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Chris Roberts and Star Citizen will not be at E3 this year.
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And thanks to ongoing great marketing, we will get everything promised and it will actually work, unlike most AAA games released over the last 10 years, because there are no rich investors waiting for their piece of the pie.
And didn't most of those games go F2P then disappear after just a few years?
- Earl Nightingale
As for the rest of this thread LOL..
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Using double floating precision (64-bit) for parallel code tasks on the gpu can take from 3 to 24 times longer to do than single precision (on Nvidia CUDA for instance), which is why as of the present it is almost completely unused for gaming.
With the extreme nature of how much more time it requires, it's not possible to implement in a complex, polish and high visual fidelity game at all, which is why everyone is eagerly waiting to see if Star Citizen's cryengine modifications somehow achieve it
Then a lack of software capability to run it appropriately on neither FP32 (speed impact) nor FP64 hardware (no support outside workstation multi-thousand dollar cards for example weather prediction)
And the lack capability for the implementation to work properly if u somehow solve the above with an extremely innovative and custom solution.
Achieving any of this would make Chris Roberts and/or all the people he is working with(and was working with) internationally recognized for the achievement, while achieving all of it would make them trendsetters, and technological pioneers to be revered as the likes of John Carmack, and would put them in the history books.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
If your comments are true, then how can things like this exist?
http://www.outerra.com/
http://www.prepar3d.com/
http://titanim.net/www/
I'm not criticising your comments and I am far from an expert on them. Please enlighten me.
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
As already mentioned, in the past many top shelf developers have skipped this show and the same will occur this year.
And here i was thinking this very morning that things are quiet in the SC front on MMORPG. A few hours later some guy makes thread trying as usual with SC / CIG to blow things out of proportion and create "big" news.
Neither of those examples are the full package, or working in the capacity to be enabled in a game of the scope and quality that Star Citizen is "shooting" to achieve.
As i've already mentioned above there are indie, currently in works, and specialized solutions, but there is not the complete solution to for instance do :
High Graphical Fidelity, multiplayer, fps,tps, space combat, sim, trading, latest gen APIs and technologies and hundreds of other complex systems, while being as good or better in any part, than all of the games before it.
While also working on a wide variety of graphic cards, being optimized, and future proof.
Just because someone has done it before doesn't mean it's "the one" to set the trend, there were plenty smartphones and tablets way before iphone and ipad, and none of them had the impact or set the mainstream trend the way apple did.
hahahah wow
(oh wait, I can definitely believe people here are falling for it)
Have you played any of the Battlecruiser or Universal Combat games? No? How about Elite Dangerous? No? How about Infinity Battlescape? No? Right. Have you heard of a game called No Man's Sky?
Game developers are just human beings who happen to make games for a living.
If you want to hold us up to higher standards of conduct, then go ahead
...but don't be surprised if we don't uphold them.
For me I believe if they had something substantial to show (that they haven't revealed yet), they might attend, or at the very least put up during the event. Not having something to show that is new; yet still attending, would be worst for them in the end IMO.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
thanks
Please do not respond to me, even if I ask you a question, its rhetorical.
Please do not respond to me
They don't need a booth. That's not what the show is about.
He did it last year. And promised to go this year.
Last year he had stuff to show. That was June 2015
This year, they have nothing - nothing - to show at all. In fact, they were already working on an SQ42 trailer for the show, according to my sources. But given the pedigree of AAA games that are coming out and which will be paraded, it is obvious that SQ42 just pales in comparison. For one thing, they never anticipated COD:IW, though they were well aware that ME:A was in the pipeline.
SQ42 can't compete. I mean, seriously, this is what it looked like in Dec 2015. And sources tell me that it still looks EXACTLY like that - TODAY.
I have stated repeatedly in the past months that sources are 100% certain that SQ42 will never release in 2016 and that, at best, it was a mid-to-late 2017 - if CIG survives (they won't if whales stop funding it). Internally, Star Citizen is regarded as FUBAR and right now the focus is to continue using that to continue raising money (JPEG concept ships, shops, aUEC which will become UEC).
Game developers are just human beings who happen to make games for a living.
If you want to hold us up to higher standards of conduct, then go ahead
...but don't be surprised if we don't uphold them.
Are any of those games/demos/specialized applications actually utilizing double floating precision in some way on the graphic card, or are they only utilizing it on the cpu, like some flight simulators do ?
For the matter of fact are is anything derek smart mentioned below using it on the gpu either ?
No Man's Sky (ignoring being single-player), has 2 to the power of 64 planets to explore, and that is how the procedural algorithm will extrapolate them the same for everyone, but it's still on the cpu ?, and not used for advanced graphical fidelity and precision within one seamless part of the game ?
My knowledge of this is far from perfect, i haven't invested nearly enough time and brain power to have a solid 99.9% complete understanding of it, so except me to be wrong in some minor things :P