Ah. I’ve spent hundreds of hours on Anno games and always considered them part of the range of RTS. Are you sure those terms are incompatible? Seems like a strategy game can be “grand” and “real-time” at the same time.

tbf a lot of people don’t buy a top notch rig for RTS games, so I think it’s entirely valid to test on a dated PC and point out if this is a weakness - but not record gameplay on it exclusively.

If one reviewer has an insufficient PC, assign it to a different person - at least the gameplay recording.

You can say it’s a bad deal, they are mismanaging the project etc. but calling it a scam is just hyperbole.

Yeah the whole series is geared towards co-op, though the first a bit less so than the sequels.

Gotta say I’m surprised people report so many challenges with the games. I’ve played all four mainline titles, three of them in co-op, and rarely had session troubles and never performance issues.

Yep, if I haven’t been hallucinating the past week

Isn’t the bigger factor how successful Nintendo and Sony have been in pushing subscriptions on people? There’s this thing called TCO = total cost of ownership.

Cheating humans already perform closely enough to trick such a system. Many cheaters are smart enough to use an aimbot only for a split-second to nail the flick. With a tiny bit of random offset, those inputs indistinguishable from a high-skill player.

Stripe can also go fuck itself and die, thanks

Unfortunately they are indeed big players, Stripe where people use credit cards and PayPal everywhere else. Both horrible companies that we’d be a lot better off if replaced with privacy-respecting alternatives.

Steam itself shows the rankings, I believe.

Yep, it loops between exploration and basebuilding / crafting.

The exploration part is what usually gets people hooked because the alien underwater setting is amazing. The other stuff is more to give you a reason to stick around for longer, and pace your exploration since need to unlock things at certain points.

Poopysoft

No. But public expectations are flying high with some people after the Deck’s and Controller’s respective receptions.

Fair enough. I much prefer swapping them every few hours rather than using a wire, and I haven’t had those identification problems you describe. Largely comes down to setup and usage profile it seems.

You can get them secondhand, that’s not the issue. What would be the point of making a Steam controller from Steam controller parts? We already have that.

You know you can just chuck rechargeable 2.4V AA batteries in there and it works perfectly, right?

For Valve to release a controller to the level of Steam Deck engineering.

Because that first sentence sounds like a diss on Hades.

I’m inclined to agree on the latest release, but Doom 2016 is fucking amazing.

They’re really just milking what nostalgia still remains for a franchise that people have largely moved on from.

They could instead try to boldly reinvent it to grab new customers, but I’m not seeing it.

The point is rather how meaningful this statement is. It doesn’t really matter if your algorithm can come up with trillions of ways to place trees, if it’s the same handful of trees it’s still gonna feel samey after the third time.

Post-IPO? Valve is privately held. Which is why they make strategic decisions that stakeholders would never approve of.

Are they publicly traded?

What an absolutely disgusting crowd she fell in with at a young age, that poor woman. I despise these cliques of narcissistic abusers and their sycophants. Thanks for raising awareness.

It’s a matter of time before he sacks it. Kinda surprised he hasn’t already.

A different definition of the term isn’t a different worldview. Also, not immediately spinning every exchange into an exhaustive debate isn’t a critical character flaw. Unlike being an insufferable ass about not getting the amount of attention you apparently feel entitled to.

Though I would take look at that poll about 80% of Christians being “essentially” Zionists if you’d link to it.

That’s an insane number. Must be a very broad definition of Zionist.

Even technologically Twitch has always been shit. For all the hate YT rightfully deserves, I’m kinda glad they just said “ok we do livestreaming now too” one day and it works so much better. Simply so I never have to use twitch ever again.

I know there’s a lot of Christians involved but how do we know it’s the majority? Young Israelis are raised largely around Zionist propaganda after all.