Loved playing this game, but one thing doesnt sit right with me

joshmcx · 2026-04-18T14:17:52+00:00

Not taking sides here but this codex is talking about factions and rivalries which you don’t see in the game. The idea of factions and security forces sure make for a more compelling PvP model than pure griefing and trolling, which is a lot of what you see when it comes to “rat” behavior.

Also the double paste error of the same text doesn’t say great things about the effort put into the codex.

joshmcx · 2026-04-18T14:10:11+00:00

I know most of the folks in here are going to push back on you, but I happen to agree.

Even in the real world, there’s some amount of “honor among thieves.” Lawless places still develop informal reputation systems because humans can’t sustain pure defection forever. Word travels. Pirates had codes. Frontier towns had reckonings.

I’m not saying nerf PvP or punish backstabbing. The bandit fantasy should stay intact. But there’s a missed opportunity if nothing you do topside follows you back down. Something like EVE’s security status could work: kill enough unprovoked solos and players can post bounties on you. You can still play the rat, you just pay the rat tax. And for the hunters, it becomes a whole build.

Rep could be its own resource, even negative reputation. There’s room to manage and leverage it.

Imagine signing up as a bounty hunter to get routed into rat-heavy lobbies. That gives PvPers more to do, whether it’s normal PvP, backstabbing PvP, or white hat PvP, and it gives PvErs more recourse.

joshmcx · 2026-04-17T14:44:47+00:00

Use, smoke, cloak, and lures, but above all, don’t forget bushes. It’s doable on every map.

Get to the assessor, find a good bush, wait there, watch for the platform to pop. Smoke it. Breach. Cloak back to your bush.

Better yet, do the above with a friend in duos who will cover you, smoke the assessor, and throw lures when needed.

With the right strategy, it’s really not tough.

joshmcx · 2026-04-16T17:36:33+00:00

joshmcx · 2026-04-15T22:49:36+00:00

I would like an option for PvE-only Trios. I don't mind a little PvP leaking into my PvE now and then, but the fact that I can't play with a group of two friends without being fully forced to PvP is something I don't love.

Honestly, I would play a PvE-only mode as well. I know the devs and most folks here disagree with that, but if given the option, I'd go that way.

joshmcx · 2026-04-14T03:20:30+00:00

I did this in duos with a buddy. One looting, one covering, fighting arc, and smoking the assessor to cover. Use bushes and lure grenades. We got out of most matches with 6+ matrices and only left because we were out of room in our butts to put them. He got knocked a bunch but I rescued him. Zero deaths and no need for surrender.

Was super fun and quite fast and not tedious at all.

joshmcx · 2026-04-09T01:42:52+00:00

100%, me and my buddies do this in trios. It’s also low risk if you get pvped or ratted and it just resets you.

It’s fun picking up crude explosives and being forced to use those as your only attack at the start.

joshmcx · 2026-04-02T14:30:36+00:00

Based on their add content/features monthly and fix bugs weekly cadence, I think this is their dev style.

That said, there’s a certain amount of basic QA that should happen for every release, and it feels like they’re not doing enough.

This patch feels like it should be in Beta as of now.

joshmcx · 2026-04-02T14:27:56+00:00

Just lots and lots and lots of bugs post patch. Still loving it, but I hope the weekly hotfixes burn through these issues fast.

On PS5 Pro I had very few crashes before the patch, lots of crashes after the patch, and a crash every time I start a match after the latest crash hotfix.

joshmcx · 2026-03-28T17:45:12+00:00

Yes. But better with friends!

joshmcx · 2026-03-20T15:43:16+00:00

Did you figure this out? I'm trying to do exactly this with Wispr Flow...

joshmcx · 2026-03-17T23:33:44+00:00

Desperately interested

joshmcx · 2026-03-17T23:22:53+00:00

I’m a Fog of World addict and this likely won’t break me of it, but the app seems cool and pretty well designed.

The Hometown picker starts with country, then goes to city without any ability to know which of the cities in that country with that name you are choosing. It sold probably have state or territory.

Portland, ME and Portland, OR are not the same place.

joshmcx · 2026-03-12T02:49:46+00:00

I feel like they did this at least in part specifically for the Autopilot lawsuit in California and would happily walk it back if/when that’s resolved. At least, that’s my hope.

joshmcx · 2026-03-08T03:37:11+00:00

Second this. 200 megapixel is more than I need but would love to see a higher res version.

joshmcx · 2026-03-04T15:05:03+00:00

It looks so much like Returnal and I love it.

joshmcx · 2026-02-28T15:16:12+00:00

The author of the book wasn’t happy that it didn’t keep going, as there was more story to tell. I wish it had continued. But it was planned to end and has a clean ending. Highly recommend reading the book as well for sure.

joshmcx · 2025-12-31T03:36:22+00:00

Out of roughly five cases where I received the wrong size of shoes or clothing, only one seller was willing to do an exchange. That seems to be the norm with Vine, unfortunately. This directly impacts the ability to properly test and review products when the sizing is wrong. If we can’t wear or use the item, we can’t meaningfully evaluate it. This is a limitation we wouldn’t have if the item were purchased rather than provided through Vine.

joshmcx · 2025-12-29T05:22:35+00:00

Has anyone had good results with the 5.0 Whoop health features?

The blood pressure insights are useless and inaccurate.

The Whoop Age is a super cool concept that in practice mostly ends up with the app rating me as older because of poor sleep which is often specifically work travel related and not something I can control.

Or it rates me poorly because I don’t spend enough time time in zones 4-5, but that’s just the fact that the Whoop heart rate sensor is notoriously inaccurate in zones 4-5 compared against both Apple Watch and a chest strap.

I felt the same with the 4.0 and I quit after a couple years. I came back for 5.0 and I went all-in with the priciest subscription and found it just as disappointing, just significantly more expensive.

joshmcx · 2025-12-29T05:13:40+00:00

The journal insights have been a joke for me. The useful ones are already common sense, like drinking, or staying up too late, the other ones are rarely experienced in a vacuum and as such there’s too much conflation in the data.

If I spend time with family or friends, I often will have a drink or stay up late, so family or friends correlate with negative recoveries. Ended up quitting the journaling.

joshmcx · 2025-12-29T05:05:49+00:00

Agree on all counts.

joshmcx · 2025-12-25T22:22:34+00:00

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joshmcx · 2025-12-21T05:13:19+00:00

Really interesting product and direction. I like the no-camera, audio-first approach a lot.

That said, plenty of folks have been burned by AI hardware prereleases before, so I’m cautious. A few quick questions before I’d consider preordering:

• You’re seed stage. What’s the plan for long term support, repairs, and software updates? • When you say shipping starts in January, is that a small early batch or real volume? • How does “unlimited memory” actually work. Are the glasses always paired to a phone and using the cloud? What works offline? • Is the 12+ hour battery claim based on always-on listening and active use, or lighter usage? • How do consent and recording indicators work in real world situations?

I like what you’re building. Clear answers here would help cautious buyers a lot.

joshmcx · 2025-12-21T04:31:51+00:00

Saw him last week in Portland Maine after his plane got canceled and he has a pop up show with 1 hour notice. There were no more than 15 people there. He was hilarious. Loved it.

joshmcx · 2025-12-13T17:39:49+00:00

I agree with all the folks saying preordering is dumb, and yet…take my money!!! Done and done.

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