Bent wrote on Sep 21, 2023, 13:04:
Their message to people who don't meet the new hardware requirements is basically "tough s#*t". They do say that people can try to revert to an older version of the game.

Reverting to the v1.63 "Legacy Version" beta channel in Steam was dead easy. Redownloaded and continued my game, figuring I'll switch over for the expansion & give them a chance to roll out a couple of patches to v2.

Sludge Life 1 got the banhammer.

If not VPN, you could try changing the store location.

SlimRam wrote on Feb 17, 2023, 16:28:

Beamer wrote on Feb 17, 2023, 15:44:

SlimRam wrote on Feb 17, 2023, 12:52:
...I've played all the FC's except Primal and would HIGHLY suggest playing FC 4. It offers a verticality that had never been put into the series up to that point and the voice acting of the main bad guy Pagan Min is actually pretty good.

FC4 was peak FC, I think.
FC5 was where the series just turned into crap. Or Blood Dragon. I know people love Blood Dragon, but for me it stripped out all of what made FC fun and left the repetitive junk in a generic landscape without real landmarks. Incidentally, all those complaints apply to FC5 for me.

Yeah, I definitely agree that 4 was really good, although I seemed to have liked 5 more than a lot of people it seems? Agree with Blood Dragon too! Man I tried and tried to get into it and just ended up hating it and I'm not even sure why? *shrug*

It might be in part because neither BD or Primal feel like Far Cry games so the expectation doesn't match the experience. BD also has a weird start that might be offputting for some. That being said, they're my top 2 of all FC titles. A Primal sequel is top of my wishlist. Of the mainline games 4 was super fun and the peak for me also, 5 was a hot mess (and I had to play through twice. ugh.) but I enjoyed some of the community maps in Far Cry Arcade. I received a bunch of copies of FC6 at release but haven't bothered with it.

jacobvandy wrote on Jun 1, 2017, 13:31:
The guy's bio says he left Overkill in 2015, and Payday 2 jumped the shark in October of that year. Maybe he got out while the gettin' was good? Looks like the only other ex-Overkill guys involved (three) were doing art and music.

I followed this back in the day and reckon that you're on the right track.

Simon Viklund's Payday 1 & 2 soundtracks remain on my music rotation to this day. His involvement is as good an omen for 10CC as his departure from Overkill was bad.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 8, 2016, 11:17:

Bard wrote on Dec 8, 2016, 11:09:
Cloud computing is a stupid idea.

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+1

All this plus you're wholly dependent on the provider's "security" which is completely out of your control.

Where I work now decided a couple of years back that they were going "in the cloud". Guess what we're doing now? Bringing everything back in-house with real hardware.

The "cloud": a buzzword from the early 2000's widely circulated in CEO-subscribed publications, replaced today by "IoT".

I recall one such CEO circa 2006 asking me what I thought about everyone moving to "the cloud" in the next few years. I told him that he'd been using "the cloud" since sending his first email twenty years ago and that onsite services will always be faster, more secure and good luck uploading - on the pathetic upstream connection - his 20GB mailbox of items never to be deleted or archived.

That being said, where clients insist on cloud services I do enjoy not having to deal with Exchange's new release bugs or having to apologize on behalf of Microsoft for the spike in labour charges that month (or eat the costs myself for managed clients).

100% agree with the comment about shitty web consoles, which are a cost cutting measure to avoid creating platform-specific client applications. Office 365 seems to change their console according to the Assassin's Creed release schedule, so hopefully we have a reprieve for a year or two before the hunt for buried features begins anew.

Even with cloud services in place, I still adhere to the 3-2-1 backup principle, with local components. I often pose the question to clients, "what recourse do you have if MS or Google lose your data?". 6-7 years back Google lost days worth of Blogger posts after having to perform a server rollback.

Google.

Cloud security/relability/integrity is a vague promise, about as transparent as Jennifer Lawrence's face mask.

Acleacius wrote on Sep 2, 2016, 11:49:
Stop tormenting me with your TRAINS and corpse runs, damn you!

Before SoE was sold(?)/name changed had a bad experience with customer service. They kept trying to charge me monthly when I had only bought a 1 month sub. Customer service chick was a complete dick, she said they could do it. Any other mmog, where it happened they apologized and refunded it. So I had to call credit card company and stop payment. Hopefully the new management doesn't suck so bad.

I'm really looking forward to pantheon rise of the fallen by the original EQ team.

Also looking forward to Pantheon. Fingers crossed they deliver and it isn't the trainwreck Vanguard was at launch. The disappointment lingers.

Against my anti-pre-order nature, I even dropped $100 on the Knight's Pledge (after convincing myself that it was more like philanthropy and thus feels less dirty). For those interested, best get in before Sept 12th as:

We are nearing capacity for alpha and access to it at this level is a thank-you to the early adopters.

A Grammy Category for Game Music Composer.

So long as Jethro Tull wins in the first year, I'm for it.