Goronmon

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

However, there is still no release date or even release window for Star Citizen 1.0. CIG will share the roadmap later this year.

12 years in and the update is that a later update will announce when they may, or may not, release the game.

This is, and always has been, the issue regarding this game. Even putting aside the budget they've burned through to date (which is impressively massive), the fact that they are still unsure of when they think the game is done is mind-boggling.

Years ago, I thought I was being relatively pessimistic that the game may take until 2023-2024 to release. And here we are in 2024 with the "release date will be announced later" updates still coming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It’s one banana, Michael, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Director AI’s have existed over a decade, and have already been used to solve problems exactly like these.

My knowledge of Director AI's is that they control the individual matches, but this is about the campaign as a whole.

This person isn't calling down a dropship on individual players, he's controlling how the campaign progresses at a higher level.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Was there a level of "meta" in the Director of L4D? My understanding was that handled the flow of an individual match, but there wasn't influences of the matches on other matches.

Since this is about the overall campaign that encompasses a level above the individual matches.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Most likely result of this setup becoming popular is the anti-cheat working harder to detect being sandboxed in this manner.

Since it's the same thing a cheater would do to defeat the anti-cheat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I still can’t look past the rootkit anticheat for a goddamn co-op game.

This is probably pissing into the wind, but that isn't what "rootkit" means in this context.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think this is just what happens when an art gets big and becomes an industry.

Video games have been an "industry" for decades though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I gave a concrete example of an exploit using Steam, and you've provided a hypothetical while arguing that your hypothetical example is much more risky (and compared it to hang gliding vs Russian roulette).

Specifically how much more of a risk is it to have kernel level anti-cheat installed than it is to install software like Steam and games on your system? Since you are claiming in-depth knowledge I would actually like to know more specifics for future reference. I don't find the hang-gliding/russian-roulette example super helpful personally.

...it’s hard to see what benefit I’m being offered by a notably cheaply made kernel level anti-cheat in a purely cooperative gameplay experience.

You don't see how it would affect your enjoyment of the game to have someone insta-killing all the enemies in a match, or generating 1000x more rewards than you would normally receive, breaking the progression permanently?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My point was that I'm worried I'll feel the same when I try to play the DLC.

Even worse, judging by past FromSoftware games, the DLC isn't something you do right at the beginning or right towards the end of the game. So, it will likely require a decent amount of playtime to reach the content.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

To echo what have seen other say, I'm excited about this DLC in theory because I really enjoyed Elden Ring on my first play through and some quick NG+ runs for endings. I actually got all the achievements, which is rare for me.

But after all that, I've struggled to play since. I'll play for a few hours on a character, then take weeks or months before I want to play again. And I'm worried I'll have the same reaction with the DLC.

There is so much open space in the game that it somehow is overwhelming once you have a rough idea that most of the content isn't that important, but some of it is crucial to specific builds you may want to run. It's almost like you spend most of your effort avoiding content because of how time-consuming just playing the game "normally" can be.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

That makes Steam a "rootkit" then, correct? People should really stop using it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Doesn't look like that is true though, looks like he purchases the ticket at 8pm.

He also just happened to manually pick those numbers as well.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/19/powerball-sued-for-not-paying-out-jackpot/72658413007/

And the Powerball number was blank on the numbers posted early.

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