I've bought the game in the recent Steam sale and played it on launch through PC Game Pass before. My biggest complaint are all the loading times and screens, especially when you want to get into a race. Just constant waiting, for hundreds of races.
Back on launch I just eventually did more and more open world stuff, like the XP boards, Danger Signs, Speed Traps, etc. and then quit. I'm kinda doing the same already now on Steam, but I still do want to do more proper races.
I followed this a bit on Reddit, from the original post. It really sucked that there was apparently no reaction from the EGG, until this got picked up by Igor's Lab (which I didn't know about).
The OP on Reddit wasn't even when EGG found out about this. According to a commenter, they were informed in their Discord, replaced the infected file, then did nothing for about two weeks.
It sucks, because I was thinking of getting one of their mice, but now I'm not so sure if I want to support them, if that's how they handle an issue like this.
Edit: Mentioned in the Igor's Lab article, that EGG just said in one of their Discord channels, they re-uploaded the file, but nothing about malware.
2XKO will never not sound like a dumb name.
If you can get the B580 for like $250 or close to it, it's good, but otherwise there are better options. The 9060XT 8GB is 20-25% better, but you have to know, if 8GB of VRAM are sufficient. Otherwise, something used might be the way to go.
"Works fine on my system" and so on.
I played it at launch on PC, and the only thing I remember is terrible performance in certain areas. Don't think I had any real gameplay bugs, but maybe I just forgot.
I still didn't like the game, but bugs weren't really the issue for me.
“But Godot doesn’t assume that, you need to fiddle around to make it look nice.
[...]
you probably are better off using Unreal at this point in time, unless you really want to get into the weeds.”
This seems like a silly take, especially with all the lighting upgrades shipped in Godot 4. The tools are there, users just need to configure an environment node to suite the needs.
Truly silly, you just have to do, what he said you need to do. Why didn't he think of that?
If it passed in its current form, my fear is that it would effectively be an extra tax and burden just for choosing to make games instead of some other type of media, and I’m concerned investors would see it that way too, and move their financial support to these surer bets, ultimately harming individual game developers and lessening game releases.
But for most games, I don't think it would it be an extra burden? As an armchair developer, most games might do a DRM check online, which would have to get removed or emulated or something.
For multiplayer shooters, I don't know if dev hosted servers are somehow a lot easier to do, compared to dedicated servers of yore, even if they're just internal, and would get a public release when the game is EOL. Depending on how things are defined, a single player, offline mode against bots might also count and "just" the multiplayer aspect gets shut down.
Games that would have a harder time are probably MMOs or Live Service games. I don't know how those would get sold/made, if you can never shut down the game. Maybe those types of games would basically have to be rented or something, so it's explicitly clear you're not getting a perpetual license.
Call of Duty players, when the matchmaker doesn't just put them against people who have never held a controller before and they have to shoot at moving targets:
I only played DKC 1 & 2, never played 3, so I just looked at the Wikipedia, and it said DK and Diddy were somehow "made" to fight Dixie and Kiddy. That's why I just assumed there was some kind of mind control going on.
I thought Country DK was the DK from Donkey Kong Jr. (so maybe Cranky's son) but who knows, maybe he's the son of DK Jr. or no relations at all.
Maybe Donkey Kong is just a title, and Country DK took it or won it from Cranky by finding more bananas or something.
In Donkey Kong, he (Donkey Kong) kidnaps Pauline and Mario comes to save her. Then in Donkey Kong Jr. the old Donkey Kong (Cranky Kong in Donkey Kong Country) gets kidnapped my Mario and DKs son (Donkey Kong in Donkey Kong Country) has to save his father. Donkey Kong 3 looks like just some Donkey Kong (who knows which) rampaging and a dude saving his flowers.
In Country the Bananas get stolen, then in Country 2 K. Rool kidnaps DK, and Country 3 has some mind control or something, maybe kidnapping.
OG DK started it, but in Country it was all because of K. Rool.
The Bluesky post is already over 10 hours old, and it's supposed to only last 666 minutes (a bit over 11 hours), so get it quick, if you're interested.