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I imagine you meant the Su-57. But yeah, I will grant that the S-500 system is probably the best area AD system in the world right now. The performance parameters of the Su-57, however, are very much questionable.

An interesting note. On the Steam page for this game there are items already listed under additional content for this game. One is a season pass, and if you click on that it says season pass for the three upcoming DLCs for this game. So three DLCs confirmed.

The MiG-21, -23, and -29 (for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generations respectively) were all supposed to be "checkmate" aircraft. None of them worked out that way at all, with popularity peaking with the -21 and sharply dropping thereafter, because customers learned that indeed especially with Russian products, you do get what you paid for -- i.e., garbage. The only thing the Russians are good at is bombast. Besides, this lame aircraft will also have China's FC-31 as a cheap export competitor, and nowadays the Russians are not only behind the West technologically but also behind the Chinese.

Not weird at all, at least not to me. I'm exactly the same way, and hate min-maxing. I go so far as to categorically avoid lowering any stat to where it gives me a negative or a penalty. And yet, I did find some builds out there that also avoided min-maxing and just generally provided useful guidance.

Don't worry. If Kingmaker is any indication, there'll be tons of character build guides available soon after the game comes out.

Sounds very similar to how I felt the first and only time I've played it. I also got through buying/building all the houses, but quit ahead of ending any of the major threats. The tedium was just too overwhelming.

Yeah of all the indies in recent years, it's the one that comes truly close to giving you that IE games vibe.

This and P:WotR are the two games I am so looking forward to.

You're very welcome! I don't at all regret having backed it (and don't ever see funding RPGs as a waste of my money even when a particular game doesn't quite pan out), which is also true of their other game, Torment, for which I truly hope to see a sequel some day. As for the combat, yes actually the combat is interesting the first time within each dungeon level, and I did employ those very tactics you speak of, but subsequently it just became repetitious. I also didn't like the restriction of just being able to use only four of all your abilities at a time. It was a good game as dungeon crawlers go, but I was expecting a true cRPG and that it was not.

You sure did, Bruce! And I don't mind puzzles so long as they are not aggravating and/or repetitious. Thankfully the Director's Cut version of the game has a bard's song that allows you to bypass a lot of the puzzles and even some locked doors generally.

Just finished my first (and very likely last) run through The Bard's Tale IV, a game I backed. The story and characters were okay, but combat was boring, simplistic, and repetitious, and the game was way too invested in puzzle-solving which was also repetitious and tedious. Yet another inXile crowdfunded project that had such potential but then failed to live up to that potential. Now playing the small indie game Ember. It's good fun so far. The only comment to make is that it is so very unknown by anyone to the point where you cannot find any info relating to the game online. Googling for help is out if you find yourself stuck on something. So you're entirely on your own, like playing a game in the 1980s, which is both a good and a bad thing.

I liked the adopting thing too. But that also was exactly what showed me what was so wrong about the game and what it could've been. Once you get married, and adopt a bunch of kids, your wife and kids don't have any new interactions with you. For the rest of the game they have nothing to say or do with you. That disappointed me.

Not just survived but actually hugely improved and expanded in project scope. I hope those of you who are into the whole EA thing will buy the game and provide good feedback to improve it even further, you know, for the benefit of people like me who won't play it until full release.

And I'm one day ahead of you!

I think what I really love about DA, and what has kept me a huge fan despite disappointments over specific things in the games, is its world and lore. I can't get enough of it!

Keep in mind, though, that NGAD is a family of systems including unmanned bits. Recently the CSAF commented that he sees two separate airframes emerging from NGAD, one a high-end air dominance aircraft and the other a low-end (but still stealthy and very capable) multi-role aircraft. Plus likely also a Skyborg-operated "wingman" drone. And then there's also the Navy's 6th-gen program (F/A-XX). But yeah, I too can't wait to see these airframes.

My list includes Florida, Texas, Iowa, and Wisconsin.

Yup, as any new revolutionary system has growing pains. For example, our first jet-powered aircraft.

Yeah, it's an 'absence of evidence means there's nothing there/it doesn't exist' mentality. But it goes farther, to include a 'whatever little evidence there is, I'm going to dismiss out of hand as not being meaningful to me' mentality. This is why Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb is my hero right now, because he is willing to publicly give the Orthodoxy the middle finger.

Our lists match up!

To add to this discussion, our current materials technology is such that human-made vehicles disintegrate at around 20 g's. Let's say for the sake of argument someone has secretly come up with materials that can handle, say, 50 g's, or even 100 g's. These tic-tacs have been recorded accelerating and maneuvering at 5,000 g's.

Just saw this myself. People who like to whine about the F-35 (especially in the news media and in Congress) are idiots.

Hey, thanks for sharing this! Very interesting. For me, it isn't just the people who lied or obfuscated or covered up who need to be held accountable, but also the people who laughed. All people within the academy who scoffed and laughed will have lost all credibility and should be dismissed from their jobs. Far too often, in the West, academics are utterly wrong about things they've said/claimed, and yet they're never held to account. The academy has come full-circle and is now much like the Church from five centuries ago.

But then that would mean PoE3 is not even in pre-production at this time because Adler is directing TOW2 and surely is not the lead on two projects.

Yeah, different century same story from the government. But at least now, not many people believe what the government has to say.