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Posted by Data in Cortex Command - April 1st, 2010

Nice April Fools’ gag.. OR IS IT?!

You be the judge

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80 Responses to “CC Online Multiplayer Mod”

  1. Captain Kicktar - # April 1st, 2010 at 11:46 am

    Yay! He posted something!

  2. Foogooman - # April 1st, 2010 at 11:48 am

    Ah-boogida-WHAAAAAH?!

  3. Lucax - # April 1st, 2010 at 11:52 am

    What the? Unintended liquid in my pants?

  4. Kzerog - # April 1st, 2010 at 12:02 pm

    Somehow i’m not even exited…

  5. ChippotheHippo - # April 1st, 2010 at 12:15 pm

    #4, its a good thing you exited cause i just dropped a load in my pants from over happiness.

  6. teh somebody - # April 1st, 2010 at 1:10 pm

    WHAT THE &ยค+@?!?

    HE IS ALIVE!! HE IS ALIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!..

    Yea funny.

    How about some real posts, or perhaps even a new build?
    Or even tell us have you even worked on it..

  7. trolleydude - # April 1st, 2010 at 1:21 pm

    The one day you update. Saw this coming a mile off. Boo.

  8. Yay - # April 1st, 2010 at 1:22 pm

    This sucks..

  9. whitty - # April 1st, 2010 at 2:34 pm

    you would

  10. lafe - # April 1st, 2010 at 3:30 pm

    soooo fake

  11. MaximDude - # April 1st, 2010 at 3:37 pm

    Post some progress dammit, not BS.

  12. lafe - # April 1st, 2010 at 3:38 pm

    want real update.
    NAOW!

  13. whitty - # April 1st, 2010 at 7:21 pm

    Update from Dan:
    “So uh yeah don’t tell anybody this but I was in Vegas and my laptop with the Build 24 alpha on it was stolen, I have to start over.”

  14. Tomaster - # April 1st, 2010 at 10:27 pm

    So yea, just pointing this out, but nothing you say here will make this update come any quicker. Not even threats. Just sit back, stop bitching, and wait.

  15. Natti - # April 1st, 2010 at 10:46 pm

    AKGJASLJGHAWHASR!

    I DEMAND A NEW BUILD!

  16. Mooseral - # April 2nd, 2010 at 12:05 am

    Haha what.

    That is a pretty good piece of holiday trolling right there.

  17. Azukki - # April 2nd, 2010 at 12:17 am

    I wasn’t annoyed or deceived by the hoax itself, but data posting about it without mentioning anything relating to actual development while he’s already making a devlog post is seriously disappointing.

    At least you could reiterate that the meta game is turn based and act like that’s new/interesting for the eightieth time…

  18. Lizard - # April 2nd, 2010 at 1:17 am

    Please do, with some exciting new pics too.

  19. w33n - # April 2nd, 2010 at 8:31 am

    OH GOD AWESOME.

  20. whitty - # April 2nd, 2010 at 12:20 pm

    data you dick, email me, im losing chances to make money D:

  21. Yay - # April 2nd, 2010 at 1:55 pm

    Now he posted…

    *turns up the timer to ~60 days*

    Now we play the waiting game…

  22. Matty406 - # April 3rd, 2010 at 4:54 am

    Doth mine eyes deceive me?

  23. Duh102 - # April 3rd, 2010 at 9:11 am

    Yes, yes they do.

  24. ZevN47 - # April 4th, 2010 at 10:26 am

    *perks interest*

    *looks at date*

    *loses interest*

  25. Footkerchief - # April 5th, 2010 at 3:18 am

    Ahahaha, the thread got deleted. I guess trolling your own community didn’t work out so well!

  26. cipher - # April 5th, 2010 at 4:00 pm

    …

    *IS DISAPPOINT*

  27. ngajoe - # April 5th, 2010 at 7:50 pm

    ^this, extremely. Enough to remove this devlog from my favorites.

    Looks like all serious work on CC has ground to a halt.

    Well, good luck on all your future endeavors, Data.

  28. Mooseral - # April 5th, 2010 at 8:40 pm

    Haha, what, it got deleted?

    If this dev posts stays up unedited like this for a week or more, that would be a very sad thing indeed.

  29. Dr Victory - # April 6th, 2010 at 6:29 am

    I would have thought the only way to get some further info or more frequent updates would be to just not post comments here or post in the forum. Pretty sure if I was developing something and I thought my community (free word of mouth advertising) was losing interest I would start updating a bit more often.

    No point raging about post validity or the lack of them, this just shows how much you care about this project.

  30. tons0phun - # April 6th, 2010 at 2:43 pm

    The only thing that made me sore about the prank wasn’t that I myself didn’t get to play multiplayer but that Cortex Command wouldn’t reap the benefits of the feature.

    I believe that multiplayer is the one feature that if Cortex Command employed would make it explode onto the internet as Minecraft has, and would provide enough funding to keep Data interested in working on it.

    But there is no multiplayer.
    There will never be multiplayer.
    And so Cortex Command will stay as it is, which makes me sad for it, because it could be so much more.

  31. cipher - # April 6th, 2010 at 4:00 pm

    If DataRealms is really interested in making money, which everyone is mind you, you guys should really put more effort into the community.
    A weekly devlog, even if it isn’t about super top-secret content(which I doubt there is any…) would keep everyone happy and most importantly INTERESTED IN THE GAME.

    Really guys, the only thing Indie devs have going for them is their connexion with their community, if you have none, you have no game.

    Now, there’s probably a reason as to why there are no devlogs, but hey a post about why there isn’t any is better than nothing!

    I’ll just get back to playing something else until someone understands that if you treat the community badly, the only thing you’ll have is a waste of time on your hands. Around 5 years of wasted time, actually.

    Cya in 2 months.

  32. CrazyMLC - # April 6th, 2010 at 6:40 pm

    If only, if only.

  33. Scope0 - # April 6th, 2010 at 9:50 pm

    Cipher you are correct. It really is shame

  34. Beavos - # April 7th, 2010 at 8:40 am

    Another Duke Nukem Forever? Will CC ever be done?

  35. Tomaster - # April 7th, 2010 at 9:32 am

    Funnily enough, no one will miss you.

  36. cipher - # April 7th, 2010 at 2:24 pm

    Hurr hurr, jokes on you, I’m still around ;[

  37. AttackOfFlamingPigs - # April 7th, 2010 at 3:38 pm

    Actually I think CC with online multiplayer would suck.
    Not to mention that as far as I know the reason why CC won’t be multiplayer is that Data would probably have to rewrite the game for it.

    @Cipher
    Well DataRealms isn’t really interested in making money. That’s why DataRealms is a game dev studio which is making an indie game and not a bank making money.

  38. Duh102 - # April 7th, 2010 at 6:33 pm

    @Flamingpigs: Afaik, Data’s happy with whatever money he can make off of Cortex, but at this point he’s not dealing with major engine problems, instead he is adding on features. The core engine itself is about 7 years old, and was constructed when Data was learning how2C++, so in effect this is not a serious game. When Data makes his next game he might pay a little bit more attention to the community, since he would be putting more effort into making a commercially successful game.

  39. Tomaster - # April 8th, 2010 at 9:05 am

    I thought the reason he introduced weasel was to make the community more chill, thus encouraging new people to join, thus getting more people to buy the game, thus making him more money.

  40. Beavos - # April 8th, 2010 at 11:14 am

    With this program http://www.radmin.com/index.php?lang_ui=en you can easily make a dozen of same videos. It’s easy to play via i-net, but a little slow.

  41. Michael Troute - # April 8th, 2010 at 6:37 pm

    Stop freaking out it was just a April Fools joke

  42. AttackOfFlamingPigs - # April 10th, 2010 at 8:40 am

    @Tomaster
    I thought that too but I guess things changed.

    @Duh102
    What I wanted to say is that:
    The advantages of making an indie game is that you can do what you want and how you want.

  43. lafe - # April 11th, 2010 at 6:39 pm

    Its been over a year since a new build.
    B24 I can wish have want… ):

  44. Yay - # April 13th, 2010 at 3:48 am

    I bet this will be like those modding projects that have lots of fans but noone works on, for years and years and years…

  45. ShiroTheSniper - # April 13th, 2010 at 2:55 pm

    I’m not sure I want a new build soon. I mean… If we get the next build… let’s say next week… imagine how far will be the following release!

    I prefer the “maybe next month build” to the “maybe next year build”…

    … how depressing :(

  46. Yay - # April 14th, 2010 at 6:45 am

    This is the “maybe next year build”-

  47. tons0phun - # April 14th, 2010 at 8:40 am

    I’m sure it’ll come out.
    And it will probably implement more changes than any build before it.

    My only worry is if it’s the last one.

    Still, I check here every day.

  48. lafe - # April 17th, 2010 at 3:36 pm

    nvm, i lied,
    last build was may, not march.
    damn.

  49. endahs - # April 22nd, 2010 at 8:16 pm

    ZALGO! He comes…

  50. gismo - # April 23rd, 2010 at 4:11 am

    nooooo im becoming desperate too… please release already

  51. Airburst - # April 23rd, 2010 at 9:17 pm

    The doldrums…

  52. Username - # April 24th, 2010 at 1:34 pm

    I don’t care just release the new build

  53. Mooseral - # April 25th, 2010 at 8:44 pm

    We don’t even know if there is a new build.

  54. whitty - # April 25th, 2010 at 9:04 pm

    hint hint
    there isnt

  55. TB87670 - # April 26th, 2010 at 1:05 am

    This is reason I hate April 1st, tons of gags that cause minor inconvenience instead of generating humor of any form. Hell I stopped paying attention to CC so long ago I’m replying 25 days after this post, that’s how much I don’t care anymore about a project that appears to be dead.

  56. AttackOfFlamingPigs - # April 26th, 2010 at 8:28 am

    I stopped paying attention to CC so long ago that I’m replying 25 days after this post too.
    Because I don’t care…
    I really don’t…
    I still don’t care.

  57. Airburst - # April 26th, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    I care.

    Also, if b24 doesn’t have new crabs, I will be disappointed…

  58. Endahs - # April 26th, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    spam Data’s twitter/email/facebook etc.
    thats how you fix things…
    I mean why stop caring when you can get a response relatively quickly by not ever leaving him alone! :D
    It shows that we love him.

  59. Kzerog - # April 27th, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    Vant onlein pleh…. An update would be nice. Hell, even an official announcement announcing that this game is dead and all the developement has stopped. Anything.

  60. gismo - # April 28th, 2010 at 6:30 am

    oh we wouldent want that woudent we

  61. Stophe - # April 28th, 2010 at 4:15 pm

    What about a big marching? Or we could blow buildings to get the government’s attention (and Data’s).
    Or hold each others hand and forming the characters “B24″ with enough people to be seen from outer space!

  62. CrazyMLC - # April 28th, 2010 at 4:36 pm

    Go to Phoenix
    Find Data
    Picket
    ?????
    PROFIT!

  63. AttackOfFlamingPigs - # April 29th, 2010 at 5:32 am

    I know I’m late but
    @Airburst
    That was sarcasm.

  64. Yay - # April 29th, 2010 at 10:14 am

    This sucks… The only thing that will make me play CC again is a new release or… a new map from weegee!

  65. funnyguy3D - # April 29th, 2010 at 8:26 pm

    you guys bitch too much, i mean there are hundreds of mods to play, and really people do what they do, it’s still a fun mod even with the bugs and stuff, so quit your whining and Dl crobotech! lol

  66. tons0phun - # April 30th, 2010 at 10:43 am

    So…how goes development?

  67. lafe - # April 30th, 2010 at 2:41 pm

    lafe want know what stuff NAOW1

  68. Tomaster - # April 30th, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    Hey, here’s a new idea that totally hasn’t been said before!
    Why don’t you all stop bitching?

  69. lafe - # May 2nd, 2010 at 8:27 am

    data should replace the link with the one to enforcers multiplayer room.

  70. Airburst - # May 2nd, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    Data should hire me to do the blog.
    At least I would update it.

  71. dabingo - # May 4th, 2010 at 4:10 pm

    What makes him believe that you won’t turn into Weasel, Airburst?

  72. Duh102 - # May 5th, 2010 at 7:02 am

    With great power comes great weasel.

  73. lafe - # May 5th, 2010 at 1:32 pm

    lolz

  74. nige - # May 6th, 2010 at 4:33 am

    Data i hope you realise how much you are hurting me

  75. tons0phun - # May 6th, 2010 at 2:55 pm

    So…

    It’s been about three months since a real update.
    And almost a year since the release of B23.
    [Twice as long as the period between B22 and B23]

    How goes development of B24?
    Will it be the last build?

    Are there changes being made to the editors?
    How is gameplay being balanced or adjusted?
    Will there be any changes to the in-game interface/buy-menu during combat?

    How is B24 coming along?

  76. Alan R. - # May 6th, 2010 at 6:27 pm

    This is almost impossible, unless the terrains are undestructible or very small.

    How much bandwitdh do you think will be necessary to (in theory) play a multiplayer game over internet on horiz land for example? I think lots of MB/s would be necessary. To play @ 60fps, at least 350MB/s (not Mb) according to my simple calculations.

    It will need to transmit a large ‘image’ of the current terrain, including information of physics on particles (lots of particles) and also all the actual action like explosions, objects locations and physics (speed, ang speed, acceleration).

    Cortex command defies the bandwidth of the installed RAM (ramprocessor) on a high-end machine… i think it would be almost impossible to make it playable over ip. (unless limiting the max amount of props to a very boring number, and making the scenarios either undestructible or incredibly small, and also, disallowing those map-wipe bombs and etc. so it doesn’t need to trasmit the entire map, only the modified regions. However, i doubt someone will be such a genius (>200 IQ) to make something like this.

    The easy way to make CC actually multiplayer, is something like multi-head play, supporting 2 mouses, 2 keyboard and 2 monitors and using all the 4 cores of the modern processors and SLI.

    Even on LAN I think it would be very very hard to make a multiplayer gameplay.

  77. Woose - # May 6th, 2010 at 8:38 pm

    While frequent updates reminding us that you’re still alive are great, and I’d love even a one or two sentence summary of what you’re currently working on every week or so, you guys need to chill out.

    The game will get done, perhaps in the next year or even two years, but it will be finished. For now, just be patient, get on the livechat, download some mods, and check out some other games while you’re waiting.

    Remember, the longer it takes for work to be done, the more work gets done during that time period. Happy P.E.D. day, all. =D

  78. ShiroTheSniper - # May 7th, 2010 at 5:56 am

    @Woose: This is true IF any work is done… and we see nothing about it: we need updates.

  79. lafe - # May 7th, 2010 at 2:27 pm

    Why arnt u guys on the forum. We could use your kind .

  80. Username - # May 7th, 2010 at 3:40 pm

    Wednesday was my birthday and today is my friend’s birthday…
    I know what I want. By the way, Sunday is my party. Where I get presents.

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