I appreciate that they consider adding back the content they took away in Destiny. It doesn’t negate the fact that they took it away in the first place, but it’s good to see they wish to make up for it at least.

It’s not super special in terms of gameplay as far as I can tell, apart from making it play more slowly and with purpose by making it punishing to respawn. But the developers have gotten a lot of praise for their transparent approach to the development process.
Video here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ugkuP4a3xk4

Fair point. I was thinking in the sense of success: Many games have seen huge success, among the biggest are Minecraft and Terraria, where there’s arguably not a big focus on graphics (that’s not to say that there’s not an art direction!).

In regards to Bodycam, it’s eerily realistic. But this is not thanks to DLSS, and probably has tons better performance as a result. Furthermore, a huge part of the realism is how it feels, not only how it looks. DLSS is only for textures, while animations can easily make things look weird when DLSS is slapped on top of games where there is a general balance between the quality of textures and animations.

Just the thumbnail here is seriously funny! But this is all it’s really good for I think: Ridicule.

Actually using this in games I think is so incredibly unnecessary. Are games bad or limited because of poor graphics? No. Are games better if they have great graphics? Not really.

I don’t watch porn myself, but I support the proper production and consumption of it. Sex work imho should be legal in general, and the workers should be provided workplace safeties like health insurance and minimum pay.

Not sure how easy it is to switch from it being illegal to the aforementioned, especially during wartime, but my fingers are crossed for success and progression either way.

How about battery saving settings? Or data saver? (I constantly use battery saver, and it’s pretty aggressive with restricting processes)

If we’re looking beyond the scope of potential spies and saboteurs, there are plenty of families, friends, and even just normal people who travel abroad. Being abroad opens them up to seeing things from a perspective outside the one that is controlled and even enforced within Russia.

Furthermore, ordinary people’s view of EU (and other countries outside Russia) is part of many pieces of this conflict’s puzzle: Money leaving Russia, people seeing good things in EU in contrast to their own country, and Kremlin being less able to make statements like “this country is showing hostility” or “See? EU only cares about itself”.

And ultimately, we do not want to unnecessarily sour the international relations more than necessary, as it’s required in a lot of ways for talks about resolutions both during and after the war. Kremlin might not care about this, given the things they do, but they’re not looking very far ahead. If they did, they wouldn’t wage war in the first place.

But you can always add text in the body of the post?

So nothing new, really, just another higher-up realizing the market is shifting.

And I’m just reluctant to click on articles with sensational/clickbait titles due to that reinforcing their behavior of making those titles. If there’s some new and good reporting worth reading about however, I’m fine with clicking the link.

Appreciate your comment :-)

Clickbait title - care to provide some content/context?

I love how comprehensive this changelog is, and with so many performance wins! It looks like a fair amount more games will now be upgraded to a playable state too.

Interesting… They “enhanced” parrying? Wonder what that means specifically? Like one or two more hit frames?

Good points; I’m convinced.

I’ve enjoyed all their works tbf, and I’ll likely get to enjoy yet another good game :-)

It was not stated here who was behind the attack, only that the attack found place. Are the two stories connected? Attacks happen all the time after all, so it’s hard to tell.

Good point! I’m confident that they’ll deliver some thought provoking elements to the story in this regard.

Furthest removed from the core gameplay? What is the core?

The difficult survival? Not knowing what next will try to kill you? The uncertainty of the future? Living in darkness both figuratively and literally? The longing for the life before the war? Exodus is just the least dark game, but the core is still very much there I feel like?

True, though I was a bigger fan of Metro Exodus for the fact that they left the psychic stuff out honestly. Exodus is a good example of how you don’t have to follow the recipe exactly to get a good cake. Nevertheless, there has always been a big focus on the atmosphere and the people, regardless of the psychic part of the story, where they’re coping with survival while piecing together what has been going on before during and after the bombs.

However, I just read an article here that reassured me greatly: https://www.ign.com/articles/metro-2039-developers-on-how-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-changed-their-plans
They still focus on the slow burn story, so all is good, I believe! :-)

This one I’ll be keeping tabs on - sounds like a great and fun game!

I’m stoked for another Metro game, but I feel like they’re leaning a little hit too heavily into the radioactive monsters with this one? I feel like it’s becoming less “possible dystopian future” and more “save the world/country from the supernatural creatures” kind of game…?

What I really like with the franchise is how everything is grounded in possible everyday reality. Sure they have some monsters, but it’s not trippy or fantasy-like. There’s atmosphere through the environment being filled with everyday items in a post-war world, like printed photographs hung up on the walls, letters left behind by now-skeletons, and the general scarcity of resources that make survival a core piece of everyone’s mind. I hope they will achieve this like in their past games, with storytelling grounded in reality being front and center.

On another note, it’s interesting how they have made what looks like Pripyat, and I kinda hope it is! I’d much rather explore Pripyat in Metro than in Stalker.

I wonder, what are the criterias for an update to be called “major” (2.0)? They added some languages (I hope they’re actual voice actors, not AI) and some new skills, that’s it?

Also, what warrants the title to now be “Enhanced”?

By all means, the devs of this game have been very good at patching and updating the game since launch, but this all seems like a silly PR stunt to me.