Star Citizen Discussion Thread v11

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Alex Battaglia continues his series of Star Citizen shill pieces via Digital Foundry
It's a well-made video and showcases the pretty graphics and assets in the game, as well as the challenge of combining so many cool techs together. He is overzealous with his "new tech" praise in multiple places, no doubt due to him being a dreamy-backer since the first years. I wonder if he was present at the VIP Concierge dinner in Germany last August?
 
Perhaps it might be easier to start listing the things that CI-G have actually invented .

Urm, peeps, anything else?
They didn't invent funny, but CIG are responsible for regularly making me honk with laughter. (credit another place)

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I remain gobsmacked by this. The CEO of a 500+ person company has time to have his own dev branch where apparently he is solving all the unsolvable problems and this will make the game work so much better.

For me it smacks of hubris on CR's side and delusion on the backers side.

As I've said before, it's Reverend Jim Jones all over again and may end the same way.
 
Oh my, just noticed this on the Spanish SC thread here.

I haven't seen such pathetic melee combat in a game in donkey's years. This is like some sort of student's asset flip game with basic animations only.

Also have a good laugh at bodies flipping out in totally unrealsitc ways. Lag and jankiness abounds. Players hovering in the air.


This is peak citizen!

It's fine, they're working on the fidelity for the next update, due Q3 of 2027 (subject to change if Chris gets distracted by more shiny things)

 
Also have a good laugh at bodies flipping out in totally unrealsitc ways. Lag and jankiness abounds. Players hovering in the air.
This is something i tried to tell on their own forums but got downvoted heavily. Players move way too fast, like in an accelerated movie. It's even more terrible when comparing with NPCs (who do move normally) or their own promo videos where people move at normal pace. It's also a huge problem as players can change directions faster than what the network (and probably the netcode) can handle...
 
It's a well-made video and showcases the pretty graphics and assets in the game, as well as the challenge of combining so many cool techs together. He is overzealous with his "new tech" praise in multiple places, no doubt due to him being a dreamy-backer since the first years. I wonder if he was present at the VIP Concierge dinner in Germany last August?
I understand he was there but spent most of the evening under the table.
 
It really does feel scam to me. I see the studio struggling and the reality is MAYBE Roberts is that much of an asp, but maybe he's laughing all the way to the bank.

Insert “Why not both?” meme here. :)

I think Genuine Robberts is genuinely failing to make a genuine game. I also think that both Robberts learned the wrong lessons about what “success” looks like during his failed attempt to make it big in Hollywood. Robberts genuinely thinks that Hollywood Accounting is what he’s due, hiring big name actors for voice acting (they have one of the best VAs playing himself) and having huge offices in the most expensive areas is what “successful” people do, and micromanaging is what “successful” developers do.
 
Insert “Why not both?” meme here. :)

I think Genuine Robberts is genuinely failing to make a genuine game. I also think that both Robberts learned the wrong lessons about what “success” looks like during his failed attempt to make it big in Hollywood. Robberts genuinely thinks that Hollywood Accounting is what he’s due, hiring big name actors for voice acting (they have one of the best VAs playing himself) and having huge offices in the most expensive areas is what “successful” people do, and micromanaging is what “successful” developers do.
In short, Roberts is all about cargo cult - both in Hollywood as well as in game development.
 

Who would have thunk? People want actual gameplay. Amazing really.

Although top comment on that GIB Gameplay loops one doesn't give me much hope...

JUST GIVE ME DIRECT PLAYER PAYMENT!

They really want those gold farmers/traders in game then? They haven't seen other MMOs with such things? Can they imagine what SC's global chat will be like?
 
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