E3 2019 & post-E3 2019 - Media News & Previews

[kofeiiniturpa]

Stop stressing about consoles.

Buy a PC. You'll be a lot happier and have easier time with... everything.

 

[Rawls]

BTW, how do you post gifs here? I've failed so many times...

Come and listen! You just post them as any other image (the portrait icon next to the smiley face). They key to those is though, you have to choose gif files that aren't too big. I can't remember the file size specifically, but the one above is 664 kb. I think a MB might be the cutoff.

 

[Mybrokenenglish]

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Come and listen! You just post them as any other image (the portrait icon next to the smiley face). They key to those is though, you have to choose gif files that aren't too big. I can't remember the file size specifically, but the one above is 664 kb. I think a MB might be the cutoff.

Ah, but can't you post them directly copying a link from google? Do I really need to download them every time?

Stop stressing about consoles.

Buy a PC. You'll be a lot happier and have easier time with... everything.

I'm considering it after sony has decided to bring its excluxives on steam (= you can play everything, including MS exclusives, on the same machine), but the idea of wasting my time in learning how to build a properly gaming pc and then in fine tuning games, drivers compatibility issues and whatnot, including the fact I would end up spending whole salaries to upgrade my rig because I'm never satisfied with anything, it's still stopping me.

And we're OT again.

 

[Rawls]

Ah, but can't you post them directly copying a link from google? Do I really need to download them every time?

No. If you just copy them, they will show up as an image instead of a gif.

 

[CyberBrett]

Mybrokenenglish click and drag them into the post box .

 

[Mybrokenenglish]

Mybrokenenglish click and drag them into the post box .

Oh, boy, it works! It was that easy and I've tried all the possible copy-paste i could think of for months... Thanks a lot!

At least I can see some mods ( @Rawls ) are as noob as me (feel free to delete all this OT)

 

[Restlessdingo32]

but the idea of wasting my time in learning how to build a properly gaming pc and then in fine tuning games, drivers compatibility issues and whatnot, including the fact I would end up spending whole salaries to upgrade my rig because I'm never satisfied with anything, it's still stopping me.

If it will dispel your fears I'll offer a tidbit. "Building" a gaming PC requires minimal knowledge. You're basically taking parts and slapping them together. If you can screw in a light bulb you can probably build a gaming rig. The only minor complexity is ensuring compatibility between parts and observing appropriate safety (mostly for components).

/end off-topic .

 

[Mybrokenenglish]

The only minor complexity is ensuring compatibility between parts and observing appropriate safety (mostly for components).

that's what I meant, not the DIY part

 

[Rawls]

Mybrokenenglish click and drag them into the post box .

You learn something new every day. Thanks for the tip!

 

[imitenotbecrazy]

Stop stressing about consoles.

Buy a PC. You'll be a lot happier and have easier time with... everything.

None of my friends game on PC so for anything multiplayer, my go to is Xbox. Even if all games go crossplay, I like having the separation. I have little self control with PC games and modding/"cheating" so I'll sometimes buy the same game on Xbox and PC to force me to play vanilla before playing modded

 

[Draconifors]

To get this back on topic... at least somewhat.

The "World of Cyberpunk" book has been delayed as well, but only till June. Link.
Which means it'll be out long before the game.

 

[Garrison72]

Folge 81: So machen die Cyberpunk-Macher trotz Corona-Krise weiter

Sowohl CD Projekt Red als auch GameStar arbeiten in der aktuellen Lage von daheim. Wie gut funktioniert das - und welche Probleme ergeben sich daraus?...

www.gamestar.de

Interview in German.

 

[Shavod]

Folge 81: So machen die Cyberpunk-Macher trotz Corona-Krise weiter

Sowohl CD Projekt Red als auch GameStar arbeiten in der aktuellen Lage von daheim. Wie gut funktioniert das - und welche Probleme ergeben sich daraus?...

www.gamestar.de

Interview in German.

We already discussed it in another thread. Here's the summary by NightCityLife from reddit:

Hi, I will summarize it for you and update my post (sorry, early morning here):

Employees could decide if they wanted to pick up their workstations for home office or get them delivered

There was an massive IT delivery service where nearly over night hundreds of cars brought PCs, controllers and such to each one at home

Philipp Weber said he could start working like before within 2 hours after he received his workstation

The way they work on the game/assets hasn't changed that much. They use a VPN to connect to the main data server and can download the stuff they want. If parts of the game get changed, some members of the team will "check-in" to that content/material and others will notice

Changes and improvements for newer updates of the game can get downloaded solely, so they don't need to load the whole game again.

Philip Weber also works for HR, so they had to scale back interviews face to face and did them online, too.

Quarantine also hit a new quest designer and she needed to be isolated just after her arrival in Poland before she even started to work.

They have an internal chat system so they can stay in touch

Philipp got to know the newest crew member of the quest team just by chat and played Cyberpunk via stream to show her their design routines and standards. Newer team members like her also got the task to chat regularly with designers from the different teams to get to know them

They got regular online meetings and have something like pinterest where they show the progress of the game, new artwork, new features - sometimes even as a GIF - to the rest of the team.

Nearly every hour the system directly transforms the development version into the playable version of the game

Senior Level Designer said that some changes are really small. He just killed a bug about elevators. The elevator cabin did not stop on the same level as the floor so there was a little step left, when you left the elevator. He changed that so all would be on the same level. The data changed was really a small file.

Sometimes they use hacks or bend the boundaries of the develeopment systems to make things work easier/faster

Miles Tost wanted to allow players to have a Batman feeling in a certain area of the game. He wanted the player to feel sneaky. powerful and undetected by enemies. Usually the enemies would have seen/heard the player in that moment anyway so he had to change the mechanics. First he wanted that the enemies would only detect the player when they got shot. The problem is that the game cannot differentiate whether the enemy was hit by a shot or just the surroundings next to him. Thus it would have been illogical that enemies won't notice you when you e.g. shot the door next to them. So Miles had to find a workaround he wont reveal at the moment. Senior Quest Designer Philipp Weber assumes it could have to do something with materials and their opacity/how easy NPCs can see/hear through them ...

They talked about how the corona virus affects meeting people in real life. Philipp remembers how they used to visit e.g. media offices with preview builds: They carried the game with a specific PC in a code locked briefcase, the hard drive was password protected and the game programme itself, too.

 

[MauricioMM]

Miles Tost wanted to allow players to have a Batman feeling in a certain area of the game. He wanted the player to feel sneaky. powerful and undetected by enemies. Usually the enemies would have seen/heard the player in that moment anyway so he had to change the mechanics. First he wanted that the enemies would only detect the player when they got shot. The problem is that the game cannot differentiate whether the enemy was hit by a shot or just the surroundings next to him. Thus it would have been illogical that enemies won't notice you when you e.g. shot the door next to them. So Miles had to find a workaround he wont reveal at the moment. Senior Quest Designer Philipp Weber assumes it could have to do something with materials and their opacity/how easy NPCs can see/hear through them ...

I hope that means we don't end up with situations where NPCs say "Who's there!?... Hmm, must've been my imagination" while having a fresh bullet hole in their arm Regardless, I'm glad that they can at least do workarounds for specific scenarios.

 

[gregski]

2019 financial results summary:

CD PROJEKT looks back at 2019 - CD PROJEKT

The CD PROJEKT Group posted 521 million PLN in 2019 sales revenues, which is 44% more than in the preceding year. This is mostly due to excellent sales of The Witcher 3, including its new

www.cdprojekt.com

Some super impressive numbers. CP2077 is on track for September release so far.

 

[Mybrokenenglish]

Sooooooooo April 16th is in 1 week's time. The game was supposed to be released on that date. We're not getting anything on that day, are we?

 

[parasite_avi]

Sooooooooo April 16th is in 1 week's time. The game was supposed to be released on that date. We're not getting anything on that day, are we?

Still haven't beat the game that came out not-so-long-ago, stupid Apex Legends devs dropped another 2-week limited-time-event I wanna grind for them skins, and there's also Prey (2017) I haven't beat in almost a year after having got that as a birthday present, Risk of Rain 2 rolled out a new update and still haven't seen much of the new content from the last update, and there's also at least 3 I gotta complete. Honestly, I don't think that I'm gonna do my little list here before September.

Yet, nobody ever said we're not getting anything on April 16th, and yet again, I'd be happy to know that the devs are busy with the game exclusively - no demos, no trailers, no nothing that may take the slightest bit of resources and energy off the main game development. Polished well and top Polish video game quality, mh, delicious.

 

[AshenBeans]

Sooooooooo April 16th is in 1 week's time. The game was supposed to be released on that date. We're not getting anything on that day, are we?

Frankly i don't expect anything substantial before August
most of what we will get is lore stuff like learning about the gangs, corpos etc..

 

[Draconifors]

most of what we will get is lore stuff like learning about the gangs, corpos etc..

Which IMO is just as good as or even better than gameplay or whatever, because I like lore and reading in general.

 

[parasite_avi]

Which IMO is just as good as or even better than gameplay or whatever, because I like lore and reading in general.

And the final game is gonna feel so damn fresh and new and never-seen-before!