it's been a while since I watched Pandorum, but i vividly remember that halfway through it turned into Paul Anderson's Resident Evil, complete with mutants and a survivalist woman kicking ass using kung-fu.
Now that's a poster right there
No that's not the point. During the announcement Todd said that you can explore the whole planet(when the planet New Atlantis is on was being showcased). This can be the case regardless of whether there's a seamless transition between space and surface(there's not). So as I see it, currently people assume that you can land wherever you want on the planet, kind of like in No Man's Sky; but unlike in that game there's going to be a loading screen. This is what I contest - I think it's going to be a single procgen square map, or several separate maps per planet; with the player being able to transition form one to another via the interface of the spaceship. But you will not be able to land wherever you want, only on one of those separate squares.
Sounds based. Did not watch it; there's been some opinions that its pretty corny, which kept me away from it. What I'd really like is for early Neil Blomkamp to have directed one of these.
That seems too rooted in cold war mindset to be accurate. But I'm not interested in speculating about these things. The situation has such a level of abstraction to it that a writer can take it in any direction while maintaining plausibility. To an extent even very unintuitive ideas can be "naturalized" once you pass it through multiple McGuffins. It's also the case that reality itself has a level of unpredictability to it. Quite recently someone has shown me a poem by a XIX century Chinese writer, that amounted to "the westerners may have the technology, but they fail to see the hidden order of things(they lack wisdom and so on)". Even today this is seen as cope; but it turned out to be true to a large extent. Another example is in small arms technology - post WW2 everyone thought bullpups are going to be the thing to use, but it turns out no one wants them anymore, and due to very down-to-earth reasons you'd likely miss, just like they did. Meanwhile the battle rifle is making a comeback. But I digress. In the aforementioned OC most threats were extraterrestrial in origin; it was only smaller states/groups that would try to manufacture bioweapons as a mean to find an edge and become a major power.
That qoute reminded me of playing Observation, a little of that feeling not knowing what's real.That seems too rooted in cold war mindset to be accurate. But I'm not interested in speculating about these things. The situation has such a level of abstraction to it that a writer can take it in any direction while maintaining plausibility. To an extent even very unintuitive ideas can be "naturalized" once you pass it through multiple McGuffins. It's also the case that reality itself has a level of unpredictability to it. Quite recently someone has shown me a poem by a XIX century Chinese writer, that amounted to "the westerners may have the technology, but they fail to see the hidden order of things(they lack wisdom and so on)". Even today this is seen as cope; but it turned out to be true to a large extent. Another example is in small arms technology - post WW2 everyone thought bullpups are going to be the thing to use, but it turns out no one wants them anymore, and due to very down-to-earth reasons you'd likely miss, just like they did. Meanwhile the battle rifle is making a comeback. But I digress. In the aforementioned OC most threats were extraterrestrial in origin; it was only smaller states/groups that would try to manufacture bioweapons as a mean to find an edge and become a major power.
Speaking of cold war period, there's a really cool short story by P.K. Dick on the subject of cybernetic weapons and total war doctrine, it even got a subpar movie adaptation with Peter Welles. It's called Second Variety. I do recommend. Really like this author, especially due to how disrespectful he is in terms of style. Like you can find him introducing several new characters only by name, with zero description of appearance, demeanor and such. Same with locations and tech. Really bold stuff and works wonders in terms of pacing. Very cutting-edge author imo, has his drawbacks especially in earlier works which are honestly not worth reading.
There's another story by him, this time really short, about a group of astronauts happily returning to earth, only to be detained and shot by their own without warning or any clues or so. It turns out that [REDACTED]. It's really clever. It's kind of in a tone of this meme:
u dont need fiction, reality is better; cold war was cover up for humongous spending to catch tech to alien threat after banking cartel colony on mars had fallen in sixties, but then it was all along plan of hostile galactic AI to elevate human species tech wise so they can eradicated by transhumanizm/implants. aliens that nazis made contact with were AI puppets.
Not many people are aware that exposure to cosmic rays in high atmosphere or outer space causes neurons to spontaneously depolarize, resulting in visual and auditory hallucinations. The most frequent kind of hallucination is seeing sparkles or flashes of light with eyes both open or closed, but any kind of hallucination is possible with pilots' liberal use of psychostimulants. Irradiation by cosmic rays is also the most frequent cause of UFO sightings by pilots when those sightings aren't corroborated by instrument readings (or sightings by instruments and not corroborated by pilots).
The short story is titled "Explorers We" from 1959, contained in the fourth volume of Philip K. Dick's collected stories (The Minority Report).
It's exceedingly plausible that you can explore the entire planet on foot without instancing as it's not at all different from how Bethesda's (and most other) open worlds have worked before. When you move around the world, the game loads in nearby cells of worldspace around you. To simulate a spherical planet, when the player reaches the "edge" the game simply needs to load in cells from other side. All you're doing is wrapping a 2d array. And the size of the planet to make this work convincingly need only be 3x the maximum draw distance (at 2x you could stand in one place and see the same object on both horizons). Maybe there's a little more engineering to deal with higher probability of cache misses, but I don't think it's a big deal.
is there footage that clearly indicates map curvature? i think square map is most likely; introducing curvature would fuck with engine unless they made drastic changes.
Wrapping a two-dimensional array would wrap both east/west and north/south in the same manner, which would simulate a toroid planet:
not just double barrel, its SQUARE BORE double barrel. INNVOATION my nger, just like apple; paint it gay white, change form a bit, reduce functionality and make sure it breaks easy without possibility to repair then overcharge for it = profit.
Thank you
I did not bother looking it up since I have the polish print, without the english titles; I also got the impression that our local releases of collected stories did not mirror the originals in terms of content - that's probably not true, now that I think about it, since I recall it being called The Minority Report as well.Yeah, that might be right. I am familiar with the basics behind it form my own dev-ing experiments. (The tiny detail I'm conflicted on is that I believe the cell system in previous beth games refers not to the entire parts of the map, but only to some meshes, objects and characters. So, say, the basic landscape is not loaded and unloaded on a whim, and they were still working with constraints to the world size etc. But I might be wrong about this and it may not even matter; that's how its going to work if they decide to go for full surface indeed.)
He's pointing to something important, even if wording is imperfect, and I agree with this observation. The consequence of a group of people weaponizing race and ethnicity to use as an ideological bludgeon is that unlike, say, in the 90's, if you want your issues and well-being as a person to matter, you need to have a racial/sexual/identity-based advocacy group backing you. This was not the case in the past. And it simply changes the rules for everyone. So as long as you want to matter, you need some of that sexism or racism - lets just call it exclusion - done or threatened on behalf of your group. Leftists have made exclusion the rule of the game, and he's still hesitant to play it, pointing to how it ruins the concept of public good and it's not okay and so on.
I'm not sure if players would notice when they're on the surface, but anyway you could modify the array slightly to wrap like a cube if you want to get a little closer.
Both Nietzsche and Kierkegaard called this kind of inversion ressentiment in their time, so this mindset has been going on since forever. These forces are near their zenith in American culture right now.
Imagine if Starfield becomes a better Subverse than Subverse. :D
Bingo. That's really Bethesda's trump card. They know it, you know it, they know you know it, you know they know you know it.
But they'll never admit it.
If you want to get into a deeply intellectual conversation on the merits and pitfalls of various ideological frameworks, go ahead. I'm more of a pragmatist myself. I think it's a neater way to go about life than getting deep into the weeds with ideological purists who allow their convictions to corrupt their perceptions of reality. Bottom line: This entire conversation started over a Codexer's inability to cope with the ability to create black people in a character creator. You cannot philosophize your way out of this view being "comically racist" as I said.
it already did if todd wont force u to be a kuk clown. i hate kukverse so much. dc stole millions they gave him to make tina armstrong gangbang with horse and all full lenght movie and he decided that even idiot like him can make games theses days or at least milk retards in perma dev state like kuk roberts.Imagine if Starfield becomes a better Subverse than Subverse. :D
Bingo. That's really Bethesda's trump card. They know it, you know it, they know you know it, you know they know you know it.
But they'll never admit it.
