Overon wrote on Mar 17, 2024, 14:32:
Minimum viable product.
thestryker wrote on Mar 15, 2024, 16:17:Shteve wrote on Mar 15, 2024, 12:32:I rememeber when Valve forced the usage of Steam for CS as it was my thing at the time. It was so much worse than the cluster that is most current online game launches. I've held onto that forever and it's always in my mind when people praise Valve.
Same when WON was switched off and we all had to use Steam. Endless retrying to get into any MP game. How we forget.
BigVlad wrote on Mar 9, 2024, 19:13:Argonius the 3rd wrote on Mar 9, 2024, 18:01:ForgedReality wrote on Mar 9, 2024, 17:26:
I'm not even sure what "far left" even means. Nobody has ever been able to give me an example of what it is or why it's bad. Pretty sure having more rights is better, right? 🤔
You don't have rights in Stalinist Maoist states. You don't have food either... read about the Red Chmer and the attrocities, in Venezuela they are eating zoo animals. Communism/Socialism always leads to famine, poverty and mass murders.
The far left you're describing are tankies. And yes, they are annoying, silly, and pretend that Mao and Stalin were great. But they are such a tiny fraction of the left that they can be ignored entirely. A much larger portion of the left (but still tiny) are self described communists or socialists, but are sane and would never advocate for Stalinism, Maoism, or any kind of dictatorship (Cutter mentioned Pol Pot, which was hilarious as he was very far right). Those governments were closer to fascism than communism anyway. There is no reason you couldn't have a communist utopia in theory. There's some good ideas in there. The problem is you can't just transition from capitalism to communism without some wacky stuff happening as a result. So most communists and socialists set that as an ideal, and simply work to improve the system we have bit by bit. I don't see any harm in that.
phinn wrote on Mar 2, 2024, 19:33:
Have they still not showed anything from the scale of Tribes 1 and 2? I'm going 32v32, vehicles, huge defenses, etc.
Cutter wrote on Feb 27, 2024, 14:57:
So he says, but that's seriously doubtful from the look of it. Making wild claims sure makes free publicity easy to get however. $20 for a crappy looking card game when you have 100s of similar apps online for free or a $1 or $2? Um no.
VaranDragon wrote on Feb 26, 2024, 07:16:
The problem with games like these is they are well designed, but missing content. It's the same with Darktide. That's probably the best horde shooter to come out since L4D, and yet after about 20 hours with that game I have no desire to go back to it, despite how well it played. The limited number of missions made it tedious instead of fun and varied. At least in helldivers the maps for the missions are procedurally generated, so there is that I guess. But from what I've seen it might suffer from the same problem Darktide has. Lack of content in mission variety, enemies etc.
Once you've seen it all there is little desire to go back and play it. This is why I'm stoked for Space Marine 2, at least it's going to have a story line that will be worth going through, which I kind of miss in all of these games, and I hoped that Darktide would have. (It's storyline is about as vague as it could get)
theglaze wrote on Feb 23, 2024, 23:33:
Bizarre unawareness to think people are playing more comp because they "like the changes". You forced a reset on player rank and mandatory 10 placement matches, and the season started 10 days ago. So players are completing placement, which may be more comp than they usual play. Still got 45 days left to the season...
Jim wrote on Feb 20, 2024, 20:34:
welp I played for a couple of hours earlier today. it was interesting. tonight... waiting for server... yeap.
Burrito of Peace wrote on Feb 15, 2024, 18:23:sauron wrote on Feb 15, 2024, 18:21:Burrito of Peace wrote on Feb 15, 2024, 16:01:
I just want a game like Independence War - Edge of Chaos. Nothing has ever really scratched that same itch.
Dear God yes. I started that one up and could not put it down. Best space sim I ever played, by quite a distance. Loved the physics.
One of the developers (Steven) was active on the IWar forum for years - super nice guy.
Hah, I never did play those and forgot that I had them on GoG already.
Yes, yes he was. I still go back and play it through about every two years (thanks GOG).
fotalbre97 wrote on Feb 12, 2024, 06:50:Jim wrote on Feb 11, 2024, 21:27:
so.... aside from rootkits being "scary" - how has one ever affected people? yeah, no doubt "computer slowdown" but they say that about everything so the phrase is meaningless.
Sony BMG did this same shlte in 2005 with their XCP rootkit and it allowed viruses to evade detection by anti-virus programs news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4427606.stm
It's disingenous to say that rootkits have not "ever affected people"
Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Feb 8, 2024, 18:57:
I wont even be trying this game for free!! We all know it's nothing but a gimped asset flip of Assassins Creed Black Flag with all the fun and ground exploration removed in favor of microtransactions, pay to win mechanics, and a fucking Taylor Swift soundtrack that's designed to poison our minds with W0KE anti-Christian Donald Trump hating Bud Light drinking ideology that's scientifically designed invoke cravings for DEI specifically to weaken the American military aged male and empower misandrist or some shit. I'll just read rage filled reddit posts and watch all the angry eight hour long YouTube videos about it not being the next generation PlayStation 4 game that we wanted, but the poorly optimized game that it is; until I have an aneurysm and die instead. That ought to be fun.
mch wrote on Feb 8, 2024, 15:10:FloorPie wrote on Feb 8, 2024, 15:00:
Below Zero is more of a expansion turned into a full game. That I lost interest in after 30 hours or so.
I really had to force myself through that one. I think the isolation of the first Subnautica is what drew me to it, and BZ's addition of other characters you communicate with (correct me if I'm wrong) sort of spoiled that for me. The world also felt a bit smaller and more restricted.
It wasn't terrible, but I much preferred the original.
MacLeod wrote on Feb 8, 2024, 12:45:
This really confused me for a second, since I was sure that Subnautica already had a sequel... but I guess since they didn't have a "2" in the title, they just went with that for this one, instead of going with "3" since it's the third game or actually just using a sub-title again.