Star Citizen - Chris Roberts, lots of spaceship porn, lots of promises

meeper · 2016-01-25T05:02:00.000Z

Ryan Kelly:

Wing Commander III and IV featured many Hollywood actors, including a handful of stars. I’m not sure what you were expecting when Squadron 42 was sold as a spiritual successor to Wing Commander. I’m guessing the major point of contention is that people who are primarily interested in Squadron 42 or Star Citizen (the MMO) want more time and effort allocated to their preferred experience.

I’m not expecting anything – I didn’t back it and I honestly couldn’t care (beyond wanting a decent space-y game, anyway) how he spends his backer’s funds.

I think it’s pretty clear how Roberts’ would prefer to spend his days, though. There’s a pretty dramatic contrast between seeing Roberts in action ‘directing’ versus Roberts in action during that stream of him ‘playing’ his game.

rhamorim · 2016-01-25T13:17:53.000Z

“Guy floats in space with a pistol, shoots at Constellation class ship. You’ll never believe what happens next.”

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Star Citizen Pistol versus Constellation by anonymous

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ArmandoPenblade · 2016-01-25T13:21:42.000Z

Ohhhh, so this game has Halo 1 pistols! Neat

BrianRubin · 2016-01-25T13:24:45.000Z

Don’t make 'em like they used to, huh?

Sam_Jones · 2016-01-25T13:53:24.000Z

I bet Elite adds this as a feature within season 2.

Tman · 2016-01-25T15:46:01.000Z

I’m more concerned that the shots all are clearly impacting a shield, and then it just blows up without going to armor. Or am I just assuming there is both shield & armor components?

Woolen_Horde · 2016-01-25T16:03:24.000Z

Tman:

I’m more concerned that the shots all are clearly impacting a shield, and then it just blows up without going to armor. Or am I just assuming there is both shield & armor components?

Those cost extra real-world dollars. And you need to pay insurance. Weekly.

Timex · 2016-01-25T16:14:20.000Z

Tman:

I’m more concerned that the shots all are clearly impacting a shield, and then it just blows up without going to armor. Or am I just assuming there is both shield & armor components?

Everyone realizes that the pistol isn’t actually what destroyed the ship, right?

PantsVZ · 2016-01-25T16:22:56.000Z

It was beauty that killed the ship.

rhamorim · 2016-01-25T16:37:44.000Z

Timex:

Everyone realizes that the pistol isn’t actually what destroyed the ship, right?

Please enlighten us to what actually destroyed the ship. Maybe the Star Citizen equivalent of a P-51? So perhaps that EVA pilot’s name was Captain Miller?

Timex · 2016-01-25T16:57:37.000Z

rhamorim:

Please enlighten us to what actually destroyed the ship. Maybe the Star Citizen equivalent of a P-51? So perhaps that EVA pilot’s name was Captain Miller?

That’s actually exactly what happened, apparently. Humorously enough, the ship that destroyed it was actually a mustang, which would be fitting.

I believe the guy who made the video was kind of concealing this on purpose, as a joke. The ship is behind him, apparently, and is shooting up from the bottom, so his hands are blocking your view of the shots coming in. And since it’s a gif with no sound, you can’t hear any of that. However, that little circle with the arrow pointing to the corner down in the lower left is pointing to him, I believe.

Based on the Reddit where it came from, that’s the deal at least.

AntediluvianArk · 2016-01-25T16:59:02.000Z

PantsVZ:

It was beauty that killed the ship.

Odd that it comes to mind but your comment reminded me of the RPS comments section for a Dirt 3 Trailer back in 2010:

Made me smile this evening.

-Todd

rowe33 · 2016-01-25T17:12:32.000Z

Timex:

That’s actually exactly what happened, apparently. Humorously enough, the ship that destroyed it was actually a mustang, which would be fitting.

I believe the guy who made the video was kind of concealing this on purpose, as a joke. The ship is behind him, apparently, and is shooting up from the bottom, so his hands are blocking your view of the shots coming in. And since it’s a gif with no sound, you can’t hear any of that. However, that little circle with the arrow pointing to the corner down in the lower left is pointing to him, I believe.

Based on the Reddit where it came from, that’s the deal at least.

It looks like the shield is being hit from the upper front area though.

Ryan_Kelly · 2016-01-25T17:13:49.000Z

Tman:

I’m more concerned that the shots all are clearly impacting a shield, and then it just blows up without going to armor. Or am I just assuming there is both shield & armor components?

The Constellation is already smoking at the beginning of the gif, so I assume they got the ship down to around 1hp before recording.

meeper:

I think it’s pretty clear how Roberts’ would prefer to spend his days, though. There’s a pretty dramatic contrast between seeing Roberts in action ‘directing’ versus Roberts in action during that stream of him ‘playing’ his game.

Watch this excerpt from the latest 10 for the Chairman if you doubt Roberts’ enthusiasm regarding game design, or just watch any of the 10 for the Chairman videos really.

Timex · 2016-01-25T17:28:15.000Z

rowe33:

It looks like the shield is being hit from the upper front area though.

It’s actually likely that the ship that destroyed it just shot it once with some large ass canon that penetrates the shield.

Like Ryan said, the ship is already torched when the video starts, so it’s basically already almost destroyed. I think they said that they had shot it with a mustang to destroy it, so they probably just loaded it with some kind of kinetic weapon which punches through shields and did the last bit of damage necessary to crit out the power plant. So all the shield damage from the pistol is just for show.

You can actually see a brief flash above the ship just after it starts to explode, which may be a shot passing up through the hull, but I can’t tell.

Mike_O_Malley · 2016-01-26T12:54:42.000Z

Timex:

I believe the guy who made the video was kind of concealing this on purpose, as a joke. The ship is behind him, apparently, and is shooting up from the bottom, so his hands are blocking your view of the shots coming in. And since it’s a gif with no sound, you can’t hear any of that. However, that little circle with the arrow pointing to the corner down in the lower left is pointing to him, I believe.

Based on the Reddit where it came from, that’s the deal at least.

Sound matters?..isn’t this a super-detailed rivet counter’s dream of a space sim? Does it really have pew-pew noises when spaceships shoot at each other in space?

rhamorim · 2016-01-26T13:06:19.000Z

Star Marine cancelled. You’ll never believe what happens next.

http://www.tentonhammer.com/columns/respawn/oh-well-star-marine-now-canceled

Tman · 2016-01-26T13:40:53.000Z

rhamorim:

Star Marine cancelled. You’ll never believe what happens next.

http://www.tentonhammer.com/columns/respawn/oh-well-star-marine-now-canceled

I think if you bothered to read the comments of that click-bait-article you linked to, there is broad disagreement on whether this means it’s cancelled.

It appears that many of the elements of Star Marine will be folded into the PU.

BrianRubin · 2016-01-26T13:51:54.000Z

Sigh, on my blog’s facebook page, they’re convinced it’s canceled. It’s like there’s blood in the water.

Telefrog · 2016-01-26T13:55:11.000Z

It sounds like they’re taking the stuff they developed/learned from Star Marine and they’re folding it into the main game. As the TenTonHammer article points out, that’s probably a good thing as far as making sense in terms of the development. It’s also terrible optics because up until now, Star Marine was supposed to be a separate module in the package.

Sucks for Illfonic, though. I think they got shafted by Roberts’ janky project management.