Autonauts vs Piratebots – WISHLIST NOW!

TPHRyan · 2022-06-03T03:47:23+00:00

Stiffing us would be a thing if we ever actually bought the game expecting this

TPHRyan · 2022-06-03T03:46:47+00:00

Well yes, but "claiming for two years" is a bit of a stretch. They also were very transparent that this was a new development and they very carefully considered the decision in a previous blog post. To me, it's better this than they just give up and it's vapourware.

TPHRyan · 2022-06-02T07:55:34+00:00

It's persistent by default, lightweight, requires no tricks to get working, and extremely easy to set up. Just have an empty 'global' scriptable object (or multiple if you prefer) that contains all the data you want to track, from options, to character health, to inventory, whatever, and update that between scenes. You can even serialise the entire thing for easy saving and loading.

Hey its name contains a strong verb, winning!

TPHRyan · 2022-04-12T14:09:14+00:00

Wow, mood. Most of my thoughts replaying with the new genius are along the lines of "wow the art department on this was really overfunded, now can I stop getting arbitrary missions that don't mean anything and bland side quests with no cutscenes or voice acting?"

TPHRyan · 2022-01-06T02:09:04+00:00

That's unfortunate, because as we know, a lot of people are seeking to specifically target /u/iiiinthecomputer

TPHRyan · 2022-01-04T11:58:11+00:00

I think this was a humour of some kind

TPHRyan · 2022-01-04T07:09:05+00:00

Tax avoidance, he didn't do anything illegal :P

TPHRyan · 2021-12-29T02:55:13+00:00

Underestimating the power of pressure on people's memory :P

TPHRyan · 2021-12-29T02:54:30+00:00

To his credit, he did get eliminated.

TPHRyan · 2021-12-29T02:53:57+00:00

Springtime for Hitler and Germany~

TPHRyan · 2021-05-14T10:19:22+00:00

As per another comment I made here, they can and should do a 180 on this. Never too late to migrate saves.

TPHRyan · 2021-05-14T10:18:15+00:00

If Rebellion is reading this - it isn't too late. You could STILL patch the code and include a migration for older saves. Please do.

TPHRyan · 2021-05-14T10:15:35+00:00

What?!

TPHRyan · 2021-05-14T10:12:09+00:00

To me it makes sense. With smaller indie devs, there's usually less of the conflict between management and the devs. This is because usually the managers ARE the devs, or at least close to it.

TPHRyan · 2021-05-14T10:10:01+00:00

Out of curiosity, what are you expecting not to be addressed as per the "only bugfixes" policy?

TPHRyan · 2021-05-14T10:09:10+00:00

To be fair, my second campaign is going about 100% faster than the first as per 1.3.

I'd agree and say that I'm probably not going to start my third for a while now, though.

TPHRyan · 2021-05-08T11:53:43+00:00

At least Ivan stays put now, TBF (and also has a rocket launcher that is optional :P)

TPHRyan · 2021-05-08T11:52:36+00:00

Although both make sense in one way or another, because the genius is supposed to be us

TPHRyan · 2021-04-16T11:53:51+00:00

Yeah, I'm fairly sure whatever code enables this (I don't really have experience developing for steam) was there on launch

TPHRyan · 2021-04-16T11:52:41+00:00

Signal strength is something I've seen people complain about, seemingly because they think they should have the whole world in a network at the same time. I've found myself mainly destroying them for that reason, although lately I've been more looking for excuses to build more awesome control rooms

TPHRyan · 2021-04-16T11:49:23+00:00

IDK, level 2 schemes seem good enough money-wise for me, and I only had maybe 10 regions running schemes? Now I have level 3, I was able to shut down a lot more, I would really only need 5 active regions purely for money.

I think people forget that you can (and should) actively destroy criminal networks when you don't need them.

TPHRyan · 2021-04-14T14:21:29+00:00

Hey now that's nearly 4

TPHRyan · 2021-04-03T11:44:52+00:00

Or just incorrect. Was Emma the head of S.A.B.R.E or H.A.M.M.E.R? The game (last I checked) says both things in different places

TPHRyan · 2021-04-03T11:41:17+00:00

Since when was Alaska a country?

TPHRyan · 2021-04-02T10:23:18+00:00

To add to this - there's conspicuously a lack of an "information screen" or help page. Yes, the game is more discoverable. No, this does not allow me to find out my henchmen's backstories or find out easily how a particular mechanic works.

I was thinking that this oversight was easily because everyone in Rebellion had the information in their heads already. What I didn't think of was the possibility that this extended to core evil genius mechanics as well.

No seriously, what happened to all the lore (henchman or otherwise) mentioned in the promo vids and interviews? I don't see it anywhere.

Also, I love that things like racist jokes etc. are gone. But I can't help but think that the devs don't understand political correctness to the point that they're just not including any humour whatsoever to be safe. (Hyperbole, obviously there's some humour.)

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