/edg/scg/ Star Citizen Elite: Dangerous general #201

ED info:
pastebin.com/zEufftYe

2.4 is up for release "Soon"(tm)*
*Soon is a registered trademark of Frontier Developments. Soon does not imply any specific or general timeframe, nor does it imply any eventual release at all. Frontier Development will not be held responsible for serious annoyance or death incurred while waiting for Soon(tm)* to become Now(tm)*
Space legs never.

Announcement vid /w contribution from our lord braben: youtube.com/watch?v=PX49v8zYutI
youtube.com/watch?v=jmVEYZnDZf8

>Frontier Official YT
youtube.com/user/FrontierDevelopments/videos

Ayy Lmao
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Star Citizen Information:

Surely CIG will deliver the game eventually, we should just wait.

It is the standing Recommendation of /scg/ that if your game package contains an Aurora MR, Aurora ES or Mustang Alpha you would be well served to upgrade it to an Aurora LN. It's only like ten bucks and provides a significant increase in firepower and survivability without any real downsides.
Be aware, this is the gateway drug to wasting your life savings on spaceship jpegs, keep your discipline and don't upgrade further unless you hate money and love waiting, frustration, feelings of betrayal and high blood preassure.
>newFAQs
pastebin.com/7194hpmf

>Star Citizen Official YT
youtube.com/channel/UCTeLqJq1mXUX5WWoNXLmOIA

>Other games:
pastebin.com/cugkem8w

Above is a pastebin of games you can play while waiting for SC and E:D to become playable.
However these games are not the topic of this thread.

Old and Busted:

Other urls found in this thread:

eurogamer.net/articles/2017-08-29-star-citizen-would-be-the-worst-scam-in-the-world
youtube.com/watch?v=7lLXqm29yRY
youtube.com/watch?v=vO7RxsZpcKc
youtube.com/watch?v=gbCSQDhPOlk
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

Old thread
>188667446

shit
I'm tired.

ayy lmao update when brabo?

release it so I can uninstall the game

nth for space camo

2 days after you get sick of waiting and uninstall, just so you have to DL it all again.

SC needs privately owned recreational nuclear weapons. Does E:D have nukes?

Remember when you bought E:D because it was promising and seemed fun?

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i think i'm stuck on the anger phase about this and many other things

Been a while since we had some good guild drama.

But it pretty fun. Its the perfect game to crack a few beers open and just do what you want. I'm tryimg to fly to the center of the galaxy now. How long do you guys think that will take if I use neutron stars to make a majority of the jumps?

The huge plasma accelerator is said to be used as a city buster in the weapon description but it doesn't really.

3.0 LIVE (on PTU)

>tfw you can't play as a genetically engineered star fox

Well, I do suppose there's a public for Truck simulator in space, hopefully they'll nerf the neutron star hack and make dwarf star lessen jump range.
It will be more immersive if it feel like a second job, and I'll have the time to play on my tablet while I play ED

>in frontier hyperjumps were instant
>no loading screen or hitching or anything
>with enough fuel you could plot a long route and travel it in 10 seconds by spamming f8

why do they think these 30+ second loading screens make limited jump range more fun?

>Darth Ender
I don't know why, but even that name bothers me, way more than it should have.

Sometimes you need rest CIG. Close the offices and take a couple days off.

I recommend all the staff get 2 extra days off this week and next week to recharge and mentally solve some of the problems in the game.

Diminishing returns from fatigue can cause more problems then most people think.

Take some time to regroup gang! Keep up the great work while rested.

>tfw you can't play with your shipfu because she is in the shop getting a reworked over by Chris "magic tickle" hands Roberts.

I really hate the forums.
Although that post was so bad that even other dads were telling him to fuck off.

Still more dads.

>why do they think these 30+ second loading screens make limited jump range more fun?
>implying the loading screen is that way on purpose.
That's as good as it gets, bubba. If they could shorten it, they would. They have been trying to remove mission stacking for 3 patches now, and still can't manage it right.

no, any kind of 'Darth' moniker should absolutely infuriate you.

Why isn't there a cracked version of DCS,i don't want to pay 1k for planes

Not many people know this, but Darth translates directly to "I consent to PvP"

In the end both games will be ruined by autistic dads.
There will never be a good open world space game with good combat.

What class of Frame Shift Drive did he have?

Does this fag even play any of the games he posted about?
For example, War Thunder is a sim, but has an Arcade mode that gives players a range/penatration assist and the tanks are a little more flexable in terms of movement.
ED isnt an arcade game either. Maybe CQC is but hardly anyone plays it, sadly.

S class lol
I actually hope some time down the road FD adds S class drived when humanity learns more about the Thargoids.

>Maybe CQC is but hardly anyone plays it, sadly.
shame. i tried it the other day and was really fun. maybe if they increased the credit rewards people would play more

eurogamer.net/articles/2017-08-29-star-citizen-would-be-the-worst-scam-in-the-world

>People still say 'Chris, you lied to me',
Yeah, because he's a fucking liar,

>just cashed 12 massacre missions in quince for 15 millions.
managed to score 36 kills in one run with a under perfoming eagle. can't believe i didn't got blown the fuck out in one shot

3.0 IS ON EVOCATI HOLY FUCK

O SHIT NIGGA

>Right now it's a very not-for-profit enterprise where we plough the money back in.

does he expect anyone to actually believe that? no profit, huh?

That's a couched way of saying they live paycheck to paycheck. They probably dribble ships out to make up quarterly budgets. They could have half a dozen ships pretty far along and we wouldn't know because they inflate the value with marketing. That's why the "open" development is so annoying.

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I know what he was trying to say, I just don't believe it.

I don't agree with the vocal minority part. It's not just a tiny percentage that is pissed. There are enough pissed off people that the vocal ones are starting to accumulate. The same ratio of active fans to passive fans would apply to active critics versus passive critics. Whether someone is vocal about their opinion is a matter of personality, not politics.

>3.0 IS ON EVOCATI

youtube.com/watch?v=7lLXqm29yRY

The worst part about CIG's commercials is that we are viewing the best idea they had. They had other ideas they viewed as worse that lost out to the final cut. Think about how bad those ideas had to be.

>tfw I don't want to buy the Asp explorer
Progression need to be rebalanced.

prove it

remember when we never got a retaliator commercial because CIG had to reassign thier two man cinematic team to work on SQ42 cinematics that we never got and then we got other ship commercials but they've all sucked because they were marketing dept hype commercials designed to sell the concept instead of two dudes using assets to make a demo when a ship people had already bought like the freelancer first went into the hangar and the demo reel was just to show it off?

youtube.com/watch?v=vO7RxsZpcKc

I remember

I still want my Retaliator commercial god dammit

Reminder that Bishit staged Vega II and his (((heroics))) to legitimize his station and to keep Messer sympathizers from gathering support so he can further his trade agenda with the Banu. Ivar Messer did nothing wrong.

I want a retaliator rework back to the original concept and then commercial. The layout of the tallys interior still makes me mad, compared what it was sold as.

Same even though I still own one I got a Vanguard Harbinger CCU though just in case even tho the vanguards are pretty shit

I originally bought the $250 bomber in 2013, when it was sold as demilled and full of cargo bays and comfy instead of torpedoes and submarine like cramped misery. I traded that in and got a Base for $150(credit) last year, but I missed the boat on the modules, didn't have cash on hand to buy them when they were first out, so I'll have to get those in game.

poor bastards... I hope you get your god damn space game one day... it's just depressing at this point.

I wanna see those pretty smiles

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Needs to be reduced to like three manned turrets with stronger guns, and a remote turret with S4s for the pilot or bridge crew to control. Also have actual fucking proper crew stations in the first place instead of panels spread all over the ship they have to stand at.

Basically it should be an ageis made constellation with torpedoes instead a fucking defenseless npc tier escort potato with an ass retarded interior

>Longer term, people who have spent a decent amount of money in the game will have more value than if they'd spend $1000 or $10k on a Kickstarter and got to have dinner with a developer. Most of our stuff is related to the ships you have, and dollar to the actual in-game cost, the money cost is significantly less than the in-game cost. Some of these ships, like the Idris, are massive capital ships. As an individual, maybe Bill Gates could afford a carrier. Nations buy those things, not individuals. That's part of the appeal - ships in Star Citizen are so fully-realised. I would love to be Roman Abramovich hanging out in the south of France but I don't have that much cash.

What did he mean by this?

>Nations buy those things, not individuals.
It's like krill for the whales.

>ships in Star Citizen are so fully-realized
>Star Citizen
>fully-realized

It means that Chris is living in his fantasy land once again. You can't be blind to his grandiose visions and megalomania. He means that all the ships in Star Citizen are so great that they are replacement for reality and instead of buying a luxury yacht in real life you could just get something nice in Star Citizen instead because they are so fully-realized.

That definitely explains videos like this:
youtube.com/watch?v=gbCSQDhPOlk

I didn't realize they even had little ship commercials until today. I was actually doing a bit of research on this guys background earlier to see what he's even accomplished in terms of video games.

Seems like a handful of relatively well-received space games and this turd of a movie.

also, it seems like a lot of the community is currently residing in the same fantasy land. I really hope this game does come out, because it looks cool, but the SC apologists are absolutely insufferable, to the point where I'd rather not be associated with the game or spend any money on it until it's actually a real game.

I do understand the appeal, because I like a nice escape from reality like any other sad sap, but the fandom around this "game" is kind of scary.

>fandom
Theres the backers, then theres the fans, then theres the cult.

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>backers
"i have $45 into the game and i'm hoping it comes out but it's not a big deal if it doesnt, only $45"
>fans
"i have $100-350 into the game, and i'm fuilly aware of the risk i took with that money. i'm very supportive of CIG but i'm still not tolerant of their serious fuckups"
>cultists
"i have $350-$15,000 (fifteen-thousand united states dollars) into the development. I am i huge fan of chris roberts' films and have been throwing money at SC since before it was even possible to publicly fund it. I feel ENTITLED to the game i was promised. any mistake CIG makes is just part of the process, they'll unfuck it eventually. CIG is infallible and Chris is the one true omni-visionary. anti-CIG rehtoric will not be tolerated."

Im in "fans" but I'm $2000 in. Imagine Im an exception to the rule though. All the marketing kikery lately is soul crushing, literally the onyl way the project dies is if it gets jewed to death by either lawyer or internal mismanagment, and the mismanagement is happening before our eyes. The 3.0 saga is proof of that.

>"3.0 will be the biggest release ever guys!"
>"3.0 will be out in just a couple months guys BTW heres the most profitable jpeg sale yet right next to it!"
>"oh no we hyped the shit out of 3.0, and "delayed" it for ages becasue initial release projections(tied to that sale) were unrealistic."
>"now its gotta be perfect, cut problematic systems and delay it for more polish!"
>"well since we're delaying it maybe we can slip in some more features!"
>"Oh no the features we added caused more bugs!"
>"delay the release for more working and bug testing!"
>"Oh hey we're getting pretty close to gamescom lets just push it back till then it can be our floor piece(like it was last year)"
>"Well we can't make the gamescom release turns out we've made such a mess of things that its all an unplayable buggy mess, can't have "The most important SC release to date!" launch as a buggy mess"
even though it's an alpha release
>"better push it back again, Citcon is right around the corner after gamescom if we hold back till then it can be our floor piece(again)

1 year later literally same future* soon* patch being played up.
CIG is constipated, this bullshit 3.0 narrative needs to be ended, CIG needs to suck it up and deal with the rough release, this insane need to have a clean launch in an alpha is strangling development. Literally the only way SC will die is if CIG murders it with autism and jewery. The whaless will keep funding it forever as long as there actual content being made, but this farce is killing it.

If it dies my $2000 is gone and I Understood that going in, but watch it rot like this is like watching a favorite pet die of cancer.

As sad as it sounds, I actually would like to waste even more money on space ships and shit but CIG has shown over and over again they're utterly incompetent at managing game development while also having some rather manipulative marketing decisions that seem to only care about short term cash influx and to hell with the game's long term reputation and sales.

>seem to only care about short term cash influx and to hell with the game's long term reputation and sales.
This is what galls me.
Money isn't an issue, they have a nearly infinite long term source of cash, and they are poising that to get these quick shots of money. Like theyre risking the steady 2 millions a month every month brought in by good faith and trust in the project to support the occasional hype events that don't match the funding of the slow and steady. They don't have investors to keep happy, or stock dividends to pay, short term profits are nothing to them compared to long term confidence.

And yet they sabotage long term confidence with deceptions and marketing driven development, in order to support hype events.

fucking WHY

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There's some logic to it I suppose, "bird in the hand" and all that. But it this case they seriously underestimating the importance of all the prospective players that didn't want to risk money in a KS but still had every intention of getting the game when it actually released, and many of those have since been scared away by stories about thousand dollar ship jpegs, p2w bullshit, fanatics who put there life savings into the game, moronic wastes of funds for things like constantly redoing motion capturing, hireing overpriced movie actors, or running a fucking convention for a game that's not even out yet, and failure to meet any sort of deadlines.

>fucking Kamadhenu CG still isn't over

Alright, which one of you assholes is dropping UAs?

he's full of shit.

at this point I think CIG would yell on every forum possible that 3.0 was going into testing stage hours before it's even ready

They are going to carry it as far as they can, burn down whats left and move on to the next project with an even bigger ego. Whatever happens won't be their fault like every time before and they have a core audience that will get enough other people on board for them to keep doing this ad infinitum.

Somewhere in $150million worth of backers there are a few crazies. If CR and crew screw the pooch and then walk away from it I would be totally unsurprised to see them murdered by an irate backer.

Quit interdicting my Cutter if you want it to end sooner then. You're the ones who keep running away bitching about my hot load of packhound spam in your eyes.

for the record that is in no way a threat, it'sa reality check, they've taken money from like a million people in exchange for a promised "dream" game.
If they betray the trust of that many people there will probably be serious blowback or some sort, massed legal action if they're lucky, Irrate crazy people if they're not. One of the catches of the demographic they courted is the number of isolated, obsessive people who have very little to lose.

oy vey, Jebediah, I'm not one of those gentiles. I am but a simple purveyor of palladium.

Yell on every possible forum and hold a "3.0 release flash sale" when it went to evocati, when it went to ptu and then again when it went live.

>One of the catches of the demographic they courted is the number of isolated, obsessive people who have very little to lose.
Spoken like a true passive-aggressive basement bubbling psychopath, cluthing at his AR-15 and digitally massaging bore cleaner into his puckered anus.

Now THAT'S being passive-aggressive.

JUST GIVE ME 3.0 DAMNIT BEFORE I SHOOT SOMEONE

In all honesty it'll probably be another year at this rate.

I really want it to be real too, user, although I didn't pledge for shit. I'll do that when the game is capable of running at more than 15fps.

Its ok, I can wait. I've just been feeling "the call" since the buildup to gamescon, having not played since the nothing patches of 2.6 - 2.6.x.
But i'm gonna need a space flight fix pretty goddamn soon

Post some dank ED memes

The announcement they announced last week is coming Thursday. That's fuckin all I got.

Osiris: New Dawn is on sale on steam right now for 17 bux, I just got it, It has at least a ship of some sort that goes into spess, DLing now.

But this isn't a thread for that game so I won't return with a report, I dunno if there is an O:NDg.

I haven't posted it in a long time.

>Announcing announcements
This shit needs to stop. It was never okay.

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>Implying the anaconda hull is made from anything but plastic and aluminium

>Fresh from the market:

100 mil/hour+(up to 200mil/hour)
Required good ship;engeenierd,good combat rank and ally with few faction in system.

Go to system Anotche -> 7f -> Deb Base Pick any mission with Engage and destroy dragons of mikur (DRAGONS OF MIKUR ONLY!). It shouldnt be too hard as not too many pirate factions so these pop up often and alot. Once you stack 20, go to mikur and find the haz rez. Get rid of cargo or you will have everyone attack you. 90%+ of the pirates you see will be dragons of mikur so kill however many you need a repeat. You also get close to 20% rank per each hand in.

This is Not mine copy/paste from here
Thanks to original poster there.

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/6yiq7t/want_to_share_a_good_credit_making_method_100/

>5 days ago

Have you been there in the last 24 hours?

Not enough dank shit gets posted here

Also that sort of just happened to me now. Some NPC cunt stole my dock pad.

Only happens to noobs who use docking computers. just like the sky skimmers of death

i went to take a shit and get food quickly so i let the docking computer take charge for a second. pls. i like my auto pilot.

Just dock manually, it takes 1/6th the time then you can crap without shitting yourself

>just found out that they censor ship names
>now no one will ever know that my ship is called the ASS Explorer
feelsbadman

No.

We're you near Alcazars Hope yesterday?

Also, original name so creative