Can’t help but feel for the developers here. I get that Bethesda has no responsibility to keep 3rd party Devs updated, but surely someone on the team would have noticed the potential for community engagement and worked with those putting the time and effort into the IP.

This is pretty cool, thanks.

Can confirm the Game pass part.

Not in the least because Elon Musk is a complete idiot that has only managed to whittle literal billions of dollars just by being himself.

Every good company he has touched was either built from the ground up by someone else, like Tesla & PayPal and remains profitable in spite of his existence, or was built from the ground up by someone else and was subsequently ran into the ground - See Twitter.

I believe that has some relevance to the story but honestly I haven’t tried that one.

I’ll throw my hat in the ring and say - the newer Wolfenstein series.

Incredible story, Incredible gameplay with choices that matter, and a lot of content to occupy your time across the like 3-4 games.

Appreciate the info.

People that have played this – Are you enjoying it? Would it be okay for me to jump in and play this new one and not miss anything story wise, provided I’ve never played any of the others? Or should I be looking to at least look to learn the story so far with the other games before attempting to play this new one?

Thanks in advance!

When I switched from FF to WF it was lighter on system resources, faster and cut out a lot of the telemetry included in FF.

I’ve not used Firefox for well over a year now, so I can’t speak to that still being the case, but those were the main draws for me.

I use this often when I’m writing articles, it’s incredibly easy to use and I’ve yet to have any issues with it.

I use it on Waterfox, for what it’s worth. Absolutely recommend.

To add to the above, there is also an absolutely massive modding scene for Ark, that can add anything from hundreds of new dinosaurs, to NPC’s, to new structures and mechanics.

A lot of fun to be had with Ark, doubly so if you can convince some friends to give it a go with you.

WoW (Private Servers)

GW2 (Personal fave out of these)

FFXIV

ESO

I also hear New World has vastly improved since launch but I’ve not played it since beta so I can’t really say.

There is a considerable amount of depth to the game, but it’s not insurmountable for anyone. You’ll have no problem going through the game if you read through tool tips and help pop-ups as they arise. DnD knowledge needed is none at all or negligible at best.

If you do end up playing, I hope you enjoy!

It’s a great little game with a surprising amount of depth, would absolutely recommend people try it out.

Aye they show that, and also the current one both in the article.

Especially considering, as far as I can tell there seems to not be any new features.

In fact, they’re limiting colour options now and the canvas is smaller.

You’re partially correct. A considerable portion of the earlier denuvo builds were able to be removed completely, which is what I’m referring to. You’re right in that crackers have trended towards circumvention as later builds have been more difficult to combat. Though I would disagree that there is overwhelming evidence to suggest that running a game with denuvo does not affect performance in comparison to the same game with the denuvo build removed. There is evidence showing statistically that it does negatively impact performance, not always on the user end, but sometimes on the hardware.

That and yeah, in-house anti-tamper and other DRM bullshit is an equal if not greater issue.

They have no fucking idea.

In the pirating/cracking community, we’re seen as evil because we’re helping DRM exist and we’re ensuring people make money out of games

To a minor extent, but no – They’re seen as evil because their software significantly lessens the end product. Why the fuck would you play a new $70 game that runs like shit on your machine because the publishers rammed in a bunch of trash code to annoy game crackers, when you can just pirate the game with all the trash code removed and have a much better experience?

The ethics situation aside, until they can solve that issue and prove that it’s actually solved outside of useless press conferences, they aren’t going to gain any good will.

It’s sad really, the game had potential but it was very clearly undercooked and over ambitious considering the studios past. That’s a lot of developers who will be out of a job, have to feel for them.