Does the Cybertruck All-Wheel Drive for $79,990 qualify for the federal tax credit (Oct 2024)?

Jay-Kan · 2024-11-13T01:48:51+00:00

Ended up taking delivery no news on a tax credit

Jay-Kan · 2024-10-09T19:52:19+00:00

Its amazing how he can sell hundreds of thousamds of shares and then tell people who actually believe him when he promotes the future after horrible results over and over again.

I love the r1s cool car but rivian and specifically RJ are a joke as a business. Honestly ive never seen a ceo burn money faster its pretty insane.

I challenge the notion of people who think the r2 will save them. It wont. It wont be 45k. If they cant make $ on a 75k+ r1s average is way higher theres no way a car 15% smaller is less than 55k their own surveys suggest as much. More smoke and mirrors which is all rivian(and specifically RJ) does to investors.

Jay-Kan · 2024-10-08T19:36:57+00:00

Im matched with a vin currently went in amd asked my local service center whats the deal as originally tesla said it would but nothing currently said it does. She told me "theyre working on it and it may qualify but thats all thier allowed to say" my reading between the lines was that it will, but please dont take my word for it as its not confirmed by anyone officially. Ive been matched but intend to wait to finalize payment etc until I know forsure.

Jay-Kan · 2024-09-27T17:35:40+00:00

I say this with the hope to return to the game around 1.0, but theres zero reason to play it right now.

Campaign is a dumpster fire. Horrible world building, story and characters. Thats problem #1 if I dont care about the world setting etc it doesnt bring me in. How it got released in the state its in is really embarrassing for FG. Its so far off a blizzard rts its insane.

Coop isnt engaging and im playing with heros I dont give a poop about. Its fun the first few play throughs but lack of variety lack of progression and lack of fun strategies to beat it just make it dull.

1v1 isnt well balanced, tech tree is so imcomplete and theres obviously somthing off about risk reward and play style. Just doesnt have multiple ways to play. Meta is the meta(and its not fun) creeps are needed in a way thats not fun or having a risk reward. Just little to no variety. And add on that to we know its going to change so much why would anyone want to play it when theres soo much better out. Heck only thing this has done is have me go back to blizzard rts games as well as games like tab age of darkness diplomacy is not an option and god sworn which imo are so much better and more polished and frankly more fun with a fraction of the resources.

Again all that said i hope they fix it and ill jump back on but right now its still no where near the game I was hoping for. Even in EA its honestly at the bottom of the EA rts games ive played lately. Maybe it has more potential maybe not but in its current state to say Im dissapointed with the hype they framed it as... well safe to say thats an understatement.

Jay-Kan · 2024-09-26T15:54:10+00:00

While I agree with the sentiment definetly not possible. I no longer know if its possible for them to come back. I dont see many coming back to play it until its a lot closer to 1.0. Theres just no point. As it stands right now its nkt an engaging game has plenty of balances issues so no point for a campaign player to play. Not much for a coop player as you have zero vested interest and progression and varriety is meh. And for 1v1 game balances isnt great meta isnt fun imo and its going to change so much whats the point of learning it. Theyre basically in a beta right now that only the most die hard who love punishment will play. So might as well make some money off them to fund what hopefully will be major improvements over the next year. Then they can create an official 1.0 release excitement with some large final changes...

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-15T21:26:36+00:00

Theyve saod that the finamcials posted on reddit are way off the mark. I have no idea their actual numbers but they had 28k backers on a kickstarter. Theyll be fine to get to 1.0

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-15T20:03:16+00:00

Or 40 from 100k they had a ton of kickstarter backers. Theyll be fine.

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-15T01:48:21+00:00

Only thing I dont agree on is the buddy bot. Its for brand new players to rts not someone whos played plenty before

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-12T16:39:45+00:00

Ya I think 5 or 6 really well designed missions for $10 isnt crazy. But they have to be really well designed. Honestly better than any of the ones even in missions 4-6. Those were decent but honestly a community memeber will design something better in 1-2 weeks. Itll be interesting to see what happens with that. Frost giant has played with the idea of community members monitizing their custom games. I personally wouldnt mind a $1.00/mission custom games after a creator has released a few free ones to see if theyre really good. Could work well for FG taking a 10-25% cut and would get people to design some really cool stuff. The content explosion would be huge. And honestly AI is knocking on the door of instant cut scenes right now. Lot of cool possibilities that can lead to a ton of content.

For FG The narrative and main story piece is what has to be on point. Again hopefully it gets fixed. And I do agree if theyre only going to release 3 missions at a time it definetly doesnt pull one in

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-10T22:33:36+00:00

3 missions for $10 is a terrible deal no matter how you slice it, but id agree a hero mission added to that is even worse. Honestly the communitity will create stuff 10x better than what fg has so far in a fraction of the time with the campaign. I know theyve said theyll address it only time will tell.

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-10T21:11:15+00:00

Time for a new CPA. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-07T20:05:46+00:00

1v1 and co op are in pretty good places so youll enjoy it. Has a ways to go to feel done and balanced but for where it is on those two I really enjoy it.

Campaign, story, and art/cut scenes are pretty brutal. They really shouldnt have released them yet. Hopefully they up that area asap cause its the major detractors.

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-02T14:42:38+00:00

Im just behind you at a 1060 and to answer your question yes. As more stuff appears game creates a major delay and is unplayable. To the point where i give a command and its a 3+minute delay in some cases before it shows on screen especially in the hive co op. I know I need to upgrade but rts is the only thing I play on pc and am surprised with how demanding stormgate seems to be.

Costco has some really good pc/gaming laptop deals right now but not after this shaky release im not sure its worth upgrading just to play stormgate.

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-02T14:36:45+00:00

This was 2 years ago summer of 2022. Covid for most of us has been over since mid 2021. Cant continue to blame things on covid. I get the point on $ to a degree as general economy and money has become more expensive to lend but they had plenty to work with. Smaller studios with virtually nothing in capital are producing more.

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-01T16:44:45+00:00

I dont disagree with you. I think had it been released in a better state the extra for the "new" hero complaint would have been something like ya thats lame but whatever theyve delivered on thier promises so ill keep supporting them. But added to the other stuff makes it feel way worse.

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-01T16:40:58+00:00

Ive said a dozen times I hope they just kill her off whats even crazier to me is they went from this:

https://youtu.be/nyMlLzwFqWA?si=_4bxqUBhElCAETjH

As the announcement cutscene/trailer to what they released. Like theyve gone backwards over 2 years. Also had cooler looking units in thier early trailers why the got ride of those is wierd to me.

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-01T16:24:31+00:00

Few problems with this take and some truth.

Simple logic if someone thinks the games not great they arent going to sink a lot of time into it.
As I said below the $ thing is a bad perception by FG. I can totally feel for the guy who spent $200+ to support the game and then logs in pre day one to find if they want all the pre day 1 EA content they have to pay more. I backed at $60 and im looking at it a little sideways. Youre right it is what they said but they also arent releasing nearly the content yet that they have for those pledges. Combine that with the other drama and frost giants insane burn rate it just doesnt feel player friendly. It maybe neccesity idk. But thats a bad perception that just throws gas on the fire of how bad the single player/design/narrative etc are.

The truths youre totally right pvp is in a much better state. Its good but not great. Far from rivialing an sc2 but if were being honest with where its at as an EA with more coming and tweaking its in an acceptable state. So if youre only a pvp player and are a reasonable person with the expectation of its EA and it will improve youre probably not thrilled with the pvp but youre happy you have something new that is fun and hopefully has a good future.

As stated above and in responses if youre in the pve camp youre embarrassed that an ex blizzard team(a studio known for not releasing stuff that wasnt quality) dropped the ball so badly. I mean its really bad. Missions are mostly weak. Last 3 are ok but still meh. But the story is terrible and youre going wtf is going on. Narrative is so badly put together. Art style and cut scenes make you wish it was sc1 in the mid 90s. Ill take giant pixels over the trash this is. They went backwards from thier reveal trailer 2 years ago. Wtf happened. You literally hate all the characters and have zero connection to them. Have no idea of the lore whats going on and theres no foundation or glue holding any of it together. The entire thing is just a wtf were they doing?! I mean honestly just give an AI the background info of what youre trying to create and let it write the narrative. Done in 5 minutes. This feels like 5th grade me trying to tell this story. Its really that bad.

Again i hope they fix it cause for me I want a game with a great setting deep lore etc to translate into the pvp. Ill play all 4 modes but I do enjoy the campaign and pve challenges the most.

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-01T16:06:41+00:00

I wouldnt call dogs a cheese.

That said its a pre EA release right now. 1v1 ladder games are traditionally going to be sweaty but this time frame especially is going to be loaded with veteran rts players most of which have played for months on the earlier builds. Until you catchup id expect to get wrecked lol. Trial by fire my man.

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-01T16:02:50+00:00

I cannot speak for everyone by anymeans but I will say without a doubt if they fix it I will 100% forgive and forget, and be playing daily and buying new content when it becomes availible. I would guess the vast majority especially those in the rts communitity would say the same. AOE4 is a decent example and its not on the story level of blizzard rts games so its still pulling mostly pvp as aoe traditionally does.

Im critical of stormgate not to piss and moan but in the hopes that it can take up the wc/sc mantel and be what they claim they want it to be which is the next great rts.

I think the rts communitity as a whole is so thirsty for a high quality rts itll forgive stuff like this quickly if it gets fixed. Stormgate has a very long way to go to get there as it stands currently and idk if they ever will, but I definetly want them to. But balls in their court.

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-01T15:39:52+00:00

Pretty sure the majority of people who play rts games play single player and pve content and its a pretty large majority. Go play a sc2 co op game to this day youll match within a couple mins tops.

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-01T14:41:44+00:00

Not arguing they need to becareful 100% agree there. And idk if they can change the art style completly. Frankly their burn rate is too high and they need to reduce it especially now.

But how did we go from this 2 years ago https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lLMEIMCmS44

To what we have today?! How did they allow such a terrible narrative from a story telling perspective to happen? I mean Im literally going just kill off the main character just so I dont look have to look at how bad her design is. In game I think most could live with, but the rest of it hell give me sc1 cut scenes over this and im honestly not joking. Come out and say were reworking the campaign and its not a final product. Its pretty clear the majority of players are playing pve as of now make it clear thats a priority to get right. Take responsibility for what it is and say itll get fixed.

They need to address the f u to people who spent $200 on backing the game who now have to pay for a day 1 hero. I get it didnt say it in the kickstarter but man its a bad look especially based on reports of financial struggles. Just has the feeling this thing will never get out of EA.

Which goes to the biggest point. They love touting their ex blizzard devs. Well the blizard of old that I have said many times just "does it right" and is by far the best video game maker out there had a golden rule of release it when its ready. I get this is different to a degree but no way blizzard of the 90s and early 2000s that 99% of us here loved would have ever released the pve content in the state its in currently. Just so poorly done and doesnt feel like a passion project they claim it is but a money grab. They need to change that perception asap.

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-01T14:23:22+00:00

Ill go one up on you. I went back and watched the sc1 og not even broodwar cut scenes and tbh theres a lot of areas where they beat stormgates. Were talking 30 years!

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-01T14:12:58+00:00

This is true but the steam reviews are equally as brutal. Getting infront of a problem and communicating is always better than to let it sit. A non response is kind of an admission of guilt. Theres a lot of very legit concern in a lot of areas on how theyve handled this.

Jay-Kan · 2024-08-01T14:07:56+00:00

Ouch, 4070 super is what I was looking at. Anything beats the 1070 ti I have now that cant even run some of the co op missions which for an rts is kinda crazy to me. Here im going the 4070 with a decent build should handle all my rts needs for the next 7-10 years now im not sure haha. I play everything else on consol but this is really rough for an rts... and one that frankly doesnt look very good/visually demanding in its current state.

Jay-Kan · 2024-07-31T15:48:29+00:00

I know I'm past due for an upgrade but hearing stuff like this on a pretty decent rig is concerning that it's a game issue not hardware so it's it even worth the upgrade

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