The people downvoting this don’t have a big iron on their hip.

Maybe they meant the installable mod manager, Vortex.

Oof, but yeah.

In my mind, having “something” to show is better than nothing, even if that something is mediocre.

I know first hand that JRPGs are a hefty projects to make, but I’m a little surprised they opted for shutting it all down and not going for Early Access to continue funding, especially as the idea seemed popular.

I can only guess that means the game is still in a pretty bad state.

Online PvP has always been toxic, but modern game communities have definitely cultivated a special kind of toxic.

Jump Ship for sure.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2841820/Jump_Ship_Demo/

Definitely got some rough spots though.

Agent is a huge meme for my friend group for pretty much the exact same reasons Lol.

I don’t know the “right” answer, but I set it so if you hit something, it plays out some checks similar to as you described:

• If we collide with something but its only waist high, then we will have the player stop the grapple and attempt to vault over whatever it is.

• If we collide with something and its more than waist high, then we wait for a very small delay and see if we made any progress towards our destination. If not, end the grapple because something is in the way.

• Ignore all collision damage otherwise when grappling. Either we get stopped on the way and give up, or make it and then end the grapple.

… And last but most horrible of all:

• Do a completely different set of checks if the player is underwater when the collision happens.

All my games are janky though so I don’t think this is some ideal setup.

Edit: Cleaned up the collision damage part as I thought I handled it differently.

Wii sports resort makes you calibrate every connected wiimote each time you launch a game.

Its quick but a little annoying.

Oof, this reminds me of a personal experience.

Me: Oh this grapple system is easy, we’ll just push the player’s vector towards the destination vector.

Game: Oh but there’s a small object in the way that cannot be moved. This will make an immense amount of collision data per tick.

Me: Can’t we just ignore-

Game:

I actually just played this yester… Oh, hold on got to set the Wiimote down on a flat surface to calibrate it.

Its been awhile since I’ve played, but you should get a few Portcrystals around mid-game, and combined with the eternal ferrystone will help traveling around significantly.

I’ve been playing this ‘medieval’ mod(s) for RimWorld which basically limits you to medieval tech and has a lot more crafting spaces to make materials for things, like a loom to make cloth or drying racks to make straw or dried meat. Its neat but a little quirky and doesn’t seem well tuned in parts.

I’ve also been convincing people to try out PULSAR: The Lost Colony, which is like a first person Star Trek adventure co-op game. The game gets pretty close to doing cool stuff, and has great moments, but doesn’t quite nail it overall. That’s almost more frustrating to be honest.

These are all solid additions.

This is definitely one of the weirder missteps by From.

I’d like to know what the decision looked like internally, because I somewhat refuse to believe they just overlooked it.

This is going to become the new AAA normal, isn’t it.

Oh lmao nice

How many wishlists is that?

You can report the video.

But to be blunt, I wouldn’t really worry about it. Most people don’t pirate, and trying to chase pirates down isn’t exactly going to convert them to paying customers as they’re not the type to buy it anyways.

Do frequent smallish updates to add QoL options, bugfixes, etc. (As you should be anyways) This will make the store version superior and making pirated copies obsolete and require new versions to keep up. Obviously additional Steam features are valuable here too as you don’t quite get those in alternate versions.

I’ve demoed my games at conventions and had people tell me to my face that they’re going to pirate my game. I’d offer them a free key instead and one guy said he’d prefer to pirate it, so idk some people are just extra.

Hardware being changed up makes sense. Feels funky that MS would pull a bait and switch for a game project, but its hard to say if that was MS or Molyneux being funky since they both have a history.