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I can help. The game is in two major modules right now; Hangar Module and Arena Commander. Two more major modules are planned prior to release; FPS Module and Social Module. Squadron 42 is separate and as long as you have Alpha or Beta access you will get to play it at some stage prior to...

Link to the starmap info from the livestream. I just thought it was interesting. Keep in mind this is very early days work on it but you get a bit of an idea of how it should look. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqX9....be&t=3h27m21s

The funny thing is they actually discussed mining to some detail during the Livestream (Tony's team from Texas) since they have parts of it already working internally but it's still mostly in R&D. Long story short they are using voxel tech to build out asteroids. So think of it a bit more...

Arena Commander 1.0 launched officially on Friday. They wanted to hold it back another week due to the bugs but they wanted to send most of the staff away for two weeks for the holidays and wanted people to test it. It's playable apart from the disconnect issue that's still being worked on by...

Yeah my thoughts exactly. Fun > Realism unless Fun = Realism. If something is nothing but frustrating no matter what it needs to get binned and IMO the delay is that thing. There is no single good reason I can come up with to keep it. It wouldn't be the first system they changed...

I think I may know why. This is the #1 issue with SC IMO. One of the reasons for this feeling are gimballed thrusters. It takes a fraction of a second for it to adjust to the new heading so it feels.... off. Honestly they just need to make it faster and say in-fiction that some technology...

It's already possible for a good player in a stock Aurora to beat a less skilled player in a Hornet. This is a good thing. We want this type of gameplay. I think it would be horrible if just getting gear meant instawin as that would definitely propagate the "pay to win" model. But yeah if...

Yeah if you are expecting X-Wing/Tie-Fighter gameplay you may as well bow out now. The racing game will be the test-bed for atmospheric flight. Currently it uses the same physics model as space so it's really inaccurate. People will have to re-learn how to fly in an atmosphere. Indeed this...

Yeah this is a huge concern for me as well. I know the design guys are beating themselves up trying to make it work but I feel like they were asked to deliver the impossible. Thankfully they have a ton of people testing it and commenting on it, from the noobs off the street expecting X-Wing...

I'm going to assume you haven't played the game since the last patch. The controls, from my understanding, have been completely revamped. It's not 100% where I would consider start playing with it but from those who have it's like night and day from the previous build. I can't do a good...

Yeah procedural generation would not have made it into the game with the original game as described. It would have been exactly like Privateer no more no less. For better or worse, depending on your point of view, they are going with a partial procedural generation to help fill out the world...

I can't take anyone seriously that calls SC vaporware at this point. That may have been a valid claim two years, even one year ago but now? Are you serious or just trolling to try and create drama? Case in point the comment about languages is baseless fodder. They hired two guys to sit in...

Email them and tell them to fix it. If nobody complains they won't ever fix that shit. Honestly that sounds like a horrible design decision or it's in there and not working... like the ME3 store. Fuck you EA. Fix your stupid in-game store! /sigh

I can't argue with the point about how they make $$. People are already begging them to monetize FPS (weapons/gear/armor/vehicles) which will give the Goons the next dead horse to blow the forums up over. As for Elite it seems to me like it's DA:2 all over again in terms of development...

I was kind of hoping they could pull off very large sandbox play areas but it sounds to me like what sounds great on paper is not "fun" to actually play. Now I'm kind of happy that SC is "only" shipping with like 70-100 star systems. However we may run into the exact same issue as you guys...

Oh this will be long. For those reading and not wanting to read a wall of text skip to my very last paragraph which best sums up the whole affair. Can we agree there were two kinds of promises made? The Pledge Goals: which at this point vary between Wave 4 ships not expected until 2016...

Once again you are assuming this game is being made the same way other games are made or you think it should have been made the same way as most other games. If it's the first I think I have already explained it in detail and it's tiring to repeat one's self. If it's the second sure that's a...

Well I have great news for you. They are actually listening to players so why not come up with a great way to handle mission/questing and propose it to them? They actually read that shit and often respond when their duties allow. If I had an amazing brain that can come up with the best...

Ding Ding. There are many other RPGs out there. The Witcher for example! Or pick up a book and read it. There is a ton of quality fantasy/sci-fi out there to keep you interested for a very long time.

This comes up every other month and I feel like it's catch 22. There is tons of bitching here and elsewhere about game studios not listening to fans but where do you draw the line? Should they take the top 10 best ideas and ignore everything after that? Would that be logically reasonable to...

You guys clearly don't know Angry Joe. Had you bothered to check his previous reviews you would know he has no trouble shitting on big budget games and does so quite frequently. I haven't seen a single review he did that wasn't spot on. My only complaint about his show is giving a mark out of...

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The CIG devs have talked about this. Long story short is they don't want to clobber you every time you step out of your comfort zone but they also don't want you to walk on a peddle of roses no matter where you go. The long and short of it currently is that the types of ships, and NPCs on...

Not exactly. Chris doesn't want gamey elements like that. The NPC will chat to you and based on various status effects such as your rep, how you respond to them in the conversation etc they may or may not offer you various missions. It's even supposed to be context sensitive to how you look...

Ok let me clarify. What I described is an NPC giving out a unique mission just for you. It may appear for others as well but only from that NPC. If you both run to the same "instance" it's an NPC mission and you can't interact with one another except with those you invite. That way griefing...

You will be allowed to do various store/NPC/PC interactions via your MobiGlas attached to your forearm. The rough idea atm is to let you do the more grindy aspects quickly via MobiGlas but force you to physically interact with people and things for more special things. An example would be...

Someone was nice enough to capture the parts of the event that matter in the early section. The parts that relate to FPS start at around the 6min mark. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPG-rVu_EQw

The DA:I soundtrack is widely shared on YT atm. People are pulling it out of the game files I guess but some of it was released by EA for promotional purposes. I'm only bringing it up because of how amazing the soundtrack for this game is. Most of their game sound tracks have one or two...

FPS reveal video is up. Enjoy. Couple of points as you watch this. Animations are place holder. They are doing a full mo-cap shoot early next year that will include the Push/Pull implementation in zero-G, dragging teammates, cover system etc. Expected release is "many months" away but it...

Ok so they showed off Skyhold today. However what finally broke down my wall about buying this game was a comment made in Part 2 of this video which you can access at the very end of this first video found here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUm6K3AZuN8 Basically Bioware has now confirmed...

I honestly don't know how well they get remunerated. From further reading into working in the industry your pay scales drastically from concept artist to programmer to systems engineer. There is some suggestion that an entry level programmer makes about 50-60k and it scales up drastically with...

I hope you are pulling my leg. I never meant to mean everyone does it. But it's very prevalent in the vocal minority and among the less wired in individuals that aren't necessarily gamers but do purchase big name games the same way they consume Hollywood films. The same people who think game...

Now lets switch gears for a minute. Perhaps this is a good time to talk about the game industry culture or lack thereof. There is some shit flinging going on from some former CIG staff saying things like it's the most toxic environment they ever worked in, although he somewhat backtracked...

No that landing was assisted and that's how it will be for every planetside location until they open up the worlds maybe for PU 2.0 or 3.0. In fact I hope we don't get manual planetside landings for PU 1.0 because it's a fuckton of complexity based on how one dev explained it. They need to...

I thought my parting sentence summed that up rather well. There is what they tell us and then there is what we get. They just hope it's one and the same in the end. That's almost impossible with such an open development. Here is one example that I can easily give just off the top of my...

I don't have any inside info. I wish. All I have is what they tell us in their letters on the site, interviews with various devs etc. I find this stuff interesting so I do remember quite a bit about it. The closest approximation of a game that I personally played would be limited...

Now there's something I won't spend money on. But in reality anything planetside will not be player owned at launch. You will only be able to lease factory space to refine ore or build parts of starships and other equipment required for the galactic economy. Nobody will be able to contest it...

Well my Org needed a mobile HQ so I sacrificed two pricy ships for one. It all works out.

Correct. Except the tank doesn't cast guard. It's part of various abilities they use against a target. It's not a shout ability or at least I haven't seen a single ability for them like that which granted guard. Also as they mentioned guard, barrier and healing can be gained through items...

Just finished watching CitizenCon. Well they showed off the PU for the very first time. It's very rough. Basically they had a Constellation jump in and Sean Tracy was on stage piloting it manually to a station over a planet. He could get up and move around towards the back of the ship...