Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

McGlashan

McGlashan
Cosmo said:
Gameplay video of Pyro:

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"Gameplay" is a bit of a stretch. It's about 10 minutes of wandering aimlessly around Kitbashed Space Punk Base #1, 5 minutes of space travel nothingness, and 20 minutes of wandering aimlessly around Kitbashed Space Punk Base #2, with some additional classic CIG bugged-out ships to add variety. It's like SpaceEngine does Pyro.

The atmospheric effects continue to be the only thing that really looks good. I don't know what they're doing with the lighting on the player's ship but it never looks like it's in the right environment. The incredibly bright ship HUD with masses of glow that prevents you from seeing much outside made me chuckle.

But he survived several lift, ladder and ramp traversals, so that's something.
 

Viajero

Volunteer Moderator
Viajero
O'Roarke said:
Chris Roberts himself said that three weeks ago they had a breakthrough - and the RGB corridor is a literal techdemo of that.
So they didn't have anything working in the slightest before that.

As in, nothing worked when they first hyped Jump Points, Pyro, etc.
For years and years.
It just took an immense amount of disappointment in their playerbase, to the point it severely impacted their revenue, that the "breakthrough" happened.

And it isn't working right now either - if it was then they'd play their game instead of showing a carefully controlled tech demo.
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Pretty much.
 

Viajero

Volunteer Moderator
Viajero
killminster said:
Just watched this video from Obsidian Ant about the latest from CIG, there was a Citizen Con or something that happened right?

Wow. It just sounded like he was regurgitating all the same old lies and promises about "You can do this, and this will happen and if you do this that will have gameplays that affect more things that will will be awesome and next generationly seemless and will do the other other thing thats never been done ever and Star Engine licencing new techbollocks...." and so on etc.

I admit, I'm out of the loop I got bored with laughing at SC and Oddysey sucked so bad I gave up on Elite. But has something changed? What is OA playing at? Is he that short of things to talk about that hyping SC is the only thing left? Or are you all about to be proved wrong?
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He´s been around long enough to be fully aware of CIG shortcomings, and constant misrepresentations. So it must be just about the clicks 🤷‍♂️
 
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VR Golgot

VR Golgot
killminster said:
Just watched this video from Obsidian Ant about the latest from CIG, there was a Citizen Con or something that happened right?

Wow. It just sounded like he was regurgitating all the same old lies and promises about "You can do this, and this will happen and if you do this that will have gameplays that affect more things that will will be awesome and next generationly seemless and will do the other other thing thats never been done ever and Star Engine licencing new techbollocks...." and so on etc.

I admit, I'm out of the loop I got bored with laughing at SC and Oddysey sucked so bad I gave up on Elite. But has something changed? What is OA playing at? Is he that short of things to talk about that hyping SC is the only thing left? Or are you all about to be proved wrong?
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Same old Citcon routine. A bunch of stuff that's been hyped before has been hyped again, with a 'coming this year' tag...

Yesterday's highlight was a demo which underlined just how far 'Server Meshing' is from deployment. This was met with rapturous applause...

Who knows what joys tonight's finale will bring ;)
 

thistle

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Just checked back in with Mike and the Con.

So CIG have added ED's head shake, ED's flight model (unrealistic airplanes in space for gameplay reasons), and it looked awfully like ED's supercruise but still in a straight line, with a weird timed minigame requiring the player to stay pointing straight otherwise the ship drops out.

Also, and I could be wrong, looked awfully like a short 'jump' loading screen. Tut.
 

fzfq3m

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Wait… so now SC ships have VTOL thrusters on top of normal maneuvering thrusters?

The maneuvering thrusters do not like atmosphere (by own CIG’s words: they will overheat, lose efficiency and will not be able to turn the ship)… yet the Gladius in the demo was able to achieve hoovering
 

ECity

ECity
Good time for this classic:

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