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Yep, there's no information on all those things any good kickstarter gives you info on- such basic things as engine, what edition of rules would be used let alone whether the game would/ could actually be made, or allowed to be made. If it were to be compared to a KS it would be one of those slightly dodgy sounding Indiegogo flexible funding ones which are basically "here's my cool idea, give me money! (no refunds)". Which isn't really accurate either, but it's a lot more accurate than comparing it to something like PE. At the moment the whole thing relies on a vague idea of getting BG3 later by buying something now, and relies on (1) the thing they're selling being worthwhile and (2) you wanting them to make BG3. For many people neither will be true, I certainly don't want a shovelware BG3 and at the moment I have little faith in Overhaul to provide worthwhile overhauls, let alone new work.

I missed the simulcast showing of the Doctor Who special due to social commitments but knowing that they were reshowing it in prime time I wasn't worried. Then had a power cut half way through the reshowing...

I do rather feel like voting for TB, specifically because the people whining about TB have motivated me to do so. Cannot really agree with that part. There may be some overlap in speed between the two where a quick TB is faster than a slow RTWP implementation, but RTWP is definitely a quicker system most of the time as you only have to pause it when you want to rather than as in most TB systems at the end of each round, and because if you have, say, a six second round then it's played out x times by x actors to cover that full 6 seconds in TB, rather than one time simultaneously by all actors. But conversely that extra time allows for planning and tactics to be better implemented, rather than a blizzard of pause/ unpause and twitch reflexing. It's a bit more hazy when you get a hybrid or non standard system like wego/ simultaneous turn based... But yeah, they should do what they want, they know the game and what should work far better than we do.

Nah bro, that's rubbish. The primary problem with the KAL flight was a problem with that flight, ie it was a huge distance off course, any soviet problems were purely secondary. If it hadn't been off course nothing would have or could have happened. In contrast, the IranAir flight did literally nothing wrong, the primary cause was that it was identified as an F14 because the AEGIS software was designed poorly and allowed one aircraft to be highlighted while a different one was actually locked without being obvious about it, plus it could not properly identify and tag civilian id squawks- and that is a fundamental flaw in the system, not just operator error, and an accident waiting to happen. In a combat situation or if the situations were reversed and it was an F14 in the air and an Airbus on the runway then that would be a potentially fatal situation for the Vincennes. You're not going to find me arguing that the Russian/ Soviet military is a paragon of competence, just that the western ones aren't anywhere near as good as their press makes them out to be. Everyone knows, now, that an Abrams isn't indestructible but I've seen plenty claim it was, prior to 2003. Same with the Merk's that Hezbollah was popping in front of the world's media in 2006, plenty said they were invulnerable in 2005. They weren't, and I see no reason to presume that any putative 'invulnerability' of warships is different.

Not even slightly comparable to the Vincennes in anything except the end result. The KAL flight was literally hundreds of km off target and nowhere near a normal flight path plus actively flying over the USSR without permission at the time while IranAir655 was scheduled and behaving exactly as expected yet somehow even with the infallible AEGIS it was misidentified as an F14 (!) diving quick (!) rather than an Airbus climbing slowly. The soviet technology actually performed near perfectly in the KAL incident, can't say the same for the Vincennes'. Meh, people never want to admit their multi billion dollar stuff can be taken out by anything costing a few thousand, and they never have. Same with tanks, lots of stuff about how they're practically indestructible with their DU ceramic reactive armour and lists of impressive numbers, then some joker sticks a couple of hundred dollar artillery shells and a detonator under the tarmac...

Eh, I dunno. How stuff works practically rather than theoretically is always a question- while a bit old you do have things like the Stark, the British at the Falklands, the Vincennes managing to misidentify and shoot down a commercial airliner and the like. It's one of those situations where you have people saying that their multi billion dollar systems are great and wonderful, but they would say that. (I still remember the war games in which our 1950s era Skyhawks 'sank' most of the Australian fleet)

It's a good idea if you don't want time wasted on trivial issues or stuff that you think is peripheral. If only 10% of people cared either way and they were literally the only people giving opinions then you get a rather skewed view of an issue's importance and it looks like some massive irreconcilable divide. On the other hand people who post multiple times about how little they care and get actively upset about other people caring is something I find very odd.

I guess the success of Star Citizen may demonstrate there's still a market for space sims and a Star Wars one ought to be a good mark. I always wonder how Privateer Online would have gone if it hadn't been killed off, it's always seemed like such a natural fit and Eve seems to have been pretty successful... I'm probably somewhat biased in that my main experience with a flight 'sim'/ gamepad combo was with what I found to be the utterly horrible GTA flight portions on a PS2- which I somewhat enjoyed (well, didn't actively loathe except that asterisking dweeb and his model chopper quest; I have to kill Tubbs in VC but can't pop a cap in him and his rival? There's no justice in the world) on PC using KB/M. I played Elite when it first came out using keyboard only and it was fine, at the time. But it was only roll pitch velocity, with yaw being an optional upgrade plus a few things you'd use occasionally like ECM iirc, so far from a complicated scheme and one that would easily translate to any other model. The thought of trying to play something like an Independence War without my joystick does not, uh, fill my heart with joy.

Well, it does rather depend on whether the horsepower difference is actually taken advantage of. If the games all are targeted at the on3's specs and the PS4 versions play at the same locked framerates at the same res and using the same textures the difference will be marginal- if you play default version Dark Souls on a quad Titan PC there isn't much practical advantage over playing on an old console despite the massive power difference. You'd hope that people will take advantage of extra power but at least for multiconsole releases history suggests that is not likely, very few cross platform games took advantage of the PS4's abilities. I don't really agree with the logic- everyone knows that there are slow downs and frame drops on consoles whatever certification says so power will always be an advantage- but if you're looking for a logical reason to downplay the difference that would be the reasoning.

Wish EA would get the back catalogue as well, really. At least then it would be likely that the old LucasArts games would become available again.

I got my MS joystick to work with all the WCs when I replayed them earlier this year, though it needed some work from the GOG defaults so I played a fair bit of WC1 with a mouse, and joystick twist roll would only work with WC3+. You'd need roll pitch yaw velocity, fire weapons/ missiles, change/ cycle target as minimum for the early WCs. Also comms, though that could be worked around most likely. For the later ones power management and the like would probably have to go though. So I'd say a qualified yes, but with the proviso that there's a reason real pilots use joysticks instead of gamepad equivalents, ie joysticks are just fundamentally better tools for the job.

Though shalt not covet the Jewish Khan's ass.

It makes sense to consumers, but not to those making (or more likely producing/ running the making of) the games. The general rule is that if you're going to have a 'minimum target' for a control scheme then you have to make sure that your game works on that minimal scheme. It's easy enough to make anything work on a positional input+keyboard scheme because you have effectively unlimited buttons available, so even if you have a mouse and thus don't have a built in roll control (only yaw/ pitch) you can spin that off to a key- or even the mouse wheel. If you want to have a controller scheme only option then you can very easily end up with controls simply not fitting onto the control scheme. Of course the satan steam controller is supposed to have the ability to add buttons/ keys but how well that works in practice is a more open question. It's all very well to argue that they shouldn't be making that choice in the first place and should decide that [control scheme] is fundamentally too limiting, and it may well be the case here though I obviously cannot comment first hand. But, if they make that choice then they will annoy some people who then won't buy, and they will limit their future options. It's not hard to see why they and many others come down on the side of 'lowest common denominator' first approach.

It's Matrix/ Slitherine, so don't expect it to be on other websites any time soon. Nah, site registration is from Poland. Thus I can categorically and definitively say that CDPR are announcing their third game in development. (I would be highly amused if it were a follow up to that Polish Fallout clone from a few years ago whose name escapes me)

Papers Please was a Gem promo very recently (when I bought it, same price as on Humble) which is probably why it wasn't in this sale. Would have been keen on getting Expeditions Conquistador, especially as Bitcomposter wouldn't get a cent but couldn't be bothered checking every five minutes, but did get SOTS: The Pit on a whim.

"interesting" rather than interesting. It's also absolutely brilliant as I have no idea whatsoever if it is serious or the most brilliant troll of all time. On a side note I now have "Tali's sweat" on my google search history...

Bernadotte was certainly Napoleon's best kingly appointment (not much competition though, even if Joseph's problems were largely not his fault), and Sweden seems to have done pretty well out of the deal in the end. I don't think anyone would seriously suggest Davout for the role.

I don't know if I'll actually buy anything, but that counter system is hypnotic, and quite entertaining. Bit unfair starting an 'insomnia' sale while I'm actually asleep.

Class action lawsuits for mental scarring are not hilarious, they are serious business! (More importantly, is Tali a reptile in those pictures and if so, does she not sweat as a consequence?)

Yeah, I've always thought the main problem was with HBS and them not reading their contract/ not communicating it properly. MS was under no obligation to fix their stuff ups and credit to them for doing so.

Not sure that that made much difference- while I'm sure HBS got a lot of pressure on it it had to be OKed by MS, and any pressure they were getting on the issue would be a minute drop in the bucket whether from fans or from HBS. Whatever the case* it's certainly good to see. Would also be good for GOG if it's accepted (which it surely has to be) since it would technically get Microsoft on board there, and apart from LucasArts and maybe 2k they'd be the biggest catch left for them. *From MS's perspective it surely has to be seen as stupid to subsidise a competitor (steam) due to an insistence on DRM and I'd suspect that was the deciding factor. Explaining to shareholders how you are insisting that people use a competitor's product would be an... interesting discussion, if it ever came up.

Faster Than Light is getting a free update... with additional writing from a certain Chris Avellone.

Bernadotte. Not one of the better marshalls and he actively hated Napoleon despite, iirc, being his brother in law. In a vaguely on topic observation it was one of his descendants who the Stern Gang (or was it the Irgun/ Haganah?) murdered just prior to the partition of Palestine when he was trying to mediate for the UN. Should have gone for one of: Davout- as best marshall MacDonald- could establish a chain of restaurants equivalent to Ikea in ubiquitousness, also possibility of forming United Kingdom of Sweden and Scotland in a year or so time to compensate for losing Norway's North Sea petrodollars. Plus Etienne MacDonald is a very cool name. Poniatowski, despite being a mere general- epically trolling P/Russia and Austria and as a sort of reverse Gustav Adolphus, plus lots of free cores on Poland and Lithuania.

Isn't it obvious? If it weren't for piracy his company could pay him more and he could afford a keyboard with a working caps lock key. Then he could revert to his preferred username, nkkkk.

Shame the Swedish royal family is actually french now, or we could have a proper swedish Tsar (not one of those parvenu Romanov johnny come latelies who were, after all, german post Yekaterina the Velikaya anyway) appointed to succeed Putin I and lead Russia and the Ukraine back to glory.