I started to feel funny 2 minutes into video. I was like holly momma I didn't know SC will make me vomit my guts even before actual release.
How that radar even makes sense for 'on footie' action?
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I started to feel funny 2 minutes into video. I was like holly momma I didn't know SC will make me vomit my guts even before actual release.
How that radar even makes sense for 'on footie' action?
No it was Russian hackers authorised by Putin himself!
You are kinda right. Stats can be leveraged to fool audiences. That is why I limited it to the US for bar graphs and am only comparing among video games. I'm not trying to bring in tangential things that have nothing to do with the topic at hand. A statistical strawman, if you will. As long as we are making honest comparisons in limited and familiar populations then the data is pretty fair.
More people take interest in many other games before Star Citizen. The gap is in orders of magnitude. I think that is safe to say that SC being the most anticipated game (according to Orlando) is a bunch of hyperbole that is not based in anything but effective marketing.
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their brand has been tied to CryEngine for years
Ahh - but you're forgetting Chris had the forsesight to rename it Star Engine before the news broke - no-one will make the connection - it's genius!
Amazing veteran fact helmets do bounce about, that's how you tell the straps and internal fittings need to be adjusted immediately to stop it. The visual effect is only half as irritating as the feeling of it on your bonce.
Just to wrap up that video for more constructive feedback:
* bouncy HUD - no, just no. Also what's with radar for FPS;
* sound production feels very pre-alphaish. I am kinda used to FD polish. There are some nice sounds, and some very terrible stock sounds (step sounds are uhhh);
* mixture of zero gravity/gravity zones are interesting, but could get very confusing. I am yet to see true gameplay value;
* as I have written before feels like hovering outside non-gravity zones mimicks 'turret in space' gameplay where you can pew pew pew everyone running down there without any penalty for as long as you like;
* more I see these SM levels, more they feel very generic mish mash of various franchises. There's lack of certain signature design in SC and it shows;
* enviromental design - again, it looks cool, but feels they are cool for coolness sakes. Lack of context;
* overall lack of context doesn't translate well to me as viewer, might be different for someone playing it;
* too fast paced, no way it is tactic based;
* bouncy HUD - no, just no. Also what's with radar for FPS;
* sound production feels very pre-alphaish. I am kinda used to FD polish. There are some nice sounds, and some very terrible stock sounds (step sounds are uhhh);
* mixture of zero gravity/gravity zones are interesting, but could get very confusing. I am yet to see true gameplay value;
* as I have written before feels like hovering outside non-gravity zones mimicks 'turret in space' gameplay where you can pew pew pew everyone running down there without any penalty for as long as you like;
* more I see these SM levels, more they feel very generic mish mash of various franchises. There's lack of certain signature design in SC and it shows;
* enviromental design - again, it looks cool, but feels they are cool for coolness sakes. Lack of context;
* overall lack of context doesn't translate well to me as viewer, might be different for someone playing it;
* too fast paced, no way it is tactic based;
The "eminent collapse"[squeeeee] has been preached since what? 2014? "This year will make or break Star Citizen" kek. "90 days top". "Finished, The End". And what's funny is that the haters eat this spoon fed fud narrative year after year rubbing their hands out of joy at any extrapolation of "negative news" thinking "This is it ! They are doomed now, they will never recover from this, it's all downhill now". But of course that's all in their heads, the reality is that Star Citizen keeps on going and getting better and better with each update. With more inter-connected studios/devs, more players/backers and more money generated per year, and ofc more salt from the same sources. Truly one of the best soap opera's of gaming scene for sure.
Though to be fair - historically they do have a much higher accuracy rate than CR's verbal emmissions.
A professional statist is able to prove to you that your dog lays eggs....i am not joking here. At this time and age i am really carefull with statistics of any kind, of course my example was stupid to no end...but have someone being more rethorical competent and he will prove to you ANYTHING with statistic...its the highest class of mental gymnastic out there.
But thats why statistics can be fun...aslong they are not being taken to serious.
Agent quoted two former employees and their opinion about 2017 being last year CIG operates at *full* capacity.
As anything Orlando says...it simply isn't true.
Insignificant_The_Galaxy_Cat
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"I think that is safe to say that SC being the most anticipated game (according to Orlando) is a bunch of hyperbole that is not based in anything but (in)effective marketing." There, fixed that for you.
Don't you mean invective marketing?
Or you make sure you know what is happening under the hood so you can actually use statistics for something useful.
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Maybe so - but at least you can used straps and pads, or do you need to get them in the in-game trouser shop???
I'm guessing that even if the helmet did bounce about, you weren't stupid enough to tape a radar display to it
Although any vision system locked to the helmet and not the person's head (which, you know, won't move relative to their eyes much) seems really silly, especially in the future.
Also the horizontal stalks out to the vertical stalks - what's the point of those on the radar? To make it different enough from Elite to not get sued???
They name their companies for a reason - you'll get Repetitive Strain injury from playing it, if not Chronic Induced Gastroenteritis.
If a motorcycle helmet is bouncing around on your head - junk it before it kills you
I have no idea why you'd be wanting a bouncing HUD - or indeed why anyone looking at your helmet would be able to see your HUD unless it was projected to a fixed point on the inside surface of your visor (in which case it would remain fixed in position) or to a apparent point at infinity from your perspective (in which case they would see a light blob).
Maybe Genuine Roberts has invented hard light or something - a little spinning object that projects solid light that can be affected by external influences maybe.
I have no idea why you'd be wanting a bouncing HUD - or indeed why anyone looking at your helmet would be able to see your HUD unless it was projected to a fixed point on the inside surface of your visor (in which case it would remain fixed in position) or to a apparent point at infinity from your perspective (in which case they would see a light blob).
Maybe Genuine Roberts has invented hard light or something - a little spinning object that projects solid light that can be affected by external influences maybe.
The helmet bob is a feature of their Amazing Stabilised Bird Vision™. Their clever solution to excessive head bob was to stabilise the camera movement independently of the head/helmet. But they can't stabilise the head itself, because then it would look stupid in third person (shoulders bobbing but head not), and the whole point of this animation system was that it's vital (apparently) that first and third person models are exactly synchronised, regardless of how little difference it makes to game play, or how it's actually turned out to have more egregious side-effects and has taken them years to develop.
If enough people criticise it, they'll end up with a decoupled system which will basically be what they would have had if they had never developed their own system in the first place, except about 2 years later.
If enough people criticise it, they'll end up with a decoupled system which will basically be what they would have had if they had never developed their own system in the first place, except about 2 years later.
Didn't they already have a decoupled vision mode way back when they were in the pre-pre-pre-alpha very early stages of development?
Yes, yes they did
Yes, yes they did
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CMDR_Orlando
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See for yourself: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Star Citizen
PS- 3 Girls streaming it atm, yeah big spaceships and male avatars sure turn off woman to play... unless it's Star Citizen.
Oh and that's a buggy restricted PTU "buggy tech demo" , "with nothing new for all year". [rolleyes]
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See for yourself: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Star Citizen
PS- 3 Girls streaming it atm, yeah big spaceships and male avatars sure turn off woman to play... unless it's Star Citizen.
Oh and that's a buggy restricted PTU "buggy tech demo" , "with nothing new for all year". [rolleyes]
I've watched WTFofsaurus make the rounds ad nauseum. I would have set his streams to full screen mode as a screensaver, but with all the crashes and nothing much happening, it was more likely to burn a static image into my monitor.
I may watch a stream later tonight. It'll be a good way to combat insomnia.
Orlando, that is very definition of nothing. There's no new gameplay neither of both games. I understand you just do your job, but man that work is cut out for ya.
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