X4 Foundations

Starcitizen is pay to win

After reading Chris Roberts reply's, I believe he has no idea what he is doing any more. What he said was insulting to the player base.

' It is an open-ended Persistent Universe Sandbox that doesn’t have an end game or a specific win-state. ' - Chris Roberts

Player A engages pay to win Player B. Player B will always win in the end as they will throw money at the game until they win.

A loss to Player A costs more than a lost to Player B.

When you boil down all of Starcitizens non-existent game play this is what your left with. This is the only win state worth a dam.

The game is completely over for me, its pay to win garbage that you usually get in a 'free' to play game.

Hey EA, about that Anthem game

TLDR; I am not going to buy this game. As EA are known to drop support for games if they don't do well.

Over the last year EA have clearly shown, if a game is broken, they will dump it and run. They aren't interested in spending any money just burning goodwill.

The two examples of this is EA:Battlefront 2 & Mass Effect: Andromeda. Andromeda has been abandoned with just few patches but fundamentally a flawed game.

Battlefront 2 is in the process of being dumped with what I guess will be one final patch with a new map then onto Battlefield 5.

Anthem on the other hand is being marketed as a games as service setup. Like Warframe, Destiny 2 and The Division.

I feel though, that the games focus groups and market analysts have completely missed the mark on what people want to play ( its not loot shooters any more, its battle royal ). And so they have engineered a complete flop with all the latest loot box real money transaction systems in place.

The thing is, it doesn't have to be a flop. You can go back and fix games and to me this shows you care about your customers.

Three Prime examples of this are No Mans Sky, a utter disaster at launch, which promised the universe but delivered a very basic game. Since release though Hello Games have keep busy pushing out several major updates with the next update being multiplayer in July.

Diablo 3 was a abomination at launch, the entire game was tuned to the real money auction house. It was just not fun but Blizzard stuck at it, released a expansion which pretty much fixed the entire game and to this day still pushes out session content.

Lastly The Division. This is a game I hated at launch, it was complete utter garbage but once again UBISoft keep at it, released free updates along with some good DLC ( Survival is my fav ) and instead of killing the project turned it around into something people enjoy. I know I will be getting the Division 2 on release.

But EA, if you think I will trust you for a second with Anthem, then you are wrong. You have to prove me wrong by having the game last more than a year with substantial updates for your customers.

Down time over

Turns out the reboot was last night. All services are back up and running again.

Server down time

My core game server will be offline for a few ours on the 2018-03-29 at 15:00 UTC time.

This is due to my service provider doing a upgrade that requires the server to be rebooted.

Also due to my laziness of never setting up any auto restart demons, all services will be offline until I wake up in the morning, so core services will be offline for a good 3 - 4 hours. Unless before then I get auto restart scripts up and running ......as I have Farcry 5 and Neverwinter to play so this is unlikely.

So to recap the following services will be offline:

• Minecraft
• Jedi Knight
• Teamspeak 3

for a few hours on the 29th ( 30th NZT )

ElderScrolls Online: Summerset

I almost wrote this off as, more elf, expansion, then they showed Razum-dar. So now I am sold.

But what is with the cheap sound track. That chanting which seems to be built from a sample pack that everyone uses. This is what I mean:

https://youtu.be/5T5bGH7RRV0?t=33s

Another Example:

https://youtu.be/Y1CyocdPQyE?t=56s

Also the almost Destiny 2 chanting at the end.

Anyway doesn't matter, Razum-dar !

Soulcalibur VI

Oooo its on now, it, is, ON!

Farcry 5 Map editor

 I was going to get the game already but this just looks great. Previous Farcry game editors were limited to PvP but this one looks like it has coop.

Elite Dangerous: Beyond Launched !

Ghost Recon: Wildlands - Predator

Over here!

Over here!

Over here! 

The real Warhammer: Total war starts next week !

This is a free Update for those who own both games where it adds all factions & DLC together into a MASSIVE campaign.

Dark souls isn't hard

Dark souls is like playing most C64 games but with unlimited lives cheat and with a Action Reply Cartage so you can dump your progress to disk and save it for later.

Battlefront 2 has Chromatic Abberation force on

If your a dev or from DICE or EA, please put in a option to disable:

Chromatic Abberation

This is a visual effect that off centers RGB making the image burly around the edges. It must be popular but it adversely effects some people giving them migraines, eye strain and eye muscle spasms.

Notice the Left side of the screen and how blury it gets around the edges. This is Chromatic Abberation

This is a huge deciding factor if I am going to buy this game now. I can't play games with this effect on, it hurts my eyes. If you put in options for colour blind people then I beg that you add a option to disable this effect. 

Forcing this option on is discriminating against those with this condition.

Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet

Coming to STEAM !
There is another SAO game on steam at the moment which is a lot of fun but this one really seems to step it up.

Now if only they bring in the Battle Royal mode from the show, but then Bluehole would sue them for doing Anime Battle Royal, something they can't compete against. No wait, SAO Session 2 was released a year before the Arma 3 Battle Royal mod =P

Battlefront 2: Overview

The start of this trailer points out just how half-assed the first game really was. Still I am getting a Battlefield 1 feel from this which was a very enjoyable game with its singleplayer mode and options.

But what is with the, lets talk about serious stuff but not face each other like really military people would do and instead have a edgy, I'll look forward you look back, talk.

I realize it is likely some mirror of Luke & Vader, as these two are father & daughter but still, its not like he cut her hand off or anything.

Also they say she becomes a hero, I really hope that is a hero for the empire. If shes a traitor I'll be pissed.

Warhammer 2 - Next WEEK !

Elite Dangerous: 2.4 trailer

Divinity: Orginal Sin 2 - Combat video

Less than 7 days to go !

Witcher: 10th Anniversary

Polygon just told me to buy Destiny on the PS4 and why you should ignore that

See I can do click bait as well.

It was the biggest joke I have read in ages, first listing all the reasons as to why you should be playing on the PC.

Better graphics
Better controls
Faster loading times

And in defense all they had was:

Timed exclusives on PS4.

Then the FUD started saying things like:

' we won’t know whether Bungie is prepared to support the PC with post-release balance patches that are independent of the balance work done for consoles '

Its a shooter, its not world peace.

About the only thing they mentioned worth anything is cheating but Bungie are committed to providing anticheat to the PC version. How effective it is we won't know but as for me this is a PvE game cheating has less impact on my personal game play. So long as I can block people from joining my sessions.

Also never forget Polygons review of Doom.


Makes me wonder how much Sony paid them to write this story.

My take is buy the version of the game your friends are going to play. I'll be playing on PC as this is what I have as I skipped the last generation of consoles.

Why anyone goes to these clowns for game insight is beyond me. 

Original story: https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/1/16232782/destiny-2-pc-ps4-xbox-one