‘Tis a wonderful game!

I absolutely prefer playing games on my PC for higher FPS and fidelity, but some issues can take hours to fix because Windows doesn’t plainly state the cause. Whereas issues on console are usually resolved by a power cycle

Yeah, I love the game. Played around 200h

It’s fine if those issues don’t bother you, but it caused my mates and I to stop playing

They also didn’t fix respond to feedback until negative reviews gained traction on Steam and media coverage. I don’t see how that qualifies as best ongoing game tbh

Back pain is no joke

Hope you heal up quickly

Arrowhead continued releasing paid DLC right until it would have been a PR disaster to do so

Fuck Arrowhead management

I’m just going to post my Steam review from like a month ago

No game that has the performance and stability issues that Arrowhead have created should ever be nominated for a GotY award

By nominating HD2, they are endorsing behaviour that has shown nothing but contempt for the player base

It's one of the best block punching games of the year!!

Actually, THIS is my biggest issue with GotY this year🤬

This has been a problem since its inception, and really peaked when they nominated an expansion for the "main" award last year

This game has its hooks in me, man! Played like 30 hours so far

I guess it's quite a simple loop, comparable to the survival loop in games like Rust tbh: Drop -> Loot -> Extract -> Upgrade -> Repeat

Increased stakes with risk of losing better weapons keeping the game fresh

I haven't played one either. Really wasn't sure it was for me tbh

But the loop is really engaging, and the risk of death has the same fun as I get in Fortnite. Especially while playing with friends

Put 20h into it since Friday!

I quite enjoy the game as it is tbh. The PvP aspect does add a nice element of tension, and makes for some absolutely hilarious emergent moments

I generally won't initiate conflict in the game unless we're in a bit of a stand-off and they're not responding to the greetings

I far more enjoy the encounters I've had where I've teamed up with random players

That said, I think the PvP aspect adds a nice tension to each match

There does seem to a big fracture in the player base atm, and Embark may have to address it

PvP players really seem to hate PvE players and PvE player just thinking that shoot on sight players are dickheads

A PvE mode might be necessary in the future

I wouldn’t mind a PvE mode, but I don’t mind PvP at all. It tends to be fairly sporadic, and a lot of people are chill anyway

Oh nice! I just beat the second one with the third character

I just blinked and was seeing the coloured gems. I think that's enough for today...

I bought this last night...

The initial quote goes back to the Xbox One launch, when they received a lot of backlash in response to the always online requirement, and Matt Booty just said that Xbox are competing with TikTok and movies😂

I didn't get an XBone until the One X released, but that launch was such a disaster!