Prez wrote on Oct 3, 2023, 20:42:
I saw that they made one of the characters unavailable to anyone who doesn't buy the deluxe edition.

That's a pretty boneheaded move for a new IP of a developer that only sold games based on licenses from just one company before.

If this'd been something like Crimson Skies and one or two minor planes would have been locked away they might get away with it, but signature planes or God forbid a whole faction ?

Paradox wouldn't be able to treat that like Warhammer which still had thousands of active players worldwide waiting for a decent digital implementation for decades.

Let alone a new IP. Previous ones performed rather spottily already, despite Harebrained Schemes having a good name.

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Simon Says wrote on Sep 15, 2023, 18:53:
Fascinating and very enlightening article by chipsandcheese, as always

An overload of nerdsniping detail ignoring the simple fact that Starfield runs like a dog on AMD, but only looks at why it runs even worse on Nvidia.

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The writer of this article missed the point of the single developer quote he based this argument on completely: "Trust the dice" refers to the 'Karmic Dice' feature that's on by default in this game.

This means dice rolls aren't completely random, but long strings of good or bad rolls are guarded against by an automated combo breaker fudging the dice in the opposite direction for both players and npcs, like a DM would.

This should lower the need for save scumming, although the context which rolls matter more for the player it can't anticipate like a human.

RPG systems like Fate where players can add some form of bonus Luck points at key moments they find narratively important, earned by making other moments more challenging might give players more agency without having to resort to save scumming, and some form of narrative balance is preserved.

Difficulty scaling is very much off in Div II, if you lack levels compared to your opponent it's pretty much game over. I remember taking the XP bonus % skill was pretty much mandatory, just like Warfare was for most physical damage builds in DDOS2.

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facts'nshit

What a non story about the bot CEO. A company appointed one and their stocks magically rose 10% !

No explanation what executive decisions it made that had an influence on their stocks whatsoever.

Only explanation I get from it is the stock market, again, is easily hyped.

New Startup "Oxford Diagnostica" first to be granted access before technical problems prohibit further use..

Yup.

It's beyond me how some can complain the game got slower while there's one tank less to guard supports, and with less support people drop a whole lot faster.

Not to mention the slog that was double shield comps are no longer there.

He sure managed to out-toss the tosser in the long run..

For owners of OW 1 the phone requirements were dropped, perhaps because changing conditions of sale after the fact might lead to a class action suit, which wouldn't be the case for MW2.

Had a friend brave the queues to join me, who got disconnected and had to requeue multiple times. When he finally got in the game thought he was on a different version.

So I had to exit and check for updates and errors, then also managed to get disconnected and had to requeue three times. Only to find out the problem persisted.

We fixed not being able to play together by joining a custom game, so we could see each other in 'recently played with', then had to unfriend him, invite him to group, and re-add as friend again.

So a shitload of problems seem to be account specific, like the bug people that had merged PC and console accounts who couldn't ever log in because they were guaranteed to disconnect.

DDOS my arse.

Education. Republicans like to keep their demography gullible.

Still no dedicated server though ?

DarkCntry wrote on Jun 12, 2022, 15:59:
So honestly, Immortal's reception has probably very little, if any, impact on this title. I think the bigger impact are just Acti/Blizz's current situations and the overall current iteration of Overwatch.

All based on the assumption Activision isn't about to change the current PvP monetization model, and has been completely up front on all aspects of PvE monetization and progression.

Which is a pretty big if.

Great timing now the enthousiastic reception of Diablo Immortal must have driven expectations for other F2P Blizzard games to unknown heights..

RedEye9 wrote on Jun 7, 2022, 13:07:
The Zero (0) reviews do not agree with your hypothesis that it's due to "the poor quality of the game."
This is quintessential review bombing.

I'd say progression after level 35 stalling so much it takes over ten years to max out is pretty game breaking.

I really liked the demo at the last Steam Rogue Fest.

Combat and procedural generation is as good if not better than the OG Unexplored, graphically it now has stunning Möbius like Ligne Claire rendered 3D, world building and factions promises to be much more intricate.

The star for me though is the RPG challenge resolution system: Not a simple binary success / failure roll, but a fun minigame creating a DM like dialogue where the player can balance chance and repercussion.

Off to play the full game finally !

There's nothing to purchase for the PvP if you already have Overwatch.

So much for PC Gamer being even remotely up to date on gaming developments.

Even my dog knows after countless press releases, video previews and developer interviews that Overwatch 2 PVP wise would be just an engine update, a new game mode and maps and 5v5 changes, with the benefit of all current players codebase being upgraded to this for free (cosmetics excepted of course).

The paid part would be the co-op PVE content, but since this isn't ready yet because of staffing and COVID troubles the PVP changes need to be released before schedule to keep the current player base interested.

Anyone more familiar with OW1 reading recent beta changelogs can see that even the current adjustments to make certain characters work in 5v5 are pretty early days.

This beta is going to take a pretty long time..

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If you let the perfectly serviceable graphics keep you away from the game, you're going to miss out on some stellar gameplay.

It might look like Commandos, but it doesn't have the forced 'just one solution allowed here' puzzle aspect.

Instead it uses a Deus Ex 'three paths to any point' design combined with tons of emergent physical and metaphysical mechanics, handing the tools to the player to play how they want.

This game will be classed with Fallout 1 / 2 and Arcanum in future.