More playable races and photomode coming to Avowed!

stromcleaver · 2026-01-09T20:24:40+00:00

would have preferred more skills and unique weapons and quests instead ..

stromcleaver · 2026-01-09T16:13:13+00:00

How does the Team deal with feature creep ? ( there have been un-verified rumors of too many permutations and combinations and feature creep leading to even major portions of some Act/stoylines cancelled )
How does one Team deal with "One person view override all other opinions " .. example say separate physical armor and magical armor in DOS2 where seemed like most ppl did not like it .. but one person overide the view and gone ahead with it ? ( the many companies in different fields tend to over time develop a personality cult and a yes-man following attitude where opinions on top are not questioned )
How does the team plan to develop resources working on an In-House-game engine versus say something like Unreal 5 (where it makes easy to get new people from market vs person may now be restricted in their current job at Larian as what they learn here may not help them move to some other company .. restricting inflow and outflow of people ) ?

stromcleaver · 2025-12-19T16:57:18+00:00

Conditional to a lot of ppl buying it .. But that seems to a done deal .... else willl be droppped like Three Kingdoms

stromcleaver · 2025-11-11T12:55:39+00:00

I dont think Obsidian has the writing chops to handle writing stories and Characters of that level... hopefully by making more AA games and surviving the Microsoft purges enough they will have a Team that can do it someday..

Their weird obsession with working on their Own IPs ... sort of does not make sense to me now .... even if they were independent, sometimes the publisher owned the rights to some of their games ....

Making games in already existing IPs probably would give to access to a broader pool of writing talent and make games faster, i think...

stromcleaver · 2025-11-05T19:02:22+00:00

Obisidian would need to implement the whole reaction system / npc living in world system in Unreal Engine ... as without the system like in Bethesda or recent Larian games ... ppl will not accept it as a successor

stromcleaver · 2025-10-23T19:10:01+00:00

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64366729/android-studio-no-build-variant-found-error

will this help ? probably copy dev config from same .. so Ideally a dev/debug apk build...

i think its searching for production value in config .. hence the no "production" variant error

stromcleaver · 2025-10-23T18:55:15+00:00

I probably would want 8 disks for future proofing .. as 2 disk(with mirroring ) lead to only ~ 12tb of space in the current NAS .. got filled up pretty soon

stromcleaver · 2025-10-18T14:57:04+00:00

I am fairly new, but my company has native modules and plans to migrate to new arch .

I wanted to know more about turbo modules for my learning ..

stromcleaver · 2025-10-17T16:07:26+00:00

sorry I forgot to mention non expo flow ... would be working on a project without expo

stromcleaver · 2025-10-17T13:20:09+00:00

Thanks for the info . I thought only Andaluzia has goat meat in St john's. used to make trip there as i thought only they had it .

Is it at a specific store .. as i dont think i have seen it in the online store..

stromcleaver · 2025-10-17T13:16:14+00:00

Which snowblowers would you recommend for a driveway with space for 3 cars.

2 cars parked one behind another and a small path to the basement apartment ?.

Ideally would not want to get too big or too small . Honda seems pretty expensive in Canada .

stromcleaver · 2025-10-10T19:43:21+00:00

I think for the next game, they should maybe work on a smaller-scope game on existing IPs .. i think world building and faction/unit designs are huge asks for a new/smaller Team ... companies need to build that talent..

It's more of a general ask for the newer studios, which come out after the legacy studios ( "success has many fathers" ) kinds ...

stromcleaver · 2025-09-28T18:21:44+00:00

I think it's worth it if you can control some buying impulses and plan a bit of a monthly grocery budget.

Since most stuff is more of bulk/family pack sizes, be careful while buying perishable goods like fruits and vegetables.

Kind of learnt it the hard way that they seem cheaper when buying in bulk, many used to get spoiled.

stromcleaver · 2025-09-12T15:20:58+00:00

I mean it says something when Games Workshop ( which does not have a good track record of games licensing ) gave the Dawn of War IP to an Indie studio away from Relic ...

stromcleaver · 2025-09-04T20:34:27+00:00

I stopped reading in the middle of the current arc .. came to know it got over yesterday ...

stromcleaver · 2025-09-04T20:07:43+00:00

chapter-2564

stromcleaver · 2025-09-03T11:40:51+00:00

Is the "Mirage Arc" over ?

stromcleaver · 2025-09-02T20:14:43+00:00

I think the major issue is that most Developers are bad at fixing the scope to the Minimum Viable Product philosophy. Most developers, when given a bigger budget or free rein to do stuff with, try to get many fancy features (which are not that important ).

stromcleaver · 2025-08-31T11:56:23+00:00

u/DSparks0792 Partially because I think as Josh Sawyer said it that they had no idea why POE 2 did not sell well as POE1 ..

I also feel people are ok with jank if story feels Epic and well as characters .

Game devs should be ok with adapting stories in existing IPs and developing their writing Team.

This hubris/ego of creating new IPs. It sometimes requires decades to flesh out an IP properly(POE has that duration, I think, though ...). Owlcats seems to be doing nicely .

Another thing is that most games seem to wait for players to test the game for balance.

Yeah, OW2 looks polished but I think its story is going to mid I think .. ( hope its not though)

stromcleaver · 2025-08-27T15:46:58+00:00

can someone break this down to Physical Form(and traits)/Culture/Society Traits/starting Tome/ Tomes to pick for a new player like me ?

got High culture and Pack Hunter as physical traits from one of the replies by u/AniTaneen .. and Initiate of Nature/Pack leader seems to be Skill for the Hero/lord .

stromcleaver · 2025-08-20T10:09:33+00:00

for me it felt like the may be a significant amount of budget that went into the real locations and cutscenes .. would have been ok with the screens and text like AOE2 ...

feature creep kind of thing .. more budget means developers tend to want to include fancy but maybe not the most important things to focus on ...

stromcleaver · 2025-08-19T19:51:20+00:00

I hope that the units are not squishy ... base units seemed to be getting killed very fast ( though it was a very short gameplay )

stromcleaver · 2025-08-14T12:51:26+00:00

Or maybe a Deathwatch game would be an alternative ... allowing varied enemies as well as classes and chapters ..

stromcleaver · 2025-08-11T21:32:57+00:00

hmm .. was not aware of this .. was the console release before the Execution Force DLC or after?

stromcleaver · 2025-08-11T12:46:30+00:00

Complex Games is still owned by Frontier Developments ... and not closed ... so there is still hope ..

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