ALVR isn’t awful. I needed new hardware and bit the bullet knowing I was likely going to lose VR, but with the hardware upgrade, it’s nicer in the new machine (Bazzite, 7900XT) than the old (Win 10, 2080 Super Max Q). Definitely not a drop in replacement yet though.

And I’m saying it’s the same as world. You can drop off the net and play. Private session --> drop connection, play on. Can’t say I’ve ever tried starting it with no network because there’s no way in hell it’s running on the deck, but you could with MHW, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the same rules apply. I will try to remember to check later.

So far, yeah. If it’s like World, eventually there’s a quest that is just too damn hard to carry alone (Extremoth in Vanilla, I’m looking at you), but if you are not a completionist, sure you can be offline and single player for most of the story line. Actually it looks like offline support is slightly better in this one.

I’m not a total solo hunter, but I am 90% of the time, don’t really play with randoms.

There’s a couple of curators that “review” DRM in games. It’s not perfect but it helps.

I don’t disagree, I’m just grateful at least one of them is dead. Who knows, maybe one day they’ll stop with the pointless bloody accounts too. Glares at Sony

Props to these guys. They tried something. Everyone hated it and they did the right thing. It’s increasingly rare. Back to Civ I guess.

What mystifies me is usually when they do this sort of thing they throw it on Plus and get a mountain of players. Fall guys, and Destruction All Stars spring to mind as examples. I guess the effect isn’t so strong with the new tiered system, but it may have saved them some face.

Man my poor pc got absolutely hammered by the giant dirt bombs and the deaths head / mirv

Scorched Earth? Or is this the one before that?