I was well aware of domestic abuse and sexual assault issues before the SNES launched too.
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QuoteIt should not be so easy to block a jump point permanently with mines. The mines will be expensive and have to be maintained (the components age with time; just like the ships). This will prevent large minefields and a permanent blockade of important locations.O M E G A L U L
It should not be so easy to block a jump point permanently with mines. The mines will be expensive and have to be maintained (the components age with time; just like the ships). This will prevent large minefields and a permanent blockade of important locations.
at having a half hour Q&A segment about two things that don't yet exist
Quote from: benjipwns on August 27, 2019, 10:05:46 PM at having a half hour Q&A segment about two things that don't yet existI'm guessing that notes were taken because the design probably didn't exist beyond "it lays mines".What a farce.
I was at the dinner actually, what was truly sad was just how much CR was trying to push things on us. Not the ship sales, but these supplements he was taking. He kept telling everyone who came up to him to talk to him about the game about these natural vitamins that were making him feel so much better, he said he's writing code 12 hours a day, 7 days a week to complete a physics refactor or something, that he then runs 4 hours, eats, and then goes to sleep. I kept trying to move the conversation towards progress towards milestones, community interaction, the roadmap, gameplay, etc, but every time he would rudely interrupt me to tell me that I should get these supplements, that they would transform my life and make me feel like I'm 18 again (i'm not that old in the first place), the stupid thing was that after 30m of trying to talk to him, I gave in and asked him what these supplements were called and he said he forgot and left the bottle at home. Everyone else had the same interaction with him, when we asked the other devs they were just shaking their head and saying that's what they have to live with.
That dude should try those supplements tho, maybe it'll help him stop writing walloftext.posts.
an average uptime of 12.5h before they encounter a server crash
Have they even properly modeled space debris orbiting populated planets??? Wake me up when they do.
What is staggered development?Staggered Development is an approach that splits the various development teams between multiple delivery dates. This puts teams into a cadence whereby they are delivering larger features every couple of quarters instead of every quarter, but due to their staggered nature, you would still receive an update every quarter.To oversimplify for clarity's sake, an example of this would be that half our dev team may be working on 3.7 features, tech, and content, while the other half would be working on 3.8. Once the team working on 3.7 delivers the patch, they would then transition to 3.9. Rinse and repeat.
Ultimately, this is a really good thing for Squadron 42 development as well. Both Star Citizen and Squadron 42 share a codebase and as features come online for both games, they will be in a more stable/playable state, reducing potential blockers that can hinder and slow down development.You will of course notice that our target Beta date for Squadron 42 has moved back by 12 weeks in today’s Roadmap update, but this is a necessary step as a result of changing the overall development cadence, which we expect will create positive results in the overall delivery and experience of Squadron 42.
- after many, many assurances that the crytek lawsuit would not proceed, chris & co are scrambling (no elaboration)- emails, contracts, recorded conversations and biz licences are being sent for review (legal review?)- Erin "extremely nervous" about outcome, although showing a "carefree attitude" around the office- "I know for a fact he doesn't want another Gizmondo on his hands. Once was enough."- aegis backer event: "Our goal was to be totally positive. We nailed it."- production on certain parts of the game are stopped completely until legal avenues are resolvedmostly that means engine and server improvements- this halt is scheduled to begin 9/3, but employees have known about it for some time- engine switch most likely in the cards, deep discussions about stadia/UE4 ongoing- "Anything made or built with CryEngine would be discarded and re-coded." including animations, models, maps, client and server side code, etc- "We'd have to redo a lot of work. It'd be worth it, because it's the only way forward."
*laughs in CryEngine 3*
Oh apparently people on Something Awful are amused because apparently the latest CryEngine version got updated with some of the shit CIG is obviously having issues with like the "OCS".
- "I know for a fact he doesn't want another Gizmondo on his hands. Once was enough."
Five of the six top execs at this company, Chris Roberts, his brother Erin Roberts, their lifelong friends, Nick & Simon Elms (brothers), Derek Senior – all from Manchester – through their previous company Warthog, were associated with the Gizmondo money laundering operation that was busted worldwide a few years ago.
Rumours coming out of CIG Manchester that their QA team haven't been paid this month. Going on previous experience this is usually the start of the end - QA get boned first before other departments due to the perception that they are the most expendable.Hopefully for them it's an admin error
Quote from: benjipwns on August 23, 2019, 01:18:50 AMI didn't read that Forbes article when it was posted here, I see I should have:QuoteBackstory: a recent Forbes print-magazine article (web edition here, /r/StarCitizen discussion, bonus /r/Games discussion) about an investigation they made into the (mis)management of Star Citizen creators Cloud Imperium Games, wrote that the Roberts Family Trust bought a $4.7m mansion in 2018.From couch surfing to living in a mansion.Although honestly $4mm for a mansion really means its a two story house within 10 miles of the beach in Los Angeles dollars.Also:https://twitter.com/RapidDarkVenom/status/1164585338347696128I know this face. This is the face of a game dev who is so tired and broken and over your shit that they can't even fake a smile for your stupid PR shit.
I didn't read that Forbes article when it was posted here, I see I should have:QuoteBackstory: a recent Forbes print-magazine article (web edition here, /r/StarCitizen discussion, bonus /r/Games discussion) about an investigation they made into the (mis)management of Star Citizen creators Cloud Imperium Games, wrote that the Roberts Family Trust bought a $4.7m mansion in 2018.
Backstory: a recent Forbes print-magazine article (web edition here, /r/StarCitizen discussion, bonus /r/Games discussion) about an investigation they made into the (mis)management of Star Citizen creators Cloud Imperium Games, wrote that the Roberts Family Trust bought a $4.7m mansion in 2018.
OK I actually think that Space Yacht is pretty coolHow much is that gonna run me
Pledge cost increased from 600 USD to 890 USD just before the 4th Anniversary Sale on 2016-11-18Initially sold for 600 USD on 2014-10-11
Some more rumors from TheAgent over at the SA thread:QuoteI'm not even going to "hello" this because its p sketch, but someone has been very, very, very, VERY adamant that parts of the latest citcon demos are done with a different engine other than lumberyard/cryenginethis person was right in the past about a few things (I know the criminal gameplay thing was one, I think the animation/AI problems were others) and I don't think they work there anymore but this is so gently caressing hilarious to me that I can barely believe it
I'm not even going to "hello" this because its p sketch, but someone has been very, very, very, VERY adamant that parts of the latest citcon demos are done with a different engine other than lumberyard/cryenginethis person was right in the past about a few things (I know the criminal gameplay thing was one, I think the animation/AI problems were others) and I don't think they work there anymore but this is so gently caressing hilarious to me that I can barely believe it
Got news for you FUDsters ! Development hasn't even really started. Actually it's pretty impressive what they made without even beginning making the game !https://m.twitch.tv/videos/474868266?t=00h30m29sGood meltdown too :https://www.twitch.tv/videos/474868266?t=00h01m33s
I thought I understood game development but then Star Citizen made me realise I didn’t want to.
We project Salvage to be a full “two-quarter task,” similar to the development of the initial release of Mining. After carefully evaluating all factors, we made the decision to push Salvage back two quarters to make room for both FPS Mining and Refueling. First, for the release of 3.7, it didn’t make sense to implement caves without gameplay, so we tasked the team on Salvage with creating the FPS Mining and Quantum Fuel Mining. Second, we’ve made the decision to re-task the team focused on Salvage in the quarters to come with closing out a full refueling game loop, which will include Fuel Harvesting and Quantum Fuel Harvesting. These will both be added to the Public Roadmap soon. Once completed, the team will then move on to focus on Salvage.
I feel that any amount of lawyer money spent on coming to an amicable agreement allowing them to use whatever cryengine variant they're on is less than the cost of CHANGING THE ENTIRE ENGINE RIGHT NOW
500 planets at launch!
AnimationAnimation continued R&D into the motion matching tech mentioned last month, including looking at how seamlessly it can transition from locomotion into a usable enter animation. They also looked into interrupt and resume tech for story scenes, which will allow a player to leave a scene, have the characters pause naturally, and start again seamlessly when they rejoin. The SQ42 Feature Team also started implementing a firing range.
Edit: Oh remembered one thing, FFS, they were teasing the physical box prototypes from the KS packages back then, when in reality they weren't even close. It's things like this that keep pissing people off.
Their attempt to be more date-driven worked to begin with, but as seen this year it became unsustainable.
Ships are on a separate pipeline, so focusing less on ships wouldn't allow them to focus more on professions and gameplay.
Q05) We used to get real design documents in the past that gave us at least a moderate glimpse of what a mechanic was, and how CIG is planning on it affecting gameplay. Can we please go back to getting these deep-dive documents into professions? [19:36]TL;DR They've changed how they do things, so the deep-dive documents are no longer fit-for-purpose. Instead they have an internal document that Todd would "call almost like a one-pager", which is more focused on what they can hit and what they need to hit for the Tier Zero implementation.
Chad adds a more programmer perspective, saying that the sync-up between programmers and design would often reveal technical considerations that hadn't been fully considered until they started implementing the design
Q06) What is the current status of Server-Side Object Container Streaming (SSOCS)? [21:10] (Oh boy...)TL;DR They needed to revisit existing gameplay features to make sure they weren't broken, and have done that. SSOCS also requires Global Persistence(...) An early version of SSOCS without GP might be released in order to get some of the streaming benefits from that work, which is possible due to a Prototype Model they created for testing. As for Server Meshing, most work on that can only happen after SSOCS is done.
So realistically, 890 gameplay is going to boil down to one thing longtermu/Amathyst7564So I was in Olisar and someone brought an 890 jump for people to come aboard and check it out. We collected about ten people and and went off towards arc corp. Most people were just in their default suit, with a pistol and a single clip. A couple of us had armour and assault rifles.We toured the ship. It was aesthetically pleasing. But once you've seen it, you've seen it and after you do a cruise once you probably won't want to spend money on another. That's when it was announced over ship comms that a game of hide and kill would commence once we dropped out of FTL. Coincidentally, those with armour and rifles were all wearing monocles and not shooting each other. The default suit peasants didn't stand much of a chance with a pistol and a clip. Some were hiding in the engine room, some in the toilets, some didn't know what was going on and got clocked standing in the atrium looking up at the arc corp view. The ship makes an excellent level for free for all battle royal.Purge Cruises, now at affordable prices. Where the fun never stops.
