Dude, where's the voice over? I want your commentary in your dogfight videos.

nin wrote on Jun 3, 2014, 09:00:
"Wanna buy another ship?"

Nah, I am good :)

SpectralMeat wrote on Jun 3, 2014, 08:30:
Chris Roberts - makes promises he won't deliver on
Maybe he is too busy recording his next youtube web video series about office chair setups for the hangar module.

"Wanna buy another ship?"

Chris Roberts - makes promises he won't deliver on
Maybe he is too busy recording his next youtube web video series about office chair setups for the hangar module.

SpectralMeat wrote on Jun 2, 2014, 08:43:
So where is the daily update on the progress of the Arena Commander that Chris promised?

It's a stretch goal. He's got to get to $45M for that.

Well, you know, it was a 'Chris promise' so what you have to do is think of how cool it would be if it happened and then send in money to help make it happen .... at some time.

So where is the daily update on the progress of the Arena Commander that Chris promised?

nin wrote on May 30, 2014, 08:55:

SpectralMeat wrote on May 30, 2014, 08:08:
and of course just as I get to work this pops up
https://twitter.com/DavidBraben/status/472348399153721345

Yeah, I'm getting very close to pulling the trigger. It's not like I don't have 3 million other things to play. but I can't tell you the last time I played a space sim.

edit: Anyone that plays today/tonight, I'd love to hear impressions - thanks!

I am planning to play tonight, but I am sure if you do some search on youtube you will find a bunch of beta vids popping up today.

SpectralMeat wrote on May 30, 2014, 08:08:
and of course just as I get to work this pops up
https://twitter.com/DavidBraben/status/472348399153721345

Yeah, I'm getting very close to pulling the trigger. It's not like I don't have 3 million other things to play. but I can't tell you the last time I played a space sim.

edit: Anyone that plays today/tonight, I'd love to hear impressions - thanks!

This comment was edited on May 30, 2014, 09:04.

and of course just as I get to work this pops up
https://twitter.com/DavidBraben/status/472348399153721345

Yeah, in the 2010s it's like I bought a sloppy console port I gotta go buy a new video card/motherboard/CPU more RAM, and, of course, a console controller for my pc.

Flo wrote on May 30, 2014, 06:32:
Oh yea, I hear you
Damnit, I actually have to go out and buy a joystick, which is totally 90s

90s would be like
Oh new game came out I gotta go buy a new video card/motherboard/CPU/more RAM

Oh yea, I hear you
Damnit, I actually have to go out and buy a joystick, which is totally 90s

Just using any excuse to show off my favorite Sim:

F86 Sabre wicked!

The Sabre is coming to DCS in July, the short clip was taken from the new rendering engine EDGE which is not yet in the game, but is in internal beta testing. There are no post-processing visual effects in the video!! In case anyone is wondering, the Sabre's adversary the Mig-15 is also in production.

nin wrote on May 29, 2014, 23:06:
So SM, if I buy in tomorrow, once the new beta goes live, do I still get the expansion?

Of course!
Premium Beta comes with all expansions.
The way I've looked at it if I wait until the game comes out I'd pay $50 for the game plus $50 for the expansions.
If I want in the premium beta and play today it costs me $50 more, and I support an amazing game to be made today.
I threw $50(extra) at games I should have never done.
Frontier well deserve my money, but I understand others who decide to wait or don't have the cash to spend on the game. It is all good.
The game client was just updated this morning so beta is imminent
Today is going to suck at work!
https://twitter.com/EliteDangerous/status/472314702799052800

Awaiting my Elite Premium Beta!

101st! Ha!

Regarding DCS: World. It truly is the best, complete combat sim experience today. Ive been a regular on-off player ever since the Blackshark days. Best part is that they keep adding to the existing modules all the time. For example recently the F15C got a new flight model, which at this point is probably the best, or rather the most complete in the game.

Here is another simple example of how awesome the sim is. Yesterday I was messing around in the quickfly mission with the Mustang p51 and configuring my face tracking software, basically its a one on one vs an enemy FW190D AI plane. So we are getting it on going in to rolling scissors and somehow he gets stuck on my six and I cant shake him off. So I dive to the deck and do a really hard pullup and left turn at the last minute. Suddenly I cant see him, he is nowhere, I do a few turns eyballing high and low and cant find him anywhere. Figuring its a glitch or bug, I land on a nearby field and save the .trk file (replay) to see what happened. Anyway to cut it short, apparently as I was doing my last manouver the FW190 lost control and stalled, then promptly crashed as he was too low to recover. Awesome sauce!

Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

We are fools for Christ Robert's sake, but ye are wise in Christ Roberts; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

Mordecai Walfish wrote on May 29, 2014, 22:14:
I'm surprised to not see VGReagle barfing all over this by now.. his mom must have taken him to Chuck-E Cheese tonight

Ahh, Chuck-E Cheese. Even as a kid, I remember thinking: "well this pizza isn't great, but damned if that animatronic band isn't horrifying."

Also, I think it was required for at least one kid to piss in the ballpit daily.

*EDIT* More on topic: The spectacle around this game continues to amuse and depress me. Regardless of how the actual game turns out, psychologists could study the circus around the game for decades and keep finding new flaws in the human psyche to point out.

SpectralMeat wrote on May 29, 2014, 22:57:
In case any of you wanted to give the DCS A10C a try, this is how you start her up:
http://youtu.be/8gHE-nwqRzg

First comment under the video is priceless

So SM, if I buy in tomorrow, once the new beta goes live, do I still get the expansion?

Saw the minimum was like a 2XX spec card, so I'm going to give what I have now a go before deciding on an upgrade.