Star Citizen: Around the Verse - Bringing Balance to Force

[@FuKuy_youtuber]

We need beards for customization characters

[@EricLidiak]

👍 Welcome to Santa's workshop. North pole of Arc-Corp in the Stanton System

[@youssh4975]

anda, tu por aquí Fukuy?

[@youssh4975]

para cuando nuevo vídeo de star citizen?

[@EschylesS]

that would be hard, beards and space helmet doesnt match well

[@youssh4975]

not impossible tough

[@Kingdomkey123678]

Ships shouldn’t just have overall “Health” rather each individual components of the ship should have their own health bars. To make a ship blow up, you would have to destroy something that blows up.

[@300Xeon]

This is coming with the new item 2.0.

[@Kingdomkey123678]

Evanswachtz 3.0 brought about the implementation of Item System 2.0, they’ve made that rather clear. And yet they’re still balancing around over all health pools.

[@Fusionprogamer]

Skaianet That's to much to calculate. I think most likely they components have a percentage of ship total health modifier. Shooting at that component does damage to the overall health but is capped at the percentage of that component. Once that cap is reached the component is destroyed. This also allows for people to destroy a ship without killing multiple components because every component is linked to the main ship health. This creates more one time calculations for each ship instead of tons of variable ones that the server would have to deal with.

[@Kingdomkey123678]

Fusionprogamer Here’s the thing, over all ship health is not conducive to the kind of game Chris Roberts and the community at large want it to be. For a long time they’ve been talking moving away from Shoot to destroy gameplay, to shoot to disable gameplay. Where in the only way to blow up a ship is to actively try to blow it up, by continuing to target components that will trigger a detonation. Sure individual component health may be excessive, but overall health pools aren’t the answer here if they really want to fulfill this promise to the community.

[@Fusionprogamer]

Skaianet That's fine a total health pool can still be used. You assume no health means exploding ship if a ship runs out of health but the threshold on a critical component isn't meant then the ship is just disabled

[@chopstyx1]

Would be great to have stats or bars showing relative pros and cons for each weapon. When I look at loadout I have no idea what guns to choose, I have to go to the forums to see what other people have been using for that ship. This won't eliminate trial and error as each person has their own preference for the "feel" of a weapon, but it will certainly make it easier.

[@EricLidiak]

Each weapon has a specific niche. So a laser cannon, repeater, gatling, and scatter gun are each preferred in a different situation.

[@marshal1808]

This is a great episode, cheers.

[@nahuelcutrera]

nice to see they are taking the time to balance the game. I'm so excited for squadron 42 !! I can't wait man !!!

[@asifdomo500]

Right now according to ATV - "Bringing Balance to Force" (Feb 8 2018) *ships have a standard multiplier on their armor value.* *WIll the "armor" multiplier value be based on the material you have used for the ship instead* (eg. maybe titanium will give higher armor multiplier than if you had the hull with steel) *later down the line or will it just be with this "fixed" multiplier value given by the techs for now?*

[@jteri9468]

Good question, but I would get this into spectrum where there are specific threads through which the question might actually get voted up and answered in 'Calling All Devs' or other feature shows.

[@MrDreiPner]

J Teri i doubt that armour will be swappable...

[@tarekmoneimsaid]

MrDreiPner on this video they say you could trade the Hornet's default armour for a stealthier one like the one on the Ghost, so it seems you can. Of course, I don't think every ship will be able to swap their armour around, they'll probably be tiers, like the weapons.

[@shaftoe195]

I love this new HUD from Sq42! Hope to see it on PU Gladius some day!

[@MrTbone1975]

Really nice to hear you guys are picking up the more agile approach. Looking forward to the updates

[@theodorewinston7625]

I watch these like a child- I just jump around to the pictures

[@Chevifier]

The UI really needs some cleanup. The resolution seams very low on the mobiglass.

[@LongscopeTV]

True, but the UI is currently being overhauled, so... soon.

[@ajet0452]

it annoys me so much that people just constantly shout that this game is dead, a scam, never coming out when its being worked on and the dev team is extremely active in updating the community on the game

[@thedarknightnicht]

That new mobiglass looks amazingly great. Not supernova bright and nice and screen filling

[@TheExtraMile]

Good episode! Lot’s of good info in there :)

[@thegamingsentinel9238]

Can you work on military bases on planets with AA turrets and some might be hostile with a big hanger and you might be able to take them over

[@tinymanjones3119]

Is this a question or a statement?

[@thegamingsentinel9238]

Peanut Nutter both

[@VideoSage]

God that Hangar is so beautiful, even without any HD models or textures.

[@blammod664]

So nice to see Character Creation coming along. It's looking fantastic.

[@lumarious]

Already more hairstyles than Destiny's character creation! hahah

[@kovenmaitreya7184]

Lumarious B I noticed too lol! Destiny is a joke.

[@SweRaider1993]

And this is just a placeholder as well... :P

[@F-HAWK]

Thanks CIG, great show as always! Keep up the good work ! Liked the Hammerhead sneak peak at 18:52 :-) Can't wait for 3.3 to give it a nice and healthy stretch :)

[@alia3768]

Spaceball Trooper Helmet, I want. I'm guessing the Starfarer Gemini will have military armor while the Starfarer Civilian will have the weaker armor type. You guys rock! Stay awesome. Thank you for a great ATV.

[@101wrf]

9:08 Max Hung. Best name ever! #jealousofyourpornstarname

[@birreboi]

Looks like some good work going on! Around 26.35 mark in the video is a good example of how hard it can be to see your mobiglas because of the lighting, hope this gets looked at!

[@Vexillifer]

Todd Papy. I knew I recognized that name. In San Fransisco Rush, you could go off road down to a secret stunt track called Papy Land.

[@macomix9064]

Great stuff! I like the character customization because of the similar appearance of the character compared to our looks. It gives the player a better feeeling while exploring.

[@macattack7949]

"It's the episode where they blow everything up..." In all honesty, really interesting episode! I really want to watch this a few times to see how you managed to balance things with excel. It seemed like a really good set up :) Also still love your transparency

[@pegasusted2504]

I would have thought the armour value's would be based on the strength of the material instead of just having a bog standard .multiplier :~( Interesting though :~)

[@asifdomo500]

Material have no value for now in the universe. Once they are properly developed they will do that.

[@Arthillis]

Well hopefully they base the multiplier number on the type of armor so then it would be in essence a way to quantify the strength of different materials.

[@DeltaPhoenix180]

This is the first pass of armor. I imagine eventually it will be based on material and thickness of the armor. If they want to get fancy they could also calculate angle of attack to simulate deflecting incoming fire.

[@parasecglenkwyst4835]

In theorie that woul'd be nice, but im quesioning if the angle does even matter if you're not actually hitting a (for example steel) surface but just a shield made out of an energie field or whatever.

[@PH03NIX96]

Parasec Glenkwyst Angle of attack certainly matters even for an energy shield. Taking a glancing shot would certainly disperse the energy more effectively than trying to stop a piercing bullet. Let's be honest tho Energy weapons and Ballistics needs to be switched tho. Ballistics should pierce shields but be less effect against hull. Energy should be less effective against shields as they're basically heat reflectors and cut through hull.

[@Knightstruth]

Please take into consideration that any increase in time to kill will negatively affect ballistic weapons since they have limited ammo. My Avenger in live only has enough tigerstriek ammo for like 2 enemies and restocking the ammo costs many times more than I make in a mission. It's not working.

[@RadimentriX]

i'd like to see a few "front loading" hangars on planets too, you could put them in skyscrapers where you can fly in and out somewhere around the top :)

[@NOOBIFIER1337]

Thumbs Up For Less Interdiction... (for now)

[@MontoyaTEST]

How long do I have to wait for a summary?

[@NOOBIFIER1337]

Dont know if this is getting that sort of summary.

[@Super-id7bq]

Not just interdiction. Just pirates in general. Had 12 pirates attacking Oli yesterday including like 4 cats.

[@retrowrath9374]

Yeah I had quite a few appear and attack me while floating around Daymar, lucky for me I rekt them in my Cutlass Black, killed about 6. Also, upgraded my PC to a i5 8600K, was getting 50fps in places, 40fps on Daymar, best experience yet with FPS over the last few days.

[@Super-id7bq]

Nice :)

[@sebastiandouse]

Hmm sounds like a Star Wars reference.

[@Xenthorx]

Character Customization and new Weapons? Where do i sign?

[@gigantikos8456]

Hi Xenthorx!

[@dethcubegaming1556]

Xenthorx #fixthelowframes

[@lasse4416]

Good looking updates! Definately going to try new gemini shotgun. Character customization looks really good too! Even small variations will make game feel much better and unique.

[@AvatarSampai]

I kinda hoped you would use armor the same way its done in warthunder and world of tanks.

[@General.Falcon]

Nice episode 👍😎

[@ravenouspathogen]

AWESOME, dreadlocks in character customizing

[@omerga]

Hello there Max Hung. Greetings from your brother Well

[@ighicedeamon]

So what happened to individual ship components having health and determining how ship gets destroyed instead of "Ship health"? Does this mean that shooting the nose of a super hornet with a pistol will eventually blow it up?

[@unknwn9670]

Understanding what he is talking about at 9:07 lol SO AWSOME HAHA! Big Deal...

[@Doogleraia]

3.0.1 wasn't exactly a great patch for some users haha, but the general stuff like NPC's finally working again etc, was fantastic! Though hopefully 3.0.2 arrives soon and resets the aUEC again (as some users were after 3.0.1 starting with 0aUEC), as well as fixes the problem of not being able to be claimed if not at a station (i.e; if it's somewhere in space, not possible to claim). edit; that stealth-armor stuff is really interesting, and should probably be applied to ships like the Drake Herald as well (because what's the use of having stealth engines and such on a ship if it's not really stealth for radar etc as well? haha)

[@Par-Crom]

Please, while there's not many comments, I wonder if we can switch the weapons to left-handed mode aswell. I feel much better like that, and it's not so common in games so I hope you'll think about this feature.

[@MaLuS25]

can we get those "perfect numbers" sheet for times to kill etc... posted up in spectrum?

[@thomasdonahue180]

Malus Draco Supposed to be skill based. Should not be able to just look it up.

[@CounterNerd]

Please take good care of Max Hung, he seems like a cool dude. Plus he has probably the most "alpha male" name I've ever heard.

[@MindWandererRU]

New mobi glass UI looks much better!

[@Dark-Lord-Of-The-Sith]

The changes to weapons, shields, and armor sound great. My gut tells me that it will end up, some how, another Nerf to my beloved Warden.

[@Kingdomkey123678]

Nice reference

[@chrictonj9503]

Nice bit of historical statements here (3.0.1 patch "next week"?). Thanks anyway. But remove Interdiction from the PU OR announce times for stress testing or other testing "themes" so we know what to expect. Even with lowered interdiction my client still freezes sometimes when I try to QT again to avoid actually engaging in the interdiction.

[@WiReDDDD]

Dude, Max Hung is a baller name

[@budimon6985]

*MAKE SPACE GREAT AGAIN*

[@madman2u]

Space is by definition great and it's getting greater every second.

[@DerpOtron9k]

M A X H U N G

[@thedarknightnicht]

Also Freelancer needs to be able to take a bit more damage

[@LidlRaccoon]

I swear...the "first" gag is only still alive in the star citizen community

[@Kingdomkey123678]

Spaceman Spiff I’ve seen it on every movie trailer recently as well

[@Areanyusernamesleft]

Spaceman Spiff far from it...

[@Cr1msonFir3]

First?

[@DeltaPhoenix180]

chiffmonkey oh no you arent!

[@attilapataki46]

i see that in every channel i watch

[@mmmaxxx__]

What happened to the character customization technology where you could merge characters with the proportion of detail the user wanted and in specific parts of the face?

[@Adelarium]

Star Wars Reference YAS!

[@orihalchon]

I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!!

[@bio-nukes4136]

allot of forward thought needs to be put into the design of this game. like with the ship health, seems like were are at a basic lvl of thought in planing this out before now. everything needs to have an on/off, modular/swappable variety/custom scaleable/layerable as a backbone for everything. so, in the future changes will not need to be a huge thing for things that haven't been thought of yet.

[@rodrigo1965]

So this guys name is Max Hung!!!!!

[@SuperMacBrother]

man tose helmets are looking cool. Me want them NOOOOOW! good job CIG thank you 👍

[@PH03NIX96]

Is there gonna be a switch on weapon effectiveness? As it stands now ballistics are strong against hulls while energy weapons are better against shields. This doesn't make sense with physics. Heated energy cuts through metal and it takes a lot more energy(shield) to stop mass(ballistics). Not sure if they plan on adding an armor slot to ships and fighters

[@dragonloads5138]

If you want to balance combat how about actually looking at how bullet physics work!! First off if you make it so ships just don't blow up because a segment gets hit a lot and break it down to if components get hit they get damaged and if the component is explosive that part of the ship explodes damaging hull integrity. Second use the armor and a hull integrity to determine what breaks off. Third looking at the force/power provided to the projectile and the realistic abilities to do it consistently you can find a damage modifier for it and the speed. Grabbing the mass of ballistics and the speed it is launched will provide the energy output, what would be the damage, it would have when it hits something. Here's the equation "E = .5*m*v^2", E is energy, m is mass, and v is velocity. Knowing how the energy weapon works and how focused its projectile allows you to determine its damage. If the energy weapon is a laser its speed is light speed, if its plasma based its how fast those excited atoms where ejected. With the speeds of the energy weapons you can grab the time to hit and start to determine their decay rate. With energy weapons how focused it is and the amount of wattage put into it gives the damage. I don't quite remember the equation to this but I would believe it is quite a kin to pressure, which would be "E = F/A", E is the energy or damage, F is the force or your wattage, and a is the area or focus. Now realistically lasers would have an extremely far distance before it would dissipate, ballistics the same if no atmosphere is surrounding it, and plasma would dissipate fast as it would expand rapidly. Now say that in this universe we've found a way to condense plasma not to expand, then its distance could be a kin to heat dissipation rates in space, also known as radiation heat transfer. As the plasma goes further its impact decreases due to loss of energy from this equation "q = 5.6703*10^-8*T^4*A", q is the energy dissipation rate in W/m^2, Stefan-Boltzmann constant, The temperature in kelvin, and A is the area . It would help if you actually had people with physics degrees and knew how our world works. You don't need to tweak so much to find out damage if you only knew how they are supposed to work. Physics provides great information on how objects interact. PS: Now by no means do I call myself a physicist and believe these equations are the full picture, but I do know that the information to calculate all of the weapons' damage is very real and usable in a programming environment.

[@EricLidiak]

Are we getting body customization?

[@Methlodis]

Eric Lidiak No. Skin will match that of the head. But proportions won't be customizable. This is because it would be much much more work to adjust animations, especially for cockpits without have issues. Sod they are doing 2 skeletons and animation sets (male and female), and leaving it at that. There's more specific interactions with this game than most so having to not only make those but make them compatible with skeleton adjustments without clipping or having awkward positions is exponentially more work.

[@EricLidiak]

So not nearly as extensive as Conan or EVE Online? Okay fine.

[@thomasdonahue180]

Eric Lidiak In EVE your character is just a picture. In Conan the character clips during certain animations. CIG has its' reasons.

[@JohnSavage1984]

It's not playable, so how can we test it?

[@mcjacobsjr]

Are these features being added into the 3.1.0 update?

[@grzegorzoleksa7759]

I am looking forward to those optimizations mostly. Too choppy to play right now :(

[@talonkarrde3630]

This is the title I'm looking for. We can go about our business. Move along.

[@wallacesilva341]

Good afternoon, I'm Brazilian, I want to play a lot, star citizen. I want to say something, I'll have a Portuguese translation.

[@DerpMcDerp101]

Used to play but now lights flicker and screen laggy and I run 2x gtx1080 won't play till fixed

[@PH03NIX96]

Was playing today and had 7 players firing inside the armistice zone destroying everyones ships at port Ollisar. Already posted a video and mailed you but please fix ;)

[@VideoSage]

Lightblades confirmed?

[@thomasdonahue180]

Sage Channel Mark Hamill Squadron 42 Exclusive

[@Petetarus]

I was wondering will your character creator have a selection of mutton chops as an option for anybody who sports them in the real world or might think that they would look cool on their avatar

[@GrimTech]

Is two watches to many or should Chris have ankle watches as well?

[@krasimirkrastev6375]

FIX Reliant Kore's hud display please.... pleeeease!

[@spaced-cadet]

Nice

[@joshnjaime]

More shotguns and more different rounds for shotguns please! Shotgun is the most devistating weapons platform you can own and operate in America. Reason for this is because of the different rounds you can use depending on the situation.

[@darmantio]

26:59 turn the video-speed to 0.25

[@steeldragon616]

Hi Guys.Cant spawn my ship anymore since 3 days.

[@ISLANDGAMERx]

Am I the only one with 3-5FPS.. netcode is needed like ASAP. Can’t play :(

[@kobked-x]

what sort of PC are you attempting to run SC on? if it has A: less than 16 gigs of ram, B: no SSD drive [to install SC on] C: a low or old video card and or D: a slow/old/low grade CPU then yes, it will suck and run at 5 fps. also I'd avoid laptops too.. except maybe a top tier gaming laptop and even then for the cash I'd build a much better PC.

[@NateSail82]

Carrack?

[@jeansmithsmith7953]

Still cant play since I bought it. Keeps asking me to validate files for 2 months now.

[@MoneyShifted]

it seems alot of effort been put into this game i assume its going to make as much money as the effort put into it?

[@thomasdonahue180]

GamerHeadX Not meant to make money. Its literally Chris Roberts' dream.

[@tedfritzart]

Is Steve getting enough sleep?

[@Kingbeer01]

Please tell me the character system is going to be way better to what was just shown, Graphics may alter in this game the bigger it gets

[@Revouz]

Dnnaaaaa!! Noice!

[@gryffennz]

I want a beard on my toon!

[@zeropoint5794]

How about doing something for mid-spec pcs? A year ago it worked 30fps, now i get 3. Sad old customers have already paid, no one really cares about them :(

[@stuartthurstan]

CR. Pleeeease get these devs some joysticks to do their internal testing with!!!

[@Rob_Moilanen]

They have them, just realize that not all devs "choose" to use them, some prefer game pads, some prefer mouse and keyboard!

[@stuartthurstan]

:(

[@VTRDC27]

DID THEY FIX THE E.S.P. BUG YET???

[@goobydntfear]

who cares about balancing anything if not even the flight model is set in stone yet jesus christ

[@Mindbulletz]

Oh how naive you are...

[@heliowolf5042]

Am I the only one who gets just a bit triggered when they say "fps weapons" and not small arms?

[@tomw5vlt119]

All the character customizations shown (face features) looked like Millennials, not real people I've ever known; military or otherwise.

[@kovenmaitreya7184]

Blue Tte So.... you're saying millennials aren't real people? k den.

[@Khosumi]

what a cool story bro

[@alexparris7769]

Lol what does that even mean. Us Millenials may have fucked all for styles these days but I have a hard time seeing this statement as anything but ridiculous. Millenials may have dumb hairstyles and haircolors but they literally look like any other humans haha. Curious... have you just never seen good looking people? Or do you live in a coal mining town? 🤣🤣

[@kovenmaitreya7184]

Alex Parris lol, I'm gonna go with both being the case. I noticed a lot of older folks in the sci-fi community prefer darker, grungier looks overall as far as aethestics go. Anything that starts to look too.... well too beautiful, for lack of a better term, seems to get labeled as 'childish', 'millennial' (lol), 'unrealistic', 'too artistic' etc. It's really humorous to me.

[@tomw5vlt119]

"What do millennials look like?" REPLY Like the faces in Around the Verse. In 40 years, never seen people looking like that... other than millennials. Looking for something millennials like to tout in their rhetoric... diversity.

[@BoogerLeader]

Genuine question. Is anyone else constantly struggling to hear the devs speak because they sound like they're mumbling unless you raise the volume almost to max?

[@downer9098]

omg...fix the mobi already...why the glare???? Why does every UI have to glare into my retinas, why is there a glare-bag on my dash every time i go moon-side, why are all UI elements unreadable because of the GLARE GLARE GLARE...NO MORE GLARE

[@dancetweety10]

I hope we will beable to meld weapons soon because now we are left with weapons that are being balanced to be weaker then they was when we bought them and what use is being able to change weapons if there is almost no difference in the end. You cant look for us for good information to balance at this moment becouse for alot of us the frame rates are to low to have proper combat.

[@arkadiusz5913]

You know what is the problem with all these updates? They are very informative and all, but you need to show more of actual game and features you are working on instead of the developers, despite the fact of their beautiful faces. Keep up the good work devs!

[@mariobeck3798]

Balancing quickly gets egalitarianism. Please always have that in mind and never overdo it. Different weapons are just that... different. There always will be weapons that are better for certain situations. And there always will be situations that occur more often at one's specific gameplay. But there is no need to balance... for example... a shotgun against an assault rifle on that basis. So just be careful.

[@SharpEdgeSoda]

Followup on title. I blame Disco.

[@tastemysaucer]

BEARD TRIMZ.

[@kharnthebetrayero9036]

want a new concept ship

[@hvypetals]

wow some people can actually play. me.. well since 3.0 came out i maybe have about 5 mintues of actual gameplay with about 10 hours spent just trying to log in. all tickets started or appended have had zero reply game goes to black screen for about 5 minutes on login, if im lucky i can boot it to windowed mode, logging into crusader another black screen - sometimes it takes 5 minutes to get to my bed which im melted into still - sometimes itll crash. god forbid you ALT TAB then it takes 5 minutes to desktop and if i try to come back in its going to crash. if im lucky enough to get to my bed then its janky frames down to get my ship and out of my two mustangs one spawns without engines (i can see through the nacelles) and the other is locked. all attempts exhausted.. and man pfft why bother.. i could play 2.6 with decent frames. feeling super deflated with this game

[@N1ghtR1der666]

Just make people need to go to a salon and pay for a change with UEC if they want a change after they make a character

[@DeepStone-6]

Can we get some mech suits for planetary use?

[@critchleysj]

Still can't use the panels at Covalex. Why spend all that effort on Miles and have something this basic ruin everything :(

[@nikabosmit3884]

No "attack helicopter" among gender choices. That's rude and offensive.