I didn’t have any bias when playing this, and I definitely steer clear from the usual Bethesda hating bandwagon, but this DLC was so lackluster and disappointing that it’s no wonder I completely missed the two new minor companions from the DLC, specially since it wasn’t added to my misc quest log to meet and hire them, so I was none the wiser. I’ve edited my comment to reflect this.
It’s about 10 hours of content if you go slow, with a handful of new items that are mostly just reskins of existing things. No new mechanics, no new powers, no new ship parts, no new companions. EDIT: I’ve googled and there are actually two new companions, they are minor characters you meet during the main questline and once the respective quest is finished they say “meet me at X place”, where you can hire them. Mind you, this was not added as a misc quest on my log at all, so I forgot to ever check it, and judging by what I’m seeing, they are nothing different from the usual minor companions you can hire on pubs around the galaxy, nothing like the full fledged companions from Constellation.
Writing is comically bad even for Bethesda’s standards. I give a pass to them many times but on this DLC it was painful. So we got this overly religious faction that’s almost completely cut off from the rest of the galaxy, to a point that members leaving the planet literally cannot return because they cannot know the way back, except for a other faction of even more overly religious zealots, traders and you that come and go as you please. Despite all the secrecy and isolation and whatever, within 10 minutes of you arriving at their planet, you’re considered “the one” because you said a phrase that you heard every single zealot of this faction repeat it before but for them there was no way for you to know that, so then they make you do a guided tour on a cave and suddenly you’re part of the cult and everyone is fine with that. The few quests are mostly fetch quests, or the “this could’ve been an email” quests, but at least it’s all within one planet. Some quests have that trademark “moral dilemma” Bethesda is known for, where it tries it’s best to not allow you to be anything but lawful good, and the only consequences of picking the ““evil”” option is that the NPC will will raise their voice when speaking to you, and your omnipresent companions on the other side of the galaxy will instantly hate you for that. The very few choices you’re given during quests are false choices since they lead to the same outcome always.
The main quest is 5 or 6 quests long (really), and revolves around the most xenophobic and isolated faction ever blindly trusting an outsider to complete 3 errands for each house and allowing them to enter the Citadel (the big building which is centre for the faction and looks like a corporate building, in and outside) to stop the quantum shennanigans happening there and save their leader. You get there and find that the leader is a prick that wants to commit genocide of the other factions in the galaxy and you kill them and stop the experiment, which destroys the citadel. Coming back, the council of this faction, absolutely fanatic and desperate wanting to get their leader back, ask you where he is and you just say “lol he doesn’t care about you”, and everyone immediately believes you. You, the outsider that just reached this planet 5 hours ago, is then given the most important decisions as to which house shall rule the faction, and if they should continue the genocide crusade or not, but in the end it doesn’t matter because in typical Bethesda fashion, the game is not allowed to be changed since that would “spoil the fun” for your current run, are you are awarded a two room house their city and you can build 2 structures in their artchitecture in your outposts.
What also bothers me immensily is how Bethesda absolutely lack depth and scope perception. This is a major faction with supposedly an army that could ravage the entire known galaxy, but all they have is one single city that has less than 10 buildings in it and 2 parking spots for ships, and that’s it. Of course Bethesda would come with an excude for that, saying that the explosion which happened there deleted over half of the city. There are a couple of landmarks outside the city walls, which is a first for Starfield, but most of them are a 2 minute walk away.
On the good part, the atmosphere, architecture and design of the planet and everything is really fucking good, but it’s overshadowed by how absurdly shallow the DLC is.
30€ for 10 hours of what seems to be cut content.
I kow that some people will claim whatever about the Creation Engine (or call it Gambryo as if it’s some sort of slur) for the limitations and why their games are bad, but I wholly disagree. The engine is not the issue with Bethesda games, it’s who’s making the games. There are engines more limited than Creation out there (build engine) and people are making impressive things with them. You could give Bethesda Unreal Engine 5 like these armchair developers campaign for, and you’d still get the same tasteless blob from before. Their game design is severyle outdated and severely limited, as as long as they keep beating this long-rotten horse’s carcass, their games will keep falling in quality headfirst.
Mind you, this article is about the Google Settings, not Android settings. Android settings will get an UI update though, separating settings into categories (kinda like OneUI, a welcome change), but everything else should remain as ia
I think Thunderbird has feature party with K9 though, at least from my quick comparison. Seems that this is just a rebranding and UI update to Material 3 (a welcome one), but they intent to develop and maintain both apps for the time being.
Don’t these pans last like generations, being passed down? I doubt your grandma and her grandma were bothering to apply 8 coats of flaxseed oil and heating it up to 1000 degrees and the pans would still perform as expected for ages
It was a manual review conducted by an actual person that in the end admitted they were wrong
GitHub has nothing to do with this. All the information we have is that the dev himself took everything down after an agreement with Nintendo.
C&D in Brazil stands for Comedy & Despair, where you’re the one laughing at the company desperate to get you to do what they want without having any actual legal leverage
The problem is that people tend to mistake being private to being above the law. You can argue against what law enforcement decides is a crime, but that matters little to service and providers and it’s a another type of discussion
You seem to be a function over form person, and I’m a function and form person. Surely, email hasn’t changed since ever and all I need to see it’s contents is a white page with black text, but that doesn’t mean everything else has too look bad or lacking meanwhile, specially on a phone.
The app uses Material UI, sure, but it’s anything but minimalist. It feels the dev(s) tried to use and cram as much as possible from what’s available from the design without really thinking of usability. Information density HAS to be lower when using a phone, since the screens as much smaller than a monitor and you don’t have as much precision when using fingers to navigate around.
And here I thought K9’s design looked a decade outdated already
Well it is an expansion pack, but nowadays I guess the distinction is kinda lost. I haven’t gotten to start it yet since I’m battling terrible performance right now (a 3080 and 7800x3d are getting 40fps on low with DLSS performance on 2160p), I also haven’t seen anything about the DLC, but I expect it to have some new shouts starborn powers, weapons/weapon types and some 20+ hours of content judging by the 40£ tag.
It’s a new story all contained in one planet, with everything being handcrafted instead of procgen.
On a side note, I can’t remember the last time I played a DLC that added new mechanics
EDIT: folks, it’s nice that we’re sharing games with DLCs that alter or add game mechanics, but let’s not forget that I said “I can’t remember the last time I played”
Nope, they recommend being level 35 at least but I’m not sure if it’s a requirement. While jumping from planet to planet you might encounter the Oracle, which is where the DLC starts.
Isn’t the mobile version 1:1 with the desktop? If so, how is this “kinda expensive” if it’s the same product that’s considered cheap?
So they got the expiring matches from Bumble, the personality test from Boo, and require you to select from a list of reasons why you unmatch someone like in every dating app out there. Am I missing something on how different this is from the other apps?
Until the 1950s, by law in Hungary the wives would take the husband’s full name. Júlia Kovacs would marry András Boráros and become Andrásné Broráros. Sexist and incredibly silly in my opinion.
Nowadays they can chose to keep their name, change it fully or change their last name. I still find a lot of women that change their names fully and it’s so confusing.
From 2004, men can also chose to change their names on the same rules.
Brazil? I do miss being able to leave home bringing only my phone because my ID and cards are all there
All the Constellation companions get absolutely mad at you and will stop being your companion the moment you try to do something that’s not lawful good, as Bethesda loves to railroad people in this path. It’s quite annoying since the Crimson fleet questiline is one of the best (best as strictly comparative) in my opinion, and your companions will go batshit insane against you if you follow that path.