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Livestreams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCtdyNFwQWo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C253ySfEguU (unofficial, 30 second delay)
https://www.twitch.tv/starcitizen

Liveblog:
TBD

We're excited to be back at Gloria Theater on 9pm Friday, August 25th for another great show. Hosted by Chris Roberts, showcasing some of what we've been working on this year, and delivering some never-seen-before gameplay!

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/16061-Gamescom-2947-Details

2016 Gamescom Presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-3YBuFI3iI

In between screaming matches in the Community thread it's been suggested to post what you think would make the presentation a success and what would make it a failure.

Success

• Showing a cohesive game world with fleshed out gameplay loops, rather than a disparate collection of assets. You can make some beautiful contrails and atmospheric re-entry effects that function in isolation, but now's the time to start showing us a game instead of a tech demo.
• Concrete release info for v1.0 of any of the modules.

No change

• A gameplay/tech demo of a very narrow "vertical slice" that is just going from A to B of separate assets that trigger on pre-scripted command (what they showed last year)
• Graphs, graphs and more graphs
• No further release details

Failure

• Announcing delays
• Announcing new and unimplemented features
• Ships, ships, and more ships for whales to buy

edit:

My reactions throughout:

• How long are we going to spend talking about facial animation and lip synching? It's impressive stuff that one day all high-end online social games will use but right now it's like showing the original Euphoria Animation demo videos when I came for GTA4. This is more tech demo stuff.
• JUST HIT RESET!
• Oh God, why did you hit reset? It's taken 29 minutes just to get back to where we were.
• 
• 
• Special edition Star Citizen web camera
  

  

Ok, jokes about live mishaps aside, this was not reassuring. It was a string of tech demos duct-taped together that was flying apart at the seams. Getting this to work with the "Massively" part of MMO looks unthinkable at this point

 

[Sou Da]

It's happening again.

 

[Dictator93]

Get PSYCHED!

Spoiler

please keep the thread clean dooders

 

[Alexander DeLarge]

I hope we get to see some of the further 3.X features in action.

 

[Michael Armbrust]

I hope they show a lot of alien stuff. It feels like they've been teasing that for a while.

 

[belvedere]

The other thread has devolved into madness so thank you for this.

 

[fanboi]

But what do you do in this game? Oh wait, that was for another game.

*Checks troll book*

Erehm, why does CR drive a ferrari? HIS EMAILS

BENGAZI

 

[Akuun]

deleted

 

[Widge]

Success - arriving before Half Life 3

 

[Blobbers]

I swear I saw that bearded guy on the left speedrun a Hitman game once

 

[bounchfx]

very cool, looking forward to news regarding the game. hopefully big news.

 

[SeanNoonan]

Hype!

 

[Memorabilia]

Serious questions:

Is there any kind of timetable when this is going to be finished?

How does the pricing structure work? Do I need to spend a couple hundred bucks to have a decently good experience?

I was really hyped about this game a few yrs back, but pretty much gave up when development seemed to drag on forever. I'd love to get back onboard but not sure where to begin. I guess I can start googling... But figure GAF is a better starting point....

 

[Eolz]

Looking forward to

Spoiler

the reactions

 

[Dictator93]

BENGAZI

Spits out incredibly delicious beer.

 

[Alexander DeLarge]

Serious questions:

Is there any kind of timetable when this is going to be finished?

How does the pricing structure work? Do I need to spend a couple hundred bucks to have a decently good experience?

I was really hyped about this game a few yrs back, but pretty much gave up when development seemed to drag on forever. I'd love to get back onboard but not sure where to begin. I guess I can start googling... But figure GAF is a better starting point....

A basic package like the Aurora will get you into the game immediately and into release, it's buy2play and further pledges are basically skipped progression. You'll be able to get every ship in the game in game.

 

[Skade]

Serious questions:

Is there any kind of timetable when this is going to be finished?

Nope. Or : later that we'd like.

How does the pricing structure work? Do I need to spend a couple hundred bucks to have a decently good experience?

You don't need to put much money in it. Just one of the starter packages (40 bucks i think ?) would be enough. You can always hop in someone else ship (with or without him) and have fun. And hopefully, we'll soon be able to buy ships in game with in-game money.

 

[belvedere]

Here we go.

Question mark.

 

[Dictator93]

It starts now, the first day of the rest of your lives SC-GAF.

 

[mnannola]

I think something is happening

 

[Off-Kilter]

Here we goooo

 

[mnannola]

Im already bored. I want content.

 

[LowParry]

Is something suppose to happen or....?

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Chris Roberts: Whoa, there's plenty of meat in that demo. Throw in some AI, some gameplay objectives, narrative, baby you've got yourself a game!
Backers: I think I want my money back...

 

[nubbe]

space phone
stop it, do something worthwhile

 

[artsi]

This is one damn boring demo.

 

[Sax Russel]

Atmospheric composition though!

 

[kmag]

Space spreadsheets. I know they need to show this, but it's so unengaging.

 

[nubbe]

I want to run in bars!

 

[~Cross~]

So what they learned from last years presentation: Dont bore people to death with power point presentations. Their solution for this year? Bore people to death with UIs instead.

 

[Landford]

Fuck, its friday, I want to run to a bar.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

switching between normal movement and controller-like panning for cinematic presentation effect

edit: this game has some fantastic bokeh going on

 

[TheGameshark]

lol this is hilarious

 

[Landford]

Most realistic player chat, a girl using a male avatar to escape online abuse.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

I shall not believe!

 

[nubbe]

slow motion movement
fuck

 

[Interficium]

what the fuck

 

[Trace]

This is some weird shit.

Love it.

 

[~Cross~]

This is what 156 million dollar production looks like lol

 

[JCH!]

What the hell are they even doing right now :'D

 

[Veldin]

E3 2010 levels of awkward and uncomfortable.

 

[Alexander DeLarge]

People keep spamming cringe in chat whenever the animation stuff is shown. What's cringey about facial tracking? Idiots.

Edit: Oh god the acting.

 

[eyeball_kid]

But what do you do in this game? Oh wait, that was for another game.

I was watching the Star Citizen multiplayer stream the other day and the hosts kept pointing out how great their procedurally generated planets were. They didn't even have the decency to say who they got that idea from. It feels a bit like they're trying to do everything that every other sci-fi space game is doing.

 

[mercenar1e]

they talked about facial tech several times this year.. lets move on.

 

[HelloMeow]

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

People keep spamming cringe in chat. What's cringey about facial tracking? Idiots.

chat can't handle players talking

 

[LowParry]

I mean...these are cool but for gaming purposes...I dunno...

 

[JCH!]

People keep spamming cringe in chat whenever the animation stuff is shown. What's cringey about facial tracking? Idiots.

Facial tracking is not cringey. How they are showing it and the 'plz pause, plz, plz, pause' is a bit though...

 

[~Cross~]

haHAA

 

[Steejee]

Face tech is neat but this all feels like side dishes to a main course that's not quite there.