This game is so immense, and has so many different levers to pull that I am so excited to see the insane builds people will be coming up with years from now. The best part is none of this is a glitch, so the optimizations speed runners can find is gonna be awesome.
Craft int potion, craft stronger int potion... You now have 100000000 int for the next 5000 years Now craft an offensive or defensive potion or enchant something.
I remember messing around with the permanent spell effects glitch (commonly referred to as "Soul Trap" glitch due to that being an easy effect to use to trigger it). Had one save where Jump and speed were fortified so much that barely tapping jump when moving the minimum speed you could would rocket you completely across the entire playable map and far out into the surrounding ocean, taking several real time minutes to get there.
That glitch was so much fun! I did that rocketing thing too, but then fine tuned it so that I could only jump about as high as those tall mushrooms. Felt like a dragoon, jumping around with a spear.
Another thing that was fun was making summons stick around for as long as they didnt get killed in combat. I think that glitch even let you take their items if they died.
Continue to vote with your wallet. Don’t support crooks, throw your dollars at companies like Larian and hopefully the others will follow suit and start making good games.
Exactly this. People are so blinded by their bubbles that they think that these companies are actually having a hard time. And every single time they go like: “How often do we have to teach you this lesson?!”
There.is.no.lesson! This whole BS works. They have never made more money.
If you’re worried about your IP being “leaked” you have no idea what an IP is. You can literally grab everyone’s IP using the console commands to list the players.
No, most multiplayer games and services these days only share your IP with the server, and not with other players.
Leaking your IP to someone malicious can mean DDoS attacks and rough geolocation. IP can be a good narrowing to find your address when combined with additional information.
SC2 is not a game one would expect to leak your IP and is a valid, small concern.
Being aware of the small risk you’re taking with one person (the server owner) versus being unaware of the risk you’re taking with many different random lobbies.
Server owners are more likely to ban you than DDoS you. And it’s a single digit number of people with access to that information vs hundreds in random lobbies.
The risk, while still small, is hundreds of times greater than a private server.
Status no longer reports user Ips as those are hidden through some steam routing, I’m not sure if rcon status still reports it but that would be limited to server admins. If you open the steam overlay while in CS it shows some of the details.
You know what, that was the last game I paid full price for as well, but I was buying it as gift for my nephew & didn't think about that until you mentioned it.
In the 2000s, before Steam or other online stores were a thing, and while I still bothered with a console, I was hitting up used game sections at various local stores. Main difference between that era and now to me is that there’s a better selection online, and prices are indeed cheaper if you don’t care about playing AAA games. I don’t understand how anybody “struggle[s] to find new games” as the article claims.
There used to be an online store called GoGamer.com that sold nothing but physical copies of games. I have sooo many games boxes on my gaming shelf from them.
This post is a bunch of clickbait. The only reason this FAQ exists is because they need to comply with GDPR requests (like deleting someone’s data when they’ve died), not because they would delete inactive accounts to save space or some strange reason
Except we’re not taking about dead people here, we’re taking about very much alive people who have lost the games they bought with their hard earned money which is bullshit and the GDPR outlines that personal data shall be kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed;
Considering that these accounts were made to buy games and play them when gamers want, these’s no reason for Ubi to delete these accounts outside of being cheap, greedy assholes of a games company.
I was very and am very tempted to get baulders gate 3, as all the good reviews and bg2 is one of the first pc games I remember playing with my dad. But still, I have not bought a new game at 60 in close to a decade.
Genuine questions: What does Starfield do to innovate? Are there mechanics, narrative twists (no spoilers), or features moving the industry forward in a new direction? What’s here that I haven’t played before?
Worse mechanics than games that are dedicated to each function.
Ship building is janky, it doesn’t actually make any kind of difference, and there are other games with better, cooler customization that allow you to do more granular things. The ship stats don’t actually matter, because you can carry your crew of flunkies around the galaxy with any kind of setup, regardless of the actual stated crew stations and passenger capacity. Fuel exists but is inconsequential, it’s a number that goes up and down as you travel independent of your interaction with it. Space Engineers and Empyrion Galactic Survival are two games off the top of my head that kick the shit out of Starfield’s ship building and exploring.
I feel like the gunplay is worse than it was in Fallout 4. That might not be because of how the guns fire so much as it’s probably directly related to how much everything is a pointless bullet sponge. You can have a pimped out Orion and shit still takes a bunch of hits to go down, and they’re all the same sets of enemies: renegade spacers in random mines and outposts.
The only new thing on top of all the mechanics culminating from Skyrim through Fallout 76 that they added was a research system, which is perfunctory at best and super annoying and artificially limiting at worse.
So to answer your question? Nothing. There’s nothing they improve upon that hasn’t been done elsewhere - the gimmick functionally just is that all these elements exist in the same game in a very disjointed fashion.
Personally I really hate when you fight the same generic enemies but they just get bigger numbers to become bullet sponges. A lot of games that want to be “endless” do this, e.g. Warframe. At least make the tougher baddies bigger? Give them cooler armor or something? Don’t make them look identical to the level 1 grunt.
Supposedly No Man’s Sky was the vanguard of procgen but I wasn’t impressed. I get the impression that Starfield uses it very similarly.
For characters and ships, all NMS seems to do is combine permutations of prebuilt parts, not create any actual unique parts. Spore was way more impressive a decade and a half earlier because it tried to animate whatever wacky creature the player designed.
For terrain, NMS doesn’t even create biomes. You won’t find a river, glacier, waterfall, or oasis anywhere. They didn’t even apply the system to space stations, those are identical everywhere in the universe. Valheim and even Minecraft did better.
Starfield’s biome and planet generation is extremely barebones, but placing that in a single player RPG with the radiant quest systems is fairly innovative. Imagine STALKER Anomaly style tasks, but with proc-gen landscapes.
This combo allows any character to have more content available to suit that character style far more than Skyrim or Fallout 4 style faction radiant quests.
Still needs far more work though, it’s half-baked.
It is made using Nvidia's RTX Studio, that is why it's called RTX.
It's also important to note that RTX is long past being just Nvidia's implementation of real time ray tracing, it is much bigger now as a suite of enhancements, technologies and tools.
In other words, it expanded into more of the same anti-competitive “only we get to do this” functionality as all their other features.
Only we do compute shaders! Oh ATI does compute shaders now? That’s boring, only we do physics! Oh ATI does physics now? That’s boring, only we do raytracing! Oh AMD does raytracing now? That’s boring, only we do upscaling! Oh AMD does upscaling now? That’s boring, only we do, uh, our exclusively branded nostalgia bait!
I despise the marketing for these projects with “RTX on” vs off when the entire scene is replaced with a much higher quality set of textures and models
RIP Unity. First they partnered with Ironsource. Who are the people behind InstallCore it’s a wrapper for bundling software installations. It tricks people into installing enough browser toolbars and other bloat to hurt their PCs. Windows Defender and MalwareBytes blocks it. Now Unity does this shit.
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