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I'm pretty sure some of them are objectively broken. I had a mission where the mission givers partner was seeing someone else and I had to figure out who. The process of figuring out who the person was was pretty cool. Outside of some vague physical traits my leading clue was the mystery persons partners job position. I had to look up every restaurant, break into every single restaurant, find all the people who worked that position, find where they live, break into their apartments to find who their partner was and if they match who I'm looking for.

Eventually I was 99% sure I got the right person, but I needed proof they were seeing each other. I combed their entire apartment, found nothing. I combed the partners apartment, found nothing. I checked their workplaces, found nothing. I tailed both of them the entire day, still found nothing. I even checked their mailboxes and found nothing. I literally ran out of ideas how to solve the case because I found nothing.

Turned me away from the game because I got this cool investigation with some really out the box thinking, and then didn't get rewarded because I didn't find that last piece of information.

If by "well maintained" you mean keeping a whitelist of instances, then yeah. But I doubt anyone is doing that because it's actually counterproductive to the concept of fediverse. By keeping a whitelist you are creating an in group and an out group and instances can live or die based on that grouping.

As for why you'd need a whitelist, you can't defend against a malicious attack if they keep spinning up new instances with bots designed to spread misinformation. The moment you ban once instance another one gets spun up. The only solution is a whitelist so all new instances are automatically blocked. Of course that works if all "normal" instances also have proper registration policies and can't become attack vectors.

If the fediverse becomes wildly popular defending the instance can become a full-time job as the open nature gives more attack vectors. Also most instances are ran by volunteers so it's probably not going to be a good time for anyone.

I used Truby9 but I just noticed that there's a compatibility fix. Maybe that's what I'm missing.

Well, you can check the scripts of the tool yourself. They’re all in the zip file you download from nexus. It just sends the credentials to the Steam API and uses the auth token for the rest. That’s exactly what the Steam app on Android does. And it’s also not some tool from a random dude, it’s the official downgrader tool from the FOLON team. They even link it on their homepage. I get being paranoid with credentials, but in this case i saw no problem. Sorry for my rambling, but this “issue” is blown way out of proportion imo.

Ah, I didn't think about who made it. I just saw two options, either I go through the code to make sure it's nothing sus or I do it manually and because I didn't feel like going through code I did it manually. Should've paid more attention I guess.

As for the guide, I haven't tried the Heroic launcher. I generally use Lutris but I will try that when the big patch comes out. Hopefully they also upgrade to a newer version of Fo4 because the ultrawidescreen mod is having some issues.

Not the guy toy responded but I can give my experience.

The first annoyance was downgrading Fallout 4. Now I know there's a mod that can do it for you but I'm not going to stick my Steam credentials in some random piece of code. So I did it manually which wasn't hard but it was annoying.

The second burden was getting F4se to run because for whatever reason I couldn't launch FO4 without downgrading to wine 8.0.x. Luckily I found out glorious eggroll version of wine works with FO4 and actually starts F4se automatically.

But by far the biggest hurdle was the actual installation of Folon. I couldn't get the installer to install the mod. I ended up unpacking the installer and manually copying the files into the FO4 folder.

Then I got the train bug and manually installed buffout. Then I got an XDI error so I had to manually reinstall XDI as well.

What's the easier way?

There's no clear "best execution" as each game has its flaws or quirks. I think Escape from Tarkov is currently still the overall best as it has more or less defined the genre, but it's not without it's obvious flaws.

The biggest obvious flaw that will kick in the nuts of new players is the wall of game knowledge they need just to survive a raid, and the game explains nothing. The first timer experience is one where you're thrown into a map and told "at these points you can extract" and then you're not told where you spawned nor where the extractions are. Good luck figuring out where to go. Oh and if you didn't take the right healing items with you better enjoy limping around the map. There are a lot of other issues with game as well that I'm not going to get into because I could write a term paper on everything wrong with Tarkov.

As for the future. I have my hopes on Delta Force Hawk Ops. It's currently in closed playtest so I can't play it myself but from what I've seen on the web it seems to get the Tarkov formula and is making it more accessible to the casual player so my guess it that's the one to keep an eye out.

There's also Dark and Darker but I'm not into swords and sorcery so I can't comment how good that game is.

Absolutely. It's a really difficult genre to create games for because you need to balance PvP and PvE so that one doesn't overpower the other. Then you need to balance gear progression so the equipment you find is a meaningful upgrade over the starting great, but it can't be too meaningful so starting gear still has a chance against someone who is kitted out.

I don't think extraction shooter crowd would consider Helldivers an extraction shooter.

Helldivers is a PvE game while extraction shooter genre is primarily PvEvP. I know games like gray zone zero have PvE servers and even Tarkov has added a PvE mode, but a lot of the purists would say you have to have PvP as well. I personally don't view it that way but IMO that's not the only thing preventing Helldivers from being an extraction shooter.

Another aspect that extraction shooters have that Helldivers doesn't is the loot. Whatever equipment you bring into the match is at risk of being lost forever. If someone kills you and takes your gun, you need a new gun because the previous one is gone. Similarly whatever loot you pick up during the raid is also lost when you die. Helldivers doesn't work that way. You never lose your gear during missions and while you can lose samples you can't lose credits or super credits. Overall in Helldivers there's not really much loot to pick up or lose, which is not really true for the extraction shooters that are still alive.

And finally is the "why go into a raid". In extraction shooters the player generally sets their own goals, either to complete a quest, collect some loot or just do PvP. In Helldivers the reason for going in is predetermined, you do the mission and then you extract. Your "mission" can't change mid raid like it can in extraction shooters.

At a high level helldivers can look like an extraction shooter, but as I pointed out there are objective reasons that separate helldivers from extraction shooters.

There has definitely been a trend towards extraction shooters and I think there absolutely is market for a more mainstream extraction shooter. I can understand that it's not everyone's cup of tea because it can be a very stressful experience. But I think the lack of a genre giant is what drove Bungie to make an extraction shooter because in terms of mainstream that genre is very much in its infancy and there's no de facto king (Tarkov doesn't count because that's not mainstream and never will be). You nail it and you've got a golden goose that's also really easy to turn into a live-service game.

The issue is that it's an extremely difficult genre to get right and making it mainstream might end up needing to walk a very fine line. I guess that's why Marathon essentially in development hell because from what they teased to the public some time ago felt like they didn't really understand the core of the genre and if you don't understand the core you're going to have a very bad time making it mainstream.

I'm also not sure about the pivot to "hero extraction shooter". Seems like Delta Force Hawk Ops also has gone down that route and it doesn't look all that horrible, but adding heroes does nothing for the core concepts of an extraction shooter. That is not going to save Marathon.

Yeah, that's why I said it's neither because people can be unpredictable. It might not filter out irrelevant content because people love to upvote memes and it might filter out criticism because sometimes people downvote criticism.

Overall like with some other Steam features the value of the feature is dependent on the community, and generally that value has been a net positive.

It probably works based on whether users marking reviews as helpful or unhelpful and then uses some formula to remove the unhelpful ones. So it can be neither, but the key takeaway is that the users decide what ends up filtered out.

The Al Jazeera and Fox News comparison is why I don't trust that site. I don't think Al Jazeera isn't a biased organization, but I do consider them somewhat factual. I also think I'm not the only one because you often see people linking to Al Jazeera. However when it comes to Fox News I think most people would agree that Fox news is far from accurate. It's not exactly Newsmax, but if someone linked Fox News I think most people would definitely question the facts of the article.

And then we get to mediabiasfactcheck where Al Jazeera is considered just as factual as Fox News. It's one of those situations where you have to question who exactly is in the wrong? Is Al Jazeera really that factually incorrect? Is Fox news more factual than people believe? Or is mediabiasfactcheck wrong? I'm not against being wrong but from my years of being on the web I'd say it's the last option.