1. They said they were never gonna paywall parts of the map. 2. It’s not DLC. It’s a 24 hour lease. 3. The game is early access and all early access games paywalling features get slammed. Most do it thru DLC but I guess EA found a way to make more money than selling a one time purchase.

Some games need TPM2 and secure boot to ensure you don’t load cheats at boot time. It’s very invasive and doesn’t even protect games for more than a few days (Battlefield 6 cheats bypassed it during the beta phase)

Haven’t gotten far into it but the max0r viddy made me go back to Pirate Yakuza

Was really doubly excited to see it’s coming and coming soon. But nope, I won’t ever buy $80 games. With Nioh 3 I can somewhat understand it since it’s new, but this isn’t even a new game they just squeezing us.
I’m really pissed because the amount of $80 games is rising way too rapidly for my liking.

I’m sorry, I was being sarcastic. I know there’s only a handful of games that require it (for now), but I was 100% not sincere. Didn’t think this needed a /s but the downvotes tell a diff story

For the infinityth time: Games don’t get to tell me how I use my computer

And they all require secure boot too

I know that that’s just your opinion but you’re wrong.
See Legacy of Kain for vampires done right.

TikTokers will flock to anything except a platform that’s actually good for them (rember red note or what it was called)

„Might not be a popular move“ is such a funny understatement. Kinda like saying the game will cost $100 but some gamers ”might“ not be able to afford that.

Well it’ll improve the AI profile pics to the point that you won’t recognize it’s AI. Can’t be mad at AI images if you don’t recognize 'em

Yeah the engine is so horrible I wonder how they can afford to continue using it. I don’t even know how modders put up with this bullshit.
I get wanting to make the game you love better but there’s gotta be a limit.
Tried my hand at Starfield modding and omg the editor crashes constantly. Makes me wonder if this is a practical joke or the devs really work like this.

Yeah hi, please also consider buying a PS5 Pro in addition to your standard edition console.
Sincerely, not the Sony CFO

Argh the Steam Link is the one piece of valve hardware I regret not getting, though it’s basically been entirely outclassed by the Steam Deck

I hear you but the previous steam controller was also only $60 like regular controllers. And Valve typically don’t have good margins on hardware, so it would surprise me if SC2 was suddenly super expensive. I could always be wrong, I mean it’s not like Valve have released a lot of hardware so the sample size is very smol.

Why do you worry about affordability? Valves hardware has always been affordable. I would be very surprised if the controller costs more than $80

Without it you could very easily just cheat yourself the cosmetics. Keep in mind the Dead Space suit costs almost $30. With kernel level anti cheat it’s slightly harder to accomplish.

Had the same gut reaction but then realized it’s basically only 1 year ahead of schedule. It REALLY doesn’t feel like the PS5 has been out for 5 years now.

I don’t know what’s worse, knowing that this image exists, or knowing that it ISN’T AI generated and someone really thought this looked good.

If you like this type of game and want more I recommend the YouTube channel Kirk Collects. He covers boomer shooters a lot and this game was also in his latest roundup. https://youtube.com/@kirkcollects

A surprisingly good bundle. Basically any one game is worth the price.
Just a little sad I own most of these already.

Everyone in this thread: happy with what they have and got bills to pay
Me: ok cool I can actually stay under 400€ nvm the fact my backlog bigger than Beverly Hills

Ahh that game is so great but I hate it and can never get far in it. It both scratches a itch that almost no other game can yet is so exhausting to play I can never keep at it for more than a couple hours.

Prolly gonna happen with advanced access

Ye but they get old after a while. Hope FH6 is going to be more its own game. I really felt like 5 was just a map pack for 4. But uh that’s a different conversation.

Please don’t let this be $80, but I’m afraid that this is likely what it’s gonna cost :/

My fav tidbit about this game is the Wikipedia section “development”. I quote:

Konami felt it had become overly westernized

Bitch you the ones that took the IP away from Team Silent and gave it to western devs who had no clue what to do with it.
Now they smell there’s money to be made and are cashing in.
And they are cashing in hard. I will never buy a $80 game.

• Suit for Hire
• Dagger Directive
• Peripeteia
• Bright Memory Infinite
• Cruelty Squad

Oh so it’s loot boxes mixed with a limited time store multiplied by FOMO. Very cool.

Not!

Also: “At what point do they become macro transactions?” IMO at $2. That’s the micro/macro cutoff for me.

Amogus but you have to pay $5 per match to get the color you want and $10 for a chance to become impostor

I get what you’re trying to say but I’ve definitely experienced performance problems even on lowest settings.
The issue isn’t that everyone tries to run the game maxed out. The issue is that fundamental problems are often left in the games that you can’t just fix by lowering quality settings.

No. The thing is AAA games are now being released in an unoptimized state way too often. Even if you still get good FPS microstuttering and short lag spikes still occur frequently.

Of course this can make you wonder if this is a you problem and you just got too sensitive.

Nope, this is an industry problem. Why would you optimize a game? No, legitimately asking. It doesn’t affect sales numbers, it often doesn’t significantly tank your steam review score (that most publishers don’t care about), there are practically no downsides to not optimize your game.
But if you do value optimization, it lowers dev velocity, requires more training/awareness for devs and artists, and you won’t be able to ship as fast anymore. And on top of that you get… nothing. A few more sales maybe?

I had a super underpowered PC I grew up with and it influenced my imagination. For a long time stuff I’d imagine also ran at like 15-20FPS. Really weird effect.

“No” -John PlayStation

If you think $32k is so much to spend on MTX to call him John Microtransaction I’m sorry to say that he’s probably still just a medium sized fish.

Got 3 games I rotate now of which only 1 I haven’t played before.

Death Stranding: Finished it on the PS4 way back when and bought the PC director’s cut a long time ago but only recently picked it up again.

Cyberpunk 2077: Technically bought it day 1 but I am just now doing my first modded playthru.

Starfield: I am not a Bethesda fan so I was 0% hyped for this and only watched a lot of YouTube content about it. Randomly decided to pull the trigger recently tho. Completed the game vanilla first now I am doing a modded playthru and taking my time with it.
This one surprised me the most because I’m having fun and really enjoy my time with it. Funny thing is that most of the negative stuff mentioned about this game absolutely holds true, the game kinda ass. And Nasapunk is an oxymoron. But I’m a raccoon I enjoy trash. And if u shove 600 mods down Todd’s throat you actually get a really cool experience out of it.
Still wouldn’t recommend it tho.

6G already wtf? Are we gonna have to perfectly align our phones with the cell towers then and get 0 connectivity if we’re off by a degree or two?

Also love this snippet:

To serve faster and more precisely, 6G will use more radio frequency bandwidth, require specialized computer chips and employ artificial intelligence.

This kinda reads like they’re gonna AI generate data as we download things. Like frame generation but for packets.

So I haven’t used this yet but it exists and at the very least should offer a good starting point if it doesn’t work out of the box: https://github.com/dandykong/nopssdk

This implies the PS5 pro is the PS4 pro pro pro