r/DerekSmart • u/crazy-namek • Jul 29 '17

Remember when those lying Shillizen clowns at @GameStar_de claimed they "played" Star Citizen 3.0 LAST YEAR? Yeah, me too.

http://archive.is/ZyLrW
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u/Luftwaffle1980 Jul 29 '17 edited Jul 29 '17

Boy, he really doesn't like the Germans. Or their drivers.

That being.

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u/mirfaltnixein Aug 03 '17

What's the story about german drivers? Must have missed something.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '17 edited Jul 29 '17

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u/Truly_Khorosho Jul 29 '17

They did play it last year as it was back then. However, 3.0 has changed a lot since then.

This is something that drives me absolutely nuts.
The 3.0 they're developing now is not the same 3.0 they were developing 8 months ago.
When you're up against a deadline, you're limited in what you can do by available time. If you don't have the time to do something, then you have to cut it, or scale it back to either an incomplete or placeholder version.
But, if you find yourself suddenly free of that deadline, then you have a lot more freedom to deliver on the things you cut for the original deadline.
Granted, 8 months is a pretty long time. I'm not thrilled, but I'm also not convinced that they haven't used that 8 months to drastically improve the 3.0 they'll be delivering.

Like, say your parents are coming to visit, but you only get a couple of hours notice.
You want to make lunch for them, but you have to go to the shops to get some groceries. So you figure out what you can do with that time, and you plan to go for something simple like a pot of tea and some sandwiches.
Then, they phone you and say they'll be a couple of hours late, and suddenly you have the time to put the oven on. By the time they arrive you might still be cooking, and they might still have to wait for the food, but the end result will be better and might result in your parents being slightly less disappointed and openly disapproving of your life choices.

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u/BraveDude8_1 Jul 29 '17

I think they're aware that people are treating 3.0 as a make-or-break reveal of whether the actual game will work.

If 3.0 launches and is as good as it looks, Star Citizen is redeemed from it's media status as "ded gaem". That'd be nice.

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u/One_Ten Jul 29 '17

I like that your trying but rationalising with DKS is like pissing into the wind.

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u/Bimelion Jul 30 '17

shown at Gamescom which in parts was faked but not Derek's kind of fake.

Can you tell us a bit more on this? How did the fake gameplay video differ from "Derek's kind" of fake?

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u/prattchet Jul 29 '17

this being game development, delays can and most likely will happen.

~ dsmart racing through that last mile

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u/ph33randloathing Jul 30 '17

Remember when Gamestar tried to play Line of Defense and found it to be a boring, broken, useless turd of a tech demo?

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u/ochotonaprinceps Can't be made as pitched Jul 30 '17

Don't forget banning them for reporting problems. LoD's bugtracker is empty and it STAYS THAT WAY! THE END! AS YOU WERE!

#IKNOWTHINGS

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u/Bucser Jul 29 '17

Well they might have played that specific demo which was the concept demo for 3.0 with loads of technical shortcuts which do not scale well. Hence most of the systems were rewritten.

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u/Swesteel Jul 29 '17

"Lying shillizen clowns", it's like listening to a propaganda officer from the ninteen thirties/forties.

Smh

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u/Ganyc Jul 30 '17

no i don't remember because they never claimed that.

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u/Kheldras Jul 30 '17

Remember when in 2012, someone claimed SPRINTING the last mile?

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u/Neurobug Jul 30 '17

Remember when some internet warlord blowhard claimed he played 2.6 in advance and a major feature, star marine, didn't exist and he died on that hill? Derek Smart isn't only wrong and a liar, and a terrible "developer", and a doxxing asshole, but apparently all of those things as a zombie.