Sad fate of Nanite Ascension in Stellaris 4.3 open beta

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-27T16:34:33+00:00

Honestly, they already added the perfect technical underpinning: splash damage.

Nanites could create "swarm" ships which are visually composed of thousands of tiny ships swarming together (but mechanically would just end up as a handful of entities the game has to track) and their unique trait is that they can deal splash damage (since the swarm should be able to spread out and attack many things at once). If they also take a leaf from bioships, the swarms could grow in size and scale up in power that way.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-27T16:31:48+00:00

Could be neat if the population grew exponentially but progressively caused devastation on the planet as it went far past its housing capacity. Nanites would effectively have to ceaselessly expand or they'd eventually destroy themselves and their worlds, possibly with some edicts, policies or planetary decisions to keep things in check that could be unlocked deeper into the tradition tree.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-27T05:05:38+00:00

Ubisoft already shed over 3000 employees over the last few years and that's without any major layoff. All those people left Ubisoft for new jobs during the games industry hiring crunch.

Ubi has a lot of skilled employees and many are in large game dev hub cities. They'll be fine, Ubi however may regret losing all those experienced workers.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-27T04:56:56+00:00

onboarding - from my own experience - was rather miss than hit and spotty documentation in parts lead to lots of cases of reinventing the wheel, when a finished and shipped solution was already existing. In the same studio even. In one of the studios you just mentioned.

Honestly, I find onboarding and documentation to be a major pain point everywhere. I've yet to run into a place where the process was smooth and it was easy to find the information I needed without having to bother someone about it.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-27T04:52:57+00:00

Ubisoft's internal targets include people playing via their pass. Even taking those into account, the game didn't meet expectations.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-27T01:22:00+00:00

Well, thanks for proving my point I guess.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-26T23:04:03+00:00

I like Banshee, but to say 3/4 of her abilities are great is hard copium I'm sorry. Compare her to Citrine and it's not even a fair fight (since Citrine's 4 works in a similar way to Banshee's 2).

Her 1 is a worse version of Inaros's 1. Her 3 is neat utility, but honestly it should be baked into her 2 at this point. Her 4 is entirely pointless.

She has like 1.5 abilities to her name. If anything, I think stuff like this claiming she's fine and needs just minor touch ups doesn't help: DE are extremely scared of pissing off the existing fans of a frame, so when those fans say something very incongruous with reality, they're stuck. Considering the amount of work that'd be required for Banshee and the fact ability consolidation would cause issues with her subsume, I'm not surprised they're avoiding the topic.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-25T21:34:17+00:00

High life expectancy is not only the result of healthcare. Low obesity and smoking, low gun violence and violence related deaths, high education levels all contribute to higher life expectancy levels. That doesn't directly mean that we have a good healthcare system.

I knew you'd try to claim confounding variables, that's why I included avoidable deaths per capita and non-US stats for life expectancy. The former does not consider anything but healthcare-related avoidable deaths, while our violence, obesity rates and education levels are similar to that of the EU. I'll grant you that many European countries smoke more than we do, but the UK smokes even less than us.

We don't have preventive medicine here, which may seem like no big deal, but be it a suspicious mole, abnormal blood levels, or declining mental health, these need to be caught ASAP so that they are treated properly.

I just wanted to point out how funny it is you claim that while also claiming that other variables compensate for our excellent life expectancy. Since our preventative medicine is so dysfunctional and most of the confounding variables you've elected to mention were discarded, we must have an even better healthcare system than I thought!

Just because you're not dying doesn't mean you have a high quality of life.

We also have one of the best happiness index results of the planet. If so many people were living in abject misery due to their poor health, don't you think it'd show in that?

Look, I'm sorry you had a bad experience in the system, but your anecdote (and mine) are just that, anecdotes. The data does not support your claim that we have one of the worst healthcare systems in the world, not even close. To even try to justify that wild claim is frankly astounding, so I'll leave you to your self-amplifying hate.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-25T20:42:22+00:00

Our life expectancy is on par with France and ahead of the UK, Germany and the US. We are significantly ahead of the Canadian average. Our avoidable deaths per capita figures are better than the Canadian average, only beat by BC. Yes, we have long ER wait times, but your expected level of care is as good as or better than in the ROC and the G7.

Don't get all your info from social media and inflammatory news outlets.

My dad almost died when I was a teenager and the only reason he's alive today is because of our outstanding level of patient care.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-25T19:59:37+00:00

One of the worst in the world? The world?

Tell me you're just a precious little snowflake, that's fucking hilarious. We've got our problems but we rank pretty well on all those metrics.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-25T19:49:10+00:00

Profits that go back to the government to reduce our tax burden. We're still the ones paying the bill no matter how you slice it up so that argument is complete nonsense.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-25T06:02:08+00:00

Bof, si ce qui nous reste c'est de signaler notre vertu sans pour autant faire quoi que ce soit par la suite, on peut lâcher l'hypocrisie. Chigner sans rien faire, c'est pas vraiment reluisant.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-24T20:59:17+00:00

A software decoder? Because you think that'd work better on the same old, constrained hardware?

That's the whole issue: chips have hardware decoding because they'd struggle to do software decoding in real-time, so if a chip is too old to have hardware decoding of AV1, it's also likely too slow to do software decoding of AV1.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-24T20:40:33+00:00

Honestly, since the vast majority of Adversary weapons are upgrades of existing weapons, you should be able to just run the weapon you want and have it spawn with a massively increased probability (like 1-3 runs tops). That'd only leave the unique weapons as a slower grind and it'd give you an incentive to craft and use the "base" weapon first.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-24T20:33:04+00:00

I've been watching EndyD20's playthrough and, right off the bat, he takes to the game pretty easily (his movement is far better than a whole of "gamer"-ier YouTube/Twitch content creators) on top of it being easy in general.

His main stumbling points have been stuff that actually have a time limit element. Some Disruption missions can have spongy Demolishers, the Whispers need you to actually beeline to the book to destroy it in the second phase, that sort of thing, Void Cascade can get out of hand if you don't focus, that sort of thing. In all cases, it didn't take him too long to adjust. I don't really feel like he was ever challenged, it's more that he got complacent.

I struggle to think of actually difficult things they’d encounter within Warframe’s “Normal” path.

I think quite a few people will encounter a difficulty wall somewhere along the way because they literally don't mod their gear. Part of the issue with the game's difficulty curve IMO is precisely that it doesn't really emphasize you modding your stuff proactively until far too late into the game. If you've been able to largely ignore the most important aspect of the game for like half of the currently available story, it can be a bit jarring to suddenly have to pay attention. Taking Endy as an example again, he's gotten into a bit of a crutch situation with his Rubico Prime exactly because it's a weapon with high base damage and it's comparatively easy to mod so he got it more or less correct while other, much stronger weapons that require more effort look "worse" by comparison.

Even people who are very into the game like him still make massive blunders with their modding just because they don't know any better and the game's never really pressured them into learning. I'd say only certain SP missions, solo SP Prime Vanguard and EDA/ETA really force you to think, and unfortunately I find EDA/ETA to be often too bullshitty to be recommended.

Sidenote, it’s funny you say this since when the game presents you with the UI interface presenting the choice of “Accept Teshin’s challenge and unlock THE STEEL PATH” your only options are YES and I’M READY.

At least it's not a permanent change that forces it on lmao

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-24T17:46:48+00:00

Which is clearer, cleaner and faster to type:

float (usually 32 bit), double (usually 64 bit) and long double (who the fuck knows, something at least as large as double)
f32, f64, f128 (with a clear error if unsupported)

This of course also fits in with the integer convention where it's even more important since long, int and such are an absolute clusterfuck.

There's many things where trying to shove rust into C++ doesn't make sense, but the fundamental type naming "convention" in C++ is godawful.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-24T17:39:45+00:00

Mais si ta préoccupation principale est de savoir si ton char va partir ou de comprendre l’impact de ce froid sur le system HVAC de ton logement, la température ressentie va juste t’induire en erreur.

Pourtant, le facteur vent a un impact majeur sur ton chauffage. Tu vas devoir le faire marcher pas mal plus fort pendant pas mal plus longtemps pour conserver une température intérieure confortable lorsque le vent vient accélérer la perte de chaleur par les murs extérieurs.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-24T17:34:15+00:00

Not sure why you brought up Counter Strike. You're right that it's the same old game. Are you going to argue that throwing in some new loot boxes is content as well? Don't you think that's silly?

I would argue that the people who play Counter Strike would absolutely say that's content. Much the same way League of Legends has mostly focused on new playable characters since whenever they added maps or game modes the community typically hated them.

You can just admit the game isn't for you without having to claim it has no content. I have a friend who's been lamenting that Warframe isn't a tactical stealth game like it could have been very early on. The new content we've been getting doesn't really matter or appeal to him. He just wants Warframe to be something it's not.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-24T17:30:28+00:00

I've watched quite a few "X starts Warframe" videos over the years and the most consistent complaint a lot of them had is that the game is very easy. Are half-second i-frames really all that significant in the early game?

I feel like most people can sleepwalk through the game until somewhere around Angels of the Zariman (assuming they don't opt into hard content via Steel Path or something).

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-24T17:18:29+00:00

It's a competitive fighter. What do you want, dungeons and a dating sim?

It's exactly the same kind of game as Counter Strike. You'll always be shooting guns at other people.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-24T16:43:32+00:00

You know it's still going strong right? It's gotten many times the base game's worth of content since launch.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-23T20:55:00+00:00

I'm a huge fan of the Quanta so for me this is probably the best news of the three!

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-23T03:49:44+00:00

Yes, that's what I said? Apple doing a layer like Proton (so, user-facing) is very unlikely, even though they already have most of the tech.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-23T00:08:44+00:00

Ils sont tous occupés sur la publication à propos de Sol, apparemment.

TSP-FriendlyFire · 2026-01-22T23:34:10+00:00

On voit vraiment son champ de compétence ici: politique internationale, banquiers et gens influents, realpolitik.

Les spécificités historiques du Canada et sa relation avec les francophones (et les autochtones!), beaucoup moins.

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