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STAR CITIZEN: A GIFT FOR ALL SEASONS
There's a flurry of stuff happening around the 'verse. Here is a very condensed version of a some tiny bits of it...
Warm Legal Action:
Face Away Now:
A fun leak has sprung forth, regarding their face streaming tech & branded camera (my bold):
Take with the standard dose of salt, but amusing if so. That's about as journalistic as his sources get too 
. (Note that 3Lateral have worked on loads of aspects from mocap to face generation, so they'll likely need to be paid...)
Cry Me A River:
CIG have called Crytek a giant ball of financial incompetence and demanded a $2m bond in case of default. This has lead to them both issuing a joint statement saying they want more time to make up. (Essentially, more games to delay discovery and hedge towards settlement it seems...)
3.5 IS ALIVE:
Female Avatars Are In:
They're in. They're a bit janky. Prone to having giant sloth hands and ill-fitting hats. And sitting upside down in seats and numerous other issues. But hey they're in. It's a modern day miracle.
Other Art Additions:
Gameplay:
Things That Have Fallen Off The List For 2019:
AROUND THE CITIZEN 'VERSE:
Actual Citizen Unrest:
The complexity of their ship-buying system is Byzantine. If you want try and understand how Chris has gamified their funding streams (as he's put it previously), you could do worse than look at this thread though:
$0 CCU Update
TLDR: Citizens could get a token which allowed them to swap their ship out for one of comparable price. They kept all their precious early-adopter boons this way (IE 'lifetime insurance' on their ship etc). They also got the blessed boon of having a ship that was actually playable, as so many of the big whale vessels currently aren't.
This token system has now been removed. The uber-whales are aggrieved. If they want a playable ship they will now have to buy it. If they want one with insurance boons they'll have to buy it with new money. Weren't they promised bonuses for buying in early, in this 'naturally' price-rising economy? Weren't they promised functioning ships? Weren't they...?
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Aaaand, relax...
There's a flurry of stuff happening around the 'verse. Here is a very condensed version of a some tiny bits of it...
Warm Legal Action:
Face Away Now:
A fun leak has sprung forth, regarding their face streaming tech & branded camera (my bold):
- faceware camera continues to face delays, might be canceled outright
- supposedly CIG created a wing of the company to handle manufacturing and distribution of the camera
- faceware engineers helped create the code for the first big reveal
- 12+ months of continued support on their end when they were supposed to help for six
- some contention over payments due 3lateral / faceware (same company btw)
- friction over potential losses if camera is canceled with new owners (epic bought 3lat earlier this year)
- losses / lost payments total "tens of millions"
- would have to sell "many units" to break even on camera
- "low priority" for CIG and Epic, as numbers of potential sales look low / dire
- "It was a passing fad used as a content patch. No one here thinks it's still happening."
- if there's no agreement met with current issues, 3lat can stop any and all mocap footage using their rigs / technology from appearing in SC
that email, by the way, came from a dude with his full name and actual mother****ing email address from one of the company's involved in this ****
. (Note that 3Lateral have worked on loads of aspects from mocap to face generation, so they'll likely need to be paid...)Cry Me A River:
CIG have called Crytek a giant ball of financial incompetence and demanded a $2m bond in case of default. This has lead to them both issuing a joint statement saying they want more time to make up. (Essentially, more games to delay discovery and hedge towards settlement it seems...)
3.5 IS ALIVE:
Female Avatars Are In:
They're in. They're a bit janky. Prone to having giant sloth hands and ill-fitting hats. And sitting upside down in seats and numerous other issues. But hey they're in. It's a modern day miracle.
Other Art Additions:
- ArcCorp - The city planet! It's in. And it is kinda cool in its own Cyberpunky way. Full of glitches of course (the transport system kills you, or just does this, for example). And hasn't added any gameplay (aside from the one mission-giver per planet. Whose missions don't seem to work. But hey, loads of the missions don't work, so no worries there )
Gameplay:
- The new flight model. It's partially in. Hard to gauge it from a distance, but there are obviously some fidelity-challenging cheats going on behind the scenes (turn upside down and gravity is reversed etc). Some say it's the best thing since French bread, others that it's still very 'no-clip-y' but now with a joust rather than turret-spin meta, which is equally meh. Time will tell.
- AI Flight. It's gone from 'not moving' to 'moving in a really weird rubber-bandy way, and then not moving'. (The less said about the AI on foot the better...)
- A heat mechanic has been added which stops you during your long-distance straight-line tedious flight to the next planet. So you can't just go and make coffee any more. At some point they promise to add some actual gameplay to this. (In the meantime just buy a bigger ship, they get there faster... Can't imagine there'll be any more design decisions like this
)
Things That Have Fallen Off The List For 2019:
- The mythical '10,000 player shard' 'server meshing', all the ship professions but one. Y'know, all the usual big picture stuff . And anything that's of no use for the offline SQ42 release, the thing they're hoping will make the money in 2020+.
AROUND THE CITIZEN 'VERSE:
Actual Citizen Unrest:
The complexity of their ship-buying system is Byzantine. If you want try and understand how Chris has gamified their funding streams (as he's put it previously), you could do worse than look at this thread though:
$0 CCU Update
TLDR: Citizens could get a token which allowed them to swap their ship out for one of comparable price. They kept all their precious early-adopter boons this way (IE 'lifetime insurance' on their ship etc). They also got the blessed boon of having a ship that was actually playable, as so many of the big whale vessels currently aren't.
This token system has now been removed. The uber-whales are aggrieved. If they want a playable ship they will now have to buy it. If they want one with insurance boons they'll have to buy it with new money. Weren't they promised bonuses for buying in early, in this 'naturally' price-rising economy? Weren't they promised functioning ships? Weren't they...?
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Aaaand, relax...
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Last edited by Golgot; 04-12-19 at 01:18 PM.
