Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

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However, what has not been done before are actions like:

• being killed by a cargo cart
• being killed by an invisible asteroid

Standing on chairs and falling through the ground are old gaming tropes, though.

Falling through planet and orbiting the inner trash compact is pretty rad, too.

 

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Falling through the ground goes at least as far back as Jet Set Willy.

There were more aliens in that game though, than in the whole of Star Citizen.

E.T. telefonieren! They say a south American way to torture was to bash one's ears until the membrane pops. Apparently it was called "telefono". Always had to think of that when I saw E.T. go about phoning home.

 

[VR Golgot]

I was sure you'll don't get it.

Nah, got it in one thanks bud...

Truly astounding. 10yrs+ of dev and 'Can X fit in Y?' is still leading content

I'm glad the Fury was worth the money to that fine citizen though, for its parking possibilities and such. Even if it's not a view that's universally shared

Berks thinks the Fury is suitable for roleplay and nothing more...

It sounds perfect for SC. I'm not seeing the scam

(PS as a total aside, this was confusing)

 

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I was sure you'll don't get it. ...

Not everyone gets it right away - it can be hard for beginners: "will" is the auxiliary. The auxiliary carries the negation. The negation of will is "will not" which will be contracted to "won't". The correct way is: "I was sure you won't get it." But, honestly, xou should never be sure of such a thing unless it's someone who just keeps pulling mumpitz out their rear.

 

[ECity]

SC so compelling that SaltEMike spent his stream looking for other games to play.

 

[Fizzatron]

but you can't understand it, you don't play the game.

But yet you claim to understand Elite without playing that either. You can't have it both ways.

 

[cigwatch]

SC so compelling that SaltEMike spent his stream looking for other games to play.

Looking for other games to play is another activity in SC.

 

[LittleAnt]

But yet you claim to understand Elite without playing that either. You can't have it both ways.

I've played it a bunch of hours. It's better than some here that had posted thousand of posts about SC without having played it !
And notice how I don't post thousand of post about ED in the ED part of the forum

 

[metatheurgist]

I prefer this scenario...

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/14q6lv8

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/14q6lv8/weird_bug_where_the_npcs_are_frozen_but_their/

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/14q6lv8/_/jqloi06

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/14q6lv8/weird_bug_where_the_npcs_are_frozen_but_their/jqloi06/

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/14q6lv8/_/jqoqfme

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/14q6lv8/weird_bug_where_the_npcs_are_frozen_but_their/jqoqfme/

You clearly don't understand bug diversity.

 

[Mole HD]

Looking for other games to play is another activity in SC.

A persistent and constant one...in fact, it's the only persistent entity in the entirety of persistent entity streaming

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Mind blown...

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/141gstq

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/141gstq/my_average_experience_with_star_citizen/

I wonder what can take credit for the most kills in SC?

Boxes?
Ramps?
Lifts?
Doors?
Players?

 

[Skizomeuh]

CIG's spaghetti code? Chris Roberts' Physics Phd? Why not all together?

 

[Asp Explorer]

I even think there was at least one confirmed commando killed by a penguin plushie.

 

[Garix]

I even think there was at least one confirmed commando killed by a penguin plushie.

It says a lot about SC that I genuinely have no idea if that's a joke or not

 

[Mole HD]

I even think there was at least one confirmed commando killed by a penguin plushie.

There's also video evidence of an entire ship and crew being killed by a mischievously thrown burrito

 

[VR Golgot]

Seeing as nothing is happening in SC land, have some...

Totally Unverifiable Gossip, from the Paaaaast:

This guy claims to know a bunch of old Origin devs. And he likes to tap them up for their opinions on Chris...

Lived in the Austin area for 40+ years. I know a ton of the old line gamers here. Including a bunch who went on to be computer developers. Since the beginning of the [SC] Kickstarter, I've talked to 13 who worked with Roberts at Origin. No discussion about CR with 3 of them (too bad, 'cause they worked on the movie, would probably have some informative tales), but the other ten had interesting and uniformly negative things to say, privately, about Roberts. Of the Origin crew, only Robert Garriott was held in worse regard.

None of it's verifiable. But lots of it aligns with other sources . Especially when it comes to Chris's foibles...

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I've talked to a friend who worked extensively with CR at Origin: He calls Roberts a narcissistic egomaniac, and said that he believes everything he says, regardless of its relationship to reality. A lot of folks buy in to his palaver, and think that his name on the box meant he did way more in those games than is actually the case.

(source)

Since I knew these folks when they worked for Origin, I am pretty sure about the vetting.

Roberts was the boss at Digital Anvil for four years, and spent a lot of money, producing a big flat nothing. It took Microsoft nearly three years to finish that game in some releaseable form, and it was already a year and a half late upon the buyout.

His helming of the Wing Commander series is not the sign of greatness that some presume. Roberts had teams of very competent people to support him, and folks who could draw the line at some of his more vainglorious ideas. IIRC Warren Spector was brought in as a co-producer in the first WC to get it out the door after numerous Roberts-induced delays. It was also reported to me that once the cut scenes were introduced to the series, Roberts spent most of his producer-time shooting those. Etc.

As far as his personality, there's a pretty striking uniformity of opinion about him from the folks I have talked to. While other major players from the Origin era have a range of opinion about them, Roberts is uniformly negative. Even before the SC kickoff I knew of Roberts as the second most disliked guy at the company. It just took questions about the Kickstarter to discover why.

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Roberts is not particularly fun to work for, nor particularly competent. The only person I know who worked at CIG left after a short time there. His report? 'Definitely not an enjoyable work environment'. All the old Origins folks that I know have nothing nice to say about Chris.

(source)

Because I was aware of Chris Roberts history. How he'd never delivered a game outside of Origin Systems reasonable structure. How he needs to personally pee on every part of the game to mark it as 'his!'

(source)

One old Origin hand told me that that company would have folded early without Robert Garriott there to crack the whip.

[Starr] Long was supposed to do that for Richard. I doubt Chris would allow anyone to sully his genius.

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Roberts didn't even do the heavy lifting on coding in the first WC. Stephen Beeman did that, and got rewarded by getting the nod to direct WC2. Roberts continually mythologizes his contributions to any game he's ever worked on.

Though old Origin hands who don't like him otherwise, do give him credit for the games' immersion and theatrics.

(source)

 

[VR Golgot]

It says a lot about SC that I genuinely have no idea if that's a joke or not

SC is a joke

Hey, SC has lots of alternate dimensions...

The one where plushies are deadly fauna:

The horror realm:

The dimensionless dimension:

The lurking water realm that awaits us all...

Too many to list honestly

 

[Fizzatron]

I've played it a bunch of hours. It's better than some here that had posted thousand of posts about SC without having played it !
And notice how I don't post thousand of post about ED in the ED part of the forum

Fair play, when was the last time you played?

 

[ECity]

SC so compelling that Berks added this Discord channel:

 

[StuartGT]

Looking for other games to play is another activity in SC.

A persistent and constant one...in fact, it's the only persistent entity in the entirety of persistent entity streaming

Persistent Entertainment Searching