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If you are interested, and the details make sense, I would be happy to talk to your class. Keep in mind I am just a game designer who tries to fly under the RADAR as much as possible, so by name I am a nobody. However, I have been working with online games since 2005 and have filled in...

There isn't really a story, it is much more of a survival sandbox game.

It's Unreal, the tethering is likely a side-effect of the the game needing to run as a host on an old console and it not being able to handle the game/simulation logic for multiple players at once. It would be much more expensive to write a networking layer that can handle the coordination...

Of course they don't, why should they? If the company collapses hard enough for the plug to be abruptly pulled then no one is being paid to care.

Someone that actually knows something about audio should chime in, but I recently stumbled across a video about just using a cheap Dayton sound exciter and some large panels of cheap material (balsa wood, extruded polystyrene) for some surprisingly good and space filling speakers. Anyone else...

Short review since I am on my phone and haven't finished it yet. Starts off very promising, then the pointless and inferior changes start. Stays ok for about 5 episodes and then takes a nose-dive in episode 6. Currently watching episode 7 and it is barely tolerable schlock. I am not hopeful...

I've been contemplating something, and I only have a personal anecdote to go by, but I think the importance of sleep is being vastly underestimated when it comes to weight loss. Late last year I had a pretty big shake up in my life, and without going into too many details, I spent a little over...

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This stuff is, without a doubt, here to stay. It is faaaaaaar too profitable for them to just give up on. It is easy and cheap as fuck to build an RPG system into a game then slice up and sell those numbers to people. And by god will people PAY for those slivers of numbers. It is frightening...

The answer is, unsatisfactorily, that it's complicated. Certain parts of development are crazy expensive and getting worse, while technology has made other parts surprisingly cheap. Also marketing costs can be extremely high. It really depends on what market you are targeting, what genre you...

Since some people are apparently are operating under a delusion to justify their poor decisions (Dis), blind box mechanics are designed specifically to take money from people that are bad at math, a slave to their dopamine spikes, or especially both. If you like (rather than tolerate because...

You don't have to believe it, but developers know how it works. You might try a little at first, or if you are new and don't know how things go, but it is extremely obvious that the money people/executives were in control. When that becomes clear (usually early on) everyone stops giving a fuck...

Legally, no, it is a "blind box" which isn't gambling as defined by US law (as far as I know). However, abstractly speaking, a blind box is a type of "gambling" mechanic in the way it plays with our psychology.

Nah, an EA Star Wars game is paycheck work. You know that going in and you just do what people tell you and give 0 shits as to the actual outcome. No one put their soul into this game and it shows.

While what Blizzard does with Overwatch isn't as bad as what Battlefront is doing, it is only a matter of degree, not of kind. The point of loot boxes is to hide the true cost of the thing you want so that you will pay more for it, whether that be cosmetics or "game". For Overwatch you can...

Short answer is that it isn't, which is the point. For anything mass market there is little reason to offer people value, value shoppers rarely make good customers because you have to put in more work for smaller returns. The reason loot boxes and other gambling mechanics are so successful is...

Recently purchased the G703 and I am very happy with it.

This is probably another case of he wasn't the guy responsible for actually getting anything meaningful done in any of those games, we've seen it a ton of times at this point. Games are team efforts and the best people at getting good shit done are names you rarely hear. There are some...

Sunk cost fallacy.

The only AI issue I've seen is on the new choke point maps. They are (sometimes) too reluctant to give up the choke point while defending even when you have a clear skirmishing advantage. I find that they will eventually attack but you can get them to stay in place far longer than they should...

Thanks for the heads up. Sit tight it is :)

I've had mine since late 2013, with an upgrade to a GTX970 a couple of years ago (work bonus). Since then I've helped a couple of friends put together new machines and these days it seems that the monitor is actually what drives the upgrade cycle. Mine is about 10 years old, but has the 16x10...

I have to admit, after reading all of the raving here and elsewhere I am pretty disappointed in the game. I find the gameplay sloppy, paced poorly, and very uncommunicative. The RPG system is full of interesting ideas but the implementation is ridiculously uneven, riddled with inconsistencies...

Yay! The professor is back! I very much missed your lectures about how "game development really works" as I am so ignorant of the topic. Please, o' wise one, I need further education as to how my ignorance of game development leads to my misunderstanding of Chris Roberts' genius.

Morale is very core to the Total War games, and you actually want the enemy to rout and flee. This mechanic comes from the game's more historical siblings (where it is more in line with how real armies work), but the mechanic works just as well in TW as well. Fleeing units can be run down and...

It'll probably go on sale a week or so before the launch of #2 or when they release the "Grand Campaign" patch where you combine both games. If you pre-order 2 you get the new Norsica campaign, so there is that. XCOM2 went on sale only 4 days or so before the expansion release so it might be...

You really are going all in on this nonsense for some reason. I don't know what you think generalship is, but he organized, planned, and executed the defense of the capital city of Westeros, with a population of half a million (according to Googling). He kept the entire roiling place together...

I gave an example of what I think is "lazy" writing a few pages ago. Lazy is a pretty loaded term though, you could also characterize it as straightforward, uncreative, rushed, or whatever. I think it is pretty characteristic of how things are now with the story and writing, very simple and...

Oh, and also the plot wouldn't need the 1k ships nonsense that is distractingly ridiculous.

Honestly, I am a little annoyed by how badly they screwed up the Euron plot line when the book provided everything they needed to make the events they wanted work but not be ridiculous. In the books he is addicted to shade of the evening (the blue/purple stuff the warlocks drink) and it is...

Yes, so it onløy applies in a professional setting, not a couple guys in their garage or anything like that.

The industry standard back of the napkin estimate of the cost to make a game is 11k per month per person.

If someone wants to go through the trouble of digging up staff numbers and pairing them with dates I could make a reasonable estimate for sunk and continuing costs. I am just too lazy to do the real legwork.

In theory the X:Rebirth games should fill the void, but they so badly need to hire a senior game designer at that company to actually design a game and also to rein in all pointlessly complex and therefore buggy engineer wankery it hurts my soul.

I'm tempted to go dig up some of my old posts to see what I originally said, but to me it has been clear from the beginning they are utterly clueless about how to go about developing a good game. This was apparent even from the way they talked during the Kickstarter.

Can anyone tell me what is actually in the Alpha that people can do right now? I tried watching a stream for a bit but it is hard to tell what is going on other than some sort of capture point multiplayer fps map and some guy shooting at icons in empty space.

I'd just go ahead and write that off now then, the chances they will have a stable and functioning economy at launch are hovering around 0. After all these years they don't even seem to have a basic combat loop with a token amount of content and a simple RPG-style progression system working...

I've heard stories from people that worked there, I think it was probably the worst managed game project of all time. I also heard that Scottish loan sharks were involved.

I am sure they will have what you are describing since it is trivially easy to do. The hard part of what you are describing is all of the stuff around the physical act of harvesting (no matter how that works), the logistics of moving material, the economics behind what is valuable for what and...