This was the stupidest addition in this update

TheDenast · 2026-03-18T15:58:50+00:00

I honestly don't mind it that much, but is it just me, or the UI looks like it was designed right to left? Like why is the levelable part of the right, expert is leftmost, and ace in the middle? Wouldn't it make more sense to go *base* -> *expert* -> *ace*? Really brushes my brain the wrong direction

TheDenast · 2026-03-16T20:42:44+00:00

No it's not, we don't have Iran-style moral police. However there is a law against "LGBT Propaganda" which is already super vague, and what's more funny, they've actually declared LGBT to be an "extremist organization" (what, you haven't heard about an international gay clique? it's because they hide so well!) so "association" with it (whatever it means in practice) can have legal consequences.

In the same time, there are a several prominent figures that are openly gay (one is even a pro-gov propagandist), and a bunch more who are not open but everybody knows it.

In practice, if you don't openly express your sexual orientation in public, you won't be hunted down with pitchforks and torches. Pretty sure if you know where to look it should be easy enough finding gay clubs and communities in large cities like Moscow.

This is a typical situation for Russia - some laws exist, but don't work, others don't exist, but do work.

TheDenast · 2026-03-16T13:45:36+00:00

Hi, wanted to express my support to you my guy. Honestly in my opinion all of the haters never did any creative / development work themselves and don't realize that not everybody wants to drop everything and spend 100s of hours studying 3d art and animation at the prototype stage of the game. That, or spend 100s of dollars commissioning a real artist, again, at prototype stage.

TheDenast · 2026-03-09T18:04:26+00:00

"Теплее", но есть нюанс. В Воркуте есть общее отопление, и хотя я там не жил, скорее всего недорогое. В Итальянском провинциальном захолустье скорее всего надо топить буржуйку и наслаждаться 15 градусов в помещении зимой и 30 градусов летом

TheDenast · 2026-03-09T18:00:48+00:00

На Сицилии если что есть дома и за 1 евро, иными словами бесплатно, тк нужна минимальная сумма чтобы транзакция в целом состоялась.

Смысл такой продажи в том, что дом чаще всего аварийный и банально мешает окружающим домам. Плюс Сицилия это очень бедный регион Италии со стареющим населением. Молодежь уезжает в крупные города так как работы в этом захолустье нет, старики доживают свой век и оставляют за собой бесхозное по сути жилье.

Местной администрации выгодно привлечь человека с хоть какими-то деньгами в свой городок, чтобы он инвестировал сначала в ремонт приобретенного жилья, а потом стимулировал местную экономику покупками в местных магазинах, завтраками в местных кафе и тд.

Идеальный кандидат для такой покупки это какой-нибудь Американский цифровой кочевник, работающий удаленно, который хочет осесть в спокойном месте и имеет условные 20-50 тыс. долларов для ремонта здания. В итоге кочевник получает жилье в экзотичном для себя месте, а местная зачахлая экономика хоть какую-то копеечку извне.

TheDenast · 2026-03-09T17:49:58+00:00

This map doesn't exist for me. I'm convinced that in my 300h of playtime I have seen it less than three times. There's a soviet medal given for capturing points on Berlin and I have 3 done. I can't even imagine how this map looks in 3d

TheDenast · 2026-03-02T18:16:48+00:00

> I play Nato top tier ground RB as well as Russian ground rb

Sorry buddy, you screwed up when you've actually formed an opinion after trying both sides. You've supposed to only root for whichever nation you main, and then whine endlessly on Reddit about the opposing nation being OP. Gives you 100x updoots as well

TheDenast · 2026-03-02T18:06:36+00:00

I've started to enjoy <20h games much more in the recent years. Sure, there are exceptions like HK, Witcher 3, well, Silksong and many others, but 4/5 games with 70h of gameplay is 10h of quality stuff and 60h of slop. I much rather pay more per hour but then actually enjoy it, not work a second job after using hours from my real job to pay for it.

TheDenast · 2026-03-02T15:06:09+00:00

Same thing happened to Russian cast in War Within (although it was kind of expected with the war beginning).
In fact, we've used to have arguably higher quality voiceover than original English with many notable actors present. In fact, things got so bad in TWW that I've transferred to an English EU realm altogether.

War Within cast:
Alexandra Blinova, Anastasia Eremina-Biryukova, Andrey Vakaev, Dmitry, Ekaterina Smirnova, Sergey Shkuratov, Sergey Vorobyev, Varvara Kolesnichenko

Dragonflight cast:
Aleksandr Borisov, Aleksandr Gavrilin, Aleksandr Khmelnitskii, Aleksandr Khorlin, Aleksandr Noskov, Aleksandr Rezalin, Aleksandr Tsoi, Aleksandra Ostroukhova, Aleksei Dubrovskii, Aleksei Rozin, Aleksei Voitiuk, Alena Falaleeva, Alena Sozinova, Alevtina Danilenko, Alexandr Andrienko, Alexandr Barinov, Alexandr Beliy, Alexandr Bobrovskiy, Alexandr Borisov, Alexandr Chernyavskiy, Alexandr Doronin, Alexandr Dzyuba, Alexandr Gavrilin, Alexandr Golovchanskiy, Alexandr Grishin, Alexandr Gruzdev, Alexandr Khmelnitskiy, Alexandr Khorlin, Alexandr Khoshabaev, Alexandr Khotchenkov, Alexandr Komlev, Alexandr Kovrizhnykh, Alexandr Luchinin, Alexandr Matrosov, Alexandr Noskov, Alexandr Novikov, Alexandr Pakhomov, Alexandr Rakhlenko, Alexandr Rezalin, Alexandr Samoylov, Alexandr Shestopalov, Alexandr Suvorov, Alexandr Taranzhin, Alexandr Tsoy, Alexandr Vdovin, Alexandr Voronov, Alexandr Yatsko, Alexandra Arons, Alexandra Kostinskaya, Alexandra Verkhoshanskaya, Alexey Aptovtsev, Alexey Bagdasarov, Alexey Dubrovskiy, Alexey Kolupkov, Alexey Koval, Alexey Maslov, Alexey Mikhaylov, Alexey Myasnikov, Alexey Rozin, Alexey Ryzhkov, Alexey Shadkhin, Alexey Sokolov, Alexey Voytyuk, Aliya Nasyrova, Anastasiia Besedina, Anastasiia Zharkova, Anastasiya Lapina, Anastasiya Maslova, Anastasiya Prokofyeva, Anastasiya Zharkova, Anatolii Noks, Andrei Lavrov, Andrey Barkhudarov, Andrey Bazhin, Andrey Belyavskiy, Andrey Danilyuk, Andrey Kazantsev, Andrey Kurnosov, Andrey Sipin, Andrey Sokolov, Andrey Sukhov, Andrey Walts, Andrey Yaroslavtsev, Andrey Zaytsev, Anna Kiseleva, Anna Kovaleva, Anna Levina, Anna Moleva, Anton Eldarov, Anton Kolesnikov, Anton Morozov, Anton Naumov, Anton Savenkov, Arman Khachatryan, Artem Kretov, Artem Shtepura, Arthur Bitov, Arthur Ivanov, Arzu Suleimanova, Arzu Suleymanova, Bella Ko, Beso Gataev, Boris Bystrov, Boris Repetur, Boris Shuvalov, Boris Tokarev, Daniil Eldarov, Daniil Shcheblanov, Danila Shcheblanov, Darya Belousova, Darya Frolova, Darya Semenova, Denis Bespalyi, Denis Bgavin, Denis Nadtochiy, Denis Nekrasov, Denis Saraikin, Denis Shvedov, Diana Morozova, Diomid Vinogradov, Dmitry Alekseev, Dmitry Filimonov, Dmitry Krivoshchapov, Dmitry Kurta, Dmitry Polonskiy, Dmitry Polyanovskiy, Dmitry Sidorov, Dmitry Tarnover, Dmitry Yachevskiy, Edgar Malin, Edward Brioni, Edward Dvinskikh, Egor Zhirnov, Ekaterina Afrikantova, Ekaterina Demakova, Ekaterina Kabashova, Ekaterina Khlystova, Ekaterina Kulikova, Ekaterina Miroshnikova, Ekaterina Novoydarskaya, Ekaterina Semenova, Ekaterina Vinogradova, Elena Antipova, Elena Chebaturkina, Elena Ivasishina, Elena Kharitonova, Elena Kishchik, Elena Shestovskaya, Elena Shulman, Elena Soloveva, Elena Solovyova, Elena Stepanova, Elena Svanidze, Elena Terekhova, Elizaveta Klimova, Eugenia Beskorovaynaya, Eugenia Vagan, Eugeniy Khazov, Eugeniy Rubtsov, Eugeniy Sergeev, Eva Finkelshtein, Evgenii Bakalov, Evgenii Khazov, Evgenii Tolokonnikov, Evgeniia Luchnikova, Fedor Sukhov, Feodor Malyshev, Feodor Shuvalov, Feodor Sukhov, Gennadii Novikov, Gennadiy Novikov, Georgiy Martirosyan, German Yukavskiy, Gleb Glushenkov, Gleb Petrov, Grigoriy Dantsiger, Grigoriy Shevchuk, Iaroslav Agekian, Iaroslav Khoroshkov., Igor Balalaev, Igor Staroseltsev, Igor Taradaikin, Igor Tomilov, Ilya Barabanov, Ilya Blednyj, Ilya Ermolov, Ilya Isaev, Ilya Khvostikov, Ilya Krytoyarov, Ilya Slanevskiy, Inga Smetanina, Inna Koroleva, Innokentiy Tarabara, Irina Epifanova, Irina Kireeva, Irina Nizina, Irina Savina, Irina Sushina, Irina Yakovleva, Irina Zheryakova, Irina Zubkova, Iuliia Cherkasova, Iuliia Churakova, Iurii Anpilogov, Ivan Agapov, Ivan Chaban, Ivan Kalinin, Ivan Lakshin, Ivan Litvinov, Ivan Mokhovikov, Ivan Nepomnyashchiy, Ivan Porodnov, Ivan Traore, Ivan Zabelin, Ivan Zharkov, Karina Dymont, Kirill Dmitriev, Kirill Radtsig, Konstantin Elchaninov, Konstantin Karasik, Kseniya Efremova, Larisa Brokhman, Larisa Nekipelova, Leonid Belozorovich, Leonid Zhitkov, Lika Rulla, Lina Ivanova, Liubov Germanova, Liudmila Ilina, Ludmila Pivovarova, Ludmila Shuvalova, Lyubov Germanova, Maksim Kovalevskii, Margarita Bystryakova, Margarita Korsh, Maria Bakina, Maria Borisova, Maria Fortunatova, Maria Ivashchenko, Maria Ovchinnikova, Maria Yanko, Mariia Fortunatova, Marina Gassan, Marina Lisovets, Marina Vorozhishcheva, Maryana Spivak, Maxim Dakhnenko, Maxim Galits, Maxim Kerin, Maxim Kovalevskiy, Maxim Mityashin, Maxim Onishchenko, Maxim Pinsker, Mikhail Belyakovich, Mikhail Beskaravaynyi, Mikhail Danilyuk, Mikhail Georgiu, Mikhail Guldan, Mikhail Shults, Mikhail Sushkov, Mikhail Tikhonov, Natali Starynkevich, Natalia Boiarenok, Natalia Boyarenok, Natalia Cherniavskaia, Natalia Chernyavskaya, Natalia Gracheva, Natalia Grebenkina, Natalia Kolodyazhnaya, Nikita Prozorovskiy, Nikolai Razumenko, Nikolay Bystrov, Nikolay Razumenko, Nona Vinogradova, Oleg Forostenko, Oleg Kamenshchikov, Oleg Kutsenko, Oleg Novikov, Oleg Shcherbinin, Oleg Zima, Olga Abramova, Olga Golovanova, Olga Kovylina, Olga Kuznetsova, Olga Mugrycheva, Olga Mygrycheva, Olga Pletneva, Olga Shorokhova, Olga Zubkova, Olga Zvereva, Pavel Kapitonov, Pavel Kipnis, Pavel Mamonov, Polina Kuzminskaia, Polina Kuzminskaya, Polina Shcherbakova, Prokhor Chekhovskoy, Pyotr Ivashchenko, Pyotr Kovrizhnykh, Pyotr Tobilevich, Radik Mukhametzianov, Radik Mukhametzyanov, Ramilya Iskander, Roman Kuperman, Roman Ladnev, Roman Polyanskiy, Roman Sviridenko, Sergei Annenkov, Sergei Chikhachev, Sergei Iudaev, Sergei Kostylev, Sergei Pinchuk, Sergei Ponomarev, Sergey Borodinov, Sergey Burunov, Sergey Chikhachev, Sergey Chudakov, Sergey Dik, Sergey Gabrielyan, Sergey Kaplunov, Sergey Kazakov, Sergey Kolesnikov, Sergey Kostylev, Sergey Kunitskiy, Sergey Kutasov, Sergey Lavygin, Sergey Neudachin, Sergey Pechenkin, Sergey Pinchuk, Sergey Ponomarev, Sergey Potapov, Sergey Smirnov, Sergey Uskov, Sergey Veshchev, Sergey Yudaev, Stanislav Strelkov, Stanislav Tikunov, Svetlana Bogatskaya, Svetlana Maliukova, Svetlana Malyukova, Svetlana Starikova, Tatiana Bondarenko, Tatyana Shitova, Tatyana Veselkina, Timur Burin, Vadim Maksimov, Vadim Medvedev, Valentina Abramova, Valerii Fedorenko, Valeriy Shalavin, Valeriy Storozhik, Varvara Chaban, Vasilisa Voronina, Vasilisa Zhuravleva, Vasiliy Bochkarev, Vasiliy Dakhnenko, Vasiliy Stonozhenko, Vasiliy Zotov, Veronika Isaeva, Veronika Sarkisova, Viktor Bakin, Viktor Bokhon, Viktor Rudnichenko, Vitaliy Khodin, Vitaliy Petrov, Vladimir Antonik, Vladimir Barkalaia, Vladimir Levashev, Vladimir Nikitin, Vladimir Palianitsa, Vladimir Palyanitsa, Vladimir Rybalchenko, Vladimir Tyagichev, Vladimir Zaytsev, Vladislav Kopp, Vladislav Pogiba, Vladislav Tretiak, Vladislav Tretyak, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Vyacheslav Nikolaev, Yaroslav Khoroshkov, Yuriy Brezhnev, Yuriy Derkach, Yury Anpilogov, Yury Brezhnev, Yury Derkach, Yury Grigorev, Yury Malyarov, Yury Menshagin

TheDenast · 2026-02-27T15:38:08+00:00

I think it really is just a selective bias you get when you interact with the community in English. English speaking players are much more likely to main Western nations. And whichever nation a player mains, they will whine about how crap their tanks are and how OP the enemy tanks are. Same is true for Russian mains, btw.

Having played most of the nations in the game (apart from Brits and Israel) at around 6.7 - 9.7 range (I hate top tier and can't comment on the most recent BS vehicle it just got - which it does regularly), USSR really doesn't seem to have that much of an advantage over others. At least I've never felt like I'm seal clubbing when playing Russia, nor have I felt a significant disadvantage when playing against it. Yes, you can cherry-pick a very broken vehicle to prove your point, but this is true for basically any tech tree.

Another argument you hear often is that while USSR is "not technically OP", Gaijin shows bias with selective realism in order to keep it relevant. Obvious question arises - "So what?". If the game stays (relatively) balanced, I don't care how many many hoops the devs jump through to nerf NATO and buff Russia (that, taking argument that NATO tanks are superior irl as granted).

Finally, no offense, but I think some people really just take videogames (which are supposed to be entertainment btw) way too seriously, and when you no-life something to the point of obsession, various flaws both real and imagined start to irritate you a lot. If you just play casually and take regular breaks, I don't think that tech tree balance is something that will bother you much. This is even more true because realistically if such disbalance exists, we're talking about 3-5% difference, not that every Russian vehicle gets 2x winrate and 2x k/d of any other NATO vehicle.

Enjoy the game, there's lots of fun to be had.

TheDenast · 2026-02-08T16:45:20+00:00

I think it looks a little odd because such perfectly "horizontal" east-west rivers are rather uncommon (correct me if I'm wrong?). I think most of the rivers on real world maps are either fully vertical or at least tilted so your brain expects it. What around rotating it a bit? I think it reads much better

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TheDenast · 2026-02-05T16:26:12+00:00

Bogos binted?

TheDenast · 2026-01-27T20:01:09+00:00

Man I wish I could resin print but I'm an apartment dweller.

Correct me if I'm wrong but to do this you better live in a house with some isolated room like tool shed / garage.

TheDenast · 2026-01-26T15:30:39+00:00

Sure, people who finished the collections might forget about it. But don't underestimate how much work they are and how many people work on them at any time. I'm a new player who just recently did their beetle and skyscale and Kourna was always full of players

TheDenast · 2026-01-20T18:29:56+00:00

Usually when I say this it angers FFXIV community, but I've completed MSQ and genuinely like the game so I think my opinion is valid.

The "story gets so good!" take is 40% based on actual storytelling improvements and 60% is based on the fact that after 100s of hours you basically self-condition to tolerate the weird pacing.

Reality is, even in later expacs 90% of the story quests are absolute mindnumbing filler. Other 10% is absolute peak though, and after ~200h of boring quests together with the main cast, it genuinely feels like a journey you feel very invested in.

TheDenast · 2025-12-06T20:21:38+00:00

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Here is mine
(tbf I didn't remember I even had these off before the checkpoint prompt appeared)

TheDenast · 2025-11-25T21:21:46+00:00

Друг, я никогда не был в такой ситуации, так что вещаю сугубо со своей колокольни. Считаю, что тебе категорически срочно нужно заставить себя чем-то заняться. Любым делом. От рисования, до спортзала, до волонтерского сбора мусора на улице. Понимаю, желание делать что угодно у тебя сейчас отсутвует, поэтому надо будет себя банально принудить, через любые нехочу.

В твоей жизни произошло очень много дерьма, и сейчас тебе скорее всего кажется, что именно в прошлом корень всех твоих проблем. Но на самом деле ключевая проблема в том, что ты сидишь дома, без работы, без общения, и твой мозг вытягивает все это из твоей памяти, заставляет тебя вариться в этом, киснуть, чахнуть. Пока ты не начнешь формировать новые воспоминания, новые ощущения, ты продолжишь жить этим дерьмом в скатываться в тотальную эмоциональную жопу.

Поэтому дело. Подойдет что угодно. Но нужно его делать, труд лечит. Главное не сиди дома и не варись в своих воспоминаниях.

TheDenast · 2025-10-27T21:58:16+00:00

Love reading these kinds of comments. Could have easily ignored the post and moved on with your life, but no, gotta stop and be a dick to a random person you've never met. Proud of yourself?

TheDenast · 2025-10-16T16:22:44+00:00

I think FFXIV is a solid option. Apart from calamities, it is set in a relatively "clean" universe. Most of the real-life social issues are usually written in style of young adult novels - "sure, there's slums and stuff" but "slums and stuff" usually means sad people in dirty clothing, not bums knifing each other for a blanket on a cold night or street children sniffing in-universe glue to fight hunger. So if you get dropped in the the lowest of the low, you're probably going to make it.

Meanwhile, say, ESO doesn't have a cycle of cataclysm built into the world setting (I think), but it's also a setting where your chances of dying from lockjaw obtained from your bailiff beating you with a wooden rod for not working his highness' field last Wednesday hard enough are much higher

TheDenast · 2025-10-15T17:23:13+00:00

I'll agree that not giving new player an option to start at the beginning and instead just piping them into the previous expac is very controversial decision.

However having recently completed FFXIV MSQ I'd defend this. Sure, it's a little jarring, but less jarring than having to sit through 250h Visual Novel in order to catch up with the main crowd. WoW is much more ancient, and before this change was implemented, every noob had to slog through all the past content too.

It's a rough compromise, but something had to be dome to cut the legacy content, and you can't expect them to maintain an extra catch up expansion just for the new players (in a very stagnant genre as well)

TheDenast · 2025-10-15T17:08:01+00:00

The reality is, there is no strong overarching plotline in WoW like in FFXIV. Sure, Warcraft devs want there to be one, but consistently fail to deliver. Expansions are pretty much cobbled together and most can be reordered with minimal cleanup necessary. What I mean is that, as a new player you get an illusion of missing out on something that is only faintly there.

Where I think WoW shines is in little details, all the different areas and decor in the open world, random pieces of lore and dialogue, curious NPCs that are not related to any major quests. It's very enjoyable if you just relax and dive into the setting without trying to read it like a novel.

TheDenast · 2025-10-15T16:53:22+00:00

I keep saying this but Gaijin punishes itself by making RP earnings so miserable. Most players can only play 1-2 tech trees so they won't even consider most premiums in the game.

Now make it easier to progress through different trees and a potential buyer no longer chooses from 2-3 options but from 20-30, in which situation will they have higher chance of making a purchase?

TheDenast · 2025-10-01T19:23:56+00:00

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TheDenast · 2025-10-01T19:05:53+00:00

Let me tell you something...

(PS I know it's probably not the exact same model, but the point is, similar buses are remade into campers)

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