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The loot booster in AC: Odyssey is completely unnecessary unless you're obsessive compulsive about completing all upgrades but not obsessive compulsive about completing all map markers; and worried about time but not so worried that you don't just buy resources outright. You drown in loot, money and resources with no boosters, you'll just find it difficult to complete some entirely optional challenges like becoming #1, #1 mercenary or getting the top tier boat upgrades. The level scaling means you don't really get an advantage from a booster anyway.

I'd think that Phoenix Point would be the only one to come to GOG day 1, and since the typical GOG user is already patient it being delayed won't have too much effect. Exodus might have been too if Derp Silver didn't have managerial independence from Nordic, but they do so a release after a year is about the best GOG could expect anyway. GOG's problem is their basic model- offering actual support and curating the store- is more costly than Steam and older games fundamentally sell fewer copies at a lower price point than newer ones. TWitcher 3 and Gwent getting older doesn't help either, and Thronebreaker was never going to replace them in terms of being a money driver no matter how many hooks they added for standalone Gwent. The main effect EGS has had directly is that GOG have reduced their cut of sales somewhat, and that must have hurt the bottom line.

Paradox game so they'll just make you their b. Letters i,t,k and w will be available later as dlc. That doesn't spell 'bitch', of course; but don't worry Modders Will Fix It.

Guess it depends on what is considered the Bioware of old. Dragon Age Origins took a similar amount of time in (announced) production as Anthem and was also rebooted multiple times* and it turned out OK as a game and did very well financially- and post DAO the problem became the exact opposite, rushing the sequel too much. *'enslave nations with necromancy!' etc

Lisa Su announced to be giving the keynote address at Computex towards the end of May. Very likely to be a release date announcement for Zen 2/ Ryzen 3000 series at that time*, some chance for them to be launched at the event. Looks like +10% IPC improvement overall (far more on some workloads) so even a moderate frequency uptick should see Intel's performance advantage gone. *Also the Epyc Rome processors and info on Navi

Not every game on EGS will get 'paid' to be there though, the lower cut is to encourage those that won't be being paid to offer their game there as an option. Stores need a differentiation from steam; GOG has a rather different market including a lot of people who won't use steam (and now, a lower cut than steam too), EGS offers a lower cut and theoretically a lot of customers. Steam's strategy involves making itself the default and in many cases it costs money (initially) to go onto a competitor as you have to unpick whatever steam exclusive features you may have integrated, so if you want to compete with steam you have to offer an improved financial return to defray the costs of not going steam exclusive. EGS has three strategies- 'exclusives' via guaranteed minimum sales and offering a lower cut per sale unit to attract publishers, and free games to attract new customers. They cannot just pay everyone to be 'exclusive' in the longer term as it plain isn't practical, they'll do that only for games they think will make them money long term and attract demographics that they think they are lacking. For every other game the customer base and lower cut will be the attractive part.

Brexit is an argument against the EU- it's also an argument for trebucheting 90kg british politicians over a distance of 300m 330yd as well. If you join a monolithic authoritarian entity like the EU you want a way out, even more so if you actually joined the far less monolithic and authoritarian EEC. The EU has made the exit difficult as well as there being political incompetence on the brit side; and the EU (well, protoEU mostly) has a history of ignoring democracy/ end running referenda whose results they don't like. It may not be in the EU's interests to offer an easy way out and to be obstructive pour décourager les autres who might be thinking that the increasingly constrictive EU isn't a great idea, but from an individual country's perspective you always want a way out just in case Germany is looking for another country to Greece. Let's be frank, Article 50 was added as a sop to euroskeptics and was never in a million years intended to be used. As much as the British response was been shambolic the EU also had no plan for anyone daring to leave either, their job is just a lot easier since in the end their goal is to make sure no one else ever tries to leave- so a bad process is a net plus to them and almost certainly part of a plan to get the referendum invalidated or have the UK return later.

It has a much larger throughput than HDMI. IIRC HDMI currently has the higher throughput with v2.1 which was released last year, but needs new cables etc for the increased bandwidth. HDMI requires licensing fees, Displayport does not is most likely why manufacturers seem to be pushing it.

Multiple choice referenda are usually designed to have one question win. Eg 1) Remain in EU 2) Leave EU, have customs union 3) Leave EU, use May agreement 4) Leave EU, no agreement (1) wins easily because all the people who want to stay vote for it and the leavers get split across 3 options. Might not make a majority, but who cares if the other three options are getting 17% each and it's got 48%. And you can do the reverse to have leaving be the most popular choice too. You have to do them using preferential/ transferable vote system, and you can bet the 48% remainers would still get their panties twisted about how each leave option 'only' had 17% support so they 'really' won. We got exactly that reaction here for our general election, the government got 54% but it was split across 3 parties so 'really' the opposition party with 46% 'won' since it got the largest single share. Bet Dave Cameron wish he'd thought of doing a multi choice referendum in the first place, would have made it a lot easier to get his preferred option into pole position.

Discovery spoiler Can't easily fix the Spore Drive though short of invalidating the whole timeline, which does have its appeals. Maybe it's like warp causing the unraveling of the universe, just kind of narratively self contained and never mentioned again.

The procedurally generated quests are generic as anything and can't even be bothered naming the person giving it to you; done one of its type, done them all. Fortunately they're also entirely optional. I have noticed that the lack of a 'story' type questline with named people giving them usually means you're going to go to that place as part of the main quest later and get a bunch of quests fleshing the area out then.

Lol, why don't you run off again to another thread to cry like last time Grommy.

*Bit iirc, as I zoned out every time there was pointless melodrama and there was a lot of pointless melodrama in that episode. Shame that, as it was a pretty solid episode otherwise with only a couple of glaring plot holes. I'm definitely getting distinct 'closed circle resolution' vibes from the main plot.

Going by recent news Vatican City is probably the rape capital of Europe.

Exclusive to GOG... how many zlotys have they thrown at ActiBlizz to exclude Steam? Disgusted and angry at this anti competitive behaviour. How could Bobby K betray us so?

If they don't do anything it will be no deal Brexit just before Easter. That ought to start focusing some minds on being a touch more pragmatic. Kind of funny though, MPs hated May saying that the mess was their fault for being unrealistic so they took control of the process and got zero progress and 8 failed proposals rather than 1. Might as well get Queen Liz to decide, she can hardly do worse- actually, go the whole hog and give every member of the royal family a proposal to champion, then decide which wins in a last person standing tournament held on the Isle of Wight. Added bonus, we might get to see Phil the Greek dabbing.

It's entirely possible it doesn't. She's personally disliked by many because she's in the position where she's trying to browbeat people into voting for a deal that doesn't really appeal to them at all, and since she's politically dead in the medium term anyway offering to resign becomes another negotiation option. It's also part of showing the hard core brexiters who want a no deal exit that she isn't personally going to benefit from them holding their noses to vote for her deal.

Don't worry about it. I'm at the same stage and have the same in game information. meta game observation, not really a spoiler This is a potential spoiler of their identity, with reasoning, though I do not know it to be true: I like the cultist mechanic overall but I do have a criticism of its meta game implementation. Pretty sure I've worked out something else I really shouldn't have, and not from any historical knowledge this time.

They're a bit more complicated/ nuanced than simple four word summary clause (obviously), but as a summary I've been accurate. They're both anti siphoning measures written into contracts. Note that Grim Dawn is significantly cheaper on steam than on Crate's website for me, for example, as they don't have regional pricing while steam does- and since valve pays gst it ought to be the reverse if all other things were equal. You can undercut during sales, and obviously regional pricings and currencies simply cannot match all the time. If you're selling stuff for a game on steam it has to be available for the steam version and must use the steam wallet and steamworks api; that's publicly verifiable last time I checked via their steamworks developers' website. If that weren't so then, for example, there would be zero drawback to CDPR offering Gwent on Steam since it's free to play and they could gate microtransactions through Galaxy or whatever. Of course, if you're a big publisher you can negotiate better terms. Even something as immutable as the 30% steam tax can get reduced if you're big enough- but the vast majority aren't big enough.

I've seen people state there wouldn't be any mods without steam workshop, so why not no patch notes as well? Practically, most don't offer their own digital distribution due to steam's monopolist position and leveraging of that position. Can't undercut steam and be on steam, can't offer exclusive content on your own store and be on steam*, so what's the point unless you're a big player with guaranteed sales and a lot of clout like EA? You just end up with a lot of infrastructure costs and no competitive advantage plus run the risk of the PC gamer steam inghimasi pronouncing takfir on you for not worshiping PC Gaming gaben enough. You'll definitely be accused of going 'exclusive' too, even if your games are available all sorts of other places except for steam. *Those two policies were brought in to kill off forthcoming steam competitors like Paradox Connect rather than Origin, and for that they worked perfectly. Sure, Paradox, you could offer your own MP and store infrastructure, but don't think you'll be undercutting steam or you'll get kicked and all your fans who are really steam fans will pitch a fit and blame you for it. Or you could just use steam and not worry about anything! It's a nice company you've got there after all, be such a shame if anything happened to it.

Fargo gazumped me by a whole hour and half. He should be a good addition for InXile. [Hmm, Interplay, InXile and Turtle Rock after leaving Troika, now back to InXile again. I really wasn't paying especial attention]

It would be difficult to blame Trump if firing Comey was found to be perfectly legal and not obstruction of justice. Can't really blame an accused for a failed accusation, even if the accused is as intrinsically suspicious as Trump. Fundamentally, even an expensive investigation that resulted in complete exoneration could be value for money. That isn't able to be determined from a short executive summary though. An immigrant moving to Australia raises the average IQ of both Australia and the source country -- Piggy Muldoon, slightly paraphrased. Awful PM, but good with the zingers.

Probably worth mentioning Jason Anderson as well, since he was Creative Director where Bloodlines excelled, and he was the third of the 'Troika'. Presumably he isn't involved since he hasn't been mentioned and last I heard he wasn't in the gaming business any more- though that was a while ago and I haven't been paying especial attention. IIRC Brian has said he didn't write all of Bloodlines, just most of it.

Would be even more funny/ ironic if both those MPs causing trouble for Mr Progressive were women and one was a native canadian too. 'Correct the Record' is probably still better known, but it's officially defunct. Shareblue (same one gfted linked to, same guy involved at the top) uses vote manipulation in places like reddit extensively to give anti Trump news the megaphone treatment. They were most obvious when Hillary had her fainting moment on the campaign trail, as all their boosted content disappeared for a day since they had no prepared talking points. I think everyone who isn't ideologically committed to one side would like to see the evidence. I'm not expecting literal exoneration personally, but something more similar to the justification for not prosecuting Hillary for her server faux pas; but I always doubted Trump himself was directly involved anyway.

Rape and forced marriage too- but it's all very obfuscated and cartoonish. VtMB would be a lot more immediate in its depictions since it's 1st/3rd person rather than an abstraction.