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It’s not like they can really avoid it. AI assisted tools will become a standard in the future (“productivity has to go up” after all) and there’s a good chance Valve already received some feedback from AAA publishers on that matter, since they’ll be the main players utilizing such tech.
The good thing here is the exsitance of a disclaimer on store pages, as it will allow people to decide for themselves, and the ability to report content straight from in-game overlay.
Full on ban was never a realistic option.
There are also these two sites:
I looked around and apparently it’s not that bad - his term ends in 2025 (elections are to be held in May at the latest) so he’ll be there for about half of new government’s tenance.
Still not great but there’s a chance for at least some time without sabotage from the other side. Here’s hoping they make it count.
Online focused, with battle royale and possibly co-op campaign (store page mentions pilot stories).
Fair enough. In that case I don’t think I can be of any help at the moment but I’ll keep you in mind if I stumble into something with such characters.
May I interest you in Hedon Bloodrite? It’s orcs instead of goblins but there’s plenty of thickness.
It does a good job at pointing out flaws with Steam UI and how they could be fixed (something Valve is apparently unable to do themselves).
While the design in this video isn’t perfect, it’s way better than the current shitshow and I don’t see why people (especially those who know what they’re doing) shouldn’t remind a multibillion company they should do better.
Steam page (demo available).
Good job, should’ve link it myself… (; -_-)
There’s also demo on Steam.
I think these are new - there’s a comment on the project page asking about “playing the classic Red Alert maps” and one of the devs replied they would require some modifications to work.
Besides, original missions can be played with OpenRA so I don’t think they would port them here without at least adding support for the new factions (which in turn would require changes in story?).
That’s just my guess based on some research though, I’m not a specialist when it comes to these projects.
Just Windows, Mac and Linux. There’s no Android build (that’s what would be needed for such tablet).
Man, I have the GBC re-release from LRG but haven’t played it yet. I should get to it one of these days…
Can’t wait to play this one as well.
Besides already mentioned methods there’s also Lemmy Community-Browser.
It has a search bar and ability to toggle specific instances in case you want to avoid some of them. A bit simpler version of Lemmy Explorer mentioned by @DogMuffins.
I guess it depends on your motivation for said project.
Do you enjoy the process of working on the project? Do you use it to learn new things and improve the skills required for it? Or all you care about is the end project?
If it’s the last one I can see why you could get discouraged but if it’s the other two then not really.
If I work on something specific I do it because I want to create this thing using my skills, experience and ideas. I also try to do as much of it as I can on my own, without using other’s people assets etc. For me, the work I put in is an important of the process and each step towards completion makes me a little proud and happy that I can create something.
At the same time I’m a weirdo who tends to use less efficient methods if they aren’t as fun to use when working on personal projects. I don’t really care about using AI in the first place so that might skew my view a bit.
There’s also the fact that AI isn’t omnipotent. It makes mistakes just like us and I’d rather fix my own mistakes since this way I know what I did, how I did it and where to look when things go wrong.
Sorry for the word salad. Your post gave me a reason to spew some unfiltered thoughts about an issue I never really thought about.
I think you’re making this a little bit more complicated than necessary. Those gadgets are cool but that would probably require more support by the devs than a simple keybinds and considering how niche this stuff is… I think the latter is a more probable option.
Those two axis you mentioned would be modified together anyway since we’d want the speed modifier to be the same no matter the direction. Alternatively one could make it into a separate variable included in speed calculations - this way you can keep the direct input value provided by the controller (whether it’s a gamepad or a keyboard) and have one more piece that can sit unchanged when playing with analog controls.
Mouse scroll was an example since that’s how it worked in Splinter Cell back in the day (it’s also how Star Citizen does it today). You could just as well use any other key to increase/decrease the this muliplier (or make it mouse scroll + modifier key).
Overall, I do agree that more flexibility in input mapping would be a good thing. Can’t go wrong with giving people more choice.
That’s not what I mean though. Back in Splinter Cell you could use mouse wheel to increase or decrease your character walking speed - similar to how you can do it with an analog stick. It’s about giving player more gradual control on how fast/slow you move.
That said, customizable game time scale (not game speed) is also another thing I’d like to see in games.
I was mostly thinking about action (or generally keyboard walking) games but that’s good to know, I never got to play those titles honestly.
It’s not like customizable difficulty would be mandatory - you have your default presets and an option to customize. You could even add a disclaimer about how “modifying difficulty can break the experience” or whatever.
I’d rather have a choice and not use it than be stuck with options that never feel “right”.
I realize that games (and software in general) today are about simplifying things and removing any possibility of user messing up but it can make the end product way less engaging in my opinion.
Some things were already mentioned so here my other pet peeves:
It actually does, funnily enough. You have to set an environment variable for it to work though.
Now the question is: are they going to be complete assholes and change this check to prevent non Deck players from using it or not?
Oh, totally. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.
Personally I’d love to see a new take on Daggerfall using AI for features you mentioned (though it would have to be an “all in” affair as Bethesda’s approach to randomly generated content these days is… not particularly impressive).