I guess I've gotten lucky. I have stable FPS, performance doesn't tank in the first village, no crashes and the only stuttering I had was when I was killing everyone at the military base and I had about 20 bodies at the building entrance because they just kept coming.
Looking at the reviews and what others are saying I think I'm very much the exception here. I can attest that if the game works it very much is the STALKER experience and if STALKER is your jam then the game is worth playing.
My only negatives so far are the key binds (I checked, I can't set them how I want to because some actions can't be changed from the settings menu), there's no overview of your standing with a faction or who belongs to what faction (maybe it unlocks later as I'm still in the first area, but I do miss that feature) and some mutants seem too beefy (would've never imagined running away from a pack of flesh, but I do run away because they eat buckshot for breakfast).
My first hour of gameplay didn't feel like as bad as the reviewers put it. I have a relatively beefy machine (5800x, 4070 and 32gb of ram), the game defaulted me to epic settings (with DLSS and frame gen) and I'm getting a pretty stable 50 FPS. The only bug I've encountered is the audio not playing, and I guess also the sun not reflecting correctly off of windows.
The first hour isn't much but I was expecting a much worse initial experience. My biggest issue so far has been the default keybinds but I'm hoping to solve it when I have more time to tinker in the settings menus. I'll update my experience when I've had more time to play. So far I'm happy.
If anyone is wondering it's actually because of frame of reference. The first two images have speeds in relation to the rotation of earth, the last imagine uses a different frame of reference. If you put the last image in the same frame of reference as the first two images the number there would be 0km/h, because it would be moving in relation to itself.
I disagree. I stopped watching when Spike was scoped in on Vicious and didn't kill him. Anime Spike would've never let Vicious go because this is how Spike reacted when someone mistook him for Vicious. You don't get that pissed off unless you really hate someone with every fiber of your being. I had other issues with the live action as well but I've clearly wiped my memory of its existence. Only the Spike thing remains because it's the reason I stopped watching.
Assets get reused all the time. Elden Ring base game is reusing assets from Sekiro and Dark Souls 3. I haven't played Rebirth but I'm pretty sure it's also reusing assets from the previous Final Fantasy remake.
To be honest, I also can't fathom it being such a massive flop. On Steam it peaked at 700 players. Shadows of doubt release peaked at 2200. Something had to go seriously wrong when a niche indie title with no mainstream appeal has a better launch than a AAA game. I don't think it should've been a success, but it definitely should've done better than that.
Trump himself wasn't funny, but he would come across as funny because he would say the stupidest things or act in an unprofessional way. For example when he said the experts should look into if showing light inside a human body would kill COVID or maybe injecting disinfectant might work, that was stupid funny. There were others like the "who knew healthcare is so complicated" statement
The 4 years of Trumpsanity isn't starting in January, it's starting right now. For fucks sake, I'm not ready yet. I need to start stockpiling popcorn and booze. Except this time I'll probably need less popcorn and more booze because I don't think it's going to be as stupid funny as last time. It's already not funny, it's been nosediving into "could it get any worse?" and so far the answer has been "Yes!".
I'll happily be wrong, I'd love an 11th team on the grid. I had the impression it was more a goal for Andretti himself rather than the team, so when Andretti stepped down I figured that was it for the F1 plans as well. If they'll still push to get into F1 I'm all for it, I just don't see it happening without Andretti at the helm.
If the concept is appealing to you it could also mean that Factorio itself doesn't suit you. For example I find the concept appealing and I did put a fair bit of time into Factorio, but in the end it just didn't click. But I loved playing through Satisfactory and I'm currently playing through Techtonica which I'm also enjoying. Maybe one day I'll learn to love Factorio but in the mean time there are other factory builders that I'm enjoying.
Someone probably should the governmental stick up their ass for this. I'm pretty sure all the parts that end up in Russian arsenal have export restrictions and should, in theory, have strict oversight. You can't just export into another country and forget about it. If those parts want to be to be exported into another country that information should come back to the seller(or the government agency, don't really remember the specifics) who then have to give clearance for that and any future exports. But you can't keep track of under the table deals. Hopefully this gets investigated and justice is served but I don't have much faith.
They were barely given any assurances. They were given a pinky promise to be independent, pinky promise to not get nuked and UNSC provided assistance ONLY IF nuclear weapons are used against them.
Don't get me wrong, I get blaming the voters because this was not the election to take a stand. I used to tell people to suck it up, vote for Harris and then hammer your complaints until the DNC gets the point. However, looking at how the DNC has responded to their loss I don't think there would ever come a time where people could voice their issues with the democratic party. Eventually the dems would've suffered such a catastrophic loss because they don't listen to their voters and keep drifting to the right.
The voters don't own an allegiance to the democratic party. The party is supposed to get the vote by actually representing the voters. That is not happening and ultimately that is not the fault of the voter, that fault lies solely with the party. They didn't listen back in 2016 when they lost, they didn't listen back in 2020 when they did win (people didn't vote for Biden, they voted against Trump) and so far it seems they're not going to listened this time as well. You can't blame the voters when the dems are the ones not listening.
Yeah, the outcome sucks. Yes, America would've been better off if Harris had won. But even if Harris had won all it would've done is kick the buck to the next election because the underlying issues within the democratic party would've remained. Nothing actually gets better until the DNC gets better. And if the DNC doesn't get any better tear the entire electoral system down and get real parties who would represent the people.
I think they still need to be called out for their BS. The response wasn't just for him, it was also for others who might read it and think that's somehow an acceptable opinion to have.
As a foreigner, if you voted for a genocider (there was two in this race), I do not think you are human.
I feel like that's such an idealistic way of viewing things. Hypothetically, if you had a choice between indirectly supporting genocide or throwing your entire life into chaos you'd rather ruin your own life? If you're actually willing to ruin your own life for it you're more passionate about this issue than 99% of the population. For example I don't have an issue supporting Ukraine, I've donated to support packages going to Ukraine. But you won't find me on the battlefield because there's a limit to my support and that limit is at not throwing away my life. I guess that makes me inhuman because I could do more and I'm choosing to not to.
If the table turns sometime, if I have to pick between genocide in the US and fascism here, well, I hope you have a place to hide lmao
How hypocritical and vindictive. I won't do what I consider humane because you deserve it.
I guess I've gotten lucky. I have stable FPS, performance doesn't tank in the first village, no crashes and the only stuttering I had was when I was killing everyone at the military base and I had about 20 bodies at the building entrance because they just kept coming.
Looking at the reviews and what others are saying I think I'm very much the exception here. I can attest that if the game works it very much is the STALKER experience and if STALKER is your jam then the game is worth playing.
My only negatives so far are the key binds (I checked, I can't set them how I want to because some actions can't be changed from the settings menu), there's no overview of your standing with a faction or who belongs to what faction (maybe it unlocks later as I'm still in the first area, but I do miss that feature) and some mutants seem too beefy (would've never imagined running away from a pack of flesh, but I do run away because they eat buckshot for breakfast).