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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.

Black Geyser is finally up on Steam. Hope several of you will wishlist it to boost attention to it. It is going into EA. Expand the EA section on the store page and read it. There are great details there about what the devs intend for the game before final release in Q1 2022. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1374930/Black_Geyser_Couriers_of_Darkness/

According to posts in TOW2 subforum, Adler is director for that game.

Huh. I thought Chris Parker was director on Avowed.

Thanks!!

FYI, USS Ford is our newest carrier and first in her class, so she's been having some teething problems. She's not yet declared fully operational and is yet to undertake her first cruise. Makes good sense though to use her for these tests, as she still needs a lot of drydock work anyway.

To be clear, they haven't explicitly said release in 2022. What they have said is that they initially envisioned EA to last a year, but now, due to both the pandemic and learning from the EA that they have a lot more work to do on the game than they previously assumed, EA will have to be extended to perhaps a year and a half to two years. So, extrapolating from this, ....

I think the Han Solo reference was to flying a spaceship, and the Skyrim reference to a large open-world game that allows you to "go anywhere." Howard has also said the game will portray spaceflight and space exploration in as realistic a way as possible, meaning that spaceflight is very difficult business and remains very dangerous even after one has been doing it successfully for some time. And for this, they're actually engaging in some consulting with both NASA and SpaceX for insights to use in the game. It is also set in that perfect sweet spot technologically-speaking: about 200 years from now when we're technologically advanced enough to have thoroughly explored, and even settled, our solar system, but technological infants with respect to deep space travel beyond our star system.

On one level yes, liberal or leftist corporations. But also socialist in that they are always out for subsidies, handouts, bailouts, and special protections including especially protectionism from competition.