That was a joke question, right?
If not, then it just about sums up the dysfunctional expectation of the direction (some people) think this 'project' should be going.
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That was a joke question, right?
If not, then it just about sums up the dysfunctional expectation of the direction (some people) think this 'project' should be going.
This honestly saddens me. I like how the ceiling opens, the little bits of smoke, that fellow walking around etc. But the way the ship moves, I just don't understand it. Sure, ED is widely praised for its flight model, so I am not expecting SC to beat that. But this also looks worse than X4 (or X:rebirth). And NMS. Hell, this looks worse than Evochron and that was cobbled together by one dude.
Now I am not a coder. I don't understand game development. But surely if one dev at CIG would spend a lazy afternoon tweaking some numbers it has to end up so much better than whatever this is? The way the ship moves genuinely makes me think of how cars moved in a 3D race game I wrote when I was nine years old...
Yes it was. The reference is the volleyball Willson from Cast Away with Tom Hanks
He basically has the best deal in business today,probably why Forbes noticed.
Try and deliver a product.
Immediately pay yourself whatever you want.
If it fails you get rich.
If it’s a successful game,get richer.
Schrödinger's Scam.
The guy is a streamer who has a replica of the volleyball from Cast Away (like MTB mention) in the background and as an emote. Stupid waste of a question.
300i hasnt been. The other 300 variant reworks are coming in "soon".
This shows a reasonable flight model being used by an FPS player using a mouse and keyboard and purely digital inputs...nothing more. That may seem to be in defence of the current flight model offering..and I suppose it is in a small way.
An explaination...I fly the ships in SC very much as I fly the ships in E-D...and besides from SC's latest effort flight model still being too 'digital' and mouse oriented for my liking, the ships fly surprisingly well compared to the previous turrets in space offering. It's not nearly as good as E-D but it's certainly headed in the right direction.
The one thing that has translated well from the new flight model is the sense of weight or mass when flying the medium to large ships...might not be noticeable flying with M/KB (I wouldn't know) and the dinky toy fighters are still too pointy with overpowered thrusters even with the HOTAS...but that's due to the control focus being M/KB and catering to FPS players flying space ships like an extension of their FPS characters.
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Thank gawd for that.
Well, the acceleration among all axes seems miles off, but that would explain part of the issue. Are the equivalent vids with analog axes?
This is due to instant infinite accelerations. Movement you see in that vid is purely linear, no 2nd order movement (=acceleration, in terms of physics). Mostly due to instant thrust availability (while in ED and other games there's a time for power to throttle up) but also a flight model that was implemented in a very naive way...
I'll also add that on-foot player movement is also highly unrealistic, people move at 50kph, accelerate instantly, stop instantly, jump down entire flight of stairs like nothing, all this wearing a heavy armor, a space suit underneath, and weaponry.
Thats cryengine for you.....
Sorry but don't put the blame on CryEngine please. First person controller was great, still has one of the best body awareness, even zero g levels were more satisfying than SC Eva (and Prey is even better at it), ground vehicles and even vtol, if not very fidelicious, were robust and fun. So I bet a more focused team and managed accordingly would have put a more robust, enjoyable and versatile flight model since long.
CIG has a long history of breaking things down. They'd probably had totally messed up Unreal Engine if they had chosen it.
I had a look back at the old email from the period. In fairness here the actual quote from them:
"Looking back over the production cycle of the entire project, we are very much nearing the finishing line, and as a fellow backer I am very excited for you to see what is in store this year that is yet to be revealed."
Then they banged on about losing perks and such and how they couldn't give me a refund bleh bleh. Which I eventually got by using the standard defences.
The "nearing the finish line" was what was telling me "full release" I think it was a fair assumption to make with the clouds of time
This was all summer 2016 and here's 2019 summer and nowhere near any sort of finish line by any reasonable definition Haha![[VR] Merkir](https://d2aefvhu2f0gi9.cloudfront.net/data/avatars/m/141/141091.jpg?1553527154){kind=avatar}
Oh it's even worse than that.
With the magnitude of pledges people are handing over, you would normally expect to be buying shares in the company, not jpegs. Instead, those pledges boost CR's own share value. Based on the recent 10% sales of shares and CR's 75% shareholding, arguably he now owns about $350M in CIG shares. Thanks backers!!!
Think about the difference between a typical IPO capital raise and how CR has done it. You'll soon realise what a self serving business model he's managed to pull off.
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Perhaps, but the business model he's managed to pull off depends entirely upon begging, and none of his vast empire of corporate entities has released any games, in nearly a decade.
The lulz though, oh, the lulz produced are uncountable.
Yup...but the medium to big ships do have this thruster/acceleration lag on all flight axes whilst the small fighters still don't..they're still point and shoot mini turrets and invariably flying those small fighters with a HOTAS, I have to constantly over correct or fight the flight model due to the massive digital thruster output even with analogue input from the HOTAS.
The larger ships, like I mentioned, fly similarly to E-D Anacondas/Cutters or T9's...especially in the case of the Starfarer Gemini which takes a mile to stop using reverse thrusters. The thruster input/output is still too digital but not as bad as it was.
The flight model certainly isn't a great one...but it definitely feels better for the likes of me who generally fly the medium to large cargo ships instead of fighters and always fly with a HOTAS.
Even the ground vehicles...purely digital on/off throttle and steering input using WASD with no incremental control....use the HOTAS flight stick similar to driving the buggy in E-D (Forward back for accelerate/brake. L and R for steering) and I magically have full analogue steering and throttle output. The same effect can be achieved by using an Xbox controller with the analogue triggers and thumbsticks.
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I'm trying to make some sense of what is going on there.
Is the character loading a pistol into a stock as the actual discharge implement, while it's dancing skirt kills the other character with unattached pistol magazine greeblies as a mismatched hurt count actor?
Or is this fidelity?
Is the character loading a pistol into a stock as the actual discharge implement, while it's dancing skirt kills the other character with unattached pistol magazine greeblies as a mismatched hurt count actor?
Or is this fidelity?
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