I said the developers removed the labels to be more inclusive and OP (and now you) added them back.

There are technical reasons (pointed out in many comments) for why they might not have full sliders to make any body type you want.

As you can see from OP’s response to you, my primary issue is that OP is still calling the option the “female” or “feminine” one. The developers specifically removed those labels to be inclusive and OP is adding them back. The complaint about the order was the secondary issue.

As a woman, I look at “Body Type A or Body Type B” and think “Well, I’m a woman, not a Body Type B, and isn’t it kinda misogynistic that the secondary option is the female one? Like A+ for Men, B- for Women?”

This really pissed me off, I have to say. Why are you calling the “secondary” option “the female one”? To me that seems a bit presumptuous.

If I have body type B with he/him pronouns, are you saying something about my body? Is it too “feminine” for you?

Honestly, you seem to be looking for something to complain about. The developers have taken an extra step to try to be accommodating and inclusive and your complaining about the order the choices are listed in… Smh

I liked the game, but I can’t say I would have any interest in playing it again or trying to get into new levels after so long.

I also didn’t know there was a new release until this article.

Usually, when it’s a one-off like this, the video game gets “paid” to put the stuff in their game. That payment may be in-kind advertising campaigns, etc.

For something like Need for Speed, Forza, etc, the game will be licensing the likeness of the vehicles and the company logos in the game. I don’t know the costs, but the fact that it’s also advertising will factor in.

In this case, there are a few likely scenarios:

1. The game director or art director or someone high up at Epic has a hard-on for the Cybertruck and really wanted it in the game. So they pursued Tesla and made a deal.
2. Epic wanted to add vehicles to the game and decided to go with licensed vehicles. Their merchandising people reached out to merchandising people at all the auto companies and then figured out some deals.
3. Someone high up at Tesla (maybe even Musk) loves, or has a kid who loves, Fortnite and decided they want the Cybertruck in the game. So they pursued Epic to make a deal.

Number 2 is most likely, but I don’t know the game well enough to know the vehicle situation in it.

For all of them, you have to factor in a bunch of details to figure out who is paying who:

• who wants it more (/ power imbalance)
• how much money is it going to cost to make the models, animations, etc
• how much is it going to cost players to get the item
• are there aspects that either company finds undesirable (E.g. sometimes car companies don’t like their cars shown with damage)
• who will be doing the bulk of the marketing, and who has the marketing budget to spend on the venture
• probably a lot more

So, it’s hard to say without more inside info. Games I’ve worked on have had 1 and 2, but not 3 as far as I know. I think it was pretty much an in-kind deal for the 1 situation though (like we got the likenesses, they got advertising through the game, ostensibly we sold more games with the likenesses, but I think it just stroked someone’s ego…) All of the 2 situations were done to bring in money for the game’s marketing budget / or were in-kind marketing deals, possibly bringing money directly to the bottom line, but I don’t know.

Where did you get the name?

What was the original license that people paid for? Is there anything in there that would protect them?

Not buying it until Zero Punctuation absolutely pans it.

I want multiple streaming services that can stream almost everything so there’s competition, but still a valid reason not to just drop and switch constantly.

The tweet didn’t make any sense to me since it didn’t seem like a developer whining about your policies was ban worthy. It sounds like Epic hadn’t actually broken any rules yet.

EU regulators must feel like they’re babysitting two spoiled brats.

Is there an article explaining what rule they broke?

Interesting crossover, looks pretty cool.

They do this every year and nobody cares.

I don’t know what their bottom line was, but during the pandemic Epic was just pouring money out to snag up the top engineers in the industry.

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Woooow, thank you! Glad I mentioned I was on the GOG version.

Away from my computer right now but I think it is 0.16.something

I watched a beginner’s guide (well a few, one of which went immediately into story spoilers for some reason) and realized I need to get into a guild. Maybe the tutorial would have mentioned this if it worked? In any case I have a better idea of how the beginning of the game will progress now and that for now I’m meant to just work my way into the world and wait for contact from someone.

I’ll get a better version and give it another shot.

Yes, but only after hitting a bunch of random keys to see if they did anything and the ‘rest’ menu came up. I’ve definitely gone into the controls menu a few times now to learn new things.

I made it out of the starting dungeon, and then had no idea what to do/where to go. Nothing on the map, nothing indicated in my journals, and no tutorial (which had said it would continue once I got out of the dungeon). I finally found a town, at night because I could see what maybe looked like lights way off in the distance, after going a long way and then turning around. Then I got there, went to a tavern, and people were giving me the cold shoulder. One person even mentioned my poor “reputation.” I’m like, am I not completely new here?

All-in-all, I found the beginning:

• very punishing (I died a lot, why put a creature that two shots me and I literally cannot injure as the second thing I encounter?)
• buggy (there were lots of bugs, especially around save/load, I’m pretty sure if you aggro creatures or piss people off and then reload to a save just before you did that, they don’t reset unless you restart the game.)
• janky (“click to swing” is on by default and I wonder if that is making the fighting really shitty. Certainly the weapon swing animations are pretty terrible.)
• confusing (what is my goal? Where am I supposed to go? Why did a bunch of my stats suddenly appear red and drop 10 or so points?)
• dumb (there are 5 stores in the town I found and none of them will buy/sell armour, but will buy/sell weapons)
• has a shitty tutorial (it’s time based rather than progressing based on your actions, and doesn’t teach some pretty basic things/doesn’t match the key bindings)

I should add that I’m using the GOG version which comes with a bunch of mods preinstalled/enabled. That could be changing my perception, because some stuff seems super smooth and clean (fire, for example) and other stuff seems not so great (fight animations, for example).

So, I’m underwhelmed so far.

I never played the original Daggerfall, but I started Unity last night and I’m… trying to figure out if I like it. I was going to go find a beginner’s guide before playing more to figure out if I’m doing something wrong!

My guess is MS wants to stop competing in the hardware market and just make games for the other consoles and PC.

No mention of Postal yet?