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So not even close to what they showed. Nice try though.
Anyone else .. you can judge for yourself:
http://massivelyop.com/2015/10/21/ascents-lead-dev-offers-insight-on-the-star-citizen-controversy/
Let the words of the "Ascent" developer (James Hicks) speak for themselves.
On the issue of 64 bit CryEngine:
"...I can't tell you for sure how CIG has solved that problem, but I can tell you it looks like the studio has definitely solved it, based on its most recent gameplay videos...."
On drawing distance:
"...Next, even with a very far "far clip plane," you still can't draw an object 150 million kilometers away (that's how far away the sun is from Earth, for example). Not with two cameras; not with 10. Star Citizen has also seemingly solved this issue. Once again, I don't know how, but for Ascent we solved it by shifting the objects into view range and shrinking them proportionately for the camera..."
On complexity and cost:
"...My own view is this: There are many factors that can actually reduce Star Citizen's cost, and it comes down to selecting a design that meets the mad vision but that CIG can afford to actually build. As near as I can tell, that is exactly what CIG has aimed for...."
On Star Citizen being an MMO:
"....However, at no point (that I know of), has Cloud Imperium actually called Star Citizen an MMO. MMO-like and persistent universe imply many of the same things, but hopefully, for the sake of the game, not all of them. What I think Star Citizen will do is not stretch itself to try to meet all of the usual MMO expectations -- only those that fit the game's core design. The amount of content will be large, but limited. To balance this, it will be of extreme quality, something no MMO universally achieves with all of its content."
"...The important thing to understand, is that to meets its scope as described, Star Citizen doesn't have to cast itself bodily into the MMO abyss. Its various modules can have differing levels of multi-player elements, as appropriate to their design and where it benefits the end product. ..."
On the technical possibility:
"...I've spoken to a lot of games industry people about Ascent and about Star Citizen. Purely from a technical standpoint, obviously both games are "possible." And hopefully, if you're still reading at this point, you're at the same conclusion."
On CIG mismanagement:
"...while risk management to date, examined by an outsider with hindsight and a complete lack of knowledge of what's actually gone on inside the company, looks clumsy and expensive, it doesn't appear to have killed the project, and hopefully the worst is behind us. ..."
On Squadron 42 and the Persistent Universe:
"...Squadron 42 really is shaping up to become the modern incarnation of Wing Commander that everyone dreamed about... with the kind of NPC immersion Skyrim delivered but with Mark Strong.
And the demo of the PU was not only beautiful but began to really show how the game's big ideas can be brought together into something entirely new. It also showed me CIG has largely sorted out, worked around, or completely avoided the "Going Big" technical issues."
On the caveats he mentions at the end of the article:"...In conclusion, here is a short list of things that virtually every ambitious computer game ever has had to do at least one of to ship a product at all:
The question is not will Star Citizen need to do any of these but rather how many?
And can its fans cope with that?
And can its detractors be fair about it?"
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"And that's why announcing that you're almost ready to do it, six months after your initial projected completion date, sets off alarms in the heads of people who've been through this issue before."
What he did alone and with almost no money blows anything SC has away (except graphics which doesnt
mean dick if the game is garbage)
He also has a much better grasp on all of it than Chris Roberts does. I suspect Roberts probably begged him to come help him if not try to hire him outright.
But his first statement is loaded, where he comments on the 64 bit engine, because he was looking at the closed system 'fake' movies they were claiming were gameplay videos and they looked better.
Considering when that was written they were supposedly switching over to the new Amazon engine makes it all very dubious at best. because we know for sure those supposed gameplay videos WERE not shot or being played on the Amazon engine/version (dont start semantics arguments)
But is the test bed switched over yet? Again thats a serious question I know they have done enough to allow for the multi platform but is that it? I now they have claimed its ported but that is another semantics issue.
There are lots of stars in SQ42, but not Bruce Willis. Maybe that's the gotcha though.
Crazkanuk
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What they shown was simply a less buggy version of this very same thing, again already possible within the game as the physics do allow it.
If there was a vehicle as small as the dragonfly currently in-game it'd be far easier to pull that off, because of how messy collisions can get.
Also when you are 'stuck' in that warping it looks like you eventually get ejected THROUGH everything and end up dead once you hit something 'solid'.
There is absolutely NOTHING in any of the videos and I flipped through a few of them that shows anything remotely similar to that video I claim they faked.
BECAUSE you think its 'close' or is the same but buggy shows you really dont know what youre talking about. Bu that has never stopped anyone from responding on this project so there are no judgments.
I have played through this experiments myself and I do know it works, how it bugs, and was able to set a ship inside another ship without the ship neither clipping, unable to settle on the new grid (ship has a spasm) or exploding. After that, it is also possible to get back into the ship and leave the into space.
That is exactly the same mechanic that was showcased there, a ship moving in and out the grid of another ship, with the same graphical bug that is present on the current live release under the similar circumstance of trying to settle one ship within the grid of another. You're blowing hot air with how you're trying to dismiss that.
Yeah...that article a year and a half old.
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Context is important, dear @filmoret
You fail to mention that the author explains in the quote above why The Smarty felt alarmed and is doing the things he is doing.
The author tries to explain to the reader some of the motives behind a certain persons crusade.
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Its not exactly 2001 A Space Oddessy.
Scroll up and you can see what caveats the author suggested w.r.t. the Star Citizen project. He said - scroll up - that things should have been done sooner and that NOW ("NOW" being 1.5 years ago) they HAVE been done by CIG.
The author explicitly declares that the Star Citizen project is possible (again - scroll up).
We may interpret this article differently - but it always helps to just let the words of the author speak for themselves and any reader HERE in THIS forum can form his/her own opinion.
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Strangely, the money keeps rolling in. And so there must be a lot of people that simply don't care about the issues. If you take a step back, it fits perfectly in-line with RL happenings. What people want to believe seems to be a more powerful force than what is reality.
Funny that you call a game that is gaining several thousand new supporters every week (for a current total of around 1.8 million) a project that "people are losing faith in".
The numbers do not support your statement.
Which may well be your personal opinion - opinions (as we all know) do not necessarily have to be based on facts.
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The problem with almost all of your supportive statistics is that you don't actually have access to the full story. So, you end up in a place like this (and I do as well) where you make an assertion that the number of accounts is going up (easily manipulated). But you don't actually know how many of the previous accounts have lost total and complete interest in the project and you don't know how many are actually supportive of the project.
My comment was based on the assertion by Canuk that most threads are now made by people with negative opinions as opposed to positive ones. That is not a good sign, no matter what game you are looking at.
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"With the absence of such an announcement until that time, I had been assuming CIG either wasn't going to need 64bit 3-D space or had done it already and wasn't going to announce it.
If 64bit 3-D space is something you need, and you don't have it, it's a complete project killer."Have fun