I think I understood maybe one bullet point in those release notes, so I continue to be amazed by the people who deal with low level graphics stuff. Legends.

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"Lazy devs" is a tired cliche and it carries the weight of a multitude of assumptions - is it the devs decisions? Publishers? Store restrictions? Third party libraries? Licensees? Is the studio about to fold? Is it a small team hit by personal tragedy or illness? Nah, they're just lazy, ammarite? :neutral:

Personally, I think you might be better off taking up the lack of a Linux GOG version, or the speed of the updates on GOG... with GOG.

Back on topic - I was disinterested in this game based on the first announcement, but seeing this trailer has changed my mind completely. Wishlishted and I hope there's an Inscryption-like meta to this game that takes us out of the day to day firing of a massive planetary cannon. The play on repetitiveness in the trailer hints that there will be!

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Since it came out, Helldivers has been my online friends go to for gaming. Amazing longevity, and genuinely an astoundingly fun game. Incredible physics, great music, tongue-in-cheek humour and loads of variety - enemies, planets, objectives, weapons, armours, it's got the full package. Awesome graphics too. And the voice acting!

Keeps on giving.

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Great trailer, and especially awesome music!

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"Suck" or "Blow" references always reminds me of that (now ancient) Zero Punctuation review of Braid, where Yahtzee joked that he hoped Braid was a terrible game, so he could make the joke "Jonathan Blow, more like Jonathan Suck". :grin:

I genuinely still smile every time I think of it.

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To be honest, like most people

Most children, perhaps. None of the adults I know tolerate any AI bullshit in their lives whatsoever.

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No such thing as ethical AI. I've never linked to my own site from GOL, but I'll make an exception for the first time, because I wrote about this just over a month ago. Not just how the models are created, but their day to day use is unethical too. Their impact on society. Even the impact on your brain.

https://www.scaine.net/site/2025/06/the-ethics-of-ai-june-2025 [External Link]

Interesting take from these devs, basically admitting that their game is an unabashed cash-in on unethical technology. Uh... thanks?

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This article is a timely reminder that I cancelled all my PayPal payments last month, but I wasn't allowed to cancel my account because one was still pending - Patreon, I think. Hopefully I can cancel now - everything is migrated back to credit cards for now, which at least is a direct payment process. Of course, the real problem is that in terms of credit cards generally, you really only have Visa, Mastercard or Amex.

I suppose in the UK, we have smaller banks offering credit cards, like Revolut, or Monzo. But they're small fish. At least you can definitely use Monzo on Steam.

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Something weird happened to me though . . . I had this card that was supposed to buff defence cards it was adjacent to, but that didn't seem to be happening.

Haha - I had a the same problem!! Turns out, you play that card first, THEN anything played adjacent will be boosted. They could make the language a bit clearer on some of the cards, for sure.

Edit to add - that's why the right-click to "ghost place" the cards is quite useful to plan out your turn. Especially if you're going for the "board fill" special trigger (the 2nd character has cards that feature this trigger - they're not worth in my opinion, but it's nice to see novel ways that the board can be a catalyst for effects).

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I had a mate who used a cap he'd wear that had a sensor that allowed this kind of head movement tracking. Not sure if it was TrackIR, but I was super sceptical until I saw him use it. The head movements are quite subtle in reality, but are slightly exaggerated in-game, so you get a really nice way to look around the cockpit of the car/plane very naturally without going full-VR.

I still think my short time in Project Cars 2 VR was one of the best experiences that showed me that a game can be good but not great on 2D, but absolutely exceptional in VR. Elite:Dangerous was another - I played 30 hours in 2D and was "meh, okay", but then played in VR and spent a further 220 hours exploring planets. There's nothing to DO in Elite:Dangerous, so why spend 220 hours in that game?? Because head tracking in cockpit games is AWESOME.

So this is a pretty exciting project, I'd say, given that most folk will have a webcam lying around post-lockdown. And it costs less than a tenner!

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