Minecraft
On this day 10 years ago, Microsoft acquired #Minecraft developer Mojang for US$2.5 billion.
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The legacy console editions were far better than Bedrock imo. They were actually made for a console instead of porting a mobile version to console
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They've been putting the films into cinemas near me recently, saw Episode IV for the first time on the big screen and man it was such a cool experience.
His voice as Vader is such an iconic role and part of this franchise and he will be dearly missed. Rest in peace
ShadowCat
2 weeks ago
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This feels like textbook high budget fan film
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4 weeks ago
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I've had the beta in the UK, wonder why the full release needed changes to get it there
ShadowCat
4 weeks ago
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I am very surprised to see this, I thought for sure we would just be getting forge additions for the rest of the lifespan of new content.
Though unfortunately I do have to say it, why are we getting a human rifle as the next new weapon. What about that forerunner pistol? The banished shotgun? We've only had 1 (technically 2) weapon added and that was, a human rifle.
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To be fair, it has probably been the most popular of the Star Wars shows with a lot of casual audiences getting Disney+ just for it.
Also based on the ending of S3, it might be a bit of a fresh start, as long as they do a minor bit of explanation on who Mando is and that Gorgu survived order 66 there's nothing too important they'll be missing
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1 month ago
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Glad to see we'll actually get a graduation with a proper send off, the last few members to leave haven't been given a proper chance
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Minato Aqua of hololive 2nd Generation will be graduating on August 28th. We thank her for all she has done for us until now and are grateful for the support of fans who have been with her during her activities with us. A graduation live concert is scheduled for August 28th. Please await further details. We will continue to provide full support until the time of graduation, and kindly ask for your unwavering support and encouragement for Minato Aqua. We wish her all the best in her future endeavors.
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2 months ago
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Armour looks good, but that helmet not so much
Also man, I remember grinding out the last headshots with my Spartan company in swat. Then in our group chat saying we'll team up again for Halo 6. Then they went and abandoned the idea of spartan companies :/
ShadowCat
2 months ago
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I still wish the sentinel beam had "infinite" range.
Halo
Grenade jumping is finally coming to Infinite as part of the Fleetcom operation update next week
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2 months ago
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That's an interesting point, never thought about that.
I'm not so sure it applies here though, there's been complaints about Infinite's physics since the start with a lack of grenade jumping being one mentioned thing not working like previous titles. Unless they're doing the classic 343 move of forgetting what you learned from the previous game, this just feels like them trying to get small wins into the game whilst they can
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Concerned Ape (Stardew Valley): I swear on the honor of my family name, i will never charge money for a DLC or update for as long as I live. Screencap this and shame me if I ever violate this oath.
ShadowCat
2 months ago
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Based.
Though I would 100% be fine with paying for Stardew DLC, the base game is worth so much more than its current price
ShadowCat
2 months ago
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Sounds very similar to the Mel situation, especially since he was able to make a final post on his Twitter.
July strikes again
ShadowCat
2 months ago
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Thank fuck, hopefully if they do try another tv series or even a movie, they make it in the canon timeline and you know, actually good
Games
Why Innersloth is funding your next favorite indie game. From the makers of Among Us comes Outersloth, a funding initiative
ShadowCat
2 months ago
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Iirc they were working on among us 2 then decided to scrap that and just add the planned features to the original game. Definitely the best choice for the situation
Sea of Thieves
It's real...
ShadowCat
2 months ago
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The shrouded ghost. I have slain it
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2 months ago
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I personally don't mind some of the less serious cosmetics but I 100% get why others don't like it. But selling us colours which we've been free to select since the first game was a terrible decision, I still can't even choose the combination I'd like to have.
But yeah, story dlc and map packs I would be much happier to buy than a different shade of red, as long as they were actual dev made maps and the dlc was actually good
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Well Infinite was free to play it was only the campaign you had to pay for. But even considering that, previous games you'd get the campaign and multiplayer in that one price, but for Infinite is was just the campaign and at launch it didn't even have co-op like previous games
This is a summary of the long thread from Bathrobe Spartan which you can find here: https://x.com/BathrobeCast/status/1812578845108625769 343 kept losing people in 2023 & 2024. Lead to more outsourcing content. Contracts not being renewed. 50-60 people let go on top of the >100 laid off. Some roles transferred to MS/Xbox Team instead of being internalized at 343. 343 still relying on contractors, staff are not pleased to see leadership has not learned from the production of Infinite. Less than 280 employees as of May 2024, with 30% of them related to Game-Content-Production, the rest are business oriented roles & producers. Not enough positions have been opened to fill the gap from what it was before 2023. ~32 permanent positions opened in 2023 & 2024. Not enough staff to be "Production Ready". 343's budget has been severely impacted and controlled. This is why recruiting took longer and pushed people to leave. Key roles couldn't be replaced in time to finish content left. Halo Infinite didn't meet its commercial goals but made enough to justify finishing the content already contracted with external studios, but not enough to justify doing more than was started. Quote from an ex employee "No we made money, we made a lot of money. But when I walked into the test bay to test the latest build EVERY FUCKING DAY the guy running it said "why bother, they are gonna hate it anyway" that's demoralizing. I would love to tell you what we worked on, but I can't and won't, not just because of the NDA but because I'm being loyal to the company. I still want to work there. It does bother me people praise Pierre, like, who do you think mandated Forge Maps going forward..." Partnered forge maps not being high quality is due to to 343 being tied to legal obligations to fulfil the contracts but not enough time left to polish. As the product did not reach its commercial goal, projection implied it wasn't worth contracting new content outside cosmetics. Meaning no new sandbox additions. During 2023 & 2024, many employees helped other Xbox studios on their products as most Infinite content was handled by contracted studios. 343 shifting to a new production method, separating "Leading development" and Production. Hiring lead positions to do the concept and pre-production in-house & handing off the production work to other studios, similar to Halo Wars 2. Recruiting less content-creating roles and more lead profiles to test, iterate and validate content and gameplay before working with external studios to go full production. 2 studios are currently partnered to work on 2 separate projects this way. Both still in pre-production. One is a bigger scale PvP oriented project. At least 2 years before any release. Aim of this new production method is to help produce content for games at a reliable pace and more cost effective. Hopefully won't lead to reproducing what happened with Infinite. Remaining 343 staff have echoed they feel like 343 Industries isn't as much "The Home of Halo" as it was promised to them. They hope this new method of production will be the best for the franchise.
ShadowCat
2 months ago
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I think it was Kiara who mentioned a while ago about how people want to join Holo thinking it'll be easy but there's so much they have to do off stream, it's not just stream every so often and you're free for the rest of the day
ShadowCat
2 months ago
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Might be fixed in this version but has anyone else been having issues with ShadowPlay just disabling itself constantly? Pretty much every time I turn on my PC I have to re enable it
ShadowCat
3 months ago
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This, I know it's pretty sad but honestly when those rumours that Microsoft were going to essentially shelve Halo started coming out I got quite emotional about it, I have such fond memories of this franchise and I didn't want to see it go out like that.
Going into Infinite I was saying this was their last chance for me but they did enough right with the actual game and after it to let me give them one more. I don't expect the next game to be Halo 2/3 levels of quality but if it's not a worthy successor to those games then I'm out.
Microsoft have this golden goose that they just refuse to handle properly, one studio doing the main games is fine but this universe is huge, we've been begging for spin off games not focused on Chief and we aren't getting them. They have loads of studios that probably have people who would love to make a Halo game, so let them
ShadowCat
3 months ago
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I see, still though PS5 has been out for years suprised it took this long. Does the Series X have a native version or is that still running the Xbox One version?
ShadowCat
3 months ago
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Wait this wasn't already a thing? Was it Microsoft just delaying the PS5 version or Sony with their weird anti cross platform behaviour holding it back.
I thought the point of Bedrock edition was to have it accessible on basically anything that can run the game
ShadowCat
3 months ago
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EN 4? Didn't expect that so soon after how long Advent took
Boost For Lemmy
Hiding read posts stopped working
ShadowCat
3 months ago
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Huh, I'm on lemmy.world and it works perfectly fine
Boost For Lemmy
Hiding read posts stopped working
ShadowCat
3 months ago
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I think it's because your instance is on 0.19.4 and that changed something with hiding posts
ShadowCat
3 months ago
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Called it :)
hololive
In ~5 hours, IRyS, Ina, Calli, Shiori, and Nerissa are doing an EN quiz show + "a very special announcement"
ShadowCat
3 months ago
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It's coming up to a year since the last one and I presume it was a success, not sure what other full EN big announcement there would be
hololive
In ~5 hours, IRyS, Ina, Calli, Shiori, and Nerissa are doing an EN quiz show + "a very special announcement"
ShadowCat
3 months ago
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Presumably it's the next en concert right?
Halo
(Rumor) Halo CE is in the early states of getting a remake that may also come to Playstation
ShadowCat
3 months ago
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Yeah I thought the original leak that they were porting games for PS said it would be MCC so maybe that's been scrapped.
I watched HiddenXperia's video on this yesterday and he mentioned that it could be a chance for the "new 343" to see what Bungie did with CE that made it so good that will help them with the next game. Even better if it's in Unreal so they won't have as much engine trouble.
Hopefully they give the campaign the H2A treatment and make the multiplayer its own thing instead of using a different game
Doctor Who
Season 1 (Series 14) Episode 5: "Dot and Bubble"
ShadowCat
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Decent episode, not amazing but certainly not bad. As you say having 2 Doctor lite episodes back to back is a weird choice, hopefully we'll see more of him in the last few episodes.
And hey, the outside scenes were filmed at my old university campus, too bad I wasn't there when they were filming
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I feel like this is the last real feature to come to the game, everything else is just going to be community made forge maps/modes and cosmetics to stick in the store/operations.
All we can do is hope the next game will launch with all of Infinite's post launch content, but given we hoped the same after H5 I'm not feeling that optimistic
You can find it here if you want to read the full thing: https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/677821627 It basically says that "classic style gameplay" doesn't work for the franchise because of the lowering player numbers and "feedback from Reddit". That's already enough to claim it's bs. "Anything Halo Infinite has done will be ignored and Halo 5 is the blueprint that Project Halo 7 (tentative title) will be built on." Mmm yes let's build a game based on H5, the one that was received so poorly it caused them to go back to classic styled. All abilities from H5 will be back and includes double jump and wall running. Come on, you're just taking ideas from Titanfall. This bit is the icing on the cake. "The goal of the campaign's story is to be "the true Halo 6" after the nonsense that was Halo Infinite." I find it hard to believe that someone would think that Infinite was more nonsense than 5. Rest of it is just prometheans returning but nerfed and no banished but from the first point you can tell this is bs, I just felt like sharing it
Xbox
ShadowCat
4 months ago
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It's crazy to think that Xbox has owned Halo since basically the beginning and have given them one demo each year at their big summer showcase, if they have something to show. They own Call of Duty for less than a year and it's already getting a show for itself.
It's no wonder 343 is failing when Microsoft themselves clearly don't care enough about it
Doctor Who
Is this season just not hitting for anyone else?
ShadowCat
4 months ago
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Haven't seen Boom yet but maybe that's because the season isn't hitting for me.
I enjoyed the 60th and the Christmas specials, but the first 2 episodes of this season were just fine. They weren't terrible like the Chibnal era but they also weren't as good as RTD's first era.
I've not had much to do this weekend so it's not like I couldn't watch the episode, in fact I felt like watching Doctor Who earlier and I instead watched some S1 even though Boom is still to be watched.
I really hope the season gets better as the show has so much potential for more great stories, they just need to be made by the right people
ShadowCat
4 months ago
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To be honest, as a huge Halo fan, I was surprised when seeing those studios closed that 343 wasn't one of them. The studio is just cursed, even a leadership change isn't going to save them.
Either make Halo games from all the studios under Microsoft or start a new one with people who are actual fans of the franchise
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Seems kind of strange to announce this way I wonder if they're expecting a big leak to come out so they're getting ahead of it? Otherwise, why not just mention at the end of that June direct that you'll talk more about this in the coming months
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I've wanted to see Barriss become an inquisitor for a long time and I'm glad she acted like she did since she technically wasn't fully wrong for her actions in the clone wars, she just went about it in the worst way.
Episode 2 really showed how she was a good Jedi, but for what the Jedi were supposed to be, not soldiers which is why she did what she did.
I do wish we got something more with Vader given that she was the one who basically triggered Ahsoka into leaving the order in the first place which surely helped with his fall to the dark side.
Also I really hope she died at the end, we've had too many people surviving lightsaber wounds in recent years, bacta can't heal everything.
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Episodes were fine I suppose, but I feel as though there could have been a better character to focus on instead of Morgan.
Thrawn is meant to be the next big villain for the Star Wars universe after the Ahsoka series and he wasn't exactly great in that so why not give us 3 episodes showing why he should be a threat
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Overall I think it was a very good series. Season 1 was decent, season 2 got really good in the back half and season 3 was very good throughout.
After season 2 did explore more of the "clones after the war" plotline I was hoping for a resolution this season but it is "The Bad Batch" not season 8 of clone wars. I do hope they finish that story though, seems like a single season special could do it but not sure they'd want to do that.
I do like that the brainwashed clones were just regular clones, not like resurrected Tech or someone else we knew. Not everybody needs to be a known character.
Was quite surprised to see the whole batch survive, definitely thought Crosshair would’ve done some self sacrifice to save Omega but a happy ending for once is nice.
Glad Rampart went out like that, we didn't need another redemption arc for an Imperial. And Hemlok got what he deserved.
Overall I think it wrapped up the series nicely, there are a few unanswered questions but hopefully they will be addressed in other upcoming media.
Games
Nintendo Switch 2 Will Be A "Conservative Hardware Evolution"; To Feature Full Backward Compatibility, 1080p Screen
ShadowCat
5 months ago
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Full backward compatibility is definitely great to see, if it didn't have it I probably wouldn't pick it up for a few years
She won the "VTuber" category https://hololive.hololivepro.com/en/news/20240221-01-64/
https://holostars.hololivepro.com/en/news/20240201-01-14/
1.6 ended up being a little larger in scope than originally planned. I'm done adding major new content to it now, though, and it's in a bug-fixing and polishing phase until it's ready for release. Thx for your patience. It'll be fun to see everyone play it! He also replied to a user saying it will absolutely be releasing this year! https://nitter.net/ConcernedApe/status/1750962107682857258
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A shame to see Millie go so soon, I loved her in the Christmas special. Hopefully everything is fine behind the scenes and it's not a repeat of season 1's production
https://startrek.website/post/5873973 I'm guessing it's the very high quality image in the comments
www.starwars.com
The Mandalorian and Grogu are embarking on a new adventure — to movie theaters. Directed by Jon Favreau, and produced by Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, and Dave Filoni, The Mandalorian & Grogu will go into production in 2024. “I have loved telling stories set in the rich world that George Lucas created,” said Favreau. “The prospect of bringing the Mandalorian and his apprentice Grogu to the big screen is extremely exciting.” "Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have ushered into Star Wars two new and beloved characters, and this new story is a perfect fit for the big screen," added Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. The Mandalorian & Grogu will lead Lucasfilm's ongoing feature-development slate, including films helmed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold, and Dave Filoni, who is also currently developing Ahsoka Season 2, among those in the works. This is the Way.
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https://nitter.net/hololive_En/status/1742553904456532249
Relay streams on January 1st, 2024 (PST) https://nitter.net/hololive_En/status/1733335661615485424
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Only played Stardew for the first time last year but it has quickly become one of my favourite games can't wait to see some Holomems play. Who are you hoping will do a playthrough?
Please welcome our new 4-member unit "HOLOSTARS English -ARMIS-"! 🦖Jurard T Rexford @jurardtrexford 🦅Goldbullet @goldbullet_en ♾Octavio @octavio_holo 💢Crimzon Ruze @crimzonruze https://holostars.hololivepro.com/en/news/20231116-02-2/ Their debut streams will be on November 17th and 18th PST! Be sure to cheer them on at #holoARMIS! https://nitter.net/hololive_En/status/1724985679107469467
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Been on vacation the last week so not been able to play, what's the difference between it and the old version and is it any better?
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[Nitter Link](https://nitter.net/hololive_En/status/1694696184223539569) [Announcement from the other Tempus boys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V4uxg5xxJg)
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New map inspired by Countdown. Balanced BTB pelican drops. Prioritise fireteam in BTB squad. Extermination medal in all modes when getting an overkill on the entire enemy team. Free moving death cam and cycle through players faster. Reactive water plane in Forge maps. Fix AI voice resetting. Revert slide to parity with S3. Stability improvements on all platforms.
From their Discord Hey everyone! We know you're all geared up for the upcoming progression update. We've been working super hard to make it something really special for you! But, in the spirit of transparency, there's been a little change of plans. We've decided it's best to give the progression update a bit more love and care, which means we'll need two extra weeks to get it all wrapped up and ready to go in mid-August. It's super important to us that everything we deliver is just right, so we really appreciate your patience. At the moment we have no plans to delay the console release which is planned for late August however we are still assessing this. In the meantime, keep an eye out for some fun sneak peeks into what we've been up to - we're excited to share what's coming! As always, thanks so much for being a part of this amazing community. We can't wait to bring you the biggest update Phasmophobia has ever received! Happy huntin' The Kinetic Games Team
Hello, this is Akai Haato. I apologize for not being able to communicate until now. The truth is, my health has not been good since February of this year, and immediately after the 4th fes. live ended, I was hospitalized. Thanks to the support of my family, I was finally able to be temporarily discharged recently, and while I am still under observation, I am currently recuperating at home. To all my fans, Hololive members and V friends, as well as everyone at the company and those I worked with, I am truly sorry for causing you all so much worry. Since I stepped away from activities until now, I have been struggling both physically and mentally due to the side effects of medication. I did my best just to hold on. However, I was anxious that if I shared the word "hospitalization" with all of you while having no positive news to offer, it might cause unnecessary concerns beyond the current situation. Also, I didn't want to show you all my weakness. After discussing with my family, I decided to focus on taking care of my body until I was discharged, which caused the delay in reporting this. Though I still need to rest and the situation hasn't changed, I feel a little more at ease now. With the support of my family and the communication with my manager, I am able to make this announcement today. I'm sorry for keeping you waiting. What I want to convey to all of you is that this is not a life-threatening situation. It will take time to fully recover, but while considering my health as the top priority, I hope to return to all of you slowly and steadily. Please wait a little longer. I will definitely come back healthy. July 24th, 2023 Akai Haato Translation from https://twitter.com/feverr_fps/status/1683386545603239938
Game Ready for Portal: Prelude RTX Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 3 technology including Portal: Prelude RTX and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Further support for new titles leveraging NVIDIA DLSS 2 technology includes the launch of Remnant II. Additionally, this Game Ready Driver supports a Resizable BAR profile for Dying Light 2: Stay Human to further improve performance. Gaming Technology Introduces support for the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB Fixed Gaming Bugs Applying GeForce Experience Freestyle filters causes games to crash [4008945] Fixed General Bugs Increase in DPC latency observed in Latencymon for Ampere-based GPUs [3952556]
[Notice] Thank you always for your continued support. All activities of Magni Dezmond and Noir Vesper from HOLOSTARS English including live streaming will be stopped for a while. Apologies for the inconvenience to those who have been looking forward to their performances.
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Wowee, that's all I can say. Live2D Showcase: https://twitter.com/FELUCCACHAN/status/1674967713972883456 Illustration reference: https://twitter.com/noirvesper_en/status/1674988709983444994 