Verno wrote on Dec 15, 2011, 10:07:
Haha oh ok, as long as you're "sure" then who cares!

Xoxotl wrote on Dec 13, 2011, 11:24:

The rolling entrance makes sense to me.

Don't get me wrong. I agree about the rolling early access. I have no problem with that... it's a good way to prevent a million people in the newbie zones at once and causing the server to catch fire and explode.

It's just the way they're handling it. Tell me when I can play. That's all I want to know. But they won't... they're sending out invite e-mails in "waves" that is supposed to be based on the date you entered your pre-order code. The first "wave" went out a little late and then they sent the second "wave" at around 9:30am EST. And they just sent the third "wave".

No, they're not telling you when the "waves" are going out. You just have to wait and hope you're getting access.

They could alleviate a lot of frustration and QQ if they just said "Look at the chart. Match it with the date range you submitted your pre-order code. That's when you'll get early access." Period. Done.

Yewkon wrote on Dec 13, 2011, 12:03:
Agreed that this is a poor way to roll out this early access.

They could have sent out these emails a week ago, so people could plan ahead. To send the emails on the same day access begins is rather short-sighted.

Porn-O-Matic wrote on Dec 8, 2011, 00:27:
That's cute... too bad it can't be rigged to kill the pirates for real.

Verno wrote on Dec 8, 2011, 09:28:

gilly775 wrote on Dec 8, 2011, 09:01:

Kajetan wrote on Dec 8, 2011, 05:54:
3. There will be ALWAYS a working crack. Always.

Afaik, there is no "working crack" for this game and I thought there was a handful of other games that were never cracked. Weren't there issues with cracking Silent Hunter 5?

Most of the time when a game goes uncracked its due to lack of interest from both consumers and the "scene". Also these days many games are cracked by non-scene members and uploaded through Usenet/P2P, so they don't get the same exposure. I have no idea about this particular game though.

The only way to make a truly uncrackable game would be to basically build a streaming client/server model like OnLive. Even then in theory it's technically possible that someone could reverse engineer it although that's unlikely given the amount of time and expertise required. We do live in the age of crowdsourcing though so nothing is impossible, I remember the Chinese and Russian cracking groups working on the UbiDRM with thousands of people submitting the database entries/checks. It was really impressive in a disturbing sort of way.

As for this particular game there is no crack right now but that isn't saying much considering its still quite new. Some take hours, some take months.

wonkawonka wrote on Dec 1, 2011, 10:14:

Darks wrote on Dec 1, 2011, 09:55:
Do you remember the AI in the Thief series? Now that AI would search you out if they heard something or found a body. Programmers these days are getting lazy about how they write their code.

You can't compare, for at least a couple of reasons:

1- In Thief, you can only be a thief. In Skyrim you can be anything, including a mage dabbling in a bit of hiding. Making stealth be so challenging will stop anyone from dabbling in stealth. It'll be an either/or situation and you'll have to fully commit to stealth to make it worthwhile.

2- You ain't got much space to hide in in dungeons. In Thief the environments were highly, highly customized to stealth-based gaming. You just can't do that systematically with such a huge game as Skyrim.

Jerykk wrote on Dec 1, 2011, 02:10:

Off Topic - Jerykk or anyone else, what do you think of the a.i. in Batman?

It's definitely better than the AI in Skyrim.

It's okay, I guess. It does what it needs to do. If you attack someone without using stealth, they'll call out for help and any nearby enemies will rush to aid him. During combat, they'll pickup weapons and throw stuff at you. If you're in a stealth segment, enemies will tend to stick together after finding a body. This is better than Skyrim, where enemies will search a 5 foot radius for about 5 seconds, then give up and say "I guess I was just imagining things" even though they're standing right next to the corpse of their buddy.

Domgrief wrote on Dec 1, 2011, 09:37:

InBlack wrote on Dec 1, 2011, 07:21:
2. The UI seems to be even more FUBAR now than before, it randomly drops me back ingame and this is especially frequent when talking to people now. (fuck consoles, fuck em hard)

Oh, I love this part of the update. Having remapped my controls before the patch, several non-3D commands have changed keys (lockpicking, inventory, etc.), but the key mappings shown on screen are still wrong.

So everything's still wrong, but it's wrong in a different way to before, so it's made me have to find the right keys all over again.

Apart from that I'm pretty happy with the update. I'm still an early mage, and I get killed by just about everything unless I have a meat shield, so I wouldn't understand the resistance issues everyone's been talking about.

Scud wrote on Nov 29, 2011, 15:36:

Darks wrote on Nov 29, 2011, 14:30:
This has nothing to do with politics, so don’t try to make it out as such. You and I have had out disagreements Verno, but if you think this is ok for someone to do. Then you really need to re-evaluate your moral ethics. There is nothing right about what this person has done in the game.

Most likely he did it for these kinds of complete overreactions, in other words, he did it for the lulz.

Verno wrote on Nov 29, 2011, 10:13:

Darks wrote on Nov 29, 2011, 10:04:
The person who did this must be psychotic; no one in their right mind does this kind of crap without having some kind of psychotic tendencies. That person needs to be evaluated; they are living out a dream in a game that they most likely have thoughts of doing in real life.

Some of you might find this funny and joke about it, but I don’t see anything funny about decapitating people and storing heads on a shelf like it’s a display case. This person is seriously demented.

You sound like a US politician talking about how violence in videogames influences youth. I'd rather someone acted out their fantasies inside the safe confines of a videogame or as in this case he's obviously shooting for the shock reaction from people like you, even going to the point of staging it all for Youtube.

nin wrote on Nov 28, 2011, 22:27:

mag wrote on Nov 28, 2011, 22:22:

nin wrote on Nov 28, 2011, 21:36:
Yeah, that was a bit fucked up. I may blow people up in various games, but there's generally no residue left over, and I'm sure not chopping off the heads, taking off their clothes, and strategically arranging them all around the house.

Why not?

Because that doesn't sound fun or entertaining to me? Unlike the person who did this?

JayDeath wrote on Nov 27, 2011, 15:36:
Make a statement with your wallet. Ubisoft won't be seeing any of my cash anytime soon.

Rattlehead wrote on Nov 25, 2011, 22:14:
Does Arkham City require Origin to play???

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Nov 23, 2011, 18:23:
Anybody have Renegade Ops? Have they fixed the crazy controls yet? For people who obscenely want to play with a mouse and keyboard on the PC, of course, if you are using a gamepad, no comments please.

Also, is it just me, or does Orcs Must Die feel pretty weak after playing some Dungeon Defenders? I think if I had not been playing Dungeon Defenders I would have already bought OMD, but now...

Razumen wrote on Nov 22, 2011, 14:55:
Yes! This is what Sam fans wanted, not the consolized mess that was Sam 2.

Verno wrote on Nov 22, 2011, 12:37:
I don't use it but happy its there for everyone else regardless of whether it fixes things or not

Game has been surprisingly stable for me given that it's a Bethesda game though performance sometimes tanks when they go too nuts with the indoor candle/torch effects.