>mfw two years more and my dreams of becoming a salvager in

what game iz dat ?

>>265525065

Star Shitizen aka vaporware

>>265525065

Not a game. A way to shill out nerds for millions of dollars and then throw them a bone in the form of a pretend fishtank.

http://youtu.be/FbMl88p1b44?t=38m26s

For all the people who embed, note the time in the URL

>I think of going back to the original Privateer. Back in the day, 1993, I could download a trainer program and I could give myself a million credits and I could be done with the game, which lots of people did. And if the group of people who wants that to be their game experience can subsidize the server costs for everybody else who actually wants to have fun with it, that's fantastic. Let's let them.
>Do we have anyone else who wanted to speak up on the topic of pay to win?
>I think it's good.

Can't you already do that shit in EVE?

>>265525428
>alpha available
>not a game
Neo-/v/ is becoming dumber with each passing day.

>>265525516
>People who don't have jobs have an unfair advantage over people who have jobs because they can invest more time in the game

What the fuck am I listening to

>>265525516
>the only person from RSI in the interview is Ben "White Dwarf" Lesnick
>fucking community manager

>>265525813
>yfw it's true

>>265525563
Nah, closest thing would be to lurk around for ships that got #rekt and then see if anyone left anything good.

>>265526203
>unfair
Professional basketball players have a better chance of getting onto professional teams than the average joe does because they dedicate the time to practice and improve
Professional musicians have a better chance of getting a spot in a respectable symphony than the average joe does because they dedicate the time to practice and improve

Are either of those unfair? Money should not be a shortcut to anything

>>265524995
Why would you want to be a garbage man in space.

>>265524995
Star Point Gemini 2 ?

File: Screen_140720_053853.png_Thumbnail0.jpg (1MB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1920x1080px

>space "simulators"
When will they learn? The only space simulator is orbiter.

P2W vaporware.

Why aren't we talking about Elite: Dangerous instead? People got their panties wet about Star Citizen because of Chris Roberts, but when the father of the space combat/trade genre, and creator of the most ambitious game ever made aims to make an equally ambitious sequel, it's like no one cares.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>265528113

>Elite Dangerous

>Ambitious

Err no, it's just a shiny version of games we've already got, it's awesome, but it's a simple PEW PEW PEW in space with some other shit tacked on.

>>265525516
What's the point when people who have enough time to play can still buy stuff?

It doesn't solve the problem, it only makes it worse.

>>265524995
>delusional backers are still thinking this game is happening

Its getting sad now.

>>265528113
Hello Adept.

>>265528276
I suggest you take a closer look.

We don't already have any game like it, and it's every bit as ambitious as Star Citizen and then some. The only difference is that rather than trying to tackle everything at the same time, they release the core of the game and then aim to expand it with planetary landings, ship boarding, on-foot exploration of planets and the like.

>>265528550
>expand
Surely you meant sell each new feature for $49.99. Fuck off with your DLC garbage already.

>>265528653
There was a lifetime expansion pass available for $45 up until two months ago. Your loss.

Still, I don't get it. It's okay to pay $60 for the yearly multiplat rehash, it's okay to throw millions at a pipe dream, but when an actually good game asks for money, and aims to release expansions with more features and content than entire games contain, you shun it?

Can you possibly make less sense?

File: icy_cobra_hunt.jpg (544KB, 1920x1083px) Image search: [Google]

544KB, 1920x1083px

>>265529430
The worst part is how people now act like every space sim should have planet landing and FPS combat, basing their opinions on a project that's still a solid 2 years before a playable alpha. That's stupid, a space sim is just a space sim, both SC and ED are part of a whole new genre.

ED in its current beta packs more features and variety than pretty much all space sims, the only exception would be X games. In its initial release state, it's going to be the absolute best space sim ever made, and it's only going to get more glorious after that.

>>265527915
>orbiter became that
HOLY SHIT
I remember playing it back in 2004 or so, when I was a kid. How's it now?

I want to play ED but fuck forking out that cash for a demo.

There needs to be a torrent or a trial version or something.

>>265524995
just get elite instead
you can play it now and it has more content at this point anyway.

File: 1410571519551.jpg (378KB, 1600x900px) Image search: [Google]

378KB, 1600x900px

>>265528550
>We don't already have any game like it

Except the previous Elite games. E:D is nice - and in X3: Stillbirth's wake - a welcome addition but it's hardly breaking ground.

Unless you count the heavy emphasis on procedural generation as revolutionary.

>>265530547
Just wait for the final version anon, though you should preorder it, there'll be one last "gamma" phase before the official release.

>play some SC to see what its like
>endless fucking animations for every little task that takes years
Jesus who fucking thought this was a good idea, no one wants to take 10 hours just to get in and out of a space ship and watch the same poorly done animation over and over.

>>265527915
>for the Windows PC
>the Windows PC
I like it already

>>265530790

Probably will have a "Hold shift to OH SHIT NIGGER GO GO GO" mode by release, right now though there's no reason to do anything, you can just start playing right from the pause menu.

File: JR9yclv.jpg (1MB, 1920x1087px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1920x1087px

>>265530642
In its current state, sure.

But there's still quite a lot of stuff planned for release that we haven't seen yet: cruise ships for passenger carrying, player-owned asteroid stations, NPC crew that will be in the seat next to you, communication with NPCs, attacks from Thargoids (the game's aliens), exploration of space for resources and old alien relics...

We really haven't seen much yet, and it keeps getting better at every update.

>>265528550
>>265530132
Even without planetary landings can you still enter the atmosphere of a planet or can you not go anywhere near them?

>>265531194
I'm glad a salvaging ship gets to look this good. Beats shooting a 'salvaging laser' in EVE to make stuff disappear.

File: 1403929301002s.jpg (2KB, 94x125px) Image search: [Google]

2KB, 94x125px

>Mfw I will finally be able to be a small-time smuggler carrying illegal cargo offworld

>>265531397
It's planned that you can enter the upper atmosphere, for the purpose of scooping fuel on gas giants for long travels. They've shown some really nice volumetric clouds for this.

But in the current beta, it's not possible to even reach the atmosphere, so we can't really see how close we'll get to it.

>>265531701
That might be all right. I don't care about getting out of your ship and hunting dinosaurs through alien jungles or anything, but I don't really want to play it until it has planets at least as good as Frontier.

Anyone else find it amusing that LT, a game made by a single student, is making greater progress and is looking better than both E:D and SC, which have massive fucking dev teams and tons of emone?

>>265532165

>Making greater progress

Why lie anon?

>>265532165
that's not really true, at all.

File: Outpost_scale.jpg (587KB, 1920x1083px) Image search: [Google]

587KB, 1920x1083px

>>265532165
Than SC, yeah kinda, but not ED. ED is currently playable, has actual gameplay, and people genuinely having fun.

LT is looking great, but it's still a long way from being an actual game.

>>265532430
hurry up and finish beta you cunt, I'm not paying extra money for an unfinished game

>>265532430

You realise LT is dead now right?
As predicted, a one-man dev team is fucking suicide. Making a game is not something you're supposed to do alone, unless you're content making complete shit that took 5 hours to make.

>>265532623
>dead
>releases video updates every month

>>265532710

So where's the latest update faggot?

http://forums.ltheory.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3556&sid=cf0075e9d350c02122348819693a21de

for a dead game he's still posting his progress every single day

>>265532748
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joshparnell/limit-theory-an-infinite-procedural-space-game/posts/981489

>>265532623
He does DAILY devlogs m8. It's coming Q1 2015

>>265524995
EVE online let you do this 10 years ago.

Can someone enlighten me as to how ED...works?

I watched that presentation on youtube yesterday but I really don't understand. How do the instances interface with the MMO aspect?

File: sdgfdhfg.jpg (27KB, 324x278px) Image search: [Google]

27KB, 324x278px

>mfw the scam artists behind star citizen continues to ask for donation on a game that has already received 54 million US dollars

Star Citizen is like the bitcoin of the vidya industry and the followers are the pedophiles and druggies hoping it will catch on.

>>265533282
It's just a MMO, except when the instance is full, you get to another one. But given the size of the galaxy, full instances will be a rare occurence anyway.

>>265533373
>But given the size of the playerbase, full instances will be a rare occurence anyway.

ftfy

>>265524995
freelancer already did it..so did space engineers

Love child of spore and every failed kick starter/early access game.

>>265533463
I don't think you get it anon. It's a space sim, and it's looking good, every space sim fan is going to get it, like every other space sim before.

>Roberts insists on trying to play the thing with a fucking controller in every demonstration which always ends badly

I have very little faith in this man.

>>265533319
X3: Eve Edit- I mean Star Citizen will Zzzzzzzzzzzz

>>265533373
But the guy kept talking about how if you discover a plentiful system, you'll want to keep it secret so that it's not flooded with other people...how do strangers find your instances?

Also what's the max playercount per instance?

File: SC Heavy Bomber.webm (3MB, 854x480px)

3MB, 854x480px

>Not wanting to fly aboard this ship bombing Capital Ships with huge ass missiles

>>265533950
only 2k for the ship!

>>265533841
The probably mean flooded as in too many people operating there and crashing the economy, not too many people there that you can't swing a dead cat without hitting someone's ship.

>Enter thread
>E:D shilling
>m-m-muh P2W
Fuck it I'm out, you can enjoy constantly being let down by X series if you hate space sims so much

>>265534176
ED is a space sim.

>>265533841
Everyone is in the same galaxy, and has access to the same systems. Even if he is in a different instance, he can find the same system you can, and if he mines the resources in this system before you do, it'll affect your own, so you better get rid of him, or sell information about this system before he does. Still, that won't be a problem in most cases, because if you find a system, it means it'll be empty, you'll be alone in it, so any other player entering it will enter the same instance.

The cap is 32 players right now + AI, but it could increase depending on future network improvements.

>>265534176
>E:D shilling
How is this shilling? Is it that surprising that people can be excited about a nice looking game that's a mere months from release?

>>265534340
OK I see...so the basic M.O. will be exploration - find good system - exploit it/build stations/maybe fight some AI pirates or assholes trying to mine your shit.

>>265534409
It's not the space sim he wants to talk about.

When will they stop selling imaginary/broken ship models and actually create a game first?

>>265533950
Those are nice stabilizers on these torpedoes, it's like they are optimized to pass through water.

Is this game really about space ships?

>everyone is a special snowflake with a casual spaceship

Fuck that, where are my crew simulators.

>>265534474
It's not about the game, it's about knowing that if there were a game you'd have the biggest fastest ship in the known universe.

>>265534176
I love them, that's exactly why i hate how Star Shitizen tries to shoehorn every fucking stupid idea in itself and bloat above and beyond any reasonable size. It's not a fucking savior of genre, if anything it will destroy what little is left of it.

File: 783694.jpg (12KB, 440x290px) Image search: [Google]

12KB, 440x290px

>>265534494
>Wanting silky smooth phallic missiles
Fuck off with your space dildo fetish

File: 1337527543812.jpg (58KB, 500x661px) Image search: [Google]

58KB, 500x661px

>>265525065
chris roberts presents: chris roberts hangar simulator

>>265534631
>implying space missiles wouldn't be spheres

>>265534458
Not really.

The game mostly focuses on you as a pilot, not as an industrialist or anything. All you can do as an explorer is small scale mining for small deposits, or selling the very valuable information about a large quantity of resources to corporations who can in turn build those stations and mine it all. You'll remain either an explorer or a small miner, but there's no X-like tycoon-type gameplay, you won't be the poweful CEO of a huge corporation, and you can't really be part of anything, only help make it real.

At least that's how they aim to do things at release. What is to come in future updates is yet unknown, and they might deviate a bit from that, but still, you should remain mostly a pilot.

File: download.jpg (338KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

338KB, 1920x1080px

>>265524995

Space Engineers already does space salvage better than Star Citizen could ever hope to.

Just trying to board derelict ships as they float through space is challenging, then trying to deal with the booby traps whilst restoring systems, latching on so you can cut worthwhile components out or even attempting to tow or retrofit the hulks to bring them back to base is fucking awesome fun.

I love big spaceships with rotating thrusters. Looks fucking sexy.

Shame it's going to be in Star Citizen, a game where they've decided to design more variations of ships than actual gameplay.

>>265532165
its less work to make a singeplayer game

>>265530431
I'm pretty sure that's not Orbiter in that quoted image.

>>265524995
I hope for you that cyborg technology moves fast.

>>265534820
Their main offices opened barely two years ago, they have toilet paper rolls full of design documents. It's just too early in development stages. It seems like an eternity because it's completely transparent so you can give feedback.

File: 1407196105865.png (184KB, 500x377px) Image search: [Google]

184KB, 500x377px

>>265524995
>RSI offers Lifetime Insurance as a once-off deal for early backers
>Later comment that they regret adding it at all
>Newest ships have LTI depending on how early you backed
>My fucking face when I got suckered into buying a 300i after thinking they would be done with this P2W shit
Fuck it all.

http://youtu.be/Vvl7uaR1sfI

http://youtu.be/hj2MXw8t_40

http://youtu.be/SWp3hCJAOtA

File: 1369848470776.jpg (92KB, 502x567px) Image search: [Google]

92KB, 502x567px

>>265525516
I would agree if were a single player game, but in multiplayer it's giving an unfair advantage to people who have money to burn so it's not the same as trainers and privateer
people with more money are going to have a better experience and they are having at the expense of other players experience
defending this is fucked up

Are they actually doing something besides selling new ships?

Is there a game like X3: Reunion but less boring/faster? I like slow games but X3 is just waaay too slow.

>>265535326
Chris Roberts is setting up a crowdfunding platform with the cash he earned from Star Citizen backers.

Is there a bigger fedoracore genre than "procedural space sim"? Maybe "high fantasy RPG"

File: LimitTheory_Screenshot_10.jpg (308KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

308KB, 1920x1080px

>>265535415
Wait for Limit Theory.

>>265535058
>get a load of this shill

>>265535415
Well not with that level of complexity. But keep an eye on Elite Dangerous.

>>265535636
Mind telling me a bit more about it?

>>265535730
>shilling

>>265535770
X-type game with a lot of procedural generation. It's pretty much a X3 clone, but better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r6N7_HAsZo

>>265534565
>if anything it will destroy what little is left of it.
As odd as it sounds, this seems to be what is already happening- just look at all the ED hate that comes from hardcore SC supporters. SC is still years from full release while ED is months out. It's like some folks aren't allowed to buy more than one game every 2 years...

I backed both and am having a blast with Elite Dangerous right now. SC doesn't give a shit about supporting my flight stick yet so I have only played it for a few minutes. I can see SC becoming great but they seem to be more focused on getting people to buy new ships rather than actually developing features (and why not- it's working) so it's greatness won't happen anytime soon. I'm sure it will eventually be a great game but I don't like how they're handling the pre-alpha.

>>265535206
Whoever made that pic is a fruit who doesn't know how a chainsaw actually operates.

>>265535981
I bought into both as well and for my tastes and whaf I want I am pretty certain Elite will be the better game.

>>265535981
>ED is months out
That worries me more than anything else to be honest.

>>265536040
Are you trying to tell us that motors can idle?

>>265536186
Why?

>>265534494
It's almost like these ships can also operate in atmosphere!

>>265536040
>Whoever made that pic is a fruit who doesn't know how a chainsaw actually operates.

what are you talking about? starting a chainsaw that way means you want to lose your balls or get the darwin award

>>265536313
It's kind of barren in its current state, seems only enough to fill the void that is X-Rebirth failing hard.

>>265536397
How many atmospheres do you think are made of liquid water?

>>265534741
No they fucking wouldn't. They would want to present as little of themselves to oncoming enemy fire as possible and would therefore likely be very long and as thin as possible like modern day missiles.

File: visite-chantier-bouygues-151[1].jpg (368KB, 1600x1200px) Image search: [Google]

368KB, 1600x1200px

WOOOOOW

THIS PLACE LOOKS LIKE SHIT

THE COLOUR IS ASS

HOW WOULD YOU EVEN ENTER THIS? THERE AREN'T DOORS?

>>265536489
>Only water is a fluid

Please stop breathing.

>>265536186
Yeah, I don't know how much stuff they're holding back from the beta tests but there are supposed to be entirely new fleets of ships for each of the factions and I don't see that happening if there is only one new ship in next Tuesday's update.

If the main assets are built and they just aren't putting them in the Beta, that's fine. I can see them still tweaking how the procedural galaxy works and enhancing exploration and whatnot, but if they still haven't modeled the other ships, their full release will still feel like an advanced beta with weekly updates coming out and the game never feeling "complete".

>>265536538
How may atmospheres do you think are made of any liquid?

>>265526850
both of those have a better chance to succeed because they have talent, not because they paid someone a million bucks.

>>265536465
Oh, right. Well that will change come release. There are more stations and other stuff coming in Beta 2 and more shit in each start system. But I mean ultimately, it will be an Elite game. In a game of its size it wont be super common to run into other players really.

Same issue will face NMS.

File: humrdy[1].jpg (20KB, 365x261px) Image search: [Google]

20KB, 365x261px

>>265536627
>Gases aren't fluids
>Stabilizers aren't required on airborne missiles

Pic related is probably an amphibious vehicle, according to you.

>>265536397
atmosphere is by definition a mixture of GASes

>>265536812
>>265536721

>>265536397
Those round stabilizers, found on submarines, torpedoes, and some boat engines, are designed with water density in mind.

Also all of those ships would fall like a brick in Earth's atmosphere. Don't even get me started on how in a realistic space sim, planets would have different gravity, composition of the atmosphere, and possibly more powerful winds, which would make it fucking suicide.

You're welcome.

>>265536721
Go read the original post
>Those are nice stabilizers on these torpedoes, it's like they are optimized to pass through water.

He's not talking about gas, he's talking about liquid water. Look at your missiles and look at those torpedoes, it's all most like they're designed to travel through different environments.

>>265536429
it only starts the motor, you still have to engage a clutch to drive the chain

>>265536721
nice moving of goalposts

the original post you were arguing with clearly said "Those are nice stabilizers on these torpedoes, it's like they are optimized to pass through water."
are you trying to say that stabilizers for air and water are with the same design?

>going ballistic over placeholder missiles

>>265536429

Behold, the generation that's never stepped outside let alone picked up a tool.

Kill yourself.

>>265530431
>was a kid in 2004

File: ship_chart.jpg (233KB, 1920x1092px) Image search: [Google]

233KB, 1920x1092px

>>265536568
>>265536465
>>265536632
Some of you might have missed pic related.

With the usual developer, there would be reasons to worry, but not in this case. They have a habit of revealing some crude concept art of a ship, only to reveal the fully textured and working ship two days later, and announce that it'll be flyable the next week.
Game is much more advanced than it seems, and we already know that last september, they had all ships flyable with at least early models. Most of the stuff they tease us with has been completed for a couple months already and is only in need of "testing".

The beta is literally a "beta test". I think we can abandon all hope of seeing the entirety of the game in the beta, we'll have to wait for gamma to see it all.

>>265537305
I trust them dont get me wrong.

Do we know if it will have a properly functioning economy come release?

>>265537305
>They have a habit of ...
That's good to hear. Thanks. I'm a huge fan of underpromising and overdelivering.

>>265537305
I wish I could try the game without paying (a lot), I am just not sure my PC could run it well, especially if there is a big fight going on

How and why did so many turn against Elite D on /v/?

It seems like it will realistically be very good. And I have absolutely no fucking idea why it gets ignored in favor of No Mans Sky as wellm

>>265537694
>How and why did so many turn against Elite D on /v/?
I'm really not seeing this right now.

>>265537741
Not in this thread specifically but I have been told to fuck off nearly every time I wanted to talk about it.

>There will never be a big space sim with far superior low-tech 80's design since the sleek modern shit is way more popular
>tfw Apple indirectly ruined sci-fi

>>265537694
I dont really know, I think many SC folks see it as an "enemy" therefore everything about it is "shilling".
I think there was some retard that kept spamming the ED faq for some reason.

>>265537741
it isnt discussed much.
and there isnt much to discuss, not many ships, we dont exactly know how the game works either. like, game mechanics.

>>265537671
What is your rig?

I havent had it drop from 60fps maxed out with a 680/3770K. Aside from a few dips when coming out of hyperspace or whatever it is called.

>>265530431

That's the cockpit of a Mig-21 in Digital Combat Simulator.

>>265537671
It runs amazingly well

Well, it's a space game, most of the scenery is ships and a gigantic skybox with starts on it, planets are spheres, and only stations would have a lot of polygons, yet not much more than you would expect in the average Half-Life 2 map.

Don't worry too much, you might not max it, but it'll run fine.

File: 1406917887537.jpg (743KB, 1920x1086px) Image search: [Google]

743KB, 1920x1086px

>>265537694
>How

About tree-fiddy.

>why

Because some faggot like spamming a wiki FAQ and youtube videos everywhere about E:D and people got sick of it.

Have you guys tried out Wings of St Nazire? It isnt a trading sim but man, it looks sexy in motion and ridiculous it runs in browser and supports HOTAS.

>>265537671
Playing it on the Rift, the only places that give me noticeable frame drops are inside stations and asteroid fields. For a normal monitor setup, you shouldn't really need anything too cutting edge- I have an R9 290 now but it worked plenty well on my old 660 as well. "Large space battles aren't really that prevalent.

>>265537741
Start a thread specifically for Elite Dangerous and see what happens.

>>265537885
hd5770, amd phenom ii x4 955/3.20 ghz, 4gb ram

I guess buying more ram could be done cheaply.

>>265538019
Start a thread specifically for SC and it's going to be magnitudes worse. I don't think /v/ is compatible with space games.

File: BBC Elite.jpg (49KB, 520x501px) Image search: [Google]

49KB, 520x501px

>>265537694
Some Star Citizen backers suffer from a post-purchase rationalization syndrome, and just can't like Elite.

Also many of them, probably most, are not really space sim fans, they only played Freelancer which is hardly a space sim, and are excited about Star Citizen because it's essentially "Freelancer but better".

Most of them also are too young to know that Elite created the space combat and trading genre, and that they should be equally excited about it as they are about another game by Chris Roberts.

File: Screenshot_0008.jpg (719KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

719KB, 1920x1080px

>>265538192
Shit has gone a long way.

>>265538192
I WISH it would be like freelancer.
A proper Freelancer sequel would be awesome.

File: amuricccafuckyeah.jpg (347KB, 1748x1210px) Image search: [Google]

347KB, 1748x1210px

>>265537113
calm your tits mister outdoorsman
are you seriously arguing that starting a chainsaw with the guide bar between your legs is a good idea? the clutch only stops the chain when the saw is idling (which it isn't right after starting) and even the safety throttle and brake can and will fail sometimes

Is ED playable with M+KB?

>>265538192
It is actually Freelancer but worse.

>>265538576
Yes.

can someone tell me if groups and whatever are implemented in the beta?
I have no idea how that will work.
Also I want to form "guilds" with my friends in the game but I have heard 0 news of that stuff being in the game.

ED preorder is 40€
will the price change once the game is out?

>>265539046
It'll be 50€ after release.

>>265528436
>game is slowly but surely getting made, with public releases
>V-V-VAPORWARE
fuck off, console peasant

>>265539174
Preordering is still retarded. I'd rather pay 10 extra for a good game than be stuck with having paid 40 euros for a shit game.

File: cancer.jpg (40KB, 906x375px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 906x375px

went to read about ED on their forums and first thing I see

File: 1371606334891.jpg (93KB, 900x675px) Image search: [Google]

93KB, 900x675px

>>265533139
Pretty much this

>Pop into faction warzones
>Bounce around collecting the wrecks of destroyed players
>NPCs that far outgun you
>Blood thirsty pirates waiting for you to jump in at every zone
>More money than most other professions just from the drones you'll scoop.
>The inevitable gate camp on the way back to Jita where you lose everything

What a thrilling experience

for like two days then you realize EvE gives you no sense of progression and you dont actually need that money

>>265539276
Well you'll get to play slightly earlier too, there'll be a "gamma" phase after the beta.

>>265531696
http://youtu.be/KbaLJTGHkj8

can already do it anon

>>265539287
Just wait until everyone tells her to fuck off.

File: 1381856444001.jpg (7KB, 251x242px) Image search: [Google]

7KB, 251x242px

Can someone stop saying ED and just tell me the full name of the game jesus fucking christ.

>>265539474
You're not very good at this reading thing, aren't you?

>>265537885
>>265538062
please respond

>>265539474

See
>>265535752
>Elite Dangerous
>>265528113
>Elite: Dangerous
>>265528276
>Elite Dangerous
>>265535981
>Elite Dangerous
>>265538019
>Elite Dangerous

>>265539474
It's been mentioned several times. Alternatively, engage brain and just Google "space sim ED", see what is the first result.

File: betamax1.jpg (27KB, 940x195px) Image search: [Google]

27KB, 940x195px

>>265539427
aint happening
only whiteknighting and strong independent womyn answering
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=43025

>>265525516
>instead of designing the game to be pleasurable at all stages of character development we choose to focus on the end game and make people who don't want to pay to get there trudge through the badly designed bits first.

>>265539829
You missed all those telling her "why the fuck didn't you apply?"

File: whiteknighttotheresque.jpg (39KB, 948x312px) Image search: [Google]

39KB, 948x312px

>>265539829

>>265539628
Might be in pretty bad shape with that equipment as it's pretty old. Are you able to run modern games at reasonable framerates with it? Elite isn't anything too taxing but it is what I would consider on par with current-gen systems.

As of now, Elite doesn't even have a "Low" texture setting so the only way you're going to squeeze significant performance out is by lowering the resolution. If you want to just focus on trading, that's probably fine but any combat and you'll want better framerates / resolution.

I dont get all these people saying "yeah well you can play ed right now so its better"
I can play star citizen right now too, hell I just spent the last three hours racing in my shitty aurora starter ship, and I had a blast.

>>265540169
I think it's more ",it's better" than "so it's better".

File: Boneservice.jpg (12KB, 335x241px) Image search: [Google]

12KB, 335x241px

>>265531696
This is exactly what I want to be able to do in a video game.

>>265540169
There's no arguing that SC right now is pretty shit, while ED has actually interesting gameplay despite still being quite barebones.

ED is also going to be released at the end of the year, while SC won't have progressed the slightest by then.

>>265538545

>are you seriously arguing that starting a chainsaw with the guide bar between your legs is a good idea?

It's a commonly taught technique, especially with the larger industrial saws.

>and even the safety throttle and brake can and will fail sometimes

...and when it does the chain won't spit at all.

As I said, it's time to remove yourself from the gene pool.

>>265540169
You can play the actual main part of ED right now as opposed to some small game modes like in SC. That might be what they're referring to.

If both games came out today in their current state, I'd absolutely say Elite is the better game. They aren't though. That's why I don't see a point to arguing which game is objectively "better". The means and methods of development are fair game for debate though, I think.

>>265540525
>>265540365
>all this grasping at straws
Whatever you say to justify your boring X clone I guess
http://youtu.be/sWvSokYCvA8

>>265528113
Chris Roberts included a conman hype bombardment and all the geeks fell for it

File: 1348686385928.jpg (32KB, 258x189px) Image search: [Google]

32KB, 258x189px

>>265540657
>>starting a chainsaw with the guide bar between your legs
>It's a commonly taught technique

never go full retard

File: corbra_earthlike.jpg (302KB, 1920x1082px) Image search: [Google]

302KB, 1920x1082px

>>265541058
>you can race
>you can fight

Wow.

Meanwhile people in ED are trading, smuggling, pirating, killing, exploring, waging war... and the game is precisely the opposite of X.

Just admit you don't know what you're talking about.

>>265534176
>star shillers

>>265541352
You can also buy and test out ships in-game freely.

>>265539421
Just wet myself a little bit. More like this?

>>265541303
Whether it's a commonly taught technique or not, I cannot say. That seems a bit odd.

I don't see a reason why anyone would ever start the chainsaw with it at your crotch but it wouldn't be a very big problem. Unless something's failed, you won't be sawing your cock off. Better safe than sorry though.

>>265539421

Holy shit that was amazing.

>>265541632
It's the only way you can hold it straight when you have no flat surface to hold it. Better have it between your legs than risk hurting yourself with it. By doing this, you prevent the chain from moving, reducing your odds to hurt yourself.

If any of the parts in a chainsaw fails, all that'll do is that it just won't work. The odds of one accidentally turning on are absolutely zero. They are designed that way.

>>265537694
it's the star shill children. everyone laughed at them for being stupid and now they lash out at everyone

>>265541843
I suppose so. I've never had to use one while not being able to fire it up from the ground.

>>265541802
It's even more amazing once you realize this guy always has flight assist off, so he just drifts away and needs to compensate for everything.

It's challenging enough flying that way, docking even more, and passing the entrance at the speed of sound is just insane.

>>265539421
That's not how thermal conduction works...

>>265542083
What do you mean?

>>265541617
Just check that guys channel. He has a bunch of videos with pseudo-narratives as well as some silly chit done simply for the challenge

There is also a video of a dude flying around the utility corridors of the stations that most people didn't even know existed but I can't find it at the moment...

>>265542140
I think he means you can't just radiate heat away like that in vacuum.

That's an entirely different tangent though and will derail the fuck out of this thread.

Can you build stations/use AIs to mine/other stuff like that in ED?

>>265537954
But will it run on a toaster?

>>265542367
Not really. You will be able to mine, although I'm not sure exactly how it will work.

You can't directly build stations but you will be able to attack / defend new ones being build to assist or hinder trade in certain sectors.

File: btwthatchainneedsadjusting.jpg (32KB, 450x219px) Image search: [Google]

32KB, 450x219px

>>265540657
>>265541843
>It's a commonly taught technique, especially with the larger industrial saws.

if you have to start the chainsaw in a standing position then you put the handle between your legs, not the fucking guide bar

maybe you're americlap and understand this comparison:
do you put a loaded gun in your mouth and pull the trigger, because the safety is on and nothing could happen?

>>265542502
Well that's kind of disappointing....so what's the lategame then, just getting yourself the biggest baddest ship you can?

File: Spektr radiators.jpg (2MB, 4528x3020px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 4528x3020px

>>265542358
You can though.

This is a picture of the radiators on the Spektr module of the now defunct Mir station. You can radiate heat very efficiently in a vacuum.

>>265539421
that was pretty crazy

File: 2011.04.12.01.52.09.jpg (446KB, 1704x1002px) Image search: [Google]

446KB, 1704x1002px

But you can do that in EVE right now.

>Elite Dangerous

>£50.00

>$92.60 Aud

Fucking seriously?

>>265542634
If you put the handle between your legs, not only do you increase the chances of accidentally starting it, but then, where are you holding it with your other hand? By the chain?

>>265542634

>if you have to start the chainsaw in a standing position then you put the handle between your legs, not the fucking guide bar

Nope.

>>265540146
do I need an overall upgrade or would getting a new CPU or gpu fix it?

>>265532710
>>265532879
[x] Toldasaurus Rex.

File: coOFbw0.jpg (210KB, 2048x1152px) Image search: [Google]

210KB, 2048x1152px

>>265542710
>Elite Dangerous ships have exposed radiators that can be sealed for silent running.
Okay, that's cool.

But would it cause the windows to frost over like that?

>>265543727
That's not really how it works.

In the above videos, he shuts down everything, engines, shields, sensors, leaving only life support, so the ship effectively doesn't produce any more heat. So the heat drops to zero.

Silent running is something completely different, it prevents heat from escaping by shutting the bllinds in front of the radiators, making you harder to detect, but not entirely invisible, plus you keep on building heat, and eventually the ship melts. Alternatively, you can eject your radiators from your ship, droping your heat in an instant.

"Silent running" isn't the same as droping your temperature, it's only masking it. "Cold running" is what he does in this video, and thus doesn't need to go into "silent running" and close the radiators because there's no heat to radiate.

So yes, those heat mechanics kinda make sense.

File: 1189842-ragnarok_068_1.jpg (292KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

292KB, 1024x768px

>>265537303
>2004 was 10 years ago
nigga i was 12 in 2004 how is that a bad thing

>>265544571
I had already left home and moved to a different continent in 2004.

Time flies.

File: monty-python-completely-different.jpg (30KB, 232x336px) Image search: [Google]

30KB, 232x336px

Will star sector ever get made or is it vaporware?

>>265545252
The same could be said of all space games

File: 1374263470216.gif (2MB, 458x334px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 458x334px

>>265545252
He's workin' on it. Just...slowly. It's a ton of fun with all the mods out there, but man I'm itching for the next patch.

>>265545252
Won't ever go anywhere. Development was so slow that the modding community had to give the game basic content and building on that they went further and made a simulated universe out of the game. Now there's no incentive for him to update at all. The stuff he does (handfull of systems, 1-2 ships, shallow and static trading) pales in comparision to what mods already do. There's no reason to give him money either, development will never speed up and he'll drop the game once he's growing tired of it.

>>265546627
The Great and All-Knowing Anon has spoken!

>adept still defending his $75 beta
Your game is so great it can't even keep one general alive.

File: adept.png (9KB, 519x335px) Image search: [Google]

9KB, 519x335px

>>265548229
No one likes Adept and he got banned from ED forums.

File: chris roberts in space.jpg (67KB, 1000x662px) Image search: [Google]

67KB, 1000x662px

>>265548229
>CR still defending his $54 million pre-alpha

How much will ED cost on release?

Not sure if I want to pay that much for the beta, even though it looks awesome.

>>265549463
About £30 I think.

So probably $40~

>>265549564
I can wait then. Should be coming out soon anyway, Q4 2014 I think.

>>265542158
I've been watching this guy's shit. I loved the entrance to space station at max velocity 'cause I've got illegal freight and don't want to be scanned one.

>>265549463
>>265549564
>>265549653
>the price of the final release of Elite: Dangerous will be £39.99 ($59.99 and €49.99)

Right now, the prices are £35/$50/40€, because preorder discount.

>>265549908
Thanks for the correction.

I'll wait until it hits 20 quid then I guess

>>265548606
>can't find an argument, so I'll just mention the whole sum
It's okay, Adept, not every space sim can get that much money :) E:D definitely can't.

>>265549463
$50 and you'll have to pay for every expansion like with WoW.

File: adept is a fag.png (26KB, 650x468px) Image search: [Google]

26KB, 650x468px

>>265550120
Your argument wasn't really better anon. Are you trying to say that you don't like space sims?

Also Adept hates me.

are there any vids of a large group of players doing teamwork and wrecking everything in ED?
all I see is lone wolfs

>>265550120
>Adept
He's as much of an ED fanboy as he is a SC fanboy.