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When this comes to PS5, I'll purchase it but not doing any gamepass malarkey for it. Looks decent and I agree that a chill open world area to chill and find stuff at your leisure is a good, different way to essentially create the opening menu UI.

Pretty much, yeah. Did you ever play the open world NFS games? As it's basically like that.  Or GTA if you can't get out of your car.  An open world you can cruise around, find stuff, easter eggs, collectibles or things like speed cameras to try and go the fastest through or drift zone challenges to score the most points on a section of road etc.  Though to progress the story you need to do actual races but, like NFS or GTA, you need to go to the place on the map to start them.  The world is multiplayer too so you'll find other people driving around or you can set up convoys to cruise around with or take photos.

Yeah gamepass has become too expensive - I’m not paying £23 a month for it.  Especially when I’m only interested in FH6 and you can get a PC key for £40.
 
It’s coming to PS5 at the end of the year apparently.  So maybe a bit more FG interest then - though I didn’t realise that when I bought my PC key else I might have waited -  oops 😅 

Pretty much, yeah. Did you ever play the open world NFS games? As it's basically like that.  Or GTA if you can't get out of your car.  An open world you can cruise around, find stuff, easter eggs, collectibles or things like speed cameras to try and go the fastest through or drift zone challenges to score the most points on a section of road etc.  Though to progress the story you need to do actual races but, like NFS or GTA, you need to go to the place on the map to start them.  The world is multiplayer too so you'll find other people driving around or you can set up convoys to cruise around with or take photos.

I'm surprised there isn't a thread on this yet given it's out in a a little over a month.
 
 
 
 
 
There's some pretty good reviews coming out in the early previews highlighting the world variance and it feels more alive than previous titles.  Slightly improved physics and tweaks to game modes with the inclusion of time trial that you can do on circuits that are accessible in free roam.
 
 
 
I played FH4 a lot but didn't get on well with FH5 so much - playing it for a week or 2 when it was on game pass.  I've decided to buy this one though so hopefully it's good 😄 

I'm surprised there isn't a thread on this yet given it's out in a a little over a month.
 
 
 
 
 
There's some pretty good reviews coming out in the early previews highlighting the world variance and it feels more alive than previous titles.  Slightly improved physics and tweaks to game modes with the inclusion of time trial that you can do on circuits that are accessible in free roam.
 
 
 
I played FH4 a lot but didn't get on well with FH5 so much - playing it for a week or 2 when it was on game pass.  I've decided to buy this one though so hopefully it's good 😄 

Power Generator, Battery storage, still not done, I need to move one of my generators up, and then reroute the thorium to it. I mainly use Limestone converted to Biofuel. 

This area used to be a massive holding area because these were the first "normal" mines I found. Thats all changing though, and most of the containers are now sitting there waiting for me to build a proper warehouse, and then move it all away.

Missed the first weekend but made up for it the second weekend.  Stats aren’t too shabby either.

The modded server still exists if you want to play on it 🙂 But I appreciate there's fun in the challenge of figuring out your own 🙂 I remember Voizdev on youtube having some good tutorials on starting and joining servers.  They may be out a little out of date now but I'm sure they're still relevant.  It's more connecting, joining etc. though rather than hardware.  Hardware wise, Minecraft is pretty easy to run so just go with whatever the best hardware is that fit's your budget.  Some general comments though, Minecraft is still terribly multithreaded so benefits massively from fast single cores over high core count CPU's.  RAM, fast RAM is great but total pool of RAM is more important than speed and even for the heaviest of modpacks I don't think we ever went above 8Gb but we probably pushed that limit a few times.  Storage, less of a consideration so really any SSD/NVME would do.

Missed the first weekend but made up for it the second weekend.  Stats aren’t too shabby either.

Rimworld has had a new update that makes me want to get back on it again. Such an awesome game 🙂
 
 
 

Exactly the cause of my reticence.  I was hoping to give it a good test in the beta but of course it comes out the weekend I'm away 😄 but hopefully you lot will play it and give some feedback as I want to get it and I want to love it.

Exactly the cause of my reticence.  I was hoping to give it a good test in the beta but of course it comes out the weekend I'm away 😄 but hopefully you lot will play it and give some feedback as I want to get it and I want to love it.

Exactly the cause of my reticence.  I was hoping to give it a good test in the beta but of course it comes out the weekend I'm away 😄 but hopefully you lot will play it and give some feedback as I want to get it and I want to love it.

Exactly the cause of my reticence.  I was hoping to give it a good test in the beta but of course it comes out the weekend I'm away 😄 but hopefully you lot will play it and give some feedback as I want to get it and I want to love it.

These types of articles are designed to stoke or play up to people's fears or prejudice and I suppose some amongst us are more easily manipulated than others 🤪

Yes, definitely the woke advert.
 
Couldn’t possibly be they stopped building Jag’s 6 months ago so don’t have the product to sell.  But I guess that doesn’t fit the anti-woke agenda or make clickbait headlines.

I’m not saying sales haven’t stopped.  I’m saying it’s clickbait as the headline is Jag sales decline after woke ad then article goes on to explain the decline is a trend long before the ‘woke’ advert, dealers not having stock to sell and no new models to drive interest (though there are other factors too).
 
If ‘clickbait’ offends, how about sensationalist then? Why is it a surprise that a company saying we’re going to stop selling these products then has poor sales of said product?  Where’s a shocked pikachu when you need one.
 
There’s something funny about your anecdotal evidence for the numbers of cars when I know precisely how many they are.

That's funny because my local Jag dealership which I pass 10 times a week has a forecourt of about 70 of them and they ain't shifting. There is nothing clickbait about it - their sales have dried up and that's from their own press release. Just because their lines may be stalled doesn't mean there aren't tens of thousands of cars dotted around for sale. 

Well this was expected 
Jaguar Sales Crash 97% After 'Woke' Rebrand! Is This the End of British Luxury?
WWW.IBTIMES.CO.UK Jaguar's European sales tanked to just 49 cars in April 2025 after a divisive rebrand and EV pivot. Can the iconic...  
it’s amazing how normal people could see this happening but corporate marketing executives couldn’t😂
 
49 cars sold in one month globally has to be a record low!

Recently came across Band-maid and quite enjoying it.
 
 

Good afternoon you beautiful people,
 
I don't know when but at some point recently addons (or mods basically) were added to the store so they can be added to realms.  There's whole modpacks on there but to start with, Matt and I decided on a few choice vanilla+ mods.  The mods included are
- Tinkers Construct (a mod that adds many different materials for tools, upgrades and modifiers to tools)
- Storage drawers (these are errr drawers the store stuff - some alternate storage, each draw stores one item but shows the item and single drawers can store a LOT - storage can be increased too)
- Botany pots (pots to grow stuff in, simplifies crop growing and with hopper pots, they will auto-harvest crops too)
- A structure addon that adds buildings to explore out in the world
- A creature addon that adds some new creatures (and variants) to find in different parts of the world.
 
This should work seamlessly for anyone that can connect from whatever device.  For me, the realm showed up automatically for me as I've connected before to the old one.  So hopefully people can get on but any problems and we can sort out an invite link.

It looks like only Matty can do it as the Realm owner so dropped him a message to post a join link.
 
 
Never! It’s nice to be able to crossplay with some mods but Bedrock has a looooong way to go to be on the level of java.  Also you have to buy the addons for Bedrock (the server host does, not all of us) rather just download them.
 
Plus Bedrock is annoying in some respects though I accept this might just be because I’m so used to Java.

Good afternoon you beautiful people,
 
I don't know when but at some point recently addons (or mods basically) were added to the store so they can be added to realms.  There's whole modpacks on there but to start with, Matt and I decided on a few choice vanilla+ mods.  The mods included are
- Tinkers Construct (a mod that adds many different materials for tools, upgrades and modifiers to tools)
- Storage drawers (these are errr drawers the store stuff - some alternate storage, each draw stores one item but shows the item and single drawers can store a LOT - storage can be increased too)
- Botany pots (pots to grow stuff in, simplifies crop growing and with hopper pots, they will auto-harvest crops too)
- A structure addon that adds buildings to explore out in the world
- A creature addon that adds some new creatures (and variants) to find in different parts of the world.
 
This should work seamlessly for anyone that can connect from whatever device.  For me, the realm showed up automatically for me as I've connected before to the old one.  So hopefully people can get on but any problems and we can sort out an invite link.

It looks like only Matty can do it as the Realm owner so dropped him a message to post a join link.
 
 
Never! It’s nice to be able to crossplay with some mods but Bedrock has a looooong way to go to be on the level of java.  Also you have to buy the addons for Bedrock (the server host does, not all of us) rather just download them.
 
Plus Bedrock is annoying in some respects though I accept this might just be because I’m so used to Java.