Super excited to jump into Mortal Shell 2 this weekend! I was a fan of the first and the changes they made to the combat system. Sounds like this new one went even further and they added some cool new mechanics.

Been a long day, thanks for giving an internet stranger a chance to let out a sharp exhale through my nose and a sensible chuckle.

Tripwire Interactive is the publisher. The article specifically mentions Deceive Inc.

The grip sensor on the Steam Controller 2026 works really well for this. I’d love to see it implemented on the next iteration of Deck.

Would be interested in the article but what a cancerous site for readability. Not that they really had much in the way of good articles for the past decade anyways.

Congrats! I purchased mine the 3rd (also a 512 + controller) and am expecting delivery today. Currently shows as “Loaded on delivery vehicle”. Happy unboxing!!

Don’t do it. You have so much life left to live and this game will take it all with its sweet, sweet charms and wily ways.

Better to never taste the ambrosia of a perfect set of jokers than risk the heartache of a million bad celestial pack openings.

What?

A steadfast replacement of engineers in leadership with MBA’s over the last decade plus.

Money found a place in the tech chain and has since ruined it.

Haha. Yeah, I’m definitely the senior side of attendees but love to see the younger crowd embracing the punk rock ethos I grew up with. Basement shows are a formative thing!

They do shows near there. Some great times have been had under that bridge.

Obligatory Conan the Musical

.zip seems to have some power tripping bastards so it could be that as well

For OP or for us that are watching and saying “goddamn, they tried”?

Respect. Fuck anyone who says otherwise.

Naw, they’re tenuously connected aside from some specific moments and characters across the franchise.

Story wise it’s all pulp horror/scifi. If you want to play the highlights, the remakes of part 2 and 4 from the 2010’s are fantastic games and each stand on their own. 7 & 8 are a more modern style and really good straight horror experiences but not necessary to enjoy Requiem. The other entires can be rough as they were created with various elements of game design and language we’ve moved past and improved on since.

Resident Evil Characters wiki page can be a fun read for a little more context but not an absolute need.

Alternately if you want to get caught up without a 100 hour investment in play time, Noah Caldwell-Gervais does great long form essays on video game series’ and his resident evil one will get you up to speed for requiem in significantly less time.

I started playing them on original PlayStation release and have enjoyed them all for different reasons. The story is a hodgepodge of 30 years of writers and artists building a world that is both overly complex and charmingly simple. Each release can be seen as a reflection of the world it was created in and the horror and espionage tropes of the time. At the end of the day though, it is a very silly series that understands the ridiculousness of its characters and world and strikes a great balance between that and being genuinely scary.

Came in to this thread not knowing what an Andrew Wilson was. Still don’t but, feel better about it.

Q3 also doesn’t have kernel level anticheat.

That tracks. It was unplayable

It was a free upgrade iirc. Tried it on launch and whoooo… the frame times had me wondering if there wasn’t something wrong with my hardware.

It was unplayable as a stealth archer (as one does). Impossible to aim and hit anything without massive user compensation.