Somebody just made a rather antagonistic first impression!
I’m referring to Ohmen.
He just posted an update about that.
So what else do you like to play? If you’re playing anything cool this weekend you can share it here:
I was skimming and I initially parsed this as a new type of space armour they were promising to add to the game.
Interesting video by BBC
Trailer for v3.8.0, now playable:
I’ve been meaning to check this out, but haven’t yet out of pure laziness, just because at this point having on my PC seems like a chore compared to my consoles.
I’m interested in seeing if they have access any significant performance improvements with the interdiction of the server side component of the object container streaming that they added into this version.
Well, “playable” is a relative term :)
hence the reason it’s flagged and ignored. Moving along.
CIG have released the 2018 financials on holiday eve. I am not going to even bother with an analysis (as I did last year for 2012-2017) because the numbers speak for themselves. No way they can get this project ‘done’ (lmao) without continuing to raise money. Shocking that they still keep posting losses year on year, even as the primaries keep taking money out of the company.
EDIT: short (thread) analysis
Well, they know how to make a hell of a trailer, at least.
Sure looks pretty. I assume they also just launched a sale?
That’s really been their primary strength since the beginning. Like making a series of amazing trailers for a movie that’ll never be released.
I think SQ42 has a good chance of being something that I’d at the very least enjoy.
Sadly, looking at development pace, it seems that both the systems are pretty much falling in place as the content production is lagging.
But I think there’s good chance of a 2021 release (at least a Beta). Their current Q4 2020 seems optimistic as usual.
8 yrs + $300M+ later, they’re still making video trailers. And at 30fps (!)
It’s not even funny anymore. Seriously.
So they have the intro but they don’t have the game… or that many intro’s? Sad.
The worst part of SC is liking a streamer who likes it.
It’s boring as hell to watch in it’s current state and the dude plays it for weeks every time a patch drops.
Or sometimes just randomly.
Bleh.
I can’t help but get a sort of 38 Studios vibe off of this.
Even though there are some very important differences, there are a lot of similarities as well. And it makes me wonder how much of the long term viability/runway for CIG is related to how well SQ42 sells. And I wonder if those expectations are realistic, and if those expectations and sales projections are being used as collateral/leverage to secure funding.
You are spot on. Curt talked about crowd funding the MMO a lot after it became clear that the RI loan wasn’t going to cut it and there were no investors biting. Thank god that never happened.