There is no modern Bethesda. They are still making games based on 15 year old standards, with an engine a lot older and technically more debted than that.

It’s kinda like trying to make Edward Scissorhands a brain surgeon by adding a few more rubberbands between the blades.

Their games, engine and business model are all at the spot others were 10 years ago, so this makes perfect sense.

No, what you said is objectively bullshit.

It is. But if your input is the equivalent of vocal diarrhea, I’m not sure why you are surprised that people find it smells like shit.

You are confusing what the game calls Democracy to what it actually is.

It’s Match Making isn’t peer to peer, and requires a connection, though. I’d reckon the playerbase to wither quickly without Valve servers and/or Steam friend list, even though technically possible, and a 3rd party could devise a system of finding players.

It is a possibility for sure, but HD1 is still going after 8 years, and because AH doesn’t host the gameplay servers, I reckon the server costs aren’t excessive.

L4D2 is 15 years also, and still going, and still played. I hope and trust HD2 will be up long time.

Spear isn’t in a good place, but it works after you learn its kinks. I wish they made the locking work better and added a range indicator when you are aiming it too close, so you know why it’s not locking in that case.

That was true when it launched, but past month I’ve had 0 crashing in about 100 hours of gametime. It was unfortunate, but it’s not filled to brim with bugs, unless you’re referring to the Terminids 😄

You are wrong, and you should be ashamed of yourself for accusing people without any proof. If you really believe everyone who praises the game to be shills, then you’re also deluded.

I’ve 250 hours in, and loving the game. Sure it’s starting to lose the appeal slowly after this long in, but I sure as hell got my 40€ worth, and I know me and friends will return to have fun with it periodically, similarly to L4D2. The gameplay loop is just that good.

Considering Helldivers 1 just finished it’s 135th War cycle, I’m not particularly afraid about an expitation date from the DM/online play side. Heck, I’d imagine when Arrowhead finally pulla the plug on HD1, they’ll likely update it so it works offline.

And the gameplay portion kinda already does.

I’ll forever be salty about Carmageddon having zombies with green blood.

I think that the typical AAA MTX game will not mostly be beneficial for big studios. At least I hope. Things will shift back to smaller games and those AAAA titles.

To be fair, it’s the new standard for me. Full price? Better not be MTX and needs 100h+.

And here I am 120h into BG3, and still haven’t finished it.

Idiots will always misunderstand shit, however obvious and in front of their faces. It’s like flat earthers etc. nutjobs.

“Product managers retooled an existing engine and reskinned it and…”

Jesus fuckin christ dude, stop making things up. As an actual developer, I can with confidence say what you just wrote is complete and absolute bullshit and you either made it up or are parroting something someone else said.

Adding shit to a game with a patch, post purchase, doesn’t require you to partake. While I hate MTX as much as anyone, you aren’t required to buy anything. Sure, this is enshittification, but you can avoid that buy buying games that aren’t “always online”.

Can it be played co-op?

Didn’t expect the day to come when I can no longer use Chromium based browsers.

Oh well, anyway.

Wrong. Just fucking wrong. Graphics was solved ages ago. Anticheat for mp has not.

Lol. It most definitely is not.

Because, again, they don’t want bad press when the translation layer doesn’t play ball with anticheat, or some other tech.

That it works is one thing. That it always works as expected is another. Apple doesn’t want to take responsibility for that, and neither does Valve, when there’s not enough paying customers on that platform. It is what it is. Now the Proton layer is one thing, because Valve is selling Steam Decks. They will want that to become a big thing. They’ll go back to selling Steam Boxes (the living room console thing).

If Apple wants to ride that wave, they could.

It does, but Valve doesn’t spend money in taking any responsibility over it. Also I presume anticheat might not work properly.

In any scenario, the translation layer has a performance impact which for any competitive player is something that makes Apple a no-go.

It’s a god damn funny though.

Amen. We do provide text versions though, but a few JS-blocking users have complained about having a barebones experience.

As a web developer who’s worked in the industry for 16 years, every snowflake requiring me to work harder to support their “choices” is just an annoyance. I get wanting to reduce tracking etc, but in all honesty, the 0.0X% of users running tons of blockers and JS off are in reality just easier to track, in comparison to hiding in the mass of regular users who might be running an ad blocker (or nothing).

As long as your browser is making requests, you’ll never be invisible.

The change needs to come from regulation level imho.

I work in IT and use the search engine around 100 times a day in order to find specific answers to specific edge cases. DDG results are just too generic most of the time.

But once they get better, oh yeah.

DuckDuckGo CEO apparently is just another CEO. I’ve been an early adopter that’s been using their search engine long before there were apps or a browser.

What’s stopping people from using DDG isn’t switching to DDG, it’s getting absolutely dogshit results 90% of time. As an advanced user I know I can prefix my search with “!g phrase” to use Google instead of DDG. The sad fact is that despite the ad-ridden result page and tracking, Google is still lightyears ahead in providing relevant, and especially timely results for a user that is both tech-savvy and critical.

They need to improve their product, users will follow a good adfree search engine, that’s a given. Only a fraction of users will put up with degraded results in order to search without tracking.

I sincerely hope they will get their tech up to par. And that their browser on mobile reaches feature parity soon. (as a Z Fold user, DDG browser doesn’t have tabs. Brave, Vivaldi and Firefox does).

The new kid on the block needs humility and good tech, not shittalk. Fuck that CEO,. he’s undermining something very promising and important.

They don’t remove it just because it would sell more later on, they remove it because it’s a big licensing cost that will stop being profitable once most sales have happened.

My point is; if the publisher used Denovo, just don’t be buy the game ever.

Don’t kid yourself: data centers are easier to have closer to many locations, but ones with hardware that works for cloud gaming, less so. And even in a best case scenario, it’s still too big a delay to comfortably play anything apart from casual games.

Even streaming a game from your PC to living room box, such as Nvidia Shield, even wired, makes it nigh impossible to play racing games well, or anything that requires aiming. It’s not far, almost playable when streaming in LAN, but any WAN in the mix and it’s just not feasible.

Networking has a long way to go before streamed reactive games are even close.