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Stinja

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Huh you mean if i want a first person shooter i shouldnt play a space-ship game with legs stuck on? :unsure: Hmm but it's so popular at the mo...


So PSA pro-tip: do NOT use the "Buy Max" button!

I scraped enough credits to buy an assault rifle and armour, and thought i'd buy some medical epi-pens and oxygen too. Foolishly thinking it'd buy 2 epi-pens (my max equipable) i was highly confused when i couldnt buy oxygen, and realised with horror my hard earned creds were down to double digits, and i had almost 200 epi-pens!

I queried in chat if i could sell them back somehow, which got negatives, but someone offered a seat in their turret and shared bounties, so spent an hour blowing up bad guys :cool: Then borrowed their ship to do my induction mission, 30 million km away, and deleted the target-ship with like 4 speculative shots from range.
All in all had a good time, and have 100,000 cr now - rich!
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
What an abysmal outcome. Absolute tragedy. It could have been so good, but those involved let us down.

But that's enough about England vs. Italy. :D

As an aside, watched it at the pub with my wife and daughter. About 10 mins in, my wife, who has no interest in football, said "Why don't they just give everyone a ball and they can all go home happy?"

My wife clearly doesn't understand football development.
 

Intrepid3D

Intrepid3D
Right, its not a twitch shooter
Agony_Aunt said:
What an abysmal outcome. Absolute tragedy. It could have been so good, but those involved let us down.

But that's enough about England vs. Italy. :D

As an aside, watched it at the pub with my wife and daughter. About 10 mins in, my wife, who has no interest in football, said "Why don't they just give everyone a ball and they can all go home happy?"

My wife clearly doesn't understand football development.
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I really don't care about it at all. :)
 

Stinja

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Was that soccer post meant to be in the "state of the game" thread?
I guess when forum-dad's get on a bit they get confused easily... ;)

So got a message about the PTU / alpha thing for us peasants, what does it mean practically?
I backed up my keybindings, just wondering if there's anything else i should do or be aware of before it hits.

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Mole HD said:
I found the plushie stall pretty quick though, got myself a stuffed spacewhale to stick in the ship.
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Wat? Where does one purchase these? Can we stick them on our cockpit dashboards?

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VR Golgot

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Intrepid3D said:
Right, its not a twitch shooter
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Eh?

Any shooter, and any combat flight sim, involves twitch gameplay as a rule - IE gameplay involving reaction times / quick response to stimuli etc. (And so demands a decent frame rate, and responsive networking if online).

SC has to support that stuff in spades.
 

Intrepid3D

Intrepid3D
Stinja said:
Was that soccer post meant to be in the "state of the game" thread?
I guess when forum-dad's get on a bit they get confused easily... ;)

So got a message about the PTU / alpha thing for us peasants, what does it mean practically?
I backed up my keybindings, just wondering if there's anything else i should do or be aware of before it hits.

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Wat? Where does one purchase these? Can we stick them on our cockpit dashboards?

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You can, Orison, can't remember where exactly, a bit too big for the dash, there might be smaller versions, i'll look next time i'm there.

Game Discussions - Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12

Huh you mean if i want a first person shooter i shouldnt play a space-ship game with legs stuck on? :unsure: Hmm but it's so popular at the mo... So PSA pro-tip: do NOT use the "Buy Max" button! I scraped enough credits to buy an assault rifle and armour, and thought i'd buy some medical...
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Mole HD

Mole HD
VR Golgot said:
Eh?

Any shooter, and any combat flight sim, involves twitch gameplay as a rule - IE gameplay involving reaction times / quick response to stimuli etc. (And so demands a decent frame rate, and responsive networking if online).

SC has to support that stuff in spades.
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But we all know it doesn't.... unless you're doing a Terada and skelping along at zero feet in an Anvil Arrow (watch the video Intrepid posted). The framerates in SC are fine for PvE and PvP spaceship pew...it's the servers that make the entire pew concentric thing a tad tiresome...but not everyone does pew ;)
 
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Intrepid3D

Intrepid3D
Mole HD said:
But we all know it doesn't.... unless you're doing a Terada and skelping along at zero feet in an Anvil Arrow ;)
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Yup...:D

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Its interesting, in Answer the Call he explained what is going on there, above 400M/s the flight characteristics change, the ship wants to push forward, you cannot turn by yawing, you have to bank and if you don't get that banking just right the ship will stall or you might lose control completely, in atmosphere it goes from a space ship at low speed to a jet fighter at high speed.
This is completely different from 3.13, one would also assume this is for small winged fighters, its why they have wings.
 

VR Golgot

VR Golgot
Mole HD said:
But we all know it doesn't.... unless you're doing a Terada and skelping along at zero feet in an Anvil Arrow. The framerates in SC are fine for PvE and PvP spaceship pew...it's the servers that make the entire pew concentric thing a tad tiresome...but not everyone does pew ;)
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I heard things ain’t too smooth for the Terada crew these days either :/

Source: https://youtu.be/nMQWsCG6DUA


But yeah, just saying that SC is meant to support a range of twitch gameplay. It’s just waiting on the frames & networking to catch up for some big slices of it ;)

(I’m sure cramming Orison onto the server will help :/)
 

sovapid

sovapid
Intrepid3D said:
Yup...:D

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Its interesting, in Answer the Call he explained what is going on there, above 400M/s the flight characteristics change, the ship wants to push forward, you cannot turn by yawing, you have to bank and if you don't get that banking just right the ship will stall or you might lose control completely, in atmosphere it goes from a space ship at low speed to a jet fighter at high speed.
This is completely different from 3.13, one would also assume this is for small winged fighters, its why they have wings.
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It does that now. I'll have to try it out, but i take everything he says with a grain of salt.
 

[VR] Mad Life Crisis

[VR] Mad Life Crisis
Agony_Aunt said:
Yeah, you can't post on CIG's forums unless you give CIG money first.

Regarding reddit flairs, yeah, some subs just like you to flair your threads. But not much point posting on the reddit sub unless you first say 10 Hail Roberts, upload a picture of a sunset or your ship, and tell everyone how much you've spent. And for heaven's sake, don't say anything critical or you'll be called a troll and hater.

So, here's as good a place as any to discuss SC, as long as you don't start saying stupid stuff like "never been done before", making excuses for every bug in SC, making predictions of how wonderful everything is going to be in the next patch or two, or start fawning over CIG.

Mole is our resident middle of the road guy, you can pretty much trust whatever he says to be a fairly unbiased take on things.

We have a lot of skeptics like myself here, and we will tell you, at length, in great detail, what we think is wrong with the project, if you give us the opportunity :D

And we have one or two who are at the other end of the scale, who will tell you that any problems you have are your fault and anyway, its your fault for not installing it on a SSD (even if you have). :p
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Yeah, cheers for the reply. I try and be civil but sometimes the world does my head in and I end up arguing and annoying people. There's always tomorrow.
 

Intrepid3D

Intrepid3D
Mole HD said:
Wow...Moist and DarkLaw talking PvP and enjoying 3.14. :oops:

I found them both preferring ED's PiP management to SC's power triangle very interesting...since I'm kinda in agreement. Excellent ATC from Mikey again (y)
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Yeah me too, that was i think what they originally had in mind, when they called it "Capacitor Management" but someone did it before them....

The new weapons management system is still a lot better than in 3.13, you can't just hold down both buttons all day and shred everything, try that and you will be out of ammo and charge in a minute.

Now you have to be intelengent in how you set up your ship weapons and about how you use them. I've tried it out and i like it a lot, the spray and pray lot will hate it.
 

[VR] Mad Life Crisis

[VR] Mad Life Crisis
sovapid said:
welcome citizen commander!

you have found the perfect place to have your intelligence questioned for playing SC, be told you are supporting a criminal organization if you buy into SC, and told that "fun" doesn't matter when you play video games!

enjoy your stay!
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Yeah, I'm seriously thinking about getting Star Citizen. There's a VR hack that seems to work well. I might just play in 2D anyway as there seems to be a lot more to do than having to rely on the wow factor.
 

VR Golgot

VR Golgot
[VR] Mad Life Crisis said:
There's a VR hack that seems to work well.
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It doesn’t unfortunately…

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lXy9rEUBhc&t=4m53s

Def don’t expect SC to be functional in VR via vorpX etc. There are a couple of enthusiasts that ring the bell for it, but as the vid describes there, the scaling is apparently too out of whack for use with even hacky stereo effects, and the piggybacking they do on TrackIR system means the headlook itself has a ton of latency. (On top of general performance struggles etc)

It’s a 2D headlook novelty for most unfortunately. Not a way to play the game.
 
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