Thoughts for the Kickstarter campaign

Battlescape
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Thank you.

I hope they have contacted Scot Manley, a good reaction from him could really help towards a successful KS campaign.

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Jepp, I would rather edit an xml file, than wait additional time for a menu. Everybody has a text-editor, so it shouldn’t be hard for anyone.

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Scott Manley is mourning his father, might need some time to recoup.

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Ah yes, I forgot about that. Although he appeared upbeat when he recorded that CIG video the other day.

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Depends how the XML is serialized and what values are taken into account. As long as there’s a “how to”, I’m fine with it, but this is an easy task so it shouldn’t take long anyway.

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I agree. We don’t need a menu screen that will be scrapped anyway later on. Give us a console and a xml.

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an advice: add the support for oculus rift, its not that difficult and it will give you a lot of new bakers; in these days OR users buy everything that support it and they are a lot.
don’t underestimate the power of VR

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We will be hosting a server and we already have a launcher that allows you to start the game and connect to it. We won’t be making the server software available for self hosting until the game is almost finished.

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I’d go with the HTC Re-Vive. I don’t like facebook rift.

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22 short hours till the kickstarter! :smiley:

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you will regret

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[quote]you will regret
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No I won’t. I think what Oculus or specifically what Palmer Luckey did was unethical.

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Oh yes it is. Especially for a completely new, never before seen, self written engine such as for Infinity. It kills performance, requires tons of extra work, and all that for a product that still isn’t available for the general consumer. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I agree. Maybe they can add VR Support as an stretch goal when the 10m mark is crossed, until then better focus on making the game. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I’ve added support to rendering for the Occulus Right a long time ago. That was the easy part. But yup, the hard part is maintening a high framerate. It’s particularly hard with a high-tech engine such as ours, where we already stress the CPU/GPU with procedural rendering. Another problem is the user interface. E:D did a fantastic job to make their cockpits entirely functional with VR, but it must have cost them a lot of development time ( and money ) which we most likely won’t have.

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no it isn’t

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why?
without the facebook funding the risk of a VR failure was great.
Now we can see it happen

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read the post above you :wink:

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trust me at first it’s best a bad implementation than nothing. OR owners buy anything OR supported and in the first time what you need is money.
OR ownres bought a lot of rubbish, bad optimized, with a lot of problems only to experinece VR. Me too.

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if they don’t reach the funding goal, there will be no game at all.