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Did all that, it is still being a little bitch about my region. No VPN: Change User -> Log Out Close Client Restart Computer Turn on VPN: Open Steam Log In ----> Still Showing Kronor, can't unlock Go to Account Details Change Store Region to AUS (Says I am in AUS, tracert...

Didn't for me, I set the VPN and d/l region to Australia, but steam is still showing my native region for everything and I can't unlock the game. Is there something I am missing?

One of the downsides of working in the industry is that if you call out around a major release like this everyone knows you are full of shit. The upside is that if you are honest about it you can usually just take a personal day and it isn't a big deal.

Those are balls. This close they always look like landscape.

The Black/White Karma system Fallout games have had isn't that good, and for all the same reasons that the D&D alignment system isn't. They worked fine for what they were designed for, GM driven pen & paper, but they don't use the strengths and weaknesses of video games terribly well. I...

Video about futuristic engines (didn't see it posted yet):

What post did you read? I never said what their current bottleneck is, I was talking about what their bottleneckshould be. If their bottleneck is actually the client then that is a pretty major black mark for them. Optimizing client rendering is significantly easier and less costly/time...

Here's the deal, you don't know as much as you think you do. You are looking at both games through the eyes of a player, seeing pretty pictures, and thinking "These are similar games!" You think Star Citizen is like Eve because OMG SPACESHIPS! It isn't. Star Citizen is nothing like Eve, you...

Umm... wtf? Who was talking about Eve, because I wasn't. I was talking about Star Citizen, which is very different than Eve. Eve bottlenecks on the server because it is an entirely different kind of game where player input, and therefore network traffic, is minimal. In Eve the server has...

I've talked about this before, but it seems relevant here as well. Technically speaking, for an online game there are 3 main bottlenecks: Server PerformanceNetwork TrafficClient Performance Massive space battles fall partially into #1 but mostly into number #2. Network traffic is...

Poed right in the face, apologies.

Ok? One plural anecdote is as good as another.

I used to web development for a company that sold sex toys online. The office was in the warehouse, and I took the pictures for most of the products on the site. All of the "realistic" Dildos that had a black & white version were cast from the exact same mold and looked exactly the same except...

Thank you for the insight everyone, it was very helpful, and my instincts were mostly confirmed. I was just primarily curious if the core shooter elements improved significantly at higher levels or if the stickiness was due to the non-shooter elements surrounding the core game. My co-worker...

I am going to throw up here as an open question because I am looking for information and opinions. I am pretty much a PC only (ok, Nintendo too) gamer. A coworker of mine told me that I absolutely have to play Destiny because it is the most awesomest game ever and it would be good research...

To chime in, I highly doubt Roberts is stealing money.Ifthey are running out of money it is because it is shockingly easy to blow through it all on a large project due solely to incompetence, occam's razor is useful here.

There is no term more meaningless when applied to a game developer. The industry shits out public "visionaries" like it's been gobbling jalapeno burritos all night. The people that get visionary games into your hands are too busy working their ass off creating actual things to spend lots of...

I haven't been following SC, I only caught up with the recent dust up. I wanted it to be clear that I have little connection to the project when I say that I didn't realize what a cult-like mentality had sprung up around the project. The first wtf moment came when I caught somewhere yesterday...

It looks and reads exactly like what people who don't know how to write a design think a design document is supposed to be. I've seen them more times than I care to count. A design document for a ship, even one written for public consumption, isn't the stream of consciousness ramblings of a...

These are all vague ideas at best and not designs. Designs are dry with lots of lists, tables, numbers and usually accompanying spreadsheets. Farming is not a module, but an entire game-play system which if designed would require even more details (especially the math underlying it), and it...

That's not what a design document looks like, that is what a marketing document looks like.

With 261 employees their burn rate is about ~$2.87M per month assuming standard industry costs.

For what its worth, I think Kickstarting games is almost always foolish, and I myself have only done it under some specific circumstances. I've seen the sausage made, how developers waste publisher money, the thought of putting my own money through that is incomprehensible. At as a publisher...

Shadowrun was decent for the budget they were working with, it was severely hurt by the fact that its core game-play was basically a worse version of the new X-Com. Keep in mind I did pick it up some time after it came out, so it might have been improved by then.

I've been trying for a couple of years now to get a Squad-Based Mech RTT MMO that I concepted (in detail) made. Maybe we can get some publisher to give us money for it now?

I just wanted to second this and also say it isn't even alittleworth it.

I just want to clarify, being a native RIer, that the people that passed this deal knew EXACTLY what they were doing. Rhode Island is corrupt as fuck, the purpose was to line their pockets with taxpayer money by siphoning some of what was sent 38's way. They succeeded. Your statement still...

Thanks, I didn't even notice is wasn't a .gif. In my defense it is past my bedtime.

I watched the whole thing, but my favorite part of the first one is you can pinpoint the exact moment the cop says to himself, "fuck this guy" a la Ralph from the Simpsons when Lisa breaks his heart. See Below

Let the idiots fight. The only time you should reasonably step in to stop a fight is when one person is clearly going to be severely hurt (such as kicking an unconscious person in the head).

I witnessed the creation of Poe's Law in real time and was an active participant in the thread in which it was coined. Tanoomba is, unsurprisingly, wrong as usual. The law was created as a reference to Creationists on a board that was specifically about debating creationism. In that thread...

I included the top-rated ones in that statement. The highest rated levels are generally not very good, just very gimmicky.

After playing this for a few days I don't think its ever been more abundantly clear to me why we pay professionals to make Mario games. Based on what I've played so far I'd say ~1/50 levels is worth my time.

Doing a new system build for a friend within the next couple of weeks. I know this was talked about a few pages back, but I can't find it, what brands of PSU's and RAM are generally considered the most reliable? I have to consult him but the idea is to do a mATX build with a relatively small...

How is that wrong on his part? I had a 15 year old girlfriend when I was in 17 High School. There is nothing wrong with it at all and it was not uncommon. Perusing legal action is some seriously messed up shit.

While he isn't wrong about the games, but he is wrong about most of the developers. Games have changed in the way he describes deliberately and for good reason... because they sell MUCH more in general. They sell more because their simplicity allows them to reach a broader audience, which is...

Probably going to start my account up again tomorrow.

I play on and off for about a month here and there,have for years. I think I last picked it up for a month ~2 years ago.

Meh, F3 was pretty weak (as was Skyrim). If Obsidian was doing this I'd actually be excited as F:NV was the best Bethesda game ever made. As many people here have said they do desperately need to update their engine. For the record Gamebryo is less and engine and more a framework, and Unity...

I am pretty sure what is happening is that you can determine whether the 1st photon is a wave or a particle by collpasing the second one way or the other AFTER you've already measured the first one. The people running the experiment are affecting the "past" in the "future".