I don’t think it is fair to call them morons, ignorant definitely though. I imagine that so many of these people don’t understand or know, how invasive a modern car is. And it is probably something they have never thought about or looked into.
Ignorance is bad, but can be fixed. Morons I don’t think can really be taught, and would probably ignore the evidence of how bad it is.
I like how you think I was “blindly” defending them and that this wasnt related.
Say valve lose this, things could hopefully trundle on. Or, Valve throw their weight around and lock the steam consumers to steam. You want to sell and distribute a game as someone not being a big publisher? Now you have to deal with all the servers and distribution, and payment processing. Yea, someone like Ubi or EA have their own store, but lets be real, no one really uses or likes using them. There is a reason Ubi and EA both came back to steam.
In the end this hurts consumers, and really badly.
Obviously this is a worse case hypothetical. But it is a potential problem caused by this law suit. And this all started because valve was actually trying to get equal treatment for their customers, instead of them being ripped off by Ubisoft
Let’s go on a hypothetical trip. Say valve loses this, and as a result they stop providing free steam keys to publishers, so that you can now only buy on steam. Obviously this is the absolute worst thing they could do.
Everyone loses, every key shop is dead. Say goodbye to humble, greenmangaming, fanatical and so on.
I also liked Watch Dogs, I enjoyed the darker tone and it’s more serious setting. Good game play, story was good enough, a bit janky with some optimization issues. But overall it was good.
I don’t think I really cared about the downgrade either. But it really was around when my trust in what Devs and publishers were saying about their games was the lowest. So many games were bullshots and rendered trailers so you took the idea and if it was interesting you just waited to see the actual product.
Cyberpunk was also my game of the year, I had immense fun with the launch version and I was lucky enough to have minimal bugs and most were dumb shit. I think I had 2 which were gameplay and caused issues. It launched in a terrible state and I expect it as well, CDPR don’t have a great history of releasing bug free games. But, they do have a history of patching and fixing the broken bits. It also should not have been anywhere near the old gen consoles, that was stupid.
Yea, but they probably have a bunch of stock of the stand to sell
Fuck, I am old enough to not need to fool the age checks, I just don’t want to participate in them, and I don’t think anyone should have too. So strange to go from, “don’t tell anyone who you are” to upload all your real details and verify them with a government id.
Pretty sure that Sony is suing because the tariffs were deemed illegal. So if they win that, they are profiting off of illegally obtained money from consumers.
I might be wrong with the assessment of that, but also not American or really following it.
From what I have seen, nothing from the cracked version, it should be an improvement upon FH5.
Good list of cars, with some interesting stuff, and a rework of the class system(well R class being added compressing the other classes, so rework might be over selling it)
A way more interesting map, Mexico kinda sucked, but the rally map was great and Japan seems to be a much needed improvement.
Progression has returned to the campaign, and you have more to work towards. You aren’t the superstar of the festival this time.
The other improvements that I am exited for are the open world drag races and time attack tracks. As well as the Spec races, and removal of a bunch of FOMO from the seasonal playlists
Much closer to the steam deck. So has proper d pad, 2 analogue sticks with 2 square touch pads. Also has 4 back buttons, and capacitive touch sections on the grips. Has a few other features as well.
I have been thinking about this for a while, and I don’t think I would be.
A few reasons to back this up, firstly Epic have no hardware background and so I have nothing to have previous excitement over. Compared to Valve, where I have used the Index and I own the old steam controller and a Deck. Epic launching a controller just isn’t exciting to me.
Secondly, there are a load of controllers out there, and a lot of good controllers. If I was only able to use the controller within the Epic launcher, I would just get something else.
Thirdly, this would be an epic exclusive, I am not sure I would have actually head about it. They are impressively good at being a marketing black hole.
Stick placement is not really a factor for ergonomics for me. I had used an xbox controllers for a long time, but now I have a PS5 controller as my current go to. The biggest thing that makes a difference is shape and how it sits in your hands, and for me the PS5 controller is just simply better than the Xbox controller.
I think the best way I can describe the difference between the two is that to be comfortable the xbox controller sits on my fingers where as the PS5 controller sits in my palms. I can also throw in a few other examples of this, PS4 sits in my fingers, but also has the worlds worst and most uncomfortable triggers. The Switch pro controller sits mostly in my palms and is better than the xbox controller but only has digital triggers.
As for the battery, internal batteries are annoying if you can not replace them. According to gamers nexus you can tear down and replace the battery fairly easily in the steam controller, and apparently valve plan to work with iFixit again for spares. So I don’t think this is a big difference either way because of the benefits you get from having the higher powered internal battery.
That also leads to by far the biggest pro. Repair-ability. The steam controller if it is supported like the steam deck is just going to be better.
With regards to the polling rate, I wouldnt worry about it. Gaming Nexus did a deep dive into the latency of the controller, and it is really good. Which is going to be signicicantly more important that the minute difference you would get from increasing polling rate over 250hz.
So I have a couple thousand hours across different sim racing games, and honestly this doesn’t have any appeal to me.
I like the skill and the challenge of racing, but just aimlessly driving around would be a terrible idea. No times to chase, no desire to improve, no players to challenge you and your driving.
There is a game which is potentially going to have this sort of gameplay, Assetto Corsa Evo, they have plans for an open world around the Eifel area of Germany, which has the Nordschleife as the centre of it.
How many controllers since the N64 have used that layout? The Sega Saturn Fat Controller is a more standard layout than the N64 controller.
Ohhh I will jump on this one as well.
EAs WRC is unsupported, this isn’t a deal breaker by itself but is a contributing factor. AC Rally isn’t in a place to challenge it for now, but should get there eventually. I could also play more dirt rally 2.0 as well
Le Mans Ultimate, the performance for me is unacceptable. Jumping from 30 to 140fps and makes me feel motion sick because of that. It is my main racing sim, and dealing with that for long endurance races is impossible. Yes I had the LMU fork of proton, it is the only way to get into races. But the LMU Devs are not exactly Linux friendly and aren’t trying to help out.
And that’s about it for games that don’t work for me. If LMU worked as well or close to on Linux as it does on windows I would switch. But it is such a huge portion of my pc use I am having to use windows for now
Along with bazzite and cachyos, I will throw in Nobara which is fedora but gaming focused and supported by glorious egg roll.
Has been the distro I have had the most success with, even if I have had to go back to windows because of certain sim racing stuff being a bit rubbish on Linux(for now)
Why does it have to be 1 or the other in a city? You can absolutely have both in mixed development, add in shops for basic needs as well. Is it going to be as big a a suburban place? No, but you can have a small garden and a garage.
It’s really weird and unnerving seeing American cities and suburbs. They are so badly planned/zoned for actual living, when compared to European countries
I recently grabbed division 2 and crew motorfest. Both on sale again for 90% off. More than enough content to keep me busy for a while.
Right there with you. Have a 4080, and only reason I got this one, was because it was cheaper(by a sizable chunk) than the 7900xtx when I got it.
Honestly, I don’t have enough time or money to worry about missing out on Sony games. They are good, but not that good. And there are so many good games that are on PC(my preferred platform), that I will not notice Sony being gone.