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Star Citizen Pre-Alpha: 'Arena Commander' Dogfighting
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Ha, good eye. Just pretend they're external laces to make a sealed boot a more snug fit.
Looks like the devs really liked this external-hologram helmet concept art and will see if it's something they can do: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3jh9jt/hologram_helmets_passed_on_to_development_team/
That's great news. That picture is so awesome I started using it as my avatar.
Also, here's an interesting article from PCGamesN.
Yeah, I hope they can pull that off. Great new way to allow player customization with different "faces".
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Yeah, I hope they can pull that off. Great new way to allow player customization with different "faces".
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Oh, thanks! That looks much better.
Because Derek Smart has attached his name to this game like a parasite, I thought I would post a Jim Sterling review of his latest game - Line of Defense.
Line of Defense MMO - Jizzy Menus
Just for a good Friday laugh.
Line of Defense MMO - Jizzy Menus
Just for a good Friday laugh.
Is it actually possible to play the game?
Dictator93
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They are basically creating the PU engine on top of the FP engine, on top of the cinematics, on top of the...
Yeah, they have a lot cut out for them.
They're also the smallest studio at 30 staff but on the other hand they have some of the most amazing Cryengine talent as well as the very cool Todd Papy of God of War fame.
Dictator93
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It is usually pretty late on fridays I think. Definitely not a reasonable european hour.
BTW, for some reason the motionblur is completely fucked in the PU module of AC. It only applies to character heads and not bodies, limbs, and other body parts. A chacter can run past you and he is clear as day except his head has motionblur.
Yeah i know, its like they are writing them to the last minute of a working day
But i completely understand, no dev like to make documentation I bet that team lead at the end of the month say 'fuck, its a week when i have to write that shitty monthly summary again ;/'
Hmm, i have not focused on that, but ships flying around have OBM for sure.
Dictator93
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Yeah they do, I just think all their work with the manequin and rig has lead to motionblur not correctly inheriting velocity from body bones currently... only head ones. LOL
The site for monthly report is already there, but its locked:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14936-Monthly-Report
To comparison wrong article code:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14937-Monthly-Report
Btw anyone with subscription can confirm that they have access to monthly report earlier?
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14936-Monthly-Report
To comparison wrong article code:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14937-Monthly-Report
Btw anyone with subscription can confirm that they have access to monthly report earlier?
Zalusithix
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That "report" link brings me to a subscriber vault on marine armor development. The correct vault link is https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/engineering/14936-Marine-Armor-Development so the server is taking your malformed address and serving up the best thing it can assume.
The new video about Star Marine's audio design is really cool: https://vimeo.com/138360203
Very nice attention to detail with the same gun's firing sounding different depending on the size of the room and the distance from you.
Very nice attention to detail with the same gun's firing sounding different depending on the size of the room and the distance from you.
Dictator93
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Wow, that sounded (and looked great).
My complaint about the motionblur btw is completely fixed in that video, ther eit is applying to everything !
The Dear Leader
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I love games with meaty sounding guns, that pistol in particular was awesome sounding.
It seems like they are nickel & diming customers whom have paid out of their ears for this game. They've split this game up into sections instead of alpha/beta stages, only to continually charge for unfinished products? Am I missing something of which someone can educate me here?
Awesome!!!
I would recommend reading this if you're confused.
The TL;DR is:
- They had a limited number of alpha slots in the early days, which gave access to every module and Beta without extra charge.
- Once those slots ran out, people still wanted to get into the alpha so to compensate for the increased server requirement they charge $5 per module.
- People can still buy the game at the early kickstarter price of $30 which gives the full game plus SQ42, but you have to wait until the game is released.
Also
Monthly Report said:
I think AC2.0 is coming sooner than we thought.
Dictator93
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Technical detials are awesome in this update. This game is going to be pretty.
1. FOrward plus shading and shadowing
2. Shadow rendering R n D
3. Modern API refactor (DX12 and Vulkan I imagine)
4. Asynchronous bundle loading
5. Micro skin wrinkles and blood flow maps on character faces
6. HDR audio and positional audio
7. New physicalizted ragdolls
8. Multilayer material work for characters
9. Multicrew damage shader and physicalized damage
And those ar ejust the ones I remember. Daaaaaaamn.
1. FOrward plus shading and shadowing
2. Shadow rendering R n D
3. Modern API refactor (DX12 and Vulkan I imagine)
4. Asynchronous bundle loading
5. Micro skin wrinkles and blood flow maps on character faces
6. HDR audio and positional audio
7. New physicalizted ragdolls
8. Multilayer material work for characters
9. Multicrew damage shader and physicalized damage
And those ar ejust the ones I remember. Daaaaaaamn.
Part of opening cinematic from S42 confirmed for CitizenCon!
Also Procedural Generation R&D seems further that i thought, maybe we will get some sneak peak on CitizenCon for it also.
Damn 10th of October cant come soon enough.
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Also Procedural Generation R&D seems further that i thought, maybe we will get some sneak peak on CitizenCon for it also.
Damn 10th of October cant come soon enough.
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Its one time cost and for 2 years alpha access for all modules was included in the lowest tier of pledge. Now You can get full Alpha Access + Ship + full game for 55$ or Beta Access + Ship + full game for 43$, they are not nickel & diming customers, especially those who already have a game, because have all of those items and more.
Wait so the mustang starter isn't all modules + game? It is 38 for me.
With discount? Is in description Arena Commander module? If it is there, then You have alpha access
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But where's the AA?
They dont need to r&d AA and it is also part of CE.
15% discount do tell
So with Area Commander and social module now out and FPS and multi coming soon what's next for SC, is it a further expansion of the existing modules or some new modules.
15% discount do tell
So with Area Commander and social module now out and FPS and multi coming soon what's next for SC, is it a further expansion of the existing modules or some new modules.
Single-player campaign, Squadron 42, should be next after we get multicrew.
Then they'll work on expanding the planetside stuff so we go from one planet to two to three to...
There was a Q&A at Dragoncon, someone was gracious enough to transcribe it while they were there.
Also, here's the first look at the Endeavour:
It's goddamn beautiful. It's really straining against my self-imposed rule of no ships bigger/more expensive than my Phoenix. Also, a lot of people think that ring is a gravity ring, but considering the SC universe has perfected artificial gravity I think it's actually a particle accelerator. Fits the science purpose perfectly.
TheEngineer1676 said:
Also, here's the first look at the Endeavour:
It's goddamn beautiful. It's really straining against my self-imposed rule of no ships bigger/more expensive than my Phoenix. Also, a lot of people think that ring is a gravity ring, but considering the SC universe has perfected artificial gravity I think it's actually a particle accelerator. Fits the science purpose perfectly.
Dictator93
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Well, I guess Illfonic really did "drop the ball".
Dictator93
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But where's the AA?
If they integrated 3.7, it contains the Ryse SMAA1tx. Just hope they switch the default to that.
Latest SM video had very little aliasing, so perhaps it is in.
What version are they even at now?
At some point, a couple of years back, around the time when CIG and AMD were really into each other, Chris was complaining a lot about the draw calls limitation of DX11 and the (then) current graphics cards. I'd like to hear what he has to say about it now, with DX12 on the horizon.
Dictator93
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They just integrated 3.7. But it is not clear if that is 3.7 as per the public Cryengine build, or 3.7 as a private build. I have read elsewhere that Cryengine public build numbers are ahead of those that are given to devs. For example, 3.7 may be 3.8.2 in the public line.
In the monthly report the german studio wrote about deleting unused old rendering code to prepare the transition to new APIs.
Dubbedinenglish
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Jesus, it literally is trying to tighten a bolt with a hammer.
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Looks like the devs really liked this external-hologram helmet concept art and will see if it's something they can do: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3jh9jt/hologram_helmets_passed_on_to_development_team/
Halo has called, they want their EVA helmet back
It will explode after CitizenCon i imagine. We will finally get somehow polished footage similar to AAA games, so general public will be able to compare it to other games on the market.
yeeeeeah, that's what I got out of that, too. Illfonic worked for months on zero-G combat, and now Illfonic is dropped from the project and apparently zero-G is being completely reworked? Mistake confirmed
Show the most beautiful space combat sim ever made, no one cares
Show some first-person shooting and a little open-world exploration and suddenly everyone's losing their minds
Is it though? Did they say that or are you going just by what Ben said at DragonCon?
I'm not defending Illfonic, but I'd think that zero-G combat (zero-G *anything*, really) is probably one of the hardest, if not the hardest thing to nail, seeing all the systems involved. It might just need (a lot) more work.
Teknopathetic
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"I'm not defending Illfonic, but I'd think that zero-G combat (zero-G *anything*, really) is probably one of the hardest,"
A company that had only done tech demos managed to pretty much nail Zero-G FPS combat with their first game release.
A company that had only done tech demos managed to pretty much nail Zero-G FPS combat with their first game release.
Including unified first and third person camera and fairly advanced stuff like grabby hands?
What was that game again, I really need to check it out.
EDIT: Shattered Horizon, got it.
Dictator93
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Shattered Horizon
edit: EDIT!
To be fair though, the grabby hands push pull system in SC (for the moments when you do not have thusters and what not), in addition to a cover system does make it more complex in terms of locomotion in comparison to SH.
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