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Machiavellian on 14 July 2021
Ryuu96 said:
shikamaru317 said:

Honestly, at this point, the CCP doing something like that wouldn't surprise me. I straight up saw a video earlier today where China said they would start a full-scale War with Japan if Japan intervenes militarily to protect Taiwan from Chinese invasion, starting with nuclear bombs. The video says, and I quote: "Japan is the only country in the world that has been hit by atomic bombs, and has a deep memory of the atomic bombs from the government down to the people....It is exactly because Japan has such a unique feeling, that nuclear deterrence against Japan will get twice the result with half the effort." This video was hosted on the Chinese Military tv channel, which is roughly equivalent to the Discovery owned Military Channel cable tv station that we once had here in the US, which was renamed to the American Heroes Channel in 2014. 

I honestly would not be ok with Tencent acquiring Crytek, so hopefully this doesn't happen. Would much rather see MS acquire them and revive Ryse and Crysis. 

Pigeon puffing its chest, they're all talk. If China nukes Japan then they'd be nuked right back by other countries, it simply won't happen. Japan isn't exactly a weak country that they can push around either, heck, they can barely get Taiwan thanks to it being surrounded with anti-air missiles and the international support they have.

It's not the CCP's playbook either, they're scary because they play the long game, they don't just go in guns blazing on foreign countries that are capable of defending themselves. They keep that shit local (Uyghurs, Tibets, Hong Kong, etc).

Heck China even right now is currently in conflict with India, using their fists, stones and clubs...Cause neither side wants to break a treaty by using guns, same case with nuclear weapons, folk like Xi Jingping and Putin may be evil bastards but they aren't stupid bastards, they know the first to fire a nuke on another nuclear capable country will essentially be ending the world, including themselves, nobody wins in that scenario.

crissindahouse said:

BILD! is shit but the article doesn't even sound that illogical to me. It basically says that they want to produce military training programs for Chinese military with the CryEngine and that the German and US military already have military training programs made with that engine.

So, why is it so unbelievable that they would work on such simulations with the engine already used for it from other countries and yes, it is obviously meant to improve your soldiers and not to worsen them.

The question is if the German Gouvernement should allow a Chinese company to buy Crytek when this is what they also want to work on with CryEngine.

Because Tencent is not only acquiring Crytek so they can build up China's military, practice invading America and spy on everyone as this article suggests, Tencent is a business at the end of the day, they're acquiring Crytek to make themselves richer, not to mention, Tencent already has far better spyware tools than Crytek can offer them, I also say this as someone who doesn't like Tencent either.

Lets flip it around and say that Microsoft is only acquiring Crytek to build up America's military, practice invading China and spy on everyone, as Microsoft is a company that regularly works with the US military, from selling Hololens to soldiers to improve their combat training to that $10bn JEDI contract they're fighting with Amazon over.

Imagine a Chinese newspaper writing that, we'd laugh at it.

And I'm not saying that they wouldn't offer their services to their respective militaries, every corporation does, but to try to suggest it's the main reason, or only reason, for it to be the first thing to come to your mind and the only thing you write about makes it look like you're just paranoid and trying to scare folk.

It's true that Crytek does a lot of work with US/EU military organisations. Perhaps Germany would force them to sell to another company or go public, or maybe not, it isn't like they couldn't just swap to something else, such as Amazon Lumberyard which is based off and built from CryEngine and now Amazon's own engine which they're offering to companies.

I pretty much agree with you on this point.  While China can definitely use software for military use, them threatening Japan with Nuclear arms when they know that the US would also need to step in is pretty stupid.  China is all about the long game and their expansion plans are more colonial then military. In today's world, he would control the markets controls the world.



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Machiavellian on 14 July 2021
Ryuu96 said:

The ping/mark system that Apex brought to MP should be a standard in every MP game so its smart for Halo to also have it.  I wonder what other MP staples have they added from other popular MP games.  Anything that makes the MP easier and faster to get into should be staples.



crissindahouse on 14 July 2021
Ryuu96 said:
shikamaru317 said:

Honestly, at this point, the CCP doing something like that wouldn't surprise me. I straight up saw a video earlier today where China said they would start a full-scale War with Japan if Japan intervenes militarily to protect Taiwan from Chinese invasion, starting with nuclear bombs. The video says, and I quote: "Japan is the only country in the world that has been hit by atomic bombs, and has a deep memory of the atomic bombs from the government down to the people....It is exactly because Japan has such a unique feeling, that nuclear deterrence against Japan will get twice the result with half the effort." This video was hosted on the Chinese Military tv channel, which is roughly equivalent to the Discovery owned Military Channel cable tv station that we once had here in the US, which was renamed to the American Heroes Channel in 2014. 

I honestly would not be ok with Tencent acquiring Crytek, so hopefully this doesn't happen. Would much rather see MS acquire them and revive Ryse and Crysis. 

Pigeon puffing its chest, they're all talk. If China nukes Japan then they'd be nuked right back by other countries, it simply won't happen. Japan isn't exactly a weak country that they can push around either, heck, they can barely get Taiwan thanks to it being surrounded with anti-air missiles and the international support they have.

It's not the CCP's playbook either, they're scary because they play the long game, they don't just go in guns blazing on foreign countries that are capable of defending themselves. They keep that shit local (Uyghurs, Tibets, Hong Kong, etc).

Heck China even right now is currently in conflict with India, using their fists, stones and clubs...Cause neither side wants to break a treaty by using guns, same case with nuclear weapons, folk like Xi Jingping and Putin may be evil bastards but they aren't stupid bastards, they know the first to fire a nuke on another nuclear capable country will essentially be ending the world, including themselves, nobody wins in that scenario.

crissindahouse said:

BILD! is shit but the article doesn't even sound that illogical to me. It basically says that they want to produce military training programs for Chinese military with the CryEngine and that the German and US military already have military training programs made with that engine.

So, why is it so unbelievable that they would work on such simulations with the engine already used for it from other countries and yes, it is obviously meant to improve your soldiers and not to worsen them.

The question is if the German Gouvernement should allow a Chinese company to buy Crytek when this is what they also want to work on with CryEngine.

Because Tencent is not only acquiring Crytek so they can build up China's military, practice invading America and spy on everyone as this article suggests, Tencent is a business at the end of the day, they're acquiring Crytek to make themselves richer, not to mention, Tencent already has far better spyware tools than Crytek can offer them, I also say this as someone who doesn't like Tencent either.

Lets flip it around and say that Microsoft is only acquiring Crytek to build up America's military, practice invading China and spy on everyone, as Microsoft is a company that regularly works with the US military, from selling Hololens to soldiers to improve their combat training to that $10bn JEDI contract they're fighting with Amazon over.

Imagine a Chinese newspaper writing that, we'd laugh at it.

And I'm not saying that they wouldn't offer their services to their respective militaries, every corporation does, but to try to suggest it's the main reason, or only reason, for it to be the first thing to come to your mind and the only thing you write about makes it look like you're just paranoid and trying to scare folk.

It's true that Crytek does a lot of work with US/EU military organisations. Perhaps Germany would force them to sell to another company or go public, or maybe not, it isn't like they couldn't just swap to something else, such as Amazon Lumberyard which is based off and built from CryEngine and now Amazon's own engine which they're offering to companies.

So, CryTek is providing military simulations to some NATO countries which they use to simulate war situations and train their soldier with it and then there is a Chinese company with very close and fast increasing ties to the CCP and you are so surprised that this could be maybe a problem?

It's not as if this will be the reason China will invade the rest of the world (which is also never mentioned, why do you even say that?)  but it is obviously also not in the interest of Germany and their NATO partners if China will not only get war simulation programs from a German company but also access to the programs some NATO partners use to train their own soldiers. 

And China does obviously train a possible war against Taiwan, USA and so on. As much as the US-military will have some plans how to fight against China in a possible war. You would be stupid not to believe that these countries don't have plans how to fight against each other just in a worst case scenario. Europe also trains how to stop a possible attack by Russia with their thousands of tanks and whatever. That's not even a secret. 

And why do you say that they only buy it because of that? That was never mentioned. But they would also use Crytek to provide war simulations to the Chinese military. But it's not the only reason to buy Crytek. 

What if Microsoft would want to buy Crytek? What kind of question is that? Not sure if you realize that Germany and USA are both NATO partners who already share a lot of information with each other so yes, Microsoft would also use it to sell some programs to the American military. But that is almost irrelevant for Germany because they are partners. China and the NATO aren't really military partners. 

China would obviously not get 3x stronger because of that. But it would still help their military somehow. Even if it's only half a percent^^

Does it suck that BILD didn't even mention how Crytek could also work on more and better games with Tenscents money and how all this military shit was almost all the article was about? Yes, for sure but they didn't mention that this is the reason why they want to buy Crytek. Only that this would be a part of it. 

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crissindahouse on 14 July 2021
Machiavellian said:
Ryuu96 said:

The ping/mark system that Apex brought to MP should be a standard in every MP game so its smart for Halo to also have it.  I wonder what other MP staples have they added from other popular MP games.  Anything that makes the MP easier and faster to get into should be staples.

Yeah, ping/mark system helps a lot especially with so many not even talking in a game or also many who just don't speak English or at least your language. There's also often a situation where you don't even know how to call the area you are talking about. "under that rock" or something like that lol.  



konnichiwa on 14 July 2021

They should have an xbox cloud app on the xbox consoles. I don't get why we should do it with the browser.

Edit: I am getting fiber on saturday that literally pushes my 100 mbs to 1GBs.   So yeah cloud should work great ^^'. 






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Barozi on 14 July 2021

Finished CrossCode (just in time lol).

Started it one year ago and played it until chapter 9 out of 10. After a very long hiatus (August 9 2020) I picked it up yesterday and decided to finish it before it leaves GamePass. To my surprise there was only about 3 hours of gameplay left (plus another hour of cutscenes) and after finding some decent gear I also had far less trouble with most of the fights.

What's unique about the game is that the game knows that it's a game. It simulates a MMO(A)RPG while all characters you meet aren't really other players but NPCs. But story-wise those are the in-game characters of humans and so they might log-off once in a while (depending on story progression). There is a party system that you can choose to use but you can also solo (nearly) everything. Even when using party members to fight your way through the overworld, there are certain areas such as puzzle dungeons that also include a boss at the end that you have to finish solo. I'd say it does a very good job of giving the illusion that you're playing an MMO (even though you know it's single player only).

Visually the game looks a bit like it was done with RPG Maker. Very old school JRPG-like but good looking at the same time (not as good as Octopath Traveler though). The downside is that the game often uses different altitudes as a central platforming and puzzle element. That would be fine if it was only two different altitudes, but when there are three, it's extremely hard to judge on what level the platform is located. You can't die by falling in an abyss or the ground but you may have to do the platforming/puzzle again which can be annoying.

Talking about puzzles, the game has a giant amount of them. Literally every place is filled with puzzles, most of the serve to find chests, complete side quests or activate pressure plates/levers to get to the next part of the map. On top of that you have these instanced dungeons that contain really tricky puzzles and are a requirement to get the story going. In short, the game is a bit too heavy on puzzles.

The combat system is also a bit unique and quite a bit deeper than you'd expect. There are lots of different combinations of special powers possible. Sometimes, even puzzles are intergrated into boss battles.

The story revolves around a girl character that can only say a few words due to an issue with her voice module. You meet a few friends (and enemies) along the way and join a guild. I won't spoil anything but basically your goal and everyone elses goal is to beat the game (duh, right?). Obviously things don't go smooth and your goals might change a little.

The game is packed with content. Something I didn't really expect. It took me 20 hours to beat the game and that includes me skipping almost every side quest, gathering materials to trade for good gear and sometimes looking up solutions to hard puzzles. Looking at TA the average completion is about 40 hours and quite a few people even played up to 60 hours. DLC is on the way as well.

Overall a really good game that receives tons of updates from the devs to this day. Enjoyable story, combat and puzzles.

8/10.



jason1637 on 14 July 2021

I think Netflix gaming could fail. People already complain about the price and then canceling shows. Gaming is t where they should be focused on, it will just drive the price up of the service. Especially with Disney catching up a lot of people might just switch over. 



ironmanDX on 14 July 2021
jason1637 said:

I think Netflix gaming could fail. People already complain about the price and then canceling shows. Gaming is t where they should be focused on, it will just drive the price up of the service. Especially with Disney catching up a lot of people might just switch over. 

Yup, better off making it a separate service and giving away a month free in the beginning.

This could either be huge or backfire spectacularly in their face.



Spade on 14 July 2021

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jason1637 on 15 July 2021
shikamaru317 said:

Yeah, I think Netflix would be better off making it a separate subscription, unless it's just a handful of 1st/2nd party developed games based on Netflix properties like Stranger Things, Cobra Kai, and their version of The Witcher. If they plan to have a significant number of games on this service, both exclusive and 3rd party, they're going to need to make it a separate sub, because at their current pricing they're not going to be able to afford to put very many games onto Netflix without their tv/movie offerings suffering. They already get alot of hate for the current pricing (which has gone up to $8 a month for 720p and 1 simultaneous stream, $14 for 1080p and 2 simultaneous streams, and $18 for 4K and 4 simultaneous streams), as well as for how many of their exclusive shows they cancel after just a few seasons. So they can't really risk increasing pricing again or cutting more tv/movie content. 

Yeah usually when I renew my Netflix sub during the year I go for the $18 version cause I have a 4K TV. That’s too much for 1 service as someone who pays for other subscription services. It gets worse cause they’ve canceled some shows I watch and it’s taking them forever to come out with Stranger Things season 4. Adding streaming will just bump up the price and make the service less appealing.