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Fine, I give up. I'm linking to the "new" Star Citizen/SquadronMemeNumber's CitizenCON trailer, for a very specific reason. (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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That reason is I've watched roughly and near-exactly this trailer five fucking years ago. You can still find it on Youtube if you bother to look. Fuck it, I'll do it myself. LOOK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMSGlZSL0DE

And that isn't the only time, or even the first. I'm genuinely amazed that this grift is so perfect that the same vaporware can get polished up again and again, spinning its wheels in place, and people on the official forum and in Youtube comments say they're in tears about this.

I won't say I respect the hustle because I don't lick boots, but I am truly impressed with how powerful this grift is that it's self-perpetuating with that little to show for it over half a billion dollars and over a decade later.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are they still using that? I remember even 10 years it was doubtful CryEngine could handle what they were trying to do.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's even weirder now.

After the grifters won in against CryTek for misuse of the engine, they kept mutating it over and over in-house but with weird tricks like the entire fucking solar system in the eternal alpha is actually the size of a Crysis map and absolutely everything in it is ultra-miniaturized to try to fit that map while space is also technically underwater al la Crytek physics characteristics which is why very weird and silly physics glitches that often violently kill player characters and their nerd chariots happen all the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can't wait until they add the remaining promised 99 star systems, cram all of it into the size of a Crysis map and make everything in it so tiny that quantum mechanics start applying to your ingame characters think-mark

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

they're using amazon lumberyard which is a fork of cryengine when they went kaput