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Yep, I don’t know what happened with the reviews lately. I know they did something with the servers, maybe with the PVP server so that might have made all those players angry.
I don’t have any DLC ships, except maybe for some gifted ones and I only play solo pirate/merchant on the PVE server and don’t engage too much with the community.
It is a very slow game, combats takes ages as well as trade runs. But that is what I like in those games, I just relax sailing and trying to demast some merchants. Maybe if I was participating with the community (port raiding for your nation etc) I would be angry too.
It is, but you have to progress a little in the AC story (or download a save somewhere) and then only play the naval gameplay.
Although it is nice to be able to walk on a small patch of sand looking for a treasure or going to a city. It is an AC after all so foot and parkour gameplay is good. It offers a nice change of pace from being on your ship. Unlike the – Ahem – quadruple A Skull & Bones…
From the creators of Cold Waters you have Sea Power, I like it a lot but it is more about strategy fighting with missiles and stuff from the Cold War rather than really enjoying sea.
Ultimate admiral dreadnoughts and War on the sea are also cool options for naval warfare.
Ships at Sea for normal modern sea stuff (fishing, cargo etc).
Naval action for slow wooden ships in the Bahamas.
But the best pirate game still is Assassin’s Creed Black Flag. You can mod it a little and find good shaders to have it look a bit better on today’s hardware.
(I often play Assassin’s Creed Rogue on the Steam deck as it is the small successor of black flag and looks very nice on this screen size)
Not so fun fact about marketing, they recently fired the head of marketing because he was pushing too much for new fancy ships to sell. He was pushing the devs towards things that can sell.
Management said stop, go work elsewhere, now we polish stuff for a while to have a stable platform for the alpha players before adding new stuff.
So if you could market like him, maybe you’ll be jobless now 🤷🏻♂️
It’s like religion or something.
Well yeah, people putting money to buy several ships (instead of only 45$ for the basic game package) are buying into a dream. The dream of the perfect space sim, a sim where you can be anything you want. That dream has been growing since Elite in 84 and the X-wing games in the 90. So yeah, kinda religion for the space sim nerds.
Im certain they will deliver, no idea when, but they will achieve it so that’s cool for future gamers. If earth still exists that will be awesome as I will probably be near retirement and will have a shit ton of time to play.
PS: I only own a medium ship that I bought from the kickstarter funding back in 2010-ish ? I wanted it to be my flying space home.
Non-spoilery review: It’s cool.
I kinda like all AC games but I also really enjoy this one. I love playing a stealth assassin and Naoe (the Japanese girl) perfectly fit that gameplay as she is not made for frontal assault.
The other character is also nice to sometimes have a one man army, if you want to disconnect your brain and just go head on an enemy group, it is a welcome change of pace when you want that.
Ubi’s Open World are graphic wonders as always but this one is a step above. I am really used to 4K HDR gaming and this game is probably the best looking one I have on my PC.
As a side note, I took a Ubi+ for one month to play it and will buy the game when there is a discount.
Mmh no, they give 0,5 month of salary or 11 days off for 15 years, 1 month or 22 days off for 20 years (repeatable every 5 years).
But no party or stuff like that. Jubilee is just the strict traduction of “Jubilé” in French, it’s not a celebration with Gary Barlow composing music from the commonwealth (source: Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II)
Yeah i agree but this is not a dev, this is a huge corporation with shit ton of money, tens of thousands of employees, probably plenty of non dev peoples in the list and an already growing PR issue.
They learned the hard way that some people care, it’s not their first time.
So what are they doing with all those resources in marketing and PR to not have a simple check over the last century?
A data scientist could do the software in python or R on a raspberry pi. You don’t have to look at the totality of human history, only the last century and Wikipedia will probably be 75% of the data source. So imagine what could do a multi million dollars company that loves jerking about blockchain and AI (they will, late as always but the management will want something AI).
I agree but it’s also a heavily scrutinized company with money and tons of employees.
They often get roasted for various reasons and they know it, so it’s not that hard to cross check our recent past, specially with that number of employees across the world.
People won’t say shit if the date is from the death of Billy the bitch of Moncuq in 869.
But checking the last century is not that hard of a job when you spend billions in marketing and salaries. If you want to avoid the same trouble you always have with your PR of course, unless you consider bad publicity is publicity
And of course I’ll link again the itch.io grève bundle from the STJV syndicat: https://itch.io/b/2891/grve-bundle-gg25
They even say it at the end of the text: Vive la grève !
I first saw it on !technology@lemmy.world (in English). It was also on !technology@beehaw.org
Direct link to the post but it might take you out of your instance (I don’t know how to correctly link a post). https://jlai.lu/post/15406809
In case you missed it (posted several times on lemmy) the STJV grève bundle on itch.io
Yes this one, by v2.
He also put a 4K collection to complete it (or 1k for slower pc), a Star Wars collection that i haven’t tried.
There’s a Stargate mod I’d like to try if it’s updated and working with constellation.
I haven’t looked too deep In gameplay mods and just took the collections by v2 cause it was easier.
It might not be of help but I’m satisfying my space exploration and ship captain itch with a heavily modded Starfield (Constellation 4K collection on Nexus so that’s around 200 mods).
It’s not perfect but at least I have a middle ground between No mans sky, Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous.
Plus, sniping people in the face on a moon is fun.
I like the ones that add a second operating system cyberware. It can be seen as cheating but you can have a netrunner deck and a sandevistan at the same time (or whatever double cybwrware you want to play with).
I think it’s cyberware EX. I use the collection function of Nexus mods (ordered by rating) so I don’t have to hand manage hundreds of mods.
I know you are right. I said that number from out of my ass as I was at work.
I just checked gog and I am actually at 201h and 7 minutes. My first play through was probably around 120 to 140h but I honestly don’t remember.
Funny enough, the actual save I use is from my first playthrough, the last save right before the last mission. As if I don’t want to abandon this specific V (female badass street kid net runner with katana).
It’s a work of art, one of my favorite games (and dlc included).
I have a strong PC and play in 4k tho, with tons of mods to improve stuff or change some mechanics. Better textures and loads of clothes as well.
I finished the game several times and have probably a lot more than 100h in it. I still play regularly to simply enjoy life in Night City, and kill some dudes…
I’m in love with that game and I believe anybody should play it at least once in life.
I play it since launch and it is not laggy (if it becomes laggy just change server). It had some connection problems at first but nothing too bad, you just had to retry once or twice.
The major problems players complained were not enough helicopters spawn use to “fast travel” around the map (leading to queues of people waiting for an airlift or just walking to destination) and some AI having god sight and shooting you in bushes.
There’s been several updates and the roadmap is public.
I enjoy the game but I play very slowly, I still haven’t unlocked everything. The missions are nice, I like walking in the nature to enjoy the scenery and snipe people.
I like that it is PVE or PVPVE. Other players are usually helpful and talks on the proximity chat (at least on pve) so you can be a lone wolf and participate in a more difficult assault with randoms passing by.
I’d say look at some YouTube reviews but be aware, some of those players finished the game in 48 hours and are complaining that they have nothing left to do (duh) so they want updates (which are coming).
If I hadn’t already I would definitely buy the game, maybe not on full price.
No for watch dogs, not the third one at least but you can play the first and second they are cool.
But if you really want a story, the only answer is: A Plague Tales
You can play the second one (Requiem) without knowing the first game but you will be a little less “invested in the story”.
You can find the two Plague Tales for cheap and they will leave a mark on your soul. They are from a French studio and have that French touch. Be aware, these games will break you, you’ll cry for days and won’t be able to forget the music, characters and story for months.
Or else, Cyberpunk is awesome, specially with mods.
The Day Before is supposedly a killer zombie survival MMO made on UE5 by a dev with a shit ton of bad rep (that also brags about using volunteers aka unpaid dev to make the game).
Dave the diver is a good 2D game, with diving, sushi bar and fish. No zombies and nothing related to the day before.
So yeah I don’t get it and the website is blocked by my work firewall so I was counting on you guys to have an explanation.
I’ve been using Logitech for decades because it’s Swiss, and good.
At least it was good, since the ‘Logi’ rebrand they started to follow the enshitification road and apparently they are trying to do some mouses with mandatory AI software bits.
Today I’m not sure my next mouse will be a Logitech, but I’ll cross that bridge when I’ll need a new mouse.