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Quoting: SirMCJeagerThat wasn't appropriate. Review bombing a perfectly good game like that over a contest. I wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.

Right?

It's perfectly fine to be against AI. But these people behave like a vicious lynch mob who go after anyone who disagrees with them. I lost respect for the anti-AI crowd a while ago, when vitriol and hate took the place of logic and reason.

So they should just be silently against genAI? Perfectly fine to protest it in silence... we can't upset the people pushing the genAI agenda, right?

Seriously though - I have no idea what they expected here. The masses had one route to voice their displeasure at this shitty technology, and they took it.

The review bomb would probably go away if they had apologised and backed actual creatives. But it probably won't go away now, because they didn't.

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To us, AI is Just another tool.

So, you don't understand then. Not gonna regurgitate (again), the 20+ reasons why genAI is a curse. It should be obvious by now, but there are still execs out there who love the fact they don't have to pay humans anymore. Fuck 'em.

Quoting: SirMCJeagerThat wasn't appropriate. Review bombing a perfectly good game like that over a contest. I wish this anti-ai nonsense would stop.

What do you suggest people do with their anger and frustration at genAI when it's promoted as gleefully and as ignorantly as this?? This is the perfect answer to such total lack of awareness of the negative impacts of genAI. Execs want it, NO-ONE ELSE WANTS IT. But no matter how many capital letters we use, we'll still get dumb takes like an AI competition to promote yet more use of "just another tool".

Just another hammer - small catch, every time you use it, someone dies. But yeah, it's just another tool. Would you use that hammer?

*yes, that's an exaggeration, but it feels like absurd arguments like that are the only way to land the point in the face of tech-bro'ism these days.

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Does it still have configurable on/off noises like the last one?

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneThat idea exists for decades and all times it was tried ended up in banning potential serious developers. I mean, just give a look how Reddit moderators do their job. We all heard about the horror stories of people getting banned for non harmful content if it just contains a minimum amount of critics to a topic. If I can ban you in the network, you are banned everywhere, not just on my project, even if I did not ban you for AI usage, I just need to tell you used AI.

Not even speaking about situations like Github writing "co-authored by Copilot" on non LLM PRs.

The mind behind this idea is great and I would support it, but the real world situation just shows that it harms more than it actually helps. The FOSS-community needs to think about a better solution.

That was then, this is now. I think the whole situation needs a rethink. It's not a coincidence that multiple project have to create AI policies due to slop. Tools like Openclaw make this kind of thing very hard to counteract, because the AI won't give up - ban it, and it'll just create a new account and re-submit, over and over.

I suspect that the only way to truly police this, ultimately, is using a system like StackExchange, where pull/merge requests simply aren't allowed - you go through a step-ladder of ever-so-slightly-increasing rights, as your reputation rises, until, eventually, you are trusted to contribute within the boundaries of the policies of that project.

Sadly the infrastructure for this doesn't exist. Yet.

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I don't think I've seen melee combat handled as "meatily" as this since Elderborn, which is still the king for melee combat, imo. A crown held by Dark Messiah for far too long.

Interesting that they have gunplay too though. Hopefully that doesn't make melee useless, as in so many games.

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Quoting: scorp10n2000Meh... We NEED a singel player Alien action game!(and a good Alien movie) Not more pvp garbage!

This is PvE. It's a co-op game - you and your team vs the horde. I played quite a lot of the first game single-player. The bots were a bit meh, but it's still fun, and captures the alien-franchise atmosphere very well.

Also, there's a new Alien Isolation in the works, if you prefer a story-driven single-player experience.

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I absolutely LOVED the first game, and especially that it was geared around 3 players - I only have two regular online pals, so the 3P games are a treat (e.g. Space Marine 2). So, I'm a bit concerned they've upped it to four. That usually means it's scaled to 4P, and we'll play at a penalty, or they'll throw a near-useless bot into your team to pad it out.

It was a great reveal in the trailer though. Very nicely done!

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Reserve button appeared at EXACTLY 6pm and I hit it, and was instantly told I was reserved. Simples.

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The way the game dumps solo players in with teams of three put me me right off it. The lobby scaling was broken too - I managed to buy 3 healing potions once, and considered myself well equipped for being 3 or 4 hours into the game - inspected a team of three in the lobby and each player in that team had filled around 10 inventory slots with healing potions - so they had around 30 to 40 each. Why is this team playing with literal newbies?

And the game UI is like something out of the 90's. So many flaws. I'm gobsmacked by its popularity.

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This looks so fluid, and the 3D effect is pretty sublime. The only thing holding me back from an insta-buy is that there's only around 10 hours of content so far, and the EA is around 2 years, I think. Reckon I'll still buy it, but I have a tendency with this style of release to play the 10 hours, then never play them again! But it looks so good, I think I'll pull the trigger on it anyway. Great devs too, and as the article notes, Linux native.

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