eXXon posted:

Based on a quick perusal of the SC Reddit, the big recent controversy is that volumetric fog has been pushed back in the latest development roadmap. Also, performance is improved in the latest patch but somehow the game- and/or mission-breaking bugs are worse.

FuzzySlippers posted:

I really really want a programmer who worked on SC to write up a detailed poo poo talk about the code. I want details! Like I want a Fabian Sanglard style book that's just a deep dive on just how broken it has to be.

wdarkk posted:

The parts about Sandi trying to strangle him are the actual surprise. I had no idea about that.

quote:

In a court-filed declaration he signed at the time, Roberts said Gardiner had also visited Peterson’s San Diego home and once became violent and tried to strangle him. “I believed that if she had a gun she would have killed me,” Roberts said in the declaration. “I believe that Ms. Gardiner is not emotionally stable.”

quote:

Roberts reported the incident to police, and a California judge issued a temporary restraining order that required Gardiner to stay 100 yards away from Peterson, who claimed in her temporary restraining order application that Gardiner had been stalking and threatening both her and her daughter for nearly three years.

Kavak posted:

EightAce (Or maybe Bootcha, one of the insiders) once mentioned that Sandi comes from serious money, but wouldn't elaborate further because her background was something he felt it wasn't appropriate to get into.

TheAgent posted:

hahahahaha no

lofi posted:

It's called House of Leaves.

Scruffpuff posted:

https://i.imgur.com/6wFICr8.gifv

There's a lot of information packed into that video.

- Everyone appears nailed to their seats. Not only does not force of the grenade have no effect, but their own bodyweight isn't enough to slide ANY of them off the seats. So that seems to indicate a few things: the grenade simply does AOE hitpoint reduction but has no actual physical blast, and the commando sitting animation literally connects your rear end to the chair, but keeps ragdoll physics otherwise locked in.

- When the commando stands up / sits down repeatedly to "throw" the grenade, he just snaps and jitters everywhere. Almost as if someone who wasn't, but thinks they are, a director and game developer spent lots of time in the motion capture studio, but any animations not specifically motion-captured are just not rendered, whether by keyframe or anything else. Extensive and exclusive motion-capture is a great way to make sure your game is as non-immersive as possible, because it makes the player watch the exact same animation for every move, with no surprises. A little mo-cap goes a long way; a lot makes your game look like poo poo.

- The gun on the back of the enterprising grenade commando is rotating on a single point, where they arbitrarily decided it was "attached" to the commando. As he moves the gun swivels around this pivot. I can't think of a single example in real life where a gun would be attached to someone's back on a pivot. All this illustrates is the moronic commitment to "fidelity" where not only do you have to show the gun, it's not even enough to make the gun part of the commando model, or even just attach the loving thing statically. No, it's important that it move independently for literally no other reason than to visually prove to the viewer that it's a separate object. So now you're using CPU cycles to calculate physics for a gun that, in a real-life situation, would not be dangling and swinging around.

- Obviously all the dumb poo poo on the table. Extra points to the empty tri-section kiddie plates with fork and knife to either side. It's a "cafeteria!"

Scruffpuff posted:

Star Citizen riddle:

Q) Why are there no stealth mechanics in Star Citizen?
A) Because Chris Roberts can't figure out how to motion capture something he can't see.

posted:

There is no debate! Star Citizen is shaping up to be the Best Damned Space Sim Ever!

I think the evidence is quite clear! Just look at all the progress made in just the past six months! It's just a matter of time and CIG is doing a great job at delivering the product they promised!

Agony Aunt posted:

no debate? Well, that sums up the sub nicely.

Party Boat posted:

Star Citizen has given me lots of fun and I've not paid a penny. Great value.

Tokamak posted:

posted:

The vehicle states for VTOL/landing mode etc will not come in 3.5. We decided to revisit this and do a better job, but it will only come in a future patch now.

Heat is currently being worked on, but is not currently in the 3.5 branch. I believe the plan is for the changes to get in, but I do not know for sure.

Hot new jesus tech about to drop; It will solve every relevant problem.
It's the first implementation and hasn't completely replaced the old system.
It will take a few patches to iron out the bugs and finish implementing it.
It covers a much smaller scope than what we will eventually need.
We've scheduled some new techs off in the distant future that will accomplish what was originally suggested (for real this time).
Every... single... time.

no_recall posted:

I just watched the space tugboat video.

What the actual gently caress? Like... What the gently caress?

Tow boats work because of physics, displacement etc. But tugboats in space? I mean what? With thrusters places all around your drat ship you already have precision control.

Lol. WTF.

Statutory Ape posted:

Dementropy posted:

https://i.imgur.com/NRrnNXZ.gifv

The White Dragon posted:

i can't even design a monster this scary when im trying

i should just hang up my hat

Dementropy posted:

kuddles posted:

It will never stop being hilarious to me that some of the same people who think a $5 cosmetic outfit in a free-to-play game is why EA is the most evil corporation to ever exist will bend over backwards to defend paying 4 figures for a picture and a promise. And then do it again and again.

Beet Wagon posted:

Son of Rodney posted:

The amount of money for one of those idiot ships is still mind boggling to me. I once spent 10 bux on clash of clans and I've felt like an idiot ever since. Imagine spending 100 times that. And not even getting anything out of it.

Buddy, I don’t have to imagine it. (Yes, I’m a dumbfuck)

corn in the bible posted:

This thread, most of all, reminds me of an article I read about email scams. A scammer was asked why they still use stuff like Nigerian Prince cons, things that are transparently just attempts to steal money from people. And the answer was that the only kind of person who responds to an email like that is somebody who is very trusting and very stupid, and once you find someone like that you can take everything they own and they won't even realize you tricked them. Rather than trying to put together a story that is airtight and convincing, and risking the police or someone figuring it out partway through and wasting all that effort spent in them, con men put together something that will find them incredibly stupid people who don't require any effort to scam at all, and then they just pursue those people until they can't give money anymore.

It sounds familiar, yes?

Chris Roberts can't possibly convince anyone who isn't a moron anymore, and if he did manage to sell a ship to someone sane they might fight for refunds or something again and that's a lot of hassle. It's better if he only sells ships to people who are so loving blind that they will never ever admit it was a mistake. See above, where people defend CIG's policy of not giving people any money back and advise essentially just... giving up. And why get your money back anyway? What are you, poor???!?

Scruffpuff posted:

Crobbler's fidelitious eggs, the cornerstone of any space game, was unfortunately severely outdone:

https://finalfantasyxv.wiki.fextralife.com/Dishes

Back to the drawing board! Time for Eggs 2.0!

Quavers posted:

/r/StarCitizen: this is what happens when you show FOIP its own face

Pixelate posted:

Look at least the flight model works now. And gravity.

ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY FLIPPED WHEN ROTATING SHIP UPSIDE DOWN, PULLING YOU AWAY FROM PLANET

Jobbo_Fett posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt

ARGH I CAN'T WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THIS ITS SO COMPLEX!

"Technical debt (also known as design debt or code debt) is a concept in software development that reflects the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer."

...

Beet Wagon posted:

The thing is, it takes a certain amount of low cunning to argue in bad faith that way. That SC Bursar guy was pretty good at it, and Vertisce, for as many galaxy brained takes as he has, can do it. Tojal is - like fandred in some ways - pure, unfiltered stupid. Even when he tries a logic trap or to cite wikipedia as his own work, he telegraphs it so hard it's almost impossible to miss. He's a dumb guy trying to keep up with slightly less dumb guys, and it shows.

Dementropy posted:

Beet Wagon posted:

Yes, as we all know, the existence of screenshots proves the existence of a game

zcrow posted:

doctored as gently caress brah

IcarusUpHigh posted:

WELCOME TO STAR CITIZEN. THE GREATEST GAME EVER MADE.

UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES. BE ANYONE, DO ANYTHING, LIVE A LIFE IN SPACE, UNLEASH YOUR IMAGINATIO.....



Oh

Dementropy posted:

posted:

I have no idea about game development of course, and I don't follow the game progress and stuff. But, how the gently caress you mess up this badly? I mean, I like SC, I want to see that game success, but men, I just played the 3.5 and that game is filled with a ton poo poo of bugs, totally game breaking bugs, laggy as hell, disconnects, glitches every where, and so on. To be honest I'm starting to worry if this game is ever going to be released, or at least playable. There is no even a single game feature working that keep you interested in the game. I have participated in varius Early Access games, Alpha, Betas, etc even Demos. all of them have at least a gameplay base. This is just a screenshot space app at this moment, just go to their subreddit, is like 99% pictures. And you can't criticize there even, you get donwvoted to oblivion hell.

posted:

I’m pretty sure you’re going to eat your words sooner than you can process.

TheAgent posted:

hello

• less than 30,000 people purchase anything from CIG in a given year
  
• currently, 70% of sales come from people spending more than $1,000 a year
  
• these high end backers have an average total spend of more than $10,000 since 2015
  
• these include gifting and sending out packages to potential new players
  
• new player and "normal" purchases continued steady into 2015
  
• in 2016, new players and backers spending less than $100 began to decline
  
• massive increase in high end spending around this time, with sudden buyouts of expensive ship packages
  
• one person has spent almost $250,000 since the initial kickstarter across multiple accounts
  
• internals of sq42 show over 1.2m preorders for the first release alone
  
• internal mock ups show sq42 console release running through RSI/CIG servers
  
• this would include on-demand streaming without a traditional download
  
• next gen xbox and playstation are mentioned on the marketing mock ups
  
• "Luckily [the next gen consoles] are running SSDs. That's an absolute must for us, without a doubt."
  
• console power enough to see "low to medium" settings for squadron42
  
• "There's a lot to adjust [for a console release] but it's all easy stuff."
  
• to target next gen release only first few sq42 chapters will be available with more as they are polished
  
• first chapter listed as free, each chapter can be ordered a la carte or as season pass
  
• big name actors to return for additional content after first initial release
  
• "There's not going to be a sequel to Squadron 42, not in the traditional sense. We want to keep adding to it, expanding it. Ultimately we want a generation of adventures."
  
• star citizen proper not listed currently for console release
  
• "Our hope is that a console player is so involved, so invested, in their [SQ42] character, they'll be willing to go out and spend the money on a decent PC to continue that adventure."
  
• eventually have a SC release that's cross play, cross buy -- listed as a "big goal"
  
• "working out the kinks" in getting a console sq42 character into SC, might have a website feature or app that allows save states to import
  
• SC wants to be the game "for anyone and everyone"
  
• SC console release coming at some point -- "There's hurdles there."
  

lofi posted:

Why would I fight you when you're busy punching yourself in the dick?

Nebakenezzer posted:

Man, there's getting back with your ex and then there's this poo poo

Demon Of The Fall posted:

I unironically enjoy the Wing Commander movie, fight me cowards!!

Demon Of The Fall posted:

I unironically enjoy the Wing Commander movie, fight me cowards!!

Amarcarts posted:

Somebody should really tell the FBI about what's going on here

wdarkk posted:

The parts about Sandi trying to strangle him are the actual surprise. I had no idea about that.

Alan Smithee posted:

is Lesnick even a thing there anymore

Pixelate posted:

Not even in spirit

https://twitter.com/banditloaf/status/1137890175005143051

communism bitch posted:

Is this the fat sex pervert stalker who used to moderate CIG's forums?

Pixelate posted:

Not even in spirit

https://twitter.com/banditloaf/status/1137890175005143051

MedicineHut posted:

Funny how absolutely no one in that thread has dared to point out about how Chris Roberts is actually trying to do that with Star Citizen? Is Star Citizen dead to him?

MedicineHut posted:

Funny how absolutely no one in that thread has dared to point out about how Chris Roberts is actually trying to do that with Star Citizen? Is Star Citizen dead to him?

MedicineHut posted:

Funny how absolutely no one in that thread has dared to point out about how Chris Roberts is actually trying to do that with Star Citizen? Is Star Citizen dead to him?

communism bitch posted:

Is this the fat sex pervert stalker who used to moderate CIG's forums?