What makes them so exited? We had procedurally generated worlds for years. Game engines to quickly import some character model to do basic stuff in them aren't new either. But now you call it AI and everybody acts like it's the second coming of christ.

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So this basically?

https://xkcd.com/927/ [External Link]

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: KeksusThe game is cool. But I wish they would take the time to unify their art style. It's kinda weird that many factions follow a completely different art direction.

. . . Wouldn't it be normal for different factions arguably representing different cultures to have different art? But I expect there's good ways and bad ways to do that.

I am really talking about the overall art direction. Not that they have different looking buildings.

It's been a while since I played it. But I remember that for example one faction uses 2D sprites, another 3D models. It is completely inconsistent and feels like assets from completely different games meshed together.

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The game is cool. But I wish they would take the time to unify their art style. It's kinda weird that many factions follow a completely different art direction.

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Throwback to my childhood, when I wandered multiplayer maps in Half-Life and AvP2 alone, because I had no internet. Always wanted to play them online. Seemed fun. And damn: Some of these maps were just scary because "What just made that sound?! I am alone ... right?"

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Thank god. How was I ever able to accomplish difficult tasks like getting groceries without AI before?

AI reminds me of worship in the past: People attributed messages to inanimate objects like they are sentient beings and followed them blindly, without even thinking about it to often detrimental results. "AI I mean god told me we need to sacrifice people so it rains again!"

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i thought the name Bullet Heaven was established for this genre by now.

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i ... don't get it. I mean ... as said: Anomaly is a standalone game. it was always a one click install basically. So shouldn't it just be added to their free game library instead of mods?

What really needs a one click install would be GAMMA. Especially on Linux it's not as straight forward as it should be and the easiest way to install it is a fan script.

Well. Getting playable framerates with it is an entirely different story though.

Ashes 2063 is also a standalone game nowadays, is it not?

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I don't see the problem. The point is not that online games are still playable as before. There is no need for private servers. It's that they remain playable in some form. Like a museum. Meaning: I can still download the entire thing, create a character and wander around alone in the world - no connection to servers needed anymore. So no problem with chat or anything else. The games effectively would effectively become pure SP games.

Sure: I will not be able to do raids in an online game. I might not be able to complete dungeons alone. Or ... I could try and be utterly destroyed because I am alone. But that's another point entirely and wouldn't be something companies need to worry about.

All they need to do is: Make sure I can still run the game after they shut everything down. How well it runs will be beneath an S.E.P.-Field.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: BeemerThey should put up stats. I want to see:

• Total Linux user count pre-block


• Total of Windows user count


• Pre-block count of users allegedly cheating


• Post-block count of users allegedly cheating

The statements of "we've identified Linux OS as being a path for a variety of impactful exploits and cheats" and "this will impact a small number of Apex players," seemed a bit at odds. If it's such a small number, how are the hacks "impactful".

They install a cheat into your system to prevent cheating. It honestly should be illegal to do that.

They have all the metrics they need on their end to kick users or ban them. This is exactly what A.I. expert systems are for.

This type of comment *always* seems to appear, and I'm seeing a lot of it across social media in reply to this news. I'm really surprised people don't understand, so here's it in simple terms.

There's a difference between counted players, and cheaters when these situations appear.

The number of Linux players will be (in percentage terms) low. The statements aren't at odds at all. Even a small number of cheaters can cause huge problems for the whole of the player-base, of which is mostly not-Linux.

You could have 100 Linux players, 1000,000,000 Windows players and 2 people on Linux doing cheats that affect everyone. That's what they mean. We've seen this info repeated by various developers, that Linux enables the cheats because it's harder for devs to block.

Hope people get that now.

Sure. But that's going by the assumption that people on Windows don't cheat or that they can effectively block 100 percent of cheaters on Windows. Which they can't.

The argument of "People on Linux cheat so fuck them!" is completely bonkers, as that would mean they should also block people using Windows from playing, because they cheat.

Who cares if 2 of the cheaters use Linux? If they are that concerned they should release an Apex Machine and only allow playing the game with that.

It's just treating Linux users as second class citizens because they are a minority. Nothing more.

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