Such a cool game and concept, and really nicely executed too. I'll give this another go, I think. I was slightly turned off by how suddenly certain events could crop up and leave you grasping to get the necessary buildings/infrastructure in place. But with a story-mode, this should be much better guided and telegraphed.

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I was vaguely excited about the new Doom, then I visited the Steam page.

1. Denuvo
2. £70
3. 2-day Early Access if you pre-order
4. Ray Tracing as a requirement

Almost any single one of these red-flags would prevent me buying a game. But four? Good job, Bethesda. Very thorough.

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Played the demo and enjoyed it, but goddam, those graphics are terrible. And despite the frame-limiter set to 60, it cooked my PC at 140+, and the damn PC nearly over-heated!

Anyway, good game, although the fights felt slightly grindy, and I didn't quite grasp the whole "shoot one gun to build up ammo in the other" until about 30 minutes in!

I think I'll end up grabbing it, but in the meantime, I'm going to check out Deadzone: Rogue (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3228590/Deadzone_Rogue/ [External Link]), which launched a few weeks ago, and appears to be... well, let's just say "very similar", but with much-better looking graphics!

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Glad I was sitting down, or I might have hurt myself when I fainted from sheer shock and disbelief. /s

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Feels like Truckful, the other also-unreleased "truck driver delivering stuff to a small town with spooky atmosphere" game. Is that a genre now?

I've stuck 'em both on my wishlist.

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I was playing Outriders (https://store.steampowered.com/app/680420/OUTRIDERS/ [External Link]) a few months back and I got an absolute blast of overwhelming deja vue, before I realised that it was triggered by remembering Gears of War 2. That's the only one I played for any length of time.

I always thought the series was slightly over-rated (albeit, fun story/characters carrying it a bit) but the impact it had on the FPS genre is unmistakable. Walls. Walls, everywhere! Duck over the walls to shoot. Stay behind walls! Run from wall to wall!

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At least they have a shiny new anti cheat, huh?

Titanfall 2 was the last EA title I ever bought. It was amazing. I feel for anyone affected by these layoffs.

Is there a more hated games company, I wonder? It's a low bar, I guess. <sigh>

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An accuracy rate of ~99% is pretty bad when dealing with millions of users...

Yup. Sounds like they inconvenienced 330K gamers with false positive bans.

And the hidden headline for me is that Javelin might have a 99% accuracy rating once it's found a cheat, but identifying 33 million cheat sessions out of 2.2 billion suggests that the entire cheating problem only affects just over 1.5% of those sessions!

Dunno about anyone else, but I feel like Javelin is missing some serious action.

EA really is just shit.

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@Caldathras:

Good idea. How do you go about blacklisting a developer/publisher? I've never done that before.

It's a pain these days, tbh, and it's creator-dependent sadly. Used to be, you could browse to a game, click on the developer or publisher link, and that would take you to their "creator page", and then you could just "Ignore" them, which would include any future titles.

These days, clicking on those links seems to take to you a list of their games instead, which is a bit of a pain. BUT, you can still go to certain pages manually.

For example, the publisher "505 Games" has this "publisher page" here:
https://store.steampowered.com/pub/505games [External Link]

However, for that to work, the developer or publisher needs to have created their page. And since Valve seems to have retired creator pages (original link here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/creator_homepage [External Link]), I'm not sure it's always going to be possible to ignore at the creator level.

Which is a pain. Ha ha - maybe Valve DID report to creators that their pages were being ignored, which of course hurts future sales, so Valve agreed to hide them?

Because why address a source of discontent, when you can just put a plaster over and pretend it doesn't hurt? /s

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Normally I ignore games if they succumb to Epic Exclusive deals, but I think I'll make an exception for these guys.

Happy memories of playing their first game, one of the very first Linux native games I played, about four years before we got the first taste of Steam for Linux.

Man, I was still dual booting back then, for goodness sake!!

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