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feral ferry
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It didn't even have microtransactions

maiden tulip
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Oh

feral ferry
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It's just a traditional singleplayer game

hardy merlin
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It was standard run-of-the-mill single player AAA

feral ferry
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And a really good one at that imo

maiden tulip
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Well i fuess im confusing it then

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With something else

feral ferry
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The scale imo was pretty low, I wished for a bigger world

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But it was genuinely a good game

hardy merlin
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Sushi Squad was live service and didn't sold well duck_bopping

feral ferry
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I don't really get why tf they would ruin Hogwarts Legacy

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Just make another big singleplayer game

feral ferry
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Hell make a Harry Potter MMORPG

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You can monetize the fuck out of that

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For YEARS

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DECADES even

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But not a damn live service, fuck that

fringe salmon
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ah yes just make an mmorpg because that's so easy to do well xD

feral ferry
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If Warner Bros can't make an MMORPG then fuck me

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Amazon managed to make one on their first try

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It was a bumpy road but they did make one

hardy merlin
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Eh, they have more than enough money to get some MMO veteran devs, and good HP one would bring billions from cosmetics alone

fringe salmon
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it also requires a shit ton more devs and cost an equal shit ton more to make

hardy merlin
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Still worth it
However, they won't go for that, because it'll make money in the long term. And they want money now, hence live service

barren pewter
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Back in 2015

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Still waiting for the next game pepecry

feral ferry
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All they have to do is just make a new Hogwarts game

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Supposedly Legacy sold over 15 million copies

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That's not enough?

hardy merlin
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If the profit is smaller than it was in the last quarter, then yeah, it was not enough duck_sip

feral ferry
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Ah right..

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Publicly trading companies 🤢

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Just be Valve, be chill

hardy merlin
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Still, if they're jacking off to the graphs, MMO would be a great choice for them, player retention would skyrocket

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Valve prioritizes long term profits, small steps, but in different directions, checking what's working for them

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Steam Machines were a flop, they stepped back, refined software, put out Steam Decks - and they were a success

feral ferry
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Only cause it brings people to buy more Steam games really

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I doubt the Deck makes that much profit

hardy merlin
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By itself? Most likely they sell Decks at a loss
But overall? Huge profits, and lots of new users
And solid start for their future ecosystem

fringe salmon
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I doubt that they sell it at a loss

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certainly not anymore now that the lowest tier is gone and most are oled models for a bit more

hardy merlin
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Now maybe not, but at the release they most likely did

fringe salmon
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maybe, we'll never now

hardy merlin
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Must've been really worth it though

nimble current
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thank fuck for that

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helldivers 3 ps exclusive peperee

bleak pike
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I mean 2 is an exclusive kinda

orchid prism
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Imagine Sony being in charge of sweaty FPS gamers.

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That's always been Xbox's college frat image havo

nimble current
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helldivers isn't an fps though

feral ferry
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TPS mm

orchid prism
nimble current
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no dreams for duck

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only bread

bleak pike
trim rock
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Oh you too huh

maiden tulip
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Ori dev puts game on gamepass

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People play it on gamepass

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Surprised pikachu face

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you make less money on gamepass than by selling your game full price

orchid prism
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I wonder what the math is.

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And if the good old "if they were going to buy it, they would have" argument works.

fringe salmon
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gamepass should fail so we dont need to deal with it

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hurts the entire industry aside from microsoft

zinc mica
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Same because F that noise, I aint paying for another subscription

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Had to double check, thank gosh

small comet
zinc mica
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WOOOOOOOOOOO

small comet
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ngl i havent even used them all that much

zinc mica
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same

severe compass
zinc mica
severe compass
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Has RWBY even finished? I stopped following that because after Monty died it really slid downhill

hardy merlin
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Last time I saw there was S09 and some spin-off with DC superheroes duck_sip

severe compass
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I Heard the newer RWBY seasons were better, but that would mean having to trudge through half a dozen awful seasons

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Then again whoever put up with that mean seasons of RWBY probably can't be trusted to give a fair review

hardy merlin
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Apparently Crunchyroll was involved in later season, so I don't really watch it
I watched High Guardian Spice, it was... well... was

maiden tulip
bleak pike
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What's the news

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Because I ain't giving lad bible my click

green dune
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RIP FBI

bleak pike
green dune
still spire
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HAhaha, he left the Discord too

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Him and the CEO have been insulting customers left and right, saying they don't understand the game or that they shouldn't rely on what the in-game stats tell them...like it's textbook 101 on bad PR.

worn crescent
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Reminds me of Black Desert at launch

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With the lead designers defending total stat obfuscation

maiden tulip
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But its mass effect 5 and dragon age still in dev

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Headline says it

bleak pike
worn crescent
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And some items just for no reason having invisible bonus stats and never explaining what any of them do anyway

still spire
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Just like helldivers 2, and then the CEO mocks you for not knowing their hidden values

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Also the explosive liberator got renamed to concussive liberator

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Had explosive effects removed

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So even they don't know what their game is

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Lol

worn crescent
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But why care at all it’s a game

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Just close your eyes

still spire
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Damn my performance tanked with this new update, Iw as just getting sub 60FPS on a mission for no reason, GPU and CPU were less than half usage

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Wasn't happening before the patch

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Keeps nerfing our ability to deal with armored enemies, but doesn't stop their frequency

burnt spear
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I'm glad I only played the game for like 90 mins, hit that refund button today.

fluid parcel
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Hey guys

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i jus wnted to ask yall for some help

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so like

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i wanna know the most optimal keyboard settings i can get with the wooting two he

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for fighting games like brawlhalla

burnt spear
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It's just preference.

fluid parcel
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well it's like i dont wanna make my game too responsive and i dont wanna make it not as responsive as i wnt and idk how i can find the middle line between the 2

burnt spear
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Just gotta thug it out and test it yourself to find what works for you and your setup.

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You can search the profile section for brawlhalla and see if anyone has shared anything you can use as a starting point.

still spire
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Man, everyones crashing or being kicked from games randomly nowm, this patch broke shit hard

maiden tulip
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Runs fine for me

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But nico saw a perf drop

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@still spire

still spire
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Yeah, hearing a lot of mixed things. Balance aside, this game isn't stable at all.

maiden tulip
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Havent had crashes yet

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But yeah his fps got reduced

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Mine is still the same

still spire
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Last time, all 3 people "left" my game and I was by myself, i died because the last objective had like 4 chargers and 2 bile titans, very hard solo with the new nerfs

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I then got invited back by my friends

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To the same game, the ywere near the end of the mission, so it somehow separated us into two identical matches

maiden tulip
still spire
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Yeah, and I didn't get any rewards when beating theirs, so like my loss in my own one counted as a loss in this one

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Their networking is...truly unique lol

maiden tulip
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and...

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we all crashed

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rn

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lol

still spire
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Haha

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Perfect

maiden tulip
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I noticed that when the game crashes

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It tends to be like a chain crashing

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1 player crashes then the next then the next then the next

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Doesn't matter who crashes first

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Like

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Even if its not the host

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Everyone will crash

still spire
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Yeah it's their networking shit is causing this, always online requirements keep winning

feral ferry
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Mkilbride and Helldivers, name a better love couple, I couldn't

fallow bronze
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its a bit excessive
its almost as bad as pleasant and that bungie game

vapid lintel
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Hogwarts?

fallow bronze
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Yeah that one

fringe salmon
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dont you mean destiny2

feral ferry
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Just like quin and FFXIV havo

fringe salmon
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dont think I post nearly as much as those two about any game lol

feral ferry
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I mean if you ever talk about a game you play, it's always FFXIV

fringe salmon
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well yes I am playing it a lot dogekek

feral ferry
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Btw, quin, on the topic of FFXIV

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I don't remember FFXIV looking like that

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Looks PS2ish, far worse than it should look like

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Just a console port thing or is that literally how it looks

fringe salmon
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well aside from the last few scenes everything ran on ps3 still

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graphic update coming this summer with the expansion

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but its still keeping ps4/xbox series S so theres a limit what you can do without mods

feral ferry
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You can mod the game's graphics?

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Like, Skyrim style? havo

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Shaders, etc?

fringe salmon
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reshade etc.

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but also mods that replace models and all that

still spire
feral ferry
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I do since I still play PS2 games

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I so miss playing NBA Street Vol. 2 on my PS2 slim

still spire
orchid prism
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What even is that sentence.

feral ferry
orchid prism
bleak pike
still spire
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Well yeah. Gamers.

novel umbra
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what do you expect

hardy merlin
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gacha stuff? PeepoShrug

still spire
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Nikke is top tier story telling duck_sip

bleak pike
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Makes sense

still spire
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Made like 50M last month or something

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Gacha profitable

novel umbra
still spire
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Please

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There's 10x worse

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Ever seen that Azur lane game or whatever

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They have sex, literally

novel umbra
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giggle is the "gameplay" asses jiggling in your face

still spire
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Yes

hardy merlin
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I played Azur Lane for a while
It was my first and last gacha game, at this point I was still young and stupid and didn't knew there were MTX there duck_sip

finite zinc
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my wooting is rly buggy

small comet
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you can get far in AL without mtx though

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played both EN and JP for years

fringe salmon
finite zinc
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like when i plkay val it randomly toggle crouchers n when i click esc it does the windows key thing

hardy merlin
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I have allergy for games with non-cosmetic mtx
And gacha games are the most blatant example

small comet
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if characters are gacha exclusives and theres no easy way to earn gacha tokens i agree

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wtc is wrong with my head today

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there fixed the logic

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jesus

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had to read it 5 times

hardy merlin
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Don't worry, I understood you just fine dogekek

bleak pike
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That was quick

proper basin
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jesus

hardy merlin
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Cool
Maybe I'll get it once the game will stop kicking me out dogekek

bleak pike
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I'm concerned lol

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They nerfed super credits drops

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And now a new pass already?

still spire
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lol

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Yep

hardy merlin
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I haven't noticed drop nerf tbh PeepoShrug

bleak pike
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We also don't know the price.

still spire
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Sickle

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It's got the sickle

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Boy I loved the Sickle

bleak pike
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But it seems to be heavily rng based

still spire
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Sickle was my go too in the firsrt

hardy merlin
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No stratagems though

hardy merlin
pure bear
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couple weeks these days means datamined+solved+L+ratio

still spire
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He's like the 3rd or 4th dev to come out and shit on people

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lol

hardy merlin
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While I love the idea of changing meta from shield+railgun, it'd be better if they just buffed the rest of weapons duck_sip

still spire
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Yeah exactly

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Railgun feels gross now

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Imagine firing superheated metal slugs and they bounce off a generic enemy

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How is that in any way fun

proper basin
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im enjoying the flamethrower

hardy merlin
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I feel kinda conflicted about flamethrower now
It does nice damage, but mostly in dota
And it needs to "fart" before using it -.-

still spire
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That fart is realistic. 😛

proper basin
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i like dsiving backwards with it

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really satisying

still spire
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Real flamethrowers do that

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lol

hardy merlin
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That fart has costed me multiple resupplies yesterdaydogekek
I just want roasted chargers

still spire
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lol

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🍿

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It is wild watching how the first week or two, people sucked Arrowhead off so hard it made me angry

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Like the people held them up as these gods of development

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And then within a few days they burned all of it awya

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lol

hardy merlin
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Backend guys still deserve praise

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I can imagine what hell they were going through while trying to scale this game duck_sip

still spire
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CEO of a company + Twitter always ends in diaster

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Every time

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Honestly, the game isn't fun right now.

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They increased spawn rates of all enemies, including heavies, and reduced our ability to take care of them.

hardy merlin
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My biggest complaint currently is bug spawning mechanic
With bots you can notice that one of them is raising the arm to shoot a flare and react
With bugs they can instantly summon friends after spawn, not even a moment to react, it's nightmare to deal with them now after increased spawns

fringe salmon
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yeah the bug breaches have been a bit annoying when you basically insta kill a group and it still calls in support

still spire
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They get nuts when you kill 99% of the patrol and a single one hiding behind a rock shoots his bug goo

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Like fuck me I guess

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And a LOT of times now, I've had Chargers or bile Titans spawn directly on top or below me

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Like PHASE into reality

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It's not fun lol

hardy merlin
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Oh yeah, I had that too
Imagine my reaction when I discovered I'm reloading under the titan out of nowhere dogekek

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Also had a patrol of bots spawn directly on top of me

still spire
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The issue is that past difficulty 4, almost all enemies gain armor, and most weapons...don't damage armor.

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The ifrst game wasn't like this so I don't quite understand why #2 is.

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You could damage armor with any weapon as long as you kept shooting

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Eventually you wore it down

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That's not the case here

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Also the enemies weak points all took high damage, you could 1-shot chargers in the first game.

proper basin
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the game for some reason likes to take away my primary smg mag when i switch weapons

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even when the mag was full lol

pure bear
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the game must be hella good, because everything else i heard about it sounds like big shite

still spire
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Also Arrowhead changed their FAQ, there will be no free Warbonds going forward

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Only Premium duck_sip

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Gotta love devs when they get successful

bleak pike
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Bait and switch or carpet pull? Xd

fringe salmon
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did they ever say the opposite? I only remember someone last week saying future ones will be premium

bleak pike
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I mean it was implied considering one was free and the other premium

fringe salmon
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not sure how that implies anything

bleak pike
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@still spire you're making claims but I can't find it lol

vapid lintel
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The game is great fun as-is, and there is no requirement to spend more than the base game price on it to have fun and play with friends. Anything more than that is a bonus for people who either a) enjoy the game so much that they spend more than a few dozen hours in it or b) don't mind paying more

still spire
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Some people just get upset that this is on disc DLC basically

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i.e, these guns and the mechs and APCS are in the games files already, have been since day 1, the Warbonds are just unlocking them

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They've gotten a lot of slack for it, but it's honestly pretty scummy. 😛

fringe salmon
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almost every game that does dlcs has parts of the dlc in the game on release

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so idk how that holds up vs anything else

vapid lintel
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I find the game as delivered was complete and full. They had a few growing pains with respect to server stability, but they addressed those quickly.

bleak pike
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Mechs do spawn now apparently?

hardy merlin
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Eh
You can farm all premium warbonds given not a lot of time, so it's fine they're going with premium warbonds onwards
I mean it'd be nice if they threw in some free small ones for holidays or something, but it's ok

bleak pike
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Takes forever without the free pass super credits though

fringe salmon
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eh, depends what missions you do, what you loot etc.

vapid lintel
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I've played 62 hours, have unlocked the premium warbond and bought multiple cosmetics without paying a cent more than purchase price.

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This seems acceptable to me

bleak pike
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You also gained like 800 super credits on the free pass

still spire
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and 300 i nthe Premium

vapid lintel
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750 but yea

bleak pike
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Sounds like that's going poodtft

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I didn't get my medels for the order

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Why 😦

still spire
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Maybe log in and out

bleak pike
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I just logged in though

still spire
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Dunno

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Maybe it'll sho wup randomly later

bleak pike
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Why does it always say helldiver's unfair

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Unavailable

vapid lintel
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Brexit

bleak pike
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Bugger of lol

hardy merlin
still spire
fringe salmon
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Huh surprised it’s not ahead of 16

barren pewter
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a la show meshing well with game interest

lucid brook
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apex is broken once again on linux

hardy merlin
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EAC problem again?

lucid brook
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not sure, latest update just borked completely

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eac loads as usual, just black screen afterwards

bleak pike
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2 heart attacks in a single match

hardy merlin
bleak pike
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Not sure what going on with audio there lol but it's my steam deck plugin

bleak pike
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I have the sycle

still spire
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Scythe?

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Yeah not a fan, sickle ass always my jam.

bleak pike
still spire
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What?

bleak pike
grizzled bramble
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Time to play some elite game

bleak pike
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Then again I'm pretty blind

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No fair, I'm trying to juggle 4 alphas rn

feral ferry
barren pewter
feral ferry
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Eh

barren pewter
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either way, I am probably going to watch it

feral ferry
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Meh I just fail to care

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Beth kinda lost me with Starfield a bit

barren pewter
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...fallout 4 update interesting at all?

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I'm kinda hoping they backport a lot of the stuff from 76 tbh

feral ferry
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I just wanted TESVI, they gave me a half baked space fallout

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What Fallout 4 update

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The big thing they keep delaying

barren pewter
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no, that was Oblivion

feral ferry
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This is the only somewhat interesting thing about this

barren pewter
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NCR moment 💀

feral ferry
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NCR being in a relatively bad position in the world and having a war with brotherhood

barren pewter
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we're all about the Legion

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true to Caesar

barren pewter
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we meet the Mojave chapter AFTER the NCR-BOS war :P

feral ferry
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Well yes NCR had several wars with brotherhood, and BoS didn't do well

barren pewter
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generally they held their own iirc
the Mojave war was the exception

feral ferry
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But this seems like a bit of a weirdly exhausted NCR

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I wonder if this takes place after FNV events?

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So.. who won battle for Hoover dam?

barren pewter
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iirc this happens sometime between the events of fallout 1 and 2, maybe after 2, but not before NV

feral ferry
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Most peeps are saying it's between NV and 4

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Which is about a.. 8-9 year gap?

barren pewter
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yep

feral ferry
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So, NCR must have lost the Hoover dam war

barren pewter
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that wouldn't make sense though

feral ferry
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Legion doesn't seem to be featured so I am assuming Caesar died and they splintered

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... House always wins

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Would be cool if House won the war

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And NCR is really struggling

barren pewter
feral ferry
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Which is highly likely that Legion in some way lost Hoover dam war

barren pewter
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my assumption is that the NCR wins the battle for the dam, and is on its last legs as as fighting force, just as they are throughout F:NV anyway

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House is just...a wild card ending

feral ferry
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I honestly kinda want to see House winning

feral ferry
barren pewter
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Yes Man is somehow even more so

feral ferry
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House honestly seems like the intended ending for FNV

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Legion is no more, NCR is fucked, New Vegas prospers

barren pewter
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removed the two invading powers and cemented House's rule over the strip and loosely, the Mojave

feral ferry
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Fallout 5 should return in some way to what happens with NCR's diminishing power, some 20-30 years later

grizzled bramble
barren pewter
feral ferry
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76 is some 100 years before any Fallout games though no?

barren pewter
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25 years post bomb drop

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yep

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also completely shits on existing lore regarding the BOS...

feral ferry
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76 isn't canon, whatever you say

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At least I fail to consider it an actual official lore piece

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It's just a mess

barren pewter
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it really is

feral ferry
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Cause, F76 initially was extremely barebones and quite shit

barren pewter
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excavator power armour
something explicitly military?
being developed for coal mining
during a RESOURCE SHORTAGE?

feral ferry
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What happened now is the reverse, it has way too much content and most of it makes no sense

barren pewter
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but they're few and far between, probably unique to Appalachia anyway
by design probably lol

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I'm glad that a ton of missing but existing things returned...like the 10mm SMG
a common weapon used by...pretty much everyone in the prewar security realm; military, police, etc
that somehow NEVER makes an appearance in Massachusetts, a supposed HIVE of activity in that field

feral ferry
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What I like about F76: some cool new fauna that were missing in previous games

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Like this bud, this guy is cool

barren pewter
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awwwwww mega sloth

feral ferry
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But then they.. completely shit the bed

barren pewter
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they're derpy and adorable

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just...don't shoot them, even accidentally

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they run surprisingly fast and hit surprisingly hard

feral ferry
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There's literally no chance of such lifeforms forming after what, 25 years you said after nukes fall?

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This guy is just a STALKER rip

barren pewter
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no clue for top left, I recall the top right being a queen ant
scorchbeast in bottom left, a massive stretch

feral ferry
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Damn burer

barren pewter
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another stretch

feral ferry
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And what actually completely pissed me off about F76 and its direction

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What the fuck is this

barren pewter
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Appalachia got a lighter dose of rads than everywhere else, so this level of whacky mutation is a...

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WHAT IN THE FUCK

feral ferry
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They added weird aliens

barren pewter
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of course they did

feral ferry
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Like, what the fuck is this

barren pewter
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no wild wasteland trait required blobfacepalm

feral ferry
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What kind of shithole direction did they take during the development to think of this

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Just keep it normal

barren pewter
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one really wonky acid trip

feral ferry
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What I always liked about FO3 and NV, and to some extent 4

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Was that the world itself was the ironic part

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The weird ultracapitalist world

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But what you actually interact with firsthand is mostly normal

orchid prism
feral ferry
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People are typical post-apo idiots

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Monsters are believable to most part

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Well the weird water guys that fire sonic rays in FNV were weird

orchid prism
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Mirelurk kings?

feral ferry
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But still it was a dystopian world in a post-apo setting

feral ferry
orchid prism
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Ah. I don't remember any "water things that shoot sonic" from FNV at all. Only from Fallout 3 (like below the nature druid area)

feral ferry
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They were very much the only water creatures you could find

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Fallout Wiki

Lakelurks are creatures found in the Mojave Wasteland in 2281. Lakelurks are mutated creatures that live around aquatic areas such as Lake Mead, the Colorado River, the Camp Guardian caves, Blue...

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These shites

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Lol it went from mirelurk to "lakelurk"

proper basin
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Those crab guys in fallout 4

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I like those guys

deft bloom
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hank

maiden tulip
feral ferry
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Hold on how tf did I miss this

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These are Black Mesa remake devs

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They are remaking Ricochet??

vapid lintel
feral ferry
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Colour palette is like Ricochet inspired

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But the sounds are more.. Day of Defeat?

maiden tulip
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I like the difficulty but with the recent nerf regarding armor peneration

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Makes sense to adjust

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Especially on 7 and up

hardy merlin
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Lower health pool, increase armor pepeyes

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Laser cannon is finally fun

maiden tulip
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It's not powerful enough to justify that

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It should be able to melt heavy armor/chip it off progressively

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It only works on med armor

hardy merlin
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But it's fun duck_bopping

feral ferry
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Yes fuck them up!

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EU absolutely loves whamming Apple it's amazing

trim rock
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Apple should just threaten with pulling out of EU entirely. DMA would get reversed so fast

feral ferry
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500 million people live here in EU, you think Apple wants to lose out on many billions havo

hardy merlin
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We however would me more than happy dogekek

feral ferry
#

I'd be happy if I didn't have to see Apple in my life anymore

trim rock
#

Yes

feral ferry
#

No more shit Apple ads

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No more shite Apple phones

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I'd actually be glad

#

Will it happen? Fuck no lol havo

hardy merlin
feral ferry
#

Just not happening

#

EU slaps 1 billion fine? Barely 1% of what they earn

heavy gull
#

well i mean giants have fallen before, its possible but probably not any time soon

feral ferry
#

Apparently it's a pretty strong year in FY24 for Apple already in EU, they'll do more than 100 I think

trim rock
#

Yes now imagine if EU had the balls to slap on say a 30 bn fine

feral ferry
#

Right to Repair is one of those things that are non-debatable and should be globally enforced

trim rock
#

Because Apple's DMA compliance is incredibly shitty

feral ferry
#

€1.8 billion is already a massive fine which is what they got fined just 3 days ago lol

digital dawn
trim rock
#

Fine, 90

feral ferry
#

Apple just isn't pulling out from EU

#

They can eat the fines

drifting rose
#

apple leaving europe would be reason to party hard

maiden tulip
feral ferry
#

Ew, Canada

digital dawn
maiden tulip
#

First canadian province to do so

digital dawn
#

smh, filthy canadian

maiden tulip
#

It made me happy as a customer here

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Hoping more and more follow suit

hardy merlin
#

But Canada is more consumer friendly, like EU
US though just starts getting friendly right to repair bills

digital dawn
maiden tulip
#

The consumer laws are kinda shit in other provinces

#

Similar to us laws

hardy merlin
#

Still more consumer friendly than US havo

maiden tulip
#

Where as qc was already closer to eu consumer laws

feral ferry
#

Don't let that distract you from the fact for every single normal bill passed in Canada, they pass like 10 terrible ones

#

Canada has been terribly mismanaged for like 30-40 years now

digital dawn
maiden tulip
#

Just saying

feral ferry
#

Pretty poor, not that many peeps live there, rather irrelevant havo

digital dawn
#

true

barren pewter
feral ferry
#

Remember Nortel pepecry

digital dawn
#

I wanted to move to canada until I realized its just as bad as here in the states, they're just really good at marketing

deft bloom
#

blame canada

barren pewter
#

in the states, they at least won't kick you while you're down

digital dawn
maiden tulip
#

But its all perspective

feral ferry
#

Oh good lord wtf

#

Is this.. hyperinflation?

feral ferry
#

Still better than yen havo

barren pewter
drifting rose
#

what's a great place to live and avoid responsibility?

barren pewter
#

the economy is just growing much slower than elsewhere, often stagnating
and we admittedly started from a high point

feral ferry
#

Chill ass island in the middle of nowhere

barren pewter
#

we handled the financial crises of the late 2000s and early 2010s better than our neighbours

feral ferry
#

Nah Sweden's boring

#

Good but boring

barren pewter
#

there was a point where CAD traded at or below par for the USD
good fuckin times

heavy gull
#

some swedes live there and cross the border to come work here, higher salaries with lower cost of living lol

hardy merlin
#

Avoid responsibility? Poland when we had old government havo

feral ferry
#

Canada is better off just getting subjugated and becoming a state than staying independent

barren pewter
#

especially not for debils like me with a degree or two and a couple brain cells to rub together

maiden tulip
#

Every country has issues

digital dawn
#

canada should become alaska pt 2

barren pewter
#

unironically
make Quebec an autonomous okrug of the USA, like Puerto Rico, nominally independent but...not actually
and turn the rest of Kanukhistan into states

feral ferry
#

On the bright side as a 51st state Canada could at least claim to be 1) Biggest in area 2) Have the most population from any of the states (just a little bit more than Cali)

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And unironically why would Canada even stay independent, it just hurts you more than staying "free"

digital dawn
barren pewter
feral ferry
#

Puerto Rico is just a god forgotten shithole that only has taxes going for it

#

The constant natural disasters just proves that

barren pewter
#

oh my god you're starting to get the idea

feral ferry
#

I know a lass from PR

digital dawn
feral ferry
#

And the lass has been mentally devastated to the point I have no clue how tf are they even alive

#

Constant natural disasters

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Lack of any support from the government to hurricane victims

#

Like, what's the point of it

#

Just live in Cuba, praise Castro

digital dawn
#

puerto rico is effectively a third world country

feral ferry
#

About on par with most African countries

digital dawn
#

as someone who is puerto rican, its just sad how its been utterly abused

feral ferry
#

I just really want to move to New Zealand and forget about the rest of the world

#

Herd some sheep or whatever

drifting rose
#

poor cubans

digital dawn
#

its straight up just a random island that somehow has a really high quality of living

feral ferry
digital dawn
#

its also really pretty

feral ferry
#

And unlike its closest neighbour, isn't fucked with spiders and snakes

#

It has barely anything harmful

#

Like it's just a weird heaven on earth where nearly everything is perfect

#

Closest thing to Utopia

digital dawn
feral ferry
#

Actually really competent government

#

COVID they dealt really fast with

#

It's just that its biggest weakness (and strength) is that it's so far away from everything

digital dawn
#

how does it always end up like this

feral ferry
#

Idk I just wanted to share Europe fucking with Apple

digital dawn
#

its pretty much general 2.0 (with 100% less slowmode!)

digital dawn
maiden tulip
#

Steam deck ghost of tsuchima @hardy merlin owo

dreamy rain
#

You guys seen the new pokemon zaza

maiden tulip
maiden tulip
#

Im excited for pokemon pizza

hardy merlin
fading spade
#

1,500 hours for burn in at SDR brightness

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so if you playing a game with static UI nonstop for 1,500 hours, youll get minor burn in

hardy merlin
#

But battery will last for 5 hours anyway dogekek

fading spade
#

Xd

hardy merlin
#

Knew it! I knew they won't last long with their amazing Enigma DRM havo

fading spade
#

Just wait 3 years for them to remove it

#

Ez

fringe salmon
#

oh yeah thats coming out too

#

man so little time for all these games lol

hardy merlin
#

Nah, I'll skip it
I'm waiting for MH: Wilds blobaww
If it's going to be World's graphics with Rise's mechanics then we very happy

pure bear
#

no

#

fuck wirebugs

hardy merlin
#

Honestly I prefer wirebugs than claw, it was utterly broken duck_sip

bleak pike
#

Bhahahahahaha

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40% off

#

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Price

$41.99

Recommendations

4469

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trim rock
#

Nice

severe compass
#

Still not worth it

#

Found out that Suicide Squad: KtJL had 26 writers. Which would explain why the story was an inconsistent jumbled mess

trim rock
#

Can't wait for it to be free on EGS

nimble current
#

employ too many people working on a project not talking to each other resulting in a disjointed mess of a game, then ask $60+ for it because you got a lot of employee wages to pay

fringe salmon
#

and where did you find that its 29 writers?

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because in the writing credits I dont count that many

small comet
#

26

fringe salmon
#

yes, anyway, same thing, didnt count that either

feral ferry
small comet
#

didnt it have less than 10 writers

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like 5 or 6

hardy merlin
deft bloom
#

a game like dragon's cockma deserves to be bought

pure bear
#

not a fan of the claw either but its better than the Bugs

feral ferry
#

If games had like 10 hour refund windows I wouldn't mind buying em

#

2 hours is just not enough

#

DD1 was interesting at first but quickly became boring

#

DD2 though, I hope will be good

fringe salmon
hardy merlin
pure bear
#

well ig is the one weapon where it fits yeah

severe compass
#

However I think those consulting agencies even added in wouldn't add to 26 writers, unless they hired a crap tonne for some reason

unique bane
#

Final Free Tribes 3 playtest starting today before early access 🙂 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2687970/TRIBES_3_Rivals/

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Release Date

Mar 12, 2024

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feral ferry
deft bloom
#

XD

feral ferry
#

EA games will get even worse havo

deft bloom
#

how surprising

feral ferry
#

Might be just me but has it been less fashionable lately to shit on EA?

#

Everyone just dogpiles on Ubisoft

#

I don't have a clue what EA releases anymore

pure bear
#

yeah you cant hate on ea if they have no games

deft bloom
#

probably because of that, they haven't had anything big coming out aside the sports side

feral ferry
#

They released no games so far in '24

fading spade
#

.....the community are fast!

feral ferry
#

Huh.. they made Dead Space remake

#

And that was really good

#

Jedi: Survivor was bumpy but good

#

Their "sports" games prolly usual cashgrabs?

#

They really haven't made much for a massive studio though

#

2042 is up there lol, that feels like it's been a while ago

#

Bonus points for Dead Space

deft bloom
#

wasn't developed by them

feral ferry
#

Heh, maybe EA has clawed back some reputation

feral ferry
#

EA Motive

deft bloom
#

ah you're right, they're a subsidiary as well

feral ferry
#

They were established as a subsidiary

deft bloom
#

yeah just checked

feral ferry
#

Not even a usual "buy the studio"

#

Proper offshoot

#

Surprising

#

Ngl though recently I had some newfound respect just for EA Originals

deft bloom
#

maybe that's the proper way of doing it instead of buying a studio and cannibalizing it from the inside

feral ferry
#

EA Originals, Command and Conquer Remastered

#

Dead Space I suppose

#

I.. kinda respect it

#

Ubisoft is so much more shit havo

toxic sundial
feral ferry
#

I grew up with tiberian dawn and red alert 1

#

RA2 is such a thematic change into a parody that I hate it

#

RA1 had just enough of "serious" and silly

#

RA2 is just silly

deft bloom
#

agreed

toxic sundial
#

Ah gotcha grew up with RA1 at a friends house and RA2 was when I really got into RTS

feral ferry
#

I just couldn't like RA2

#

Psychic peeps, rocket men, graphics looking oversaturated (iirc)

#

Like RA1 had the whole "chrono" thing which is just silly scifi and Einstein killing senor Hitlor, but it tried to be serious

#

I prefer my RTS as a serious thing

toxic sundial
#

Gotcha, what about Starcraft and Starcraft 2?

feral ferry
#

Don't hate me, I've never played either

#

My PC could not run those games until like 2016 at which point SC2 has gotten far less popular and not on my radar anymore

#

And when I did try it would just refuse to launch lol

#

Kinda like how I want to play Assassin's Creed Black Flag and Rogue right now, and the games just don't launch

#

Sad

#

I played a bunch of RTS on PS1, Command and Conquer, Warcraft

#

Warcraft 3 and a bunch of lesser known old titles on PC

#

AoE3 was fun

#

Nowadays I just prefer RPGs and sims

hardy merlin
#

Helldivers 2 Space Program
3 times during one mission I was launched to the other side of the map duck_sip

drifting rose
#

those last 3 shots on pharah were like 5-10% hit chance each HAHAHAHA

severe compass
#

Did they fix that projectile size issue?

drifting rose
#

seems like it, I can't reproduce the ridiculous hitboxes in training ground

#

but maybe that's different for controller I dunno

#

game doesn't feel weird anymore to me

still spire
deft bloom
#

intredasting

teal cosmos
#

My fellow gamers... My I'm tilted.... I whiffed on a 1v1 clutch situation and the other person was literally looking the other direction.....

deft bloom
#

gg mental reset go again

green dune
#

This is still absolutely wild to me.

#

Also got to love background tasks making your sword go straight through blocks because of a few lag frames.

deft bloom
#

skill issue

still spire
#

Just funny that they have stealth nerfs and stealth buffs and not tell us when we complain about it. Why is having detailed patch notes a bad thing. 😛

green dune
#

That feeling even when a community you're in is used to nothing being disclosed so tooling is made to automatically diff everything.

dreamy rain
#

Cant wait to play pokemon zaza

still spire
#

For example they increased the spawn rate of enemies by about 50%, and didn't put it in the patch notes

#

One of those things they said they didn't feel the need to tell us, but oh boy we felt it lol

heavy gull
#

<@&490097707487330305>

severe compass
#

Gotta wonder how many people actually fall for those bitcoin scams

grizzled bramble
#

Wasn't that long of a game quite chill and restarted 2 times because of 1 achievement, seemed bugged for some reason?

#

Now i just need another kinda short game to keep me occupied until HFW

still spire
maiden tulip
#

Not bad

hardy merlin
#

Wait what?
40zł for whole C&C? And DK with DK2 added on Steam? For a reasonable price?
tf happened to EA? pepesweat

maiden tulip
#

Also no origin needed at all @hardy merlin

hardy merlin
#

I guess they just took GOG builds and slapped it on Steam, but still, pretty nice duck_bopping

maiden tulip
#

https://store.steampowered.com/app/24880/The_Saboteur/ @hardy merlin also this is on steam now

Not all wars are fought on the open battlefield. Download The Saboteur to visit 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris, as you play tough Irish racecar mechanic Sean Devlin. Working with the French Resistance, Sean is out for revenge against ruthless Nazi Colonel Kurt Dierker, who executed Sean’s best friend.This open-world action thriller takes you through ...

Price

$4.99

Recommendations

110

#

Was so good on 360

#

Bavk then

orchid prism
#

It was short and good. And definitely tried way too hard to be cool and adult.

maiden tulip
#

Its was so long ago too

still spire
#

Kinda pointless ot own CNC + RA1 original when Remastered exists.

#

The rest is good though

#

Really hoping for RA2 Remastered. The original CNC Remastered is fun, but sadly due them not fixing the AI, still fairly impossible to beat a lot of missions.

bleak pike
#

Fucking burn it

feral ferry
#

Their games seem alright now

#

They still do the cashgrab sports games that fund their whole enterprise

#

But let's be real, that's kinda the whole point of those games nowadays

bleak pike
#

Alright now?

#

Bitch

feral ferry
#

But EA does fund indie games and even develop fully fledged actually quality singleplayer games

#

It was fun to hate on EA like 10 years back, but then they kinda slowed down, then Joseph Fares came around and said that EA just funds his whole studio with nothing in return

#

Now they are funding Tales of Kenzera: Zau which looks pretty damn fun

bleak pike
#

A gold spec in a pile of poop doesn't make it good.

feral ferry
#

They don't really make anything bad though

#

At least not in the last 3 years

bleak pike
#

Are you mad

feral ferry
#

I'll reserve my curiosity when they release the next big Battlefields, Dragon Ages, etc

#

They seem to have a decent track record lately

hardy merlin
#

Not hating on EA, not by any means
It's just that they have a habit of forgetting about their old games, so seeing Steam event with EA classic games... yeah, quite unusual

feral ferry
bleak pike
#

A single game came out that wasn't shit from EA but even that was plagued with issues in 2023

#

And yes ok they fund indie games.

feral ferry
bleak pike
#

Ok? My point being EA still deserves the hate they get.

feral ferry
#

Last year they released Dead Space which was great, F1 23 which is typically pretty good Codemasters franchise, new Star Wars singleplayer game

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(and a bunch of sports cashgrabs)

bleak pike
#

Star wars they butchered and still is

#

Dead space was a remaster

feral ferry
#

The Jedi series is pretty good

bleak pike
#

Jedi series is fantastic

#

Hence listing that myself

#

But I still don't see that as EA as respawn are kinda their own thing under EA

#

Which is probably why they do so good

feral ferry
#

I'm looking at games they published and to find the last actually bad game (outside of sports games cause frankly idgaf about that, you're a donut if you play those) it was literally Battlefield 2042 3 years back

#

They haven't really done much bad lately

bleak pike
#

Immortals of Aveum

feral ferry
#

That one's a bit bleh

#

Still sits at mostly positive on Steam

#

Unlike 2042 which was a downright disaster

bleak pike
#

Didn't they release a battlefield mobile game xd

feral ferry
#

Idk I don't pay attention to mobile

#

Cancer market

#

I am cautiously optimistic to what they will release this year

#

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is this year iirc

bleak pike
#

Wow I just realized how little reviews there are for Immortals of Aveum which is nuts.

feral ferry
#

I have 0 faith it will be good but it's a new Dragon Age

bleak pike
#

Holy shit lol

bleak pike
#

Still haha

#

Kinda mad

feral ferry
#

What was that AMD sponsored game

#

Forspoken?

#

Didn't sell shit either

bleak pike
#

Has more than double reviews though PepeLaughZoom

feral ferry
#

80 euro game dogekek

bleak pike
#

Tbh though, I can't say much about forspoken but it looked hated for memes

feral ferry
#

Huh is the upcoming Star Wars game not released by EA?

#

That open world one

bleak pike
#

The clips I saw weren't that bad

bleak pike
#

That's Shitsoft

feral ferry
#

Oh fuck that's Ubisoft

#

Yeah it'll be shit

still spire
#

Damn, CNC Generals has crashing issues regardless of using fixes I'm reading, that's too bad.

feral ferry
#

Unironically though, I get that EA sees a lot of money in the Sims franchise

#

But please make Maxis work on Spore 2 pepecry

bleak pike
#

Either way I don't like EA

feral ferry
#

But idk they seem fine rn

bleak pike
#

Wellz

feral ferry
#

I am more preoccupied hating Ubisoft lol

bleak pike
#

Let's just say I see EA as Godsents vs Bethesda.

feral ferry
#

When Ubisoft goes away then I'll go back to something else

#

But I need Ubi to fuck off first

bleak pike
#

Ye fuck Uni

#

Well that was a typo

#

But fuck Ubi too

feral ferry
#

You ain't wrong in both occasions

bleak pike
#

Indeed

feral ferry
#

Unironically though, EA's big test will be simple, will Dragon Age Dreadwolf suck ass

#

RPGs are so hard to do nowadays

bleak pike
#

I did kinda like um

feral ferry
#

You either have soulless shit like Starfield or the good ones that take near 10 years to do like BG3

bleak pike
#

Shit what was it called

#

How have I forgotten one of the biggest game series from Ubi

#

Far cry 6

#

Despite all it's flaws

feral ferry
#

Dreadwolf so far seems to be off to a rocky development, cause development wasn't great

bleak pike
#

Thingy was bloody awful though

#

Newest watch dogs

feral ferry
#

Far Cry hasn't been good imo since 4

bleak pike
#

I didn't like 4 or 5 tbh

#

But not because they were bad I guess

feral ferry
#

4 was just a bit worse than 3

#

Good setting though, interesting story

bleak pike
#

At least it wasn't the reason for me, they just bore me.

feral ferry
#

Boring gameplay

#

They could just remake the original Far Cry's

bleak pike
#

I liked 6 because of the world and villain, female danny was great.

#

And one of my favorite things was when driving she sang which was so fun haha

#

But the ending was pretty shit tbh

#

And the filler was dragged

orchid prism
feral ferry
#

Always fun to see major marketing campaigns have no sales

hardy merlin
#

And then Palworld releases out of nowhere and claims 2nd place of concurrent players count on Steam of all time havo

bleak pike
#

Immortals of Aveum had $40m

#

Budget for marketing

feral ferry
#

I doubt it made half that in sales

bleak pike
#

How did they mess up

orchid prism
#

If you say so - I literally - NEVER - heard of the game till articles about it absolutely flopping came out 😄

#

Forspoken on the other hand was everywhere.

feral ferry
#

Aveum was marketed

#

In TGA and stuff

feral ferry
#

It was just so boring looking my brain filtered it out

bleak pike
#

It just kinda looked generic af

orchid prism
# bleak pike It was at every single event

If you mean "awards shows" then I have never watched one, never plan to. I haven't seen a single soul talking about the game organically anywhere, nor seen any articles in passing.

bleak pike
#

Summer games fest

#

PC game show

feral ferry
#

They tried to market it but it was just a pretty shite showcase

#

Looked generic af

bleak pike
#

Ye

#

They had insane casting too

#

Idk what happened

#

But it also ran like shit tbf

#

They literally had a whole section at SGF

#

Idk how you missed it

feral ferry
#

It released like few weeks after Baldur's Gate

hardy merlin
#

All I heard about Aveum is that it's going to be THE GAME, BESTEST AND GREATEST
Nothing more about it
I still have no idea what is it about havo

feral ferry
#

When everyone was still talking about BG3

orchid prism
bleak pike
#

Summer game fest

orchid prism
#

Which is... what

fringe salmon
#

Geoffs summer event instead of E3 basically

orchid prism
#

Aha.

bleak pike
#

I wish the battlefront collection would release already

still spire
#

It got cancelled

#

Licensing issue

bleak pike
#

What

#

Boo

#

I googled it

#

You got me

proper basin
bleak pike
#

If only they did this for OW1

#

Holy shit

#

@small comet PepeLaughZoom

small comet
#

ok one more reason to not play

fading spade
#

im legit scared Nintendo are gonna target the Steam Deck next

#

Since yuzu was mostly used on that

orchid prism
#

For... what?

#

Your logic eludes me.

fading spade
#

"for enabling piracy"

small comet
#

what

orchid prism
#

what

small comet
#

that doesnt track in the slightest

fading spade
#

nintendo logic doesnt track

orchid prism
#

The Steam Deck isn't a piece of software. It is a computer.

#

Unless Valve were releasing an emulator, your concern has zero warrant.

novel umbra
small comet
#

nintendo argued that yuzus patches for games that arent released can have only be done via piracy for piracy as there was no reason to have these in the codebase before release of the game. furthermore they sold access to official early builds via patreon.

#

if you combine those 2 its enabling piracy

#

none of those 2 has to do with anything but yuzu

#

this would be like banning screwdrivers cause people can open devices with them

fringe salmon
#

You might not agree with Nintendo’s decisions by the absolutely follow a certain logic

small comet
#

also trademarks and copyrights need to be actively defended to stay as such i believe

fringe salmon
#

And even with valve would put out piracy guideline and tutorials at best they could go after some parts of steam not the deck

fringe salmon
small comet
#

i would imagine courts take not protecting copyright in similar situations as precedent

fringe salmon
#

Nope

small comet
#

so if there was a second emulator that does exactly the same as yuzu does with the same source code and such you think the courts wouldnt go why are you only attacking one and not the other when both dont have permissions for this

fringe salmon
#

Nope the court will look at the case and the case alone, if defense brings in that something else was not attacked it will not be let in because it’s not relevant

small comet
#

ok apparently courts are dumber than i thought

fringe salmon
#

It might sound dumb at first but this is the better way for everyone involved

#

Also it need to be a actual court case to be used as precedent

#

So since yuzu settled it can’t be a precedent anyway

small comet
#

well yes but it also means if they could have won its not a precedent

fringe salmon
#

Uhh I don’t get your point there

small comet
#

if they didnt settle and they would have won it would have given other emulators stronger legs to stand on

#

now we wont know if they would have actually won or lost

fringe salmon
#

Sure

#

But most likely the issues they would not still lost on like sharing pre release stuff etc. would have still finished them imo and that’s why we don’t see Nintendo go after ryujinx for example

small comet
#

good question. id love to see the alternate universe where they didnt settle

#

maybe they also just settled cause they didnt wanna spend so much time in court cause this prob drags ages

fringe salmon
#

I mean they still have to pay in this settlement so I still hold the opinion if it was just about emulation some firm would have taken on the case for the same or less or even pro bono

small comet
#

i mean yes they have to pay but it doesnt take up months or years of your life however long such a big case could go

#

never been sued for something similar so idk

fringe salmon
#

Yeah that’s a fair point

#

But you also don’t have to be in court every day or so for these years as a non lawyer

small comet
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yeah but it does weigh on people from what i hear/read online from news or videos

fringe salmon
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Yeah that depends on the person

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Some would love having a chance sticking it to Nintendo

small comet
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i mean some just love bringing justice like karl jobst vs billy mitchel

hot spire
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The issue is cash. It would take 10s of millions to fight Nintendo

small comet
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its either cash, time/life or insecurity related

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insecurity as in not sure if they could even win

fading spade
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just 8 minutes to install and login into ChimeraOS
compared to like 30 minutes, at least, to go through Windows 11 OOBE + system updates

fringe salmon
hot spire
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Why would anyone take that case for free

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They would have to front all that money until they possibly recover it when they win

fringe salmon
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because if its a clear or very likely win there is a good chance they can get get teh opposing party to cover their costs and you get the pr bonus of being the firm that beat nintendo in court

hot spire
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That's not how it works

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Even if you have a clear chance of wind recovering the money is not guaranteed and especially not recovering enough to fully recoup your cost

fringe salmon
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well yeah obviously

proper basin
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i love the taste of democracy in the morning

hot spire
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Unless it's a civil injuries case most pro bono lawyers are really just charity

proper basin
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and laughing at freddy fazbear

fringe salmon
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but thats also why nintendo is not just slamming every emulator

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because if thats all they know they would lose without it getting complicated and expensive

hot spire
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Because they can

fringe salmon
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to what is that a reply to

still spire
bleak pike
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Robots > Bugs

still spire
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Got those 45 medals finally for yesterdays order lol

feral ferry
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Take2!

proper basin
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warner brothers live service investment obviously working out for them pepedevil

fading spade
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Ayooo
The new official proton logo is now finally in place 😍

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fading spade
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Just saw a reviewer claim the Steam Deck cannot be connected to a USB Hub to get more ports and display to a monitor

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he has a few hubs he can try but hasnt

quiet vault
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huh

sudden prawn
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overwatch has gone full fornite with the collabs

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that cowboy bebop collab looked cool

quiet vault
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ye idk what they gonna do with the porsche one

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maybe turn the payload into a porsche lol

sudden prawn
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probably for all the omnic characters

bleak pike