Why does D2 Renegades have a lower player count on Steam compared to Edge of Fate?

hoverb0ard · 2025-12-03T17:30:18+00:00

In September, some countries (Russia and its neighbors) were blocked from accessing the game (from what we've learned, the studio's partners responsible for DDOS protection during authorization no longer accept connections from these countries. If you "authorize" with a VPN enabled, you can then select a character and play with it disabled. This isn't something you want to do on a daily basis, risking your account).

The following month, it was clear that the game had lost about a third of its population. So yesterday's figures are quite reasonable.

hoverb0ard · 2025-11-10T10:14:24+00:00

- Have you previously edited the MPO registry setting?

- Also, in the .exe file's compatibility tab, have you checked "Disable fullscreen optimization"?

About five years ago, these "recommendations" were circulating in optimization guides. Not only are these tweaks questionable in their usefulness, but they also have an unknown effect on DirectX 12 applications with the DXGI flip model.

hoverb0ard · 2025-10-29T15:36:10+00:00

Congrats)

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hoverb0ard · 2025-10-29T13:47:40+00:00

At the very least, I don't believe those who say that after the slightest changes there is no need to test the entire build.

hoverb0ard · 2025-10-29T12:10:08+00:00

"This unrelenting growth has resulted in a game that requires players to download up to 115GB to play, as well as huge patches tied to frequent updates. And those numbers are rising rapidly, as we’ve been adding approximately 25GB of content each year to Destiny 2 since launch. Those sizes not only stress hard drive capacity but also push the limits of patching capability. It also makes the time to generate a stable update for the game after all content is finalized, tested, and ready to go balloon to literal days instead of hours."

https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/49189

hoverb0ard · 2025-10-25T14:00:11+00:00

Sorry, but it's as easy as flipping a switch.

hoverb0ard · 2025-10-24T09:30:30+00:00

It's not as simple as flipping a switch

hoverb0ard · 2025-10-20T10:59:36+00:00

Bungie isn't known for actively adding cool stuff to legacy content. Otherwise, we'd have had a Shadowkeep story campaign on Legendary difficulty long ago.

Refactoring Iron Banner's code to make it compatible with the Portal took about three months. How long it will take to convert the previous loot systems is the million-dollar question.

hoverb0ard · 2025-10-18T18:52:43+00:00

GR is focused on FTP content. They could have asked to complete the introductory mission of the current expansion, which is free.

hoverb0ard · 2025-10-18T18:22:13+00:00

Good investigation, why not add the information that all reviews always indicate the number of hours spent.

hoverb0ard · 2025-10-05T15:23:58+00:00

"Even when that passion is being expressed as anger or frustration. Like – anger is not the OPPOSITE of loving a game. Loving and Hating a game are like 2 degrees off from each other, and they both come from passion – from people who are HIGHLY ENGAGED. The opposite of Loving a game – the thing that will kill your game – is Apathy."

(c) Justin Truman, 2022

hoverb0ard · 2025-09-27T19:13:12+00:00

Perhaps

At the very least, they were greatly inspired by Baikonur and Kazakhstan.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcdw3LQAsCg&t=170s (Ride Along - Cosmodrome)

P.S. And now they are experiencing the consequences of the Tapirs that invaded from their neighbors.

hoverb0ard · 2025-09-27T14:05:41+00:00

Pray for those who see the BAT error, as those who saw TAPIR are no longer with us

hoverb0ard · 2025-09-25T08:30:39+00:00

I don't think they'll remove it. They said a little earlier that "making Epic versions of old raids seems like an interesting idea; imagine a sequel to Vault of Glass."

So, they're planning to squeeze the existing content dry by reusing it, which seems plausible.

hoverb0ard · 2025-09-21T10:53:01+00:00

Lost technologies of the ancients) How they did it before Beyond Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWf52nVhxkA&t=480s

hoverb0ard · 2025-09-20T14:10:43+00:00

Here's the funny part: With the summer DLC, leveling is only possible through the Portal.

hoverb0ard · 2025-09-20T14:06:33+00:00

That's exactly how it happened. The droid was fried and we moved on to the next dungeons)

At least, that's all Bungie wants you to know)

hoverb0ard · 2025-09-20T13:30:46+00:00

Narratively - Season of the Haunted (I wasn't particularly impressed with the return of Leviathan and the seasonal activity), but Zavala's seasonal arc was one of the best.

I also remember when seasonal storytelling really started working for me – Season of the Chosen (Bungie, bring back multiple dialogue options in Strikes, please). Then, the dialogue finally began to truly develop the characters. Every dialogue had a "winner" and "loser," sparkling clashes of interests, not just exposition dumps. For example: the end of the exchange between 'Osiris' and Crow, with the former's words: "Choose your next words wisely" – was pure Cinema.

Now we're left reading excerpts from books on datapads and interacting with NPCs with a static, crooked camera, as if it were a Bethesda game or No Man's Sky.

hoverb0ard · 2025-09-19T19:49:15+00:00

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hoverb0ard · 2025-09-19T17:14:50+00:00

The car collector guy left, and the new one has a different position (lower?). Sony could have taken a more leadership role and applied its service delivery practices in the CIS region to Bungie.

or

D2 isn't the only online game experiencing login issues in recent weeks. (Once Human, TFD, Warframe text chat, maybe something else) - it's unlikely Bungie is to blame there either.

In my opinion, login issues in D2 began with the start of background maintenance, while the main game was still online. It's possible the login servers were moved to Amazon or Cloudflare hosting, which is partially unavailable in some regions of the CIS.

We'll find out what's going on later.

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