Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

My favorite part is learning the game uses the Crysis engine, but in order to have outer space adventure in an engine built for a single island, everything in the engine is itty bitty, and a ton of the physics glitches are because of how tiny everything is and the engine literally not being designed to handle it.

Sandweed posted:

We need some good ramp, elevator and door gifs to spice up this thread.

Agony Aunt posted:

October 2016

3 years ago.

WORM WAS NOT A JOKE!

EDIT: Who has a link to the meeting notes transcription from jump point magazine with the question about how many missiles and worm was not a joke?

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Q: ...the servers are kind of at capacity now and we can't add any more larger locations until we have server side OCS. We currently see Microtech on the 3.8 map but not server side OCS. Why is that?

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A: We can consider maybe content swaps if we wanted to add in a new area and take something out to account for them.

Pharohman777 posted:

Oh yeah, so Chris may either be on illegal drugs or he is the victim of a herbalife type mlm. In the 'luxury' dinner where he sold the minelayer, he told one of the whales there that he's using some sort of vitamin that perks him up and keeps him going, but he forgot the name of it.

It was so outrageous that one of the goons went through the trouble of determining if the person who posted that was a real star citizen backer or just a rando trolling.

Sarsapariller posted:

Also, some fun P2W news from the front.

You all remember the Hammerhead, the $700 ship that was the bestest and biggest last year? The one whose shields are completely impenetrable to the laser fire of like 6 player-manned fighters and that has 24 size-4 guns because gently caress everyone else?

Well, looks like it is completely unable to kill the $1000 super-yacht. As in, sustained fire from all turrets on a Hammerhead might be able to just take the shields down, in about twelve minutes on one facing.

Obviously this is all cool and good, and nobody has really noticed because nobody actually fights in Star Citizen- certainly nobody fights in the megaships, they're too bulky and unwieldy and they require half the server sitting in turrets. Money well spent!

trucutru posted:

https://starcitizen.tools/Pisces

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Production state: Unknown

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It is able to be launched from the hangar bay of Carrack.

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Some of the information on this page is over two years old and may be outdated as a result of the ever-changing nature of a game in development.

ManofManyAliases posted:

Also, anyone else looking forward to Q1/Q2 of 2020? I am.

Sarsapariller posted:

Next year they're going to be doing sewer levels.

CaressMeGently posted:

I remember our VR guy telling CR not to take cam control off of the player specifically when the player is getting into the ship as it would make the player sick as a loving dog.

Needless to say, CR knows better.

Ghostlight posted:

it turns out that not only are they not faked in the way I thought, but you can "EVA" seamlessly all the way from "planet to pupil", even in VR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ1YmUypTL0

Hannibal Rex posted:

Is there a good visual timeline of when exactly all the experienced devs who where there at the start left, and who replaced them?

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So in the last few months, you've lost:
Senior Cinematic Animator (Frankfurt)
Associate Gameplay Engineer (LA)
Producer (LA)
Animator (UK)
Animator (UK)
Producer (UK)
Senior 3D Animator (Frankfurt)
Senior Character Artist (UK)
and like a bunch more people (several dozen) but I'm not going to sit here and type out all their poo poo gently caress that

Beluga Snail posted:

I'd love to get links to those videos if you don't mind- I like to keep a handy list of various times CIG has outright stated things that run completely counter to the believed narrative, and the entire 'how long in development with how many people' is one of the more common ones.

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Dec 2012 - 8
Feb 2013 - 20
June 2013 - 32
Aug 2013 - 40
Oct 2013 - 52
Dec 2013 - 60
Feb 2014 - 93
June 2014 - 139
Aug 2014 - 156
Feb 2015 - 205
April 2015 - 242
Aug 2015 - 260

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This goes to the heart of what has happened to all the money in my view.

Chris Roberts couldn't have built the demo without Crytek, on kickstarter launch day CIG's (subcontractor, built) website crashed, so CIG switched subcontractors to Turbulent. This is a pattern that repeats, there are so many ex-subcontractors, Turbulent are understandably a lot harder to ditch now than normal.

Turbulent - Web platform, Spectrum, store, sales - Montreal, Canada

Behaviour Interactive - Concept art, Ships, 890 Jump, x85, mobiGlas, hangar flair - Montreal, Canada

CGBot - Artwork - Mexico Probable source of the leak from 2013

IllFonic - FPS module/1st unfinished version of Star Marine - Denver

Moon Collider - Kythera Artificial Intelligence middleware - Scotland

Rmory - weapon concept art - Bavaria, Germany

The Imaginarium - 63+ day Failed motion capture shoot - London

Wyrmbyte - Network engineering, Universe, Servers - Louisville Colorado

Virtuos - Ships, 1st version of the Cutlass, props - Shanghai, China

RedHotCG - props - Shanghai, China

voidALPHA - environment & concept art - Emeryville, California

Not even sure this covers all the ones we know about (faceware, Side for casting etc), never mind the ones that were never made public. Now consider that Chris Roberts doesn't seem able to do much himself, so he hires people, after a while the relationship normally ends. It now appears, the relationship sometimes ends very badly

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Yes, you're missing:

Streamline Studios (Netherlands) - SQ42 Art (stuff in leak)

Massive Black (California) - Art

Atomahawk Design (England) - Art

Confetti Special FX (California) - Nebula tech and explosion particle effects

3lateral (Serbia) - Facial mapping

Cubic Motion (England) - Facial animation

Liquid Development (Oregon) - art

The period where they were using this massive list of outsourced studios is actually the period where the project made the most progress - we got the Hangar Module, Social Module, Arena Commander, Illfonic Star Marine with Sataball, Ship Adverts, and saw some stuff of SQ42.

Then they started transitioning stuff in house in mid-2015 to mid-2016, and that's basically the point everything ground to a halt. It's clear most of the work these old studios did have been redone to Chris whims, and they're now firefighting all the time and chasing the next gimmick.

tooterfish posted:

Jesus, look at Erin in that picture. He's half the man he is now.

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"It's not just another ship. It's a ship and a feature coming together and being launched straight out there."

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It launches in bleeding-edge Evocati testing later this week and is planned to be on live servers sometime around the game's anniversary on October 10. In the months ahead, then, CIG has many plans for the future of this ship and its hallmark feature.

One such goal is to make both Quantum Enforcement mechanics more nuanced. "I'm sure in the future we want to require you to have a bunch of Mantises or other ships with Quantum Enforcement Devices and pull them together to pull out a large Capital Ship," Tome suggested. "Maybe there will be a Capital Ship designed to pull out other Capital Ships. But for this first version we won't quite get to that balancing yet."

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As Crewe admitted, the sheer vastness of the Star Citizen universe also creates some curious snags. "One thing that people might see as a bug is the expectation that every time you fire this thing off you're going to get a hit," he said. "That's probably not going to be the case. We're going to try and limit those dead catches as best we can, but it is a very situational thing."

eonwe posted:

hello

• Chris is supposedly in havana but: "Turbulent got an offensive phone call from Guatemala"
  
• nobody is running derby, there is a hologram that welcomes you at the door now
  
• Ben keeps sending postcards with ship doodles on, they actually liked The Medusa. ("Talk of mirror ships to counter.")
  
• A mood band which alters FOIP launches in october: "Trials of the lurking response have been upsetting."
  
• Papy hasn't been seen since the death stranding video, there is a scratching sound coming from his room
  
• Exclusive emotes planned for Spectrum: "We have an exploration flavour for the High Admiral tier"
  
• "Somebody keeps cutting the crytek logo into mouse mats"
  

Hav posted:

I bought a Valve Index. Can someone point me at a resource for mining in ED?

Zaphod42 posted:

Ahahaha every time I think I know how bad SC is, they surprise me and they're even worse

Elite is already everything SC could ever hope to be

Zaphod42 posted:

Not being able to fly anywhere is a big problem with EVE Online and It makes me laugh really hard that Elite fixed it and lets you actually fly anywhere but SC didn't lmao

Bubbacub posted:

Those people who built simpits in their basements for SC...what do they do with them?

TheAgent posted:

I'll be onsite and completely loving drunk (but v respectful) during space court

gonna livetweet me a loving crobear quote

Thom12255 posted:

I didn't know Ben was behind the original ships - he single-handily made this all possible lol.

Thom12255 posted:

I wonder if Ben also has deep frustrations about development after all these years and if he ever doubts his Chris God. The game is marketed primarily to him and those like him and he's gotta be let down in some way.

Bofast posted:

I think the last VIP event for that stupid minelayer ship was claimed to be sponsored by Anvil, as well?

Beluga Snail posted:

Question - where would the archive of the various development history things be floating around? I can't seem to find it, namely that picture from the early days team that looks like a Trump Cabinet photo because there's only like 2 people left in total.

iron buns posted:

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-character is laying on the floor where the game had originally crashed at
-character unresponsive to physical input rather than head movements

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At daymar on foot when game crashed. Spawned back into laying position while plummeting into planets core.

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ACTUAL RESULT:

Body stuck in T-Pose in the floor

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKtA38w24wE

NPC running / glitching around. Be careful if you come too close it will actually kill you

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Because of the rucksack the camera/eyes are only just above the chest and when pressing F there is no GET UP text visible.

Virtual Captain posted:

Bootcha showed up so yeah we did one ARGCast. One more and that's it for today. PM me if you wanna be on the show.

https://www.twitch.tv/virtual_captain

Virtual Captain posted:

There are 16 on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzukKdPOxKngLkDYgpIcwsA/videos

A few more on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/star-citizen-argcast

The rest are sitting on my HDD unorganized waiting for a drive failure me to upload them.

Tippis posted:

unless the game itself is already a CPU hug.