'd say it's not worth any amount of money. If you think about it, it's not really worth your limited amount of time on this earth. Games in general are a guilty pleasure, kind of a waste of the gift of life. Nobody is perfect though and games can be incredibly fun, especially if you can socialize with real friends while doing so. To willingly play a bad game though?

The one exception to this would be if you had real life friends or family who played Star Citizen and it is your chance to socialize. The whole thing is tainted though because what kind of friend would force you to play Star Citizen?

edit: I suppose a second exception would be if there is good greifing potential. So the question is: How many $ is it worth giving CIG for the ability to greif Shitizens?

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

My daughter got one of these for Christmas. She loves the drat thing. Even as we speak she's grabbing her bear and running around it, asking us to push her. It's mom's turn so I get a bit of down time.

I pity those kids.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Project sketch:

I like digital synthesizers and want to make my ownish design. This arduino-compatible has some interesting features and has the capabilities needed for some pretty cool processing:



However, I also want to be able to turn knobs and push buttons and stuff to adjust the sound. Making a functional keyboard from tactile switches is absolutely possible but I've thought of a dumber solution: buy one of these cheap chinese toy keyboards and mod the keys into input:

$1.50:


$5:


$10:


Now that's so cheap it almost feels stupid. I've bought one of each of these little plastic miracles, will let you know how it works out

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Read. It. Again.

Slowly.

Nicholas posted:

A fact I haven't seen brought up with regards to CIGs plan for infinite scaling using AWS, is that while new servers can be spun up to increase player connections, the database does not scale at all. As soon as you clone a database for a new instance it gets out of sync, and you can't just merge all the new information together in later on. All clients must be communicating to a single database. This is probably the reason why Lumberhard specifically states that it's not suitable for anything persistant across instances (such as an MMO)

I'm not sure how most MMO's handle it; I'm guessing it's probably a combination of sharding servers, having a hard cap on the number of simultanious connections (so definitely not "infinite scaling"), and being really careful about what each client is writing back to the database (so no millions of NPCs doing things that update tables constantly for no reason)

The Titanic posted:

There is nothing as invigorating as the feeling of being in a box for 14 hours before jumping out into a shipping center and yelling "freeze!" at all of the stunned shipping people.

It's only until the guy with the forklift license stops, the smell of indoor propane burning fumes filling your nose, and says, "What the gently caress lady?" before you know that you have won. His sweat covered arms debased with 41 year old tattoos he got in a now closed tattoo parlor somewhere in California.

Of course he never expected the end result as he had to face head to head with the unfortunate consequences of surprise piracy.

Victory for the Stimperor, one small postal center at a time.

Ash1138 posted:

it could be controlling a pc that's hooked up to a tv. we have the same setup in our conference room at work

Chin posted:

Why would Erin Roberts, head of Foundry 42, the biggest studio focusing primarily on SQ42, need to fly across the Atlantic for a PU discussion?

And why is this taking place in Austin? Surely Chris could more conveniently have the minions fly to him in LA.

Thanks for the confirmations, Sandi.

Justin Tyme posted:

, unless you're some sperg that wants The Sims in space and want to worry about not accidentally making GBS threads your space pants.

Hav posted:

Kosumo posted:

Dude, you cant claim to poo poo post yet also pay tax with such a dream catte.

That catte is totally unshit.

Iceclaw posted:

Shouldn't we call Derek "Captain Derek", considering he seems to helm an eternal whalehunt?

TrustmeImLegit posted:

I thought they were just making expresso in there.

XK posted:

That I've gotten this many responses on blind flailing in VR causing problems, in this thread alone, in 30 minutes, suggests that I'm totally correct in thinking everyone will smash into things while using VR. I don't even understand how you don't stomp on the wires and rip them out.

You're basically blindfolding yourself and throwing your body around. You might as well be sleepwalking while dreaming you're in an MMO fight.

Why hasn't any video game website ever done an article on this? I'd be more worried about punching my stove while in VR than whether my gender was properly represented in an FPS.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3U123TmDcg


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


Downloaded both vids as backups incase those two youtube accounts are suddenly hit with "Spam" reports

Guy DeBorgore posted:

So I just remembered that they sold a concept "News Van" so people could fulfill their dreams of being a Space Journalist , because of COURSE there'll be mechanics to support that

Does anyone know how much this beauty cost?https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/ships/reliant/Reliant-Mako-News-Van

Hobold posted:

Race/Class locks are one of the most annoying bullshit things that games can have in them. Thank WoW for that I presume.

Not that I had any inkling of interest in that game, that chart just murdered it.

kw0134 posted:

Reading over the past few effort posts about what to expect in a space game, I wonder: why is it about space games that attract this need to throw everything into it? You can do all this on Earth, and of course all these activities that are being touted are all real-life analogs. Shrink the scale and there's nothing to stop a game from featuring a flight attendant who jumps into an F-16 on weekends to perform merc work for some PMC and then explore some of the places on Earth which have seen little human contact so you can say you've been there. All the while you can decide to play comex trader on the Chicago Mercantile and direct your fleet of delivery truck drivers (or be one yourself if you like) to spread your goods to all sorts retail outlets, in multiple nations even. There's no game that's Civ plus Capitalism plus MS Flight Sim plus Harpoon plus Desert Bus plus Call of Duty plus Whatever bullshit that reflects being a flight attendant. Even leaving aside how mundane many of these jobs would be since Train Sim is a thing, everyone would acknowledge that this would be an unfeasibly huge mess of a game.

SC is mundane Earth activities...but in SPAAAACCEEEEE!!! How is any of this scope reasonable? Why is it that once you put something in space, you can ask a developer ("developer") to put in an inordinate amount of fine detail on random nonsense that would be utterly out of place in a game set in the world we actually inhabit? I must have missed the mini-game in MS Flight Sim where you get out of the cockpit and ask each passenger whether he or she wants a soda or coffee, then trundle down the aisle with your special drinks cart and you have to serve it correctly or you lose points.

Foo Diddley posted:

This is a good post, but I want to point out that absolutely no one appreciates the low-level scrub who's reducing the city's rat population

My experience is mainly with MUDs, so it might be different in your Worlds of Warcraft or your Final Fantasies or whatever

no_recall posted:

Could someone explain how all this no-clip is possible?

XK posted:

I hate all this DLC poo poo going on now. I remember, back in the day, when you'd buy some full game for $50, and it had everything the developers could manage to cram into it. Then, if you were really into it, you'd buy an expansion pack 6 months later for $20. And that expansion pack would have new levels, skins, weapons, etc. A real game expansion that only existed because the base game was popular, so more effort was put into doing more. Nothing in the original release was held back with the thought of selling add-ons later.

All piece-meal DLC is absolute trash, whether it's selling a weapon skin for 99 cents, or a ship for $2,500.

The only company that seems to be doing it right, at the moment, is the Bloodborne/DarkSouls guys. $20 expansion pack gets you new weapons, areas, enemies, and story line.

I'll refuse to play any game that does a-la-carte DLC just on principle alone.

XK posted:

Another Star Citizen expert on how things work in space.


It's pretty clear that they aren't even able to begin to pretend they can do any form of docking. They're faking landing on worlds with sandworms, mining, cargo, trade markets, all kinds of poo poo, but docking, nope. No docking.

Shitizen physics expert: "But what if nothing is moving?"
SC Developer: "Nope, sorry."

We should respect the truth spoken by them straight out saying there will be no docking. We should also understand that no docking means their physics are all hosed.

no_recall posted:

http://kotaku.com/richard-garriott-reassures-shroud-of-the-avatar-backers-1795774769


https://www.seedinvest.com/portalarium/series.b/product

Sappo569 posted:

How can surface outposts be done if they JUST added surface outpost lighting... like

These updates make less sense each time

AP posted:

CaptainBtaksDad posted:

Chris has been on record saying he thinks hes only currently tapped 10% of the market for his game.


lol

EmesiS posted:

https://m.imgur.com/a/yQUk6

For science and education purposes.

TheAgent posted:

guess they are pushing back 3.0 two extra weeks tomorrow

lol

The Titanic posted:

I can understand the other guys we're trying to role play rabbit aliens and being bad at it.

But I never understood toilet man. I mean, why? Is there really a guy(s?) out there dying to sit on the space toilet? What do they think is going to happen? A push minigame or something?

Beet Wagon posted:

At least my cat has enough dignity to act embarrassed when she accidentally pisses outside her litterbox.

Gradis posted:

my older catte has started pissing out the box. it sits in the tray but aims out and ends up pissing all over the place. what magic box is this?

Fatkraken posted:

nope

One of my cats would literally just stand in it, facing inwards, with all 4 feet in the litter, raise it's tail and squirt piss out of it's catbutt directly out of the door. Another would probably be so scared from the motor running between pisses he'd assume it was a monster and wouldn't use it at all.