Just want to double down on the last line item in the article: EA is now owned by some of the most horrifyingly disgusting human beings on the planet, so should be avoided at all costs.

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So I did wind up trying this last night on the Deck, and ....... I don't understand it. For me it's completely unplayable, but I just don't even understand how that happened.

This is a vehicle driving game.

You cannot position the camera behind the vehicle.

The camera is locked at a bizarre isometric side angle that changes randomly as you drive along but is NOT controllable by the player. I couldn't even get past the intro area as I was constantly crashing into everything because I cannot see where I'm going. I wound up driving off the road getting stuck multiple times and had to restart the entire area. As soon as I picked up my very first mission to haul stuff, within like 2 seconds I had crashed into a brick wall BECAUSE I CANT SEE WHERE THE HELL IM GOING and dropped the package and failed the mission.

It's absolutely beyond baffling how this is a driving game that doesn't have a camera behind the vehicle. Just writing this, I'm thinking "...what? ..."

edit: I went to the steam discussions (which I often don't do these days anymore because they're such a cesspool, but I digress) and checked and sure enough there at the top is a thread complaining about the bizarre camera and steering (exactly as I have above) and here's the dev's response:

So the camera angle while driving on more isometric roads is a part of the game's design, however we noticed quite a lot of players having issues with the exact same thing when we showcased the game on PAX West earlier this year.

We probably won't change the general steering mechanic, however also understand that it needs to be fine-tuned to address the matter you described. We wanted the camera to be more useful for transporting cargo and feel like this 'side view' angle helps with controlling the cargo better than with a 3rd person view. Can't yet tell if we will introduce the camera-relative control scheme but we might offer couple camera options in the game's setting.

Let me get this straight. They KNOW that "lots" of players hate this design decision and go "we know. we won't change it."

Amazing.

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oh man this is a great support! Thank you for highlighting this.

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This an Aether & Iron are two surprise demos that I get to try today! I'll try the A&E on my desktop during lunch, and then tonight after the kids go down I'll try this truckful demo in bed. Super excited for this one since I've had it on my wishlist forever.

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This is terrible news. SS2 is one of my all time favs. Knowing Nightdive, the quality of the remaster will be complete garbage, full of bugs, completely broken, or some combination of all three of those things. So then if you want a non-trash version of the game, it'll just cost a TON more. Wonderful.

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Liam I know you're probably sick and tired of hearing this, so it's the last time I'll ever mention it, (and sorry in advance please forgive me lol)

I really do think you're leaving money on the table by not having a subscription option built into the site itself. People may not have a patreon account, or an account on any of the other options as well. The friction of having to go to another site, and sign up there and input payment details and connect to here is nothing to dismiss.

I know it'd be more work for you, but I feel like it'd generate a lot more income and the extra work would be worth it. You could do all the different levels bronze silver gold (whatever) and have them have different prices and different rewards, etc.

That's it! I've said my piece. I'll never bring it up again.

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If you all feel the same, I do recommend that you check of Caves of Qud... It's got a normal "rpg save mode" option that basically disables the roguelike nature of things (I wouldn't have played without this option) - and it's REALLY fun in Caves of Qud to just run around doing crazy shit having no effing clue what you're doing. Sometimes it's the funniest game on earth BECAUSE you have no idea what you're doing and OOPS morph into a sentient brick wall or some crazy shit. LOL. I've played a ton of Qud and I feel like I have a low level understanding of the base systems, but nowhere near even a medium understanding of all the insane combinations, but still have an absolute blast playing it.

From all I've seen / read / watched from DF, I feel like it'd be a little bit the opposite. I feel like I'd be VERY frustrated in that game running around having no idea what I'm doing, with all my little people dying from lava flows, or drowning, or whatever.

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No, I think it IS still 32 bit, at least the steam application itself. Others can confirm that? Liam?

The app itself is still 32 bit, but it won't run on any os' that themselves are 32 bits. Macos steam app is 64 bit since apple phased out running any 32 bit apps, but on windows linux the app is still 32 bit.

... at least, I think all that's right? ...

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Any fans of the fps genre should definitely check out Robocop Rogue City. I picked it up on sale for $5 the other day and WOW it's blown me away how good it is. It's pretty simple and basic actiony, but that's kind of the point, and the shooter aspect of it is so cool.

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SUPER high on my most-anticipated list. LOL this comes one day after I just wrote a little blurb praising Mechanicus 1.

I will definitely skip this demo though and just wait for full release. I wanna go all in!

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