I don’t think I’d mind the lack of unlockable options if it didn’t take so damn long to unlock anything. You need 60 vehicle kills with a jet to unlock air to ATGMs. That means unless you’re getting -really- lucky and killing immobile recon trucks with your autocannon, you need to shoot down 60 helicopters/planes.

But…

From a gameplay standpoint, my only gripe is the lack of clearly defined roles making everyone play like idiots.

I think mostly a lot of folks are unhappy with the amount of content. There aren’t very many maps and previous Battlefield titles launched with as many assault rifles as there are weapons across every class…

I put out the bat signal to my old Halo gang, some of whom I haven’t played with since the Halo-2-but-on-the-360 era, and last night after a close match someone said “God damn it feels like I’m back in college and I love it”.

They really nailed the classic Halo feel after the criticisms of 4 and 5 straying too far from…

Right now the amount of time it takes to complete seems questionable. It appears that there is a cap on XP earned per week by way of limiting the number of weekly challenges, and a good number of those challenges are borderline impossible to complete in a reasonable amount of time. 

These are really garbage changes that don’t address the core complaint.

It takes something like 1000 XP to level up one battle pass level - I don’t know if it gets harder later on but at level 30-ish that’s what it seems to take.

What feels really shitty is to load up a Halo game, have approximately 2 customization…

Different folks have different kinds of fun. Forza shines when it lets folks play their own way.

I haven’t tried used this method but I’ve nabbed some cheap super wheelspins by hopping in a drift boost car when skill songs come on so I can rack up car mastery points and buy some willies. Other times I’ll go and grind…

I spent some time trying to figure it out but no luck. I think right now the only options are the three playlists, with no way to filter game modes or maps.

I hope this is a temporary condition for the ‘beta’ and the full release in a few weeks sees the return of a normal Halo playlist browser a la MCC.

Frankly the most confusing part of the BLD KIT is the fact that it comes with a 183-page instruction manual. You can cover the basic steps of assembling a PC in one page - even padding with detail 183 pages seems like a lot of extra.

Was very frustrated last night to realize I’d wasted most of my XP boosts when I noticed I was topping the charts in multiple consecutive games and earning almost 0 XP because I wasn’t completing the specific challenges.

The plasma pulse rifle actually two-taps people if you can hit them with every projectile from both trigger pulls, but the projectile speed and tracking are so bad that if your opponent is moving even slightly that will not happen, and if they aren’t moving, they have about five minutes to watch the projectile lazily…

This plus the fact that presently there are only two non-ranked playlists and no option to filter what matches you find within those playlists, so when you get the objective to kill 3 people with an oddball, for example, you’re left queueing repeatedly and hoping you will get oddball.

You are presumably not paying just to access the game early. The $120 bundle comes with the year one content pass and all the usual expensive-edition gubbins. Alternatively, folks can access it right now for $15 via the EA+ service.

With the right tune the Rally Fighter is really solid on cross country circuits and races with a lot of jumps - the suspension recovers on impact a lot quicker and it chews up sand and mud. Just takes a little getting used to with how the weight rolls around.

Voice acting as an industry has been impacted pretty hard by COVID, it’s likely they couldn’t get quality masters of the lines they needed in time for the release build.

My employer did this when they ordered a return to office work and saw employee turnover skyrocket. They gave all employees of our agency a 5% cost-of-living adjustment, which was really cool because it meant my salary went up by less than $2000 a year while our chief of staff’s salary went up over $20,000, basically…

Like most technological innovations for the entirety of human existence, the folks trying to cash it in for everything they can are fucking it up. There are some potentially neat applications for blockchain buried underneath a thousand layers of grift and pyramid scheme.

this argument would make more sense if Democrats were actually doing useful things with the legislatures they control unequivocally (like at a state level in California where they possess a super majority in both chambers, every statewide office, and the governor’s mansion)

Alas, in between tweeting about the urgency…

Climate change doesn’t care about class but class cares about climate change and the rich fuckers who killed us will be fine. They’re all buying property in New Zealand and such where they’ll get to enjoy a 100% renewable haven while the oceans and fires and floods swallow everyone else.

Sounds like normal fare for a Santa Clarita resident. A lot of parents used to baby sit their kids by during the summer by buying them an annual pass to Magic Mountain and dumping them there until the park closed. There are a number of businesses including a couple corporate HQs within 5 minutes walk of the park.

Not unless you run a guild (company) that controls territory. If you control a town, your guild can generate passive income by setting tax rates on crafting, trading, and property. I’m not sure how well this has worked out so far - usually guilds set their rates as low as possible to try to entice people to come to…