Quoting: Patola

Quoting: KimyrielleLike the poster above, I don't care for the art style. At all. To the degree it's a dealbreaker.

Well, so if the art style breaks the deal to you, you do care. a Lot. Isn't it? :S Only you find it to be a negative.

Care for vs care about.
English is weird ;)

Quoting: PatolaWhat in this style bothers you most?

Not sure if I can speak for Kim on this, but in another place where this game came up, I mentioned my dislike of the graphics as well and I got a lot of agreement with that sentiment there as well, so I guess I can at least explain somewhat.

The game looks like a million other games out there. Especially phone games, as they "have to" go with lower resolution meshes.
But in contrast to older games with low-res meshes, for example, here a VERY typical graphics style is used to make low res look "fitting".

The same comic-y art style, everything is cute, all colors are saturated to the max. Everything is simplified graphically (compared with the "real" thing) with a certain "oddness" added to it (e.g. the oh-so-slightly crooked wooden fences if you check the Steam screenshots).
Everything looks like that rainbow level from Diablo 3 - only that it's not meant as a joke.
Just from the video in this article, it would be impossible to tell if this its own game, some phone game, etc.
So many games (especially phone games, and that's not something I'd ever want to be associated with as a PC game dev) look exactly like this, all identity is immediately lost.

And that overworld map - now that looks like it was directly ripped from some phone/browser idle game.

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If only the game wouldn't look and sound like a cutesy mobile game for children.
This art style is forever burned for me. I cannot take games serious that look like that.

Don't get me wrong, this is a well done art style, everything fits each other and is highly consistent.
Seems like it was made by people who knew what they were doing.
I just don't personally like any of it.

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Quoting: officerniceWho on earth were crying out for a Rockstar launcher? -.-

Rockstar, most likely :D

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: TheSHEEEPNot everyone likes to communicate in sugarcoated words - some people prefer unfiltered directness and honesty.

Mind, there's a difference between "unfiltered directness and honesty" and speaking ignorance without thinking. A lot of people seem to confuse the latter for the former...

Usually, it is the people calling someone ignorant that understand the least about anything and just try to put up some smokescreens to save appearances.
Better to not care about appearances to begin with, to not even fall into the trap.

Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: TheSHEEEPNone of which is even remotely relevant in software development.
What do I care what my colleage does with their legs or what they look at?

As a software engineer I have to empathically disagree. You forget that software development is done by humans, with humans, for humans.

Oh, please. What you wanna do next, hold hands?
Maybe not the best idea at the moment.

Quoting: DrMcCoyThere's unfortunately a lot of toxic "code ninja" and "10x coder" mentality floating around, but no, programming is, like most things, a communal activity. And the less barriers there are between people working together, the easier and quicker it is.

And yet, most software development companies I heard of have switched to "home office for the most part" just fine, without any loss of productivity after the initial period of change.
Plus, mark my words, this change will have a lasting effect even once all the disease business is over.

At the same time, there are many people like me who haven't set foot in an office for ages (at least not on a regular basis) and have never been more productive - unshackled from all the efficiency-reducing "socialising" that comes with an office scenario.

Quoting: DrMcCoyIf you're pair programming, it is pretty vital to see where people look at. If you're defining a shared interface between different groups of people, it's best to do it in person, together, in the same room around a whiteboard. If you're debugging a weirdly behaving data bus, you want a second pair of eyes on this or a second pair of hands to prod a wire for you, this is not something you can do easily over voice chat.

Not that any of these are wrong, but they are all very special scenarios applied under very special circumstances that do not happen all too often for most people working in that sector.

And if you really believe there is no online replacement for "being around a whiteboard" or "pair programming" with other people, then I'd ask you if you are from Germany if I didn't already know the answer...
Digital isn't just voice or video chat.
Don't get me wrong. I am not blaming you, I escaped Germany - or rather its work and digital culture, the rest of Germany is pretty cool - and know that many people there, clever people, have really never heard of better alternatives. Not your fault is what I'm saying.

The vast majority of software development is done alone, hacking away at whatever software you are using, by anyone from designers to programmers. Well, if you want to get anything done, that is.
Obviously, losing some advantage for activities that you do rarely is worth gaining advantage for activities you do more often.

And, as it turns out, it is also way more healthy to not be on top of each other all the time.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: KimyrielleThat's the stuff you usually hear from dinosaur managers who are mentally unable...

Sorry, but honestly: If that's your custom way of communicating I understand if you tend to avoid to.

Some straight truths are very hard to deal with, aren't they?
Not everyone likes to communicate in sugarcoated words - some people prefer unfiltered directness and honesty.

Quoting: Eikee're also producing hardware in a multi 100 million Euros project secret for years, so you couldn't just take the software home, let alone the hardware. Many colleagues are using test hardware (not produced by us) costing tens of thousands of bucks you couldn't just take away either.

Fair enough, but that just means to me that the company has to either sit it out or go into "slow motion" mode with only few people able to enter the offices at the same time, etc.
In such a scenario, mass home office is just not an option - doesn't sound to me like a case of "everyone doing home office overwhelming the company". More like "stay at home. Can't work right now at all".

Quoting: EikeAnd there's reasons that are obvious to me, but doesn't seem obvious to others. You can tell things by looking at people, if they're moving their legs, where they are looking at, etc. pp. This gets lost at least with audio only conferences, some also in video.

None of which is even remotely relevant in software development.
What do I care what my colleage does with their legs or what they look at?
As long as they do their job and I can work with them, they could be watching "adult movies" all day long for all I care.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: KimyrielleThat's the first time I hear a company claiming that remote-work would somehow be less efficient than working in an office. lol!

You must be joking. I'm working in a big software development department and it is just... hard. The infrastructure is fine for 5% working from home. It is overwhelmed with 90% working from home.

Not too surprised by that. If I remember that right, you are in Germany?
Came from there.

Digital stone age, decades behind the modern world. Especially in work culture, home office is practically an offensive word. Not surprised in the slightest switching to home office has overwhelmed a software company there for more than a week or two.
Meanwhile, here (Finland, but really heard the same story from all around, software companies I mean), it was a week or two of adjustment, now things run just fine with the odd hiccup caused by stuff like kids being at home, etc.

Of course, extroverted people have bigger problems with that, requiring the company of others to charge their batteries and all that, but that's not really an issue of work culture.

Quoting: EikeAlso, it is helpful to look people in the eyes.

For what?
I find it bothersome if non-friend people do that to me.

Then again, I worked in an office for two years before I couldn't bear the endless useless discussions, meetings, boring banter, small talk, uninteresting life stories, etc. any more and became a work-from-home (mostly) freelancer.
It's funny really, with that decision I also suddenly became much happier and ill a lot less (from 3-5 times per year to maybe once, if that much).
Being around people made me sick before that became "a thing".

It's kind of a weird feeling, seeing how people around have their surroundings turned upside down while for you almost nothing has changed (except I can't see friends, cinema, etc. right now).

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Covid-19: Allowing developers and publishers to pretend delays totally weren't going to happen anyway for a limited amount of time.

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Quoting: pete910

Quoting: TheSHEEEPOrdered my HOTAS a few days ago.
Time to wait...

What you got ?

Personally have a warthog, With the 3 patch out I will give X4 another go.

This one:
http://www.thrustmaster.com/products/t16000m-fcs-hotas [External Link]

Didn't really want to go for the most expensive ones as I don't know how much I'll actually use it.
But that one reportedly works well on linux, and seems to be "good enough" quality, so I guess I'll be fine.

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Ordered my HOTAS a few days ago.
Time to wait...

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Quoting: The_AquabatBecause the last thing I knew is that European bureaucracy were locking funds away from Italians. shameful .

Quite certain this is untrue and just part of the usual anti-EU propaganda.
EU has neither reason nor means to withhold charity-related funds from reaching their destination.

If anything, Italian bureaucracy is known to be a Vogon-inspired clusterf*ck, so I wouldn't be surprised if charities there had problems dealing with national institutions.
But even that I wouldn't worry about right now, as everyone is just waving through anything right now to speed things up.

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