John Deere turn up to sell you spare parts for a ridiculous price.
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John Deere turn up to sell you spare parts for a ridiculous price.
Doesn't change the fact that it works that way and that it is a horrendously stupid solution that no-one else has been dumb enough to even attempt. Nor does it change the fact that this is exactly what the game and videos of it will show you, whether you choose to remain wilfully ignorant of it or not.
Everyone loves the Ursa physics, don’t worry about it
Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/kqzb4k/when_you_tip_your_ursa_but_it_has_a_gravity/
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Just curious, do you have those digging links handy? Are those the xml related files from long ago?
As for CIG´s own documentation I presume you mean John Pritchett´s own account before he left / was dismissed, correct? I indeed remember he describing a system originally intended to actually produce reasonable physics but that in the end proved not to be too practical and quite hard to balance properly for decent gameplay, and ended up forcing the expected results for each ship through that "physics" system instead of just simply faking it like many other games. A sort of completely unnecessary and convoluted code travesty if you wish.
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It needs a roadmap
Better lol than sigh
Well actually... https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/article/odyssey-2021-update/It needs a roadmap
Sure it's less fidelicious but I bet it's more realistic than any roadmap CIG ever pulled out of their biowaste exhaust system.
Most of it is so old by now that I wouldn't even know what thread to start digging in. This is all 2016–2017 stuff iirc — maybe earlier still — and a fair amount of the gory details are from discords and old forums and other side-channels where CI¬G's devs discuss the matter with some of the few actual testers in the community.
Pritchett's design document is an important part of it, yes, especially as far as describing some of the background and intent behind the whole mess, but he's really too dry and analytical and game-focused to get to the real lol.
…things like, one of the reasons the original more fly-by-wire-based concept didn't work was because it still relied on such complexities as mass, forces, acceleration, and this went over the head of the poor souls who were meant to populate all those parameters. So instead, they black-boxed the whole thing, abstracted it down to goal times and backwards-physics to make sure that single parameter was met at all times.
I've been hanging around SC for so long, I can remember when 2022 was a ridiculously far in the future release date.
I used to joke that it'd be released in 2018 and backers would laugh at how ridiculous that was.
So many times i was shouted down and insulted for daring to suggest SC wouldn't be released until after 2020.
And for any historical revisionists who might be present in this thread, this was even after they changed to doing fully landable planets.
But anyway, we know release will be in current_year+2. Its not CIG's fault current_year increments every year!
A little video for Sovapid
That was genuinely class
But he is a man of many lessons.
Here are some others from this week
Accuracy +100
"If anyone ever needed a clip to prove desync is terrible in Star Citizen..."
"Did you just clip through the Idris?
"He's glitching through the... thing!"
"Oh no did I die?"
"I may need you to off yourself"
[Commentary from prison] "It's the fact that like I get crime stat for trespassing when chasing a bounty, when that shouldn't happen. That guy's glitching through the wall. That shouldn't happen."
Game still incredibly alpha. Here endeth the lesson
Game still incredibly alpha, while also attractively MVP.
I feel like this is an aspect that doesn't get stressed nearly enough. And also describes my only experience with the game so far, almost dying of thirst because the hydration state didn't reset on wake up, having to find a drink vendor outside of the planet and almost dying of thirst anyway because the game wasn't allowing me to remove my helmet to drink. I'll keep repeating myself but, you can try to sort out bugs how much you want, but idiotic game design decisions will remain largely unaffected until you sort out whatever issues are there with the people making these decisions.
Just hit the console command and refresh hunger and thirst state.
Star Citizen is like the person you meet in a nightclub after drinking far too many, going home with them, and when you wake up and see them without your beer goggles on you wonder if you'd rather chew your own arm off to get away than wake them.