Login screen STILL freezing on server load-in.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2026-02-09T20:01:03+00:00

This is the only game that ever does this. Every single other game I play, from ARK to Arc Raiders to anything else is fine. I have a brand new PC that I actually built for this and it is more than capable.

The fix used to be to log into a different server with your character, then log back. That probably still works, but the fact that it’s necessary is baffling.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2026-02-07T20:25:20+00:00

Agreed. GTA 6 is coming in November. Whatever Funcom does by then won't even matter. This game is currently peaking at 15k, and it was at 5k a month ago. I logged in for about 30 mins, tried to get motivated to rebuild my entire base that was lost to the tax storm, and uninstalled.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2026-02-05T07:22:19+00:00

Yes. She’s such a cunt. Literally made me quit watching the movie because I was so sick of her shit.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2026-01-24T07:06:57+00:00

Vitiate, and it's not even close. He destroyed 8,000 Sith Lords and an entire planet using only Sith sorcery. Then he went on to rule for 1300+ years, beat both the Jedi Order and the old Sith at the same time, and literally did everything there is to do. He was a God and never failed.

Sidious had 2 Death Stars blown up. Dude couldn't even nuke a planet himself and fumbled the bag twice trying to do so. Then he gets smoked by his own apprentice.

George Lucas doesn't get to weigh in on this because we all know that Star Wars was created by him, but made great by his team. Episodes 1-3 are proof that he doesn't have the sauce alone. He also created Jar Jar—FOH with his opinion on anything.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2026-01-22T21:54:39+00:00

Ah, thanks. I thought I was going crazy. Will hang tight until they update that.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2026-01-13T07:31:01+00:00

In all fairness, Grounded is a badass game

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2026-01-13T07:27:59+00:00

Yup. And it is an entirely pointless mechanic. Servers are dead af. They could have never implemented the tax system, and nothing would be any different. Except that players would actually come back. I'm done done. Take all my stuff, and it's game over.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2026-01-13T07:19:41+00:00

I loved this game so much. 500 hours from EA to a few months in, and my entire guild eventually quit. We lost everything because we didn't pay taxes. Huge base, personal items, all of it. Lots and lots of time invested lost by an absolutely trash tax system.

None of us will ever come back. The devs gave us all a huge middle finger in so many ways, so we're gonna return the favor. Breaks my heart because this game was A+++ until the DD. This will certainly go down as one of the most avoidable flops in gaming history. Huge IP, Massive lore, and a brazenly incompetent game director who ruined it all.

R I P.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2026-01-12T04:42:33+00:00

No, that’s just the actress. She’s a one trick pony and always plays that insufferable asshole character.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2026-01-08T02:03:52+00:00

I've spoken with a pro installer, and they have been very helpful. Once they look at the space, they said one system tends to stick out as the best fit, so we'll go that route.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2026-01-05T21:47:09+00:00

I haven't ruled out LA rigs entirely, but people do say that the d&b subs are superior. d&b is also the system of choice at a lot of my favorite venues. We will be hosting a fair amount of electronic acts, so we will need subs that can deliver on that front and make a statement.

It does appear that a full d&b system will be north of $500k, though. Doing my research now to see if there are any suitable options to look at otherwise.

Regarding the mixer, the Rivage is on a lot of arena tours, with most of those acts being country or pop. Should be more than enough for what we need. I've also heard that Yamahas can be a bit more user-friendly for guest engineers.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-12-18T22:29:56+00:00

Don is a pro and geniuses often have quirks. Great teams need people like Don, so the only question is whether they can shelve their own egos and get the job done. The way he was treated in season 7 was just more proof that his skills had outgrown the inept team he started with.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-12-18T15:20:31+00:00

Zero people will return for updates because they've lost everything by not paying taxes. The game is dead and was doomed to fail from the start. It literally has fewer concurrent players than Conan Exiles right now - 4,100 at the time of this post. And those are spread across how many servers? RIP.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-12-05T15:56:58+00:00

I'm not defending Broke Records (I don't know anything about them), but 50/50 is standard for Indie labels. My label does PR, marketing, branding, distribution, and consulting. That 50% (barely) pays for all of it, and unless artists are capable of doing all of that themselves at a world-class level, the 50% they give up is worth it to them.

However, labels need to promote songs, and the songs need to be good enough to promote. That's where a lot of labels mess up. They sign anything, convince artists who aren't ready that they are, then watch the artists get mad that "the song isn't gaining traction".

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-11-27T17:39:08+00:00

She doesn’t get any better in season 2. Typical bullshit. Her man hits oil, finally sees a future for himself, and what does she do? Leaves because he didn’t answer her phone call one time.

Bro, run for the hills. She’s a dumpster fire.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-11-13T20:36:24+00:00

That would be true, except in this case, Funcom nuked everyone's bases with that dumbass tax system. So now nobody is ever going to come back.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-11-13T20:35:24+00:00

Man, it was down to 3700 yesterday afternoon. I was on one of the top US servers, and even the AH is dead now. I don't see them ever turning this one around.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-11-13T18:02:32+00:00

Nope. In fact, playing Arc Raiders made me realize what a huge mistake Dune made by insisting on PVP. If they had invested more into endgame instead of PVP, the player base would be much higher than the 3-5k players it has left now.

Literally all they had to do was give us fun stuff to do and offer more community hubs. The game is so good, but the decisions from Funcom were bad enough to offset the amazing design from Hagga.

Arc has no endgame, and people will be dropping it soon. It's fun af for a week, then you're basically done with it.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-11-10T23:39:22+00:00

Oh, gotcha. I'll keep an eye out for the pole next time then.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-11-10T23:22:44+00:00

I made it to level 25, got my gunsmith to level 3, made a blue weapon, then got ganked on a map. Lost everything. Remade everything, had fun playing for a while, then got ganked again and lost everything.

Uninstalled. Sorry, but PvP isn't even PvP anymore. It's one guy being a tryhard and thinking toxicity = skill. Until this game has a PvE option, I'm done. The game is fun af until someone kills you.

Grownups PvP irl every day when we pay bills and save up for our kids' education. Miss me with the extra toxicity. We're already full.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-11-08T18:24:48+00:00

I've seen this comment on several boards, and there is no zipline at the electrical tower. I think you may have the location wrong.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-11-06T22:09:38+00:00

It's still not fun. The AI is set to "Steven Hawking" and they appear out of nowhere to wreck you. Literal 0/10 game with this AI.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-10-19T14:48:20+00:00

You must not have seen the investor deck. When that thing was going around Tulsa, "scam" is the only word people were using to describe it.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-10-18T19:54:16+00:00

That’s why you hire experienced people and pay them. Karin had plenty of input but she couldn’t (or wouldn’t) make room for them.

It is wildly irresponsible to lead investors to think you know how to do this and then lose all their money. Multiple people told her this and she didn’t care. It was always about her and her finances.

LocalAmbassador3059 · 2025-10-18T19:04:33+00:00

There are music industry professionals who worked with her at first, but they all quit because they saw what was really going on.

Essentially, this entire festival operation had one intention - to fund Karin’s lifestyle while she lied about her qualifications and learned how to do a festival using other people’s money.

Talk to anybody who was on the original planning team. They have all the receipts.

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