In people years or in star citizen years ?.
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In people years or in star citizen years ?.
people years otherwise it would be a infinite...
According to a gamespot article around 3.5 years, 240 in-house staff, but a total of 1500 people worldwide involved. Dev and marketing cost $81 Million.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/this-is-how-much-the-witcher-3-cost-to-make/1100-6430409/
Edit: Develop Interview: https://www.develop-online.net/interview/the-wild-road-to-the-witcher-3/0207553
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Nope, just a mop.
Well, doesnt look bad to me. Not sure what I am missing?
Could do with seeing more than 10 seconds worth to be honest. ...
According to Wikipedia 3.5 years at a cost of $81 million USD (Yes, I hate using them as a source too, but the source links go to reputable sites)
However, in my opinion I think comparing Witcher 3 and Star Citizen is probably not going to work. The Witcher 3 is a released, award winning computer game developed by disciplined professionals in a reputable company, where SC is none of those things.
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The wreck looks fine, ground clutter is marginally better than Elite's, ground looks OK but nothing special, the framerate feels solid.
Seems a funny thing to post that is all, carrying a crate is hardly an achievement.
It was groundbreaking stuff 17 years ago.
This Cyclone thingie has me amused.
It's 6 meters long, apparently 3 meters high, and has a mass of 1000Kg
So basically a badly proportioned half-mass Ford F150 with a very bizarre sense of scale.
It's 6 meters long, apparently 3 meters high, and has a mass of 1000Kg
So basically a badly proportioned half-mass Ford F150 with a very bizarre sense of scale.
1. exhibit A, can you imagine having to unload all the junk first before selling the gems in a port? because you know, due to much fidelitious, you need to deliver that gem crates to the trader kiosk if you want to sell it.
2. exhibit B, can you imagine a pirate having to unload all those junks first before pirating the gems? because of the exact same reason as above, pirate would literally need to get their hand on their specific target crates.
be honest does anyone think that's fun? much fidelitious fun? or just nonsense insane game design?
does anyone believe there's a game AI that can handle such fidelity? how do you imagine NPC pirates would be in such game?
I think that's a refreshing and ambitious take on a mechanic that usually is made to be very simplistic.
Having physical cargo that you can rearrange at your liking and that affects your ship behavior is an interesting take, specially considering that the ships will have dynamic dampers to react to different weights and that planets and moons will have different gravity.
In junction to the fact that there's fetch missions that will make players go after the same object it will be an interesting dynamic to see who goes coop or competes for it.
Apples and Oranges... Despite having similar features they cater to very different experiences, I think they complement each other and that legs arriving to ED wont impact Star Citizen just like planetary landings arriving in Star Citizen wont impact ED. Besides it's not about adding X feature, it's making it fun and a cohesive game experience that's hard. Just ask EVE dev's!
This is most likely. If I recall from a jump point article the 5 initial systems were Stanton, Terra, Nyx, Magnus and Helios.
Only thing I could find was images with comentary in german from the article: http://imgur.com/gallery/9iwKw
Btw PCGamer also tested 3.0 build and is confirming the seamless planetary landings: http://www.pcgamer.com/first-man-on-the-moon-hands-on-with-star-citizen-alpha-30/
"...As promised, it was a seamless transition: taking off from the space station, flying into space, making a quantum jump to the Daymar, entering the atmosphere, and landing."
Hopefully this source holds some value.
Because no content was dropped, it was always the development plan to deliver 5-10 systems first and the open the rest of the systems later.
It's smaller than the Ursa Rover who fits inside the Constellation so maybe it can even go inside the Starfarer:
It's a teaser, seems it worked. But there's been plenty of footage showcasing planetary stuff like derelict ships and housing modules from the ATV shows:
[video=youtube;cmjuuoh4N6o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmjuuoh4N6o[/video]
So you are saying that I am better, can do the job and function? Why should she worry, it is a massive upgrade, man moving from non functional to working. also LOL at the poorly designed wheels, and the miss fire all the girls love miss fires.
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PC Gamer magazine had a play with 3.0 during a recent visit to CiG and submitted this article. It's short and to the point, doesn't say very much... but promises more detail in next months instalment. Unlike the recent German magazine article currently being argued over, the reporter mentions the transitions during planetary landings with no language barrier to add to the confusion.
Article here
New 3.0 schedule report out too where not a lot has moved on the slidey coloured bar thingie...some text in blue and orange...no change in the imaginary dates this week but next week will show a 2 week pushback, as is common practise.
No sign of the Illuminati (or whatever they're called) getting their hands on the build yet either....
Linky
My only take on the PC Gamer article is that if CiG are willing to let one of the better known game news sites try out a build of 3.0, it must be at least a little less vapourware.
Article here
New 3.0 schedule report out too where not a lot has moved on the slidey coloured bar thingie...some text in blue and orange...no change in the imaginary dates this week but next week will show a 2 week pushback, as is common practise.
No sign of the Illuminati (or whatever they're called) getting their hands on the build yet either....
Linky
My only take on the PC Gamer article is that if CiG are willing to let one of the better known game news sites try out a build of 3.0, it must be at least a little less vapourware.
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If he was the first person to play a 3.0 build, what did the German reporter play?
Nope, you clearly never played space sim or similar games before.
Even euro or space truck sim players and flight simmers would loathe having to deal with such cargo system, especially when it add so many wasted precious play time they would otherwise spend on actual 'flying'.
And you clearly don't even consider the inevitable repetitive nature of of MMO games, suppose you need to add 1 hour play time wasted from loading and unloading crates for every cargo haul mission and that you need to do such mission 100x to get enough profits to buy better ship, that's 100 hours of gameplay time completely wasted as dock labor.
And there's the MMO and AI problem
Every single crate has to be tracked down to it's precise location inside the ships, otherwise the AI wouldn't work, otherwise the MMO wouldn't work.
And that is a waste of computing resources, and a complete disaster waiting to happen due to how internet works.
Landing pad dampener? Flight dims has been doing that for decades! Not to mention ED also have it.
And speaking about gravity, do they also implement max take off weight?
The quote was he was the first person outside CiG that had landed on Daymar (Crusader moon)...according to CR. Not the first person to play a build of 3.0. From what I remember from the German article, that particular reporter landed on Delamar and visited Levski.
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I think you assume too much what other players would and wouldn't loathe in a game...there was a similar discussion on E-D which had a fair selection from either side of the argument.
The general consensus amongst the SC crowd is that they would like it...it's been discussed enough over the last few months. From what I can gather, you won't be hand loading every crate or item into the hold, most is done via the kiosk interface and shoved into your cargo hold by a team of handwavium forklift drivers....
There's also quite a few players who aren't interested in min/maxing their time whilst playing a game for enjoyment, grinding out missions per hour makes it no different than current popular play styles in E-D. The intention is that whilst your ship is being loaded, you'll be browsing through the SC version of Top Man store buying yourself a new T-shirt to match your weapon colours or just do other business whilst there.
Although I quite like the idea, I'd prefer it to be optional or semi automated with only the small, important DHL or Amazon type packages having to be taken aboard by hand. Some of these will have to be delivered by hand too via ground transport in cases where you can't land your ship at the point of delivery...according to recent reports anyway.
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