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trump wins reelection and then disney and microsoft merge. cyberpunk will need find a new angle 'cause their shtick will no longer be alternate reality or sci fi. HA! Good Fun!

New Features The Hedge has been revamped with new content New Building: Zip-lines New Building: Spinning Wheel New Building: Signs New World Landmark: Frankenline Halloween Additions: Jack-o-Lantern landmark, Candy Corn food item Localization for French, German, Spanish, Italian New spider webs that stick to unsuspecting players and critters. Changes/Game Tuning Engine UE4 Version Upgrade Combat Ant Soldiers have a set of new attacks Ant Soldiers now deal more damage with their attacks TAYZ.Ts now deal much more damage with their attacks Most armors now block more damage All weapons have had their damage, stamina cost, and durability adjusted to fit a stricter Tier-based curve Bombardier Beetle burning hazards and Stink Bug gas hazards are now much deadlier Bombardier Beetle attacks deal less initial damage (end result should be about the same combined with hazard damage change) Fresh Defense perk now blocks twice as much gas and burning damage Reliable Friend perk now boosts revive speed by roughly double the amount Interface Processing buildings such as the Campfire now show the progress of each item in the interface, and allow items to be canceled The Recycle Building interface now shows how many structures will collapse if the target building is Recycled Contextual slurping text lets you know what you're going to taste Additional icon art The Interact UI will no longer briefly appear enabled when looking at a disabled interaction Clearer labeling of game modes/type in save/load UIs Game no longer asks to overwrite a save if you are not able to currently save the game World New perks to discover and unlock New color themes to discover and unlock Stumps left behind no longer prevent foliage from respawning Grass will not respawn if the stump is removed Ants now have a desire to take back their stolen eggs Ant eggs can now hatch even after being moved by the player (but not while in an inventory) Ant eggs no longer stack in the inventory Larva wander range is now much smaller during the day Mushrooms in the world now take much longer to grow back Meats now take much longer to spoil SCA.Bs that have been moved since prior patches will reflect those moves in older saves Mint chunks in the Mint container should no longer spawn on top of the container Buildings Structural buildings are now fully allowed to overlap with any static environment object Blueprint buildings in the air cannot be completed unless a supporting building has been completed. This prevents situations where large structures would collapse because they were technically unsupported Buildings can no longer be built inside of tables Buildings can be placed more easily on the pond flagstones now Mushroom Garden spawn timer will now start when the building is built instead of when it is placed Smoke from torches, wall sconces, and campfires should now rarely penetrate floors/ceilings Plank/Log Storage deposit sound effects now play on clients The player will no longer play canteen animations when building a Water Container with a canteen in hand Clay foundation now has double the health Pebblet foundation now has less health, but still more than clay Crafting Most recipes that require spiderweb have been refactored to use a processed spider web obtainable via the new Spinning Wheel instead Performance Improved CPU performance of large bases and structures Other Additional water caustic effects Bird feathers now float in water Weed stems now float in water The "Drop" control can now be rebound The "Swim Up" and "Swim Down" control bindings are allowed to overlap with other controls that cannot be used while swimming Bug Fixes - All Platforms Top Community Issues Free buildings attached to player-built structures will no longer become out-of-position for clients The game will no longer crash in some specific cases when demolishing a plank or log storage building Game Alchemist BURG.L Quests will complete when accepted if the player has already analyzed the target item Kill based perks now only track kills on enemies Items/Equipment/Resources Berry Chunks will no longer inflate themselves when subjected to a strong impact while lying on the ground Traps can no longer be triggered for a few seconds after destruction Traps can no longer be triggered by the 3rd-person camera Tropicop juice droplets should now correctly spawn from the straw of the juice box instead of from the base Bombardier Head Trophy should now be much easier to place World Building ingredients will no longer remaining floating in the air when large structures collapse while no player is nearby Got rid of a small bump in collision while walking up and down player built stairs Bombardier Beetle now plays a sleep animation while sleeping instead of playing the stunned animation UI Various camera animation adjustments were made to reduce the camera clipping into objects and the player's body Audio Buildings no longer create noise events immediately after loading a saved game Chatter audio is now attached to the player character and should sound better when moving Ominent Practical Technologies Removed [REDACTED] Added [REDACTED] To report any issues you come across while playing this public test build of the game, please search this section of the forums first to see if your particular issue has been reported. 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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/22/covid-funds-pentagon/ "A $1 billion fund Congress gave the Pentagon in March to build up the country’s supplies of medical equipment has instead been mostly funneled to defense contractors and used to make things such as jet engine parts, body armor and dress uniforms." It is good that decisions made by Congress matter

I'd probably be forced to join the people who were murdered faction. My weapon would be the stench from my rotting corpse.

A core component of the alt-right narrative is trampolining off of the libs' ridiculous focus on idpol, though. MLK said: One unfortunate thing about [the slogan] Black Power is that it gives priority to race precisely at a time when the impact of automation and other forces have made the economic question fundamental for blacks and whites alike. In this context a slogan ‘Power for Poor People’ would be much more appropriate than the slogan ‘Black Power.’ Substitute "Black Power" for BLM, and it's uncanny how relevant the quote seems today. It's also a bit too close to Bernie's spiel for comfort. Dr. King was a bit of a class warrior, and that's a big no‑no to the corporate establishment "left". So instead, idpol -- and reactionary hyperbole and hoaxes from the alt-right. Sadly, even in the absence of the societal background at the root of American idpol, the cancer has been fast spreading to left parties on our side of the pond that aren't quite so obviously bought and paid for by special interests. Idiocy and blind ideological adherence. The American "left" can't crash and burn soon enough if you ask me. And stuff like this is why I keep telling my superiors that we need MRAPs and microwave guns if we are to prevent WoT from becoming a no-go zone. Damned forum terrorists...

With games like The Outer Worlds and Avowed, I wonder if it makes sense for Bethesda to continue working on Starfield or TES sequel. Obsidian should come up with its own post-apoc shooter and then they should finally stop copying Bethesda and start working on PoE III.

To be honest, mods here are really chill. If you'd try having similar discussions on twitter, half of participants would be banned or shadow banned Long live the mods!

The Moderators are really fine on this forum, they also very fair around how they raise issues and complaints people have against you I also think the general debating environment is very cordial and not abrasive in any real way. Also you cant allow yourself to get upset with occasional perceived rudeness or name calling, I have been called a troll so many times I have lost count... imagine if I allowed myself to get upset every time someone said " BruceVC is a troll " , I would be upset at least once every 2-3 weeks unnecessarily and I have been active on this forum for 10 years As Gfted1 said its a common response mechanism to a debate when a person cant respond in a mature or informed way to malign the person " you dont agree with me ...you must be a troll " In life when you engage in certain political and ideological debates you must learn to not take things personally and just avoid being distracted by meaningless debates that are not informative but emotional

Ah yes, I can see the byronic nuance behind the EDGE.

Moderator Lives Matter.

hope microsoft doesn't overextend it self with all these acquisition if they interfere too much nothing good is gonna happen to any of them

Okay, hear me out. DOOM by Obsidian

Dear Microsoft, for Christmas, could I please have an Alpha Protocol 2? Who owns the AP IP at the moment??? That would have been my preferred MS acquisition

Now all developers are Microsoft.

@Gromnir feel free to ignore this question but is the reason you take offense to that particular post personal? or do you really believe I'm a white supremacist? I just thought you kept bringing it because it makes me look bad and lawyers are taught to very good at spinning things.

Nice. They can go for Paradox next. I want a Tyranny sequel, ffs.

I have to drag someone down with me, might as well be a Finn.

Will the developers introduce the kb&m in xbox? is any other xbox player interested in it? I feel i would prefer it myself! you can use a keyboard but not currently btw (if you didnt know)

I think the new 'remove stump to prevent respawn' may be unclear to players and might also be removed accidentally and irreversibly while cutting frantically. Using shovel to uproot the grass stem gives an extra usefulness to the shovel and is a more deliberate action for removing the grass, so no accidents.

Bit post facto, but her attitude to Bernie voters after the 2016 election and in 2020 suggests she was certainly... not in disagreement with the Bernie Bro stereotype even if she didn't personally and actively promote it. Promoting stuff she didn't want to say personally was, after all, what Correct the Record/ Shareblue et alia were for; also there was the rather ridiculous SM campaign they instituted against Pepe for being a 'racist symbol' so it isn't like they didn't have form. HRC was such an awful candidate and bad loser that it is certainly easy to associate every bad decision to her, but if her supporters were willing to tar Bernie with his overenthusiastic supporters then it's certainly fair for the reverse to happen too and she be tarred with her 'bad' supporters. There was certainly a lot of attempts to blame Bernie for the loss in 2016- "didn't campaign enough for Hillary" when he had more campaign rallies for Clinton once Hillary was confirmed than Hillary herself had- when they were desperately looking for someone other than the Democratic establishment to blame for the loss. On conservatism vs centrism, I would generally regard little c conservatists as being centrists in general. In part because what constitutes left and right shifts by country so the US Democratic Party in New Zealand would be solidly right wing, not left wing. But in both places the bulk of the two big parties are staunchly status quo when it comes to big ticket non social items and differ mostly on implementation and details. OTOH big C Conservatism is strongly embedded in right wing politics. I'd probably make the same observation about liberalism too for most countries, but the US definition of 'liberal' has diverged far too much from other countries' usage.

so there's some sort of delay, and I think there are several causes. I haven't tested it extensively. At the very least, I think if you do an action manually there's a brief delay before the game realizes it should pick up on the AI script again. As for other possible mechanism: I have noticed something funky with my forbidden fist AI scripting. I initially put a 5s cooldown, a "safe" duration for forbidden fist. This was too much! As you might have noticed, it seemed like there was some additional delay. So I was missing opportunities to land an additional forbidden fist, well after the existing debuff wore off. I essentially fixed it by setting a 1s or so cooldown. That works just fine. (I forget the reason why I didn't just have it at 0.) At the time, I chalked it up the following reason: the AI decides on the next action as it completes the current action, not when it's about to do the next action. Example: monk dual wielding. Uses forbidden fist, triggers 5s cooldown. Auto attacks a couple times. On the n-th auto-attack, the forbidden fist script cooldown will expire in .1s. However, the AI script is evaluated right now right as the auto-attack completes, so it queues up another autoattack. So even though the forbidden fist action is ready for the next attack by the time recovery is finished, the AI has already decided to commit to another autoattack, and won't change its mind until it completes this queued up action (or you interrupt it by doing something else). So it's not recovery time per se, but just when the AI commits to an action (so it's not a cooldown, since interrupting it [edit - even literally an actual interrupt on the character] and resuming AI would queue up the correct action regardless of remaining recovery). Though please don't take this as a source of truth - this was a working explanation had at the time, and I didn't test it anymore because setting the cooldown to 1-2s was "good enough" for my purposes. It would make sense with what you're experiencing/your hypothesis, though.

Had an accident at work. Being a yard jockey, I've done alot of reversing with trailers, dolly-trailers, link and trailer, trailer and jigg, trailer-trailer - almost all combinations possible. The simplest is of course just a plain trailer. It's routine for me, even though I'm a bit rusty, so when I'm going to reverse a trailer I usually gun it fairly well, going upwards of 20km/h, the speed limit on our yard if it's an empty trailer. So late in the shift, I got a call over the radio that someone was connecting a trailer that was still being loaded, dangerous behavior, so I stopped my reversing and went straight to where it was happening, told the driver to disconnect and park to the side and wait, then I went back to what I was doing and was about to start reversing,. By then the driver had disconnected his trailer and decided that he was going to speed by behind me from my blind sidfe as I was positioned to start reversing, I gave it some gas as I usually do, and smashed right into the side of his truck. He was absolutely furious and started yelling, swearing and whatnot, he took a couple of swings at me as people came outside to investigate. Accusing me of trying to kill him and things of that nature, and as it was about to be a shift change both the evening and nightshifts bosses were there I did my best to keep my cool, and just said "Reversing vehicles and yard jockeys has the right of way" and pointed to the sign with the rules. His face was priceless

Why would obsidian make another IP for post apoc? Microsoft already has fallout and wasteland... Not sure they need a third. Although you did sway me with "start working on PoE 3" I do worry a bit about obsidian after Microsoft bought bethesda.

The pay raise I put in for in March was finally approved after a lockdown induced hold. I didn't specify any amount during my talk with my boss (we do that once a year, have lunch on expenses and talk about work, what's up, what's good, bad and potentially ugly) but I did mention that it's not really pay as much as a monthly insult. He was a bit taken aback and apparently immediately panicked and thought I want to quit. Which in fact I don't, I'm more than happy to trade being a little underpaid for the other advantages of my job (short commute, great work/life balance when the world isn't ending due to a pandemic, interesting things to do, etc.). Underpaid in this context means that I would get more for the same job at other companies (i.e. not being part of an in-house development team but a dedicated software company), not that I wasn't already paid very well already compared to average and median incomes in our region. I thought I'd get a bit more. Turns out I was wrong...

No way to do it I'm afraid. This is one of my great sadnesses in deadfire. They are basically only useful for in-map skill checks, but many (if not most) of the hardest skill checks are in interactive events that are triggered from the world map.

Thats why games have graphics settings where you can adjust things to fit to each systems performance. Saying the game shouldnt have something because some people would not be able to run it, is like not allowing someone else a treat because you are allergic to it. The game already has a slider that alters the spiders appearance, so a setting for more detail wouldnt be that hard to implement. I dont think the performance hit would be that noticeable if done with smart texture mapping.

This is what I'm hoping for.

"idpol"? another shibboleth wielder. selective quotes and a general misrepresentation o' mlk does not help your position. mlk, was not in favor o' the "black power" phrase. true. mlk focus were indeed on economic equality. is one reason we keep stressing how is the economic pain being suffered by many disenfranchised groups which should be the focus o' those wishing to bring 'bout change. however, reimagine mlk to fit your preferred version o' him is unsound. mlk would be disappointed by the inability o' those who identify as blm to better disavow and stop violence, but imply the mlk message were less 'bout race than class struggle is untenable. maybe need the full i have a dream speech I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. ... I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. again, am convinced mlk would decry the occasional violence, but am having no doubt he would support blm and what that loose confederation o' people and ideals represents. that said, Gromnir has noted more than once, and previous to the whole alt-right exploitation o' widespread white grievance bit, that the insistence on framing broader social issues as the result o' racism or as a result o' white privilege does have a tendency to further aggravate that considerable body o' white voters who has been suffering disproportionate for many years. tell a former factory worker in indiana who is working three part-time jobs and is getting further behind every month as he struggles to support his wife and two kids that he should also feel guilt 'bout his white privilege is not helping bring him into the democrat party fold. yes, the way in which overt zoning restrictions and more subtle home loan preferences denied minorities from having the same home ownership opportunities for generations (and lasting well into the 70s) created a legacy o' racial inequality, a legacy with repercussions still felt today, and unlikely to spontaneous end anytime in the near future. systemic racism is not a past tense issue, but am cognizant o' the reality that such issues cannot be framed so overt as it antagonizes that considerable body o' white voters who is also suffering. working class white voters is a reality and 2016 proved it is unwise to ignore 'em. hillary was certain she didn't need 'em. deplorables. more fool her. HA! Good Fun!

BG&E2 will release right after Star Citizen

by default, this is not really possible. as someone who has played lots of priests, this is my curse (holy radiance and consecrated grounds are the biggest AI scripting misses here). the only thing I can think of is to preface all rejuvenation and "spine of thicket green" effects with the same conditional (e.g. self: health < 50%) and preface all storm and "lord darren's voulge" effects with a different, exclusive conditional (e.g. self: health > 50%). then you could have your weapon switch be the top conditional block and have a cooldown of 1s so your character always switches to it if needed before doing anything else. (the trick here is that the conditionals have to be truly exclusive, even when considering target types of the abilities. for that reason i think "self" conditionals are the easiest since there's no ambiguity about the target) unfortunately, this is not ideal, but what you're suggesting is probably too sophisticated for vanilla AI scripting. neither do i. chanters are the one class I don't AI script at all, just autoattack.

Yeah, *bleep* Obsidian! Long live the Obsidian Forums!

No, be he is no longer involved.

Same issue here. Although they did not specifically say that multiplayer would be available for the test server, it seems kind of odd they wouldn't want that there. DxDiag.txt

maybe smaller items, like easter eggs and halloween candy, could land on top of built structures rather than falling through them. This could damage structures, but would still be better than outright destroying them.

Yes those are known issue they're investigating https://trello.com/c/OCh4Nty5 https://trello.com/c/WO7xMmR9 You should email their support support@obsidian.net hopefully you can help fix these

How many moderators do you think there are? Or do you object to Gifted1's left elbow's moderating performance?

You make some good points and it adds to an overall better understanding of the US political machinery to listen to different political views.....we dont want to live in some echo chamber listening to repeats of any political view. Its really unhelpful especially when the echo chamber is wrong, like the last 2016 when I thought Hilary Clinton was going to win I learnt a big lesson that day about not bothering to understand all ideological views and general sentiment on the ground Anecdotal stories help to also understand the complex tapestry of the US political system and all the groups of people who live in the USA. Many members share anecdotal and its always appreciated. Like your very interesting post of your journey from Cuba, thanks for sharing that. I learnt loads and you can easily agree who someone has different views on certain topics but similar views on another topic For example I have always been concerned with the insidious risk posed by far left " political " movements that sometimes are vociferous but politically weak, for example in SA we have this one trade union who is unintentionally responsible for contributing towards our deep debt, erosion of labor working contribution and profitability and our massive, unacceptable public sector wages bill. Our public sector wages consumes 30 % of our total yearly taxes, 30 % of total taxes !!! And we have the second highest paid public sector relevant to GDP in the world.....yet we have huge failures throughout the country around municipalities who consistently fail to deliver services and all our SOE are basically running at billions of rands of losses each year consistently for the last 6 years. Yet this one union decides its going to create its own political party called the " Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party " and instructed all its members to vote for it in the last election in 2019...yet it only got 20k votes and was an epic failure..check there website https://www.srwp.org.za/ So modern day " socialist " movement have these incongruous, nebulous objectives around addressing inequality yet they are happy to benefit from the " evil, Capitalist " system when they demand bonuses and above inflation increases ...and you wonder why I think old school socialism and these modern day ideas of socialism are flawed And you coming from Cuba have direct lived experience with how ideological views like socialism can destroy economies and force citizens to leave there country to find livelihood elsewhere like the USA. I am glad many Cubans have found an new home in the USA and particularly Florida and the US Cuban community is an important community that contributes to the overall economy and growth in the USA In closing you can see how different people from different countries, like you and I , can easily agree on many issues like the risk and danger of socialism as we have experienced and seen its harm in different ways

Nah, at this point we're family I hope no one gets to wound up about a disagreement. BTW, I haven't asked...who's the new avatar?

*takes notes* Awesome thread, many thanks @thelee! Strangely there's a conditional that does exactly this, but for some reason isn't exposed to to behavior editor... If you're ok with mods, I did a quick implementation of it: ai_is_in_range.7z Mods do not disable Achievements btw, so you are safe. I recommend checking out the More Custom AI Conditions mod. Though it does not implement the abovementioned conditional, it has some incredible Quality of Life stuff such as a "Is Focus is at Maximum" conditional for Ciphers which might be helpful for the Ascendant?

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yes, I understand that is just for the beginning, the things are in the backpack. So that they have a framework for further improvement. I've already thought of a bigger backpack, but not overly large, maybe 10-15 slots, I think more would be enough. Apart from that, I hope it doesn't become a casual game. But so far I think the game is great for the early version

At least the armor we are wearing should not be in the back pack. Would love to have a separate tool belt even if we have to craft it and a larger crafted back pack would be awesome as well!

A lot of people, (like me) prefer the control of Mouse and Keyboard. It’s nice to be able to just plug one in to a cheap <$500 console rather then buying a PC upward of $1000. I don’t see it being any trouble for the developers to just activate the mouse control, as the game is PvE, meaning there will not be many unfair advantages.

nope they snore though

Do they? The market's comprised of several oceans, each overlapping with one another. Some might agree with your point of view, yet others distinctly do not. A multiplayer FPS person might have no interest in story, worldbuilding, characterization, depth, etc., but all these things are what make the brands of CDPR for instance one of the leading developers worldwide. It's what once brought BioWare to the forefront of the scene. That's the same ocean Obsidian works in. It's like saying cineastes making realist dramas should include more action sequences because that's what "the market" wants to see. I think you can speak with most RPG players and they'll usually point at elements precisely like worldbuilding, characterization, depth of plot, choice and consequence as being the elements that make the game *more fun*, not less so. It certainly is the case for me.