It has a rather solid singleplayer mode, yes.
Still always online and you have to login first thing. No login, no play.
If using Steam in offline mode, the game just hangs immediately.

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Quoting: ToricIs there an offline mode yet?

No, and there never will be. This is an online game only.

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:|

I highly recommend grabbing Gamers Nexus (currently) 3 part Youtube series on this whole debacle. Even with their hard work and excellent investigating, there's plenty questions left unanswered at this time. Some of my thoughts below are addressed in these vids, at least partly, while some cannot currently be answered.

A couple quick thoughts...

What about the current stock of motherboards which can support Zen3 with a BIOS update, but won't support it out of the box, and cannot boot with a Zen3 CPU?

Will AMD once more eat the cost of shipping upgrade kits? Gamers Nexus mentioned that not all kits they shipped last time returned.

The used 400 series motherboard market is quite correctly heading for nightmare territory. You better hope the seller supplies correct information, or sells working mobo+CPU combo.

What happens if the an update fails mid-flash or there's a power outage, etc?

Good luck trying to troubleshoot a non-booting board with unknown BIOS version.

What will the RMA situation be like?

Will you void your warranty by doing, or even attempting the Zen3 upgrade?

How much risk is there of bricking your board?

Will downgrades be possible at all?

Can BIOS Flashback save the day?

If you download the non-Zen3 version later on and try flashing it on a Zen3 upgraded 400 board, what then? Error message, brick, or stuck with a board which can only boot with a pre-Zen3 CPU?

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Quoting: DuncThe NES wasn't really a thing in Europe.

It most definitely was a thing.

The video game crash of 1983 [External Link] hit USA hard, but didn't register much in Europe. The massive NES sales [External Link] in USA (34 million) was a turning point in history where the western video game industry exploded back into life. Imagine if things had gone the other way...

The NES launched in EU late 1986, over three years after Japan and nearly a whole year after USA, and the next generation was already looming. The belated launch, distribution issues, lack of marketing, being second fiddle to Sega in the market did nothing to boost sales.

Eventually Nintendo stepped up to properly distribute the NES in EU, but by then it was the 90's and the SNES was knocking at the door. Nintendo must love distribution issues as they keep having them with every damn console... :P
The NES eventually sold well in EU, while not quite matching the Master System. NES ~6 million, MS ~7 million.

From my Swedish point of view, everyone and his mother had a Nintendo console and Sega barely registered on the radar. ^_^

Anyway 3dSen is awesome. :wub:

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I laughed a little upon hearing the news. Then I sighed as I realized this will inevitably cause problems in the coming years. Oh well.

Anyone think AMD learned something this time? :whistle:

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In case you're wondering what ol' M$ is up to... here are some recent articles. See if you can spot the trend here. By the way, M$ stock has not suffered during the current pandemic.

July 2019 Microsoft wins multibillion-dollar cloud deal from AT&T [External Link]

July 2019 Microsoft acquires BlueTalon to bolster its Azure Data Governance group [External Link]

August 2019 Microsoft takes big gulp of Java with jClarity acquisition, further boosting Azure’s open-source cred [External Link]

September 2019 Microsoft acquires cloud migration startup Movere to help companies transition to Azure [External Link]

October 2019 Microsoft makes another cloud acquisition, swoops up file migration startup Mover [External Link]

March 2020 Microsoft acquires Affirmed Networks, which helps telecoms grow their networks, ahead of 5G rush [External Link]

May 2020 Metaswitch acquisition: Microsoft aims to emerge as a platform for telecom innovation [External Link]

May 2020 Microsoft to invest $1.5 billion in Italian cloud business [External Link]

May 2020 Microsoft announces a $1 billion digital transformation plan for Poland, including access to local cloud services with first datacenter region [External Link]

May 2020 Microsoft to Buy Israeli Cybersecurity Startup CyberX [External Link]

Casually mentioning that M$ has also bought Skype, LinkedIn, GitHub, Citus Data (developer of the open-source PostgreSQL) as well as countless gaming studios. There's no stopping this monster.

edit: forgot one.
May 2020 Microsoft to open first data center in New Zealand as cloud usage grows [External Link]

We can't know how many datacenters M$ have since they won't tell us, but the M$ cloud has more than 100 datacenters serving ~60 regions covering 140 countries. Probably more.

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Never trust Microsoft. Ever.

Enough said.

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This little nugget of information may help someone. Strange behavior...

Logitech F710 gamepad details:
Steam client controller settings, nothing checked, Steam Overlay enabled: works
Steam client controller settings, nothing checked, Steam Overlay disabled: doesn't work
Steam client controller settings, Generic Gamepad Support checked, Steam Overlay enabled: works
Steam client controller settings, Generic Gamepad Support checked, Steam Overlay disabled: works

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Ran fine on my rig, with some inexplicable occasional stutter. After playing a while, I think SFIV is far superior...

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I need it. Now! :D

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