I thought it sounded like an April Fools joke too.
Dogs. Maybe they are dog people, like the Kilrathi are cat people.
Janitor. Ah. Is that what they’re calling “Old Man” now? I guess that’s what happens when you drink too much blue milk.
That dog better be Hachikō or something, because anything else would be unacceptable and completely game-breaking.
Because that’s what we want in a space game. Movable ladders.
Nah. They’re actually really fond of whales and nothing else comes even close. Maybe a bowl of petunias, but that’s it.
I can remember as a kid, seeing the original trilogy Star Wars movies, and as the swells of John Williams’s majestic score boomed out from the THX sound system in the cinema, feeling utterly transported by the crate stacking and swivel-chair sitting.
I’ve always dreamed of being able to sit down in a swivel chair and move crates around in a video game since then, and it sounds like the good folks at Star Citizen are really tuned into that wavelength.
Coincidentally, my wife also wants me to bring back the janitor behavior I parked in 2021.
So yeah, this is never coming out.
Mobile ladders work! Just amazing! Glad was at the top of the priority list!
I wish they’d define how long it actually took to get that right, beyond just ‘a lot of time’. Days? Weeks? Months? For mobile ladders??
Ya’ll are burying the lede. I do not recall ever hearing there are dogs in the game. With, I’m going to imagine, deep gameplay around training and caretaking - walking, frisbeeing, cleaning up after, yadda yadda.
How do these ships create gravity in space? Are they spinning? I will be disappointed if they don’t spend a few development years modelling gravity being turned off and everyone floating in a weightless environment. The dog will have to have panicked animation as it floats.
There’s a lot here to work with. Tasks, for a dog.
“They’ve burned though so much of the available gaming industry talent they’ve had to resort to hiring dogs now!”
“This code is so bad I wouldn’t let my dog work on it! Reassign it from Rover to the intern!”
Backlog grooming meeting:
Stealing for work purposes
Totally reasonable question with a well thought out answer
The gravitational elements created by the generator are transported throughout the ship / station by a piping system
So…a series of tubes…
How is gravity in a ship distributed by tubes?
Gravitons, duh
edit: oh, it’s right there in the article. So in the same way as the internet on the ship I guess.
Reminder that this game was supposed to come out in 2016 according to CIG, and then was supposed to enter beta in Q3 2020.
Q2 2023: AI now throws grenades.
I like the idea of gravity coming in tubes like it’s water. Like, if one part of the ship is getting low on gravity, just open a spigot and fill a bucket with some gravity and dump it out where needed.
Me too! It would fit right into a game like FTL.
Im more curious with what happens when a gravity pipe breaks. Does it leak? Does gravity pool somewhere? Would you have a room with surplus gravity? Could that cause a ship to suddenly cartwheel all over the place because its center of gravity was uncentered?
Fixing gravity pipe leaks will be part of the janitor duties. To be completed some time in 2027, or maybe later…