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

Aceris · August 4, 2018, 10:42pm

Star Citizen doesn’t have that kind of attention to detail. For developers who really embrace the idea of a maximum fudelity universe, can I suggest DerpSpace ™?

tomchick · August 4, 2018, 10:43pm

Vaporware! I think it’s been abandoned. When’s the last time that @Gordon_Cameron guy put out an update?

-Tom

Aceris · August 4, 2018, 10:47pm

You’re just a derpspace hater! You just want the project to fail because you’re envious of the way Gordon’s vision appeals to fans across the world who want to rediscover the joys of old style(*) space games which take advantage of modern technology.

(*: 1970s)

Gordon_Cameron · August 4, 2018, 11:29pm

DerpSpace™ is as much a way of life as it is a game. Can a way of life ever really be vaporware?

Lantz · August 4, 2018, 11:45pm

Don’t worry guys, they have demoed procedurally generated fried eggs for the mess hall in a video. Eggs, cooking, and mess hall not actually in the current pre-alpha test server build obviously.

Woodlance · August 4, 2018, 11:46pm

Is this a joke or a real “feature”? I’m at a point where I never know anymore.

mok · August 5, 2018, 12:45am

What happens when you break an egg?

Lantz · August 5, 2018, 12:57am

I never joke about this game, ignore the thumbnail, the time code will get you there.

tomchick · August 5, 2018, 2:03am

I would not have believed this had you not showed it to me.

-Tom

MiquelRamirez · August 5, 2018, 3:05am

Wow. I thought that @Lantz was taking the piss but no, SC is the gift that keeps on giving.

Mike_O_Malley · August 5, 2018, 3:36am

That is too ridiculous to be real, and yet.

Telefrog · August 5, 2018, 7:50am

Remember that story about how Daikatana’s artists wasted a bunch of time and money on making ultra-detailed textures for arrows that would hardly be seen by the players? That’s got nothing on procedurally generated fried eggs.

TheWombat · August 5, 2018, 12:08pm

What is that software they’re using? It looks sort of like Unreal blueprints.

TimJames · August 5, 2018, 12:38pm

No two cookies will look exactly the same in the entire universe. Be the first to find one and you can claim it.

kerzain · August 5, 2018, 12:51pm

But can you subdivide and farm it?

Gordon_Cameron · August 5, 2018, 2:31pm

dsmart · August 5, 2018, 2:41pm

Lantz:

There’s two fundamental reasons:

The network layer absolutely can’t handle all the information they broadcast all game state updates to all clients for everything that happens on the current server. As the number of clients on the server barely doing things increases framerates plummet. When something actually happens on the server everything freezes or crashes. They have been claiming that the fixes for this are in the next patch for a couple years at this point. Maybe 3? (years, not patches). It is claimed that they will be next patch again for Q3 which they have already pushed back but their fake external roadmap doesn’t show it looking very complete.

Second, they have just ludicrously high poly count models for everything. Which is why a lot of the static screenshots look great, but also leads to performance issues.

There’s various other problems (way over complicated/broken flight model that takes too long to process, etc etc)

What are you talking about? Stop spread FUD! Chris just said it’s so good, that they’re totally going for 200 client instances in the upcoming 3.3 build. I’m not even joking.

dsmart · August 5, 2018, 2:44pm

tomchick:

Even that second edited video convinces me they have no idea what they’re doing (as if I needed further convincing). So that’s the kind of game Star Citizen is supposed to become?

I watch that video and I can certainly appreciate a cool enough edited battle scene, but there’s nothing in there I see and think, “Ooh, I want to be part of that”. Waiting on deck and saluting when your transport arrives? And then having to float over to your transport and sit in it? Running around in the open trading laser blasts with other players down my gun’s iron site? While one other guy gets to drive around in a moon buggy and one other guy gets to hover overhead in a ship and shoot at the moon buggy?

It’s as if they have no idea how much meticulous game design goes into a Battlefield game, how carefully engineered the experience is. The guys making Star Citizen seem to think, “Well, we throw 50 people out there and a game happens.”

-Tom

LOL!! You think?

dsmart · August 5, 2018, 2:45pm

Oh there’s so much more, it completely boggles the mind. This is nuthin’.

dsmart · August 5, 2018, 2:46pm

Sunday morning Around The Farce