[Jeff Vader]

[IronBeer]

Funny thing is, this forum better than probably any other, knows exactly what happens when you promise to deliver a 70 mission campaign. Either everything is very, very samey or it just never gets finished.

It's just simply not possible to come up with 70 good ideas for missions in such a short timespan. Even campaigns which have managed that sort of length and be good did so over the course of years and needed a really good storyline to make it work.

Yeah, that's basically what I was insinuating. You said it better, and without a semi-appropriate gif too!

[Akalabeth Angel]

I normally hate memes but these gifs you guys are throwing out are great

[Ghostavo]

And on this last point, 10 hours of mocap? Do people remember that  Witcher 3 has 16 hours of mo-caped sex alone?

Source on the Witcher 3 statistic? I kinda want to see how they justify that if true.

[Akalabeth Angel]

And on this last point, 10 hours of mocap? Do people remember that  Witcher 3 has 16 hours of mo-caped sex alone?

Source on the Witcher 3 statistic? I kinda want to see how they justify that if true.

http://www.pcgamer.com/cd-projekt-explains-why-the-witcher-3-has-16-hours-of-sex-scene-mo-cap-data/

And . ..

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/28/sex-witcher-3-grand-theft-auto-of-fantasy-games

Actually my statement is a bit off. There's 16 hours of data drawn from, not sure how much of that is included in the actual game.

[karajorma]

Even campaigns which have managed that sort of length and been good

Is that number of campaign !=0 ? No examples come to mind.

I was thinking specifically of the combination of FS1 and FS2 which is pretty close to that number (around 60 missions+). It's a crude measure but looking at creation and last edit dates for a few missions gives a timespan of at least 6 months just to write all the FS2 missions.

[666maslo666]

Third year anniversary livestream is today at UTC 19:00

http://www.twitch.tv/starcitizen

There may be something about Alpha 2.0 and when is it about to release.

Open your hearts to Chris yet again. Also wallets.

[Phantom Hoover]

I broke my wrists, I won't be able to open my wallet for at least two weeks.

[headdie]

between spending £40 on a load of swimming stuff and strongly considering buying SCII:LotV I have no money now for at least 2 weeks 

[Akalabeth Angel]

Odd. The Livestream is called "Star Citizen playing Star Citizen" and when I go to the stream, it's a guy showing some concept art.
Where's the gameplay?

I guess it's actually anniversary livestream, but again, where's the gameplay?

They just should showed what is the ****tiest version of a ship I could imagine, described as a "white box" then told at the end "It's on sale, go buy it"

[Aesaar]

Gameplay isn't important.  Gotta sell that new jpeg.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Yeah I'm actually watching the screen, so far what I've sen is this:
1. Guy showing concept art
2. Guy showing a "white box" ship interior of sometihng called Crucible, think polygon planes for cieling and walls, pre-made doors placed here and there. Then Announcing it's on sale
3. Guy standing in a room talking about a system
4. Roberts talking about Squadron 42 by talking about Mark Hammel, showing a 10-second pre-rendered trailer of him getting in a plane. Talking about story, characters. Taking questons on Mark Hamill.

Still haven't seen or heard anything about game play

5. Showing behind the scenes with Mark and more mo-cap sets
6. Mark interview
7. 700 page script
8. So they showed a video about character pipeline, which talks about concept characters, mo-cap, animation but not gameplay.

[Aesaar]

They're super excited about doing exactly the same **** Mass Effect 1 did 8 years ago.

[Aesaar]

When asked about changing ship loadouts

"I think they're still working on the design document."

One of their most core gameplay features isn't finalized.  How the hell are they making a campaign?

What a bunch of muppets.

[Hades]

The pinnacle of this livestream so far has been Chris calling Starcitizen/SQ42 a "movie" and then them trying to cut the audio right after that because of it. So far nothing else has happened.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Yeah if I didn't know this was a game or the occasional references to the player, I would've thought they were making an animated movie honestly like FF spirits within

EDIT - HOLY **** THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT MORE SHIPS! hahhaha

[Aesaar]

And now talking about a HOTAS.

EDIT: oh my god another ship jpeg for sale.

EDIT2: Ok, time for 2.0 and gameplay talk!

Aaaaand they're showing literal Google Image Search jpegs, more concept art, and a bar.

[666maslo666]

So Alpha 2.0 goes on public test server today

CHRIS DETRACTORS ON SUICIDE WATCH

[Aesaar]

I was expecting a full 2.0 release, and it goes out to 1000 people today, with a planned public release next week.

EDIT: and then they went ahead and said the full release will be when they're comfortable with it.  So probably not next week.

EDIT2: yay gameplay!

Aaaand it's exactly the same thing we saw at Gamescom and CitCon.  They had 3 hours, and the gameplay was 2 minutes of prerendered video footage.  Why the hell didn't they show a mission (that they claim to have a dozen of) getting completed?  Why wasn't thins stream 3 hours of actual gameplay rather than jpegs and interviews?

Speaking that video, the animations are the worst mocap animations I've ever seen.  The headbobbing is still there and still looking terrible.  The FPS gameplay looked like generic shooter #1694233, complete with brown and grey everywhere.

That was the weirdest livestream I've ever seen.

[Sushi]

I like that they're doing it for the best bug reporters, it's a nice acknowledgment, reward, and incentive all at once.