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Elerond

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  1. Changes for console version are very close to zero. Reason for that are: First game uses Unity 4.x as engine and to port it to Xbox One and/or PS4 they would need to port game first to Unity 5, as Unity 4.x don't support those platforms. Game's UI and control patterns that game uses are not gamepad friendly, which means that there would be need for heavy modifications in those sectors to make game pleasant to play on consoles. Game is writing heavy with much smaller amount of VO that W2DC(all important parts), D:OS EE (100%) have, and reading isn't something that is commonly found as pleasant experience on TV screen (because of usually relatively slow resolution compared to screen size and longer view distance compared to PC screen or other screens that are more commonly used for reading), which means that amount of VO should be increased or they should find better way to represent text for players to keep their experience pleasant W2DC and D:OS EE use turn based combat that gives lot of leeway in how fast player needs to input their commands, where RTwP system that PoE uses also gives in theory that same leeway, in reality it has high change to make combat feel to hectic or too disjointed to actually be pleasant experience for most of the players. Meaning that combat spacing would need some sort overhaul to make it actually work on consoles. Also Obsidian has said they don't have spare resources to do such ports.
  2. It is nice to see how immigrant politics are mostly game for some countries. Finland forbid people crossing over border with bicycle to lessen illegal border crossing, so now Russians sell them cars that Soviet Union sold for Finnish car merchants in 80s and 90s and which were then sold back to Russia used and now they fill parking spaces in Norther Finland's border station as they are confiscated as they are used in illegal entry to country, which is crime and vehicles and other things that used in crimes are automatically confiscated to the state. So welcome home Ladas and Volgas we didn't miss you. Pictures are from http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/a1452841699638?jako=93d7b4b336aec82fe8ce972acc753cc3
  3. It is complex question. With multiple factors in play. Countries under crisis aren't necessary capable or even willing to try people. Also other laws may prevent giving people to be tried in other country, like for example European human rights convention forbids to senting people to be tried in countries were they will face death penalty, torture or otherwise their life will be in danger. Also thing that is crime in one country is not necessary crime in another country. For example using nazis as example killing hews was not crime in Nazi Germany, but in most other countries it would have counted as murder, and therefore they would probably would had tried their own people if they had gone to Germany to do such legal killing. Also countries often have laws that they don't give their citizens to be tried in other countries but they are instead tried in their home countries. Also putting person trough criminal process isn't same as saying they are necessary guilty in something but that they have done something which legality is under question.
  4. Making sure that country's own citizens follow its laws is bad? It is quite normal that we don't let people without official authority hunt and especially not kill criminals. Of course we can't talk should there be exception for criminal and terrorist organisations like ISIS and should there be criminal process for crimes that are done outside of country's borders, but then we also need to take account what if for example war criminal comes in the country what then and so on .
  5. Freedom and Liberty advert from person that most loudly opposes both, maybe it is meant to be ironic
  6. Hebdo's cartoon are aren't good outside of France as people don't know and have hard time get to know context behind them In above cartoon they take shots against cardinal and archbishop of Paris André Vingt-Trois (Mrg [French honorific] Vingt-Trois referring to him), who had just publicly declared that marriage between people of same sex is hoax, by introducing his three dads (trois papas), The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit. It is not world most intelligent or original quip, but in context of recent things before publication of said comic it is understandable (meaning that people that know the context understand what cartoon tries joke about).
  7. It's not a bug, it's a feature
  8. Factories have survived smoke breaks and toilet breaks that their employees take. Those prayers aren't such that they have absolutely exact times when one needs to perform them. 1. Salat al-Fajr, or the morning prayer, is said after dawn and before sunrise. 2. Salat al-Zuhr, or the early afternoon prayer, is said when the sun begins to decline, and its time extends till the next prayer. On Fridays, the Friday service takes the place of this prayer. 3. Salat al-`Asr, or the late afternoon prayer, is said when the sun is about midway on its course to setting, and its time extends to a little before it actually sets. 4. Salat al-Maghhrib, or the sunset prayer, is said immediately after the sun sets. 5. Salat al-`Isha, or the early night prayer, is said when the red glow in the west disappears, and its time extends to midnight. But it must be said before going to bed. Of course in December here Finland they could do them all during lunch break and best days they only need to do 2 of them as sun never rises. And during June same thing as Sun never goes down.
  9. Oh yes, under five minute break five times (which 2-3 are during typical work hours) of day massively hinders how much work person can do in one day and absolutely prevents all sort career advancing.
  10. It is however still important that we do not blame an entire culture for this or take this ****ed experience as proof that we can never coexists. We can easily assimilate immigrants, as long as we understand where and what they come from. You can easily assimilate immigrants from muslim countries? Why aren't you doing it then? Immigrants come in many forms, most of immigrants from Muslim countries in Finland have been assimilate well in our society, but most of them aren't refugees and most of them have come in controlled fashion, which are much more complex group to assimilate especially when their immigration is not controlled. Where we get to probably main causes behind problems that are caused by this crisis, which is uncontrolled immigration and too little resource in assimilation processes. Also I would put quite lot blame on politician that have been absolutely ridiculously slow to form any coherent universal way to response and handle such immigration, which has just let things get worse and worse and we get closer and closer point where government is forced to use radical actions with no time to really plan them, which usually never goes well. But such inability to make decision and constant back and forth has plagued European politics now quite long time.
  11. It has indeed, but still enemies make no use of potions, scrolls, or items' spellbound abilities. They never try to suppress afflictions you cause them, or help each other out when in a group. Basically when you're fighting a mob, you're actually fighting a number of individual enemies that act as though the other weren't even there for the most part. Whatever you do, A.I. will never change what they are doing to react/adapt. After a while, it becomes really predictable and easy to best. Adaptive A.I. is actually extreme difficult to do and time consuming and its testing is difficult and and resource consuming. Which is why games mostly use A.I. that use more or less complex behavior lists where there are coded triggers that change how A.I. behaves and premade behavior models that A.I. will follow. Which of course means that when player learns those triggers and behavior models then A.I. become predictable, which usually also means that it is quite easy to beat.
  12. Truth why Finn leaves FO and don't feel bad on killing his ex-comrades
  13. Picture has naked people in it, but I would say that it is not sexual in anyway Welcome to Finland where weather don't prevent traditional celebrations
  14. They have added with patches system in game that enemies switch target if they can't harm or if they are really ineffective against character they are engaging, which means that if they can't really harm your tank they try to attack some other members of your party. There maybe some suicide prevention algorithm that checks how much disengagement they will take and if that is too high they will not change target or some other reason why they sometimes still continue to fight against characters that they can't even hit. Enemies also seem to have some priorities when they switch their targets For example they seem to more likely go after ranged/magic using characters than melee They seem to go after those characters who they can harm most If they are engaged with high damage dealing melee character they seem to be less keen to switch their target Also characters with high DPS may be higher on target priority list than support/cc oriented characters. These are just my observations without any scientific proof.
  15. Try riposte rogue in that party that is fully build just run around and make riposte attacks when enemies miss their disengagement attacks. It is build that has quite unique gameplay style
  16. That is just heresy. Analyzing fictive universes with magnifier is part of the fun.
  17. Exactly. What people seem to not understand about Kylo Ren even though the movie signals it very, very carefully is that he's basically an angsty teenager with little to no self-control and an unhealthy dose of hero worship towards Vader, who has somehow managed to skid along on sheer force talent alone, but never had the training to make real use of that talent, or a need to step up his game. I think he was the best part of the movie, honestly. Movie does piss poor job to show Kylo Ren's inner struggle and it gives very little reason behind that struggle. Does he need any more reason beyond "he's a stupid teenager doing stupid teenage rebellion stuff with the power of a god at his fingertips"? Not necessary, but movie didn't give that as explanation why he has such hard time. And also teenage rebellion starts to become quite old when you are nearer to 30 years old (as according to official canon he was born 0-1 years after battle of Endor which was 30 years before beginning the movie).
  18. Exactly. What people seem to not understand about Kylo Ren even though the movie signals it very, very carefully is that he's basically an angsty teenager with little to no self-control and an unhealthy dose of hero worship towards Vader, who has somehow managed to skid along on sheer force talent alone, but never had the training to make real use of that talent, or a need to step up his game. I think he was the best part of the movie, honestly. Movie does piss poor job to show Kylo Ren's inner struggle and it gives very little reason behind that struggle. Especially why he fears succumbing to light side, it's not ever explained why Kylo Ren thinks that light side is bad or powerless. . Darth Vader in A New Hope had quite clear motivation behind his actions, crush all those oppose Galactic Empire, and he was shown as super competent in what he does, although he had his flaws like for example he had little tolerance towards things that he saw incompetence and was quick to punish for it and he don't take insults towards him well. So Vader was not anyway example of great writing, but he is well enough composed that viewers never questions his motivations and his visual display, music in scenes where he is and how other people perform around him make him menacing and gives him that feel that make him well remembered even after several decades. Meaning that you don't necessary need remarkable writing to make iconic character. Kylo Ren is somewhat opposite of Vader in character design, he don't have clear motivations, he struggles with his identity, he is not that competent in his actions, he blames himself more of set backs than others, also his visual and audio designs aren't fully set in certain atmosphere, as we keep seeing him in and out of his mask and his voice changes depending on that and he don't have similar set in audio track as Vader. So Kylo Ren is character that is made for deeper character arc than what we saw in the movie, which does disservice for the movie, but I would guess that current writers of Star Wars follow modern block buster trend where whole movie series is seen as one piece and it don't matter if character has flaws from point of singular movie.
  19. Players should only be able to respec choices that they themselves made in the game, because main purpose of respec is to allow players to fix their characters if they are broken because of bug, wrong description, patch, etc., so that player don't need to start long campaign from beginning because of something that wasn't their fault in anyway and which is also difficult to foresee. If premade companions are bad then developer need to fix them instead of just putting tool in game so that players can fix them by themselves that is just cheap cop out.
  20. But what do you feel when you look at this speech? I mean, if we claim that it's not "convincing" we must compare it to the real deal. I can't make comparison as I don't understand Italian. And yet reactions from audience make Mussolini's speech have bigger emotional reaction in me than Hux's speech (which I understand) which gives some indication how poorly Hux's speech scene worked for me. But any way we don't need to compare it to real deal, because it is movie that is set to scifi universe that don't exist in real life and it does not portray historic figures, events, etc.. So it can't excuse performance that don't impact viewer by appealing historic examples. Meaning it is moment in movie that itself need to justify its existence and in my opinion it fails and by doing so it makes movie duller experience. Okay. But if you do understand German, then you could take any of Hitler's speeches instead. My point is that I don't expect you to feel roused by Hitler's or Mussolini's speeches even if you did understand them. I certainly don't. So I think the criticism against Hux's speech that you didn't feel an "emotional impact" is practically moot. He needed to portray a certain type of speech accurately, which he did in my opinion. There is something seriously wrong when the director tries his hardest to portray Space Nazis, and then people say that they don't feel any emotional impact from the speeches giving us an insight into their psychology. Guess what, luckily most of the audience don't feel any "emotional impact" from speeches by Actual Nazis either. And that's what you would expect. Now you could argue that the entire concept of the First Order and the Empire is just too blatantly just Space Nazis, but that would be a much deeper criticism of the entire Star Wars mythos. My understanding of German is not well enough to understand his speeches. Director can try portray space nazis as much he wants but if his efforts leave viewer bored then he has failed in what he tried to do (if boring the viewers wasn't what he tried to do) Space Nazis in my opinion felt much more threating and their speeched more impactful in Iron Sky (which is just low budget comedy about Nazis that fled in Moon after WW2 and now are coming back to conquer world) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joTf7I1gel0
  21. But what do you feel when you look at this speech? I mean, if we claim that it's not "convincing" we must compare it to the real deal. I can't make comparison as I don't understand Italian. And yet reactions from audience make Mussolini's speech have bigger emotional reaction in me than Hux's speech (which I understand) which gives some indication how poorly Hux's speech scene worked for me. But any way we don't need to compare it to real deal, because it is movie that is set to scifi universe that don't exist in real life and it does not portray historic figures, events, etc.. So it can't excuse performance that don't impact viewer by appealing historic examples. Meaning it is moment in movie that itself need to justify its existence and in my opinion it fails and by doing so it makes movie duller experience.
  22. Did you expect to be convinced by the speech? Can you give an example of what the speech should have been like? Yeah, but you could also make the argument that Hitler and Stalin had no need to further inflame the passions of their brainwashed armies as well. Yet they held speeches. Why? I would say that problem with his speech is not style or even content (content on such speeches don't really even matter if we believe studies as speaker's performance and charisma are the things that convinces listeners that message that they hear is the truth not the words), but that its performance is unconvincing. Of course such speeches are very difficult to perform in convincing manner, but in my opinion if you can't do them well you should not do them, because when such speeches fail they just make everything they are linked look worse. Of course if one things the speech in movie was convincing and Hux had charismatic presence needed then the speech probably felt that it was good addition to the movie, but for me, who didn't find speech convincing and didn't felt that Hux has enough charismatic presence, the speech just felt flat and unnecessary. I see how the speech probably was meant to give First Order fascistic wipe, but in my opinion it mostly made First Order look like wannabe evils that don't really know what they believe in. In other words speech didn't make me feel dread, scared, inspired, etc. but instead it just felt dull. So I see what its purpose probably was, but for me it just failed to play that part, which makes it bad.
  23. If I get immortality and unlimited monetary resources then I would eventually take over world and then I probably would build inter galactic empire. Of course this would be just side product of my ultimate goal to build most superior gaming machine that can exist and fill it with most superior games that can exist, and because both of those goals are unachievable because of nature of such things my quest just fill continue forever and so will continue the rising number of collateral damage that I do (of course I will think that I am making universe better place by making it work according to my ideologies, but I am quite sure that everybody will not think that my way is best way, but what they can do I am immortal and I don't run out of resources )
  24. In case of it being regular commercial copy then you can register your copy to Steam by using key that come with the game. If it is Kickstarter copy of the game then you are on more problematic waters, as it is DRM free version that is not linked to any of the digital stores/distributors, which would mean that you would need somebody to gift you key to digital store version or buy such key by yourself.

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