Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

[Dementropy]

Ah, so you're saying CIG have put racists into their game?

How interesting.

We don't talk about those backers.

 

[Ebob]

Can anyone show me a video/screenshot of the aliens inside their ships' cockpits piloting their ships?

Currently trying. Very difficult.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Well yeah. So has Paradox put racists into Stellaris, and the anti Xeno initiative in ED.... racist!

 

[Agony_Aunt]

I can show you concept art of two vanduul pilots in a cockpit, but it's almost a metaphor for CIG's development.

I've seen Human Centipede, i didn't need to see that image!

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Currently trying. Very difficult.

 

[Ronzer]

♩ Do do...♩

I can show you concept art of two vanduul pilots in a cockpit, but it's almost a metaphor for CIG's development.

Prepare to be vaccinated.

 

[McGlashan]

Despite the fact that he spent many blogposts explaining how CIG would be bankrupt soon hahah

You should be thanking DS, without him and the spite-pledging he inspired CIG would have been out of business years ago.

 

[Phlegm]

It's called bullshots. Made in engine, looks legit but not featured in the game. But highly suggestive to be featured in the game.

Makes their choice of an engine known for pretty rendered animations, but flaming garbage for making games in, seem a little bit more sensible, doesn't it?

 

[Ebob]

Makes their choice of an engine known for pretty rendered animations, but flaming garbage for making games in, seem a little bit more sensible, doesn't it?

What else could they have picked in 2012?

 

[Xink]

Unreal 4, Unigine, among others.

 

[Ebob]

Unreal 4, Unigine, among others.

And what advantage would these have brought

 

[Xink]

And what advantage would these have brought

They can actually make the intended game.

 

[Rubbernuke]

Cryengine was fully capable of delivering S42, mores the irony.

 

[Ebob]

They can actually make the intended game.

And what makes this difference? Can UE4 defy physics? In what way are these engines programmed that they would have saved so much time and money using them?

 

[Agony_Aunt]

They can actually make the intended game.

With CR in charge?

The choice of engine isn't the main problem. Its a factor. It could be overcome.

You can't overcome the CEO.

 

[Skizomeuh]

And what makes this difference? Can UE4 defy physics? In what way are these engines programmed that they would have saved so much time and money using them?

Actually if you pretend to make a physically accurate simulation, you shouldn't have to defy physics

Oh and by the way, for example any serious engine should let be able to switch on or off the physics as devs see fit. Even Unity manages to automatically (or programmatically) put rigidbodies physics in sleep mode given an inactivity threshold so there's no superfluous physics calculations overload or wacky behaviours like hundreds tons ship blown by a wind...

 

[StuartGT]

Unigine engine is natively 64bit

 

[Phlegm]

Cryengine was fully capable of delivering S42, mores the irony.

That is HIGHLY debatable, considering there's clear evidence that Star Citizen "simulates" space in CryEngine by using NoClip mode and placing everything in the underwater mode to imitate a lack of atmosphere in space, not to mention the scale problems due to the relatively small level size in the version CIG is using.

 

[VR Golgot]

And what advantage would these have brought

Well they wouldn’t be dealing with absurd stuff like this ten years down the line:

Some of our game code is still client authoritative, which means that players with high ping can adversely affect the play experience for everyone else. There’s not much we can do about this in the short term but it’s something we want to improve on after Server Meshing is working.

Of it’s various famous downsides, being deeply multiplayer-unfriendly is right up there.

 

[fzfq3m]

Ah, so you're saying CIG have put racists into their game?

I think the correct term would be “ xenophobics”

put on smartass’ hat and faceplant in the corner