Solo'ed the original to +2 Toast, and then got bored. 100% everything, including all achievements.

Took me 24 hours to get to the finale. Took 28 hours to advance the tech tree and then build the required junk to get through the final battle. Hopefully they do a better job of pacing mandatory building, this time.

A little worried the park is bigger than the garden simply to give the buggies a reason to exist, especially given they said they've moved away from ziplines for the EA period in the Direct.

And damned if this franchise doesn't need DLSS. The original ran like arse for months and months and months. Not sure I want to put my PC through another of their EA periods with AMD's naff FSR forced down our throats as a moneyhat. Not in midsummer.

Otherwise excited by the prospect. Hopefully it's got the budgetary support for the same length of EA period Obsidian will almost certainly need to get this right.

Really impressive IQ and optimisation. Now Shift Up have dumped Sony's inane PSN region only region-lock nonsense, I immediately jumped in to show support.

Really looking forward to launch.

https://youtu.be/skktkjFdXdU

"Too many people."

Still haven't made good on their single-player promises from December 2022.

Will never see another penny from me until they make good on their (seemingly intentionally) misleading pre-release information.

Karma's a bitch.

They're welcome to give everyone back the licensed content they stole from D2, too.

Sony dropped what, 3.something billion on this sh*thole of a company?

Surely there's some clause in that purchase they can pump to reneg the deal? Sue Bungie to hell and back? Either way, between stuff like this, and the nonsense with region-locking PC titles, Sony looks like total arse.

Time to clean house. Kick Bungie to the curb, and move Sony management back to Japan.

The problems with this game and games on this engine run deep. Really quite deep. (youtube links.)

Seems there's a fair amount of spaghetti code nonsense going on, so simply optimizing for calculator CPU builds and last decade's VRAM caps isn't going to fix it, convincingly.

Wonder whether Vo0 will come out of retirement for this. Watching Sander play was always a pleasure, particularly in CPM.

Hopefully they've learnt their lesson, and the FOV slider and motion sickness tools are there day one, this time.

Reactor wrote on Mar 5, 2025, 20:55:
And still no offline mode…

Despite them promising it before release and doubling down to confirm in the December after release.

Never giving FatShark money again, until they address this. Gross misrepresentation of the product, especially given how integral offline and solo play is in their previous titles.

After all these years...

The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?

Three trillion-dollar market cap, and a million is the best M$ can do?

You'd expect more from a company whose studios are so close to the disaster area.

And still no fov slider, because f*ck anyone with motion sickness.

Urgh. So few good Workshop-inspired games that don't come with a caveat.

You can patent firing writers?

Love to see that spiciness, Blue

Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Jan 5, 2025, 17:02:
Hahaha Nobody bought COD BO6 as evident by the player count on steam.

Quite the opposite, according to Activision. Which means, yes - they've lost all of those new players from one of their biggest selling games, historically, in just over a month. Between M$ sacking the Activision QA team in the release window year, and the publisher mandate to force everything - even the campaign - to always-online, Treyarch and Raven didn't stand a chance.

A shame, because Warzone aside, the core game on release was very promising. Especially compared to MWII.

Another shining example of Activision and M$ getting in the way of their studios.

Sledgehammer's MWIII is likely going to stand as the least fucked over CoD for a fair while to come. A crying shame that MWZ has no localhost option.

RIP :/

Xeth Nyrrow wrote on Nov 25, 2024, 22:35:
Translation: We screw up our budget.

Did anyone honestly expect anything different, given Bioware's history?

Given how often MWZ boots you from the game with zero record of however long you've played or what you've achieved, (beyond some weapon xp,) it stands to reason that being on the same engine, this is going to be just as frustrating, (if not more so, given how much more involved round-based EEs are.)

The BO engine fork was infinitely more sensible for zombies modes.

I'd be there day one if Acti were still independent - Treyarch prop that entire franchise up, and you can be certain BO6 will be great.

But now M$ own them? Yeah, no. Vile fucking company is pushing enough bullshit with crap like Recall, without us building their marketshare even higher.