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The Star Citizen Thread v5
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I feel sorry for this guy.
Imagine your job was to eliminate all the bugs in SChttp://www.en.kolobok.us/smiles/standart/facepalm.gif
Not going to be a short-term contract, so good for security I s'pose...
Exactly this. I backed in 2012 to the tune of up to 300 dolla in the year that followed. CR and crew were so credible to me and making the game I really wanted to play at that time. Then the delays and lack of real progress not to mention the silly scandals badly handled. Had quite enough then CR started talking about MVP. That was the touch paper for the refund from me.
The MVP undefined as it is, which in itself as undefined didn't fill me with any confidence. 4 years of it to lead to this. Had enough of sham shows and smoke/mirrors and CR.
CMDR_Orlando
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God bless those insightful chaps. [big grin]
Sisyphus is old hat. It's time for a 21st century update.I feel sorry for this guy.
Imagine your job was to eliminate all the bugs in SC
What's use of security if you end up devoid of life after it...
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Nice, you're taking CR's ignorant blabbering and rephrasing it here as if it's some kind of truth. Stop it please, neither you nor CR have any idea about FD's development behind the scenes, and how much "re-writing" is necessary.
Try to keep in mind that FD knew they were building a castle from the beginning, whereas CiG started with a shack, then decided they were making a house, then a mansion, and now CR wants his own castle too.
If it werent for them there would never have been a freelancer...
Yeah, exactly. If it weren't for investors and publishers there would have been nothing all that relevant for CR to co-opt as his own work in order to springboard back into the games industry a decade after being forced out in disgrace...
CMDR_Orlando
Banned
If it werent for them there would never have been a freelancer...
Yeah so good of them removing cockpits and making a 3rd person space shooter... /s [big grin]
Well, it's not difficult to understand why CR would assume Frontier was working that way -- I mean, that's what CIG do despite all their blather... Something more effectively planned from the getgo is beyond him.
Imagine what a mess Elite would be if the main thrust of devwork was crunching for big shows and tech demos instead of laying a solid foundation from the start! For five years. We wouldn't have Horizons, much less a released game.
Imagine what a mess Elite would be if the main thrust of devwork was crunching for big shows and tech demos instead of laying a solid foundation from the start! For five years. We wouldn't have Horizons, much less a released game.
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That is absolutely false in every sense. When things are properly scoped out from the beginning, nothing needs to be rewritten or restructured as it was already prepared for in the beginning. Kind of like the whole "space" not really being there and using triggers to make it seem like a space suit is needed in SC. That will require massive changes if they intend to make it so '90s style shortcuts and triggers don't cut it anymore - like if they want to account for dynamic decompression zones.
However, when properly designing and saying "at some point I would like this, but we can't do it now" it can still be prepared for and designed so that it can implemented with the only changes being some new GUI entries or displays, some new menu items, or whatever is needed to introduce the feature but not massive rewrites as you suggest. The only reason that would happen is due to lack of vision, lack of a real road map, and complete mismanagement like what CR is doing.
The Alpha 3.0 demo was also just that, designed specifically to demo off for the "cool wow" and get more donations. It was very carefully designed, scripted, and configured so that it played exactly how they wanted it to. Like when the player KNEW there would be a pirate waiting in the door way. Then there is one scene where the player is very clearly not being controlled, he just glides down stairs, and the scenes where he is doing a scenic walk through moving along and focusing on specific objects as the character passes then it switches back to player control. The public demos have all been designed for one thing: to sell more ships. They aren't an example of the playable game. Still over a year and that pupil to planet doesn't exist on anyone's client, because it was carefully rendered and prepared - it wasn't playable. The whole thing has been smoke and mirrors to get more money and putting out a terrible bug ridden tech demo that is janky and incredibly limited. They don't even have Double Precision Floating Point in it yet, the game is still limited to a single two bases and a few planets - none of which can be flown to despite it being demoed a year ago - there are actual boundaries/map limits, and it isn't even a complete single system yet. And somehow they are going to have 100 of these next year? They can't even get one done in 2 years. Plus CR constantly diverts duties so that he can put together these fundraising demos to show off, which don't actually feed back into how the game will play so it is wasted time, and it is Freelancer all over again.
It was far better off for it too. Just trying playing it in cockpit view — it's horrible.
I suppose this would help explain why so much effort has gone into providing a third-person view in SC and why it's so often use to try to show the game off, even though it really need to be removed completely if they ever want to be able to compete with the big boys in the FPS space.
I feel sorry for this guy.
Imagine your job was to eliminate all the bugs in SC
I would like to be him. ^^
Secure work for the next 50 years he can rest assured as he will be pensionated after this job
As for CR.
I would not underestimate him.
Hes got a dream and he is determined to do it.
Similar to Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates.
I am pretty certain that Star Citizen will become a revolution of Gaming at an scale where even World of Warcraft will be looking like an backyard game.
I dont think so. ArmA is not about just gunplay. Its about training of Tactics, Techniques and Procedures of military response, it has its moments. I and most of the ArmA players are looking into this http://titanim.net/ and SteelBeast and personaly Evochron and for simulation Rogue System is at the top. Also really looking forward for the implementation of FD/ Elite on planets with atmosphere.
Outerra(also has a game in development)
[video=youtube;6OkRa9P-wUU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OkRa9P-wUU[/video]
Hye! not going to dismiss SC, just yet, if it come to be a enjoyable experience; but lets see a game first.
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Zuckerberg? Bill Gates? Oh, c'mon. Their cold sores are worth more than CR's $123 million. He's a lemonade stand in comparison. I know visions are nice and all, but the revolution has to actually happen before comparing him to those guys!
Please be satire.
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3rd person view in SC is awful, nothing playable using that view. They even removed the hud indicators from 3rd person view on purpose so people don't dogfight on 3rd person. I really wish they made a proper 3p view for the ship, but i don't have much hope for that.
1st person cockpit view, on the other side, is superb. They use 3rd person so much in presentations just because looking at the ships from the outside is way cooler, especially if you're showing an atmospheric reentry.
CMDR_Orlando
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Hopefully it will come with the 2.6 update (October) which will focus specially with improvements in the flight mode and the simulation modes: Arena Commander and adding Star Marine. (FPS + 0 Gravity)
Google up with how much money Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg started.
Star Citizen might be a lemonade stand now.
And Facebook once was a College Project
But what do you think SC will be worth in 3-5 years
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