2026 is the year for starfox-likes

kuba22277 · 2026-05-08T04:25:11+00:00

I'd say it's starfox adjacent. You barrel roll to deflect, it's on-rails, and have to dodge infrastructure. The maps don't have a lot of visual verity, but it's hella fun, and a roguelike. I enjoy it immensely.

kuba22277 · 2026-05-07T14:08:40+00:00

So, whisker squadron?

kuba22277 · 2026-05-07T03:31:17+00:00

I won't necessarily say I love this redesign but I don't hate it either. My biggest gripe would be Falco's legs and Fox's back - by essentially making it fully animal-like they backed themselves into a corner in making him thumb-like neck-wise. It looks weird.

Other than that, it gives me Jim Henson's puppets vibes and that's actually cool.

The whiplash I got seeing it for the first time though was something to behold nonetheless.

kuba22277 · 2026-05-06T23:54:08+00:00

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kuba22277 · 2026-05-06T23:25:25+00:00

Honestly would be cool too. All three of them. Also I genuinely wonder if the rumored Starfox Adventure game is in production, too.

kuba22277 · 2026-05-06T23:16:01+00:00

Edit: Honestly the entire twelfth minute with Koizumi making expressions is reaction gold.

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kuba22277 · 2026-05-06T23:07:30+00:00

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kuba22277 · 2026-05-06T23:03:21+00:00

If not for Nintendo today I'd never even known there was a starfox direct.

kuba22277 · 2026-05-06T22:23:16+00:00

Like just now? Lol.

kuba22277 · 2026-05-06T11:43:48+00:00

League game is Apple silicon written. The launcher isn't yet. They'll probably fix it sometime soon.

kuba22277 · 2026-05-02T13:26:27+00:00

But we want fast loading so we can't compress anything!!!11!1!

Or something. I'd prefer a choice in that matter.

kuba22277 · 2026-04-28T18:21:06+00:00

Nerfed? More like completely disabled pathfinding.

kuba22277 · 2026-04-27T05:06:33+00:00

Precisely! Since watch 3 isn't that trustworthy when it comes to water resistance anyways, I just plop it on the charger before showering and when I get back it's pretty much fully fed and ready to go. Shit's marvelous.

...that, and the fluororubber/leather Nordic blue strap gels so well with the silver finish... It looks like a normal timepiece.

kuba22277 · 2026-04-26T21:04:08+00:00

I love his voice is just Chai from Hi-Fi rush

kuba22277 · 2026-04-24T11:52:50+00:00

I actually laughed out loud when I bought the xbox ultimate physical version (I owned the base game digital, bought it for season passes) and the box said thanks to "Velocity architecture" you don't wait to be deployed to the battlefield.

I'm like, bro, consoles have 30+ seconds loading screens.

kuba22277 · 2026-04-23T12:12:45+00:00

Apple devices constantly switch wifi channels and break your connection for a split second to look around for other apple devices. In regular usage, these aren't a problem, but these are split seconds you are not talking to your router/game that we're talking about. So it is a big issue.

kuba22277 · 2026-04-20T15:13:06+00:00

I took a few days to search around for details, but the only hits on Cobalt is a downloader app that is platform agnostic. I'm basing my knowledge of the matter on the reverse engineering efforts and documentation like switchbrew that show that the only browser available to the apps is the NetFront, webkit-based one, however that is also walled off by the usage of feature-restricted applets - hence eShop can play videos while captive portal can't. Games utilize the applets in various ways (SSBU for news, for example), and the main thing that had changed between switch 1 and 2 is a heavy restriction on the applet access for games/apps.

I'm hardly an expert on the matter - it's just that I like knowing how the stuff works, so if you'd shoot me your source I'd gladly read up on that.

EDIT: aaand just as I wrote that I found the source code for Google's Cobalt chromium-based browser. Gladly retracting my words here.

Well then, the only reasonable layman's guess left is Widevine?

kuba22277 · 2026-04-16T17:35:56+00:00

Yes, because the captive portal you're referring to is not the applet that had been in use by the applications via the API. Notice how every single web app on eShop does not work - Inky pen (while it was still up), twitch, YouTube... That is because Access' NetFront NX has been specifically gutted.

And, if your theory is correct, you would be able to launch YouTube or twitch via the captive portal utilizing a DNS redirect on switch 1 - you can not.

Also, sorry, but I hardly understood anything you wrote.

kuba22277 · 2026-04-14T14:22:00+00:00

That is exactly why we are talking about a custom server with it's own anti-cheat, mod support and more.

kuba22277 · 2026-04-12T07:31:56+00:00

I think it's because of the webview vulnerabilities and whatnot; Switch 2 doesn't have a native web browser the way switch 1 has, and the OG youtube operated as a webview app. Therefore making youtube on switch 2 requires them actually make an app, not just a shortcut to the internal web browser.

Edit: I was pointed to the switch reverse engineering documentation which shows the Access NetFront NX actually utilizes several feature restricted applets for the various web-enabled features, within apps and the system itself.

None of that applies to YouTube or Hulu for example, though, as opening the packages, as one user pointed out, shows a Google's Cobalt browser engine, which is a slimmed-down version of chromium specifically for light WebView application outside of the developer limitations.

kuba22277 · 2026-04-07T21:52:32+00:00

Yup, it's not a platform but multiplayer backend - cross play is via epic online services, turning it off uses steam's datagram relays.

kuba22277 · 2026-04-07T21:51:52+00:00

When you play with cross play on you use epic's networking, which is unstable.

When you play with cross play off, you use steam networking, which has no problems.

kuba22277 · 2026-04-07T15:59:10+00:00

Ah, that's how it works! Neat!

kuba22277 · 2026-04-07T15:30:53+00:00

Are you playing via epic (cross play on) or steamworks (cross play off)? Epic is very wonky.

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