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feels like what was the point.

Playing the game…

why put the gun in game at all instead of just the spotter scope?

I told you…

I’m pretty sure the Devs even joked about it and admitted it was intentional.

Like, if you can’t imagine these decals would do that to troll cod kiddies…

I don’t know if youve ever seen any video of them actually talking. That’s 100% something they’d do just to fuck with people.

If that pisses you off, do what the devs keep recommending and refund the game.

Literally no one makes you play it, but I’m not telling you that again. Best of luck

Absolutely no fucking reason that the starter sniper should be a break action that can’t even kill with a naked headshot.

There’s 100% a reason…

You don’t start day 1 sniping, you start spotting and stay spotting. They put a gate in place that made anyone who wanted to snipe, have to also find out the value of being a team player.

Otherwise snipers would take pot shots all day never hitting a shot and never contributing.

I’m pretty sure the Devs even joked about it and admitted it was intentional.

Same thing with launchers, why the fuck is the first one (that already takes hours of grinding)

Launchers are support… Just build a fob and it ranks up crazy fast and you get the big hammer too.

But also, spotting and building are how you get the money to buy expensive kits and run around like it’s call of duty occasionally. If you’re not doing those parts of the game, you’re probably constantly broke and not having fun.

and also you still can’t do anything to choppers or AA emplacements.

It’s rock, paper, scissors…

Choppers take out mortars.

Mortars take out AA

AA takes out choppers.

should not be the first explosive unlocks.

We’re almost a week into a two year early access and everything resets in 3 weeks bud…

The devs have already confirmed unlocks aren’t static or based on how good something is. A month from almost everything will be unlocked at different levels and in different orders.

If you’re expecting a polished game thats perfectly balanced you should just refund now. In two years when it releases you’ll have what you want, but I’m going to play the shit out of it in the meantime

Especially since it’s stupid easy to make money and XP in the game.

The exception is driving XP, with an insanely long payoff to a tank. But the biggest beta complaint was tank spam when it was easier to get.

There’s gonna be frequent resets and fine tuning over the two year early access, it’s wild everyone acts like this is a finished game, even tho it’s better than a lot of triple AAA recent releases that cost twice as much.

Game is a grind

Tanks are a grind, its literally 60 hours of driving a truck 99% outside of the zone that everyone has to be in to earn cash and contribute.

It’s 100% going to get fixed, it’s day 5 of early access, people need to calm down. Especially since it’s 30 days to the first reset.

People are going to spend all month and not even get it. Then immediately start the grind again.

If that’s what they want to do, cool. FOBS need supplies and this is the only reason people are doing it.

For anything other than getting a tank, progression has been pretty chill.

Like, last beta people couldn’t shut up about how bad tanks were. Now people won’t shut up they can’t instantly unlock everything including tanks.

Tanks only showing up end of season and requiring a person who drove an insane amount of cargo to fobs is an almost perfect solution. I’d just say it should be limited to one spawn at a time per player to avoid one person buying a dozen tanks for their team. But again, that’s only going to be late season shenanigans, at a time when everyone else has cheap ways to deal with them.

What I have seen a lot, is younger players who are used to always being catered to hate the game. Which is fine, no one is making anyone play it. But not every game has to be COD.

Disposable organic material (they specified cotton) and when dug up they could see how fast it decayed.

This is important in cold environments to measure how “alive” should is with micro organisms.

Something like a peat bog has zero oxygen, so doesn’t support microorganisms, hence little to no biological decay.

In single player games with a handful or two of main characters, they can do it bespoke for each one or at least the biggest ones.

But a sports game like this?

It’s gonna be the same thing for 99% of the players, the same default filter. Maybe they’ll tweak it for superstars, but maybe not.

Yeah, the blade on the throat is the same as a stake in the heart…

“This body might come alive, so we’re making sure”

If a body reanimated, the blade was supposed to just cut the head off. But the move from actual “just in case” routine decapitation and just putting a blade there is a pretty huge leap.

So yeah, primative, but primative because they were advancing, this was the line between an actual decapitation you believed was required, and a ritual just to reassure everyone we didn’t have to keep mutilating every dead body. If modern people started doing it because of legitimate zombie concerns, it would be different.

If someone can compress an entire triple A game into a 50 MB download…

Then surely they know more about this than we do and we should trust them.

/s

Instead of cat proofing, you were supposed to get a server room dog…

fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Creation_Club

Creation club is a decade old…

And the main criticism has always been that it takes free mods, and charges players for them thru creation club.

I have no idea what you’re rambling about

Yeah bro, there’s no way checks notes Microsoft would do something like that…

And explains why this update that breaks mods is to push the same mods except paid and labeled “creations”…

The Fallout 4 update’s due first, arriving on August 18th and “focusing on general Creations improvements”.

They weren’t happy with people fixing their games for free, they want to get paid for it.

Coincidentally, if America used original licensing laws, Fallout would have enter public domain a year or so ago, and anyone could make a full Fallout game by now and sell it.

I’ve always worried about “updates” to prior entries when a new one is coming

There’s a financial incentive to cripple the last game’s years of mod support so the next official entry isn’t compared to that, it’s compared to the base game

Kind of doubting if this is a serious community from the other comments…

But these are the “little red dots” from 2024:

en.wikipedia.org/…/Little_red_dot_(astronomical_o…

And it’s pretty much what we thought they were.

On Windows they own the OS, so wacky folders that you can’t touch even with the highest admin rights isn’t a stretch, but good luck with that on Linux.

They third party authenticate thru the Xbox app and “gaming services”. (The issue here, is even for games bought in Steam or other launchers, if it’s a Microsoft game, it needs this. So the concern is this isn’t optional for Linux, it’ll be a requirement to run any Microsoft game)

If/when there’s an issue, you can’t really do anything, and Microsoft support is just chatbots.

Even something as simple as a “repair” or reinstall. Depending on where the process broke, it could be a huge headache manipulating the two into a state they can be repaired.

It’s bad enough I’m not buying any Microsoft games, even tho I resolved my own issues, it could just happen again at any time. And I just don’t want to deal with the potential hassle.

If they ever release a new fallout/ES, I’ll take the time to see if it’s still an issue.

Rockstar especially is going to shove it down our throats…

They don’t want to ever sell another game, $60 even $100 a copy ain’t enough.

They want people to pay $20 a month for each game they play, that way it’s not just the whales from microtransations keeping live service games alive.

What they’re missing is most people don’t care about live service, a weekly rotating playlists having you do things you could have done anyways without being told to, just doesn’t interest a lot of gamers.

When it does, those people tend to just play 1-2 games at a time, and eventually drop a title for a new one.

Absolutely no one is going to carry a bunch of $20 monthly subscriptions for multiple games.

If we don’t overcharge consumers how can we dump truckloads of money on AI data centers no one wants?!?

It’s weird we never hear about how “the founding fathers” knew best in respect to copyright law…

They set it at 14 years, after that they could apply for a single 14 year extension and that’s it.

With Fallout 1 coming out in 1997, we should be at the point where anyone who wants to make a fallout game, could just make a fallout game.

Imagine how much better gaming would be if billion dollar corporations couldn’t get a monopoly on IP forever.

The first is aimed at mods with “AI-Generated code, user interface elements, voices, dialogue, translations, music, in-game AI-generated assets”. The second’s for mods with AI-generated promo art, thumbnails, videos, mod page descriptions or other media that isn’t part of their in-game makeup. Finally, AI Assisted provides a specific tag for mods which have “developer-led code, content, or mod assets, with limited AI involvement” and/or have used AI for texture upscaling, audio upscaling/cleaning, and concept art that’s not in the final build.

I’d like to see AI voice actors split out.

For an actual game that would be a dealbreaker.

For an unpaid mod? Thats about the only time I’d be ok with it. But I wouldn’t want to install a mod AI coded.

This is actually kind of crazy…

the big under-the-hood change comes by way of swapping Unreal Engine 5.1 for Unreal Engine 5.5. In theory, this could drastically improve performance, spruce up certain lighting effects, reduce visual noise effects, and help with some of game’s lingering stability issues.

Or, it could break everything again, shattering into a thousand radioactive pieces the technical solidity that a year and a half of patches had successfully built up.

This isn’t just updating the game’s code, it’s updating the entire engine the code runs on…

It’ll 100% introduce new bugs, that require more patches.

I guess the presumed DLC sales justify the cost of continued support, but this introduces a dangerous precedent where if the DLC doesn’t sell, a company may not continue trying to fix it.

DLC “breaking” a game isn’t new, but before the option to just uninstall it was there.

If the engine update breaks the game, no one buys dlc because of it…

We could see future games get put in a broken state due to cashgrab dlcs.

10 years from now it could be a very real problem.

Yeah, but you don’t get them in a single stack box, do you?

Sliding back and forth means they could bump sides and chip.

Even single stacked large tiles, sliding makes boxes break.

Like, you asked a question I answered it. If you want to argue after admitting you couldn’t figure it out, I’m just going to block you and never help you again.

But for one batch of tiles the stack was a bit rocky - less stable. Whereas the original stack of all facing the same direction does not rock. Apparently they are less flat or less symetric than they appear.

One side is slippy, one side is grippy.

Stack grippy to slippy, and a stack is structurally sound.

Stack only grippy to grippy and slippy to slippy, and it’s gonna tumble.

Why would they make games that could only be played on Steam machines?

That would be absolutely insane because number of Steam users who have has to be like 0.00001% or something crazy.

Every social animal that operates primarily on vision has this…

It’s just mostly primates who fit that definition.

We’d be likely to see the same with certain parrot species and meercats maybe?

But use a parrot population from a zoo or aviary that lived it’s whole life around a large number of the same species, and it’ll get spider tingles from this shit too.

It’s a member who doesn’t fit into what you consider “us” but also no known subgroup of “them”, it freaks out a social brain. And the closer it gets to a real person/animal, the more alarm bells it rings because it’s more believable. But there will always be tells we pick up on subconsciously that it’s a trick.

Darth Vader had “the same DNA” as Anakin Skywalker too…

He was just missing a bunch limbs, internal organs, half his face, his entire personality and motives, just all in became the polar opposite for who he was for most of his life.

None of this is actually my fault…

Every CEO, ever

The AI push is going to end being like a writers strike for TV…

We’ll look back and see a blank spot where there was no quality games being made, and what did come out will be seen as low quality abnormalities.

All the CEOs are gambling on it magically working if they sink enough time and money into it, but it’s not. We’re approaching a point where the companies that try to stick with AI will run themselves into the ground because AI coded games just can’t compete with human coded games.

I mean…

They’re more likely to be hybrids instead of a real species. They have dental traces of both near sapian cousins and only found in waaaaaay more ancestral cousins.

With hybrids it’s actually kind of common for males to abort before birth. Something about the mothers immune reaction to the y chromosome or something, I’m going off memory.

But it could also explain why that group of hybrids lived alone.

A hypothetical reason for why human/neanderthal hybrids tended to be born to human mothers, was neanderthals developed faster. So to a neanderthal mother, a hybrid appeared to have developmental delays mentally while also being a weakling and never lived to reach its intellectual peak.

Meanwhile a hybrid raised among humans would develop physically faster and always be stronger, but also develop mentally faster, even if not peaking as high.

It’s possible that Naledi may have only been capable of reproducing females from one or both origin species. Or even been a neutral (possibly sterile) group between the two origin species where hybrids (always female) were abandoned to be raised but what may have been outcasts.

Like, we honestly can’t even say they’re a unique species and we’ve been off by a lot more before.

Scientifically its important to analyse it, but I understand that at a certain point it becomes grave robbery.

I feel like 10,000 years is a pretty safe line…

I did go to the range this morning, so just a healthy dose of lead and micro-concussions…

Normal American shit.