PAX Australia Livestream - 10.00am Saturday morning

[TeaLeaf]

Updated Roadmap

By end 2014
-Arena Commander 1.0

2015 (in approximate order)
-FPS module (likely in Q1)
-planetside/social module
-engine moved to 64 bit (addresses large space imprecision resulting from 32 bit math!)
-Arena Commander 2.0
-Squadron 42 Episode 1 (back half of the year)
-Planetside expands to Persistent Universe Alpha (before end of 2015)

[TeaLeaf]

Livestream over, I'm going to re-watch it later on Youtube as I missed chunks due to the Twitch stream dropping about 5 times (probably due to too many of us hammering the bandwidth & servers).

I'm off to watch F1 FP3 now!

Enjoy :cheers::dmw::3cheers:

[Obsydian]

I don't do FPS (too much going on for my poor brain to take in) but that did look awesome!

[OldBloke]

I don't do FPS (too much going on for my poor brain to take in) but that did look awesome!

I certainly wont be looking for any PVP/PVE FPS but I am looking forward to the immersion of a well designed and implemented FP (no S ).

[TeaLeaf]

A lot of us are with you on that Obsydian, we're too old, too slow or just plain cranky enough to not do well in a fast-paced 'no penalty for death' FPS.   However, if it gets cautious and tactical then we usually excel.  Brains > Brawn is what kept dMw in Division 1 of the Counter-Strike league for so many years, it wasn't our lightning fast reactions, more our ability to out-think, out-plan and generally out-git our opponents!

If the Tactical is high enough, then we might see FPS in a different light.   However like Oldie, my main interest will be in the PU not the FPS.

[Galatoni]

out-git our opponents!

Great. This made me laugh. I'm totally in agreement with you on the FPS stuff though!

[albert]

The AMD vs nVidia choice is a real interesting one. Such a big game release for AMD if they win it and the loser will suffer market share big time.

[Tutonic]

-engine moved to 64 bit

That's not a small task, could easily push it into 2016.

AMD are currently miles behind Nvidia, but there's time for that change....[/COLOR]

[Twyst]

AMD are currently miles behind Nvidia, but there's time for that change....[/COLOR]

As some of you may recall, I used to play Warcraft on Linux via WINE.
I don't do much gaming on Linux these days (the games just don't work at all via WINE which blows chunks) but I'm super excited when SC announced Linux support.

Why is this relevant?
Well, the nVidia driver is on par performance wise with the Windows counterpart.
The AMD driver blows chunks (ie expect a 30% performance drop).
This has been true for a long time and I just don't see it changing, thus I will *only* buy nVidia cards. Plus I now have a GSYNC monitor so kinda locked in now anyway.

[albert]

And with CIG support AMD might deliver awesome support for Linux. I'd hold off my card choices for now.

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[Vargen]

OMG I want to play this NOW! :woot2:

[albert]

So has anyone in CIG actually explained what will happen if you die in FPS?

I can't see having to go out and buy a new character, send your inherited ships to another character etc. every time on FPS mode. Not that it's not a great idea to make death really death but surely being too realistic will put people off playing FPS and the only people that'll be left are ARMA fanboys fighting NPCs or Iron Men Pro gamers who never lose.

Want to know the reality of this ambitious concept.

Cheers,

Bert

[Galatoni]

Clones?

[Tutonic]

Eve's 'backup' clone system seems like a good fit.

[OldBloke]

So has anyone in CIG actually explained what will happen if you die in FPS?

Same as dying in space I'd guess.

Death of a Spaceman