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The official answer seems to be: CIG trying to get as many people to the Manchester office and he may or may not be unwilling to relocate. That’s just my guess though.
GamesIndustry has additional comment from CIG on the matter.
For what it’s worth, he’s been replaced by Richard Tyrer (director of Squadron 42).
I mean, they’re adding big box delivery so…
Jokes aside, non-aggressive unlawful gameplay could be focused on pure stealth, for example: to steal or plant something without being seen as an intended goal of the mission giver. Maybe add racing on a private property? It’s definitely something more difficult to come up with and implement than just shooting people in a different location but they will have to do it if they really want to make the game into a sandbox for everyone and not just action players.
Sure, as the name suggests unlawful gameplay will always skirt the law, I just don’t think everything has to be about murder. That’s just me though, hopefully peaceful game loops will make their way into the game at a more reasonable pace after recent development shift.
Sure but they specifically talked about non-aggressive approach to unlawful play style.
Besides, it’s not really a huge deal. Just making fun of how everything in SC has to be related to combat in one way or another.
I love how good chunk of “non-aggressive” unlawful gameplay consisted of killing without rising alarms. Very cool…
It does! They showed it off during CitizenCon and talked about it in this video.
It also suppose to have a list with various POI located in the system (stations, moons, planets), custom markers (not sure if they’re targeted for 3.23) and some other stuff I’m probably forgetting right now. It should be way more usable than what we’re used to.
Fair enough. In that case I don’t think I can be of any help at the moment but I’ll keep you in mind if I stumble into something with such characters.
May I interest you in Hedon Bloodrite? It’s orcs instead of goblins but there’s plenty of thickness.
It does a good job at pointing out flaws with Steam UI and how they could be fixed (something Valve is apparently unable to do themselves).
While the design in this video isn’t perfect, it’s way better than the current shitshow and I don’t see why people (especially those who know what they’re doing) shouldn’t remind a multibillion company they should do better.
Steam page (demo available).
Good job, should’ve link it myself… (; -_-)
There’s also demo on Steam.
I think these are new - there’s a comment on the project page asking about “playing the classic Red Alert maps” and one of the devs replied they would require some modifications to work.
Besides, original missions can be played with OpenRA so I don’t think they would port them here without at least adding support for the new factions (which in turn would require changes in story?).
That’s just my guess based on some research though, I’m not a specialist when it comes to these projects.
Just Windows, Mac and Linux. There’s no Android build (that’s what would be needed for such tablet).
While I don’t care about using alien ships Syulen looks really cool. C1 too, I guess.
Storm on the other hand… this thing should be like half the size it is now. I may be exaggerating a bit but one-man “light” tank should not be this big. I also can’t get used to the track pods being completely static - they look like they should be split in two and act like suspension (even though it wouldn’t make sense with tracks).
Hell, at least make them move in relation to the main body.
That said, MLRS variant looks cool - if only for the rocket barrage.
Game Mode Updates:
Ship Inclusions Balance:
Ship Additions to all game modes:
Squadron Battle:
Pirate/Vanduul Swarm:
Scoring Balance:
Man, I have the GBC re-release from LRG but haven’t played it yet. I should get to it one of these days…
Can’t wait to play this one as well.
Besides already mentioned methods there’s also Lemmy Community-Browser.
It has a search bar and ability to toggle specific instances in case you want to avoid some of them. A bit simpler version of Lemmy Explorer mentioned by @DogMuffins.
I guess it depends on your motivation for said project.
Do you enjoy the process of working on the project? Do you use it to learn new things and improve the skills required for it? Or all you care about is the end project?
If it’s the last one I can see why you could get discouraged but if it’s the other two then not really.
If I work on something specific I do it because I want to create this thing using my skills, experience and ideas. I also try to do as much of it as I can on my own, without using other’s people assets etc. For me, the work I put in is an important of the process and each step towards completion makes me a little proud and happy that I can create something.
At the same time I’m a weirdo who tends to use less efficient methods if they aren’t as fun to use when working on personal projects. I don’t really care about using AI in the first place so that might skew my view a bit.
There’s also the fact that AI isn’t omnipotent. It makes mistakes just like us and I’d rather fix my own mistakes since this way I know what I did, how I did it and where to look when things go wrong.
Sorry for the word salad. Your post gave me a reason to spew some unfiltered thoughts about an issue I never really thought about.
It’s kind of funny reading this considering vast majority of CIG’s resources has been focused on S42 for years.
I’m not gonna argue about it though. I’m fully aware people backed the project for different reasons and in situation like this there’s no way to please everyone. I’m definitely happy for all the folks that are more interested in the single-player campaign than me.
Let’s hope with all those recent improvements they’ll finally be able to speed up the process and deliver something for all of us.
I mentioned it in my day 2 impressions but I’ll repeat it here as well: after years of waiting I’m not particularly invested in S42 - both because I don’t have much hopes for writing and because I feel it slowed down progress on PU (part I actually care about) WAY more than I’d like.
Despite that I do have to say that seeing this showcase brought some of the initial interest back. Let’s see if they can deliver something really worthwhile.
Not a bad episode but I find it really funny how Nate talked about Idris being “packed” - it’s a space ship and a military one at that, shouldn’t “packed” be the goal here?!