/scg/edg/ Star Elite: Citizen Dangerous General #227

ED info:
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Elite Dangerous v2.4 is online with improvements to base game and dlc content.
Frontier announced a new expansion called "Beyond" and will offer it for free to everyone who bought horizon.
Season three will focus on refining core gameplay and introducing new content.

Retaliation Trailer*
youtube.com/watch?v=38bHNSB4cDM

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

*Not actual game footage
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Star Citizen Information:
After many delays 3.0 is in the hands of evocati for final testing before releasing it to the public.
>Evocati Q&A
pastebin.com/Sbd5bPbH
>FAQs
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>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.


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Remember lads, thick thighs save lives.

But how will the showering minigame work? Will there be different grades of soap? Dry shower for space hobos who cant afford the water? Will we have to clean crevices manually? Will the thoroughness of that crevice cleaning effect the reaction we get from npcs? How will they handle water droplet fidelity? Will we have to dry off after too and wait a minute to suit back up so we're not all clammy? Can we turn off our gravity gens and turn on the shower to create visual clutter for concealment and to reduce the effectiveness of laser weapons?

You mock it now, but eventually games that are as complex and detailed as real life will be the norm.

>Mocking.
I'm just predicting the creep. Practicing my divination for the my ascent into wizardhood 1 year hence.

3.0.0 must not be released at any cost!

How do we accuse CIG of not having a diverse enough workforce?

Sources tell me he loves it. He wrote a blog about it.

It's a shame the plebbit mods got sick of his legal threats and harassment and closed down his only audience.

What will he do to get attention now?

so are you against players gettin gud and learning the proper racing line through a circuit?

Has Dirk ever claimed that he applied but CIG turned him down because he's a man of color?

Wait, Derek applied to work at CIG?

Oh, this all makes sense now.

It's no use, brother. The Escapist literally wrote an article where they claimed that Sandi refuses to hire black people, and yet they're still swimming in JPEG moolah.

'Threadly' reminder that Star Citizen will have it's commercial release before the announcement of Half Life 3

Not in a direct way, more of a "send shitty emails to everyone in CIG telling them how to do their jobs and demand to be given respect" kind of way... that's probably how he weaseled into Alganon and fucked over the investors and took the rest of their money

He tried to do the same with CIG of course

He even wrote out a huge list of things he would do when given control of the company, who he will fire, how he will gut the game and dump a shitty BC3000 game on the market and "make backers cry"

That's how the thing started as I know.
He was trying to leverage fans by telling them that only with him inside the devs team would CIG face "fiscal responsibility", in short he was trying to get hired by saying his employer were shady and could misspent the money unless he was there.
We'll agree only him could come up with such a strategy.

drek himself pushed his ex employer Take-two to bankruptcy by suing them for money when they forcibly released the games he always failed to cut the loss.

If SC ever comes out, I expect Smart to show up at the release party drunk out of his mind and with a gun he plans on using. The only recourse left to him would be murder.

Considering how competent he have been at the rest he'll show up with a nerf gun and accidentally shoot himself.

But isn't LA a gun free zone?

Isn't Mexico a gun free zone too?

global rule 13

I guess it would be and that's EXACTLY why we all know that abolishing the 2nd amendment is gonna make EVERYTHING better am'rite goys??

*blocks your path*

They won't issue concealed carry permits and open carry is limited to situations of grave danger, so you're effectively limited to keeping your guns at home.

responding for myself.

I do not see how >>>/global/rules/13 applies to me

Legend has it he made a tweet in 2013 after they had money rolling in telling CR that if he needed experienced help developing a space game he'd come on board as a consultant or something.
This tweet is not in his history which means either people lied about seeing it or it was deleted by DS prior to his outburst.
Other than that he was primarily convinced it was a scam by those weird sad people who still used to visit his old 3000ad forums before he decided to go after CR and then claim victim when they refunded his arse.
They probably didn't even realize he was a backer till he starting flinging salt around.
Closing down the DS reddit is probably the most sensible solution I fully believe it'd be a nightmare to moderate especially with how thin skinned DS is.

I think the race shouldn't be determine long before the green flag even drops. This isn't about the individual racer (the winner in this case) but rather the "sport" as a whole.

he applied officially and when sandi came across his resume, chris and eric (wingman) noped the fuck out of him and sandi declined his application.

or so i recall.

I don't even think he'll manage to show up as he will have tried to get drunk on isopropyl and be found dead in his motel room the next day

>or so i recall.
Where do you recall seeing this?

i want to say on eric's unoffical ustreams Wingman's hangover.

he was drunk and answering fan questions.

>E:D still doing CG as story progression
>Thargoids still only found in specific locations over a month after """"""""""""""""first contact""""""""""""""""

lol i bailed again from E:D within a week of 2.4 release. How the fuck do you dads bare it. Are your lives really that boring or are you cucked that much or a combination of both?

I play after every big patch and then go back to other things when I inevitably get bored again. Maybe if I get a hardon for space I hop back in for a bit.

patchdays and the proceeding patch weeks aren't even good in E:D. So I doubt I'll come back until they update planet graphics again.
This game is doomed to a screenshot simulator with these shit devs.

ep #? date?

i agree.by the time e;d will have purchasable npc capital ships there will be atleast 3 games with playable ones aside from star citizen ofc

i woudl have mentioned tha tinstead of "or so i recall" if iremembered that specific detail.

go rewatch wingman's hangovers, or link me to an archive and i will find it.

ustream.tv/channel/wingmancig
?

i only see 8 video's there was one after almost every wingman's hangar.

When is the next Star Citizen event?

Thanksgiving/anniversary steam at the end of November, then the Holiday stream mid December.

>The Lore team would like to invite you to help us name Xi’an animals.

That new AX fighter actually fucks up player ships because it does class-4-tier untyped damage that bypasses resistances. It's great for the griffage.

Ain't that ship the scout thingy from the Carrack?

>then the Holiday stream mid December.
That stream better be wall to wall info on sq42 followed by "We're releasing 3.0 RIGHT NOW!" at the end. Anything else and we riot.

Where did you get that idea from?

Who knows...

>Anything else and we riot.
Nah man, Backers don't riot they complain on forums get their posts deleted, complain on plebbit get downvoted and then just quit following the game.
There are going to be hundreds of thousands of people who will one day in the future see some gameplay of Star Citizen and then remember they own it and have to reactivate their accounts and refresh the passwords.

What's the cheapest CDKey you can get for E:D

Does the Season Pass actually matter?

>hundreds of thousands of people
>think no way this can be true
>go check rsi website funding page
>nearly 2mil backers
jesus fuck
does this include the ks backers too?

Did you just make it up?

>does this include the ks backers too?
Well the ones who didn't refund out of this hot mess.
But yeah there are definitely hundreds of thousands of Star Citizen backers with auroras who have never played the game in any state.
This is why it's so hard to pressure CIG to do anything, whales are stuck either they refund out and potentially lose their power structure or they suck it up and try not to succumb to marketing.
Most of them however just buy shit because they've reached that age in life where they have money they don't know what to do with.

I have $1,300 ready to drop on ships.

Is this vaporware or not?

>Is this vaporware or not?
No.
But it's basically a closed alpha game so if you back you won't be able to play the latest patches anymore.

Star Citizen is V A P O R W A V E

We'll find out one way or the other this friday or the next

inb4 they announce that the scout thingy couldn't fit in the Carrack and so they'll be selling it as a longe-range snub-sized vessel with no guns

no way is it gonna be this week
its gonna be the next

The thing lloks like the lovechild between a vanguard and a hornet, don't know why you'd think it'd be the Pisces, a scout ship that has to fit inside a Carrack. With those huge wings and tailfins adding all that negative space, doesn't make much sense.

We all know that if there's going to be a new ship, they'll likely have Homeless Santa make a post about it, at least usually they do that sort of thing like a week in advance

don't mind he is jealous because CIG didn't choose him as a volunteer to suffer through the bugs.
We will get open alpha, PLAYABLE alpha, not stuff that crash the server if you look at it wrong.

>Ships that wouldn't make sense
>CIG
come on... you almost got a connection there

>didn't choose him as a volunteer to suffer through the bugs
this is grade A classic bullshit. CIG uses their secret club of secret backers to do the "open" development that was promised to the rest of the backers while keeping the gameplay hidden with an nda agreement.
All of the old backers that paid in early and paid extra for the access have been cut out of the development they were promised to be a part of, so don't come here with your total bullshit of anyone in evocati "suffering" in any way as they do the tedious task of playing the fucking game.

>not stuff that crash the server if you look at it wrong
Still waiting on any kind of evidence that ETF ever (knowingly) gets access to anything that can crash a server.
Quit spreading lies.

>All of the old backers that paid in early and paid extra for the access have been cut out of the development
They still can access the alpha build and Devs make shows regularly about WIP gameplay let alone the weekly internal schedule updates and monthly studio updates.
>so don't come here with your total bullshit
This isn't your personal hugbox and he's allowed to discuss anything he wants.

>They still can access the alpha build
2.6.3 is a "Live" build, not Alpha, so no they fuck they don't
>personal hugbox
no, there is reddit and spectrum for your constant CIG rimjob.

>secret club of secret backers
Ah yes that "secret" club that everyone both knows about and knows how to get into. Very secret.

it's called alpha 2.6.3 retard

>knows how to get into
what are the criteria for entry?
how many submissions?
what are the exact metrics used to select who is eligible, and then select from that list, who gets invited?

>as they do the tedious task of playing the fucking game.

This is the exact attitude of why the ETF exists, by the way. You think they're playing.

>You think they're playing.
dude, they are playing the game. if you think because they are asked to do a specific action and report on it, and they aren't going to just play the game also, you are fucking deluded.

Yeah, I'm not getting into this with you, you scream like an autist every single thread about it and its fucking boring

>REEEE get out of my hugbox
>why can't you just accept what a for profit company tells you without question?

Show us a non-profit company that makes any luxury product ever

not him but depending on how you define "luxury"
>Gates Foundation
>Red Cross

If they aren't "playing" then why does the NDA exist even after the next build gets released?
To be more clear: Why can they not show video or talk about features from previous builds they have "tested?"

>fast forward to today
>it does work and is very cool
>the guy who spent four months failing at it out of spite probably got fired for blabbing to kotaku

They chose peoples who helped a lot at reporting bugs on the Issues Councils, people who gave more constructive stuff than whine about the bugs or ask for they snowflake ship to be better.

It's definitely not a reward, what they are asked to do is stuff like "We want you to do this boring and repetitive task over and over and over so we can pinpoint where the problem happen"
youtube.com/watch?v=bpgxiK9msQU&feature=youtu.be&t=2781

...

>same autist who want camera in every room of CIG
NDA exist because it give a legal framework to forbid gaming website and media from make money of something that isn't representative of the product.
It is basic intellectual property laws. This isn't because some retard want to see how their product is made that you have to let them in the factory.

>They chose peoples who helped a lot at reporting bugs on the Issues Councils
and also people who were "recommended" in on the word of other evocati alone.
>It's definitely not a reward,
this is bullshit, it's described as meritocratic process, but the rules are secret and arbitrary. this makes it exactly a reward instead of a privilege earned.
> to forbid gaming website and media from make money of something that isn't representative of the product
name any example of this from any alpha game that isn't the deleted escapist articles

>>it does work and is very cool
That has yet to be seen. Pesky nda

>name any example of this that isn't the exact reason for this to exist to begin with

Is it conceivable that someone could provide constructive criticism and useful ideas but not be highly active on the issue council?
Presuming you say yes: Why are they excluded from the process than?

youtube.com/watch?v=UQNpehlT-aE

Every fucking thread.

>same autist who want camera in every room of CIG
I have never said this. I have never said anything close to this. I do not want this unless it will give us more of pic related
>NDA exist because it give a legal framework to forbid gaming website and media from make money of something that isn't representative of the product.
>It is basic intellectual property laws. This isn't because some retard want to see how their product is made that you have to let them in the factory.
None of that addresses the questions in the post you linked.
Why forbid the ETF from talking about what they worked on in previous builds that are no longer being tested?

item 2.0 has been showcased for a straight year now
and then there's this
youtube.com/watch?v=gwUtzq3A5-o

robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/16246-Naming-Animals-From-The-Xian-Empire

the escapist deal was squarely CR's fault for giving legitimacy to it with his crazy string of letters and no one would have ever given a fuck about some shit gaming site that no one reads anyway.
cry moar faggot. you give me resolve to stay every time to squeal.

forgot pic no booli

>some shit gaming site that no one reads anyway
That would be Kotaku and Polygon and everything but not really

pathetic neet

If you don't like their arguements then don't engage them. And if just seeing them there is causing you duress, there is a hide post button for a reason.

This place has become worse than reddit. That stiry fry 3.0 wait crazy kicking in.
Brb 1 year.

pls take with you lol

>item 2.0 has been showcased for a straight year now
There is a large difference between showing something in a scripted(-ish) stage demo and allowing the consumer access to it. Look no further than e3 (and I guess now PAX) for the past decade for evidence of that. Any number of corners can be count, any number of concessions can be accounted for, any number of blemishes can be steered away from for the 5 or so minutes its up on the stage screen in the hands of an in-company individual purposefully giving it the glam treatment.
>and then there's this
>links a 4 hour long video
Was there a certain part of this you wanted to draw my attention too?

you'll wish I left. If you don't like what I'm saying, you're the one with the problem, not me.

no you

Thanks for trying
But this has already been brought up at least a couple of times.

Have you STILL not managed to get into evocati though?
How bad are you at issue council reports?

Did you know Star Citizen has a netcode design that absolutely can NOT simultaneously satisfy the game feature goals, high player capacity, and basic functionality and competitiveness?