It's not random, it's news from the new patch 3.10.
Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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Because
a) they think it looks cool
b) they think the could convert any non believer to this ahm game? Tech demo?
Because that's all it is. It's the only place to start and once started, it's the only place it can end. Also because screenshots almost makes the game look good, whereas videos make it look like the amateurish ugly mess that it is.
It takes them a while to transition to only doing the former since the latter ruins the whole thing…
Both of those game are on my watch list, but at the moment I see no sign of them offering novel solutions to the player-driven problems that similar games have run into in the past.
To be fair, no one takes him seriously in this industry, even less so if one has listened to Warren Spector when he was talking about his days at Origin. So he may pontificate all he wants, his audience will at least laugh in his back of not directly in front of him.
This is just as needed as caves in a space game. Priorities, again...
Note that I post a lot more videos than screenshots.
I hope looting a dead player/npc is on the road map before necrophilia.
In the case of DU, there are indeed novel solutions (saw the Devoxx conference from their founder / main programmer), the bespoke engine should be able to flex its muscles with tens of thousands players in the same area.
…and it sure does the trick as far as showing how of bad SC looks.
Every single thing you posted besides the lighting engine and shader improvements are tier 0 test bed alpha things. Everything is "one day you'll be able to..."
It's okay to like Star Citizen. It's okay to enjoy what limited gameplay there is, or theorycraft about what will come. Unfortunately many posters like you end up proselytizing the game, praising it for broken or boring features while ignoring what 3.10 really brings: an awful update to the flight model; broken planetary take offs and landings; stalled combat encounters thanks to that new flight model; more issues with stability; more issues with NPCs; more issues with player interactivity.
Nothing sums up 3.10 better than that twitch clip of SaltEMike's gal rattling off 3.10's anemic "feature" list.
So you should recognize that I don't try to mask all those bugs.
Indeed. Can't wait to see how many scores of hours PvP greifer/ganker types are going to rack up. Christmas come early for this lot given all the free cannon fodder and space range test dummies their $$$, OP, gimbaled hard points will be getting. All while using you and your buddy's @$$es as targets for their emergent PvP game play content.
It's OK for me, I said that I will not more give my opinion on what I post.
I post news and you analyze it.
…which wasn't the issue, now was it?
It's not news. The analysis is always the same: “broken and ugly”.
Pretty sure this is the exact same thing that happened with a few dozen other posters. They eventually just stop, much like you will, because they don't get any traction or interested parties or end up selling their accounts and moving on.
It's really not a knock against you, honestly; we've just seen it happen so many times in this forum (and many others) that the cyclic nature of it becomes a little absurd.
If posting news about SC or SQ42 here makes ya happy, continue to do so.
LOL, had to look it up, but it is not quite true.
This patch also adds:
- Flight model changes make flying in atmosphere tedious and annoying.
- UI/Targeting changes make targeting functionality significantly worse.
That isn't quite the kind of player-driven problem I'm talking about. I'm talking about player-killers, griefers, trolls, Ozymandias types, hoarders, and every other manifestation of GIFT-like behavior you can imaginable. Managing GIFT-like behavior via the game's mechanics is equally as important as the technical aspects of the game. Right now, in both SB and DU, I don't see much information on how they're going to be dealing with this issue.
If you want a prime example of a developer making the same mistakes the early large-scale MMO pioneers made back in the 90's, look no further than Fleet Carriers in Elite: Dangerous. They're an in-game asset that had the potential to be the backbone of a working player-augmented economy, whose potential has been drowned out by the fact that there's now more Fleet Carriers than stations in the game.
I posters aren't adding their opinion/viewpoint, there isn't much point in posting.
Straight up news on the game is easily accessible to anyone who wants it.
Or, in CI¬G-speak: “progress”. Just imagine the ultimate end-goal of that arc.
