My interest in this game has plummeted like a cow's tail since the steam release. Not sure if it is the excitement around it having died down or whether the recent microsoft-negativity caused it, but where I might have purchased it at first sale opportunity if it had released on gog back on launch day, I am simply meh-ing at the news now.

Think I will brush up my gog version of last crusade instead. I am astonished to find out it even exists and still wondering how I missed it back in the day and how it got in my library.

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Oof, forgot I already have timberborn in my library. Good opportunity to have a more extensive gander at it.

Though, and I know this is silly, them beavers walking on their hind legs when carrying loads is bugging me for some reason. I think I would have preferred some more leaning into quadruped aesthetics.

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Only thing to change would be to replace the "A"'s in the "AI"'s in that text with "F"'s.

The tech is not A-worthy, it is a big F. Pun intended.

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I wrote a piece on my blog about the (lack of) ethics in AI, but this piece about coding standards stands out in the context of Graf espousing AI code generation. Maybe it'll improve... but right now, all it does is slow you down.

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That was early 2025. By now, ai should have improved the slowdown to 25%.

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Never could get along with the kde desktop's breakability.

They still get their share in my yearly round of open source donations, though. Kde's software fits really gracefully in my xfce setups. Kupfer, kwrite, kolourpaint, okular, falkon, kdeconnect, ...

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So, ... , um, okay I guess?

Have a the opening theme from the source material to see and hear why I am underwhelmed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sns1Xj6L-Qc [External Link]

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Liking the extra level geometry. Note that the textures shown are from the already existing high-res texture mod.

Curious as to what is planned with the audio. Oldunreal never quite managed to reach the level of the original's a3d implementation.

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This'll go well, I'm sure.

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That prince who ordered the literal butchering of a journalist alive in an embassy of Saudi Arabia. Get your popcorns, PR statements will be interesting.

The parody simulator by Electronic Artists practically writes itself here.

It's in the game.

While I'm no fan of any of the involved parties - politics aside, this will probably be good for the games.

Already smelling that whiff of "ai" in the press releases, so I wouldn't bet on it. From the profit-fetishists' viewpoint, the biggest benefit of modern "ai" lies in optimizing the implementations of predatory business models.

Apart from that, the leveraged buyout means that ea has to sustain themselves and generate profits while managing a $20 billion debt.

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I mean....it looks fine to me. Then again, I am not a graphics whore, never was.

Remasters always have a tightrope to walk on where they want to improve the technical graphics quality, but need to preserve the original's aesthetics.

In this case I do get some of the complaints that poetically describe some elements as looking like doom 3 rather than something that was originally powered by the first unreal engine.

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