As a spectator sport, this is the grift that keeps on giving. :brace-watching:

  • TornadoThompson [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    The stuff about CryEngine is interesting - the game is royally fucked beyond all shape or reason because of this and will never be fixed.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I sincerely commend the working class developers that took Chris Roberts' absurd and ignorant "turn this arena shooter engine into a space shooty pow pow everything in space simulator" mandate and kind of made it work. It took a lot of code sorcery and blood pacts, for sure.

      • TornadoThompson [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Oh, of course. I have experience of smashing things until they work but nowhere near this scale. Hats off to everyone involved that the thing actually runs albeit visually flying apart at the seams.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          With 13 years of development they could have written a new engine specifically for the job tailor made to the tasks they needed, solved networking in a way that lets 500 people being in an instance simultaneously and made more than they currently have.

          The tech has been laughably mismanaged.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
            hexagon
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            2 years ago

            Chris Roberts is a (literal, that's what he was doing after Wing Commander and before Star Citizen) used car salesman with delusions of grandeur that doesn't just have a similar sort of narcissism as :my-hero: , but actively inserted himself into the lore of his own grift as :my-hero: but even more bazinga and humanity saving.

            https://starcitizen.tools/Chris_Roberts_(lore)