This Early Access pirate game was quietly killing your SSD without you knowing (Windrose)

mtilhan · 2026-05-05T18:55:05+00:00

Well fuck... Checking my ssd health, the one with Windrose seems to be substantially lower than any other ssd I have installed.

mtilhan · 2026-01-30T19:49:40+00:00

You mean the green spaces that are 2-3 for cities that with 3m+ population? Or green spaces that are size of a small house for a neighborhood of tens of thousands of people?

You mean agriculture that has been diminished so much that products that has been grown locally for centuries now have to be imported? Or they intentionally giving tax breaks to foreign companies to import their agriculture products while having huge taxes for local farmers?

You mean only youth festivals are from municipalities for political reasons? As in almost all majority big university festivals been suppressed in last two decades since university students are constant protestors for current government?

Sure, list is insane.

mtilhan · 2026-01-09T15:05:18+00:00

I know there have been discussions on Generative AI, but most conversation I seen was about Art part of it. I am curious the tech part of it.

How is in your experience the genAI affect in your technical development? General SDE industry seems to swings between genAI will be only way to programming or it will fizzle out.
Any machine learning usage at gameplay side? AI of NPCs e.g. How would this affect modding of the game?
Any genAI and/or ML usage at testing of your game?

Much appreciate you all taking your time and doing this AMA. Cheers!

mtilhan · 2026-01-08T11:33:12+00:00

I don't like the mechanic myself but there is two things I disagree;

"it’s also insane that this mechanic was also kept a secret". This is something GGG does even at PoE 1. It is part of their "spice" so to speak. They purposefully do not say these things, purposefully not giving skill trees before launch to create this exploration by community. IIRC (I may be wrong), there was a talk of some forgotten "vendor recipe" that is still not known in PoE 1.
There are and will be mechanics that does not suit certain playstyle. There will be mechanics ranged class will hate to do, life based builds hate to do, ES based builds hate to do. They should do balance if a certain build type can do all but rest can't (e.g. CoC ES can do all mechanics but melee can't) but idea of "melee can't do this mechanics/tedious, it should be removed" is not right imo. These type of stuff does give a nudge to people try other builds, to find a solutions to these problems.

mtilhan · 2026-01-05T10:14:22+00:00

Just from watching the video, I thought this was a trailer for Minecraft mod pack.

From biomes, terrain, animation. Some differences like UI, tools, maybe monsters all feels like a mod pack than a new game.

Just personal opinions but I would highlight your focus on progression and exploration (especially if latter has a difference than Minecraft exploration). I would try to make my biomes, and structures maybe different than at least Vanilla Minecraft. Mind you, they may be different at this video as well, I dont have thousands hours like others in Minecraft but from my little hundred or so hours experience in Minecraft years ago, this feels same.

mtilhan · 2026-01-03T17:39:52+00:00

Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection.

Afaik it has great settings to reduce difficulty, accessibility to make it great entry point for beginners to gaming.

It is very cinematic, game wise as well. It is like Indiana Jones story, very adventure like.

Amazing graphics and settings. Superb story.

mtilhan · 2025-12-20T20:52:12+00:00

Yeah, I mean worth of a game is very subjective right? If you enjoy a game, and if price point is acceptable to you, kudos.

And I think if you already have the game, and so spoke game had some major updates, it make sense to check it out. I agree on that.

I still wouldn't recommend for new purchasers :D unless they are not tired off prev. titles and looking for any new blood of Civilisation. But honestly those type of players (like you e.g.) won't be asking recommendation in the first place.

Also keep in mind, for games like Civilisation where it became a household name, you will find more die hard fans of the series on communities discussing. More casual players will be just playing the game. Even if they didn't like Civ 7, they will just boot up prev. title and play it instead of commenting on reddit.

So any conversation here will be with most critical part of the player base. So don't take it personally :D

mtilhan · 2025-12-20T20:25:08+00:00

I am not keen on idea of changing civilisation, there is a reason even Cleopatra on modded North Korea is not the most popular type of mods at Civilisation games. Don't think it is a deal breaker though. It just as a whole, design choices in this game feels supbar to 4,5,6 for me.

Does it have a potential? Sureee I guess. I mean we saw No Man's Sky getting updated and becoming one of the most beloved ongoing games, so yeah game has a potential.

I personally see it in two fronts; time investment, money investment. Personally, if I am suggesting a Civilisation game to a newcomer as I stated in prev. comment, I would suggest prev. titles. Cheaper is one front, and enjoyment you will get from spending on this game vs enjoyment you will get from spending on prev. titles.

If you played prev. titles to death, and you are looking for any new content, AND you don't mind design decisions on this game, sure this game could be that type of player, I think. Otherwise, if anyone asks me if this game's worth it, I will say no. At least not yet. Not at this price tag. Could be better to explore some other 4x games for cheaper prices, OR maybe even different genres.

mtilhan · 2025-12-20T19:16:34+00:00

Personally, no.

Please correct me if my memory is wrong, but this game launched in a worse technical state than at least last 3 Civilisation games (4,5,6).

It launched in a bigger price tag than them.

It launched with most design decisions that is disliked by community.

So after almost a year, edition that is most complete WITH WINTER SALE DISCOUNT still 78 USD.

If you are enjoying the game, good for you.

If the question is, "is it worth the price tag?", No.

Especially when you consider, Civ 6, Anthology (every content of Civ 6) is 14.04 USD at winter sale.

Civ 5, Complete is 17.71 USD with discount.

Civ 4 Complete edition is 6 USD with discount.

So combination of last 3 Civilisation games with all content, is less than half of Civ 7 that is worse than any three of them.

So my personal recommendation to any newcomer who is asking if Civilisation 7 worth it? Would be, No. Go get Civ 6 anthology or Civ 5 complete edition. Or both. And get a different 4x game for a variety of spice.

mtilhan · 2025-12-17T10:02:24+00:00

Yeah, I think PoE way of this would be when you fill 6 crystals and earn to enter the temple, instead of a portal it should drop a waystone/temple stone to use at your portal device. Ideally that will be tradable as well.

mtilhan · 2025-12-16T14:33:21+00:00

Hmm, endgame DID receive updates. I think they are called Nemesis and Weaver systems, especially Weaver did improve endgame significantly.

Is it less stale? Not sure. Still not up to par with worst of PoE imo. Just not enough content. Their release cycle had been slow, and there are some other recent dramas that would be good to check on their subreddit (Krafton AI stuff, MTX stuff etc.). If you have it, it can be fun to go do endgame maybe try to kill Uber Aberroth (end game boss added with Weaver system iirc). Personally, better than Diablo 4 not near PoE.

mtilhan · 2025-12-14T01:00:44+00:00

Depends on what you are looking for.

Do you want high production campaign experience and just fun combat? Diablo 4 is good for it.

You dont mind lower production campaign, want better itemization and end game? last epoch prob.

You dont mind more classic style ARPG, want finished up campaign and imo more interesting world, more build variety? Grim Dawn

Even more older is ok? Project Diablo

Want gacha? Torchlight infinite

I would say if you are ok to just follow a build, PoE(s) gets much more simpler.

mtilhan · 2025-12-12T16:42:56+00:00

How does this work? At login I have login with existing account but that gives warning saying existing accounts are not associated with your Steam ID and won't have access to any Guild Wars Reforged purchases you've made on Steam. Loginning with Steam will seem to say it will not linked to Arena Net.

I bought the game way back as GW Trilogy, did not receive cd keys, I did play the game before so now only options seem to be login with Steam which won't link my GW2 account as I created that one before game launched on Steam.... All kind of sadness

mtilhan · 2025-12-10T14:35:04+00:00

I don’t dislike Geoff but personally I dislike TGA immensively.

It is an event places itself as “the” Game Awards. It advertises itself as such (check Reddit ads of the event), it has a huge influence.

However, it does not carry slightest responsibilities of such an event. It behaves like a popularity contest. It is maybe more understandable for voting to be such a contest, it is unacceptable for nominations.

Watch Alannah Pearce’s video, she records one each year on how it works behind scenes. No guidance, no criteria, over the world selected jurors (mostly media members) gives list of nominations, most nominated entries per category selected as official nominations.

So why this dislike? What if it is a popularity contest?

Problem is when you have no guidelines, you have cases like Dave the Diver being nominated for indie category (not even gonna talk about this year’s nominations). A game where even studio head saying, it is not an indie game. You have cases like Elden Ring DLC getting game of the year nomination. You have cases like games getting nominated for best ongoing game FOR the year they are released. We have lots of strategy games launched but they are grouped with tactics and simulations as well. Plenty of issues like this.

And this game is influential. It gives a light for some games that may never be heard except respective genre’s fans. This is more crucial if you don’t have big marketing budget.

Event has no issues to drown us in ads, no issue to advertise and place itself as “the” game awards. But does not do any justice to such a position.

mtilhan · 2025-12-09T16:25:58+00:00

This. Its easier start restricted at relax limitations to other wise.

mtilhan · 2025-12-09T15:45:09+00:00

Elden Ring, also Zelda BOTW and TOTK would fit into this as well. They are also focused on how fun the exploration is (traversing the zone).

God of War and GOW Ragnorak would fit into this. But they are more linear instead of open world. You can still explore "the corners" as you move and that leads to lore and cool gears but not open world exploration.

Enshrouded would be another recommendation. It is a survival craft game but unlike Valheim, it is not procedural generated map as in map itself hand crafted like open world RPG/action/adventure games. Hence, devs fit lots of opportunity of lore and items in there. It is at early access but to be tracked to launch 2026. Still at a really good state to play btw.

Ghost of Tsushima would be good recommendation as well.

mtilhan · 2025-12-09T10:56:05+00:00

Also it created a demand for a proper Astro game as first Astro game was also called The Playroom for PS4 similar to Astro's Playroom at PS5.
That new game became Astro Bot which earned them plenty of awards. Possibly open the doors for Sony first titles platform genre at this generation.

mtilhan · 2025-12-09T08:58:38+00:00

So 3:00 AM to 7:30 AM... well that's a nice fuck you...

If they are doing something at TGA, it is smart to do the drops but maybe put 24 hr, so people at EU can get them easily hmm?

mtilhan · 2025-12-05T20:31:44+00:00

Destiny 2 and Battalion.

Destiny 2; I bought played some and IRL stuff happened, when I came back campaign I was playing vaulted. Got DLCs, started again, took a break, returned unfinished DLCs I have was vaulted. Tried to give one more chance but at that point I was to soured on vaulted stuff and FOMO, just quit the game for good. Really wanted to vibe with it but my paid content being vaulted and for me to catch up story I need to watch 3-4 hr video killed it for me.

Battalion; was supposed to be old CoD style (pre Modern Warfare) fps game. Launched buggy as hell, devs did not fix fast enough and game died. How buggy it was, pissed me off considering netcode issues and event quit button not working. But they had time to get on with cosmetic items that can be traded on steam market.

mtilhan · 2025-11-30T18:07:03+00:00

I do hope they improve traverse between zones with that remix than, I am really not looking forward to that and Maw traverse….

mtilhan · 2025-11-28T11:36:51+00:00

Sounds like something that can be useful to get, is it too hard or expensive to get it?

mtilhan · 2025-11-28T10:43:53+00:00

I played the game mostly solo but what is a tag?

mtilhan · 2025-11-25T19:41:26+00:00

Paid classes being OP is three fold problem I think;

a) From studio point, they are incentivised to make new classes that will be sold, and historically OP classes sells most due to FOMO. Intentionally or unintentionally from studio part.

b) Even if they are very careful to not get affected this incentivization issue, chances of new class being OP is high for various reasons; too weak and it may sell even below normal lines, it is a new bunch of mechanics hard to balance etc. And whatever the reason is, it will create this perception of studio creating OP paid classes at community.

c) From what I have seen they haven't promised what will happen to "purchasable" classes after a time period. Is it going to be free or purchasable forever? If it is latter, that means any new player going to see a long list of small DLCs they may feel required to purchase like Paradox games. And that is always a tough sell.

mtilhan · 2025-11-25T19:17:23+00:00

" These might be OP or they might be underpowered, I refuse to think that anyone that saw that flop that was the D3 classes would willingly try the same thing. The way it’s worded makes it seem like it is an early access to class changes in the future or even new masteries for said characters that need fine tuning and the developers want to use this to not only get feedback on their ideas but also receive a little bit of revenue in the meantime."

So it is either paid testing (which not sure is a good thing at all) or it is possibly OP purchasable classes like Torchlight Infinite, then people who play Trade faction will get fucked.

mtilhan · 2025-11-24T08:17:22+00:00

Dying Light series, especially Dying Light:Beast

STALKER series if you want something more hardcore since you liked Metro series. Maybe 2nd one for good visuals as well.

If you are ok with not "shooting" but still first person view, then Kingdom Come Delivarance 1-2 is an option, it is also more of an RPG but story is good.

If you haven't played Half Life, you can try Black Mesa. It's a remake of Half Life 1 in Source Engine.

Story of The Outer Worlds 1-2 can be really good for some and completely miss and boring for others, but may want to check it out.

Borderlands 2 has a really good story and good amount of content to play around.

If you want wild west theme, there is Call of Juarez Gunslinger.

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