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by icycalm » 29 Aug 2022 08:47
Star Citizen wrote:Turn your torches on because in this episode of Inside Star Citizen we're diving into new and enhanced experiences you can expect from cave archetypes, plus an update on the new player experience from our Live Director.
by icycalm » 29 Aug 2022 23:53
CorrosiveBackspin wrote:They'll release it busted in October, then have it half working by Jan, this is the way.
by icycalm » 01 Sep 2022 22:59
Star Citizen @RobertsSpaceInd wrote:What's happening with the development of Persistent Entity Streaming? Find out in this episode of Inside Star Citizen as Turbulent's Chief Technical Officer, Benoit Beausejour, provides insights for this next major tech milestone.
Watch now: https://youtu.be/1eQ17OMAXSQ
by icycalm » 04 Sep 2022 20:59
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by icycalm » 12 Sep 2022 00:38
Jacob Baumgardner wrote:How is it you guys consistently make new, intriguing, and out-of-the-box designs again and again. Like, You may see one good example per Halo or Mass effect game, yet you guys are pumping out stuff every other Tuesday.
by icycalm » 15 Sep 2022 23:02
Zyram wrote:This is bigger & more detailed than I expected it would be.
wilcou wrote:Just like everything in SC, that is why it's never getting released
XO_so wrote:Love the smouldering effects at the bleeding edge of the laser field. Cannot wait to start making baby steps with the new salvage org when this drops.
marcus williams wrote:Love the FPS version fx as the metal burns fire. Now to the hard unanswered burning question we're all thinking: are non destroyed (parked) ships in danger of material thieves passing by? In other words, does a ship have to be destroyed to activate the salvage tools?
FalconDS9 wrote:i really hope it only works on wrecks... otherwise we come to see a whole new age of space graffiti...
Experia888 wrote:It will work on alive ships, but shields will protect from the salvage beam.
MrBlackmesa17 wrote:Yep, just another reason to always keep those shields on when parked!
Diddles Mc Muffin wrote:Haha can imagine going to do a mission and coming back and half my ship has been scrapped for salvage
MrBlackmesa17 wrote:If you turn off your ship they go off too. So good procedure is to just shut off the engine but leave power on for the shields just in case ;)
Charnel wrote:You'd more than likely get a crimstat doing that
Saturno wrote:can't wait to see what future tiers of salvage looks like, awesome job CIG!
HexelTron wrote:I can't wait for salvage but once we get being able to enter wrecks and take parts and modules and repair stuff my dream gameplay loop will be completed
Soulshot96 wrote:This is insanely mediocre looking...and that's not even getting into how bleh the whole glowy beam bs is for salvage/repair.
And the fact that salvage still has 'a ways to go' after all this time? I just can't with this game anymore.
drksideofthewal wrote:Mediocre compared to what? The only game with better salvage is Hardspace Shipbreaker, and that’s all you can do in that game. The damage models, the physicalized cargo, the combination of on foot and ship gameplay is unique to SC.
GopperGaming - Star Citizen wrote:Yep, you said it perfectly. The fact that there isn't really another game that does this even to this degree except for a salvage-only game says enough. I think this looks amazing, especially when considering that SC is a flight, ship battle, FPS, exploration, mining, trading, medical, simply walking around, racing, and now salvage sim with planets, moons, cities, space stations, outposts, and open areas to bs around in.
I think the fact that he said he "just can't with this game anymore" while referencing a game that is in Alpha, yet already does more than any other space sim of its kind, says enough. It's not a released game yet, and they have patches every 3 months. If you hate what's there right now, it's simple... just come back at a later date. No one is meant to be grinding at this point. Yeah, salvage has a ways to go... it is eventually supposed to include ship components, specific materials, etc. It's not like they just released Modern Warfare 2 and said "yeah, we still have a ways to go with our FPS gameplay"
by icycalm » 16 Sep 2022 12:00
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by icycalm » 24 Sep 2022 21:27
rshoel wrote:I feel a bit afraid that some features of 3.18 will be moved to 3.18.1 and 3.18.2, and that they wont announce this until right before the patch is released...
Ryozu wrote:I feel a bit afraid they're going to do literally the same thing they do every patch
Bunghole_of_Fury wrote:Of course they will, that's the whole point of the Evocati and PTU players, to ferret out any truly game breaking bugs arising from the new code so CIG can decide if they're going to keep it in and risk pissing off people who don't want to treat the game as an alpha test, or get rid of it and risk pissing off people who don't want to treat the game as an alpha test.
by icycalm » 28 Sep 2022 22:54
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by icycalm » 09 Oct 2022 23:08
Haunting_Champion640 wrote:CR played dead space and dying light and decided he wanted both!
by icycalm » 10 Oct 2022 00:33
by icycalm » 13 Oct 2022 00:10
ill_B_In_MyBunk wrote:What does this mean? I know Pyro isn't coming this patch, so why is it in the notes?
Blueshift1561 wrote:It isn't unusual to put in code ahead of a release of something else, either. There's stuff in there mentioning various reputation pages for the Vanduul and Xian, as well as fire extinguishers - all of which are things probably for further updates down the line.
bar10dr2 wrote:It probably just slipped past the version file inclusion, at any given time they have multiple branches of files with different features in different stages of completion, when you make a new version branch you choose what goes into the "3.18" branch, so things like text and such that's added as part of one feature but might have been done by a different team or part of a different package but for a different feature might be included.
Blueshift1561 wrote:Actually - looks like a lot of interesting stuff. Advocacy rep, maintenance rep with various maintenance ranks, beacons for advertising selling of fuel or requesting fuel, descriptions of new Stegmans service clothing, description of a fire extinguisher object, surgeon clothing descriptions, a lot of text for a tutorial system, various messages and stuff for Security Post Kareah and the evidence system, some sort of Miners faction rep, something about a stolen item infraction, etc.
Really cool stuff
by icycalm » 15 Oct 2022 17:06
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by icycalm » 03 Nov 2022 23:16
Kastriot Ramani wrote:You guys are nuts, this is never seen or done in any game! Keep going!
SpeedFragger @speedfragger wrote:Woah, this fucking blow my mind, I'm screaming alone in my room
by Adjudicator » 11 Nov 2022 09:29
Are the external cargo pods of the Prospector, MOLE, and RAFT going to be detachable and replaceable? If not, what happens to the mined ore and cargo aboard these ships if they are destroyed?
JakeAcappella-CIG wrote:Tracked this down with several teams! Currently all of these ships will function similarly to how they do now once 3.18 comes online. Resource pods such as saddle bags or fuel pods won't be detachable in this release, as further work on Vehicle Tractor beams is required.
Regarding external cargo such as the Hull series and RAFT, these will detach upon vehicle destruction as outlined in the ISC episode.
When it comes to cargo refactor and piracy, what have you thought of to encourage player to player boarding actions with this feature?
Gozer-CIG wrote:Well, so we hinted about this in the ISC and it wasn't very clear. With 3.18 we are introducing the concept of Soft Death. There is a 70% chance a vehicle will die with its interior and cargo intact from combat deaths. Explosive deaths or deaths by game rules (near a barrier or touching water, for example) won't trigger a soft death.
What this means, 70% of the time you and your crew are still alive, and the cargo is still attached to the ship when a combat death occurs (ship reaches 0 health in combat). The 30 % of the time that this doesn't happen your ship explodes and cargo is pushed out and then 0-90 % of that cargo remains, with the average of that being 45 % of cargo surviving.
Yes, this is a proxy for the far-future outcome that physicalized damage will bring. It's not customary of CIG but very nice to see that we'll have an interim solution that does 80% of the job instead of waiting 5x longer to get something that intends to give extra immersion but is much, much more complex to implement.
Will cargo containers stolen by pirates be recongized by buyers as being stolen? If so, then what happens if I willingly transfer my cargo to another player to sell for me?
Gozer-CIG wrote:When a player purchases commodities those are owned by the player that purchases them. Anyone else trying to sell them will have to use a "No Questions Asked" terminal and they will not receive full price for anything that they are trying to sell. Even if I give a cargo container to a friend, they would have to sell it at a NQA terminal and they would not get full price for the commodity. GrimHex for example would be a location I could fence my stolen goods.
Hi, will cargo boxes have any kind of signatures to be picked up by vehicles pings ?
Gozer-CIG wrote:Cargo containers can be scanned, and AR markers will be present if they survive the explosion. We have also added colored tints to the containers so you can at least identify what category they belong too, such as Metals or Processed Goods.
Will cargo loading timers be part of 3.18?
Gozer-CIG wrote:At the moment nothing changes with loading and unloading. This is handled automatically as it has been in the past. Once Manual loading and unloading becomes a reality, you will have the option to choose between the two. If you chose to have the location do the loading and unloading there will be a cost and a time where your ship is unavailable while the process competes, much like the current refinery gameplay.
In the ISC Cargo Missions were mentioned, can you go into any detail on what these missions will be like and how they will work. In my mind and hopes they will be something along the lines of this post.
Gozer-CIG wrote:After 3.18 we want to separate Commodity Trading from Cargo Hauling. Commodity Trading will be high risk/high reward. If you invest a large amount of your money you will also have to manage the cost of loading and unloading as well as protection. On the other hand Cargo Hauling is just moving things for NPC's from point A to B. You are not tied to it financially, and it will be moving things that pirates don't care about as there will be no profit in it for them.
The first step here is we will be adding cargo hauling missions that extend the current box delivery missions once you can manually load and unload your own cargo. They will start small and get larger, and the only thing the players are risking is reputation.
I would love to be able to buy 1 or 2 SCU boxes to be able to put whatever we want in them. Would make org events easier, could buy all the armor for ground battles, extra weapons and ammo, etc.
Gozer-CIG wrote:I want you to be able to do that as well rather than having to blow up your ship up and create them yourself. On top of that I want you to be able to carry those around, loot bunkers, fill them up, and then snap them to the grid once you are back at your ship. I also want you to be able to do all this and then go back to a station and go sell all of this without having to transfer it all to that station's local inventory in order to do so.
That said it probably won't make it in to 3.18. At some point however it will be a thing. This is where I use the dreaded "Soon".
by Adjudicator » 11 Nov 2022 12:14
by icycalm » 18 Nov 2022 01:15
by icycalm » 29 Nov 2022 03:49
theon502 wrote:Evocati 3.18 - Bed Logout has been completely removed and will not return for an indefinite period of time.
Quote from Zolarix-CIG:Zolarix-CIG wrote:After speaking with our engineers, ship bed logout is not yet implemented under PES. It will require a fair amount of work to re-implement. You can expect the "Log Out" prompt to disappear as of the next build.
No estimate was given for re-implementation. My best guess is NET Server Meshing's introduction, likely after.
shiroboi wrote:Big frowny face. Bed logout worked great on carrack and msr. It was really handy especially with big ships
matskat wrote:It's not just handy, it's INTEGRAL.
Imagine how that's gonna work when Pyro gets introduced?
You fly all the way to Ruin Station, but your dog needs to get walked.
Normally, I'd get into space, turn off QT, power down my engines and beg log. Works great. But the way this is described, the bed log option will not exist, and you'd have to go AFK and pray OR just start over from wherever you started in Stanton?
Oh no, boys. This is not good news.
CaptFrost wrote:Yeah, a big part of whether or not I even get a ship is the presence of a bed. Maybe others aren't using it, but I use it all the time, even if just because something comes up while I'm messing around in my Avenger. This is a huge backwards step.
mimesot wrote:Don't worry too much.
Yes you are absolutely right. Pyro without bed logout is almost unthinkable.
But CIG is surely aware of this.
And it's a necessity to rebuild the bed-logging function because the old version worked unreliably (which would be a true nightmare in Pyro) and in addition the foundation beneath the code changed (to PES).
Let's reevaluate the situation in a few months and until then don't have sleepless nights over it.
