Well the E stands for emulation, so no.

Why would anyone even play a Star Wars game at this point knowing you’re just getting whatever slop some mega publisher paid top dollar to Disney for to fuck you in the ass with.

Yep, just because a game takes 8 years to make doesn’t mean it was necessarily spent making a game that looks or plays anything like the one that eventually came out.

What is sketchy about downloading a torrent that it could save you from? Wouldn’t it be executing whatever you downloaded on another machine that would be the risky part?

Absolutely hard disagree with this. Removing active items would be dumbing it down too much.

I’ve been playing dota since 2012 and I haven’t played a single game of it since I got invited to Deadlock months ago.

How would a thinking emoji make it clear your question isn’t serious? Also, things have been available for a limited time long before phishing attempts were a thing, and will continue to exist for legitimate purposes long after. You can’t expect the entire rest of the world to stop doing something innocuous just because it’s also used as a tactic to fool a small subset of inattentive people.

I doubt it, especially considering this is actually the fourth game in the series.

Ok, then what does it mean to you? Were you confused why Baldur’s Gate 3 was made too? It’s an even older gameplay concept and did less to change it.

Edit: I’m also struggling to see how I was being “dishonest” by sharing an opinion.

If the way you choose to value a game is based on how “old” or “new” it seems to you then you should be prepared for people to question that because it’s meaningless.

If anything a game feeling “older” to me is a good thing considering the nickel-and-diming design by committee garbage that has taken over.

If you’re going to be looking at network requests on this granular of a level you should use something like OpenSnitch so you can be sure what is actually generating them.

I’ve played for many hours and I think they nailed a lot of the mechanics, so the game is fun.

I’m not even sure what you’re trying to say, what does the year have to do with anything? It’s 2024 and not 2014, and therefore I should only play modern shitty live service games?

I realize a Civ game isn’t going to have much to show off for a trailer, but this gameplay trailer has no actual gameplay lol

Great, Oblivion but blurry.

lol I would open every port on my router and route them all to wireguard before I would ever consider doing this

Honestly, I think Valve is just kind of doing a soft release/announcement and are trying to build up hype slowly like this. If they were really worried about leaks they wouldn’t have given anybody in it unlimited free invites to send to anyone.

It’s not too daunting. It has the same guide system as dota so you can just pick a build someone else made and follow it to learn them. It also has a lot of voice lines to help with reacting to item effects, like the item with an active that makes you invulnerable to bullets makes heroes say a “I can’t shoot them” or “don’t waste your ammo” voice line.

If you’re not completely giving up on privacy I would avoid cloudflare. I just run an always-on wireguard tunnel that routes back to my home network from my wife’s and my phones, and that kills like 3 birds with one stone (phone traffic is encrypted and hidden from my carrier, home server is accessible, and ads are blocked via DNS).

You can see from the timestamps the tweet couldn’t have been up for more than half an hour. It’s not like it was costing them anything to leave it up.

I use notifications in Thunder and I’ve had no issues. I haven’t compared the difference or anything, but when I’ve happened to check battery usage it’s always been a reasonable amount for how much I’ve used it that day. It does generate a decent amount of network traffic since it’s regularly checking with you instance for it, and that traffic is generated for each account you have reaching out to each instance. That should be how any FOSS app works though, the alternative would be something like Sync where you pay to have actual pushes sent from their server.