This is a fair point. Forgeable AI is pretty sweet but it’s not a replacement for proper campaign expansions unfortunately

In my opinion it is very good these days. Almost all of the major problems at launch have been resolved. There’s a ton of game modes and maps. They added firefight, forge, custom games, infection, and there are like 15 different playlist to choose from.

They’re actively working on networking improvements (three playlists use the new netcode currently, and they’re using that to test how well it works before making the whole game use it).

Cosmetics are in a much better place than at launch. There are a ton of options and a lot of things work on every armor set.

The biggest issue imo is still the battle pass system. Limited time events (like the Christmas event) replace the season pass if you don’t buy the paid version, so there isn’t much to unlock at a given time unless you pay. But, paid passes never expire, and you can go back and buy old passes, and most passes contain enough credits to buy another pass, so it’s basically a one-ti.e fee.

If you don’t like Halo, nothing has changed that will make you like it. The game plays like it did at launch in terms of gunplay and movement. But the overall experience is in a much better state than at launch

It was about a year ago. A lot of upper management departed. They brought in the guy who used to be in charge of MCC to be the new studio head.

It took a few months to start seeing an impact, but it’s been pretty much constant wins since about Season 4 launched. Only L’s have been monetization stuff, like the shop prices increasing and battle passes still being pretty weak.

343 has been full of W’s ever since the new management took over. We love to see it.

A year or so I turned off targeted ads from Google. I very quickly noticed an increase in ads with anime tiddies.

I guess Google sees a correlation between people who worry about privacy, and people who are likely to click on anime tiddies…

I’m nervous about how long it’ll be until those stop working

Any recommendations for a Zigbee hub to use with HomeAssistant? I’m planning to make the switch now that Hue is doing this

My mind is blown

By the time you’re 20 you’ll be using Arch Linux and self-hosting everything!

For me it was TLOU pt 1. I was so excited for it to come to PC, but it ended up being completely unplayable, and I wasn’t really a huge fan of the third-person cover-shooter gameplay. I played about 3 hours (and 4 hours of waiting on the menu) during the first week, and haven’t touched it since.

I think the idea here is that if mods are bad on, say, memes@lemmy.ml, everyone can just leave and make memes@sh.itjust.works or wherever. There should be more competition here, at least in theory. Time will tell how well it actually works.

You’ll catch on. It’s just like using Reddit, except each subreddit includes a web address in the name. Other than that, it’s mostly the same.

There’s a really good third-party Photoprism app on F Droid. So much nicer than using the web app.

I’ve been using Photoprism. Single-user is fine for me. I see lots of people switching to immich, but haven’t checked it out myself.

Photoprism supports sharing albums via link to people who don’t have accounts. Mine is remotely accessible using Tailscale. I would like to set up proper remote access via DNS, but haven’t made that leap yet, I’m too nervous about opening ports up.

I still play it with friends every couple weeks. We still have a good time, especially now that you can queue FFA with friends, and now that there’s infection. Being able to play against each other adds so much to the experience.

I think the struggle just comes down to how little there was at launch. There was no progression system (the only way to earn anything was to do chores), there weren’t many maps and modes (launching without forge really screen this over), and there was no PvE you could do with friends.

If the game had launched how it is now (so, 2 more years of delay which is insane) I think it wouldn’t have died off as quickly. There’s actual XP now just for playing, there are a lot of maps and modes and a community maps playlist, and campaign co-op.

tl;dr same as what everyone else always says. 343 dropped the ball hard on content at launch.

TandoorRecipes is a great little recipe-hosting service, and it’s available as an app on Unraid. No more saving recipes in my notes app, I actually have nicely-formatted ingredient lists and instructions.