I've played the game for several more hours and I just want to say that my initial judgement may have been too harsh. I've now had the chance to dive more fully into the factions, contracts, and upgrade trees, and I'm enjoying the game. There's a good chance I purchase this one, but I still worry that most players will bounce off of the game.
Ah. Then I take it you have yet to come across Tank Dating Simulator. My oldest son bought that as a joke, and I didn't say anything when I saw it in his Steam library, but I did roll my eyes to myself that that's even a thing.
That’s still anthropomorphizing the tanks. It’s a fairly common trope, has been for a long time. It’s also part of how parts of Japanese culture fetishizes the WW2 Axis powers, but I digress.
Tarkov may have been that big at some point, and it used its own launcher until recently, but it's been bleeding players for a while due to cheating, slow updates, and other drama so numbers right now probably aren't great. Tarkov is kind of the PubG of extraction shooters, it was first and got the momentum going but given the option most people who like the genre would rather play anything else. Granted, Trarkov had a really long period with no competition and they basically squandered it instead of locking down their position.
Ok, that makes more sense. I've been wondering when the romance starts.
So, super odd combination of stuff. When I look at this, I get two voices in my head.
This is exactly why Diabolical insists the dating is with the actual airplanes. JILF or bust.So, super odd combination of stuff. When I look at this, I get two voices in my head.
One is "Not a Pound For Air To Ground" who's got roughly an hour of video on everything good and bad about this plane, because of course he does. That's an interceptor, and he "does" interceptors. Heh.
He'd CRY. Putting the wings at damn near 90 degrees AoA? YOU STOPPED. Why did you STOP? You're an INTERCEPTOR!
I'm not an expert by any means, but, umm, MiG-31? The shape of the twin tail makes me think -31, and the -25 is so brick build slab sided you can't even pretend to make curves out of it. And I can't really think of anything else that feels like that vertical twin tail section and is Russian. Sukhois have protuberances betwixt the engines.
What idiot put the fuel tanks on the outboard pylons and the missiles inboard, well, anime artists vs reality I guess
The other voice is Tabs, the DCS guy. He's got some Hardbass lined up, but there's no engine intakes, so she's falling out of the sky, and Earth's K/D ratio increments by one and he doesn't even get to play the music.
I think I actually see the engine nozzles in the "backpack" coming off her waist, but the intakes are jammed into her back.
And then Tabs avoids some trees and puts 3 seconds of gun into her while she fights the compressor stall.
Maybe I'm playing the wrong game, but when I see that, I think "Brrrrtttt".
<starcraft salvage guy voice>essplaina to me, how this make the sense?</ssgv> Dating ACTUAL airplanes? And I'm sorry, but that does NOT do a FUCKING THING to make any of that picture make sense. In fact, it makes it STUPIDER.
Im gonna need a map to show me how the fuck you got to where you are, because Diabolical said nothing to that effect. Whoisit posted the picture in response to Diabolical’s comment:
Upon seeing the picture he went on to say:
A bunch of other people have jumped on the JILF moe plane girl thing, but not Dia, who is out here catching strays.
Ok, in joke.
) it's a joke. I haven't been here in years, there's no goddamn way for me to keep up on all the in jokes around here. Christ, I'm still wondering about the Cheeto, ok?
Because I got bored, but then I came back and wasn't.
I remember Sui Generis being a pretty fantastic idea, it still is. It seems that the devs are still updating Exanima via an experimental build, but they've got the attention span of a gerbil inhaling pixie sticks through both nostrils at once and going back for seconds. 11 years of this being in development is, well, a bit much. I might dip into it anyway, because it's still such an interesting thing mechanically.
Makes sense, Wildlight was more or less a Tencent puppet and that the game didn't immediately do gangbusters was enough that they're willing to pull the plug rather than keep the lights on until revenue improves.
