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Blizzard, do games w EA Sports FC 24 Players Say $30 Launch Week Loot Box Highlights Everything Wrong With Ultimate Team

The fact that they artificially boosted all women stats to unrealistic levels and then allowed to mix them with men players is simply ridiculous.

Globulart,

The fact that this bothers you says everything.

Seriously though, what does it matter? Like at all?

Blizzard,

The fact that this bothers you says everything.

Says what exactly?

What’s wrong with what I wrote? A football simulation that’s trying to accurately reflect players’ skills for men, gives an unrealistically boosted skills to women players. Why?

Globulart,

Because what does it even matter? We should be encouraging women’s football to continue to grow, part of that is making sure it’s fun to play in games as well as competitive on the pitch.

It’s come so far in recent years, and when we’re talking about a game which is designed primarily for fun, being unhappy that women’s stats aren’t an apples and apples comparison to the men’s stats is just silly.

It says that you have an issue with the women’s game being treated in the same way as the men’s game. Video games are designed for fun, not for simulation, and there are plenty of good reasons to have women be comparable with men in a computer game.

You’d have been upset when Tony hawk games had women skaters that could ollie as high as the men too huh? Or got upset when Chun Li won in street fighter games?

Blizzard,

You’re stating your subjective opinions about topics unrelated to the game and comparing a simulation game to some unrelated arcade games.

It says that you have an issue with the women’s game being treated in the same way as the men’s game.

This is the exact opposite of what I’m saying. Men’s stats have been reflected with due diligence while women’s stats have been artificially upscaled - how is that being treated the same way?

If a core system of the game “doesn’t matter” to you then why do you even play the game?

Draedron,

Yeah. That is whats ridiculous with ultimate team /s

Blizzard,

There are multiple things ridiculous about ultimate team and the game in general, I just added another one.

F_this_stuff, do games w Frostpunk 2 Preview: Less Frost and More Punks in This Daunting Society Simulator Sequel

So excited. I knew the mechanics would be different, but this almost seems like a whole different game.

Population of 20,000? Time is in weeks, not hours? People vote?

JackDark, do games w Frostpunk 2 Preview: Less Frost and More Punks in This Daunting Society Simulator Sequel

Frostpunk was an amazing game, but I honestly don’t know that I ever want to play the sequel. The first one was so stressful. It was the game equivalent of Requiem for a Dream, ie the best game I never want to play again.

bionicjoey,

Same. I remember beating the game and then finding out that there are multiple campaign missions. And I was like “no thanks, once is enough”

abraxas,

Worse (at least back then), the replayability plummeted a lot. Once the fear was gone, you played a couple times to see all the branches and min-max a bit. Once you did an extreme deathless run, it was as solved-problem as any puzzler (which in a way, it was).

I’m curious what a sequel would look like. If it’s a totally different puzzle to work out, it might be interesting.

From the images, though, it looks like it might be a bit more seamless an experience, where expanding beyond the initial burner is possible. That could change everything.

war, do games w Final Fantasy 14 Player Becomes First to Earn All 2,000+ Achievements
@war@kbin.social avatar

What a sad story. This person is no doubt now facing feelings of intense emptiness as well as a realization that a substantial part of their life has been wasted on something utterly meaningless and without value. I hope they make it through that darkness to find something else to occupy themselves with soon—hopefully something that results in happiness, knowledge and expertise this time around.

LucyLastic,

Nah, they’ll just get started on the next FF game

Peaty,

XIV is an MMO. They will wait for more achievements to be released in that game.

LucyLastic,

Ah ok, I was just trying to be snarky ;-)

Jee,

Well there's a new update today with more achievements. ;)

WiildFiire,

hopefully something that results in happiness, knowledge, and expertise

You act like this isn’t all of that

Afrazzle,

Glad you’re here making great use of your life judging others on an online forum 👍

InEnduringGrowStrong, do games w EA Sports FC 24 Players Say $30 Launch Week Loot Box Highlights Everything Wrong With Ultimate Team
@InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works avatar

Classic cash grab, not too surprised.
Yet people keep buying these games.

loobkoob,

Despite some of the players complaining, a lot of the audience likes the pay-to-win mechanic. It's not a game funded purely by whales; a lot of average players will spend money on the loot boxes. "I like that it means I don't have to grind for ages, I don't have time for that" and "it feels like the sports trading cards I had when I was a kid" are a couple of the reasons I hear somewhat regularly. The idea that it could be designed to not be grindy in the first place doesn't even occur to them.

InEnduringGrowStrong,
@InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works avatar

Very true.
It’s also kinda sad.

The idea that it could be designed to not be grindy in the first place doesn’t even occur to them.

Orphan crushing machine vibes.

calewerks,

There’s also still a sizable chunk of the audience who doesn’t even engage with Ultimate Team, and just wants to play all of the other game modes.

whereBeWaldo,

I am trying to convince my best friend to not buy the same cashgrab game every year but my mans just can’t stop himself. At least he doesn’t partake in any microtransactions.

flumph, do games w Final Fantasy 14 Player Becomes First to Earn All 2,000+ Achievements
@flumph@programming.dev avatar

That’s pretty nuts. I bet a lot of planning went into optimizing the time spent each week to make the most progress.

pastermil,

Sprint planning, but for FF?

yads, do games w Frostpunk 2 Preview: Less Frost and More Punks in This Daunting Society Simulator Sequel

Definitely sounds like an interesting update to the game

yokonzo, do games w Frostpunk 2 Preview: Less Frost and More Punks in This Daunting Society Simulator Sequel

But… But… I liked the frost

mindbleach, do games w Counter-Strike 2 Players Express Disappointment as Many of CS:GO's Key Features Disappear

Yeah it’s almost like deleting a game to replace it with huge changes is bad, actually.

StarkillerX42, do games w Counter-Strike 2 Players Express Disappointment as Many of CS:GO's Key Features Disappear

CS2 feels like a downgrade from CSGO in a lot of ways, but CSGO at launch and CSGO at end of life were two completely different games, the same is probably true for CS2. Long term support is what keeps games going.

vsh, (edited ) do games w Counter-Strike 2 Players Express Disappointment as Many of CS:GO's Key Features Disappear

11 years later there’s still no peeking mechanic

Flowers,

?

Album,
@Album@lemmy.ca avatar

Peeking

mcforest,

Just use D and counter strafe with A (or vice versa).

holiday,

Sure there is. A + D spam

huskypenguin,

No peaking, iron sites, head turn, geometry grappling. CS is very much nostalgia mechanics. They started the competitive shooter genre, and they’re still here.

AstralPath,

What on earth are you talking about?

vsh,

Something something other shooters had for years

AstralPath,

Why should the best FPS of all time change to cater to you when everyone else has no issue with peeking in the game for like 20 years now?

verysoft, do games w Counter-Strike 2 Players Express Disappointment as Many of CS:GO's Key Features Disappear

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  • buffalobuffalo,

    whos gonna tell 'em

    Vilian,

    lmao

    verysoft,

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  • cryptiod137,

    No one wants your life story

    krigo666, do games w Counter-Strike 2 Players Express Disappointment as Many of CS:GO's Key Features Disappear

    Actually this maybe should have been named Counter-Strike 3. 1 was the original based on HL1, 2 is the Source version, and this should be 3. CS:GO is a variant of Source version with different gaming modes. I wonder if a GO version of this new CS will appear.

    I do miss the FireArms mod of CS1.

    Alto,
    @Alto@kbin.social avatar

    IIRC the only reason it's called CS2 is because it's on the Source 2 engine

    huskypenguin,

    The next half life will be called Half Life 2: Source 2

    BlackVenom,

    Taps headcrab

    sorghum,
    @sorghum@sh.itjust.works avatar

    2 source 2 furious

    Wodge,
    @Wodge@lemmy.world avatar

    Valve can’t release things with 3 in the name.

    ZeroMmX,

    My head cannon goes like this:

    2000- Counter-Strike

    2003- Counter-Strike 1.6

    2004- Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (1.7)

    2004- Counter-Strike Source (1.8)

    2012- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (1.9)

    2023- Counter-Strike 2(.0)

    iegod,

    Needs a little action quake origin entry.

    Kolanaki, do games w Counter-Strike 2 Players Express Disappointment as Many of CS:GO's Key Features Disappear
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    Would anything drastic need to be done to a map to just load it up in CS2? I would assume the file format is at least the same and they’re built using Hammer.

    woelkchen,
    @woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

    Playable maps need to be recompiled. It’s a completely different engine after all.

    thoughtorgan,

    Old maps were .bsp , new ones are .vpk . So like the other guy said, would probably need to be recompiled in HAMMER.

    Vash63, do games w Counter-Strike 2 Players Express Disappointment as Many of CS:GO's Key Features Disappear

    I love it. I do wish they had opened up mods and community servers before launch but the core game plays and looks so good. Most of the missing modes were never core to the game, hopefully they add some of them back after reworking them later (DZ?). It runs even better than GO did on Linux too.

    serratur,

    It runs even better than GO did on Linux too.

    So you dont have to start the game 15 times for it to work?

    Vilian,

    i never had to do it, it just slowd

    ElectroLisa,
    @ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Or fiddle around with launch parameters to hear anything in-game?

    UrPartnerInCrime,

    Sounds like steam pulled an epic

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