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Post by Gileadan on Feb 24, 2022 7:16:52 GMT
Who is Corinne Busche and why do people expect her to be the target of backlash? I'm quite out of the loop apparently.
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Post by Gileadan on Feb 23, 2022 18:33:42 GMT
Kudos for the transparency. I wish their team and leadership all the best. May their successes be many, their frustrations few and the crunch between minimal and nonexistant. Good to know that all the ideas are hammered down and they're in production.
It's a shame to see Mr. Dailey leave, hopefully he'll find a new place he enjoys working at.
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Post by Gileadan on Feb 18, 2022 8:14:31 GMT
Having a bunch of fighters is not the same thing as having actual ship to ship weapons. It's like being a ship without cannons sending out boats with musketeers against a ship that does have cannons.
The Tempest may have a stealth drive and may be super fast, but the crew seems to be constantly forgetting to use it. Like in that super silly scene when the Archon "ambushes" the Tempest... "Collision with unknown object imminent, hit the brakes!" Erm. Engage stealth and, you know, go around it? You're in space, you can go in any direction, plus the minimal correction necessary to avoid a ship in space should be much easier to make than a full stop from FTL (!).
How do you ambush a ship in space anyway when it moves at FTL speed? How do you know where it's going to be at any given time until it drops out of FTL speed?
But hey, it's the AI, the guys who didn't bring any backup power generation as simple as solar panels to power their cryo pods and desperately needed "feet on the ground" without doing any checks on the planet from orbit. Andromeda's writing works best when you don't think about it too much.
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Post by Gileadan on Feb 16, 2022 9:55:04 GMT
Started a new playthrough last night on PC. No bugs so far, runs rather smooth on my 2016 PC (no ray tracing for me though).
But then again, it ran mostly problem free for me right out of the box over a year ago. Maybe my box of tin and silicon is somehow blessed.
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Post by Gileadan on Feb 16, 2022 9:51:00 GMT
It's kinda hilarious and pointless to feel the need to get rid of a militaristic setting when the gameplay essentially remains the same, i.e. the supposedly inexperienced new protagonist at the head of the AI peace corps shoots up aliens just like Shepard and his gang did. "I'm just an explorer and we come in peace and I'm so new at this... and this is my fully upgraded assault rifle with high velocity armour piercing rounds, b*tches".
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Post by Gileadan on Feb 14, 2022 22:31:19 GMT
Ventrue. That long trench coat and Dominate in conversations. I bought the first game three times: the original CD, on Steam and finally on GoG.
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Post by Gileadan on Feb 13, 2022 22:15:54 GMT
Well, he does avoid all social media at least, and he crippled Window's ability to send and receive internet data so hard that parts of it stopped working... I'm confused. If he avoids social media, how on earth did he 'do his own research' and find out that the media and government and Bill Gates are lying to protect the lizard alien overlords that created Covid as a means to control the population? I understand that in his mind, there are those evil social media - all the "standard" ones - and then there's those few trustworthy websites that have the truth. If only all those clueless people would read them and see through the conspiracy... I know it's not logical, just like in his world only evil people are smart, an argument I've tried several times but never got through with.
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Post by Gileadan on Feb 12, 2022 21:39:07 GMT
I suppose that means the booster shots are really firmware updates... So your colleague definitely doesn't have a smartphone, avoids all social media, and never uses GPS navigation, right? Well, he does avoid all social media at least, and he crippled Window's ability to send and receive internet data so hard that parts of it stopped working...
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Post by Gileadan on Feb 12, 2022 21:27:47 GMT
If it wasn't so sad I would laugh at the German health minister who now, to his apparent horror, discovers that actually doing the thing is so much harder than constant doomsaying from the sidelines (and all those talk shows).
One of my colleagues at work has gone full tinfoil hat and is convinced that the vaccines contain suspicious nanotech like nano-routers that constantly alert "them" of your current whereabouts and intentions. I suppose that means the booster shots are really firmware updates...
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Post by Gileadan on Feb 10, 2022 7:17:18 GMT
The quality of a new Mass Effect game is quite unaffected by what galaxy it would be set in.
Obviously, it doesn't matter for the gameplay. The writing could be good or bad, no matter whether the protagonist is named Shepard, Ryder or Noobie McNooberson. The Andromeda galaxy is unexplored except for one cluster, the Milky Way is about 98% unexplored? A new game could be set in an unexplored cluster the size of Heleus in either galaxy and until we found something clearly specific to one of them like a Jardaan vault or a dead reaper, we wouldn't even know the difference.
It all comes down to what characters people want to see again.
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Post by Gileadan on Feb 10, 2022 7:12:56 GMT
Self awareness is good. But nothing beats the end of the Cthulhu mythos story "The Hounds of Tindalos", where the journal writer actually ends his last diary entry by actually writing "aaargh" as the hounds attack.
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Post by Gileadan on Feb 1, 2022 21:01:46 GMT
There are characters that are fun to hate (Borderland 2's Handsome Jack comes to mind), and there are characters that I don't like because they lower my enjoyment of the game by being annoying and getting away with it without me or my protagonist being able to do or even say anything about it (like Anders from DA2).
Calpernia however just wasn't interesting, and if it weren't for a thread with her name in the title on page 1 of the Dragon Age section, I would probably have forgotten her existence years ago. Even with this thread existing, I can't recall a single interesting sentence she said during the course of the entire game.
Of course, she could turn out to be a great companion anyway when given proper attention by the writers, but that much is true for any newly created companion character too.
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Post by Gileadan on Jan 30, 2022 9:16:09 GMT
As someone who used to spam YongYea content, I have to say he’s gotten worse to the point of being just another mainstream shill. On the topic of NFTs, the closest explanation I’ve come up is paying thousands of dollars to be the owner of a unique JPEG or gif of a character/item that you can then later sell like cryptocurrency. Seesssh that's it? Sounds ridiculous to pay thousands for something you can simply do at home. Yes, but if you owned an NFT it would be a game asset unique to you, officially supported by the game, not something privately made like a mod. Imagine playing Mass Effect with a uniquely styled gun or armour, something no other player in the world owns and every player could see in multiplayer. Isn't that oh so cool? It'll cost you though, but you are supposedly able to sell it too. UbiSoft is doing it all for us so we can be special in every game. For the right amount of dough, of course.
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Post by Gileadan on Jan 21, 2022 15:39:44 GMT
I'm still kicking myself for around 2016 thinking "Yay, since they are now familiar with the engine I probably won't have to wait as long for the next game!". I feel like I put a curse on the whole studio at that point... I think I paved the way for you. Ten years or so ago, when it was announced that DAI would be developed using the Frostbite engine, I thought "well finally, now they can stop complaining about engine limitations"... *retroactive facepalm*
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Post by Gileadan on Jan 20, 2022 6:42:18 GMT
It's nice that they have such a nuanced opinion about us.
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Post by Gileadan on Jan 19, 2022 7:28:55 GMT
I'm lucky, I suppose, I got all the "good stuff" like 30 days of paid vacation and paid sick leave and such without ever having to bother with a union. Very few people in my company are unionized, and it never seemed necessary to me. The company owners are "benevolent patriarchs" who value loyalty greatly and have established unwritten rules like "You will never go on strike, and we will never fire anyone when times are tough" and such. It seems to work pretty well. During the big financial crisis of 2008+ and the more recent troubles, any financial problems were split among all employees and everyone agreed to work for a little less for a while, even the unionized people, because "we all would like to still have a job to come back to tomorrow". To a lot of people's surprise, the last two years turned out to be the best in company history, so raises were awarded and bonuses paid so the good things would be shared too.
The things that are possible when a company is not publicly traded. Or, as the founder put it so eloquently, "Freedom is when you can tell the bankers where to stick it."
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Post by Gileadan on Jan 14, 2022 10:28:58 GMT
Utterly boring side missions that exist only to pad out play time and whose only positive aspect is "they are optional but you can do them for XP" à la DAI and MEA. I want a game with more bone and muscle and way less fat.
Another goofball protagonist with a bland team that makes me dread "doing the rounds" to check for new dialogue after each main story event.
Poorly balanced combat that reduces guns to priming devices for powers due to that silly "prime and boom" mechanic. Especially bad if we also get Anthem's "damage of a pea shooter, screen shake of Hiroshima" style gunplay.
While not a deal breaker I'd greatly prefer if they left Shepard alone.
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Post by Gileadan on Jan 12, 2022 22:45:05 GMT
Und der Lack ist ab.
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Post by Gileadan on Jan 12, 2022 12:03:50 GMT
Well, third shot (Moderna this time after two BioNTech/Pfizer ones) successfully achieved and the side effects seem fairly mild so far... arm seems a bit more sore than the last two times, but other than that, things seem fine.
The doctor had their walk-in corridor split into two lanes, one for covid shots and one for normal business. No appointment necessary, just show up with your vaccination docs during certain hours of the day. And then I had to have my digital certificate corrected because my health service card does not include my middle name and the smart ass app thought the certificate belonged to a different person... they PDF'ed me a new one within the hour though, so kudos to the med team.
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Post by Gileadan on Jan 8, 2022 10:08:25 GMT
I always thought that "live service" is defined as a constant stream of content updates to a game with the intention that players keep playing for as long as possible, like the weekly random missions and cosmetic shop updates in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. A story DLC six or twelve months after release or some patches to fix things or add quality of life very likely don't qualify as live service, that's just good post launch support. Dragon Age 4 was rebooted once to add live service elements, as far as I remember, and if live service means patches and DLC, something they've pretty much always done, why the frigging reboot?
*headscratch*
I have no problem when multiplayer is added to a single player game, I'm just not fond of wing clipping the single player to accommodate the multiplayer mode, like removing paused/tactical gameplay because it wouldn't work in multiplayer. But it's hard to say if that ever really happened, so as long as the single player is enjoyable, I begrudge no one their multiplayer fun.
EDIT: ...as long as I don't need to play the multiplayer to get something for my single player game.
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Post by Gileadan on Jan 4, 2022 8:17:14 GMT
Hm, I thought that "making no decisions" was referring to Anthem's years of paralysis or Dragon Age 4's reboots. Why comment on the Ken Levine article if it hadn't hit close to home?
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Post by Gileadan on Jan 3, 2022 22:04:34 GMT
Awww BioWare, you adorable little nest of vipers!
Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 29, 2021 7:38:59 GMT
Firstly I greatly prefer games that do not give me a point value about how much a companion likes or dislikes what I just said.
I just roleplay my character. I try to be nice to companions that I like, but I don't reload a conversation because of someone's disapproval for example.
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 22, 2021 8:38:19 GMT
Imagine actually playing DAI's multiplayer. I played DAI's multiplayer exactly long enough to get the dragon décor for the throne room (b*tching and moaning the whole time that my Inquisitor killed every high dragon in the game and somehow couldn't get this) And I played ME3's multiplayer exactly long enough to get the Faceless Torso scene in the end of SP. I NEVER touched the MP of either game after that. I remember that some of my friends were really enthusiastic about playing DAMP (great acronym) regularly. So we tried it out one Saturday afternoon, and never spoke about it again. When they later patched in the dragon decor and the MP requirement to unlock it, I went "yeah no, screw that". No dragon decor for me, ever. Much later I played a bit of DAMP again in an attempt to woo my girlfriend. The things I do for love. And ME3MP. Enemy accuracy vs moving targets depends on the host's framerate on PC. Yep, the faster the host's computer, the harder the game gets! Unless the host uses the config file to throttle his FPS to, say, 15. Then you can run circles around them and shoot them like sitting ducks. They simply assumed everyone would be running this at 30 FPS. Rookie coding.
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August 2016
gileadan
Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Mass Effect Andromeda
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 19, 2021 10:05:41 GMT
Ah, the armour class dilemma. I've found that if you want to reliably kill enemies in melee throughout the entire game (as opposed to using magic every time), you need to make a real effort to turn your characters into specialized killers. Pick a weapon and bolster it with as many feats as you can. Deactivate any skills that sacrifice hit chance for extra damage if necessary. Buff up with Heroism and all that stuff.
During my first run, my protagonist was an Inquisitor and that guy barely hit anything, his job was debuffing enemies for the rest of the party to kill. My second character however was a mutation warrior, super specialized in Fauchards (pros: long range, great crit weapon / cons: good magical fauchards are very rare), and that guy handed out 200 - 300 damage critical hits all day long.
As far as party members go, I found Lann and especially Arueshalae with her insane Dexterity score make great ranged killers, and sweet little Ember can be turned into a source of fiery destruction. And that's as far as my experience goes, I'm no Pathfinder expert by any means.
EDIT: Also, your mythic path will give you abilities that will help you out a lot, and these often allow your enemy no save at all. There was a certain satisfaction, for instance, to toss the Aeon's Edict of Retaliation at a marilith (which has what feels like a dozen attacks per round) and watch it kill itself by receiving damage (no saving throw or resistance) for every attack it made...
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