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[Leonorai]

On the other hand your old employees are all tired and angry all the time. Not to mention the impact on quality.

It works for retail, it works for everyone else too apparently.

CEO's win, everyone else gets to suck dick until retirement.

 

[Bradylama]

Quality work and productivity only counts when you're producing luxury goods. Everybody else can get Chinese knockoffs with lead paint, while keeping the business going long enough for somebody to cash out big before the stocks crash.

 

[Haba]

But aren't games luxury goods?

 

[Bradylama]

But aren't games luxury goods?

Your washing machine is a "luxury", my nigga. Luxury goods these days are top shelf items. The goods that are intentionally kept out of reach for us plebes lest we sully them with our common color.

 

[Infinitron]

The FPS is here: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14269-FPS-Demo

 

[Grunker]

No one talks like that in multi-player

EDIT: shooting looks like CoD and the environtments are black and brown. Very unexciting compared to the space gameplay.

 

[The Fish]

The FPS is here: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14269-FPS-Demo

That team communication is one of the most gauche things I've ever seen. Awful.

 

[J_C]

I can't put my finger on it, but something is very off in that shooting and the movement.

 

[Lunac]

Going to turn out to be the biggest con of the century.


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[SuicideBunny]

those floaty reticules that are affected by objects look friggin weird.

 

[Drakron]

I don't understand the incentive to have such long work hours for prolonged periods of time, why not just hire more people to work normal hours?

Simple.

You are talking about 100+ teams, a lot are just basic technical stuff ... hiring more people just raises costs without speeding the process, especially in coding were less is more.

Most of those people go in when the game goes into actual production, not pre-production and they are entirely redundant after its over ... the long work hours come with the last stretch when design features are locked and its full speed to shipping.

 

[Blaine]

Each person hired also requires his or her own medical coverage benefits. Hire twice as many people? Pay for twice the coverage. It's therefore far cheaper to squeeze 50% more work out of 1/3 fewer workers. Yes, for-profit health care even affects video game development.

 

[polo]

I can't put my finger on it, but something is very off in that shooting and the movement.

Exactly my thoughts. Not sure what it is tho.

 

[Ulminati]

You'd think the CryEngine could do FPS.

 

[Avellion]

I can't put my finger on it, but something is very off in that shooting and the movement.

Combine animation based shootan and bad animations and you are guaranteed both bad gunplay and bad movement. Not to mention...

The FPS was outsourced to another team, and here is that team's previous game.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/nexuiz

 

[buzz]

I thought Nexuiz was considered decent though. I mean if you look at the reviews on metacritic, most of the negative ones are pretty retarded (too old-school for me, graphics suck, devs are racist etc.)

 

[Leonorai]

If anyone is seriously expecting most of the different modules to work as well as actual separate titles, you're naive as fuck.

It's going to be better than Freelancer and that's that. Sighing that it ain't a 10/10 is pretty unnecessary, it will not live up to the hype, so don't judge it as such.

People see the millions and automatically assume that money = quality, when they damn well know the industry has plopped down stinkers worth far more.

 

[Drax]

To be fair, the said they were using placeholder animations that will be updated after the incoming mocap sessions. If a system relies heavily on animation-based movement, that should influence things a bit.

 

[Lemon]

Going to turn out to be the biggest con of the century.


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Shades of Derek Smart really.

 

[Grotesque]

There is a clear discrepancy between what was promised before the FPS demo in the Q&A session and what the demo really showed.
A moron could argue that its still work in progress but I don't understand why they chose to show a Call of Duty clone instead the promised tactical shooter (infinite ammo and unrealistic bullet damage surely did not help).
Also the weapons look so uninteresting...

 

[NotAGolfer]

I still hope that this will be one of these games that are greater than the sum of their parts.
Therefore I don't really care if the FPS part is mediocre mechanically as long as it serves its purpose, mirrors what happens in the hopefully simultaneously happening space combat (including the chance that your boarding crew gets blown up with the ship you try to capture) and as long as its difficulty depends on class of ship/type of structure, externally inflicted damage etc.
The only thing that has to be outstanding is the space combat part, if that won't be good then the whole thing will be pointless.
And I hope they learned from X Stillbirth. That game also tried to add some gameplay elements from other genres, but it would have been better if it didn't. Running around on spce stations is only fun if there's something interesting there, not just repetitive stuff you could just as well do with a menu in the space sim part.

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

I still think that Chris Robert is the worst kind of person to be leading any kind of gaming project but, as I said... if the money's there and the willingness to spend the next five to ten years working on it is there as well? Bring it. I'll enjoy having a larf with this when I'm in my 30s. (It doesn't solve any of the issues the game will have with P2W though, but I finally understand why they thought that the process of selling ships would be necessary and I'd almost be inclined to agree with them. Almost.)

There, the thread went on long enough to see me have a change of heart. Group hug, everyone. Group hug.

 

[SuicideBunny]

There, the thread went on long enough to see me have a change of heart. Group hug, everyone. Group hug.

 

[Bradylama]

Lookin pretty smart in that Kriegsmarine uniform.

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

Fire? Swastikas? You knew just what to give me! Thank you.