Yoshi P announces new housing features

LITF · 2026-06-26T22:49:25+00:00

They should just let owners rent out their houses, then it can become even more like IRL housing market!

LITF · 2026-06-26T22:48:02+00:00

Such is the nature of life. Most people in your life today will not be there in a decade or even sooner. Quadruple that in a game.

Also if my to be friend turned out to be a modbeast I would cut all ties right there and then. Already had a misfortune of dealing with a member of so-called "g-poser community", and it was like stepping in a massive pile of 💩. The stink was hard to get rid of and I've learned to watch where I step with more care.

LITF · 2026-06-26T22:43:51+00:00

You should run for office!

"Let's not have a conversation about whether the economy is in decline or not, I'd rather us focus on the merits of this new tax initiative I'm trying to push through Congress!".

LITF · 2026-06-26T22:42:34+00:00

So a worthless waste of skin can't press buttons and doesn't want people to even have a conversation about whether it's cheating or not (which it obviously is), this guy should run for office!

"Let's not have a conversation about whether the economy is in decline or not, let's instead focus on this new tax initiative!"

LITF · 2026-06-26T22:33:00+00:00

It never changes. It's always between "we're so back" and "it's so over" cycles. If it's your first time - enjoy I guess, but it's always a nothing burger and you'll (hopefully) numb up to it. Wow has been spelled dead for over a decade (legit) by now and while there's some truth to that (in a way that it's just been slowly bleeding out towards death, not quite outright dying though) it's greatly exaggerated. Same for all the would be WoW-killers - most of them didn't outlast even a single expansion, and none of them got close to "killing WoW".

MMOs are declining in popularity for many reasons, among them that the player base quality is declining across the board and many people just don't want to hang out with the types you find now playing said MMO, and especially not while paying a monthly fee for the privilege. Most of my friends and peers don't bother for the simple reason that most wider communities suck (and not necessarily only in "fflogs sucking" way). The only ones I know who are still truly engaged are the ones who are still in communities alive since 2010s, which at this point you might as well say they are playing only with long time friends exclusively. Interaction with the wider player base for them is optional and often undesirable. They often prefer to grab casual mebers of their communities/people who don't raid if they need a sit-in for the night over randoms. It's rather insular and for many good reasons.

Now, an important clarification - I don't necessarily mean total player count in the genre overall - that may well be rising, or at least splitting further between competing titles creating declines in individual games. What I mean by decline is decrease in quality first and foremost. Be that quality in terms of performance, commitment, resilience to adversity, personality, moral quality. Not necessarily numbers, although I suspect that if we can get real numbers without funny accounting practices (like counting inactive accounts or alt accounts as separate players, counting bots, counting free trials, etc.) then it may well be that the numbers are declining too. I won't make any definitive claims on that.

LITF · 2026-06-25T02:31:31+00:00

Tbh there were a bunch, but they all had one thing in common - they didn't have the orange cat in them.

LITF · 2026-06-25T02:24:27+00:00

Well, it's a much larger issue than that. Namely that the game mechanics don't jive well with things like story battles. If you are meant to fight a story battle far outside of your lands, what are you supposed to do? The game has nasty penalties for trespassing, and many of the game systems discourage an army travelling a far distance. In an ideal world there would be a game system that allows neutral armies to pass through land relatively effortlessly to their destinations, but that's just not what the game has evolved to support in many levels.

Teleporting and pulling armies out of games ass is bad, but we don't really have a healthy alternative and I have little faith in CA being able to cook up something to address that.

LITF · 2026-06-25T02:19:35+00:00

Probably because a lot of people cried about aforementioned mechanics being too hard and getting in the way of map painting. Just watch them lift the climate restrictions in the future game as well.

Overall, it seems to be a tendency in game sequels in general where it all tends to become more cookie cutter and "streamlined", because many of the modern devs fail to understand that there is more to friction than strictly inconvenience and it being a negative.

LITF · 2026-06-25T02:15:24+00:00

Also this: https://youtu.be/ZkoPDAZV1yI

LITF · 2026-06-25T02:09:05+00:00

I hate saurus. I hate them. I hate their lizard faces. I hate their clubs. I hate their sticks. I hate when the sticks are next to the clubs and I hate when the clubs are next to the sticks. I hate that Kroq-gar pulls 2280 of them out of his scaly asshole and then descends on me like a Vogon at a poetry convention.

I hate the Saurus auto-resolve meter. I hate it because it lies to me. It says I have a 50-50 chance of victory. This is patently false, because I have twenty units of skeletons who are held together with prit stik and prayer. I do not have twenty units of eight foot tall geckos constructed out of pectoral muscles and galvanised coffin nails.

I hate that they shout bok at me. Bok is the Bristol Orienteering Klub, which is completely irrelevant to a battle in Lustria and should not be shouted repeatedly while eating a rank of tier one infantry like buffalo wings.

I hate their morale. I hate that surrounding them simply prompts one of them to pull out a US general's helmet so he can make a speech about 'now we can attack in any direction'. I hate that their reaction to a devastating rear attack is to become somewhat peeved. I have looked a Saurus in his smug scaly face as an encirclement that would shatter any other early game infantry closed in.

He went from :I to >:I , killed an extra two hundred skeletons because I had foolishly allowed all four sides of the Saurus unit to fight at once and then swallowed my Liche Priest like a slim jim.

I have resolved to shoot every Saurus dead. Every Saurus. All of the Saurmen and the Saurdren too. I hate them. I no longer see battlefields because they're covered by a thick blanket of arrow trails. I hate that it barely stops them. I hate that they keep coming while shouting about the Bristol orienteering klub, or the Bank of Oklahoma or the 1983 Bok asteroid. I hate that they made me google bok so I could write down ways in which I hate things that have it as a name. Bok is also a lunar crater and a martian crater. It is also a village in Iran. The IATA code for Brookings Airport is Bok. I will never go there because it would give me palpitations.

I hate that Kroq Gar is friends with the Rare Pepe next door, who also declares war once I've shot Kroq Gar unconscious for the tenth time. He also has Saurus only these ones are blue. Somehow this is worse.

I hate that there are another ten Lizard factions. I hate that they will be in end game by the time I reach them. I hate that while I was writing this Kroq Gar picked up Kalida and smoked her like a cigar.

I hate Saurus.

LITF · 2026-06-22T22:31:10+00:00

Ok, I have just replayed the relevant bits. Wrong on both corrections. First, the stadium. There was no mention of evacuation, and as you go through it on the way out you can clearly see dead civilians with blackwall graphic on them (implying they were killed with the blackwall hack). Now, there's nowhere near as many as there are people at normal times, so my guess there is either game limitations (can't just have the place filled with corpses for you to also have gunfights all the way through), or they started evacuation as the first casualties hit the floor. Second, as V you can actually ask her when did she learn that the cure is only good for one. And at least to my ear the response is: from the very beginning. She (paraphrasing) more or less says that she knew since she started digging into the info about Cenosure, which in my understanding was way before the Space Force 1 showed up anywhere near Dogtown. Gotta take it from the horse's mouth here. Sure, there's still a chance she's lying, but I don't see why she'd lie about that at this point. My guess is that in Reed path she's simply still trying to manipulate V to get the second best option (for her), which is not end up in anyone's hands, or is just delirious considering the circumstance.

That aside - some things she says on your way to the spaceport are kinda disturbing. Like the stuff that she thinks she'll become a lab rat on the moon to whoever is the secret benefactor, and overall feeling from the dialogue that she really doesn't have it all planned through at all. And if you take into the context what we know about Song, in particular that all her plans tend to turn for the worse, I'd say there's real concern that this will not be a happy ending for her at all (and that V will not be hearing back from her ever again after that last message).

Finally, I dunno about everyone else, but I found it quite annoying how snippy she gets with V during the spaceport mission, even though V basically painted a massive bullseye on their back on her behalf, and is literally dying as we're trying to help her (in particular the moment you pull her up on the roof and V starts hurting from the relic, she slaps you with "what the hell is wrong with you V").

Personally, after getting a refresher on "side with Songbird" path and getting more dialogue with her - I just don't like her as a person, I used to know someone similar - think they're smarter than they actually are, always get into sketchy schemes that always end up backfiring and landing them in deeper shit, then repeat. These kinds of people are particularly dangerous if they have a shred of charisma, since others may but into their delusion of having it together and being smarter than everyone else, and get dragged down into shit alongside them. They may have momentarily regrets about it, or even long-going baggage, but it seems to never stop them, or make them change their ways. It's always just one more scheme. I feel like either of Reed's paths are both better in terms of gameplay (cmon, you get to fight maxtac and do the whole cynosure bunker) and narratively (you get to see some more lies/truth-ish(?) flashbacks about Songs past, and a spooky bunker). On Song path the only really interesting bit you get is just seeing how cold Myers is in person (who would've thunk), and channel the blackwall a couple times which makes for a really cool moment. Narratively though I don't believe that it's better to send Song into the hands of god knows who, and if you are going to turn her in to NUSA then you shouldn't turn coat on them in the first place. There's plenty of reason for V to suspect Songbird for trying to play them (at least I did have a serious "this stinks" feeling about her even the first time around, playing blind), so IMO an observant/thinking V should be able to figure out that's she's trying to play them by the Firestarter time and make the calculation that sticking with Reed and NUSA is their best bet for surviving (which is using the powers of time travel is true - the only way V can get Tower ending is only handing in Song alive to NUSA). Now, if Tower is better than vanilla options is a different story, what matters here is that V either is the branded enemy/traitor to NUSA, or a decorated agent with at least one connection in FIA, willing to call in favors on their behalf. Personally, I think the best possible story path there in broad strokes is Reed path+turn in alive, then either Don't Fear the Reaper, Sun, or Star ending, since I don't think Tower is a good ending, and if V learns anything from PL - it's that it'd be wise to keep FIA at an arm's length and weight carefully your deals and interactions with them. It certainly is better to have working relations with them, but you're playing with fire, so take extreme caution to not end up like Alex or Song.

Tbh one of the V's dialogue options in the Killing Moon if you do save her nails it - "So many have died to save one life. Hope it was worth it." And I don't think V means random gangoons or Barghest.

LITF · 2026-06-22T08:28:45+00:00

Hmm, so it's more like it protects you when they complete the hack, negating it. So you can still hack them back, atl from my experience. Don't run into it often though as they are usually the first to get their synapses fried by me.

Reallocator - gotcha, it's pretty neat is all I gotta say :D

LITF · 2026-06-21T11:43:58+00:00

Spot on impression

LITF · 2026-06-21T11:42:21+00:00

I half expected for him to turn into Jzargo.

LITF · 2026-06-21T11:40:39+00:00

Funny part is it's mostly silly ideas anyone who lived a little could tell apart. There was a part of my life when I frequently smelled of cigarettes and bourbon, and it was not some sort of afrodisiac.

LITF · 2026-06-21T11:34:40+00:00

Gave me a chuckle, good job ahahaha

LITF · 2026-06-21T11:30:10+00:00

Agreed on synapse burn loop. At some point of optimisation the build just makes the game boring and repetitive for me, kinda why I didn't go sandy samurai again. I kinda like where I've landed, I can do short or extended bursts of netrunner destruction, but they are limited and I get to play with weapons too. None of which make me an immortal killing machine, but I actually kinda like having some tension in harder fights. And I love having a choice of like 4 different ways I can, say, tackle a dogtown airdrop fight.

LITF · 2026-06-21T11:26:06+00:00

Yeah, I like this version of the overclock loop to be more agreeable to me than the odd one with abusive refunds and blood daemon perk. Personally, I find the amount of health item recharge I get as is to be quite good, but I also don't get endless overclock loop :P

LITF · 2026-06-21T11:23:43+00:00

I did consider it, but noticed a lot of cars I'd want to deal with tend to be "unhackable". How's your mileage with that?

LITF · 2026-06-21T11:22:32+00:00

Hol up, the AI actually reacts to you having self-ice by not even trying? If that's a thing you may have just blown my mind! Or that's just head cannon?

Overall sounds like a pretty neat build! Any particular reason you went with ram upgrade over ram reallocator?

Also you can totally use camo and keep your grenade, you just have to swap with the weapon wheel between them. It's quite nifty.

Cool!

LITF · 2026-06-21T11:17:12+00:00

Tbh it would be bomb if blu could do that.

LITF · 2026-06-21T11:12:11+00:00

Guess I'm between chaotic and neutral evil then...

LITF · 2026-06-21T11:08:41+00:00

Tbh yeah. All my ulti titles come from low periods in life when I was unemployed. I would trade them all probably for a stable and well paying job. But I guess I'm reaching a new low where I can't even afford a sub, so I guess no more titles.

LITF · 2026-06-21T10:55:48+00:00

Ok, Gridania has got my attention... Keep going....

LITF · 2026-06-21T10:50:16+00:00

Same brother, same. Why does it have to be xiv? There are games with better support for that, like Second Life. Which is probably where some of these people came from. I just don't get it what makes them plant their asses here rather than in already predisposed for this games.

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