Star Citizen Megathread - Star Marine isn't doomed after all! - Games

I wish they had explained how that shit worked better when you were choosing one after the other, since once you take a name for one you can't use it on the others

So let's talk landing zones since it was brought up. We know for a fact that Levski and ArcCorp are done/just need polishing and populating. That leaves Microtech, Hurston, and Crusader. Have they talked before about making any progress on these landing zones? Also, we can extrapolate that you can't really explore Crusader beyond the landing zones due to it being a gas giant. ArcCorp likewise is heavily industrialized and populated, so I would imagine it's off limits for flight path deviation. Hurston might be the same since it appears to be a hive world esque place like ArcCorp, just less safe?

uh-oh I glitched out of the ship and some how ended up that far away [t]https://i.imgur.com/ZsjhFeF.png[/t]

[QUOTE=Visorak06;50920855]So let's talk landing zones since it was brought up. We know for a fact that Levski and ArcCorp are done/just need polishing and populating. That leaves Microtech, Hurston, and Crusader. Have they talked before about making any progress on these landing zones? Also, we can extrapolate that you can't really explore Crusader beyond the landing zones due to it being a gas giant. ArcCorp likewise is heavily industrialized and populated, so I would imagine it's off limits for flight path deviation. Hurston might be the same since it appears to be a hive world esque place like ArcCorp, just less safe?[/QUOTE] There's likely a zone of exclusion around large starports where you have to engage autopilot to enter. You might be able to explore Crusader but there's probably no real point unless they add in pirate dirigibles or something.

Will they at some point release alpha 3.0? Would be cool to compare the feel with landing on a planet between this and no man sky.

Hurston was being worked on earlier in the year and can be assumed at least fairly done -- just held back for the rest of the game to catch up to making it make sense to add it (planetary landings). Concept art for MicroTech started appearing about this time last year, and the last I heard is that it's next in line for the LZ treatment, with Crusader's Orison LZ being last. Most of Hurston has been strip-mined and is an environmental fuckhole, but that shouldn't preclude you from landing in devastated lands that aren't industrial hives. I don't know how they intend on landing in arbitrary zones of ArcCorp; I suspect either you simply won't, or there'll be landing pads appearing procedurally around, and there'll be structures but literally no reason to visit them except as radiant quest NPC spawn locations or some shit. Landing on MicroTech and freezing your dick off should be a no-brainer, though. What remains to be seen is how faithful the planetary procgen will be to biomes and planet-specific conditions in the 3.0 implementation. I could honestly see them all spew out differently-textured rock with different formation patterns (Hurston has lots of eroded-column plateaus or some shit) instead of accurately reflecting the concept art for the first iterations. [editline]20th August 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Shakma;50920864]Will they at some point release alpha 3.0? Would be cool to compare the feel with landing on a planet between this and no man sky.[/QUOTE] I don't know how you got this far into knowing about 3.0 without hearing that CIG hopes to have it out by the end of this year, but there you go. The schedule for major patches (incremental bugfix patches may land in between) are 2.4.1 (the current live build) -> 2.5 (in public testing right now and imminently going live) -> 2.6 -> 3.0 And the flight model is [I]completely[/I] different from NMS' Fisher Price flight model, even without the atmospheric-flight model being taken into account. Simply landing on pads in space, in ideal zero-G conditions, is far smoother and controlled than flying around in NMS.

[QUOTE=Shakma;50920864]Will they at some point release alpha 3.0? Would be cool to compare the feel with landing on a planet between this and no man sky.[/QUOTE] As long as all goes well, we will hopefully have 3.0 by the end of the year. I think any sort of landing mechanic could blow NMS out of the water :v:

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;50920895] I don't know how you got this far into knowing about 3.0 without hearing that CIG hopes to have it out by the end of this year, but there you go.[/QUOTE] Thanks, I have not paid mush attention apart from "free demo access" and alpha 3.0 who I heard from a brony I met ingame dancing in a bar. It's only natural to miss this things.

[QUOTE=Shakma;50920955]Thanks, I have not paid mush attention apart from "free demo access" and alpha 3.0 who I heard from a brony I met ingame dancing in a bar. It's only natural to miss this things.[/QUOTE] I can forgive you for not being fully informed if that's how you heard about it. :v: [URL="https://robertsspaceindustries.com/feature-list"]Here's what's currently live in the game,[/URL] and 2.5 is imminent. 2.5 overhauls the landing system and a few other features, and it also adds GrimHex, a new spawning point for people with wanted levels rather than respawning them with the people they likely killed at Port Olisar. 2.6 is to add Star Marine, the long-awaited standalone fps gamemode, but I wouldn't count on that coming out for 4-6 weeks and that's assuming there aren't any surprise delays.

You know Elix, since you mention sprawling strip mines on Hurston...it brings to mind a few words said about early implementations of the "advanced" professions like mining and salvage. While I don't expect Hurston to have planet wide procedural mines, I could see them attaching a huge strip mine to the landing zone where they test out the early mechanics for mining perhaps.

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;50921125]star marine is [sp]not[/sp] in 6 weeks already? have they shown any real progress on it lately? last i heard (and that was a while ago) they were a ways off still[/QUOTE] It's scheduled for 2.6, which is the next major patch after 2.5 (which is on PTU and imminent). Some screenshots released by CIG recently included a round timer at the top of the helmet HUD in one shot. The fps animation system received a significant overhaul in 2.5, and while it's not perfect yet it's significantly better than the current Arma-tier clunkyness. Gamescom dropped some bombshells yesterday. [editline]20th August 2016[/editline] [IMG]http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20160819_214917-635x476.jpg[/IMG] And [URL="http://imperialnews.network/2016/08/gamescom-presentation/"]this is INN's notes from the presentation[/URL] regarding 2.6: [QUOTE]SC Alpha 2.6 is the next patch. CR’s gonna do a highlight of it. 2.6 is Star Marine. Showing some new animations for Star Marine. "The rumours of its demise have been greatly exaggerated" They’ve been working on it a lot. Motion, eye stabilisation, bringing Star Marine in. Originally they wanted to use it as a test bed for FPS, but there’s still a reason for that. Like in AC you might just want to jump in and fight without losing items etc… Idea of Star Marine is to have a quick in and out competitive shooter to practice skills. It’s a little more tactical based FPS. Working on new area to play that’ll have both FPS & 0G EVA combined, which is different than was shown last year. Fully remastered weaponry. There’ve been hints of that over time. The controls, gun handling, moving around, everything is more fluid than they had before. They didn’t bring it out originally because they wanted it to feel and work well. It’s also got some new characters now. Part of the changing of the character and shading tech. They’re pushing on things for SQ42, and that all benefits Star Marine. In addition on 2.6, they’ll spend some time on AC as well. It’ll work on the competitive quick arena game-modes, AC and SM. As since 2.0 has been focused on adding stuff to the PU, not AC. AC hasn’t had enough love, and they feel that it needs some love, so they’re making a focus on that to go with Star Marine. Combat improvements, improved camera modes, game play improvements, ‘Slalom race’ track around Grim Hex, new MP death match arena, etc… Lots of life-style upgrades to AC. They’ll play with different game modes in terms of re-arming, not allowing people to crash into an asteroid to respawn with ammo, etc… New flight-ready ships – Drake Herald & Aegis Vanguard- Hoplite. They’ll be flight ready in 2.6. Hoplite’s a drop-ship variant of the Vanguard that’s used in SQ42.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Squeegy Mackoy;50920615]Not implying it matters who does and doesn't do tickle porn, but that woman is actually Sandi.[/QUOTE] what's the source on that because all I saw was the gif you(?) posted and there was only a vague resemblance

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I've had so much trouble just trying to get this game to download that I'm almost not even interested anymore First I had to turn it off of being a torrent download because my internet really does not like torrents, and then I was fine until it got to about 15GB left, and then the download stalled out, I was like "no biggie ill just restart the launcher", surprise surprise! If you close the launcher the entire fucking game has to redownload. Do it again, stalls out at 8GB left, at this point I'm mildly annoyed because their isn't shit I can do, so i restart the download. Now here I am, 1GB left on the download after another 5 hours of waiting, and it stalls out again! At this point I'm just fuming with rage because I just want this fucking game to download already, its been nearly a whole day. Anyone have this problem, or is it just me.

[QUOTE=Toro;50922004] Anyone have this problem, or is it just me.[/QUOTE] Nope, others have this problem. That's one of the legitimate criticisms that can be directed towards SC- the fuck awful updating system. Could just be the free fly weekened putting on massive strain but the launcher has always sucked regardless

[QUOTE=Toro;50922004]I've had so much trouble just trying to get this game to download that I'm almost not even interested anymore First I had to turn it off of being a torrent download because my internet really does not like torrents, and then I was fine until it got to about 15GB left, and then the download stalled out, I was like "no biggie ill just restart the launcher", surprise surprise! If you close the launcher the entire fucking game has to redownload. Do it again, stalls out at 8GB left, at this point I'm mildly annoyed because their isn't shit I can do, so i restart the download. Now here I am, 1GB left on the download after another 5 hours of waiting, and it stalls out again! At this point I'm just fuming with rage because I just want this fucking game to download already, its been nearly a whole day. Anyone have this problem, or is it just me.[/QUOTE] Worst case, if the free-fly ends, you can borrow my account as long as you promise not to touch anything except log into the launcher and play. :v: It shouldn't be [I]this[/I] awful but during a freefly weekend it's actually not too surprising that it is. Sucks, but CIG made a huge impression and I can see more people wanting to try it now more than any previous patch.

God, DS's negativity is really contagious. I really love people and I always try to see the best in them because I firmly believe that that's the best way to bring it out. But reading two tweets from that man completely fucks up my vibe. I'm pretty sure even Jesus would want to knock him out and shit on his face.

[QUOTE=krail9;50921786]what's the source on that because all I saw was the gif you(?) posted and there was only a vague resemblance[/QUOTE]You made me do this. Get your bourbon ready, it's time to get creepy. I'll regurgitate what these groonies or whatever they're called discovered and keep it behind links, because there is a hell of a lot of it. Some goon was tickling their pickle to [URL="http://widget.clips4sale.com/mobile/keyword/?k=MAE%20DEMMING%20TICKLING"]decade old VHS quality videos[/URL] that imitate whatever asexuals might think porn is when they recognized someone from their favourite video game using the name [URL="http://i.imgur.com/4yB5my8.jpg"]Mae Demming[/URL]. Goon forces then went and [URL="http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5793f1892255f"]dug[/URL] [URL="http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1197839086"]up[/URL] [URL="http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph56e5d17645d43"]everything[/URL]. Also, I don't think Derek can take credit for this. He's not Smart enough to do all this sleuthing himself. There's a seeming lack of resemblance, but keep in mind these videos are damn old. They're from [i]12 years ago[/i] so Sandi is [URL="http://i.imgur.com/JKKgV9a.jpg"]a hell of a[/URL] [URL="http://24fpsproductions.com/24fps/images/portfolio/Destination/Destination_2.jpg"]lot younger[/URL] and looks much less like a collection of vacuum wrapped tendons. I guess it's also a tad uncanny to see her displaying proper human emotions. Lots of goons were still in doubt so they resorted to [URL="http://i.imgur.com/GBBHYHw.jpg"]comparing[/URL] [URL="http://i.imgur.com/G0XIbcR.jpg"]birth marks,[/URL] but it doesn't stop here. The actress in the videos is [URL="http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?42844-phone-call-with-Mae-Demming&p=390735#post390735"]Australian[/URL]. She [URL="http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?44299-Ticklee-Mae-Demming-in-KFC-Commercial&highlight=mae+demming"]also appears[/URL] in a [URL="https://youtu.be/MThZTUE7zGg?t=9"]KFC ad[/URL] (0:11 & 0:19) from 2004. Mid to late 2000's are about the height of Sandi's [URL="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1667407/"]acting career[/URL], also where she met Chris at his company [URL="http://ascendantpictures.net/team.html"]Ascendant Pictures[/URL]. The tickling videos are produced by [URL="https://risingstarpictures.wufoo.com/forms/qffivxl0pxox5r/"]Rising Star[/URL], verifiably a porn company. Ortwin Freyermuth of CIG is the [URL="https://www.corporationwiki.com/California/West-Hollywood/ortwin-freyermuth/42012817.aspx"]legal representative[/URL] of Rising Star. Under [URL="https://www.corporationwiki.com/California/Beverly-Hills/rising-star-pictures-cfp-llc/46728130.aspx"]key people[/URL] of Rising Star you will find Christopher Roberts. Turns out the company also shares the [URL="http://www.productionco.org/rising-star-productions-ten-inc"]exact same[/URL] [URL="https://local.yahoo.com/info-121350451-ascendant-pictures-west-hollywood"]office space[/URL] as Ascendant Pictures. Does any of this matter? No. Chris can use all the [URL="http://kotaku.com/5921249/when-a-porn-star-appeared-in-a-video-game-about-giant-space-cats"]ex-porn talent[/URL] he wants.

And so Durrek Smurrt picked up on this to prove what point exactly? "Wow look, this person has a past!" I am confuse.

I dunno what Derk Smort's point is exactly.

I regret everything

Also in what year does being in a porno flick count as a sign of a bad person / unprofessional It's fucking porn All these hypocrites do is point at it and say "this is bad" when in reality THEY ALL FAP TO PORN [B]ALL OF THEM[/B]

I bet DS has never released successful porn movie either just like his games ;) so maybe it's just envy ?

You guys really need to cut back on this Derek Smart stuff. It been what? About a year? As I recall it started around the time I stopped following this which was about that long ago. I'm starting to think that was a happy coincidence, because this thread seems incapable of avoiding the topic. I get that not everyone is able to ignore the shitposters, but now you guys are bringing it up yourselves. There was all the Gamescom stuff posted and we managed to get like 2 pages of actual discussion before it degenerated again. I'm not trying to come off as a dick, but from the perspective of a semi-outsider this thread looks fucking awful.

[QUOTE=Squeegy Mackoy;50923218]key people of Rising Star you will find Christopher Roberts.[/QUOTE] I don't understand this part. Why would Chris' name be there? How is he a "key person" for that company?

Probably to do with both companies operating out of the same office. Did Chris produce tickle porn? It's a mystery.

[QUOTE=Dispenser;50923405]You guys really need to cut back on this Derek Smart stuff. It been what? About a year? As I recall it started around the time I stopped following this which was about that long ago. I'm starting to think that was a happy coincidence, because this thread seems incapable of avoiding the topic. I get that not everyone is able to ignore the shitposters, but now you guys are bringing it up yourselves. There was all the Gamescom stuff posted and we managed to get like 2 pages of actual discussion before it degenerated again. I'm not trying to come off as a dick, but from the perspective of a semi-outsider this thread looks fucking awful.[/QUOTE] Yeah, you're right. Sorry about that. Been out of the loop for quite a while and then suddenly there was that Sandi story, and I couldn't resist posting about the D.

Did Arena Commander get shit on or something? I get into some nice matches with huge furballs and having a nice time destroying peeps with my combine ballstic and then I get disconnected without fail after 5 minutes

[QUOTE=Squeegy Mackoy;50923218] The tickling videos are produced by [URL="https://risingstarpictures.wufoo.com/forms/qffivxl0pxox5r/"]Rising Star[/URL], verifiably a porn company. Ortwin Freyermuth of CIG is the [URL="https://www.corporationwiki.com/California/West-Hollywood/ortwin-freyermuth/42012817.aspx"]legal representative[/URL] of Rising Star. Under [URL="https://www.corporationwiki.com/California/Beverly-Hills/rising-star-pictures-cfp-llc/46728130.aspx"]key people[/URL] of Rising Star you will find Christopher Roberts. Turns out the company also shares the [URL="http://www.productionco.org/rising-star-productions-ten-inc"]exact same[/URL] [URL="https://local.yahoo.com/info-121350451-ascendant-pictures-west-hollywood"]office space[/URL] as Ascendant Pictures. Does any of this matter? No. Chris can use all the [URL="http://kotaku.com/5921249/when-a-porn-star-appeared-in-a-video-game-about-giant-space-cats"]ex-porn talent[/URL] he wants.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Squeegy Mackoy;50923431]Probably to do with both companies operating out of the same office. Did Chris produce tickle porn? It's a mystery.[/QUOTE] Even if it's bullshit, the idea of Chris becoming one of the biggest names in video games after starting his film career as a tickle porn producer is hilarious. It's actually kinda charming since he presents himself as (and most definitely is) a very respectable fellow. but jesus chris that application form :v:

As someone who has had poorly timed shifts and life to tend to, which of the hour-long videos on the [URL="https://www.youtube.com/user/RobertsSpaceInd"]YT channel[/URL] would you recommend watching first (regarding the recent presentations/streams)?