I’m not his biggest fan, but he’s one of the very few that has a detailed explanation after playing the game at SGF.
Some of this is concerning, regardless of the fact whether he has never played previous games before and thus doesn’t know much about the gameplay. (he gets destroyed in the comments section by hardcore Stalker fans)
Summary
he says it’s more like a screen tearing simulator.
Says the trailer looks nothing like what he played.
The guns felt terrible, along with the design of the combat encounters. He would go into a open field, see three enemies. Shoot one down, the other two would turn around and not do anything.
Someone walking by, seeing him playing and just saying “woof”. As in, that does not look too good.
It would be a huge shame because the trailer at the show is awesome, all trailers are. But this here brings me back to Gamescom last year where the footage we saw was…it wasn’t great and not nearly as good looking as the trailers make it look.
Did they go with the exact same old build? Someone on Twitter said the dev told him it was a brand new build. This game is early September. ! He was not allowed to film it.
I saw a discussion on Cybersecurity and got so excited - it’s what I do for 9 hours a day, Monday-Friday. Then I saw the timestamps were from 8 hours ago and got sad.
I wanted to say something glib like “Protect yourselves folks!” - but the truth is, it is nominally impossible to not have sensitive data stored with a third party somewhere, and the best you can do is hope that they’re not targeted by any sophisticated attacker. As someone who works for the world’s largest Vulnerability Management vendor, I can tell you that no company is secure, its all about the journey there. And if a serious threat actor wants to breach a company, they will. Try not to let it keep you up at night!
The springs are more then capable to stretch beyond 168mm. There are stoppers at the back which prevents it from stretching further. Great thing is, you can pop them out and go beyond it.
Here is the video guide I followed to do it. It is fairly simple and sometimes feel like a feature instead of a trick.
Lol while I know of the measures my employer’s put in place (I’m one of those people the security teams hate - developers who just moan about all the additional stuff we now have to do to use our systems lol) I’m definitely no expert but completely agree - your best hope is companies you’ve given your details to aren’t storing your password in plaintext, they offer MFA and they keep payment details separate (preferably with a financial provider).
I can’t say much, I’ve recently had to go again through all accounts I use and double check them as my Netflix got hacked - I forgot to update it from an ancient password that was in a breach and discovered an IP address in Argentina had set a new profile and started watching Wednesday lol.
Thankfully they’d not changed the password so I was able to, and my email is secured by the longest, strongest password I use plus MFA - but it was a reminder to not be lazy about security!
I imagine us all here would welcome any tips - the only one I’ve been able to drill into my family beyond trying to get them to use MFA (even though it’s not perfect) is the old “if it’s too good to be true”, unsolicited and any spelling mistakes, weird links etc don’t trust messages you receive and never click links unless completely expected - go to the site or app yourself instead.
Unfortunately all that’s done is make me the spam moderator whenever they’re unsure of one - I’ve had my dad call checking the “Microsoft” phone call was dodgy, both parents with unsolicited WhatsApps and much of the family with emails…
(I am pleasantly surprised by our younger generation though - being online since a young age they seem instinctively cynical about everything they receive / are asked when signing up for stuff)
Sadly, all of my expertise comes in the business-to-business space, institutional risk management and the like. My family and friends are always calling me to ask “how can I stop hackers from x” over something they saw on TV or read on the internet. “I’ve been scammed, can you counter-hack them?” is a legitimate text I have saved from a good friend of mine. I can’t even begin to explain why or how misguided their questions are to them, so I just shrug and say “sorry, no can do.” Even the word “hacker” just makes me queasy - its such a boogie-man term that captures far too many different roles and variables. Like you said - our younger generation seems far more inclined to look at everything with analytical eyes, which is great as they’re now starting to enter the workforce (and thus, in the purview of Cybersecurity teams).
I think if anybody uninitiated saw how many known, accepted vulnerabilities are available in the infrastructure of all of the world’s largest companies, their conception on how security works would change. If Microsoft woke up tomorrow with a total vuln count in the low 6 figures, they’d celebrate and pop champagne. That’s low 6 figures of “this is an active vulnerability we have found.” Naturally, not all vulns are made equal, and risk scoring plays a factor in which vulnerabilities and misconfigurations need addressing first - but that’s a whole other conversation for a whole other day.
I try to tell people that the best you can do is a long, personalized, non-random password, change it quarterly, and keep an eye on your credit score. MFA is a great bonus if you have a ton of subscriptions, and that’s really the best you can do. When Capital One got hit, it was over a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket - nothing you or I (or anyone who banks with CapOne) could do to stop that from happening, so I don’t lose sleep over it.
Good job catching the Netflix pirate though! I have my credit cards and paypal synced up to my Xbox, as well as all of my streaming apps - and their passwords are changed (not) often enough, but at some point you just gotta let fate roll the dice!
Showcase was E3 Flashback in a best possible way, but now next year if all lands to be true including E-Day, I’m having flashback to the best gaming year.
What kind of question is that? I post plenty of positive things too. I didn’t need to dig at all, it was on YouTube in recommended because I watched a lot of “E3” stuff.
But don’t act disingenuous about me ever posting anything remotely positive. This week I shared excitement for Visions of Mana release date and new trailer, for the games at the Xbox show, for the possibility that there might be a Gamescom show and I can go on.
In the past I may have been a bit too negative about stuff, nowhere near as much anymore.
From here on out I will. I now see the very positive previews by other sources and he seems to be the outlier. I want the game to be great, badly.
