5171

ATC? 1:1?

5172

Watch the video posted above.

TL;DR: CGI has decided to implement an agent-driven air traffic control (ATC) system into SC. Sounds harmless except that each agent is represented as an avatar in-game (1:1) that players can interact with (talk to, interrupt, kill, etc). So while it sounds neat, it’s going to be nearly impossible to balance and probably won’t be fun. Basically yet another example of CGI putting systems before gameplay.

5173

I’m not watching half an hour of that but from the first few minutes it seems they do have an Elite ATC model, as a backup for situations where the human controller is incapacitated or absent.

Which begs the question - why have a human in the first place if there’s a robot there to do the job? :P

5174

I never thought I’d be cheering for EVE.

5175

Judging by that video, they are shoving extra polygons into the ships simply because they can, not because they make the ships look any better.

5176

Sorry, you made my point better than I did :)

5177

Wouldn’t get too excited. It’s just a multiplayer arcade shooter isn’t it? The VR version was pretty dull.

5178

If they keep expanding Elite Dangerous that could basically turn into everything Star Citizen promised. It’s a solid foundation.

5179

Not sure it would take any less time to get there than SC though. There still aren’t even atmospheric landings in ED.

5180

I look back at the Jennison letter and how Star Citizen has panned out two years later this month

5181

Well, the 3.0 Baby Jesus Patch has been released to Evocati testing. It’s pretty bad.

This is most definitely Freelancer 2.0, but with $160 million of backer money.

5182

21GB of RAM usage and 11GB of VRAM usage? Uh.

5183

I’m a bit surprised. AtV last week CR talks about not releasing to Evocati while 5-6 players crash the game every 5-10 minutes. No mention of what blockers are causing those crashes, yet released the next week.

Time-linked:

5184

So wait! Are you saying they lied, then made a bad call? Say it ain’t so!

You ARE aware that just two weeks ago, they removed a bunch of issues and deferred them to a later build? Well apparently they did it again for this build.

As for the patch notes, half that crap isn’t even in it. So that’s just a road map for what they expect will be from now to the final 3.0 release.

5185

I mean…he looked sincere…

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5186

Hey, I’d love a sincere Freelancer sequel.

5187

Well, yeah. I’m sure you’d love a Wing Commander sequel as well, but instead what you get is… this.

5188

Sigh, yeah.

5189

It’s pure chaos in Evocati atm. Lots of talk about refunds, disappointment etc. Then came this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLdnnKEXUAAJ8xv.jpg

5190

What’s Evocati?