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

[Visorak06]

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;49936998]I fully expect Korro to mount Tali torpedos to the Drake Dragonfly the day it becomes flyable in a PTU build.

Korro for fpcorp chief engineer and Chaplain of the Church of the Holy Relativistic Turnip.[/QUOTE]

Too many offices, just make him Chief Techpriest. I'll trust him with maintaining my Reclaimer's machine spirit.

[elix]

[QUOTE=Visorak06;49937101]Too many offices, just make him Chief Techpriest. I'll trust him with maintaining my Reclaimer's machine spirit.[/QUOTE]

Machines don't have spirits.

Remember the Mars tragedy, HERETIC

[sp]Independent AI is severely limited/almost completely banned in the SC lore after AI miscalculations caused Mars' first round of terraforming to fail, its atmosphere to utterly collapse, and ~3000 colonists died horribly as the oxygen leaked off into space. Since then, never again[/sp]

[Mai]

RIP mod dai

I guess the thread title will be here to stay then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Creec]

Huh, dai lost mod status? I kinda liked him, he was a nice moderator.

[lordcrypto]

[QUOTE=creec;49937665]Huh, dai lost mod status? I kinda liked him, he was a nice moderator.[/QUOTE]

considering all he did with mod powers in the past month was rename the thread :)

[Creec]

I guess it's because he moderated rather calm threads with no need for any other action?

[dai]

I'm literally incapable of posting without a green name

also the_killer24 has been moved to permanently available

alsoalso my moderation was 90% talking down situations and anything banworthy I came across was either taken care of by another mod by the time I got there, or was like a week old post and the ban would be irrelevant

[elix]

Now the question is, when will the_killer24 be flight-ready? :weeb:

[Mai]

I'm always flight-ready for you :dog:

[Xavith]

I will come join you guys one day. We will sail across the horizon and it will be glorious.

[Mai]

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;49917423][t]https://robertsspaceindustries.com/media/e0ch9wd2p0i46r/source/Scout_02.jpg[/t] [t]https://robertsspaceindustries.com/media/hhj3k2py6vjzcr/source/Scout_06.jpg[/t] [t]https://robertsspaceindustries.com/media/s4p09ux3um2oxr/source/Scout_05.jpg[/t]

[B]yyyessss[/B] (pics are from the source images used for the headers in the free fly/sale last-call post, nothing's changed in 2.2.2 about the Scout)[/QUOTE]

[media]http://imgur.com/a/YA9bG[/media]

[Miya]

i invited a friend a few days ago to try the free-fly week

once he got a handle on it one of my friends asked me to stream the game so they can watch while they dl the game so i can free-fly with them later.

this stream shows off the complexities of a new player attempting to star citizen while a experience player sort of helps

if your too lazy to look through the whole video, recommend goin to 13 minutes in, as one of the funniest things happen.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zhash5X_SY[/media]

[elix]

[video=youtube;DMEg14PnNNM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMEg14PnNNM[/video]
[QUOTE]01:37 – Intro
05:49 – News From Around the Verse
15:13 – ATV Interview Carl Jones
22:25 – ATV Rewind: Arena Commander Launch
24:12 – The Loremaker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Vega
39:27 – [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXhujOWuy9Y"]MVP[/URL]
40:05 – Art Sneak Peek: The concept sale ship tomorrow. With a... Vanduul? Vanduul ship for concept pledge?

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UM9maDK4W4"]Gameplay Bumper[/URL][/QUOTE]

[video=youtube;7sCTnlihzEY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sCTnlihzEY[/video]
[QUOTE]01:48 – Squadron 42 Time Period
02:55 – Damage Implementation
06:15 – Pirate Swarm
08:24 – Reconnaissance
10:02 – Scripted Non-hostile NPC Encounters
11:37 – Hacking Terminals
15:32 – Achievement Feature
16:52 – Squadron 42
18:12 – Augmenting Your Body
19:08 – UEE Elections[/QUOTE]

[URL="https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/15242-New-United-Presents-Jalan-Electoral-Debate-46"]A lore post about the elections on Jalan went up,[/URL] and sounds just a little too real considering the current US business. However, it also touches on the relationship with the Tevarin and their struggle to achieve equality and maintain peace.

[URL="https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/15246-Note-From-The-Chairman"]CR also highlights[/URL] [URL="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/239709734/star-traders"]Ryan Church and David Ladyman's Kickstarter for Star Traders[/URL], a board game. It's got 10 days to go and has made just over half of what it needs to fund. Here's hoping they get an end-of-campaign bump of sizeable proportions.

[jmtc]

Somebody on the CIG forums put together a nice ship speed chart for 2.2.2:

[T]http://i63.tinypic.com/14obqc3.png[/T]
[URL]https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/322553/i-took-advantage-of-the-free-fly-event-to-log-every-ship-s-speed-in-a-simple-chart-2-2-2#latest[/URL]

[Killdozer]

The Connie is a lot slower than I thought, you'd figure that with 4 big engines strapped onto the back it'd go pretty fast in a straight line but have trouble turning

[Archangel125]

[QUOTE=Killdozer;49952542]The Connie is a lot slower than I thought, you'd figure that with 4 big engines strapped onto the back it'd go pretty fast in a straight line but have trouble turning[/QUOTE]

I don't much like the Connie's low cruise speed, but for the rest it offsets the ship's relative agility well.

[dai]

[t]https://56.media.tumblr.com/d52beaaf54dca7c4dd444775dbad07bc/tumblr_o4780qodbf1sj8xx9o1_1280.jpg[/t]

THAT'S what this ship deserves

[Archangel125]

[QUOTE=dai;49952724][t]https://56.media.tumblr.com/d52beaaf54dca7c4dd444775dbad07bc/tumblr_o4780qodbf1sj8xx9o1_1280.jpg[/t]

THAT'S what this ship deserves[/QUOTE]

Naw, its native gun works just fine. Just needs to overheat less. Put that thing on the Vanguard, that'd make more sense. :v

[Mai]

fyi they know that the Mantis is comically oversized and are going to shrink it eventually

[Archangel125]

That's the Mantis? Since when has it been that big, jesus.

[Mai]

forever

for some real comedy, put Mantises on the Sabre's cockpit mounts and look out the window

[dai]

also for those interested, the Vanduul ship from the sneak peek for tomorrow's sale appears to be the Blade (medium fighter). Cockpit is identical but I'm wondering what's up with the winglets we're seeing, might be more technical work on the rest of the body now. The model from teller's video is 10 months old already so I wouldn't really call this a CONCEPT sale so much as a "hey we're throwing the blade into the game soon so here you go nerds"

[t]https://i.imgur.com/RCOcUL8.png[/t]

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VUYc3kzsLE[/media]

[krail]

looks like the wings fold forwards?

anyway cool ship but do we really need to sell more vanduul stuff? it's gone from there being 500 scythes in the entire world to every second person having a glaive

hard not to see this as changing their principals because it's been x days since the last concept sale

[Archangel125]

[QUOTE=krail9;49955155]looks like the wings fold forwards?

anyway cool ship but do we really need to sell more vanduul stuff? it's gone from there being 500 scythes in the entire world to every second person having a glaive

hard not to see this as changing their principals because it's been x days since the last concept sale[/QUOTE]

I don't recall them ever saying that concept sales would stop prior to the game's commercial release, so I don't see how that's true.

[elix]

There are still only a couple thousand actual sold Glaives out there (and a number of them were reserved only to Gamescom attendees); everyone else flying one has one out on REC.

However, it was pointed out that there are considerations other than just straight funding the game that drive their marketing decisions. Maintaining good credit with their various business partners/etc. tends to require a steady source of income -- this isn't unique to CIG, this is a business principle. A business that is not bringing in any income is, in the eyes of a conventional business analysis, dying and a credit risk because if the income stops there's now no guarantee that they'll be able to discharge any commitments made.

I do want to hear the justification for selling another Vanduul craft, though.

[Mai]

snip

[Daemon White]

[QUOTE=dai;49955052][t]https://i.imgur.com/RCOcUL8.png[/t][/QUOTE]

Space Batmobile

[KennyAwsum]

[video=youtube;jFr9qqL8-4I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFr9qqL8-4I[/video]

The stinger looks even meaner, holy shit.

[Archangel125]

The Stinger's their equivalent of the F8 Lightning, I think. But in my opinion they fucked up the design by having it look too human - the weapon optics on the nose look just like those on the Apache, as does the chin gun.

[Techbot]

jared hyping stuff up again.

[media]https://twitter.com/discolando/status/710691406289874944[/MEDIA]