The previous games (Men of War, Men of War Asasult Squad) have been stellar games superior in many ways to Company of Heroes (the more popular WWII RTS). So I have high expectactions for this one.

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Quoting: MasterSleortI say let free market forces dictate whether it is a feature that will stay or not. If people are getting burnt or don't feel the value is there, publishers will be hesitant to use the feature. After all it's also a way to get advanced negative reviews.

This is true - "advanced access" could result in negative reviews that destroy "release day" sales. Hopefully that's enough incentive for greedy publishers to be cautious about milking this too heavily.

It really depends on the number of people who get roped into this advanced access thing versus how many people wait patiently for the actual release day, and how many people in the advanced access actually refund their game. If you make most of your sales in AA and then people don't refund your mess, well, you're golden. :D

Aren't most release days sales preorders being fulfilled?

Yeah, I was taking into consideration the worst case scenario and AA is overall a slightly better idea than EA, I suppose.

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Quoting: MasterSleortI say let free market forces dictate whether it is a feature that will stay or not. If people are getting burnt or don't feel the value is there, publishers will be hesitant to use the feature. After all it's also a way to get advanced negative reviews.

This is true - "advanced access" could result in negative reviews that destroy "release day" sales. Hopefully that's enough incentive for greedy publishers to be cautious about milking this too heavily.

It really depends on the number of people who get roped into this advanced access thing versus how many people wait patiently for the actual release day, and how many people in the advanced access actually refund their game. If you make most of your sales in AA and then people don't refund your mess, well, you're golden. :D

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I'm eagerly awaiting the moment in the near future when EA will complete its transformation into a cyberpunk dystopian corporation and develop an "anticheat" that will enhance your sense of high stakes and accomplishment and literally fry your brain if it thinks you're cheating. They can even call the anti cheat ICE, so it goes well with the Frostbite engine.

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Quoting: TheRiddickWe have seen this optional thing happen before then you have 99.99% of servers using it anyway forcing Linux users to play in their own little echo-system.

Still a major thorn in Linux Gaming's side, this kernel or even normal anti-cheat software.

While we can all definitely agree that it sucks when we can't play something on Linux that otherwise runs great, except for the anti cheat, there's a lot to be said about anti cheat software being flawed on a fundamental level and fully supporting such software on Linux makes next to no sense.
What is most baffling is how quickly both developers and gamers adopt them, even though their effectiveness is questionable and they often end up hurting normal paying customers more than they hurt actual cheaters.

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Modding tools are great when they're available and work, but my personal gripe with them is that the community on each game uses a different tool. It just doesn't take long for a user to juggle ten different mod managers and it gives me PTSD from using 4 chat programs to talk to different people back in the 2000's.

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Quoting: Mountain ManGames like these make me realize how bad I am at interior design.

Their Minecraft house: breathtaking Rivendell recreation
My Minecraft house: box made of dirt

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How *is* Street Figher 6 running for you, people? For me, it was always barely playable. I know my gaming rig is very old now, but the game itself doesn't appear to be short on hardware power. When it runs, it runs well. The stability is just horrible.

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How does this game fare when compared to Forever Skies? They both have the premise of having a mobile base instead of a static one, which I find interesting.

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Quoting: CanadianBlueBeerOk, the boar rune with no weapons would be annoying. (yet, all that meat and scrap leather early on, would be nice)

Ohhhhh....... 1 or 2 star boar WOULD eat you for lunch with no club/shield.

Finding that right off comes under the "RNG hates you" category.

You want to find those after you have some kind of shelter setup, so you can tame them.
(a buddy loves to tame the critters, I tend to just kill everything that moves)

:)

Yes, for sure a one or two star boar or neck would be a big problem. But I'm positive the starting area is protected. The only thing you might run into around the starting area is a starred deer and those don't fight back.

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