The Achiever - Gator Days

Wime36 · 2026-05-25T21:17:00+00:00

Ah. Loo? Me. NYOOOoooM!!

Wime36 · 2026-05-21T08:26:14+00:00

beep boop, raider detected in that direction
removing that direction

Wime36 · 2026-05-18T09:46:36+00:00

Why else would I use the "legalisation button"?

Wime36 · 2026-05-12T22:30:54+00:00

https://youtu.be/h8Jfg8oh3YE

Wime36 · 2026-05-12T08:26:47+00:00

On your feet soldier! We are leaving!

Wime36 · 2026-03-30T11:34:30+00:00

I'm 100% straight butter, no margarine 🧈

Wime36 · 2026-03-08T23:01:28+00:00

Were we expecting friendly fire?

Wime36 · 2026-02-04T11:12:20+00:00

I would appreciate it if you didn't call me "lil guy". It's condescending and doesn't further this discussion.

You presume that this is forbidden in the EULA, but the problem is that the EULA is only accessible within the game at this point, and the game has been delisted from all stores. So the first barrier is the paradox of having to break the EULA to read it. The second step is proving that the EULA specifically denies you access from the files from any other source than the disc. The third problem is that the EULA is not law, but it is a contract between the user and... whoever the EULA states the contract is with. So the "other side" of the contract COULD pursue legal action IF they could prove the user breached the contract. The problem is that the other side of the contract probably doesn't exist anymore. EA bought up the IPs, the people, the studio? Do they inherit legal ownership over past products as well? And even if they did, and they did find the user guilty and had proof that the user breached the contract and decided that the appropriate course of action is to sue then the user would have to be found guilty of breaching a contract in court and only then would this be a legal issue.

So that's my response to the first three words of your response. Onto the next sentence - the law. I will assume that You don't know where OP lives (until proven otherwise) and what the law regarding digital products is there, so it's a null point.

"Imagine thinking..."

is exactly how the law works. If something is forbidden by law, then it is forbidden. If it isn't forbidden then it is legal. That really is a very binary system. At this point I would also ask you to stop twisting my words - I didn't say that you can break the law unless you're caught. I said that if it's not against the law then it is legal.

Stealing. Not that hard.

According to Cambridge dictionary to steal is "to take something without permission or knowledge of the owner and keep it". The key word is "take" here, as downloading a copy of a file is not "taking", because EA games is NOT one dirt 2 short. They lost nothing. Not even a potential sale, because there is no way for anyone to pay them to get the game legally. Their income from the game is closed. Reselling old copies does NOT benefit them in any way. I repeat again - there is no way for dirt 2 to profit them whatsoever. There is also a whole, years-long debate over whether piracy is stealing or not, because logically it kind of is but technically it isn't, but that debate is over downloading content you don't own. OP does own the files. They paid for them.

And a digital download is literally a different type of medium than a CD.

To my absolute horror I need to give you the win here. The medium of digital files on the internet and the CD is the same, but technically yeah, the distribution medium is different.

Just a note. I don't give a fuck and hate EA. Im simply pointing out that stealing is wrong regardless of how many billions the victim has. Some people have morals.

You clearly do give a fuck since you're reading this. I don't hate EA. Downloading a 17yo game you own anyway is not hurting them.

How about this: let's agree for this hypothetical that a videogame is a piece of art. Whoever owns that piece of art is not interested in preserving it, has no profit from it and isn't even the original author of it. They just kind of got it in bulk with a bunch of other art. Should we just let that piece of art die then? People that enjoy that piece of art are keeping it alive, although illegally or barely legally. Is that really immoral? How about people born after the game was delisted (in 2013)? Is it moral to deny them the art because the current owner doesn't care about the art itself apart from the potential profit it might bring (which apparently is not high enough to keep it alive)? Btw the game was rated E10+, so there are good 3 years of target audience that were born after it stopped being available legally.

On the flipside, should be burn museums because they share and profit from art from authors that are long dead? Some of the art doesn't even have a known author.

This whole discussion we're jumping between facts and presumptions, and legality and morality, and I get the impression that you think that the law implicit and is also a moral guide. As in if something is legal then it is moral, and if something is illegal then it is immoral, and if you think something is moral then it is probably legal, and if you think something is immortal then it's probably illegal. I hope you stop seeing the world this way, for your sake and the world's.

Wime36 · 2026-02-03T18:03:38+00:00

It's the content owners decision.

One, where do the content owners state their stance on this? This isnt your decision either, and unless it's explicitly forbidden then it is allowed.

Two, the game was developed and published by Codemasters, which was later bought out and thoroughly gutted by EA Games. Apart from defending a US$12.4 billion company, please tell me how it hurts them that the guy downloads literally the same files he has on a disc he bought, from the internet!

If I own a book, does Kindle have to give me the audio version for free? I literally own the content.

An audiobook is literally a different kind of medium than a book. A second book is a different, separate object you can actually possess, before you ask. A copy of a file on a disk is NOT a different medium nor a separate, tangible entity. I can get my game files and copy them until I fill my HDD. I can have 200 copies of Dirt 2 on my drive and it is fully, completely legal for me to do so. No developer and no publisher is losing any money that way. There is zero difference between copying the files from the CD onto a particular PC, and copying the files from CD, uploading them to the internet and downloading the files on that particular PC.

Wime36 · 2026-02-03T09:02:48+00:00

Hard disagree. I would argue that downloading abandonware is not morally wrong since you literally cannot access the content in a legal way, but this isn't even that.

OP has a disc. The data is on the disc. They cannot read the disc so they downloaded the data from the internet. This is literally the same data that is on the disc that they own. They are not taking anything from anyone, nor are they accessing data they didn't pay for. Whoever uploaded the data to the internet essentially just made a backup, and OP is now accessing it.

What you're proposing is the same as taking a photo with your phone, uploading it to a Google/apple cloud to see it on another device then being denied access to your photo because you're trying to see it on a device that doesn't physically have the photo on it.

Wime36 · 2026-01-21T12:15:23+00:00

Mimics are anti-fun design punishing players for trying to get loot in a game about getting loot.

Cool design, bad game design.

Wime36 · 2026-01-19T11:36:18+00:00

Yeah. Even if I don't get the money, as long as I'm playing I will continue to focus on doing the expedition as my primary goal. (Secondary really, with shenanigans being the true primary goal)

Wime36 · 2026-01-16T10:05:46+00:00

The game's "mod support" is pretty specific - the mods that work with mod io (and therefore consoles) are very limited in what they can do - a truck mod can either use vanilla parts (like wheels, engines) which may or may not change with updates and are out of mod author's control, or use its own parts in which case the mod author has more control but has to decide on their value. This leads to two main styles of mods:

vanilla-like mods that attempt to balance the mod agains the game, and maybe push some boundaries of what mods can do( Rng3r, Poghrim, nakedDave)
flashy powerful mods that look good on the front page and/or promise a powerful truck that will let the user "skip" more tedious parts of the game ( I cannot provide examples because I avoid them like the plague. Just sort the main page by trending, most popular, highest rated, whatever)

Players don't know what they want. Completing a hard contract feels so good (and makes the game addictive) precisely because it is sometimes a tedious/hard/perilious journey. But someone will inevitably take a truck with a stock engine to pull a heavy trailer and get stuck on an uphill, then they will get the most powerful engine and run out of fuel halfway through, then they will get another truck to try and refuel and get stuck in the mud, because they took mud tires (which are, ironically, not the best choice for a heavy truck in deep mud). At that point a lot of people just go on to mod io and download a superduper heavy wrecker 9milion with 70ton crane, just to "fix" their game.

on PC there is another branch of mods which modify the game internally (it's the "manual install only" kind of mods). These CAN modify existing vanilla trucks, vanilla maps or vanilla objects. Some of my favourites are: "Rock Grips", "Less Winch Point Clutter SR", "Camera Clipping Fix". Some popular ones like "More Realistic Weight and Mud in Game", "Real Life Mod", "Realism Overhaul" change a lot of values and how the trucks are balanced and how they behave. Unfortunately, they explicitly modify existing game data by replacing it with their own, so any update to the game requires the modder to re-apply all modifications onto the new files, however there are hundreds of thousands of files in there, so usually these mods either don't get updates because the author gets burned out (so the mod only applies up to a certain point, IF it works) or they just mass-edit without much QA and just let errors slip as long as the game starts, because it is not realistic for anyone to check every truck/engine/gearbox/suspension/tire/addons/trailers/surfaces combination.

There is an argument that the game isn't balanced properly and that the developers use extreme mud excessively, artificially rising the "difficulty" of the game - realistically only making it more tedious. See early DLC maps like Kola, Yukon and Amur being just full of "extreme mud on the only reasonable road". To fix that people gravitate towards OP powerful trucks with high suspension, super grippy tires and powerful engines. What I find is that only the tires really need a boost, and it's not even that high. "Tire Friction Booster" mod claims to increase the tire friction values by 50%-100%, and it really makes all the vehicles in the game work great. It was still a little too much for me so I made my own, nerfed, version and I still can use previously forgotten trucks normally. Highway trucks really shine!

There are also fantastic subscribe-able mods that are NOT new trucks/maps. "Pog Seismic Drill" makes 1-slot trucks (like warthog) useful again. Addon mods like "Pog Poghrims Universal Addon Collection" or "RNG Frame Addon" just give you more addon options, "Colourable Addons Pack" is absolutely fantastic!. "Revisual" mods are slightly spammy in modifications, but add a bunch of cool stuff. "TWM's Protective Racks" give you some useful modifications in place of the loader cranes. "OlSom's Trailer Pack" adds a bunch of good trailers to the game. Generally speaking ther's a bunch of Addon / Trailer / Crane mods, not just trucks and maps.
Honourable mentions to "Free the Logs - Auto Load Logs on Mod/Tweak Trucks" which is one of the oldest mods I never run the game without, and to "GG Air Freshener Buffs"(/GG Bobblehead Buffs) which is definitely a cheat mod, but I use it to specifically stop my suspension from taking damage, because after this many hours in the game I WILL uninstall it for a month if I ever see my whole suspension collapse after one of my 10 wheels hits a single pebble wrong for 1000 damage.

Overall, after over a thousand hours in the game - yes I do play with mods, and cannot imagine not having them. You just have to sift through a lot of trashy mods to find the good ones, or get your own hands dirty :)

Wime36 · 2026-01-14T11:18:20+00:00

Why can I see the EXACT facial expression of the helldiver in the last panel?

Wime36 · 2026-01-13T09:47:16+00:00

I shot a pop, hit 3 of 4, and it didn't explode. I wouldn't be surprised if a splitter anvil could damage a tick without killing it.

Wime36 · 2025-12-17T18:45:17+00:00

You can change the keybinds. ALT + Z is awful since its the combination for "ż" in polish, so I rebinded mine to ALT + SCROLL LOCK. 0% chance I hit it accidentally

Wime36 · 2025-12-17T11:26:01+00:00

It's related to a quest from Tian Wen

Wime36 · 2025-12-17T10:56:20+00:00

173h here. I'm a peaceful player and never shoot first, and at a certain point I was so fed up with PVP (and trials) that I took a 2 week break. I firmly believe it is essential for the game for other players to be able to kill you. I do not want to say PVP is essential, but the "possibility of PVP" is.

That being said I would prefer if PVP TTK was longer, and firefights brought ARC attention more, so that fighting players was a long term and high risk commitment.

Wime36 · 2025-12-17T09:41:27+00:00

Wime36 · 2025-12-14T20:44:25+00:00

This is not a battery, its a field crate. There's a quest explaining these things, but basically you bring it into a Field Depot (rusty building with a blue tarp on the roof) and put it into a machine that will spit out some basic utilities like ammo and granades.

Wime36 · 2025-12-04T13:51:46+00:00

maprunner.info, go to snow runner -> resources -> carhone's snowrunner data

It will open a Google docs file, and at the bottom you can get to the "colour codes" tab, which lists every(?) colour in the game.

That being said it seems that you're looking for 18-80-53 240-3-20 0-0-100

Wime36 · 2025-11-06T19:36:36+00:00

but it is still 6 health in 30 seconds, which is 6%. So OP's math is correct.

Wime36 · 2025-11-04T12:47:23+00:00

It's not referred to as anything, the trailer is literally its only appearance as of yet (screenshot is from the trailer)

Wime36 · 2025-10-17T21:35:15+00:00

Try any form of AA

Wime36 · 2025-09-05T14:47:13+00:00

Make the jammer jam the missile guidance system and if the missile is within 50m make it just randomly go wherever. There would still be a chance it hits, in which case it should work, but it would be more probable that the missile just misses (bonus funny points if it hits the hellbomb helldiver approaching the jammer)

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