It looks to me like these players stashed upgrades in their "recycle bin" and now wonder why they're gone.
"CIG never took out the trash before!"
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"CIG never took out the trash before!"
Some more sass from a claimed ex-CIG dev...
They mention other stuff like the old character editor being done in Unreal and hair being outsourced back in the day.
Their opinions on the 2020 SQ42 footage were not well received...
They mention other stuff like the old character editor being done in Unreal and hair being outsourced back in the day.
Their opinions on the 2020 SQ42 footage were not well received...
Is it now categorised in Biggest Game Development Failures of their Time?How times change
"Development time of MMO" should be consistent to be fair, it should measure the time a company started hiring Devs to the point that they started charging the public money for it and put it on a server with regular updates.
That way we can eliminate all the pretend noise around these things, inconsistent fluff, like "it was an idea in the mind of the creator back in the eighties" or "they were doing skunkworks since the nineties" or more relevant "they were just building a company first" and "It's released, but it's Alpha with regular updates which is something different because of reasons".
Star Citizen went into development around 2011 and was released when the servers went live to the public - I think that was 2013... It was a rushed release but they wanted the cash, it went live with none of the promised content/features they had hyped in their campaigns... Since then it has been "released" with "regular updates". It has all the extensive issues that releasing something live and trying to update it while the paying public are actually "enjoying" it - incur. Obviously by slapping "Alpha" they can low-ball consumer expectation, that's it really.
That way we can eliminate all the pretend noise around these things, inconsistent fluff, like "it was an idea in the mind of the creator back in the eighties" or "they were doing skunkworks since the nineties" or more relevant "they were just building a company first" and "It's released, but it's Alpha with regular updates which is something different because of reasons".
Star Citizen went into development around 2011 and was released when the servers went live to the public - I think that was 2013... It was a rushed release but they wanted the cash, it went live with none of the promised content/features they had hyped in their campaigns... Since then it has been "released" with "regular updates". It has all the extensive issues that releasing something live and trying to update it while the paying public are actually "enjoying" it - incur. Obviously by slapping "Alpha" they can low-ball consumer expectation, that's it really.
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Only Sandi can play act as airlock door. Doors are hard and you need the best actors for that.
Oh yeah the criteria are all over the place in that chart I suspect.
(I just like how the 'standard dev times' have extended in more recent fan charts, even for the more classic titles
)By your metric (which I think is fair) development started in november of 2011 IIRC that's when their KS succeeded and devs were hired to work on the project itself (so we're excluding the demo made by CryTek before). Also i think 2013 was just the hangar, 2014 was the actual game ? or around there.
LOL, maybe they really are an ex-CIG dev or maybe they are just trolling, but saying Chris doesn't understand game development gave me a good laugh.
How times change
Early days yet.
Yeah, Star Citizen: 3 years of development during crowd-funding campaign where they over promised MMO features, released to servers for a quick buck when they realised they couldn't meet their crowd funding obligations.
A familiar story.
The following decade is spent trying to add the missing content to the rushed release.
"Alpha" is merely a reality perception filter.
My limited lip reading tells me it's actually Happy Halloween, an experience of dread, frustration and anguish you can have while playing the horror game SC.
Speaking of horror...I really hate flying with rudder pedals....Before I had this fancy MFG Crosswind/Warthog setup, strafing a Messerschmitt from wing to wing only took a flick of the wrist...now it's booting a pedal, overcompensating then weaving about the sky like a bird with no tail feathers. We won't mention the landings or take-offs either
What's that saying about teaching old dogs new tricks? All this considering I used rudder pedals for years before I ever had the convenience of a twist-stick rudder...the only aberration in that being the old Microsoft Sidewinder (1&2) when they were the thing to have during the 90's.
Since my old X56 stick is a bit tired and the 2 stage main trigger is busted, I'm thinking of ditching the Crosswinds and Warthog stick and replacing them with a VKB Gladiator (which has a Z axis twist-stick rudder) to go alongside the Warthog throttle unit...which I do like.
What's that saying about teaching old dogs new tricks? All this considering I used rudder pedals for years before I ever had the convenience of a twist-stick rudder...the only aberration in that being the old Microsoft Sidewinder (1&2) when they were the thing to have during the 90's.
Since my old X56 stick is a bit tired and the 2 stage main trigger is busted, I'm thinking of ditching the Crosswinds and Warthog stick and replacing them with a VKB Gladiator (which has a Z axis twist-stick rudder) to go alongside the Warthog throttle unit...which I do like.
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You flying DCS? or the horror show.
Occasionally a bit of DCS, mostly for the rotaries but my main focus is still IL2 Great Battles series for the WW1 and WW2 fix...and since Flying Circus has taken over as a slightly limited (aircraft wise) version of Rise of Flight. Love my WW1 stuff.
Still playing Cliffs of Dover and the North African spin off too
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I’ve never been successful in getting my pedals feeling ‘good’ in iL-2, they’re always far too sensitive no matter what settings curve I use and I have the touch of an elephant wearing ski boots, apparently.Occasionally a bit of DCS, mostly for the rotaries but my main focus is still IL2 Great Battles both WW1 and WW2...and since Flying Circus has taken over as a slightly limited (aircraft wise) version of Rise of Flight. Love my WW1 stuff
Looking forward to the FC updated career mode
Yup, 19th I think the new update drops...with an extended map, earlier WW1 timeline and my favourite from RoF, the Albatros D2...can't waitI’ve never been successful in getting my pedals feeling ‘good’ in iL-2, they’re always far too sensitive no matter what settings curve I use and I have the touch of an elephant wearing ski boots, apparently.
Looking forward to the FC updated career mode
My problem with the Crosswind/Warthog stick setup is muscle memory lingering from the X52 proflight and X56 I had before...I keep trying to twist that stick no matter how hard I try not to...by the time I realise my rudder isn't working and remember to kick the pedals...usually as I'm falling out of the sky, it's too late
I also had to buy a much weaker mainspring for the rather industrially heavy built Warthog stick...it would probably be fine if I was using it in a custom designed sim-pit and not on the desktop but it was way too heavy and inaccurate with that massive black Land Rover suspension spring in it to be practical or comfortable to use for any length of time.
I managed to find a bloke in Poland who supplies custom made weaker mainsprings specifically for the Warthog stick...works just dandy too, new green spring fitted with a bit of general silicone greasing of parts, much more manageable as a desktop stick now
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Hehe, the thing I mainly used my pedals for was taxiing the Fishbed around. Some very limited success for yawing the Ka50.