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Have they finally had the revelation that the series has been shovelware for the past decade or more?

Yep, juat read that. Man, what a fuckin' shitshow is SN2 gonna be.

Fuck krafton

Afaik krafton have been insisting for a while that the game is not ready. Founders disagreed and they were ousted. But seeing as the previous two games were in pretty dire state when they released into EA, I wouldn't really trust the founder's word on it. The whole "squirreling out of paying them 250 million" thing seems like speculation, but what do I know.

Besides, the OP is just ragebainting, because we know exactly fuckall about the game's actual state at this point.

Jesus tapdancing christ is the subnautica fanbase rabid. How about we actually wait and see how the game turns out before we crucify everyone?

I do agree that you should definitely not pre-order it and remove it from your wishlist. But you should've done that already.

I can add a few mentions to your list:

Tokyo Xtreme Racer - street racing game set on Tokyo's highway network and featuring a lor of JDM cars. Sim-cadey physics, great progression loop, nice graphics.

Motortown - not a racing game as such, more of a "drive anything" game that also festures some racing, among cargo hauling, buses, vehicle rescuing and others. Still in early acces but amazingly complete for an early access game. Great physics on this one, too. The developer is also very active and open to feedback.

Edit: Ooh almost forgot! Dakar Desert Rally - the single most realistic rally raid sim I've played. Looks and feels great. Just watch out for CTDs, because you'll see plenty.

IANAL but wasn't that text just some "standard" legalese relating to the way they license software and it was basically unenforceable anyway? I know it's cool to pick on ubisoft for being a shit company, but BG3 had a similar requirement in the game's EULA:

Same for GOG iirc, but I'm too lazy to search.

Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment! Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment! Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!

Yeah, this is the right approach, especially with the subnautica community that seems to be really thirsty for drama. I was going to wait for reviews anyway before getting it, so this whole "devs beg community" is probably for the preordering folk.

That said, my money's on "subnautica 2 will disappoint regardless" because it continues to build on the original instead of being new. What made the original so good was the novelty of that format, combined with the horror aspect and the fresh lore. Now, after two games set in the same world and the same general flow, people know what to expect so they will be extra picky about s2 and I wager they will end up underwhelmed. I'm still hoping s2 will at least be extra pretty because goddamn if I didn't love the environments of the first two games.

Lost those 400 million in 3 years no less. I know this seems like good news, but to me this is worse, because it looks like the PC market is shrinking fast in favor of mobile, and mobile is atrocious when it comes to user freedoms.

Weren't polynesians a bunch of warrior tribes that pretty much hunted some pacific birds down to extinction and when they got their hands on gunpowder weapons one tribe pretty much obliterated every other tribe?

Again?

But seriously, if kitty got up there kitty can get down ( most of the time ).

Drove a few cars with "lane hold" and it's infuriating to have to suddenly correct the car's trajectory at every curve because it misjudges the road line. Some cars are worse than others but it was literally the first thing I disabled every time. I wonder how truck drivers feel about it. Do modern trucks even have this?

This is a great interview, thank you! It (sadly) confirms some stuff I've been suspecting for a while about the piracy scene: that repackers are a very rare bunch, repacking is getting more complex and liveservice/streamed games would truly be the end for piracy.

Yeah, I was just trying to get the point across and didn't really have other recent metrics. Just checked and it grew to 1k avg users per day after the most recent update and is now 15x less active than FH5, if that paints a more accurate picture.

It was just a really strange comment. I mean yeah, road quality varies wildly ( jyst come to eastern europe if you wanna see some remarkable road craters ) but its a broad generalization and the quality surely it varies in china as well, no? I keep trying to imagine what roads were these vehicles designed for if "european" roads prompted a redesign.

I was going to say "because they're probably state subsidized" but your suggestion is better

Edit: looks like you're right lol

The urgent pace is baked into BYD’s structure. Taking advantage of China’s lower labor costs, BYD deploys about 900,000 employees, nearly as many as the combined workforces of Toyota and Volkswagen, to accelerate design and manufacturing. At its headquarters, BYD promotes a work-focused life through company-subsidized housing, transportation and schools.

They also combine that with skimping on quality ( admittedly a low bar these days, when even daimler uses cheap chinese interior plastic ):

Chinese engineers have essentially concluded that global industry-standard vetting processes are a wasteful pursuit of “excessive quality,” Han said.

Instead, Chinese automakers release good-enough vehicles quickly, with far fewer prototypes and a fail-fast philosophy mirroring Silicon Valley tech startups, industry executives and experts said.

This sentence makes no sense though:

The problem: The car had been designed for China’s smooth streets and slower speeds. Now, it had to withstand Europe’s winding, bumpy roads.

It's almost as if this was a propaganda article.

Wang spends many nights in Shenzhen employee housing, eats simple meals and works long days, sometimes in a BYD uniform, two BYD investors and others who know him told Reuters. Unlike many Chinese executives, who are chauffeured around, he often drives himself

I got it - they're quoting directly, that's why it reads like propaganda.

It may be, and I feel for Turn10, but they really dropped the ball with the latest motorsport. It only has like a few hundred players on steam, after two years of essentially live service game. Of course the game itself is fine, it's the "update trickles" and "grind to own" philosophies that are at fault and those were probably decisions also pushed by MS, but here we are. I really hope that Playground doesn't screw up their next Forza, because rhey might meet the same fate. Then again these days success doesn't guarantee you're not getting the axe.

Decentralized platforms based on open protocols, such as Mastodon and Bluesky, have been designed from the ground up to prioritize user choice and agency—without needing permission from a corporate gatekeeper. This is most apparent on Bluesky

Tells you that you can take your social media back from big tech then casually recommends Bluesky. Gimme a break.

Also if you want your news free of the constant noise of social media, RSS still exists and it's still beautiful.

Boy, they really are pulling all the stops in trying to make the game shit, aren't they?

Interestng theory. Chittering is also in ultrasound, so it could well be a sort of hunting call to fellow cats. However cats aren't exactly social hunters. Also, it's anecdotal, but due to the fact that mine sometimes just sits in a room and chitters at me ( sitting in another room ) while fixating me with its look when bored has me leaning towards the frustration hypothesis.