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- 0:00And I learned so much about life and relationships from that show
- 0:05that I'm thinking we should do a spin off of open comms.
- 0:08Yeah, what a well, what are we thinking?
- 0:11We'll give love advice, we'll call it love comms or open love
- 0:17advice. Maybe that first one's better.
- 0:28is though, now that you say that, I can't see it.
- 0:30You're absolutely right. After we're playing, let's let's
- 0:32talk about that first, 'cause I was.
- 0:33Going to go in a totally. Different direction.
- 0:35You can make as much money as you need and work your way
- 0:39towards any ship in the game. They they were trying to cash in
- 0:43off of that nostalgia and that hype.
- 0:47Welcome, Welcome one and all to open Comms Radio, your Star
- 0:53Citizen Collins show every week Wednesday nights at 9:00 PM
- 0:56Eastern, 7:00 PM Pacific Time. If you're in the middle, I don't
- 1:00know. You got to figure it out.
- 1:01I'm not an expert. I'm not a time wizard.
- 1:04I'm just a man hanging out here at the bar, always hanging out
- 1:08at the bar. 1 bar here, 1 bar there, this bar, that bar.
- 1:12As long as I got money in my wallet, who knows how many bars
- 1:16I'll I'll be headed to. And this week we're going to
- 1:18talk a lot about bars. How many bars?
- 1:21One bar, 2 bar, 3 bars, 4 bars. I don't know how many bars, but
- 1:25I have with me tonight a very, very special bar man himself,
- 1:29Broccoli Rob. Broccoli, Rob, thank you for
- 1:32joining me today, buddy. Absolutely good to be here.
- 1:35Thank you very much. Good to have you.
- 1:38You're a bit of an expert on bars.
- 1:42That says so I think so. Yeah.
- 1:45And so I, I felt it pretty fitting for you to come in here
- 1:48on this episode all, all about bars.
- 1:49Of course, I'm not talking about the same old bars where you're
- 1:52you're drinking in and having a good old time.
- 1:54We're talking about the long bars, the colored bars, the red
- 2:00bars, the blue bars, the green bars, the invisible bars of Star
- 2:05Citizen. Turns out a lot of bars in Star
- 2:09Citizen. Lot of bars, too many maybe.
- 2:15Possibly, and that's what we're going to be talking about today,
- 2:18all of the invisible multitude of bars that force us to, to, to
- 2:24fire on, on ships until they explode or or don't explode.
- 2:29What's I, I don't know, I haven't really been playing the,
- 2:33the PTU. And of course, our our most
- 2:36recent luck is that the latest patch goes to live the moment we
- 2:41start recording the show. So lucky us, we'll be able to
- 2:45test it live. But before we test it live,
- 2:48let's judge it based on our past PTU experiences.
- 2:52I haven't had many of those, but I know you've been in the PTU
- 2:54quite a bit. Oh yeah, I go into the PTUI,
- 2:59don't know. Pretty much every time I can
- 3:01once it goes out, like live just kind of loses its luster a
- 3:06little bit. But this PTU, it's been, it's
- 3:09been good. It's been, you know, like not
- 3:13much worse than 4.4 I would say. Not much worse.
- 3:18So pretty. Good.
- 3:19You know, sometimes you get those, you get those, those PTU
- 3:22patches and you can't really do anything.
- 3:25Yeah, yeah. It's been, but that's been
- 3:27pretty consistent across the board this year.
- 3:29Luckily the patches come out pretty pretty well baked.
- 3:35OK, so it's been it's been stable, but I popped on to
- 3:38Reddit as as one does, and found quite the heat, the heated
- 3:44debate. And then I rolled over to
- 3:46Spectrum and found it was you don't want to do hotter still
- 3:50you. Don't want to go, you don't want
- 3:53to go to spectrum. That's your.
- 3:55That's first mistake. Well, can you, can you maybe
- 3:58ease me? Can you make me maybe feel a
- 3:59little bit better? Because it sounds like
- 4:01everything's a disaster and this patch is basically just 4.4 with
- 4:06with extra steps. Yeah, I mean, every patch is a
- 4:11disaster, right? It's all the worst thing that's
- 4:14ever happened and it's, you know, going to be the death blow
- 4:18for CIG in general. But no, it's engineering is
- 4:22coming out. Soft death is going away, as I'm
- 4:27sure everyone knows already. The big problem that I saw with
- 4:31the latest patch before live was that they introduced something
- 4:36called Overkill, which is essentially bringing back hard
- 4:40death and kind of took away the idea of letting us rebuild and
- 4:47sort of bring our ship back from the brink.
- 4:49And so that had me a little worried.
- 4:53OK, so you're telling me soft death is going away?
- 4:57Does that mean well does that mean is my ships still there?
- 5:02Is my ship disabled? Yeah, so soft death is, we knew
- 5:07it was, you know, everything turns off, you can't do anything
- 5:12to it, and you just kind of float there and wait for, you
- 5:15know, sweet release of death because you can't do anything in
- 5:18the ship, right. That's kind of my day-to-day,
- 5:20yeah. Yeah same but with this one you
- 5:24soft death but you can repair your ship back to functioning.
- 5:29OK, so it hasn't gone away. It's still there.
- 5:32Yeah, But when people hear soft death, they think like, OK,
- 5:36that's it. Like I need to get out of the
- 5:38ship. But with this new soft death,
- 5:42and it only happens when your power plants aren't working
- 5:46anymore, but you can repair your power plants, then that gets
- 5:49into the whole thing. With engineering it's more
- 5:51complex than that, but you can come back from soft death,
- 5:55essentially. OK, well can I?
- 5:59Because Reddit said I can't. Yeah, they, well, they
- 6:05introduced overkill, which is once your armor's gone, once
- 6:11your hull is gone, once all your components are at zero, you have
- 6:15a new invisible health bar that if that goes down, then your
- 6:19ship explodes, which I was worried about.
- 6:22And then they mentioned it was so I was also worried.
- 6:28They said it was a stand in for Maelstrom which made me think
- 6:31like oh OK if your ship is completely shot to shit and it's
- 6:35had ballista is going through it for 20 minutes straight, should
- 6:39it still be there? Should it still be functioning,
- 6:42or should it get to a point where it can't come back from
- 6:47the brink? OK.
- 6:48And but they've decided that basically, no matter what, you
- 6:52can bring your ship back. Unless the that invisible bar,
- 6:58yeah. So it's repairing the power
- 7:00plant, repairing the cooler, kind of getting yourself limping
- 7:03back to the station to get a full repair.
- 7:07OK, now Speaking of these health bars, broccoli Rob, I there was
- 7:12a meme that was basically like, like, you know, it showed like 4
- 7:18different bars. It showed like shield hull armor
- 7:23and then like another it's for like 4 bars.
- 7:26And it was basically just saying, well, you just, it's
- 7:28just basically a war of attrition.
- 7:30You just got to knock down all these bars and and that's what
- 7:35you got to do. So less about hitting the
- 7:37components and more just about how much damage can you do
- 7:40across any the entire ship, any part of the ship?
- 7:44Is that kind of where we're at right now?
- 7:46Yeah, I think that's, I mean that's one way to play it.
- 7:49But I think that a player or group of players that aren't,
- 7:55instead of just shooting whatever they're able to target
- 7:59things, they will outperform the enemy team that's trying to just
- 8:04shoot whatever they can. And that's kind of the where the
- 8:11the rub comes in, I guess. Like if you hit more critical
- 8:15shots than the other guy, you'll kill the other ship faster.
- 8:22If you have more critical shots than the other guy, you'll kill.
- 8:25The SO. Critical shots being shots on
- 8:27the components. Shots on the components, yeah.
- 8:33Because there's a way to just, you know, it's like in a in an
- 8:36FPS game, like body shots take X damage, but head shots take X +
- 8:425 damage. So it could just be seen as a
- 8:46bunch of health bars that are going down.
- 8:48But there are ways to game that and perform better than just
- 8:54static health bars. OK, so we do still have many
- 9:00bars, but are you suggesting that spectrum is overreacting?
- 9:06I think I don't even know how to put it.
- 9:10Spectrum isn't overreacting because their base state is
- 9:16panicked. They're consistent in how they
- 9:19act. They've never acted rationally.
- 9:22So I think saying overreaction is not doing it justice to what
- 9:29they do. OK, what about me Jar Jar
- 9:33jabroni should I be? Am I overreacting?
- 9:37I don't think so. I think, you know, a little
- 9:40skepticism going in makes sense. All right, yeah, because I could
- 9:43freak out. You can.
- 9:45I've seen you, you made you walk a little bit and a few months
- 9:49ago and it was, it was close to tears the entire time.
- 9:54Yeah, it was fucking cold out. Yeah, but then, you know, we got
- 9:58we got some drinks and you warmed up and everything turned
- 10:01out OK. Yeah, we went to a couple bars.
- 10:05It's good time to talk about those.
- 10:09Well, Speaking of people who've been to a couple of bars, we
- 10:12have a few folks here down in the down in the waiting room
- 10:16there. Lord Anubis was in first, so I'm
- 10:20going to invite him up. Now I'm not sure if Anubis has
- 10:24played the PTU, but before he comes on up here, Broccoli Rob,
- 10:27is there anything you want to say to our listeners to maybe
- 10:33ease them or or infuriate them further?
- 10:38It's another patch. You're going to be OK or you're
- 10:41not and you can sell your account and you know, life goes
- 10:44on. Yeah, sell your account, maybe
- 10:47get some RAM. Hey, well, maybe wait, I don't
- 10:52know. Well, thank you for calling in
- 10:56to Open Comms Radio. It's your Star Citizen call in
- 10:59show. Anyone can call in to Open Comms
- 11:01Radio anytime. We meet Wednesday nights at 9:00
- 11:04PM Eastern, 6:00 PM Pacific Time.
- 11:06This gentleman here is usually calling from the Pacific Time.
- 11:09I'm Jar Jar Jabroni, and this is Lord Anubis.
- 11:12Lord Anubis, you're here with broccoli.
- 11:14Rob, how you doing today buddy? I'm doing all right.
- 11:21Lord Anubis, how many health bars do we need to solve death?
- 11:28Probably about 7. We need, we need at least seven.
- 11:32You know, they have, you have to.
- 11:35I mean, anything less than that would just be ridiculous.
- 11:40I mean, honestly, I, I don't know how this is going to play
- 11:43out. I, you know, obviously they're
- 11:45going to be tweaking it throughout the next couple weeks
- 11:48until they go on vacation, you know, as is every patch.
- 11:54And that could include, you know, time to death, things like
- 11:59that. So as of today, no clue.
- 12:03Have you played the PTU at all? I played it a tiny bit, but not
- 12:08the extensive testing that people were, were, were doing.
- 12:13I, I just didn't, I mean, I, I know that people were struggling
- 12:16with certain things and I figured, OK, well, I'll just
- 12:19wait till it comes out, you know, plus have been working a
- 12:21lot. So did you?
- 12:23Did you? Experience the fire.
- 12:27I have not and I know they pulled that out so I will not be
- 12:31able to get to experience fire right now, but hopefully I will
- 12:36burn, you know, like I deserve one day.
- 12:45Fair enough, Ford Anubis. Fair enough.
- 12:47Oh wait, when did they? When did they pull fire?
- 12:49Because I saw it like 2 nights ago.
- 12:53Two nights ago, Thought they pulled it a little while back.
- 12:57Oh, no, no, that was that was temporary.
- 12:58It's back in. So you.
- 13:00Will I can burn? Yes.
- 13:02Thank you. Oh yeah, yeah.
- 13:04I deserve. The fire.
- 13:06Yeah, I mean, the patch is live right now.
- 13:07Supposedly it's everyone going to be lighting up.
- 13:11We'll see how the patch goes tonight.
- 13:12And you know, as as is the original, always the the first
- 13:16night of a patch, it's always kind of up in the air as to how
- 13:20well things are going to work. But I think with this patch, it
- 13:24is a Wednesday night, but I feel like it's the holiday.
- 13:28You know, people who still have jobs are probably slacking off,
- 13:32I would imagine, and unless or they're busy as hell, in which
- 13:36case they probably aren't even listening to this show, but I
- 13:39imagine they're going to have a pretty full servers with this
- 13:45patch because this is this has been engineering has been the
- 13:48long waited feature for the longest time.
- 13:51And I don't know if either of you guys saw the the promo video
- 13:55they have for it. It's on the website, on the
- 13:57engineering page. You know, the little cinematic
- 13:59video they do, they show the guy, they show the ship's on
- 14:02fire and there's classical music playing.
- 14:04And the guy runs around and he, he puts a fuse into the fuse box
- 14:09and the, the copilot gives him like the thumbs up, right?
- 14:13And they're shooting fire extinguishers.
- 14:17A little bit more on the fire extinguishers later, but I'm
- 14:21hoping we might get fire extinguisher jet packs because
- 14:27they did tease them. That's I feel like we've, we're
- 14:32setting ourselves up for disappointment on that one.
- 14:36But you saw that broccoli. I did, I did and.
- 14:40Why would they? Why would?
- 14:41They. Put that on social media.
- 14:43They put a picture on social media of a guy shooting a fire
- 14:47extinguisher in space and it it looked looking as though it's
- 14:52pushing him. It's true, they did.
- 14:56Was it faster than Eva? What was a photograph?
- 15:06Well, you know what a photograph is, Lord Nubis, right?
- 15:09Those were those old things that they used to have.
- 15:12They don't move right. Yeah, like if you saw a UFO in
- 15:17the sky or something, you'd take you'd take out a Polaroid and
- 15:20you snap it and then it would print a photo.
- 15:23Sometimes you'd have to go to a person, but it would be a still
- 15:25image. Yes, yes.
- 15:28And you always made sure that if you saw a UFO, you find the
- 15:31worst camera you could possibly find to take a picture of it.
- 15:35I remember that. You know, there's some really
- 15:38good photos of UFOs and people are just think, well, that's not
- 15:41real. I'm just saying there are some
- 15:46really crisp photos out there, you know?
- 15:50So everyone focuses on the bad photos but the crisp ones, no.
- 15:55One's giving them any love. No one's giving them a chance
- 15:59like this is a very clear image and they're like, that's
- 16:02ridiculous. Look, it's 2025, there is no
- 16:06such thing as media reality anymore.
- 16:08Everything is AI, you know. Give it another year and there
- 16:12will not be no actual images. It's pretty bad.
- 16:19Yeah. Well, Brock and Rob, do you have
- 16:21any questions for our guest? Have you looked over the like
- 16:27engineering then they put out or do you just have any general
- 16:31feelings on like engineering? And I want.
- 16:35Multi crew. I want to be an engineer because
- 16:38like that's my, like my thing. I love it.
- 16:43I need it to be extensive and allow for customization.
- 16:47I, I, I think that's that right now with multi crew, I'm not,
- 16:56I'm not sure just how much it'll, it'll like start forcing
- 17:03people to do multi crew cause 'cause we still have the problem
- 17:08of just being able to just, you know, crash and doesn't really
- 17:11mean anything, you know, So I don't, I don't know how many
- 17:14people are going to still like have that incentive yet.
- 17:18And I'm hoping that they do more to incentivize people to have
- 17:22multi crews and actually have a need for it because, you know,
- 17:27but I but I think that I think that goes back to just being
- 17:30able to build something in general and have something worth
- 17:33holding on to rather than it just being recycled and just go,
- 17:36OK, well, I'll just, you know, file another insurance claim.
- 17:38And you know, I'm hoping they do something that maybe changes the
- 17:44way that works as well. Yeah, you want, you want ships
- 17:47actually feel like something and not like an expendable thing
- 17:52that you can just fly out to your buddy and then leave parked
- 17:57in Dead Space and just I'll just get a new one.
- 18:00I'll just leave it out here. Yeah, yeah, it.
- 18:03Is. Yeah, that the disposable
- 18:08economy in the game right now is, you know, as far as ships,
- 18:11is it it needs to change or, or they need to have stiffer
- 18:15penalties for just crashing. I mean, it's unfortunate like,
- 18:18Oh no, I, you know, there was a mistake and I died.
- 18:20But honestly, I mean, that's just the way real life is too.
- 18:23And you know, I think I think it should be more because, yeah,
- 18:27it's, it's just especially with the way the economy is and
- 18:32people just buying duped credits, it's it literally means
- 18:36nothing nowadays to just have like a small 50,000 penalty.
- 18:41Well, this, the economy was addressed today.
- 18:44I think they're going to have a wipe.
- 18:48They said there's a a full. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold
- 18:53on. Holding.
- 18:56They said they're talking internally about maybe doing a
- 18:59full wipe sometime in the future.
- 19:02Yeah, full wipe soon. Not not like, OK, it's time.
- 19:07I I just know everyone. Personally, it is time.
- 19:09Oh, I do too. But I think everyone hears that
- 19:12and they're like, OK, time to panic.
- 19:14Time to, you know, create all of the Spectrum and Reddit threads
- 19:19and just freak out because we're going to lose all of our money
- 19:23tomorrow. Yeah, I, I don't know.
- 19:27I mean, it's like it like, like I, I know people are worried
- 19:31about that. And some people did legitimately
- 19:34like, like just did earn all that stuff legitimately.
- 19:37But with the inflated market, OK, now they're selling Karenite
- 19:40for 45 million or, you know, whatever.
- 19:43And I'm like, well, where are all these people getting this
- 19:44money from? And then I'm looking online and
- 19:47yeah, you could literally buy billions for like $10.
- 19:51And it, it's just untenable at this point.
- 19:54And it saps a lot out. And that you kind of want to,
- 19:57you log in the game and you go, I'll wait till it actually kind
- 20:00of like means something to earn a mission.
- 20:03You know, I mean, I like the friends part and everything like
- 20:05that, but soloing anything, you know, unless you're going for a
- 20:08loot item, there's really no one set up with money anymore.
- 20:12Yeah, we're not. Even really in a game, you know,
- 20:16at this, the current climate, it's not very gamey.
- 20:19It's more it's still very much back, back to a test universe.
- 20:23It's like sometimes it feels like a game and then sometimes
- 20:26it it just doesn't. I think a wipe might bring that
- 20:29back though. Sometimes you need just a good
- 20:33wipe. Yeah.
- 20:35Oh yeah. Good wet wipe.
- 20:37Speaking of someone who wipes, we have another guest waiting
- 20:40for us in the caller waiting room.
- 20:42Lord Nubes, if you could scoot over on the couch there, just
- 20:45squeech on down. The couch will get bigger as the
- 20:48show goes on, so you don't have to worry about falling off or
- 20:51anything. I'm going to lay down in plastic
- 20:53first because he doesn't wipe. I know I just he wipes.
- 20:58No. Yeah, cosmic hobo last week.
- 21:02You didn't see the couch? No.
- 21:07Filthy. Wow, I thought we've had worse
- 21:09intros from before. That one's probably taking the
- 21:11cake. Gotta wait for the introduction
- 21:13hobo. Well.
- 21:15That was an I guess that was an introduction.
- 21:17That's fair. That's fair.
- 21:19Well, now it stinks. Smells horrible now.
- 21:22Cosmic hobo. How many health bars do we need
- 21:24to solve death? OK, I will.
- 21:29I will start by saying I don't like the overkill health bar.
- 21:32I, I know it's a temporary thing, but and I know it's a
- 21:37balance thing because I, I, I get it there.
- 21:40There's going to be, not everyone's going to know where
- 21:43every single component is on a ship.
- 21:45So if you're shooting at a ship and it just doesn't eventually
- 21:49blow up, I I get it. But.
- 21:52You y'all were just saying it doesn't feel like game.
- 21:55That feels like a game that is extremely gamey.
- 21:58That is an extremely gamey mechanic that they included for
- 22:01engineering. You're not wrong.
- 22:05And I don't like it, but otherwise I liked engineering on
- 22:11the BTUI, liked being able to actually save a ship after quote
- 22:15soft death. Well the few times that it we
- 22:19had some issues with it at times, but it was also the
- 22:23problem that we didn't we soft death the Corsair at one point.
- 22:27Well, disable our our Corsair was disabled by an MPC, but we
- 22:32made the mistake of not killing the MPC first.
- 22:37So we kind of. Just sat there was a 400 eyeball
- 22:39things, which was embarrassing, but it was intentional.
- 22:42But it just sort of sat there and kept shooting us.
- 22:45So I can kind of see the ridiculousness of you're
- 22:48shooting a ship for like 15 minutes and it's still there.
- 22:55So it's like, OK, yeah, I get it.
- 22:58That's, that's what the overkill mechanic is for.
- 23:02But I also don't like it. I I, I want to know if it's, I
- 23:07hope and we didn't get time to really test this because it it's
- 23:11sort of rushed, but I hope it is very long, like a very long
- 23:17timer. What do you think about the
- 23:21ship's not exploding at all? Like no total ship death?
- 23:29Do you get the components? The ship dies this week.
- 23:33I'm saying this because this was one of the top comments I saw
- 23:36today. I forget if it was on Reddit or
- 23:37spectrum but it was like right up there.
- 23:40Ships shouldn't full death at all.
- 23:42They should just be in that what what are we calling the state
- 23:46the the soft death state where I mean what are we disabled state?
- 23:50Disabled. It's essentially an evolution of
- 23:53soft death. Yeah.
- 23:54So we'll call it disabled state just for continuity, softer.
- 23:58What do you think about ships just staying disabled and you
- 24:03can shoot as many times as you want?
- 24:04Nothing. Like this is me going in the
- 24:06exact opposite direction of everything I've said so far.
- 24:08Yeah, but it would be boring, honestly.
- 24:12Like, this is still a game. We still want to see ships flow
- 24:15up and make big explosions. I know why I do at least.
- 24:19So there still needs to be a way to make ships go big boom,
- 24:23because big boom is cool and it is still a game and we want
- 24:27totally booms. But how it big boots is another
- 24:33question I'm not sure I like. OK, how about this?
- 24:43We have a comment and ask the couch.
- 24:47A question, not a comment. Yeah a question and ask and I
- 24:50think it's relevant to this topic right here OK it's from
- 24:55our favorite wait now I'm not a host one of you guys do it yeah
- 24:59I was I didn't I you know fucking step in on people's toes
- 25:03here hobo sorry I I I Lockley Rob's Co hosted today I I
- 25:09stealed my time but. OK.
- 25:11All right. You know, I'm I'm over here.
- 25:14I'm here every day, all right? And this guy's this guy.
- 25:17'S. And by the way, the the comment
- 25:20that you're going to read is from the original Co host of the
- 25:22show who no longer wants to be on the show every week but
- 25:27enjoys commenting extremely long comments in the chat.
- 25:31So I just feel a little, I feel a little overwhelmed, a little
- 25:36confused, but I will read Drake Tavington's comment.
- 25:39Oh, I was going to do Dukes, but oh, Dukes I didn't see.
- 25:42Backseat and just backseat and more just backseat anymore.
- 25:45Where's Duke's? Comment and ask the couch.
- 25:47It's what I said. No, I, I just, I thought that's
- 25:50the one you're talking about too.
- 25:52Yeah. Kindly guiding direction to our
- 25:56We can read, we can read, Duke. All right, everybody forget that
- 26:01this is well organized, Duke says.
- 26:03Does it make sense to have this engineering V-0 when they are
- 26:08just going to have to revamp it all for Malstrom?
- 26:13Also, where's that handsome Duke Lado, the second guy probably
- 26:16making macaroni and cheese for a toddler?
- 26:19So does it make sense to have this engineering V-0 when
- 26:22they're just going to have to revamp it from Malstrom?
- 26:25I think so. Yeah, unfortunately, like it's,
- 26:31it would be nice to just have it all, but I would rather have
- 26:36some of it and be able to mess with it, refine it, make it a
- 26:40little bit better each time. Yeah.
- 26:43Yeah, this is a lot. Like, this is a lot.
- 26:47If we added Maelstrom on top of this right away, I the riots
- 26:52would be louder because people are scared of change.
- 26:56But it it would, it would probably be too much for people
- 27:00to handle it all at once. Yeah.
- 27:04Yeah. This is a good start.
- 27:07Yeah. And then what I mean, what's
- 27:08Malstrom really going to without armor?
- 27:11What is Malstrom anyway? Because our ships already fall
- 27:14apart. So Malstrom is, I think, as far
- 27:18as I know, just really going to add the fact that like, you're
- 27:21doing regional damage to your ship, right.
- 27:25You're doing regional damage to the armor of your ship, if if I
- 27:29understand it correctly. Yeah.
- 27:31It it it will, it will take it will take the armor and whole
- 27:36health system, take the health bars and make them dynamic in a
- 27:41manner of speaking. It won't be a one large health
- 27:45which I I, I I will answer the question for this particular
- 27:50show because I did not get asked.
- 27:51It. I don't like rewind the tape.
- 27:59Take. A word for it, I don't like the
- 28:01health bar system. I don't like health bars.
- 28:03I, I, I didn't like health bars before and I don't like them
- 28:05now, but they are essentially A placeholder system and, and it's
- 28:12a start, like it's a start to moving to make our ships
- 28:17survivability a more dynamic and interesting system.
- 28:24But Hamstrom will make it so that there's actual parts to
- 28:29your ship that matter like, yeah, and, and, and 4.4 and
- 28:33before there were parts, there were wings that could get shot
- 28:36off, there were thrusters that could shy.
- 28:39But I'm talking like your ship is a combination of metal parts
- 28:45put together where there's riveting and there's there's
- 28:49there's armor part armored parts and there's just, it becomes
- 28:53parts instead of 1 solid piece of ship with one solid health
- 28:58bar and armor bar. Like that's much more
- 29:01interesting than health bars. Like having actual parts to your
- 29:05ship that you'll need to fix and not components parts.
- 29:09Like everything is a part of your ship, your whole, your
- 29:12armor, your wings. When they get shot off, you can
- 29:15fix them. That's that's the promise of
- 29:18Maelstrom. Yeah.
- 29:22Yeah. I'm excited for it.
- 29:24Broccoli. Rob, before we bring up our next
- 29:27guest, can you can you see the chat there?
- 29:29I can. Would you like to read Drake's
- 29:35top comment there? The one where he's stoked for
- 29:37the patch. Yeah.
- 29:40All right, Tav says Stow to the patch.
- 29:43Is there any word on the warning?
- 29:45Fire detected? Audio alarm being possibly less
- 29:47insistent. Have the feeling we're just
- 29:50swallowing this one for the patch.
- 29:53I mean, fire is pretty important to to know about, right?
- 29:59It is. And this was Tav's comment last
- 30:01week too. And I feel like, Tav, I feel
- 30:05like you're going to have the same comment next week.
- 30:09Yeah, maybe the week after that. I think well into February, you
- 30:12may have the same comment. I mean, I haven't played it, but
- 30:17I haven't seen anything about the alarm.
- 30:20I think. I think that alarm's probably
- 30:21there to stay. I think it might be, yeah, sorry
- 30:26to say. I have found your ship on fire
- 30:29more insistent when you're near the fire then when you're away
- 30:33from it. So just don't go near the fire.
- 30:37There you go. Oh, wait, is a warning fire
- 30:41detected in your helmet? No, no, it's ship.
- 30:45What? But like, whether it's a bug or
- 30:49not, sometimes if you leave the area of the ship that has the
- 30:53fire, you don't hear the alarm anymore.
- 30:56OK, OK. I mean, hopefully they'll fix
- 30:59it, but as far as the alarm itself, it's going to stay
- 31:02there. Yes.
- 31:04Like, I do think that's going to stay, unfortunately.
- 31:07Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fire alarms in buildings you
- 31:10can't turn off. Individually, we found that out.
- 31:14Yes, yes, All right, so we're going to bring up our next guest
- 31:22here. Not sure how I feel about
- 31:25bringing on this this fella here, but Wicket's going to join
- 31:29us here on Open Comms Radio. Your Star Citizen call in show.
- 31:32You can call in any week. If you want to join the show,
- 31:35you just pop into Discord, you can call on in, let us know your
- 31:38thoughts, let us know your feelings.
- 31:41We might make fun of you a little bit.
- 31:43But this week we have a very special guest with us, it is
- 31:46Wicket. Wicket, what's my question?
- 31:52How many health bars do we need to solve death?
- 31:57Long time listen, occasional caller health bars.
- 32:02Do you need a wall? You need how else you going to
- 32:05tell when shit's broken? I mean, yeah, if it I don't see
- 32:14the mechanics in game yet of or if they're ever going to be
- 32:17where? OK, my XL1 quantum drive is
- 32:22broken in half. OK, I guess it's broken.
- 32:24So you know, in a game you have to have some kind of quick and
- 32:30easy way to look and say, oh, shit's broke broken, I need to
- 32:34fix. So bars are fine.
- 32:37I mean, yes, how many more health bars do we need?
- 32:40It's kind of kind of a meme at this point, but think about
- 32:45playing the game. I don't know what the what the
- 32:47future holds, but in the current state of the game, if you're
- 32:50running around as an engineer on a multi cruise ship, how else
- 32:54are you going to know you know you're going to run back and
- 32:57forth to that console? That's another health bar on the
- 32:59console more or. Less scan it.
- 33:02Yeah. Well, but so do you have to have
- 33:06some sort of indicator to say, OK, this is broken by X amount
- 33:10and or it's not fixable or they have to indicate that somehow.
- 33:14So I, I don't have a problem with health bars.
- 33:17I don't see how else you're going to figure out how broken
- 33:21something is or if it's even beyond repair, you know, some
- 33:24kind of indicator. You have to have something Now,
- 33:26maybe they had, maybe they've talked about this.
- 33:29Maybe, you know, components are going to start having cracks and
- 33:32then, well, how many cracks does does 50% damage mean without a,
- 33:37some kind of health bar indicator, how will you know?
- 33:40You know how much you have to repair?
- 33:42You just keep repairing until the lights come back on or the
- 33:45fire stops. I mean, kind of ridiculous.
- 33:48I think health bars are an easy gamified way.
- 33:51Anybody that that that has eyes can say, oh, Barlow bad, bar
- 33:57high good. That's very easy.
- 34:00But that said, we have a health bar for our Shields, we have a
- 34:04bar for our armor, which so far I guess is just the entire ship,
- 34:08right? It's not a a regional.
- 34:10Bar. But that would would an analog
- 34:12gauge with a needle be more more It's the same thing.
- 34:17What? Are we talking?
- 34:18About what are we even talking about?
- 34:21You know it's. You have to have some way of
- 34:23indicating. Fuck, you found me out dude.
- 34:26Shit, can can we get an unbelievable for the short that
- 34:30he's going to make with this? Unbelievable.
- 34:34Thank you. Thank you.
- 34:37But so I haven't played the patch yet.
- 34:41I know it's supposed to go Live Today.
- 34:42Did it go Live Today? Yeah, like.
- 34:45It did. Right before we started the.
- 34:47Show. Well, I mean, I've been playing
- 34:49another game that's been 10 plus years in development.
- 34:54Silk Song so. I've been playing Ashes of
- 34:57Creation and it, you know, for it's been in development for 10
- 35:02years versus Star Citizen. What is it now?
- 35:0513, almost 14 years and there's a lot of analogies you could
- 35:11draw between the two. There's stuff that doesn't work
- 35:14correctly, there's a lot of broken stuff, but overall they
- 35:17have a working game, there's an economy, there's there's a
- 35:23questing system. It's not fully fleshed out yet.
- 35:25They have a world to experience, they have gear to grind for,
- 35:29they have X. You know, of course it's a
- 35:31general fantasy MMO that you need to grind XP and skills and
- 35:38blah blah blah. And they have a very fleshed out
- 35:42crafting system, very intricate, but I don't want.
- 35:48Spaceships. Do they have Wicket?
- 35:50They have 0 spaceships man. Well, I'm not interested.
- 35:54You lost me. That's fine, that's fine.
- 35:57I'm having a great time. The reason I bring that up is
- 36:01just the same similar long ass multi year development and early
- 36:07access alpha blah blah blah. All right, so and you're paying
- 36:12for it to get, I mean, it's cheaper than buying a ship, I
- 36:16can tell you that. Would you say you're a sucker?
- 36:22Oh, I'm a hypocrite for, for, for spending money on video
- 36:26games and computer bullshit. The biggest hypocrite there ever
- 36:31was. And I've I've already, I've
- 36:32already fessed up to that. I've already copped to that.
- 36:35Yeah, I know. Now when when you play Ashes of
- 36:39Creation here, do you think it's as ambitious or equally
- 36:45ambitious as Star Citizen? It's, I don't think it's nowhere
- 36:49near as ambitious as Star Citizen, but they're using
- 36:52different. They're using they, they also
- 36:55have server meshing. They don't have persistence like
- 36:59we have, but they do have server meshing where there's, you know,
- 37:03a lot of there's just a few small servers.
- 37:06Well, not small, they're big, they're massive.
- 37:10I mean, there's, there's no, there's no instant travel.
- 37:15So if I want to go from point A to point BI, got to get on my
- 37:18horse and drive there or ride there per SE.
- 37:23They have fishing. Oh well.
- 37:26Actually, no. Oh no, Hold on cooking.
- 37:30Hold on. Yeah.
- 37:31You have to the, the, the, the, the crafting system is very
- 37:35intricate. For instance, I made, there's
- 37:38this lettuce salad. It's a salad, right?
- 37:41And it gives me 155 extra physical strength or, or, or
- 37:46physical power, which I'm a fighter, so I need physical
- 37:49power to make this shit. I had to 1st get seeds to grow
- 37:55lettuce. Then I had to go to the, to the
- 37:58lumber mill and make some lumber and part of the lumber.
- 38:02First I had to, I had to lumberjack the wood from a tree.
- 38:06Then I had to go to the lumber mill and, and process it.
- 38:09And out of that came the, the, the, the processed lumber plus
- 38:13some wood chips. Now the wood chips are important
- 38:16because you take this other ingredient you buy and you make
- 38:19mulch. Then you take that mulch and you
- 38:22take and you buy some seeds and you buy some water and you go
- 38:26over to the farm and plant the the the lettuce and it grows.
- 38:31Then you take the lettuce and get some buy some oil and you go
- 38:34to the cooking station to make some lettuce salad or salad.
- 38:39Yeah, Then you take the lettuce in the oil to make the salad.
- 38:42So in other words, it's just an intricate this is this is just
- 38:45like crafting one O 1 right here, man.
- 38:50Anyway, I digress. I don't I don't want to make
- 38:53this all about ashes of creation.
- 38:54I'm just saying that. Well, you kind of did.
- 38:57You came in here with it. Fucker unbelievable.
- 39:02In any event, in any event, the point that the whole point I was
- 39:06trying to make is you have two projects, gaming projects that
- 39:10are MMO's that have been 10 plus years in development.
- 39:14You know, here's one that I think is a lot more fleshed out
- 39:17as far as the world. And then of course, you know,
- 39:20the, you can draw the analogy that in, in a lot of aspects,
- 39:24they're lagging behind and, and Star Citizen, but where they
- 39:28aren't is their ambition. The ambition as Star Citizen is,
- 39:31is way bigger. And, and I see, you know, the
- 39:35more and more I play Star Citizen and play some of these
- 39:37other early access games lately, I see the vision of Star
- 39:43Citizen. And I'm, even though I think the
- 39:47the Ashes game is a more polished product, I can see the
- 39:53future in Star Citizen. I see where it's going, and I'm
- 39:56hopeful now. I know they're going to stumble
- 39:59along the way. I'm just my hope, my desire is
- 40:03that when they stumble, they come up with solutions that most
- 40:09of the community and Star Citizen will accept.
- 40:14You know, I don't want them to go too hard in one way or too
- 40:17hard the other way. I want them to find this middle
- 40:19ground where everybody's pissed off and that's usually probably
- 40:22the place we want to be. Anyway.
- 40:26I'm mad of you, huh? I'm mad.
- 40:29Are you comfortable now? I'm, I mean I, I, I if you're
- 40:35mad. Where we got it?
- 40:38Right. Yeah.
- 40:41But everyone. Everyone.
- 40:42'S well, you guys, you guys have been playing the patch, the live
- 40:45patch now have you, have you guys been doing some of the the
- 40:48PTU stuff? Are you, are you, are you in it?
- 40:51Are you, are you enjoying it? Is it all working or is it still
- 40:55do we need a hot fix in the next couple of days to go well?
- 40:59I don't think any of us here have played the live yet.
- 41:01It just launched right Hobo. Did you pop in?
- 41:04I've been in live this whole time in the last like 2 hours or
- 41:08when we're going. I've not left left ski yet.
- 41:12Well, it's been inventory citizen for I've never leave
- 41:16Levski. Who would?
- 41:18Yeah, dude, inventory speak. We could do a whole show on how
- 41:22they dropped the ball on inventory, but instead we're
- 41:25going to bring up our next guest.
- 41:27Oh, OK, Yeah, if if anyone you guys want to talk shit, if you
- 41:30want to say one, if you want to take one stab at why inventory
- 41:35sucks right now, I'll let everyone say say one sentence
- 41:38and you could start hobo. Well, I was just fighting with
- 41:44it for like 5 minutes to get it to load properly, but I have
- 41:48good news on that front. Inventory cards to end of
- 41:52January 2026. So inventory updates in January.
- 41:56Oh, next month, next patch, Yeah, probably next patch maybe.
- 42:01Anyone else want to smack talk inventory?
- 42:04Yes, because the fact that we can't drag and drop sucks and
- 42:10the fact that we can't destroy an item permanently sucks like
- 42:14just a start of it. So you got to hold on to all
- 42:16your things and then every and you got to like a bunch of stuff
- 42:19collecting and then then you got to like 1 by 1, one by one all
- 42:23the time and it's like annoying. Tedious.
- 42:27Yeah. Yeah, well, here we are bringing
- 42:31in our next guest who is totally muted at the moment.
- 42:36Crotch mullet. Your your audio.
- 42:39You can't hear us. There he is, Crotch mullet.
- 42:42Welcome to Open Comms Radio, your Star Citizen Collins show.
- 42:45I'm Jar Jar Jabroni. You're here sharing a couch with
- 42:48Broccoli, Rob, Lord Anubis, Cosmic Hobo Wicket.
- 42:53And today's question is, how many health bars do we need to
- 42:58soft death? Honestly I'm a huge fan.
- 43:03Don't know anything about health bars, but I can confirm that
- 43:07fire extinguisher jetpacks is a thing.
- 43:09It's confirmed you've heard it here first.
- 43:12My connections told me. Yes.
- 43:16So just letting you guys know it's the good news.
- 43:20Can I ask you what connections? Yeah.
- 43:23Please don't tell me it's Yens. Yeah, can't say.
- 43:28Yeah, OK, OK. Yeah, yeah.
- 43:31So tell, tell, tell me about fire extinguisher jet packs.
- 43:35They're going to be sweet thinking you're going to fly.
- 43:38It's going to be sick. It's the fire extinguisher, jet
- 43:43packs. I mean, you can't get cooler
- 43:47than that, right? You know Wally.
- 43:48Did it? Who did it?
- 43:51Wally. Oh, you know, I never saw that
- 43:55movie all the way through. There you go.
- 43:59I know it's, it's exactly what I'd like to in terms of like,
- 44:02I'm not a big Pixar fan. I know that people get upset
- 44:07about that, but. I'm upset about that now that
- 44:10you said that. Yeah, other other than the fact
- 44:13that it's Pixar, though, it's exactly what I'd I'd like the
- 44:15premise. Everybody just gets fat and lazy
- 44:19and a little robot has to help them out.
- 44:21And yeah. Is that what you think the movie
- 44:26is? It's a good in a nutshell Wally
- 44:30description. Yeah, everybody gets fat as shit
- 44:34and they have robots doing everything for them and then
- 44:38Wally is is zooming around and. With fire extinguisher.
- 44:44Jetpacks. And apparently he's got fire
- 44:46extinguisher jetpacks, so. There you go.
- 44:49That's what I know. You should watch Wally.
- 44:52Yeah, you should have much fun. I haven't played too much the
- 44:55PT. I'm excited I'm in here, but I'm
- 44:58putting out posters while listening to the podcast.
- 45:02Wrong hanger. Yeah.
- 45:05You're decorating that may, That may be fruitless, that may be
- 45:10futile. Yeah, it's I didn't want to get
- 45:13too into the game. I really wanted to talk to you
- 45:16guys so doing some simple things.
- 45:19Yeah, there's a big wipe coming, so.
- 45:22Huge wipe. Yeah, I heard.
- 45:26Start panicking now. I'm panicked.
- 45:30Get out of your system. So crotch you.
- 45:33You haven't been playing in the last few months, You weren't in
- 45:37too much. You're probably like having a
- 45:39life or whatever. Something like that.
- 45:42I wouldn't call it a life, but yeah, yeah, well, some, some of
- 45:46us have it. Sure.
- 45:48So what? What brought you back?
- 45:50Wicket, it's all Wicked. I'm a huge fan of Wicked.
- 45:55He dragged me back in. We had some good games.
- 46:01No, for real, I just missed the gang.
- 46:03For real, without being too sappy, I missed the gang and I
- 46:07was. I really needed a simulator in
- 46:09my life. And the last time I was playing
- 46:12Star Citizen, I was doing some videos and it kept crashing.
- 46:17And then I was like, I can't keep putting 45 minutes in this
- 46:20game crashing time. So that's how I felt.
- 46:25Yeah, valid. Your feelings are valid.
- 46:30But it seems more everyone said it was stable when I came back,
- 46:34but then I became unstable I guess during yeah IE.
- 46:39Yeah, A. Little bit.
- 46:41So what impressed you most when you came back?
- 46:47I don't for me, I found a big difference in the the PTU when I
- 46:51was trying 4.5. The graphics, I don't know if
- 46:54anybody else did, but the found the contrast was better.
- 46:57I found a lot of things were really nice.
- 47:00I guess the Vulcan engine I don't know, like I know some
- 47:04things were perfect, but I found the graphics really nice where
- 47:08if I did a small delivery or something and then I saw my ship
- 47:12just there I saw like, I don't know, it looked amazing.
- 47:15I don't know if anybody else had that.
- 47:18Vulcan's done some interesting things with frame, not frame
- 47:22rates, like frame rates seem normal, but something like their
- 47:26timing has been better. So it feels smoother when it
- 47:31doesn't crash or come up against something like the Perseus or
- 47:35Polaris where nothing can save you, but when it's not doing
- 47:40that, it feels different, better.
- 47:45Yeah. Well, Vulcans always think
- 47:48themselves superior anyways. That is true.
- 47:55Yeah, Have you? I mean, we're all in.
- 48:00I'm guessing we're all in the PE right now, or a lot of us are.
- 48:05I'm not yet. Staring at cat oil.
- 48:07I'm I'm pretty impressed how smooth it's running right now at
- 48:13Levski. I feel like I'm getting an extra
- 48:1420 frames compared to the PTU. Yeah, it's been way better.
- 48:20Occasionally A hanger if you're in your hanger and someone's
- 48:23hanger spawns on top of your hanger, which I really hope they
- 48:26had fixed but they did not from the PTU that will tank frame
- 48:29rates but other than. That yeah, it's been a lot
- 48:34better. Are you getting better frame
- 48:37rates than the last patch? Like just in general or just
- 48:41better than PTU? Feels better, yeah.
- 48:44Oh I always wonder if on PTU they're not running their A game
- 48:51servers. Like something about the way
- 48:54they distribute their servers. They just like buy a lower tier
- 48:57of servers for everything 'cause they need more of them during
- 49:01PTU times. So live gets like the B tier
- 49:04servers and PTU gets the B tier servers, maybe B plus but just
- 49:09something about when they run APTU or tech preview at the same
- 49:14time as a live build is running everything just kind of sucks.
- 49:21Yeah. The.
- 49:23Servers all just. Suck.
- 49:25I think, I think they devote a portion of their available
- 49:28server pool and they split that up between test live and and
- 49:34internal that you know for their offices.
- 49:36Yeah, and it just gets shittier. Like people blame, people blame
- 49:42free flights all the time, which I think is just a holdover of
- 49:46when they did used to suck Superbad.
- 49:49But nowadays I, I, I don't see the issue.
- 49:51Free flights are no longer the absolute server killers that
- 49:54they used to be. They were.
- 49:56They used to be so bad. Yeah, I'd actually I'd agree
- 50:01with that because this last, this last Freefly, I was like,
- 50:05fine. That's two or three I remember
- 50:08so far have been this year, it's just been like, oh, it's a free
- 50:11fly, OK. Yeah, All right.
- 50:17Cool. Well, Speaking of someone who
- 50:19flies for free, we do have a Murphy Jack here waiting for us
- 50:24in the waiting room. Our fearless leader Brock Rob
- 50:28introduce our our good comrade here.
- 50:34Sure, he he runs a show like you said, our fearless leader
- 50:39Murphy, Jack getting over a cold.
- 50:44I think hopefully coming back strong.
- 50:48He was ill. He might have passed out because
- 50:52he's not. He's not actually coming in the
- 50:53room. Oh.
- 50:54He's on Nyquil. Oh yeah.
- 50:57Oh, thank God. Hello.
- 50:59Hello. Hello.
- 51:02Hello. Feeling.
- 51:04Feeling much better. Feeling much better, patch is
- 51:08running not very good for me. I don't know if you guys are
- 51:14running into issues now but I lost my personal hanger but now
- 51:18it's back. But then it disappeared.
- 51:20So you know, patch day tremors. But overall yeah I gained FPS
- 51:25too. But the problem is with me is I
- 51:27had to get off Vulcan. Vulcan ran horrible for me for
- 51:32some reason. Do you have an NVIDIA card or an
- 51:36AMD one? I can't remember.
- 51:37NVIDIA. OK, yeah, 'cause I do. 2303070
- 51:41TI. I did get a 7900 XTX.
- 51:45It's on the way so. Oh nice, did you see that NVIDIA
- 51:49is going to reduce their production of graphics cards by
- 51:56like 40 to 60% next year 'cause they're all.
- 52:02Going into AI shit. Yeah.
- 52:04Well, they're going to reduce. I think they're reducing how
- 52:06many they're selling, like, yeah.
- 52:09The consumer stuff's getting the shaft, and that's all over the
- 52:12place with computer components Which.
- 52:14Means they're going to be worth, they're going to be not worth
- 52:17more, but they're going to be more expensive.
- 52:19I think it's an opportunity for AMD to really step up their
- 52:24consumer game. Yeah.
- 52:27And then tomorrow AMD announces we're not making any more
- 52:31consumer graphics. Don't, don't do that to me
- 52:34'cause I I'm going to need a new GP at some point.
- 52:37I I'd be lying if I said that didn't influence my decision to
- 52:40go AMD. Oh yeah, absolutely.
- 52:42What they're doing, NVIDIA, But they're, you know.
- 52:45AMD as well getting. Like, I mean, even just as a
- 52:49company, you know, like, like honestly, they were built on
- 52:55graphics cards and for them to now treat their the, the, the
- 53:00population that built them as basically secondary.
- 53:07And I understand you got to go for profit, but honestly, the
- 53:10money that was be spent to do the, the, the, you know, the
- 53:14consumer graphics industry is probably just a blip on their
- 53:18things. Like, you know, it's the tiny
- 53:22little fraction of what they actually do now.
- 53:24I mean, just to just to abandon it kind of just feels, well, I
- 53:29mean not abandon it, but cut it down.
- 53:31Crucial abandoning their consumer grade division
- 53:34entirely. Was that hurt?
- 53:36Because I've gotten some of their stuff before.
- 53:39Oh yeah. They're usually well priced and
- 53:41they've been good quality, like their SSDs are usually pretty
- 53:45good for the money. But Nope, no longer they're
- 53:48they're they're done. They're shutting down in
- 53:51January. Are they really?
- 53:55Yeah, I didn't hear that. Yeah, they're they're shutting
- 53:59down Crucial, the brand entirely.
- 54:03Yeah. Who?
- 54:04Who owns it? Micron.
- 54:07Micron Yeah, Micron. Micron is shifting to entirely
- 54:13focusing on AI. Customers, yeah, pretty much
- 54:22like. Corporate gear as an aside and
- 54:26not steal Murphy Jack's time and maybe Murphy.
- 54:28You can take the first stab at this if you know it, but
- 54:32supposedly there's an AI bubble, and if the AI bubble bursts, all
- 54:37these companies pivoting to AI selling toward AI isn't.
- 54:45If the bubble bursts, isn't that going to affect them?
- 54:50I have no idea. Like bubble I know is from
- 54:52Wicked. We lost.
- 54:56The Movie. Into a recession.
- 54:58But everybody ignore what Murphy just said.
- 55:01What are you talking about? Glenda's Glenda's bubble.
- 55:11OK, but now? I mean, I seriously don't know
- 55:14anything about this AI bubble. I, of course, really field.
- 55:19So yeah, it's a bubble. It just might pop slowly or it
- 55:25might pop quickly. Either way you're going to get
- 55:28that fart sound. Just might be a loud fart or a
- 55:32slow fart crotch. Yes.
- 55:36Can you do the fart sound did? You hear that or did it not even
- 55:42go through the mic it? Didn't go through.
- 55:45That's funny, it noise cancelled my sound effect.
- 55:49Oh no. Well, this is the problem with
- 55:51the AI. There you go.
- 55:54So you can't even do fart sounds anymore.
- 55:56Farts. However, yeah, it sucks.
- 56:00This future sucks shit. So you know the future, Murphy,
- 56:04Jack. Future of Star Citizen, Looking
- 56:06bright, looking clear. Yeah, I think so.
- 56:09I mean, as long as we that night that we went out and we were
- 56:16soft death 2 point O or whatever, right?
- 56:19And we brought the, it was the Idris kiddo was Idris.
- 56:23It was completely shut down. We brought it back from the
- 56:26brink, but then its stressors are all broken.
- 56:31Like that is so much more than just shooting, shooting,
- 56:35shooting soft death. There's no way to get it back
- 56:38from the soft death. One point O, there's no way to
- 56:40get it back. But then then it just gets hard
- 56:41death. That was this is just kind of
- 56:44dumb, whereas now like if hard death is which we don't know
- 56:49what this overkill thing is yet, right.
- 56:51But where hard death is going to be rare.
- 56:54So it like think of like boarding actions, think of
- 56:58actually getting out there and like help him fix the ship.
- 57:03Now it brings a need for the Vulcan to come in right?
- 57:10Like it. Oh, yeah, There's only so much
- 57:12you can do with the handheld tools right now.
- 57:14That Vulcan come out, gets fed by a Vulture, the Vulture brings
- 57:18stuff out to it to feed you or fix you, I guess.
- 57:24I mean it. This opens up a lot of cool
- 57:26gameplay. And then that's the part of just
- 57:30fixing. Now you got the engineer on the
- 57:32ship. You know, it was actually, I
- 57:36didn't think it would be as engaging as it was.
- 57:38It was kind of neat to like shift power as it was needed,
- 57:42like overpower the weapons, watch the heat turn them down.
- 57:47So I think this is, I don't see any negatives right now at all.
- 57:51I really don't. Really, you should put that on
- 57:55spectrum. No, no.
- 57:58That'll go well. They love that I don't.
- 58:02Know there's no pleasing I mean like I don't I don't understand
- 58:07people, but no. Very good, but you right now you
- 58:13say you can't play the patch so. I'm I got out of Levski, but
- 58:19there's there's just a typical launch, you know, it's only been
- 58:23about an hour. So this is the typical same old
- 58:25stuff they're getting bombarded. So that's just, it's nothing
- 58:28new, but. Now is there any new content in
- 58:31this patch? Any any new missions?
- 58:35Don't believe so, right? I mean, Rob Hobo, I don't think
- 58:39there is anything. No, I haven't seen anything.
- 58:42About, I don't. Think so.
- 58:45It's just engineering. We didn't even get a new ship
- 58:49this patch. Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
- 58:54Yeah, I wanted to actually talk about that.
- 58:56No new ship at all. I mean, are they maybe waiting
- 59:02to release a ship or do you think it was going to be the
- 59:05forge? And since there is no forge,
- 59:07there is no ship. I thought it was going to be the
- 59:13RSI Hermes. No, they decided that's too lame
- 59:18and they're not going to release it.
- 59:20They actually went. You know what, guys?
- 59:22This sucks so bad. We're going to not do this for
- 59:24this patch. Yeah.
- 59:26What was the other one they did the Prowler or whatever, the
- 59:29cargo utility, which something it has its IT has its fans.
- 59:35And I think it's like the arm things for the cargo inside are
- 59:39really cool. Like that's some cool ass
- 59:42animation. But like the Prowler's already
- 59:47so freaking expensive. And then it's no more drops,
- 59:51drop seats, drop seats, drop ship seats.
- 59:55Yeah. So it's just like it's cool and
- 59:57great and I'd get one in game, but God, no, I'm not spending
- 1:00:01money on that. Yeah.
- 1:00:03It actually reminds me we have a an advertisement.
- 1:00:07Oh, good, good. Advertisement we got to read.
- 1:00:11It's actually a lore friendly advertisement.
- 1:00:13There's a new ship, a ship modifier in the game, and his
- 1:00:21name is his name is Craig. So here we go.
- 1:00:25The brew. Welcome to Craig's Cargo
- 1:00:28Enhancement. I'm Craig.
- 1:00:30You got a ship. I'll make it a cargo ship.
- 1:00:33You got a Carrick. Cargo Carrick.
- 1:00:36You you got a you got a you got a You got a Terrapin.
- 1:00:39Oh, we'll just throw some boxes in there.
- 1:00:41Cargo Terrapin. Oh, what do you what do you got
- 1:00:44there? You got a a Constellation.
- 1:00:47It's already got a cargo variant.
- 1:00:48Not anymore. This is a big, old, bigger cargo
- 1:00:51variant for the Constellation. I'm cargo, Craig.
- 1:00:53I'll take anything and turn it into a cargo.
- 1:00:56Cargo Craig's. Where is Cargo Craig located?
- 1:01:02Cargo Craig located on cargo island down in cargo land on
- 1:01:06Nick 's. On Nick's just right on the star
- 1:01:14on. The sun there.
- 1:01:17Yeah. Well, he's, he's Island in the
- 1:01:20sun. Listen, he's picked up where
- 1:01:22Cruise Lux left off. It it well, it seems to be a a
- 1:01:27very hot advertiser. I honestly thought I'd be able
- 1:01:32to think of more ships on the fly.
- 1:01:38There's a lot of them. That was a great ad.
- 1:01:42It's tough on the spot and when I said a constellation I was
- 1:01:44like fuck I ruined this. Well, freestyling a commercial
- 1:01:51is kind of hard. Yeah.
- 1:01:55Do you think we're going to do next week?
- 1:01:59What's that we're going to get? We're going to get what again,
- 1:02:01Hobo? Couldn't get that contract back
- 1:02:03like that. Was you?
- 1:02:04You think they're going to like that?
- 1:02:06Look who's Lux Wicked has to fucking apologize.
- 1:02:08I. Don't think so.
- 1:02:10Yeah, we can apologize. For what?
- 1:02:12Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
- 1:02:16I'm not. I'm not apologizing for telling
- 1:02:18the truth. I mean, nor should you, but you
- 1:02:21lied like a dirty little liar. Who lied about what?
- 1:02:24Misinformation campaign, which I don't know why you engaged in
- 1:02:28it. I mean, honestly.
- 1:02:30He was paid. By a certain you know.
- 1:02:33Yeah, IQ 66. I bet you know this whole it
- 1:02:40doesn't contain SLAM. It doesn't contain SLAM when
- 1:02:42it's the biggest selling point of the product.
- 1:02:47And I mean, you made convincing arguments to people.
- 1:02:51They certainly bought your bullshit.
- 1:02:53But look what you did. You scared off Cruz Lux.
- 1:02:57Now they're not here. No, people don't.
- 1:03:00I counter that argument. I think you scared off Cruz Lux
- 1:03:03because you're selling them. It's full of drugs, which it's
- 1:03:06it never happened. The point of buying?
- 1:03:08It. No, it isn't.
- 1:03:10The point of drying is it's delicious.
- 1:03:13Because of the. Drug like it.
- 1:03:15For the taste, dogs are delicious.
- 1:03:20Slanted. Yes, they are.
- 1:03:21They're wonderful. Depends on the.
- 1:03:23Drugs. Try them.
- 1:03:24You must never have taken drugs because drugs are not delicious.
- 1:03:30Yeah, that's some drug we have to.
- 1:03:31We have to do a different show. Although this show, I will admit
- 1:03:36something, I have not labeled this show explicit because I
- 1:03:40didn't really think it was. Yeah, we put it on Deezer, and
- 1:03:46Deezer was like, this show's explicit dude.
- 1:03:50And so now I think I have to change our our our.
- 1:03:55Who said it's explicit of the? Children.
- 1:03:57Explicit because we curse a lot. We talk about drugs and you do
- 1:04:04that thing about Sandy Roberts at the end of every show and
- 1:04:07it's just what if it's not family friendly?
- 1:04:09What about her? Yeah.
- 1:04:10What if I'm not? Asking her to get her husband to
- 1:04:12do the right thing. I mean, how much more wholesome
- 1:04:19can it be? Can the show be?
- 1:04:22I'm just over here with the noodles.
- 1:04:24Yeah, I I do kind of agree. It would be a lot fucking nicer
- 1:04:29if you motherfuckers would stop cussing all the time.
- 1:04:32And that's some shit. Well, nobody said that.
- 1:04:34Fuck, we can just be explicit. Well, think of the children
- 1:04:41that's. Better than being intro.
- 1:04:44You know, when I was, when I was a young lad, we had this thing
- 1:04:46called the radio Radio in some countries.
- 1:04:50Radio, yeah. And I would, I, my radio was
- 1:04:54really inventive. It was a dual radio and alarm
- 1:04:58clock. And it had, which at the time
- 1:05:02was quite innovative, a digital plate, or so you would see the
- 1:05:07numbers glow red. Anyway, my parents would be
- 1:05:11like, go to bed and I'd be like, fine.
- 1:05:13And I'd go to bed. And then I would turn on my
- 1:05:17radio and I would listen to Love Line with Doctor Drew and Adam
- 1:05:21Corolla. Oh boy.
- 1:05:24Oh wow. Does anyone remember the show?
- 1:05:28No, but I know of it. 12 year old 12 year old jar Jar jabroni
- 1:05:33laying in bed. Listen to love line with Doctor
- 1:05:37Drew and I didn't know who Doctor Drew or Adam Corolla
- 1:05:40were. I might have been even younger.
- 1:05:42I might be like 1011 and I learned so much about life and
- 1:05:47relationships from that show that I'm thinking we should do a
- 1:05:51spin off of open comms. Yeah, what a well, what are we
- 1:05:56thinking? We'll give love advice.
- 1:05:58We'll call it love comms or open love advice.
- 1:06:04Maybe that first. One's better.
- 1:06:06I mean, you're going to get a lot of pineapple crowd showing
- 1:06:09up. Yeah, that's OK.
- 1:06:12No, My, my hope is influenced the minds of America's youth the
- 1:06:16same way my mind was influenced by Doctor Truman, Adam Corolla,
- 1:06:20whom I I later found out, not very.
- 1:06:24Not geniuses. No, no.
- 1:06:32Well, it's incredibly problematic.
- 1:06:36I was going to say I got to go, but.
- 1:06:39Oh no, I don't want. This Hold up.
- 1:06:41What? Yeah, you say a thing, but I'm
- 1:06:43going to ask you one question before you leave.
- 1:06:45Yes, we'll say your thing first and I'll ask you the question.
- 1:06:49I said fun fact, radio. You know the word 'cause you
- 1:06:52kept saying radio. The word rad comes from there.
- 1:06:55It's fun fact. It's true.
- 1:06:57A hot dog. That's cool, I don't think.
- 1:07:01It's true, but I like I like spitting out.
- 1:07:03False. OK, fun facts.
- 1:07:06Great, now we're going to fake news category too, Cratch.
- 1:07:11Cratch. Yeah, it's.
- 1:07:12Just called news hobo crotch mullet.
- 1:07:16What do you listen to when you go to sleep?
- 1:07:20I actually have like a a sleep sound, kind of like a nose.
- 1:07:26It's. What the apps?
- 1:07:27Call it N Dell. Just got like, well, don't
- 1:07:30advertise it just so like rain. Sounds or something, it's called
- 1:07:33red. I don't know.
- 1:07:35And yeah, to sleep to that. I if it was up to me though, I'd
- 1:07:40sleep to a lot of I used to sleep to people playing like DND
- 1:07:47or something where people are just like talking amongst each
- 1:07:49other and laughing. I don't know, I like that.
- 1:07:53I'd like to think a lot of people listen to us before they
- 1:07:55go to sleep. Dozens maybe.
- 1:07:59Yeah, that's a fact. I think a lot of people get put
- 1:08:03to sleep by us. It's possible.
- 1:08:07You know what makes it easier? Today's sponsor, man to sleep
- 1:08:10mask. I'm joking.
- 1:08:13Is that a real? Fuck, did you really do that,
- 1:08:15dude? They're not paying us.
- 1:08:18No, but they are. I actually do sleep with one and
- 1:08:21it's amazing. Yeah, our, our actual sponsor is
- 1:08:28Sit and Sleep. Sit and Sleep with over 180
- 1:08:30locations across the continental United States is a proud sponsor
- 1:08:35of I'm Bullshitting. Is that a real thing?
- 1:08:38Yeah, guys, I'm serious. We cannot advertise real
- 1:08:42products on. The show.
- 1:08:46Nord VPN is your. Clash of Clans the game.
- 1:08:55Look, some of these are good products, but I'm serious.
- 1:08:57They're not paying us. We're not doing it.
- 1:08:59All right, crotch and all that. You can leave.
- 1:09:03I love you. Great chat away.
- 1:09:05Just fine enough. Bye.
- 1:09:09Get out of here, Murphy. Jack, what do you listen to
- 1:09:11before you go to sleep or as you go to sleep?
- 1:09:15Star Trek Next Generation. Oh.
- 1:09:20I do, Seriously. Jokes aside, Yep.
- 1:09:23You got it on TV. TNG puts you to sleep.
- 1:09:26Oh yeah, sure. Well, certain episodes.
- 1:09:32Oh, OK, that's fair. Yeah, that's yeah, that's
- 1:09:36awesome. That's a good.
- 1:09:37Yeah, I get that. Lord and Ubis, what do you fall
- 1:09:40asleep to? PS9.
- 1:09:45Good choice. Honestly, like, yeah, I mean,
- 1:09:49I've seen these things a lot. Then certain times when you're
- 1:09:53undergoing a lot of stress and I and I had been through some
- 1:09:56really heavy shit. There were times I would put on
- 1:10:01some of my favorite light hearted episodes, usually for
- 1:10:05Angie episodes, because it gave me something that felt, you
- 1:10:13know, like I, I was in that world for a little bit.
- 1:10:16And so I definitely get that. All right.
- 1:10:21Wicked. What do you fall asleep to?
- 1:10:24Silence. Yeah, it's fucking rad, dude.
- 1:10:31Brock and Rob, what do you fall asleep to?
- 1:10:35A few things. Normally though, it's like
- 1:10:38Warhammer 40K lore that's dark. It's grim dark, grim dark.
- 1:10:47OK. All right, well thank you guys
- 1:10:50for asking. I fall asleep to like ghost
- 1:10:52stories and stuff and podcasts and languages I barely
- 1:10:56understand. I also actually very often I'll
- 1:11:01listen to the sole Citizens, which is a podcast.
- 1:11:04I'll a Star Citizen podcast. I'll promote.
- 1:11:06Oh yeah, I like those guys. You ever listen to open comms?
- 1:11:11No, I have an occasion to make sure that our audio was OK to
- 1:11:19like sleep too. So I I did it a couple times.
- 1:11:21Yeah. Is that a Turkey?
- 1:11:23Dog, but you don't make it a habit 'cause you don't like it.
- 1:11:27Yeah, I don't want, I don't want to.
- 1:11:29I mean, I don't really want to listen to my own show to fall
- 1:11:32asleep. And then when I did it, my
- 1:11:36female companion was like, are you listening to yourself?
- 1:11:39And I was like, I'm doing it for a reason.
- 1:11:43Didn't care. All right, well, this is about
- 1:11:45where we wrap up the show. Does anyone else have anything
- 1:11:48like to add before we do our regular roundup here?
- 1:11:51I listen to white noise. Thanks for asking.
- 1:11:53Oh, did I forget you? Yep.
- 1:11:56Oh, well, I'm so sorry. Oh, man, I'm used to it.
- 1:12:01Oh, jeez. What kind of white noise?
- 1:12:04I asked the the. What's going to be white noise?
- 1:12:08Yeah, why? It can't be black noise or brown
- 1:12:10noise? Or because brown noise makes you
- 1:12:12shit. Damn, you don't want that in
- 1:12:16bed. That's edgy, dude.
- 1:12:19In these times, that's edgy, yeah.
- 1:12:24It's brave of you to admit that. I I I use the spy puck I have in
- 1:12:28my bedroom and ask it to play white noise.
- 1:12:33I don't know what that is. I'd say the name but then it
- 1:12:37would wake up and like oh the sorry I don't understand that.
- 1:12:40Oh, you mean like? You have one of those actually.
- 1:12:43Thank you. I'm not an Alexa.
- 1:12:45Radio. Alexa, subscribe to Open Comms
- 1:12:49Radio. Like and subscribe.
- 1:12:52OK Google, subscribe to open Comms Radio on my YouTube
- 1:12:56account. Thank you.
- 1:12:57You would have gotten me, but I have my headset on, so OK.
- 1:13:01Well, that's about the end of this show.
- 1:13:03We're going to all try to play the patch, maybe.
- 1:13:06Been running. Around in the middle of tech
- 1:13:09Smuggler right now. All right, they fix the
- 1:13:12elevator. Oh.
- 1:13:14Good. There you go for fucking hot
- 1:13:17news. How's it playing?
- 1:13:18Is the playing good though? No.
- 1:13:23Upset, I'll stay in ashes. Yeah, I got to say, it's like a
- 1:13:27little weird. No.
- 1:13:33Amazing. This is the end of the show, so
- 1:13:36we're going to go as we usually do, in reverse order.
- 1:13:39Murphy, Jack, Is there anything you'd like to say to Chris
- 1:13:42Roberts, CIG or the people on the Internet?
- 1:13:46Let us craft Berg singers your jet packs.
- 1:13:52Fuck yeah, Wicket, anything you want to say to CIG?
- 1:13:56Chris Roberts of the People on the Internet.
- 1:13:59Nah, not this week. Or maybe, well, one thing.
- 1:14:02Chris Roberts, Sandy Roberts, have a look at Ashes, see how
- 1:14:06they're doing things. Maybe you get some some
- 1:14:09inspiration. Wow.
- 1:14:12OK, Cosmic Hobo. Anything you want to see?
- 1:14:15The COG? Chris Roberts of the people on
- 1:14:16the Internet. Can we get some planets and the
- 1:14:20next? They're working on it.
- 1:14:23It's coming. I know I'll just.
- 1:14:25Yeah. Can I add that to what I said?
- 1:14:29You want you want to see if you can swap it.
- 1:14:32I'll swap. Really interesting.
- 1:14:36OK. Well, crafting in January
- 1:14:39according to the road map, yadda yadda, Lord Anubis, anything you
- 1:14:48want to say to CIG, Chris Roberts and the people on the
- 1:14:50Internet. Yes, CIG, there's this thing you
- 1:14:54can do with the inventory. Where you don't have to render
- 1:14:57every 3D object here, you know, you can actually just have like
- 1:15:03an image. It's really cool new thing.
- 1:15:06They, they, you know, you could do that and drag and drop.
- 1:15:11Please drag and drop. Drag and drop.
- 1:15:14Destruction of items? Just dispose of them.
- 1:15:18I I shouldn't have to put it into a container and ditch it
- 1:15:22into space? Yeah.
- 1:15:23Can I add to yours Anubis? You're saying drag and drop?
- 1:15:27I'm a controller player. I want like quick key like prep
- 1:15:35to move to. Yeah, I play my.
- 1:15:37It's a controller. I know right?
- 1:15:40Here's the thing, every fucking if we're playing Dune Awakening
- 1:15:45right? Dune Awakening also like much
- 1:15:48better on a on a controller in terms of the inventory and
- 1:15:51everything. It's not hard to do.
- 1:15:54It's it's it's not like it's not been done before.
- 1:15:57If I click on an item, I have many buttons, bind one of those
- 1:16:03buttons so it can delete the item or whatever sent to the
- 1:16:07trash. Have one of those buttons quick
- 1:16:10move to some any for you. By the way, on your keyboard,
- 1:16:13it's the same thing. It's like, you know, press Y to
- 1:16:18move from one box to another box, press F to pay respects,
- 1:16:22press C to throw in the trash or whatever.
- 1:16:24I don't know what it is on keyboard because it's too much
- 1:16:27for me, but the point is is you need quick keys.
- 1:16:32Yeah. Quick keys for the inventory.
- 1:16:37Label as junk. That sort of stuff, yeah.
- 1:16:40It's quickies, quickies, Quickies, everybody.
- 1:16:44Murphy, Jack, say it. Quickies.
- 1:16:47Quick quickies. There you go.
- 1:16:49Quickies Wicked. Quickies.
- 1:16:52More quickies. Quickies Wicked.
- 1:16:59Didn't say it. It's OK.
- 1:17:01OK, Well, thank you for that one, Lord.
- 1:17:02Newbies. I appreciate that one.
- 1:17:03Broccoli Rob. We did it.
- 1:17:06We did. You did it.
- 1:17:09Fuck yeah, dude. Well, you know what to do.
- 1:17:15Yeah, we try to whistle, but it doesn't ever pick up.
- 1:17:19Yeah, no, do something else. Yeah, it's been, it's been open
- 1:17:23Comms Radio. Thanks y'all.
- 1:17:24No. Have help?
- 1:17:27You gotta do a song, that's all.