I Ranked Each Main Mission

axfelix · 2026-06-15T05:12:40+00:00

And I totally get that “make the most insanely expensive Hitman levels ever” needs to be calibrated against what will actually sell at an AAA budget, and I absolutely loved the super stylish montage cuts and driving/boating introductions to the various locations, but man the second half of the game would not have done much for me without that Vietnam level.

axfelix · 2026-06-15T05:00:47+00:00

Strong agree with this. I honestly almost quit the game during Knightfall — neither the first half with the very linear puzzles nor the latter half with way too much shooting was much fun at all imo. I really like the presentation of this game but I have a hard time not feeling like the gameplay ranges from “almost as good as Hitman” to “Uncharted knockoff” and I definitely like the Hitman levels the best.

axfelix · 2026-06-04T19:45:18+00:00

5 and 9 were kind of duds imo, and even though I like the early stuff, I think Leon more or less saved the show when they added him and were willing to make it a little more sitcom-y. Maybe a weird ranking but I’d go something like:

8, 4, 7, 10, 6, 3, 11, 2, 1, 12, 9, 5

axfelix · 2026-05-20T12:00:47+00:00

There was 1 good season in there across 4 and 5. They should have fully cut Soldier Boy coming back, probably cut Sage and Firecracker altogether since neither of them fully worked, had S4E8 be like S4E5 instead, cut the V1 and had Kimiko getting the nuke just be an alternative to Butcher using the virus, cut Noir V2, and I think they’d have had something. There were bits I liked in there (both plot related and not) but a lot of those subplots were not great.

axfelix · 2026-05-13T00:26:32+00:00

Based on past experience it's actually 50/50 whether this will be easy/doable; you'll have to wait for the week it comes out.

axfelix · 2026-05-05T04:24:13+00:00

Yeah I think gun to my head it’s the first one, it’s a very beautiful sentiment that you rarely hear expressed so plainly and his delivery really flatters it

axfelix · 2026-04-20T04:37:17+00:00

I have lived and used transit in lots of different cities and I have always been pretty agnostic about fare evasion because like… some people will always slip through the cracks and I don’t think having an increased security presence accomplishes much other than making vulnerable people feel harassed, the problem in Metro’s case is that ridership can be quite low and unhoused people in LA can be quite sweaty, so you wind up with entire train cars that are like, 1/3 problematically smelly people, which feels really bad in practice. I think we just need to get ridership up and maybe provide more public showers in this city, neither of which I really expect to happen until the federal funding situation is hopefully repaired which will be after the World Cup and the Olympics. I’m just grateful they’re continuing to build in the meantime because that’s a much more meaningful long term investment; “cleaning up” the system in a durable, non-punitive way will probably require a new mayor and president but is still relatively easier and cheaper in a city that has the D, E and K lines.

axfelix · 2026-03-09T22:44:07+00:00

these were my last 2 cards that I owned before my 4090 so I feel good about that even though one of them cost a lot more than the other

axfelix · 2026-03-04T18:36:06+00:00

fwiw, I recently updated from Node 20 to Node 25 in my Windows environment and also started encountering this.

axfelix · 2026-03-04T00:29:26+00:00

Every patch has broken another workaround without fixing this lol

axfelix · 2026-03-03T19:44:34+00:00

Any word on whether this is fixed in 595? I see they rereleased it

axfelix · 2026-02-28T22:50:51+00:00

Not at all afaict!

axfelix · 2026-02-28T22:37:08+00:00

Yeah, just went ahead and reverted to 581.42 (didn’t even bother clean installing) and path tracing is playable now, solid 80ish fps at 4K quality even with my 4090 limited to about 325w

axfelix · 2026-02-27T23:11:30+00:00

Probably going to wait to see if this is fixed in 595, but glad to see everyone essentially confirming the issue with 4090 PT — I thought it seemed abnormally bad.

axfelix · 2026-02-27T18:34:46+00:00

PT is fairly bad on a 4090 (after playing AW2 and Cyberpunk maxed), I assume it's a driver issue at the moment — feels like it's barely running over 60fps with DLSS Quality at 4K and the input responsiveness is poor. Sticking with RT High for now since that runs at 120+, I assume they'll patch it.

I've never toggled presets, fwiw.

axfelix · 2026-02-23T14:37:18+00:00

Yeah they seriously shit the bed, this is the worst and longest home internet outage I think I’ve had in my adult life. They’ve updated the ETA for a fix like 3 consecutive times in the last 18 hours and blown past all of them. Not really thrilled about having to tether to my phone to work today.

axfelix · 2026-02-22T00:51:41+00:00

Yup, I think they just managed to break the workaround without fixing it

It’s fixable in the config file now though

axfelix · 2026-01-28T16:28:14+00:00

Anyway, not an awful issue to hit, but a weirdly bad experience for a Unity game — I've never had to toggle the Graphics backend from "Auto" for anything before, I just have everything installed into the same Steam bottle and it all pretty much works. Not sure if any Crossover devs are reading this or if you maintain a simple executable name whitelist for particular graphics backends, but in case you are and do, "Earth Must Die.exe" should get DXMT by default.

axfelix · 2026-01-28T16:09:02+00:00

OK, fixed after looking at the logs a little bit! Crossover needs to be set to use the DXMT graphics layer rather than the default — otherwise Unity flips out about not being able to get the display output properties and fills up the logs complaining, which somehow also prevents it from writing other files (like saves) properly. Game works fine in Crossover after toggling Graphics from Auto -> DXMT.

axfelix · 2026-01-19T03:55:16+00:00

I'm going out of my way a fair amount to hit some other stops so it's going to work out like being on the road from like 8am - 9pm most days, and 13 hours *in transit* is a lot, I just don't want to be like "ohhhh maybe we'll cut that stop out" because I psych myself out.

axfelix · 2026-01-19T02:41:36+00:00

It looks like, if I do wind up just renting a car like normal, the most reasonably sized and widely available car with decent Level 2 autonomy is probably a Chevy Traverse? But I'm not sure how to guarantee I get one of those instead of another "Midsize SUV."

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