El Pit wrote on Sep 10, 2024, 15:18:

Teemeister wrote on Sep 10, 2024, 12:41:
Well congrats on the release of v1. I’m in for another play-through.. attempt, that is. The early access game was a blast and gave me several looong nights of gaming. Game was also pretty solid with the occasional graphical glitch, no severe bugs though. This time I’m going to finish even the last tier (8) and send everything they want up the space elevator

There is a new tier and much, much more...

Yessss, tier 9 is pretty crazy I’ve heard… as is Satisfactory in coop mode.

theglaze wrote on Sep 10, 2024, 16:48:
Will my old savegame file work with 1.0? I was dabbling with Satisfactory last winter, but I don't have it installed right now.

I changed from beta to standard setting in the steam menu and it did load my last beta savegame just fine.

Well congrats on the release of v1. I’m in for another play-through.. attempt, that is. The early access game was a blast and gave me several looong nights of gaming. Game was also pretty solid with the occasional graphical glitch, no severe bugs though. This time I’m going to finish even the last tier (8) and send everything they want up the space elevator

Excellent news. Because then I’ll have to wait until Denuvo is gone, the game has matured and costs only about a fifth of the price at its release date.

At a price of ca. € 4000 this thing will probably fly off the shelves like hot cakes in Europe. Or maybe not…

You’re too late, Zucky. The doomscroller armies have long moved on to TicToc…

I'm done with Bethesda and I'm done (again) with buying any Premium (or non-Premium) editions before a game is fully patched and complete with all DLCs and season passes fully delivered etc.

Lesson learned. I too got lured in again by the choo-choo! hype train and pre-purchased that mess called Starfield. At least I didn’t choose the Premium edition. Admittedly, they fooled me once but whatever update or DLC they may release, I won’t spend another cent on this game.

EOB and Wizardry series are entirely different RPG game styles, both with their strengths and weaknesses. If you don’t like slow paced tactical combat Wizardry is obviously not for you. I for one like (=love) both. The turn based combat can make games like Wizardry particularly punishing/tough which is the case with most Wiz titles. Some time ago I started another Wiz 8 playthrough only to find out 12 hours later that I made a mistake on my Psionic (who simply didn’t get any spells when leveling due to a low stat). Even at “normal” difficulty level the game became so hard that I had to start over. It could be the same in “Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord”.

You guys haven’t read the article, have you?

EU says it’s investigating why Apple terminated Epic’s developer account

Article:

Epic’s egregious breach of its contractual obligations to Apple led courts to determine that Apple has the right to terminate ‘any or all of Epic Games’ wholly owned subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or other entities under Epic Games’ control at any time and at Apple’s sole discretion

Unless those freaks in Brussels are a bit slow mentally, it's all there. Investigation over. How about focusing on Apple's highly anti-competitive implementation of the DMA which is affecting dozens of developers?

a missed opportunity for German developer Winning Streak Games to call it We Are Fußball.

I couldn’t agree more. The german word is unambiguous.

Cool, thanks!

The Flying Penguin wrote on Feb 3, 2024, 11:37:
I think the game is amazingly stable considering it's technically still alpha, and the challenge of the UE5 conversion involved.

I 2nd that. Playing the latest experimental UE5 alpha on Tier 8 endgame state with a huge/complex factory and railroad network. I experimented with nuclear power setups but never integrated them deeply into the factory because of the known radiation issues (a.k.a. bugs).
The game is fun, beautiful and totally playable even in its alpha state. Looking forward to its release.

RogueSix wrote on Jan 22, 2024, 13:40:
I don't get why people keep preordering CD Projekt games given the studio's history.

I do: Stupidity is a common, widespread problem. Many suffer from it.
Star Citizen is probably the worst case scenario that could possibly happen from preordering. The constant cash influx allows developers to slack off- afaik there isn’t even a release deadline for SC. I’m certain preordering delays a game and lowers its quality on release.

Yawn. So, 4 years have passed and this topic resurfaces again. If disinformation was such a huge threat why not do something about it? The biggest social media corporations are US based - Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram - limit their ways of giving disinformation trolls and „enemies of America“ a platform to spread nonsense. Ban TicToc. Act.
Not going to happen though. After the election(s) this topic disappears again and no one will give a damn again. Rinse and repeat. Yawn.

Slick wrote on Jan 19, 2024, 22:16:
Apple has been waiting and observing for a decade, and this is their "iPhone of VR" design??? How

That thing isn’t even VR capable, it’s AR only…

Prez wrote on Jan 9, 2024, 05:12:

Gimme gimme! The mortgage doesn't need to get paid every month.

Thank God, the mortgage payments are of a thing of the past for me. Still, I consider myself not an NVidiot. My money goes to team AMD.

Admittedly, 1 1/2 years ago $999 for a 4080 would‘ve been acceptable - the card is a decent performer. But then again the typical proprietary NV BS. Nah thanks.

Blue, I think an error happened here.
It’s $48 dot 00, not $48 comma 000. One might think those jokers are charging fourty eight THOUSAND dollars for an early access game instead of fourty eight bucks.

But then again, even $48 is an unjustified increase from $27 for an early access title - I mean, what happens if this thing never makes it to a v1 release state…

/sarcasm

eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 4, 2024, 04:00:

BicycleRepairMan wrote on Jan 4, 2024, 03:15:
All aboard the UE5 hype train !

I wonder if these engine changes are worth it for a game that has already modified the ue4 engine heavily. Satisfactory, for instance, has basically used the better part of a year changing to 5, and now the game is back to being almost as stable as it was...

The step back from that update can't even be put into words, and what an ABYSMAL stupid move that was too, everything looks like total shit now. You can't interior light anymore with glow surfaces, belts have odd angles and janky movement, physics are borked and oh the joy... they just basically pushed their stability back to what it was on launch.. of the early access. Stupid move all around.

Also my personal pet peeve is when developers use the standard TAA from UE5 - that creates one of the WORST visual artifacting I have ever seen (everything that moves, isn't just blurry, but GRAINY)

What are you talking about? I’ve experienced the transition from 4 to 5 in Satisfactory and imo it is a stable as before. In fact I’m surprised it’s running smooth as silk (after some initial heavy shader stuttering). The glitches are not engine related, most of them have been there since UE4. This game is early access in alpha/beta state.

Good to know the Everspace 2 devs put the main focus on keyboard/mouse & controller support instead of HOTAS/joystick. I’m playing Elite with essentially the only joystick available for lefties - a configurable thrustmaster 1600 (HOTAS simply don’t exist for us cripples). And I benefit from an extremely well coded keybinding support in Elite. What can be said about that in Everspace 2? Do I have complete freedom for the numeric keys?