Do you feed them souls?Welp...Happy Wednesday everyone. It's a normal working day for me even at this time of morning, this lot needs fed as usual
1 man's meat is another man's poison ... Which is where good honest marketing comes in and knowing your target audience.
And that really hits at the heart of the inherent impossibility of the game as pitched. It is at once supposed to cater to exact that kind of pedantry, and to the kind of fantastical and heroic “reality” depicted in Chris' most recently watched space opera, and to the far more gameplay-oriented design expected of a modern PC release. All of them are pretty much mutually exclusive, and that's not even the only mutually exclusive set of design goals that has been set up for the project.
SC isn't the only space game to have fallen in that trap imo, tho it may have been more egregious about it.
It's picking up speed, tho.
Welp...Happy Wednesday everyone. It's a normal working day for me even at this time of morning, this lot needs fed as usual
They do have a steeper skill ramp too, to make them fly properly
I'm also a proponent of that as well... but I'm also very much a proponent of verisimilitude: the illusion of truth. This is doubly true for science-fiction games. If you're going to introduce a novel technology, such as FTL travel, then you should a) be consistent when applying that technology, and b) logically think through the repercussions of that technology. Doing so places limitations on those within a setting, and its the limitations, and how they need to overcome them, is what makes a story or game interesting to me.I'm a proponent of enjoyable gameplay over pedantic realism and I'm more than willing to ignore any desire for realism or science fact included just to satisfy someone's inability to suspend belief... just the same way I can readily accept there are dragons and magic in Skyrim...I'm sure nobody worried overly much about the flight physics of the dragons
) but what I really care about is verisimilitude. ED at launch for instance did this quite well. Sure it was missing a lot of stuff which we had to fill in the blanks and ignore ... But what there was generally fit together well and was consistent.It still remains as one of my more terrifying gaming experiences...trying that initial airlock module/hab module docking in Hellion with pure Newtonian physics... EVA in a space suit rapidly running out of airVerisimilitude I think is the perfect term for what is vital for me in sci-fi media. Many - myself included use the term immersion (for me because it is easier to spell
The challenge is keeping it all together as new features are added. ED has done this less well.
I know this is an SC thread but as that game is not out yet how CIG will handle stuff like internal consistency and a pretense of stuff being backed by science would purely be guess work. I can only say how i hope they do it.
The game has just failed so I guess it would be bad to use it as a model..... But videos of hellion I watched 18 months ago for me had perfected EVA and the mechanics of moving about from space to atmosphere structures . I would love that in both SC and ED including all the fiddly stuff.
Well here is the thing....I create a beacon for personal transportation and few good people accept it to give me a ride but when ever they picked me up and engage to the hyperspace to the new destination game snapped for me and I remain stuck at R&R Hur-L4....It's happened already 2-3 times I will try again later but seems like this bug is really persistent almost like whole Croberts Universe........
Aye...may be just that...but to put a bit of perspective on it, all those SC fans don't have to rely on a fan made imaginary atmospheric world demo using the Unreal engine to fly around in since the demo they're currently playing already has them...they can even land, mine rocks in ships or on foot, drive about, do missions, deliver and pick up cargo, walk around a bit to stretch their legs whilst standing next to hot geysers or fumeroles, visit caves and cities, do a bit of shopping on them and pick some weird alien fruit off the bushes too...hell, on one of the planets in the demo they can even park their ships, climb out, wander over to sit under the trees and look up at the orbital station in the sky they just flew down from in real time whilst talking to the turtle they rescued from one of the cities on a whole other planet.Yeah, all those SC fans who don't realise they're playing a demo
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