Napster was there before Kazaa, it was just a string of services popping up after others got shut down. Good times!

Just share the folder on soulseek. Probably not advisable for any sensitive information though xD

I would describe them as not great currently xD

I haven’t played Heat but like you I like the Forza Horizon balance of pretty arcadey feel with some sim elements mixed in without it really going too far to either extreme.

I don’t want to be excessively harsh on a game that is still pretty early in its development so far but also not having played any of the previous entries I dont know exactly what feel they are going for, so maybe this is already pretty close to their goal (which would be a shame I think)

As it is right now though it is very arcade-y feeling and in all honesty the “upgrades” didn’t really make the car feel any different as I spent money on the car, it was consistent throughout. The cars don’t really corner that well, you cant really initiate a drift or have any real control through the corners to that level, you can yank up the handbrake but the car doesnt slide in a nice, predictable manner at all. You can either use it to cut a lot of speed suddenly in a quick jab or hold it and spin out.

So generally you’ll be driving flat out dodging traffic until a corner at which point you’ll slam on the brakes to cut your speed enough to try and get around the corner without riding the walls (the races use a battle system with “health bars” to win or lose and hitting walls depletes your health bar)

As I said in the previous post as well the opponents definitely need balancing as well as you will often need to cheese the harder battles or just hope to god that they crash and you can get far enough ahead to win. A lot of the AI drivers will hook their front onto your rear and plow you into a wall which is extremely frustrating.

The game itself is set in an open world of sorts. So when you leave for the night you choose which highway entrance to enter on and in which direction. You are then free to cruise the highways (you start with a small loop and then a little more opens up as you play, I presume the full game will have a lot more) and challenge any other vehicle you see to battles. You can race all the civilian trucks or cars if you want or you search for other rival gangs. When you beat a certain amount of members from each gang then you unlock the boss of that gang for a boss battle.

Whilst cruising you are stuck going the direction you began with unless you pull into a parking spot. Here you can chat to random people about inane shit or challenge some others that are parked up. Here you can also leave the parking area to go in the opposite direction on the highway. It is realistic but also frustrating sometimes to try and find a parking area if someone you want to battle is on the opposite side, I wanna have some places where I could illegally switch sides really.

If you dont like JDM shit then I would say the appeal would be even narrower for you cause it is focused on those cars. This is what I love so what kept me involved to see it through but the selection of parts and wheels etc is honestly shite (nightrunners blows it out of the water by a long way in this aspect).

TLDR: you probably won’t like it that much based on what you said, even cruising the majority of the available world is really fucking long straights and is pretty boring and you dont even like JDM stuff :)

I don’t cheat as for me that takes away all the satisfaction I get from seeing a game through from beginning to end however as I have gotten older I no longer try and force myself to continue playing games that I am not enjoying. I have enjoyed gaming on the whole a lot more since I started doing this. Sometimes I’ll go back if it is something I really want to like and sometimes that works but I no longer get hung up on quitting a game if it is doing nothing for me.

Not just me then, I have considered going back and trying again as I really did enjoy it a lot up until that point but I dont think it is worth my time thinking about what is to come.

Damn shame!

Having not played any of the previous games I wasn’t sure what to expect going in and I am sort of 50 / 50 on it in general.

It has a good level of polish for something that is at v0.15 or there abouts when I played but there were a lot of negatives for me for example the balancing on the last set of boss “fights” was horrendous but obviously it is early on and hopefully as development moves forward things like that will be addressed.

I hated the upgrade system however which is something I don’t think will change going forward, for example having to “upgrade” your wallet to hold more is stupid. Particularly when you are forced into a couple of boss fights back to back early on. These fights award you with a decent amount of cash upon winning but upon finishing them and returning “home” you are greeted with a screen informing you because those fights went over your wallet capacity that you just lose a couple of mil, which when this happened to me I could have really used for upgrading my car.

Ultimately even though it is less polished I think nightrunners is a far superior game following the same sort of gameplay loop and style of highway racing. It has a more striking aesthetic, the cars look better and have a lot more / better upgrade options, particularly visually. That is made by just one person too, I’m looking forward to its hopeful release later on this year.

Also if you like Japanese cars and modding then check out JDM: Japanese Drift Master due to release at the end of this month, based on the demo version last year this was a lot more fun for me than Tokyo Xtreme.

Once you are around 10 or 15 missions into the game they introduce a mechanic where the alarms are water sensitive and you have to try and build things around the alarms using planks etc to try and stop them from getting wet. Getting them wet causes the alarm to go off.

Up until that point I was really enjoying figuring out a route, preparing and trying to pull off the goals within the time before the police show up etc. After the first “dont let this thing get wet mission” I stopped playing and never picked it up again as I hated the idea. It was a shame.

I was really enjoying this game until it introduces the “keep this thing dry” mechanic and then instantly lost interest.

Sanderson is such a beast, everything he has written that I’ve read is solid gold!

A few titles that I never really hear anyone mention:

Mister Mosquito

Wetrix

Steambot Chronicles

Auto Modellista

XIII

And then some of my favourites that everyone knows about:

Burnout 3: Takedown

Smugglers Run

State of Emergency

NFS: Underground

Manhunt

Shadow of the Colossus

SOCOM, specifically the online MP

To name but a few, I don’t want to write an absurdly long list which is just too easy to do.

Flatout: Ultimate Carnage or Need For Speed: Underground

…sharing a playlist is surely the modern equivalent.

Loved Renegade so much. Played the shit out of the MP back in the day.

Fuck yeh. We used to do that but one person had to play under a duvet because both of the TVs faced in the same direction.

Yeh sorry for the little rant there, not aimed at you personally, just being reminded of it pissed me off a new xD

People don’t pay enough attention driving as it is constantly looking at their phones, adding tiny icons and lines to mark weather systems would be just another thing to distract already terrible drivers.

If you want to look at the weather then pull over and do so, I don’t think it has any place as additional distractions in a vehicle imo.

I haven’t look at it in a while as I was pissed off that it went down the way it did. Although I personally didn’t contact indiegogo many people from the backers within the comments did so and indiegogo refused to do anything about it. So they are complicit in this theft too so by extension I wouldn’t advise anyone to use their “service” either.

I did have a look at the campaign because of this comment and nothing has changed, lots of people still complaining about planet computers and indiegogo so it doesnt look like anyone got anywhere in terms of getting their money back.

Do NOT give these fucking cunts any fucking money. I was a backer for this phone on indiegogo.

They are liars when they eventually did communicate any updates during the project. They produced around 2000 units, most of which were sent to people who backed the project years after the first backers on indiegogo because they backed on a different platform.

Ultimately they just shut down the kickstarter giving no actual details. They stole thousands of peoples money through that. They made a product with the money people contributed to back the project and then just shuttered the project so they wouldn’t need to deliver a device to these backers.

I didn’t realise they were now trying to sell them again but the units that did get shipped were massively out of date and barely worked as it is.

If you want a keyboard on a phone Unihertz are about your only option right now.

Fuck planet computers, thieving fucking cunts

This year has been my first foray into self hosting in general. I have been doing a lot of learning and have a long way to go but have got to the point where I have proxmox running with a few VMs running an arr stack, a jellyfin server and a Plex server.

I’m just super happy to get everything running and now need to fine tune stuff. Currently trying to figure out why the Plex server is down half the time externally.

I’m having a lot of fun!

I used connect for nearly 2 years, I like the way it looks and operated and was fairly happy, however after an update this week that introduced a shit load more bugs and didn’t really fix any of the outstanding ones I finally got sick of it.

So this week I have been using Voyager all week, think I’m gonna jump around a few different ones and try and find a new place to stay.