The funny thing is, if they crack that and share it around, a lot of developers are going to be very happy, because right now video game beds still look like crap. It's like how a few years ago some random game figured out how to animate putting on a jacket without clipping and people went crazy because no one had been able to figure out how to do so reliably.
That's assuming this works, and they share it around. And it's not worth hundreds of millions of dollars anyway.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
Depends on how flexible Star Citizen's game engine is.
Recall that they initially wanted to use Cry Engine 3, but ultimately dumped it since while visually gorgeous, it was a horrible fit for open worlds and space-based travel. Might turn out the same if CIG's engine work is a cluttered, buggy mess, or designed specifically for Star Citizen's game engine and little else.
And your jacket reference... that was pointed towards Uncharted 4, wasn't it?
Edited by SgtRicko on May 7th 2022 at 8:06:06 AM
I couldn't remember the game, but that sounds right.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.This is starting to sound more and more like a cult at this point. Was wing commander really that influential to have a customer base ready and willing to donate half a billion dollars?
Is there even a demo?
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"I would make the standard starving African children, but given the RL shit and horrors that's actually happening right now, I can't help but feel the half a billion dollars was a real tragic waste. And all for a game that's never coming out.
Fuck it, I'm donating some of my cash RN and some blood.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"It'd almost be better if it was a scam. Because at least then there might be a point where the scammer decided to cash out and the whole sorry mess ends.
But it's not. This is just the result of a wannabe director who got stuck making games who has absolutely no checks on his ego and whims thanks to going with crowdfunding instead of an actual publisher. And the people who give him money just let him get away with all of this shit.
Think David Cage except without even the few constraints placed on him by the publishers who insist on a product being released someday.
It's a toxic blend of Chris Roberts' insatiable goalpost moving and the fans' Sunk Cost Fallacy.
Edited by M84 on Sep 25th 2022 at 4:35:15 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised
And this is why you usually keep the budgetary aspect of game development away from the guy with the ideas.
It reminds me of when people let Peter Molyneux talk to the press and make unrealistic promises about his games, back when he hadn't fallen from grace and turned into a full-on scam artist yet.
Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Sep 25th 2022 at 10:59:59 AM
We learn from history that we do not learn from historyI saw a video way back on a game called Chronicles of Elyria. It was an MMO that had this whole premise of being entirely player run, with stuff like players could be a king/queen merchant, peasant, adventurer, mob boss, miner, ETC. And had realistic features like you dying after a set amount of game time, and you had to create a kid to replace the PC you lost, with the idea of it being a 10 year adventure
And like it made around 4 million.
As one of the comments noted, it's like hearing a kid talk about how he'll make a car that can fly, shoot lasers, go into space, turn into a mech, make unlimited candy come out of the vents and then give billions of dollars to him with the full assumption he can make said car.
And now the dev in charge has to keep making monthly or so videos for the game or there will be a 8 million dollar lawsuit on his ass. Because there are still people who expect this game to be made.
I do wonder if the whole endgame with Star Citizen will just be Chris Roberts coming up with inane additions and people lapping it up.
Edited by RedHunter543 on Sep 25th 2022 at 6:43:07 AM
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"How many backers are in this Kickstarter anyway?
EDIT: 4 MILLION? Damn, guess Wing Commander really was that influential and popular back in the day.
Edited by RedHunter543 on Sep 25th 2022 at 7:27:23 AM
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"Note also that the ratio is going up. At the start of this mess, it was an average of about thirty euros per person. A little on the high side, but nothing too surprising. Now, if 4 million people donated 500 million dollars, then it's over a hundred dollars per person on average.
That's insane.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Seriously, did Wing Commander give Chris Roberts THAT much of a rep that he could build a cult that had fond memories of those games to give him money to add in inane bullshit?
Edited by RedHunter543 on Sep 25th 2022 at 9:56:05 AM
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"Been a whole year since anyone's posted here, eh?
We got some big news regarding the game. A new trailer for Squadron 42 - the campaign Star Citizen was originally intended to be based around - released yesterday during Citizen Con 2023, along with a showcase for Star Engine, the given name for the in-house dev engine Cloud Imperium utilizes.
Lots of new features and details announced, the biggest one being the addition of the Pyro System. Whereas the Stanton System had a clean industrial-corporate look, Pyro reminds me of Omega Station from Mass Effect; grimy, chaotic, broken down and full of unsavory types.
Edited by SgtRicko on Oct 25th 2023 at 5:37:02 AM

...Why!?
Who the fuck cares about bedsheets in a space sim!?
Disgusted, but not surprised