Higby QandA on reddit this week [Archive]

Bags

2012-03-20, 02:34 PM

I'll be doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on reddit later this week. Looking forward to it! I'll post more details soon.

https://twitter.com/#!/mhigby/status/182172917772197889

Sirisian

2012-03-20, 02:35 PM

Sweet. Can't wait. I have some questions ready already.

Knocky

2012-03-20, 02:40 PM

Sweet. Can't wait. I have some questions ready already.

Have you learned yet?

ASK me anything is not "I'll ANSWER what you want to know".

:p

Skitrel

2012-03-20, 02:44 PM

You can ask, that doesn't mean he'll answer.

Though, to be fair. A little advice to Higby would be to adhere to typical AMA reddiquette and put AMAA. Ask me ALMOST anything.

Wouldn't want another rampart incident.

MgFalcon

2012-03-20, 02:45 PM

Already confirmed on twitter: PS2 will be at E3. So no need to ask that this round! :D

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Higby

2012-03-20, 02:49 PM

Knocky

2012-03-20, 02:51 PM

Yeah, I'll be doing an AMAA. I'll answer anything that won't get me fired.

We are willing to take that chance though!

basti

2012-03-20, 02:52 PM

Yeah, I'll be doing an AMAA. I'll answer anything that won't get me fired.

And theres the problem. You need to risk something to gain something! Answer stuff that risks getting you fired, and you gain our eternal love, and a few coins whenenver one of us comes by the bridge your sleeping under.

ThGlump

2012-03-20, 03:05 PM

Higby needs to be promoted high enough, so he can talk to us without danger of being fired.

Snipefrag

2012-03-20, 03:15 PM

Yeah, I'll be doing an AMAA. I'll answer anything that won't get me fired.

I've got a couple of questions:

1) When's beta ?

2) When's Beta !

3) WHEN's BETA :D !!!!1

Lonehunter

2012-03-20, 03:18 PM

NIGHT COMBAT! Anything pertaining to the darkness I intend on stalking prey in, and the tactical options I have to consider.

ringring

2012-03-20, 03:33 PM

Put questions here?

Anyways

1. In-game VOIP. From the GDC video showing the options screen it showed a yes/no option for in-game VOIP. Are you intending to put any more granularity into this feature?
I would hope to see, something to prevent unwanted voices and something to select wanted voice, e.g. a cooperating number of platoons that have formed ad hoc.

2. Is there anything that has particularly surprised you about the opinions voiced by us excited people and if so what?

Shogun

2012-03-20, 03:40 PM

can we please get salty nuts as a hood ornament in the store?

Malorn

2012-03-20, 03:44 PM

Is T-Ray working on making the squirrel statue from comic #4 into a hood ornament?

Hamma

2012-03-20, 03:59 PM

This is finally the time to ask about the velociraptor weapons!

Malorn

2012-03-20, 04:17 PM

I bet they require the ultra-rare velociraptite resource.

Shogun

2012-03-20, 04:26 PM

It would be cool if they had a continent with a small 2d texture of a velociraptor on a cave wall.

SEE what I did THERE?!

only if this cave is guarded by a two headed squirrel!

kaffis

2012-03-20, 04:42 PM

NIGHT COMBAT! Anything pertaining to the darkness I intend on stalking prey in, and the tactical options I have to consider.
Okay, here's my night combat question: Will the day/night cycle be synchronized for all continents on a server, and if not, how staggered will they be -- i.e., will it be possible to fight only at night, or only in the daylight, by changing your location?

This is finally the time to ask about the velociraptor weapons!
<3

On a more serious note, I think my question would have to be, "If you go into beta with driver-gunned vehicles, and the gameplay feedback on that feature is sufficiently negative, is switching to requiring dedicated drivers (and/or increasing the crew count of a vehicle) on the table at a beta stage?"

Skitrel

2012-03-20, 04:57 PM

This is not the place to be asking the questions, ask them when he does the AMA.

This is finally the time to ask about the velociraptor weapons!

I agree, there's been a significant lack of release about dinosaurs in the game so far. If this is the case I'm going to have to start a boycott until we get dinosaurs in the game.

kaffis

2012-03-20, 06:11 PM

This is not the place to be asking the questions, ask them when he does the AMA.
Oh, I'm aware. I just don't have a reddit account, and was throwing those out there for anybody that did who wanted to relay them.

arclegger

2012-03-20, 06:15 PM

I'm gonna ask him why I constantly am getting moved around and why I haven't gotten a paycheck in over 2 months. I'm in the basement now... it's cold down here... has anybody seen my stapler?

ThGlump

2012-03-20, 06:19 PM

Just dont burn down SOE. I would hate not to be able play PS2.

Snipefrag

2012-03-20, 06:40 PM

Just dont burn down SOE. I would hate not to be able play PS2.

Seconded, no doing a Milton plz.

Atheosim

2012-03-20, 06:45 PM

Lonehunter

2012-03-20, 06:56 PM

This is finally the time to ask about the velociraptor weapons!

What is there to ask about? Higby has all ready promised they'll be in game

Eyeklops

2012-03-20, 07:48 PM

I'm gonna ask him why I constantly am getting moved around and why I haven't gotten a paycheck in over 2 months. I'm in the basement now... it's cold down here... has anybody seen my stapler?

"Arclegger (Milton) had been laid off years earlier, but due to a human-resources miscommunication, he was never informed, and due to a payroll computer glitch, he has continued to receive regular paychecks."

Synapses

2012-03-20, 08:06 PM

This "velociraptor weapons" thing must be an inside joke I am missing, anyone willing to fill me in?

LONGFELLA KOJ

2012-03-20, 08:12 PM

I wanna know how many cert points I gotta use to drive a "lumbering beer dispensing mech" from the last screenie Higby mentioned. YES!

That and will combat engineers actually have anything worth while? No spitfires? come on.

Knocky

2012-03-20, 09:06 PM

This "velociraptor weapons" thing must be an inside joke I am missing, anyone willing to fill me in?

Go through Higby's posts....

Biohazard

2012-03-20, 10:24 PM

Can I see the Lighting now?

Graywolves

2012-03-20, 10:30 PM

This "velociraptor weapons" thing must be an inside joke I am missing, anyone willing to fill me in?

The Tri-barrelled air-cooled velociraptor gun has been the NC ES weapon that's been in earliest development of the game. It was the first confirmed weapon we had for PS2 from Higby himself.

The weapon launches Velociraptors at your enemies and it eats them all.

Thoreaux

2012-03-20, 10:38 PM

I'm gonna ask him why I constantly am getting moved around and why I haven't gotten a paycheck in over 2 months. I'm in the basement now... it's cold down here... has anybody seen my stapler?

A red Swingline stapler? With "Swingline" in silver in the side? With a satisfying heft; useful for stapling TPS reports, as well as bludgeoning people for not refilling the office coffee pot?

With some slight scratches on the left side? Likely made by its owner during years of happy stapling?

No. I haven't seen it.

krnasaur

2012-03-20, 10:40 PM

The Tri-barrelled air-cooled velociraptor gun has been the NC ES weapon that's been in earliest development of the game. It was the first confirmed weapon we had for PS2 from Higby himself.

The weapon launches Velociraptors at your enemies and it eats them all.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dacrofts/balloon%20bang%20gun.jpg

TRs ES weapon

Stardouser

2012-03-20, 10:47 PM

Yeah, I'll be doing an AMAA. I'll answer anything that won't get me fired.

It shouldn't be hard to outdo DICE during their interviews, podcasts etc back in pre-BF3 release days. They spent SO much time droning over "Is prone back!" in every single interview that it was obvious they had only authorized the interviewers to ask a very few questions.

NCLynx

2012-03-20, 11:15 PM

I've got a couple of questions:

1) When's beta ?

2) When's Beta !

3) WHEN's BETA :D !!!!1

Soon.

/trollface.

Thanks for the post as well Bags

noxious

2012-03-21, 12:41 AM

I'm gonna ask him why I constantly am getting moved around and why I haven't gotten a paycheck in over 2 months. I'm in the basement now... it's cold down here... has anybody seen my stapler?
Yeah, we can't actually find a record of you being a current employee here. I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that you were laid off five years ago and no one ever told you about it; but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, you still get a paycheck. So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.

cellinaire

2012-03-21, 01:13 AM

Yeah, I'll be doing an AMAA. I'll answer anything that won't get me fired.

Does that AMAA mean, "Ask Me Anything Anytime" ? :D

Eyeklops

2012-03-21, 01:57 AM

Does that AMAA mean, "Ask Me Anything Anytime" ? :D
The answer is in post #4 (http://www.planetside-universe.com/showpost.php?p=659957&postcount=4) of this thread.

You can ask, that doesn't mean he'll answer.

Though, to be fair. A little advice to Higby would be to adhere to typical AMA reddiquette and put AMAA. Ask me ALMOST anything.

Wouldn't want another rampart incident.