Can we stop having a war on the continent of Usea for 5 minutes?!
AC7 was great
The game that chickened out of doing a full blown Osea bad plotline (in universe, Osea is the stand in for the USA), and completely dropped it halfway through the game to do a "ehhh, it was Belka's fault yet again" is good. Okay.
The factory I had worked at before had an actual rule on their books saying that you can't say anything negative about the company on socials or you'll risk being disciplined or terminated, same goes for drinking while wearing anything with the company logo. Which btw part of the dress code there was that you had to wear a shirt with the company logo on the floor.
Another aspect here is that some people wouldn't be around in here or other aligned spaces if they didn't have access to the internet. In my personal experience of being a homeschooled church kid, I probably would've ended up being a straight up christian conservative if I didn't have access to the internet. It is a bit of an oversimplification, but it is true to a degree.
At that point from what little I know about coding, you're now essentially upkeeping two separate builds that have to interact with eachother on PC (generally the pc and console builds of a game are different, but not enough to cause issues), and that's if it's possible to even tell if the drive it's installing to is a hdd or sdd.
It really is just easier to have one build of the game that you put out, and have that build cater to the lowest common denominator on pc.
The thing about duplicate files is that it makes it efficient for loading times if you don't have a ssd, the other big one for better loading times is having the files be uncompressed.
I played it, and like its okay at best, but I will say that TIE Fighters/Interceptors/Bombers taking a couple seconds of blaster fire and keep on trucking like nothing happened is very jarring. Not to mention one of 5 ships in your squadron is dedicated to making sure you have effectively infinite ammo for your missile/torpedo ordnance is also a decision in game design.
The game is fine and all, but it really does feel like it was designed for the pvp multiplayer than the campaign.
So it's not a reboot, so where does the story go from here? I mean there's not much else left to do besides doing the 'Stargate Program is forced to go public' plotline that was supposedly rumored, which admittedly does have a lot of wide ranging consequences for Earth itself, but nothing on the galactic scale for the universe.
Also I refuse to acknowledge SGU for a lot of reasons, most of it being that it feels like a show with zero likable characters, though that was more than several years ago when I last watched any of it.
Thing is I don't see this going for less than $800-900, not unless Valve is going to sell at a loss or even, and make it up on the game sales end from their storefront. Which they certainly could easily do, but I doubt it.
I wish I could say it was just because of how bad guy coded they were
Every BT faction is written as a hat. Liao is yellow peril space china, Kurita is yellow peril space feudal japan, davion is space british empire, Steiner is space prussians, Marik fights themselves more often than anyone else, Comstar is the space catholic church that is also a telephone company, the Word of Blake is post 9/11 depictions of space Islam, the Clans are varying degrees of horseshoe theory, and the fallen (first) Star League is the roman empire that everyone has a circle jerk over, and the Magistracy of Canopus is where the cat girls are.
Prosecutors don't like running charges unless they're sure it'll get a conviction, a plea deal, or in a rare case only bringing the charges to then botch the prosecution so bad to let them get away with it. Though mainly getting a plea deal because the entire US court system famously has a lack of time problem.
Can we stop having a war on the continent of Usea for 5 minutes?!
The game that chickened out of doing a full blown Osea bad plotline (in universe, Osea is the stand in for the USA), and completely dropped it halfway through the game to do a "ehhh, it was Belka's fault yet again" is good. Okay.