08
Feb
We sit down with Chief Development Officer Erin Roberts, followed by story time with the Star Citizen Lore team.
To watch Reverse the Verse LIVE each and every week, tune into Twitch.
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09
Feb
…The first Persistent Universe monthly report of the year details all the work done by the Star Citizen team throughout December and January. While the devs and studio teams took a break for the holidays, the early winter months saw a ton of tasks completed, progress made, and new ideas seeded.
Star Citizen Monthly Report: December 2018 - January 2019
AI
The AI Team put effort into stability and optimization for the recent alpha releases and patches.
AI gunships gained new tactical options, including the introduction of a new behavior that allows them to circle enemies and use their turrets to attack from a constant distance. Designers can easily modify this behavior to change things like the optimal attack range and when to disengage the target. The ‘fly-by’ and ‘breakaway’ tactics were also amended to make better use of the predicted hit position and allow ships to better evaluate the
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09
Feb
The family-run Ambrose Foundation, a multi-billion credit institution, has lost its entire fortune in a single day.
Business analyst Marlon Royce reported on Vox Galactica:
"The Ambrose Foundation combines the wealth of several centuries-old royal and noble houses. It is primarily involved in corporate investment and occasional charity work."
"All of that changed abruptly when its accountants announced the loss of 100% of all assets, worth nearly three hundred billion credits. Inexplicably, everything the foundation owned has been liquidated and transferred to anonymous accounts at banks scattered throughout the galaxy."
"Local security services are investigating a possible data hack. But of greater concern is the disappearance of family heiress Lady Talitha Ambrose. Some fear she has been kidnapped and forced to provide authorisation codes to her colossal inheritance."
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10
Feb
DocteurJis back with another
OldiesGamesTVepisode in his long running French language series on Wing Commander. The focus for this segment is the epic introduction to Wing Commander 4 and associated early sequences. He uses the DVD edition to ensure quality is top notch. It's great to see Wingnuts keeping the fandom global!
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10
Feb
…Here are this week's main stories.
A Federal Navy vessel has discovered an unregistered outpost with all occupants murdered. According to the Federal Intelligence Agency, early evidence suggests the outpost was dedicated to advanced nuclear research.
The Ambrose Foundation, a multi-billion credit institution, has lost its entire fortune, prompting security services to investigate a possible data hack. Family heiress Lady Talitha Ambrose has also disappeared, fuelling fears of abduction by those responsible for the loss of her inheritance.
Meanwhile, a commodity drive to revive technology company Supratech has ended successfully. Scorpio DeVorrow, the company's CEO, announced that the efforts had brought the company back from the brink and secured its future.
In other news, President Gibson Kincaid has used Nova Imperium to illustrate potential threats to the Alliance. Kincaid argued that the
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11
Feb
pahandavhas created a MEGA Overview of the Wing Commander series. He covers each of the main games, which is all of the PC games except the expansions, Secret Ops or Arena. Of course it would be nice if those were included too, but it's still pretty impressive how exhaustive the video is as it takes nearly a full hour to cover the landscape. Lots of streamers hit WC1 or WC3/4, so it's a nice change to hear someone detailing out Academy nav points, Armada shipyards and the nuances of Privateer 2 videos. I suppose we'll just have to wait for the GIGA Overview for more!
In this video, I provide an overview of the 9 main games of the Wing Commander series released between 1990 and 1997.
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12
Feb
…George Oldzieyreports that the Wing Commander
Jazz Albumshave been shipped! If you haven't sent your address in - or you don't receive yours in a week or so, let George know what's up! The cover art by
SabreAcejust looks fantastic. Some of the initial plans for a future campaign to record even more Wing Commander music are in the very preliminary stages, so stay tuned in the coming months for that. It's been a long road to get all of this amazing music put together, but the results have been very impressive!
Greetings all! All the CDs for which I have received shipping instructions have been shipped. I sent off the last of them today, mostly overseas. So if you have not received them in a week or so let me know. Most of you should have already received them. I hope you are enjoying them!
I'll keep you all posted on when the next phase of Volume 2 orchestral recording begins.
Thank you for
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11
Feb
…Everything Old is New Again, and that’s certainly the case for starships. The Age of Discovery Operations Pack, out soon, features exciting new starships based on 23rd century designs, but brought up to speed on modern combat capabilities. Federation-aligned captains will gain access to the following starships: Shran Light Pilot Escort [T6] Gagarin Miracle Worker Battlecruiser [T6] Walker-class Prototype Light Exploration Cruiser Klingon-aligned officers will be able to obtain: M'Chla Pilot Bird of Prey [T6] Qugh Miracle Worker Battlecruiser [T6] This ships in this bundle continue the recent experimentation into scaling starships that can be used as soon as you complete the tutorial!* We hope you share in our excitement as we continue exploring the concept of scaling starships, and see how this may shape the way you fly ships in the future of Star Trek Online at all levels.
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11
Feb
…Hello everyone,
Last week we fired off the first commercial contest of 2019, highlighting the rough and rugged Tumbril Cyclone series. We’re currently in the process of selecting the winners and will post an announcement very soon. Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter.
The Roadmap was updated last Friday, now showing a look at what’s coming to the Persistent Universe throughout 2019. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you can do so here.
Along with the updated Roadmap we also released our Star Citizen Monthly Report, covering progress the teams made in December and January.
As we’re approaching Valentine’s Day (only 3 more days, everyone!), we’ll celebrate with a “Be My Valentine” Card Contest. Share the love and design your own Star Citizen Valentine for a chance to win a ship that shoots straight for your heart. All the juicy details can be found on Spectrum here.
Now,
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11
Feb
…February 2949 Subscriber Flair
Subscribers
http://Centurions will receive the Rust Society Venture Helmet. The RSI’s Venture helmet is built from impact-resistant composites and designed to weather the harshest of environments. It also features an anti-scuff laminate face-plate that offers an unparalleled upward field of view, providing unobstructed sight lines to whatever wonders you discover. The Rust Society edition adds a red and tan color scheme so you look good while working hard.
Imperator Subscribers
http://Imperator-level subscribers get the RSI Beacon Helmet in addition to the Venture edition. RSI’s Horizon helmet is a durable and robust environmental enclosed work helmet. The single sheet laminate dome gives you an extremely wide field of view. A pair of side-mounted LED light modules provide additional illumination to make sure you can see what you’re doing. The Rust Society edition
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12
Feb
We've just released a new patch on PS4, which introduces some new settings and re-enables the in-game resolution selection on PS4 Pro, which has been taken out by mistake in the last patch. There are some a few gameplay fixes.
New Features- Added an option to adjust the HUD marker size
- Added an option to adjust the aim assist strength
- Don't offer additional primary weapon slot at tuning stations when having ancient weapon glyph equipped
- Fixed regression from last version, causing the resolution selection to be invisible in the options menu
- Fixed that the health of the player's drones could go above 100%, and that they sometimes weren't spawning again when loading a savegame
- Fixed still being able to use drones while "no consumables" hardcore mode handicap is active
- Prevented corvette from fleeing outside level area
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12
Feb
…Ever since the release of Mass Effect Andromeda, the BioWare series as a whole has been in a bit of a deep sleep – a stasis, if you will. Say what you will about why the latest entry in the series under-performed, the important thing to note is that the future of the series was in question following the reveal that no post-launch content would be delivered for Andromeda. Thankfully, despite all this it was revealed late last year that the Mass Effect series does have a future, we may just have to wait a while for it.
BioWare leads Mark Darrah and Casey Hudson both sat down with the folks over at Polygon recently to discuss the future of our favorite space-faring series, and the discussion that took place echoed the statements made by them on N7 day. Most importantly, a straight answer was given in regards to Mass Effect’s future. “We’re definitely not done with Mass Effect,” Darrah said.
There’s a lot
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13
Feb
Check out this cool Italian budget release of Wing Commander III! I’ve seen Prophecy and several other Origin games in this same style. I love finding different Wing Commanders from around the world!
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14
Feb
…Wing Commander has once again appeared live in concert! This time the WC1 music was performed by the Malmö Symphony Orchestra at the February 9
Joystick 11.0convention (
translated). Did anyone happen to make it there in person? We haven't found a first hand account yet, but it could have sounded like the video below from the graduation ceremonies of the
KTH Royal Institute of Technologyin Stockholm. Crazy enough, these two instances weren't the only
Swedish orchestrato play Wing Commander in the last few years. Sweden's apparently the place to be if you want to hear live classical WC tunes!
Welcome to the eleventh edition of Joystick, Malmö Symphony Orchestra's annual music music concert!
Experience a magical evening filled with powerful, imaginative music from the world of computer and video games. Today, the genre is well-established and is found in many orchestras repertoires worldwide.
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13
Feb
…Attention Captains, the Elachi are pouring into the Alpha Quadrant from previously undiscovered Iconian space gates in order to abduct helpless people! The Elachi have been doing with their captives, we need every Captain at the ready to help stop their forces. For a limited time only, the Elachi Alert queued event will return to Star Trek Online. From Thursday, February 14th at 8AM PT til Monday, February 18th at 10AM PT, close these doors to subspace and receive bonus mark rewards. A joint fleet has gathered here to stop them. The fleet consists of science ships that have disabled their weaponry in order to divert all available resources to disabling the gate. We’ll need to protect them from the Elachi until they finish their work. Remember that the science vessels efficiency will drop as they lose crew members to the Elachi. Defend the joint fleet from the Elachi in order to ensure their
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13
Feb
…This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 5.1.
Exhausted yet intensely focused pilots speed their ships towards a checkpoint. Once there, their flight logs receive the coordinates for the next destination. The pilots check their scans and pick a route before blasting off into the blackness of space. For the Xi’an pilots who step up to the challenge of the Koa e Ko’ia, this is their life for the next 200-250 hours.
The Koa e Ko’ia is an epic endurance race that’s wildly popular among the Xi’an. Although the race has been contested in various systems across the Xi’an Empire for centuries, it only recently came to Human attention when competitors appeared in the former Perry Line system of Hadur. One day, in 2881, previously open sectors of the system were suddenly off limits, and remained that way for the next week and a half (Standard Time). Famed Terra Gazette travel journalist Jan Sharrock
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15
Feb
A campaign from the Holloway Bioscience Institute to build a xenological research centre has concluded successfully.
Chief researcher Dr Roy Casimir told the media:
"Thanks to Nahuaru Crimson Bridge Int we now have sufficient materials to build a planetary outpost where our scientists can study lifeforms identified by the galactic community."
"We are also grateful for the exploration data provided by many pilots, which will help us create a new research catalogue."
Pilots who took part in the campaign can now collect their rewards from Williams Vision in the Nahuaru system.
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15
Feb
The Atlas Research Group has urgently requested military materials to increase security in the Merope system.
Defence Director Jacob Chowdhury said:
"The Thargoid presence throughout the Pleiades Nebula continues to be a major threat. To reassure the public, Atlas is investing in improved defences for the Merope system."
"Traders are invited to deliver Reactive Armour and Military Grade Fabrics to Reed's Rest. To help protect incoming ships from criminal elements, we have also allocated bounties to all wanted vessels in the system."
The initiative begins on the 14th of February 3305 and will run for one week. If the final target is met earlier than planned, the campaign will end immediately.
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15
Feb
Display MoreA number of invaluable art treasures have been stolen from the Museum of Civilisation on Mars.
Museum historian Dr Imogen Ryang said:
"The stolen pieces include Rembrandt's Self-Portrait with Two Circles (17th Century), Guernica by Picasso (20th Century) and Terra Absentia by Zoe Okeke (23rd Century). Each of the works was replaced with the image of a winking cat."
"The loss of so many cultural artefacts is incalculable. This despicable criminal should have been hunted down long ago."
Culture journalist Kioko McGrath published an alternative view in The Federal Times:
"High-profile crimes such as this have resulted in the 'winking cat' motif becoming a popular anti-establishment symbol, appearing in advertising, graffiti and music. Ironically, the calling card of an art thief is now itself a culturally significant work of art."
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15
Feb
SciFi at Waris an interesting mod for Star Wars: Empire at War that we recently stumbled upon. It mashes up different franchises, such as Star Wars, Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica, into one mega game. The video below shows various Halo ships fighting craft from Wing Commander. It doesn't seem like the WC fleet is fully fleshed out, and I can't quite tell if the
modis still active, but it's a pretty cool concept! You can grab it at the
Steam Workshop. If this just makes you want to play a WC RTS game, you can check out the
WC Invasionmod, which is also for Empire at War.
