jeeva

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jeeva,

The developer Bohemia Interactive found it crucial to promote the idea of player creation, something that was true for most of the golden era of early PC gaming.

I can’t agree more - so many high profile games and trends came from the ability for players to mod and map for things, going back to CS and further.

That games with subscriptions etc are so much more locked down these days (for sort of fair reasons, if you agree with that model for monetising games - and not, if not) is pretty sad, and means that folk who may otherwise organically start mucking about with the ideas behind game development much earlier than otherwise.

That said, stuff like unity is way more accessible than it used to be, but it’s a whole other can of worms for various reasons.

Looking back at community mapping competitions as late as TF2 (which didn’t require mindbending detail, just an art style), it’s sad that we’re missing that these days - partly due to the increased detail, but also the ability to host your own server, mess with modding it, add new maps… And all in the name of (pessimistically) greater recurring revenue for shareholders.

To sum it all up, “:(”.

jeeva, (edited )

I’m sorry, what? This doesn’t reflect my experience at all. Source, pls?

Or, to write it in British: bollocks, mate.

Edit: other than “it’s not going to happen soon”, of course.

jeeva,

Would you accept “in a way that can be reversed”?

jeeva,

I was really interested, but heard that they added Denuvo after the review window, which is somewhat offputting.

jeeva,

I just cannot figure out how downloading and installing a mod is somehow less engagement with this clearly dangerous pronoun selection compared to, I assume, not moving the menu from the default, creating your character, and getting on with the game?

Does the pronoun selector come back to haunt you during later exploration? Is it the final boss?

As an aside, I’m genuinely a bit worried about what terrible hellscape a site named “basedmods” which is only available on some kind of onion-or-web3 routing must be. (Jokingly, as I clearly can’t resist knowing about it, does anyone have a Firefox add-on that will remove it from the websites I browse?)

jeeva,

So that is literally the last time, assuming no bugs, you would encounter it?

… Yeah, that is pretty much what I figured. 😑

jeeva,

Seems like they assumed their original foot-in-the-door would hold the slam, here.

jeeva,

Heck, I was thinking the same but “what do I need to block to ensure unity never sees my installs?”

jeeva,

Example of a game that works nicely on the deck, and is giving me a great portable replay (other than the EA Launcher): Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

Size of that game: ~110GB

Also, personally, because of the slightly shonky WiFi download speeds and that I use it offline/whilst travelling a lot, I leave a bunch of games on there just in case I fancy them.

To me, more space would be good. I am unsure I’d need 2TB, but it would solve a lot. I’ve also got a few hundred gigs of other launchers (battle net) and ROMs on my SSD currently that are less easy to manage than Steam installs… again, the larger drive would just lighten the worry.

jeeva,

www.argos.co.uk/product/6836577 example of a charging dock, there.

jeeva,

Wow, I genuinely thought BFBC2 was already closed down.

jeeva,

13+ here, haven’t gone to browse it since they announced the third party changes - despite, I think, my chosen app still working, I removed the shortcut from my home screen and it pretty much stopped me. Few days of awkward muscle memory tapping the area it used to be (embarrassing?)

jeeva,

Other than the subscription model, I’m a huge fan of GitKraken (and the vscode extension, GitLens).

jeeva,

I (am not op, but) didn’t know that! Thanks!

jeeva,

From what I’ve heard, yes, by completing the story once on your account all (inc. seasonal) characters are able to skip the story entirely.

There are also some account-wide benefits like the shrines, and apparently they were considering making map exploration stick - though I haven’t seen that confirmed.

jeeva,

I was just coming back to post that exact link! :) Thank you for doing so!

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