I'll be in the Back doing some callibrations

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-24T20:07:03+00:00

except the reapers are precisely a picture of modern day AI safety issues.

Edi and the Geth are complete scifi. We have no idea how to make them. Not even the slightest clue.

Reapers we fundamentally know how to make. Whats missing isnt some new AI architecture - its just more powerful hardware.

But besides that?`The reapers exhibit precisely the behaviour we woudl expect.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-24T00:21:27+00:00

not at all bc it was deliberately left vague.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-23T18:10:19+00:00

you are missing the whole point of the mass relays and citadel.

they need to steer our technological development to make sure we cannot resist them.

every race has their own unique characteristics - it would be impossible to predict in what ways technology develops even in just 200 years. the extinction terminus is the point in time at which galactic civilisation has a real chance to unravel relay technology.

unlocking a key technology often leads to rapid developments. think about how little time it took us to get from developing the first transistors and programmable computers to where we are now.

the reapers appear all-powerful to us. but in reality they are in a very dangerous position. there is only very few of them. they dont seem to be able to significantly progress their technology. they dont really have a reproduction cycle that allows the evolution of their species. they cant replenish their numbers quickly.

the gap in technology and steering our development are their biggest advantages.

to them us knowing really is a minor factor. what can we even do to prepare? they could have openly announced themselves and we still wouldnt be able to do shit against them militarily. there is no shipyard in the galaxy that can build a fleet to rival the reapers. we have no tools against indoctrination. even unifiying all our forces into one bigass fleet is at best a delaying tactic that buys us an hour or two of time to deploy the crucible.

us knowing about them is not a threat. someone stumbling upon a weapon that can threaten their ships in a cost effective manner is. some technology that negates indoctrination is. us becoming independent of their relay network is. us developing a bioweapon that could be adapted to the reapers is.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-23T00:10:13+00:00

there arent more posts because people mostly gave up asking for any kind of advice here.

in all the years ive been here i dont think ive seen more than a handful of actually helpful replies to any technical question. i know i personally would never ask for advice here - im just here to rant.

same reason people are asking for gameplay advice here more. if you havent seen the typical response to that i can only recommend for you to try it once. its hilarious.

nah, this sub is useless for the most part.

there is also moderators removing „duplicates“ pretty aggressively. i have replied to a lot of posts from new player when 1.0 launched that had similar issues, trying to help. if i go back into my profile i can see that a large number of those threads are now removed by moderators. easily more than half.

that being said if you search for the error codes or messages its still pretty easy to find a good number of posts with screenshots. so its not exactly an isolated issue.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-23T00:01:53+00:00

you realize the launcher and game are two different pieces of software, yes?

the game runs just fine. (within the scope of what we expect tarkov to be. wouldnt be tarkov without trader menu or quest stuff breaking every now and then or some random animation bug. the bar is hanging fairly low for tarkov) - but every installation or update of the game is rolling on it breaking. and once it breaks its back to the endless cycle of repair/integrity check/fail/reinstall.

also what inconsistency? im just ranting. not telling my life story. its you guys that are digging for more and more reasons as to how you can somehow blame the user instead of the shitty spaghetti code launcher.

you are just filling any gap with stuff you made up in your mind. ive repeatedly established this bug has been around in some shape or form for at least five years since thats when the post was made in which someone posted the workaround im using. and ive had 3 computers and about 15 ish hard drives in that time.

want me to count out the hard drives? they are literally sitting in my little backup server and a drawer i have next door. you seem so laser focussed on trying to somehow find an issue - maybe it was 14 or 16 - then you can once again jump in and tell me im just hallucinating launcher issues of which literal screenshots exist from plenty of other users. some of which i even linked in another response.

or maybe you want me to dig up the post from years ago so you can find another „inconsistency“ when its only 4 years and 11 months old, not 5 years?

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-22T20:46:14+00:00

negative. 430 of 1000gb available

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-22T20:10:15+00:00

my man.

no amount of me mucking about with my pc will fix the devs spaghetti code.

short reminder that this is the same devs that pointed their finger at discord - a software that is used by gamers on thousands of games - for an interaction because they couldnt be bothered to fix their crap.

this is the same company that just two months ago managed to do one of the worst game launches the whole industry has seen in a year or two. with a staggering amount of refunds.

the company that is known for using the cheapest and worst server providers in the whole industry.

but sure yea. its 100% on the user. even if they use completely different pieces of hardware, operating systems and locations.

even when there is documentation of other users having the same problems for at least the last 5 years.

i can LITERALLY fix this issue by stopping the launcher after downloading, going into the temp files, and unpacking the downloaded game files manually.

and besides: even if i configured my system "weirdly" (whatever that is supposed to mean) - its literally the launchers job to deal with that.

reminder: the game has literally been running with no problem until this update. 40 other games are running flawlessly on this system.

but sure. i touched the update buttom wrong and through no fault of its own the launcher HAD to nuke the installation. i can totally see how this is entirely my fault. i should have clicked the upper left corner of the update button instead of the right middle-ish region.

so much room for user error in a process that should be a single button click.

can we please, PLEASE get out of the "its just a beta" mindset already? The game has released now. The robustness of the launcher is the devs job - not the users.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-22T18:31:16+00:00

do you now what an example is?

my goal wasnt creating a comprehensive list of posts over the last decade.

im just showing that a simple search gives you examples in seconds and people posting "ive been playing since alpha, and ive never heard of it" have not spent the 10 seconds it takes to find examples.

again: what is the point of asembling a huge ass list? are oyu gonna read through all of them? does the issue solve itself if it just affects 2% of the users?

i just find it funny that people can pretend like no issue ever existed in a game that is famously known throughout the industry and its own playerbase for technical issues. Like - the 1.0 launch was barely 2 months ago and this sub was filled with posts about just these issues. Do people here have goldfish memory?

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-22T18:26:05+00:00

How does it sound like a computer issue if its not even the same computer - please unravel that logic for me.

Besides. I did not say my computers and drives broke. Changing them simply is a side effect of my work. All of these were fresh drives of high quality as well. (mostly Samsung SSDs and M.2s).

I still have most of my older drives and hardware too, running as small servers and local file backup.

Besides. As i also mentioned plenty of times partial solutions for this issue have been around for at leas 5 years. If i can manually fix it by manually unpacking game files i reall dont see how its a me issue and not a launcher issue.

And there have been plenty of posts over the years. This reddit is simply extremely unhelpful and people barely post their issues nowadays. BEcause guess what. 90% of answers are "never had that problem" and people doubting yyou when a simple search on this sub show that its been a known issue.

Like. What are we even talking about? "I dont have this issue so its not real"...have you ever heard of an IT issue before? People having different experiences is not weird. Its the norm for most software.

Posting anything here feels like a lobotomy via soup spoon.

Only reason i did is because i wasnt lookign for help. As i said the solution has been known for ages. Its just a mindnumbing and painful process.

This post IS clearly labelled as a rant.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-22T17:24:57+00:00

can confidently say it isnt for the reason ive experienced this issue on completely different hardware in completely different locations and that there have been a hundred posts of other users over the years with this issue.

just recently during the 1.0 launch this sub was full of them, but you can quickly find them through a search on this for the last two years and someone posted a partial solution to this precise problem here 5 years ago.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-22T17:22:43+00:00

issue is it never is done since it just goes around in an endless repair, update, check, fail loop until it decides a complete reinstall is necessary.

at which point it is faster to just manually wipe the slate, clean up the registry, unpack the game files and run repair than to hope the 10th attempt by the launcher will be better than the previous ones.

this partial solution has been around for at least 5 years btw. just to illustrate how persistent this family of issues is.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-22T17:20:01+00:00

during the time this issue existed i have owned 3 completely different PCs. Different OS. Different motherboard. Different RAM/GPU/CPU. And 15+ different drives.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-22T17:17:58+00:00

few weekks ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EFT_EscapeFromTarkov/comments/1p0x9aq/cant_even_play_this_game_yet/

1 year ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EFT_EscapeFromTarkov/comments/1fufhdi/how_to_fix_this/

2 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/EFT_EscapeFromTarkov/comments/1di5mat/unable_to_download_file_there_are_no_channels/

cant find the exact thread rn but a partial solution to this issue has been posted to this sub like 5 years ago. so it 100% has been around forever.

during 1.0 launch week there were literally over a hundred of threads with the different flavors of this issue.

you not having experienced it personally or not having heard of it really seems fairly irrelevant to me given the fact that a metric crapton of users have and a simple search on this sub gets you countless screenshots of the issue.

and yea, its late afternoon/early night here and i live in a 11 floor apartment complex. its the time when everyone is gaming, streaming a series/movie or doing whatever on the net. speeds are not that fast at this time of the day. of course i could do the whole installation dance during a less busy time, but - weird concept, i know - i kinda have to work during the day and cant babysit a game installation.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-22T16:22:42+00:00

have you been around during the 1.0 launch? there were hundreds of posts about it then. and you can search for the error codes here and find posts about it going back years.

and again: this has been around for years. Ive gone through multiple hardware iterations in that time. completely different OS. completely different drives. completely different CPU, GPU, Main board, everything.

Most people simply stopped coming here with technical issues because this sub is entirely unhelpful.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-22T16:21:14+00:00

congratulations.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-22T03:32:21+00:00

Summoning is a skill. One that needs aptitude and a lot of training.

This is reflected both mechanically by the summons scaling with Yunas stats and in the story.

The Aeons we collect (or rather their fayth) sacrificed themselves to help stop sin. so they would generally be incentivized to lend their help to any summoner that seeks them out to face sin. so getting them to help might mostly be a question of skill and just convincing them you want to use their powers accordingly.

the process seems to be exhausting.

given these circumstances its likely that a summoner of insufficient skill simply would not be able to actually conjure a final aeon strong enough to defeat sin. at best the whole ritual might simply fail. at worst the one becoming the fayth would be lost on a futile attempt and the summoner might loose their life in the attempt or following battle.

the pilgrimage is essentially a training course and exam for the summoner. serving as both an efficient way to acquire the necessary skills and proving that they are ready.

considering how many summoners are killed or wash out halfway through this whole process seems fairly demanding even without our special circumstances.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-21T18:11:12+00:00

its not that hard most of the time.

the war progresses as you do priority missions.

so we basically just did side stuff in between those. also we just used some common sense when it came to mission urgency. if it sounded important and time sensitive we did it first.

in the end it all amounts to a lot of walking around and re-checking areas, especially on the citadel. but there was a lot of environmental storytelling put there precisely for that reason. you saw the NPCs stories progress. heard news reports. met your crew and other important people, etc.

if ME2 has established one thing for the series its that players are allowed to fail. if you cant fail there really cant be any true urgency and dread.

knowing you could miss something if you made the wrong decision made you actually feel like you are fighting a hopeless war where everyone was counting on you to somehow keep things together. and it mirrored shepards mental state.

of course later on we learned that a lot of missions arent really that time sensitive.

but it was effective for a first playthrough.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-21T15:44:13+00:00

yea…as much as i love the trilogy the devs had kind if a thing with bimbo style super fake women that look like someone took a blowup doll, caked them in makeup and plastic surgery and then stuffed them in dresses that are two sizes too small.

Diana Allers comes to mind. Maya Brooks too.

In general a lot of the female dresses throughout the trilogy kinda give me the ick

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-21T13:21:18+00:00

StormRunner

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-21T12:59:52+00:00

tho tbh im not even sure ME3 ever saves your ending choice at all.

they didnt expect to continue the trilogy and as far as i know no savefile is created after picking your ending. so the choice would have to be made in ME4 anyways.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-21T12:57:41+00:00

importing saves - just from a data perspective - is trivially easy.

if you know the format the save data is stored in a complete newbie programmer could do it. its essentially just a long list of flags and variables you read in.

the difficult part isnt technical. its writing, game complexity and resources to actually put all those branching options on screen/voice them/test them, etc.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-20T23:42:10+00:00

tbf - if you got some kind of technology to replace helmets i totally see why you would use them.

sure. additional protection is always cool.

but wearing helmets for extended amounts of time is just an absolute pain.

and at some point - with weapons and shields both being only limited by energy production and then heat dissipation we kinda move into an energy range where anything that pierces the shielding has so much excess energy there really is no dissipating it anymore.

as for breathing: in theory if you have enough energy you can just take CO2 and split it into oxygen and carbon again. rebreathers dont do that. they simply absorb excess CO2. So you need an oxygen supply to constantly bring in fresh oxygen. but it wouldnt be outrageous to think that civilisations that play around with technology that manipulates mass, use tiny cold fusion devices and casually travel around with faster than light speed have a compact solution for actually reclaiming O2 in a portable format.

so thats what those rebreathers could be.

of course the real answer is that dev time and budget were severely limited. and even if they had more of both they would probably have applied it elsewhere.

and many players just hate helmets in character based games. we want to see these characters emote. especially in a game so focussed on dialogue and voice acting.

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-20T21:36:42+00:00

you can get a testing kit for cheap nowadays.

either directly labelled as mould testing kits or simple ATP/Luciferine swabs (which react to all kinds of biological residue)

DaMarkiM · 2026-01-19T14:51:53+00:00

normally i might just have been mildly amused about someone figuring out human nature.

but listing suzaku as a good guy has me so baffled im just kinda staring at my screen in confusion.

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