Quoting: EikeI wonder if they could use some "AI" to extract the reason of the review bombing and add this information to the store page, like at the place where you see "similar to games you played", "played by friend" etc:
* Review bombed for going to sale
* Review bombed for leaving Steam
* Review bombed for featuring pronouns
* Review bombed for DRM
etc pp

so use AI to turn it into youtube. suuuuure x3

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe approach seems like a pretty fair compromise. The reviews don't disappear, nothing's being censored. And, if you're the kind of person who thinks review bombing is often justified/relevant, you can turn the feature off.

Yeh, I do think it's a mix, but it does seem to be the most fair attempt at a hands-off compromise I've seen thus far from anyone with half the investment, influence and control of valve. I actually think a better solution would be to consider this notion of "topic" more thoroughly, and work to make their system reflect legitimate consumer concerns. Since Steam hasn't even had a big problem with joke reviews, but gave users the option to mark them as such; "helpful", "unhelpful", "funny". I really liked the ability to mark them as "funny" ..what a great way to let a community be natural.

I think something as simple as labeling and sorting reviews would be best, and maybe less biased as pertains to importance. A 10 point system in categories could help a meta score as well, for things like graphics, sound, install experience, level of support from the dev- and most controversial of all, but should not be hidden by default: ethics. why not? Then you could have a metascore for gameplay AND consumer experience. But I don't make millions selling "privileges" to play games, so what do I know? *le shrug* :P''

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Quoting: iiariVery true, one of the few games out there with matches that have a real skill gradient of people playing. I feel there's still a few too many matches where one or two super-players just OWN everyone else.

Oh why or why can't we have a PVP title that matches people together based on stats and skill?

Well... community size in BO could be a blocker there... I think the 'play now' button actually tries to do what you ask, but when you have only ~20 people playing on 2 servers in total... is an issue in Depth as well, which is a great game, but BO has an even lower number of active players. Man I wish Depth had a native linux port..

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Quoting: ElvanexWhy can't you play single player? Just not enough time?
Ballistic Overkill is freaking awesome as well though! =D It's actually my second most played game on Steam at 674 hours, despite only having owned it for a year or 2. lol. I've kinda burnt myself out of it for the moment though.

674h? geeeeze, haha... and what's more is with the way this game keeps you playing, you maybe only intended some 40 of those hours altogether? :P''

Is a time issue, yes, and multiplayer is at least somewhat justifiable to put time into (people I know after all).
If you wanna get back in though, and would tolerate my casual tail and... maybe some ridiculous friends, PM me? <:3

I suppose I should have said what I think of Ballistic Overkill, like the OP asked.

BO is:
-Not body odor
-Slick and satisfying arcadey FPS gameplay
-Simple and optimized enough to run on pretty old hardware competitively
-Pretty dynamic class abilities to play with
-Fairly high skill ceiling (not artificially nerfed with low bullet speeds, too much sponge and cheap ults- lookin at you HOTS-teamfight-in-3D that is Overwatch)
-A mix of good-enough and very-good maps
-Very easy to hop in and out of without tons of life dedication, which is a rare and valuable thing in PVP these days...
-Private dedicated servers! incredible...

BO is also:
-Grinding for unlocks, like really all games now.
-Some odd and sometimes game-ruining framedrops for me and another friend (on appletosh, I think) during firefights.
-Cheaters. The in-game personally-hosted game creation could use functioning kick ability and a personal permaban list, maybe attached to steam cloud. Maybe I'll bring this idea up in the forums.
-Netcode, which can and often does make very silly things happen, but it's usually something you can play past.

With all of this, is still one of the most actually fun PVP FPSes out right now, and one of maybe 4 that even exist on linux?

Friends and I may just give in and rent a server; GOL server is just too much leg for me. Leg everywhere... .w.

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Quoting: Elvanex8 years after I initially purchased it, I'm still playing the hell out of Mount and Blade: Warband. :) I finally hit the 1,000 hour mark last week as well, and that's not even counting the 200 or so hours I played before I got it on Steam. lol.

is sooo worthy though! if only i could still singleplayer..

i am rediscovering Ballistic Overkills. why i ever even stopped playing... so good

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I've been very interested but incompatibility with the windows builds has indeed kept me away. Also don't like discord so this is the only place I'll say anything.

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they did double the net res for this game a while back and it helped, but latency is still the reason i have trouble playing it. maybe if i had a server next door or somethin... but i still think something needs to change there, sadly. it is a very fun game otherwise

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Referencing poor KF1 sales? Maybe word had gotten out about its performance back then; I remember it being a horroble horrible port that wasn't consistently playable on overkill hardware. It should't have sold well, or even at all. (I just tested it again with my current machine, and the first objective level drops to 26fps often.)

With the way linux was mentioned for KF2, I'd hoped it was an actual intention this time, and that maybe they'd planned better and porting would be done well. I guess not. This news says to me that they were never very serious about a linux port to begin with. Another dev to ignore til they prove themselves, sadly.

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Quoting: Alm888...This all means we can pretty safely drop Netmarketshare from the reliable sources list...

yeeeah....kinda.

"ok, there are definitely 500k people using linux...or maybe 100k...or none. Wait, no; everyone is, er... let me just manipulate these numbers a bit... does 600k sound about right?"

if all linux desktop usage is within their margin of error, that's one hell of a margin for error. i'm really curious to see their theory now, because it sounds like it could be an entertaining read bahahaha

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Quoting: qptain Nemo

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnd why is that? Because I point out that people who sit in a coffee shop just to use their wifi (why don't they use the one in their office, dorm room? They can afford that shiny macbook and overly expensive coffee, why couldn't they also afford Wifi or work in a place that has it?) A coffee shop used to be a place where you'd sit down and meet someone, and have a nice light chat.

Instead it's filled with people sitting on their laptops only because they may want to be around other humans for a while.

How dare they spend their own money on what they like and want to be around other humans! Such twisted villainy!

i took it as a personal opinion, and thought it was funny....while he also calls out a phenomenon as sort of peculiar at least, the way a comedian does; but i realize a lot of folks don't like comedy either. also people sometimes go out of their way to be a stereotype...it's an attempted identity thing, and that human behavior is only one of many factors that make his comment that it's not a very good poll 100% legitimate. demographics matter. i don't think anyone would be surprised to see macs in a coffee shop, which is why it's funny. "lighten up" would be understated advice. cmon guys...

i mean if i were one of those people i'd respond with something like curly's "hey" >:\ "i resemble that!"

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