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As far as I care about any of this crap or these streamers. The fact he put this cringy apology out surely made it worse. Not sure the reason for his wife being in the background was a great move either.

So whilst waiting for Hogwarts to come out I have sort of put my big games on the backburner as I don't want to get too deep into them only to stop halfway through as I know I will never return. What I have done is find this little gem on the PS subscription and I am currently playing chapter 2. So for anyone that does not know, Dragon Quest is a brilliant JRPG series (with it's last game being their best by far) and they have created a few spin offs recently. This one is essentially minecraft but with a bit of story and direction to it. The game is incredibly colourful and chirpy (despite the story being a little dark and drab) and the idea is that monsters took over years and years ago and now humanity is struggling to survive as they have all forgotten how to build, the ability was taken from them. Humans being social creatures that need to work together they are dwindling and there aren't many left. As you go through you learn recipes and plans, build little towns and bring people together all whilst working through a bigger story where I imagine down the road we will take on the final boss and kick his ass 😄 So for anyone after a small, quite relaxing game to play that has the elements of minecraft I would definately recommend this 🙂 There is also a second game which is multiplayer that I will look at playing at some point 😄

She was very upset but it was quite hard to work out whether it was because her marriage was going tits up because hubby has a fetish for two of her friend's, or it just being down to the potential significant loss of their income which probably spans tens of thousands a month. Her being in the apology video in the background just added a whole new dose of cringe.

I dunno, for a game that was due for imminent release, delayed only by a 'trademark dispute' they are showing and providing sweet FA about this game. 9 minutes of walking through an area? For a finished game that seems a bit weird to me that they didnt have more to show. Too long in the tooth and seen too many games flatter only to deceive. I'm happy to be pleasantly surprised but here's my predictions, if it isn't delayed again.... 1. It will have massive network issues at launch and beyond. 2. It will have microtransactions and monetization will feature heavily. I do hope I'm wrong but World War 3, Dead Matter and a whole host of promising games that looked great but ultimately failed to deliver.. help temper any enthusiasm I might have 🙂

Meh. If we all apologised for dodgy sites we visited we'd all be spending the rest of lives apologising to everyone else. The pros, cons, technical skill, requirements, ability or morality and legality of deep fakes are all interesting discussion points but what sites some random person has visited? I struggle to care less. Obvious that's caveated that the sites someone visits are legal.

Well looks like my Dad might need to sign up for his own account. This new method sucks all round for everyone. I'll only keep it because of how much usage it gets from us.

Needed to do a squad hunt contract for the black mous missions. I usually don't like to kill other operators if I don't have to but in this case I had to. I got the perfect spawn at the airport. I picked up the contract. My team mates were idiot running around getting themselves killed. I revived one of them 5 times. I finally just left them as they were a liability rather than asset. I get the mini helicopter that is at airport and start flying in the direction of the squad. They must have panic because they are all over the place according to the map. I am low on full so I go gas station to refuel the helo. As that is happening, I get a notice that the squad got downed elsewhere and my payment is authorized. Awesome, mission done and contract done. I look for a safe extraction point. Fly over and extract. Extraction streak goes up to 5. Sometimes the stars just align for you

For the squad hunt contracts, you don't have to actually kill that squad personally. As long as they go down you get the credit For the black mouse mission, you don't have to extract with the weapon from the squad hunt. As long as you extract with an enemy weapon you will get the credit for the mission

By YouTubers. They've made collecting Pokemon Cards for TCG play or the standard hobbiest insufferable, collecting retro games, you name it. They're pissy about the prices they helped create..

A huge missed opportunity once again from the devs seems to be the wider consensus and even more doubts arising as to whether they actually have a 'game' - we've already seen these environments for a good two years now and most of the assets seem to have been purchased from Unreal and have been available since 2014. They barely showed off the combat or the mechanics as a whole - what about cover, mantling and what is the actual purpose of the game? Is it like The Division or DayZ? Simple questions and nearly 4 years on we still don't have answers. All we've really seen is a stock character parading through an environment. Didn't look all that scripted but footage seemed very safe and lacking depth. No driving gameplay either which is a huge selling point for this game. Any credible dev would have provided several independent gameplay videos showcasing many scenarios and mechanics. Shouldn't be too hard for them to fire up the latest build and do a step by step walkthrough. It's taken 14 months of persistent badgering just to get them to release this 10 minute video and even then it seemed to be asking too much of them. They've had a couple of significant titles and have been around for many years. What hasn't helped is their backseat approach plus their shady nature. They originated in Russia but then backdoor-relocated to Singapore not so long ago. Nobody can identify the dev team apart from a couple of local faces fronting them and most of their funding comes from a 3rd party company with a large pot to burn. They've certainly bitten off more than then can chew with this game and their approach to the community leaves a lot to be desired but they certainly aren't the little unknown developer with a big potential hit that they want people to believe. If they put together a more constructive promotion of the game then it would really put a lot of concerns to bed for the time being.

I see both sides. I think the anger is a little bit much from the youtubers as there isn't as much wrong with them as they say there is. However, I do have a problem in people thinking they can make an extremely large buck out of gullable buyers that are more likely to be casual gamers as you say @James5497 because they won't know none the wiser. A PS3 for $400, even refurbished is quite mental, but if people buy them then they won't stop what they're doing. Out of this I think the least DK Oldies could do would be to update their wording somewhat to reflect what you are purchasing. Most of these products worked so the videos for me should've been focused on clarity on their wording more than anything. Oh, and also they should be very clear about Official and Non-Official equipment. I'd be devastated to receive that shite non-standard controller in the first video for over $400. I suppose the difference with me is that I know what i'm looking for. More generally speaking, I'd argue that game pricing has been severely inflated for a number of years now across the board, not just DKoldies, and stops the small percentage of us that love all games to play them and not re-sell them on. Its so incredibly difficult to play on all the games we can find these days on older consoles for an affordable price.

Hola. I've been focussing on getting everything gold then will be onto the drudgery that is the platinum challeneges. It's going well aside from having to get funky stuff like hip fire kills/point blank kills etc, playing shipment was an absolute nightmare, I'm not sure if it's just the sweats who play that mode but my god I was going from 0.4-0.7 for 7 straight games and my lobbies were not getting any easier (Was waiting for SBMM to kick in but it never did) so had to take a break. Using a camo tracker I am at 41% done, AR/SMG/BR/LMG are all gold, I've got some marskman rifles done, and need a double weapon xp weekend to level up pistols, snipers and shotguns

Everything I have seen suggests there is a game and it's a game I would quite enjoy. It has however been managed and promoted by amateurs (which tbf they are new to this). I think a lot of the issues have been around a small studio trying to do something far grander than their size or budget will allow, if they are managing it and creating the game there are going to be a lot of mess ups and I think that is showing. I do think we will see something at some point but definately would recommend no one pre-orders just in case 😄

Have you tried changing the appearance back? I think I read somewhere that you can switch between the 2?

I'd say they're pretty decent for people not that into video games. They're a tad expensive but that's only because what your buying has been restored to a good quality. I'm not that keen on the dis videos about them, I find a lot of them are by 'collectors' and that isn't their market I don't think.. more for casual gamers.

Hello! Since the update, I can't find Dandelion to see his new costume! I looked for him in Rosemary and Thyme - he's not there! I went through the whole game completely, along with the update, I went through a new quest, after which I unsuccessfully try to find Dandelion. Many thanks in advance for your help!

Actually resembles a game but I’m still taking it all with a pinch of salt. Until there’s an independent hands-on, I’m gonna sit back but it defies belief how it’s taken all that’s happened just to get to this stage

So without watching the vod. How did this go down with his wife? Did he lie his way out of it? Providing she didn't already know about this.

Fair enough, I suppose what you do with the digital images of @slamminbones face in a private capacity is entirely your own business 🙈😅

Weirdly, I'd take an extra PS Plus Monthly game that's more upto date than most of them on that list. Doubt they will, but we don't know yet if they will do something else in its place come May.

Indeed😄 I mean I only have PS Plus as many multiplayer player games require it, I would not bother otherwise.

I agree with your second point - but I do think @Luseth has a point in terms of at least understanding why its happened. They didn't have to and when you remove anything from someone then you usually always get negative media. I think I looked at it as its 20 games initially offered (and still offered to everyone to stick in your library before May so you keep them), most of which were felt like they were owned by a large majority of PS players already. I remember looking at the initial setup costs for each package and it always looked as an additional extra to entice new people to just get a PS plus subscription which feels a given if you're ever going to own a console these days and never a dealbreaker whether or not I took out the basic package. I look at it as one of those where it feels like a 'meh, thats abit shitty isn't it', whereas the other point you put up here deserves the news but thats derailing the thread somewhat 😅

The deep fake porn thing is almost a form of nonce behaviour in my book.

You must lead a sheltered life if you're not sure why there's uproar on the internet. Removing a benefit from gamers is a serious faux pas 😅 Meanwhile this week our government are restricting our rights to strike and rights to protest, rights that people gave their lives for, when we probably need them the most, and no-one blinks an eye 🙈

I bought a Pokemon Yellow GBC from them with a great experience. Here's my thing on the social media shit, these are collectors' items and with eBay you run the risk of getting fakes. The pieces I have gotten from them are in good condition and working well.

Well Netflix is about to lose a lot of customers then and many, including me, will leave. I’m not being dictated to about logging in when they expect you to. Fuck off. What about people with more than one house etc?? How can they police it when many people use VPNs?? Sounds more like scaremongering

Just completed the Tier 4 Black Mous Challenge for Breaking and Entering on the first attempt this evening! After yesterdays failed attempt which I mentioned in my PPR I did a quick Zero to Hero run, I found a large backpack and a two plate by random looting. I also completed a couple of Nuclear Radiation Missions and decided to go buy a Self Res and 3 Plate then was planning to extract, I used the Buy station in Rohan oil for these items, got a few plates as standard this buy also had an Al Bagra Underground key, Great it would be nice to have another spare and as luck would have it a Supply Drop fell right at that moment about 100m from me so I captured that one, plenty of cash in this one, Gold Bars, a Gold Skull, so I looted all of that and purchased the key, was a fairly uneventful Exfil between Al Mazrah City and Mawizeh Marshlands. Insured gun still had another 40 minutes, so decided to call it a night. Then this evening, I setup my loadout. A Custom Sakin MG38 in my insured slot, an M4 Contraband (The silenced one with the Green Laser from the T3 Guards) and an SP-X Sniper also Contraband. I spawned into the DMZ, spawn under the train bridge I ran from here to the nearby hospital 3 Self Revives a spare Munitions Box and about 4k worth of loot I then made my way to the Airport Buy Station which had no nearby AI so I was able to use it easily and filled the rest of my backpack with Plates and then headed for Al Bagra Underground the exfil was also just outside the Sewer. As I got lost in the Sewer yesterday when trying to leave I had prepared by watching a few videos and drawing out a map with the layout. I took out the AI and progressed around the sewer switching on the devices as I passed them. As I was doing this I could here gunfire GREAT there is a squad in the fortress above me, hopefully they are busy with their own activities and not interested in ruining mine! I proceeded to collect the System Architecture Documentation do a little looting and leave the underground. made my way to the beach for the exfil called it in and made distance away from the exfil point as I know some T3 AI will make there way to the exfil point. Nearby Player starts pleading for help, excellent the other squad are preoccupied. As the chopped is coming in took out the AI with the Sniper and made my way to exfil for a completed mission! Please to say that everything fell into place. Great spawn, great RNG on the Self Res and also on the Buy Station. Also thinking about it I didn't come across a single riot shield AI during the whole mission whereas yesterday there was 4-5 of them.

I don't feel the need to defend these companies at all. What I can't stand is all this whinny ass cry baby shit from people I doubt were ever responsible for a multi billion dollar product line and calling the people who do it dumb and greedy. I think it's in my PPR that I have a PHD in electrical engineer and I work for the Intel network communications group. I designed the first graphics chip with integrated analog circuits , I designed the first north/south bridge CPU, I designed and validated the first PCIE switch with broadcomm . Now I designed the ASICs that went into Nokia/Ericsson/ZTE 5G network architectures and I see a bunch a people posting on what developer and companies should be doing and how as if they had a fucking clue. Even James telling us all about patents. Somehow I am pretty confident in saying that he doesn't any of own however. If you want to make a point to these companies the solution is simple, don't buy the product. COD 2022 made $1B on 10 days on a budget of $250. They're clearly not the dumb ones

It’s not just about them turning those users into subscribers it’s also about them having to provide the infrastructure for those users, by getting rid of those users it will significantly reduce the strain on there infrastructure and therefore have the knock on affect of massively reducing their costs. That being said if this makes my Netflix experience inconvenient I will be canceling.

That’s awesome! It‘s always nice when the game gifts you a mission like that for free!

Jesus, what an absolute dumpsterfire of a situation! Streamer Atroic accidentally exposes himself live on stream paying for a membership of a site that specalises in deepfakes of fellow streamers and celebrities. Not only that, the victims are known to him personally including his best friend's girlfriend. Awkward AF. None of the victims were aware of this site and it has since ceased business. Atroic has since issued a rather cringeworthy apology on stream with his wife but the circumstances of how he ended up doing this aren't easy to believe especially with sites like Prawnhub not endorsing such material at all and this would further stretch to adverts. Seems he made a conscious decision to source and pay for such content. It definitely wouldn't be such a damning situation if it didn't involve his close friends behind his wife's back. Twitch streamer Atrioc gives tearful apology after paying for deepfakes of female streamers - Dexerto WWW.DEXERTO.COM Atrioc broke down in tears as he issued an apology for looking at deepfake content of female streamers including Pokimane and MayaHiga. It's quite scary how some of these deepfakes have advanced not just for this purpose plus there are also literally voice-perfect replication software. Combine the two and it can be a very dangerous thing. But in terms of Atroic, what a naughty boy!

The point that a lot of these YouTubers are making is that DKOldies claim they clean and/or refurbish the consoles which justifies their 3X cost price compared to rivals and the general market, yet in many cases including normal customers, there is huge evidence that they do not always do this and in some, the machines are internally damaged on top. They make all these TikTok's showing the utmost care and attention to these alleged orders yet what people receive and the way it's delivered is literally taking the piss. YouTuber's can burn money on things like this for videos but if you were a normal person that spent $450 on a classic Xbox that was delivered in a bashed up box with the console protected by bog roll and the machine wasn't cleaned or even tested, then you'd feel very hard done by, bordering on scammed. There's not many places you can buy machines safely, especially with places that offer a comprehensive 'specialist' service and guarantee so when they start half-arsing it or not doing things by their book and charging triple, it's kinda sad.

Seems pretty brilliant to me. What's dumb is paying $70 for a game that only has 9 maps and continuously complain they have a multiplayer with only 9 maps when they do that every single year instead of just going to play the other modes and have fun with it.

New blog post published today with more details on DMZ Changes coming in Season 2 https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2023/02/path-to-season-02-dmz-update-modern-warfare-ii

It definitely wouldn't have blown up had it not been for the fact it was literally his close colleagues, best friend's girlfriend and the fact he actually registered and paid for the material and being married. The painful excuse did not help either. I do think some of the victims are milking it to a degree but I can't speak for how they feel about the situation. If the guy was simply looking at deepfakes of celebs and got caught then it would be embarrassing but forgotten about the next day. He should've just come clean and could've even bit back a bit cos half the people on the list literally get their boobs out to minors on stream and are an inch away from having an OnlyFans on the side as it is.

Ah, I had a feeling something was drawing me to this thread 😍

Oh man I would love that, unfortunately I don't own a PC. I'm really looking forward to playing it on my Playstation 2 though! Can't beat a good Lego game 🤘

Was in Rohan Oil and another team showed up and decided to be friendly. We became a team of 6 and went into the restricted area. Made easy work of the AI and got some good valuable loot Had lots of cash on us so we became targeted in the hunt squad contracts. 3 guys show up trying to kill us for the contract. Had no Idea there were 6 of us. We wiped them. Took their stuff. Decided to exfil. Got a couple of LTVs from different buy stations and machine gunning anything in sight. Again Hunt squad. Trio shows up. Gets wipe and kids start screaming about 6 vs 3 how did we do that. That isn't fair. Total rage. So I went over, stole his stuff. tea bag him and told him that attacking 2 LTVs with machine guns and 6 guys is a real dumb thing to do if you want to live. Exfil is now too far, we see a rescue hostage contract so we decide to do that. Storm the house as a team of 6 with top end gear a that point. Rescue the hostage exfil. Super fun when teams team up. 2nd place. the other team a dumbass team mate decide to run off. Gets himself killed by a squad. He had no mike so I have no idea. I run over to revive him. I see the trio is standing over him in a corner looting his stuff. I lob two molotovs their way and they get burned to a crisp. So we took their stuff and left. I love wiping squads that attack unprovoked

The way they speak or communicate is atrocious. I'd like to give them the benefit of doubt but at this stage yeah it's just watching with a bag of popcorn.

Yup, I am not really surprised and not sure why there has been such an uproar on the internet. They were put in place to entice people to next gen while content was still being produced. It has definately fulfilled its purpose by now, anyone choosing to get a ps5 going forwards will not be doing so for these games.

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Keep on diggin! The Day Before developers now say the launch delay was planned before the Steam takedown | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Fntastic initially blamed the eight month delay of The Day Before on a trademark dispute.

Now this is a popcorn moment. My money is now on this was a social behavioural experiment 🍿😄

Even the lead moderator and most senior point of contact for the community on Steam, Discord and with the media doesn't even know if the game exists. Comical Good video as always from Bigfry covering this debacle

Also the 'game' has supposedly been moved to Unreal 5 yet the new 'gameplay' footage looks like The Division from Wish and about 8 years out of date. Also having to add in muzzle flash as a bought asset into your flagship trailer is one of the most desperately embarrassing things I've seen in a long time. We've had 1 screenshot, a questionable trailer and about 20 seconds of supposed gameplay in a year and the way this game is being developed and the devs own track record just stinks really.

I was looking forward to this as I love the apocalyptic style of games, however I do feel the zombie thing has been done to death now. Surely they could get a bit more creative with end of world / life scenario's. I won't be picking this up right away and can see it being one of those games that drops in price pretty quick so maybe will give it a go when it's a little cheaper. Besides with FO76 on PS I have been getting back into that which is providing my post apocalypse fix for the time being.

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