[Phantom Hoover]

TW3's combat is *decent* but it's painfully clear that it's totally divorced from the good parts of the game. Skyrim's combat is clunky as **** but it fits better with the simulationist, first person, ~immersive~ viewpoint that the game uses to present its world.

[The E]

O/T - I recently started the Witcher 3 (after reading the 1st book) and it's sort of ruined every other sandbox/rpg game I own. The quantity and quality of lore, the sheer detail and uniqueness of the sidequests, particularly the monster-hunting ones...the game makes Bethesda look like ****ing dilettantes!

oh **** off, they're different games trying to do different things and there are plenty of places where skyrim makes TW3 look like a clumsy fisher-price tech demo

i don't even get why people like you compare tw3 to bethesda when it's so obviously a direct sibling to bioware RPGs

PH, could you please dial down the language to something more closely resembling that of reasonable adulthood?

[666maslo666]

Don't ever play any MMO or RPG, because they're all sandbox grindfests one way or another.

I wouldnt even call Elite a sandbox MMO, as it lacks such basic features as exchanging credits between players, years after release. Its like the devs go out of their way to make the gameplay as shallow as possible.

That said, it is still a better game at this stage than SC. My patience with waiting for 3.0 Jesus patch is slowly but surely wearing thin..

[Cobra]

I wouldnt even call Elite a sandbox MMO, as it lacks such basic features as exchanging credits between players, years after release. Its like the devs go out of their way to make the gameplay as shallow as possible.

Well, the problem with just giving each other credits manifests itself when you see literally every player running around in the "biggest, best ships" shortly afterwards. That's, you know, game-breaking. You're not supposed to be able to outright buy everything at once and that's precisely what credit exchanges would result in. Players would also find a way around any exchange caps they run into.

Furthermore, nearly every feature Star Citizen has (except for Call of Duty IN SPAAAAAACE- wait, ****, Call of Duty did that already, didn't they...?) E:D has or Frontier has planned it. Braben has said at some point he wants people to be walking around in social environments and whatnot. Be a freighter pilot? In the game. Space trucking, yo. Be a pirate? YARR HARR FIDDLE-TEE-DEE! I think the only real differences between SC and E:D at this point are the fact that you can't land on planets themselves, just their moons. E:D doesn't go for the whole supar real simulation space shooty game that SC goes for and E:D doesn't have SC's astronomical list of ships and JPEGs... it just has a measly thirty+ ships.

[Spoon]

I'm glad the game is still coming along.

[StarSlayer]

Good Luck and Godspeed Ship.

not like I needed you to get home or anything...

[Torchwood]

Good Luck and Godspeed Ship.

not like I needed you to get home or anything...

What a waste of a perfectly good opportunity to use this meme:

[Cobra]

Oh God damn I watched that ship go to its people and I ****ing lost it

[Spoon]

[Col. Fishguts]

During long fidelity sessions in your chariot it's important to have regular breaks for some Yoga exercises. Carry on commando.

[Cobra]

That's uh... some ****in' hardcore yoga, yo.

[The E]

Overheard at CIG:

"So, Dave. You know how humans have hip joints."
"Yeah?"
"How do they, you know, rotate?"
"I dunno, four-dimensionally, I suppose."

[Lorric]

The cyborg bodies of the future.

[Buckshee Rounds]

Wow, the bugs are reliable enough to make a continuous gif!

[666maslo666]

3.0 production schedule has been released.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/schedule-report

Lots of detailed info, but the bottom line is, Jesus patch is coming on June 29.

[StarSlayer]

So it's going to ride in on a donkey to the waving of palms and cries of Hosanna only to anger the portion of its devotees who hoped it would dramatically uplift their station?

[Torchwood]

At this point, divine intervention is statistically more probable than CIG getting their fiscal policy under control. It's been officially confirmed that they are spending more than they are getting. They have to present something soon, or else.

[Mikes]

At this point, divine intervention is statistically more probable than CIG getting their fiscal policy under control. It's been officially confirmed that they are spending more than they are getting. They have to present something soon, or else.

Mhhh did I miss that? Not saying it isn't so, but would like to see a link/quote. Would make me even more happy that I got my refund by now lol.

[666maslo666]

At this point, divine intervention is statistically more probable than CIG getting their fiscal policy under control. It's been officially confirmed that they are spending more than they are getting. They have to present something soon, or else.

Depends on how much of the $150 million they have left, that is the big unknown. They could have enough cash reserves to continue for a year or two even when the funding dries up.

[Torchwood]

We don't know the exact number of how much they've left, but running the numbers says 'not much'. We know for example, how many employees CIG had over the years. Cross-reference that with the average salary of employees and that's a hundred million gone at least, even if CRoberts has been underpaying his devs and keeps them going with the promises of prestige and something good for the resume, they're running low event without adding celebrity, animation and studio costs. To make matters worse, their initial backup plans (SQ42 ship sales), as confirmed by official sources, are failing, and there is still a lot of features not yet implemented. And Chris Roberts is still being his overly ambitious self, unwilling to compromise on his vision to do everything. Calling this a critical overextension would be like calling the magazine explosion on the HMS Hood a minor malfunction.

Ostensibly, CIG is trying to appear more transparent now, reactions to this are divided between cynicism and Alpha Complex tier mandatory happiness. Personally, I think the attempt at transparency would be more credible if that rather optismistic progress log didn't look like it's full of people who had their faces stapled into a perma-smile.