A small studio with three games in eternal early access. The usual.

“Regrettably, due to an upcoming technical change to Amazon Web Services, affecting our ability to serve necessary game files to new users, these titles are to be withdrawn from the Steam store. Please be assured that existing players can continue to enjoy these games without interruption.”

lol that’s the lamest excuse for “we don’t give a shit about the game anymore, bye” I have ever read. Blaming an obscure AWS change for them pulling it…

Stay tuned for Molyneux’ next stinker he will surely now announce in the coming weeks.

Nope. The only known “fact” is that Ubisoft was given a grant by Singapore which obligated them to release it at some point. Can’t imagine why Ubisoft would keep that thing in development for so long instead of just releasing anything if it wasn’t for external money that they don’t have to care about.

Singapore keeps throwing money at it, Ubisoft takes it in and let’s Ubi Singapore work on that dumpster fire.

Sea of Thieves

I’ll take another look at it today after I fiddle with the settings a bit. What I saw yesterday was not impressive - occasional stuttering while barely utilizing my 2060 on low/med settings while looking worse than Skyrim did in 2011.

Game does not really look good even at high settings. Releasing something with such bad performance and nothing to even show for is just insulting.

Multiplayer vs bots was so much fun back then in 1 and 2 it makes me really happy to see that they have an eye on that style of mp and skirmishing instead of only focusing on pvp or competitive. There are really few games that I’m looking forward to these days but HW3 is definitely in that category.

Yeah, these “update” animations were a bit silly. Looks more like a refinement of the art style if anything. Modernizing multiplayer and workshop integration are the bigger improvements. Oh and I’ll never say no to a remastered soundtrack. The music was another one of the strengths of the original game.