exactly my question as well. I was under the assumption that the alpha is a timeframe to discover big issues within the game. The hacking video did just that. Also the game is so unfinished and heavily in development that the devs have every opportunity to close down said issues. I would think that the "testers" of the current alpha really would have access to all ships, unlimited cash, console commands and whatnot in order to be able to "test" it in earnest?
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Ban's are perhaps a bit harsh in the first instance. Warning first, then ban.
Nope, the original had better lazors, pew-pew, kasplosions and scientifically innaccurate, but more immersive, sound effects
As for the scripts, stories and characters - who cares?
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Nope, the original had better lazors, pew-pew, kasplosions and scientifically innaccurate, but more immersive, sound effects
As for the scripts, stories and characters - who cares?
The hell with that, the New Battlestar has Tricia Helfer and very little clothing. 'Nuff said.
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Nope, the original had better lazors, pew-pew, kasplosions and scientifically innaccurate, but more immersive, sound effects
As for the scripts, stories and characters - who cares?
The remake has cannon broadsides - new BSG for the win.
The reboot is a good re-imagining of the original.
Anyway, back on topic.
Are people still playing Star Marine? - it doesn't interest me, and I haven't bothered with it, but it may be interesting to know if folks are still playing it.
Also, after two goes of Vanduul Swarm in AC after 2.6, I have not bothered to fire up the game again, although I do think the flight model has improved more to my preference, it still does not fire my imagination.
I may give the baby PU a try out later....
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[video=youtube;83tboDnpE7Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83tboDnpE7Y[/video]
Also: A Permaban for a pre-alpha? OK, I take back what I said yesterday. They really do hate their backers.
Could be a crude "circling the wagons / us and them" mentality? After all "No true Citizen" would ever cheat in the alpha.... A true Citizen would re-pledge themselves to Bishop's Armada and buy more ships!
Hyperbole and crass theory-crafting are my own creation
The man has a point.
Exactly! And also boots!
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It's basically a state machine with tasks that have priorities and triggers/thresholds. Basically a multitude of sensory input determines which behavior to trigger or prioritize. They simply dug up an old robotics term from the 90s. They're also selling an "AI middleware" as a separate product that's basically just a state machine and a bunch of utility functions like pathfinding, nav mesh generation, etc.
It's all marketing fluff. If you're doing any kind of NPC, you're doing something like this. Nothing new under the sun. But of course like refactoring it sounds way cooler if you use a term that few people heard of. And maybe some suckers end up thinking it's something groundbreaking.
Also: A Permaban for a pre-alpha? OK, I take back what I said yesterday. They really do hate their backers.
If they perma-ban and refuse refunds to enough backers they are home free, the naughty little scamps.
So actual Squadron 42 is still "probably" for 2017? And that's what Chris is saying? Hahahahahahahahahaha....Ooooops...
Also "had to cancel". It is obvious that CIG wasn't nowhere near releasing Squadron 42 in 2016. What a scam.
Also "had to cancel". It is obvious that CIG wasn't nowhere near releasing Squadron 42 in 2016. What a scam.
Star Marine was “weeks, not months away” and appeared over a year later.
SQ42 is months (not years) away, so by extrapolation we should probably wait a decade or two for the first broken version?
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Great post, I especially liked you documented everything with gifs and pictures
Someone should start writing down posts like these into a "Best of SC thread on FD forums" collection (or something like that)
Hardly anyone criticizing Star Citizen thinks it's an outright scam. At least not if they've been following SC for a while and aren't just drive by trolls. The scammy part is the constant marketing telling that the space game to end all such games is just around the corner (3.0 end of 2016, SQ42 at Citizencon, SQ42 footage in end of year livestream etc., not to mention obscenely suggestive concept sales without any game design documents to explain how any of it'll work, constant in engine "tech demos" without hardly any relation to actually implemented features). Thus creating a constant hype environment to keep collecting funding.
Nobody in their right mind would claim there is no progress whatsoever being made or nothing is worked on. But what progress is being made, what is being worked on and what can and will realistically be achieved is obfuscated to hell and back by Roberts & Co.. Because what's playable is such a far cry from even the original kickstarter promise, not to mention the vision they've been planting in their believers' heads throughout the last four years, there is a very real scent of scam about it, even if the project as a whole is definitely not a scam.
It's like a crowdfunding project promising to build a shiny hypercar from the backers' money within two years, collecting all the money constantly, but instead using it to build a shabby compact car and take six years for it instead. The disconnection is surreal and it's even more surreal how many people do not even see it (yet!).
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