I didn’t understand the lightning the first few times I reached his final phase, but once I did his 2nd phase really is a pushover.

Aaaaaand my mods broke. I’ll wait a bit before using this version.

This might be a hot take but I don’t think the original FF7 aged well. The combat gets really repetitive and I never finished it. The atmosphere and general story is awesome, but it’s still very “of its time” when it comes to delivering that story and reading all the dialogue. Your head fills in the blanks in the story and gets over the shoddy translation.

I loved Remake, honestly. We can all agree that the side quests were filler and the story isn’t very well paced, but everything worked for me and I enjoyed it way more than the original. Rebirth felt bloated and I didn’t care for the open world stuff. Screw that card game, too.

One thing I will say is that they definitely overcooked the story in the remakes. The whole multiverse time travel dementors kingdom-hearts-ass confusing storyline was unnecessary. I guess they felt the need that they had to do something new to catch the old fans off guard.

Pretty damn cool. I haven’t read most of the rules but my first impressions from playing a game vs the bot is that the board feels a little too big. There’s a lot of moving from A to B and a lot of downtime. I feel like if you could remove maybe 1/3rd of the spaces it could be much more engaging.

It can be a problem if the company is trying to bring in and maintain new users, which is kinda why the article was made. 2XKO laid off most of their team and scaled back development because it wasn’t successful. It’s also hurting indies like Rivals of Aether 2 which seems to be doing OK but not as good as the first game.

I haven’t used XMPP in ages but there isn’t a big enough community there to warrant switching to it.

Appreciate the comment but the problem is that the FOSS community is often preaching to the choir. We’re here because we already love open source, if you want the average person to switch then there needs to be an alternative that at least decent to use. XMPP and Matrix are not that. Nobody unless tech nerds are able to use them.

Jokerless took me forever, man. I consistently had bad RNG and couldn’t find steel / red seals for the life of me. This was also before they buffed blue seals, it previously gave you a random planet card if I remember correctly, as opposed to your most played hand which is genuinely useful.

As is tradition. People complained hard about Little Nightmares 2 being expensive for how short it was on release, too.

Super excited for this regardless, but the combat feels a bit floaty here. Feels like a lot of fighting has no impact, hopefully they can improve upon it by the time it launches.

I have a feeling it was definitely going to be B/W only and the execs pushed back on it because too many people wouldn’t like it. Looking at both trailers, the colored version is way too bright and has a couple of scenes with blown out colors - probably for better contrast when making it B/W. I mean, just look at the walls here:

Webs, I’m guessing

These are pre-release updates. You need to go to the launcher settings and switch to pre-release, or wait until these updates become stable. The update including the presets will release for everyone next week.

If you’re on the pre-release version, presets are on the top right of the character creator I think.

I don’t know about per-world/per-server presets, but the Feb 5 patch did include up to 10 presets that you can swap between in the character creator.

A bit late on posting the patch notes, but I had a long day. Nice to see animal taming is starting to exist, now maybe my horse won’t run away as soon as I stop riding it!

Patricians use the Crystalien.

Weird way to say Black Knife Tiche. Can I get an amen?

Epic must’ve given them a really good publishing deal to make it an exclusive though. If it were also on Steam it definitely would’ve moved more copies but I doubt they would end up with more money than what Epic paid.

They were already building lasting value.

Not… Really. Alan Wake 2 under-performed and reportedly broke even 2 years after release. FBC Firebreak was a huge failure. It’s not surprising to me that they’re gonna pursue money harder. I hope Control 2 is good, at least.

This sucks ass and even worse that there isn’t a competitor that’s anywhere near Discord’s level yet. And no, Matrix isn’t a discord competitor.

FWIW the title is wrong, they won’t require age verification for everyone, you just won’t be able to access 18+ servers and see porn unless you’re verified. And according to Discord the verification videos stay on-device and never gets sent to servers. If this is true then at least it’s better than the privacy nightmare of other platforms…

This was already launched last year for the UK and Australia, and now it’s going global.

Screw you for pushing this, UK and Australia.