Interesting little tidbit is that I just got to the part where the crew returns to Azernal and here we have rather big change.
...On one hand, cringe for trying to win a video game via committing treason.
I can only think of one possible reason why playing this game isn't considered a security clearance risk: It'd be like trying to ban furries from electrical engineering.It's time again for our favorite video game holiday
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Wasn't that later found out to be made up? Though considering the community, I wouldn't exactly blame the various three letter agencies if they decided that it was a legit security risk.
In 99% of the cases isn't it generally something that isn't actually classified, but by the time that is actually mentioned no one cares anymore because they've moved on to the next thing.
"Dammit man, you just cost us a cool few hundred dollars from plane enthusiasts who don't know how to use google!"
Super Robot Wars has historically been pretty great about stuff like that. Way back in the Alpha series Shinji got so much character development that he paid it forward by giving Kira Yamato a pep talk during the Gundam Seed storyline in Alpha 3.
To each their own, I suppose. He certainly contributes to me not wanting to play the game. Though its horrendous encounter system is the biggest reason.
Same issue with AI players and stealth units in RTS games. The game engine must know where and what they are, which allows the AI "player" omniscience.
That depends more on how stealth and the answer to it works. As the first dawn of war showed, just because the engine has to know doesn't mean the ai is intelligent enough to actually deploy counters. So you got to see Tau stealth suits and their commander in campaign just tear apart the enemy single handidly while the ai couldn't even dream of employing them as effectively.
It's perfectly possible to make non-cheating AI (vision, resources, reaction time etc.), making good non-cheating AI is much harder.
Hunting Horn is your friend. Iman SnS guy myself, but even I appreciate Horn players.
Funny thing is, I was also an SnS guy. At least until the Rathian Arena fight, where that's not an option I get. Charge Blade just didn't feel right, Lance was like trying to stab her to death with a toothpick from behind a brick wall, Insect Glaive seemed awesome until I realized I was basically just zooming around doing nothing, and Heavy Bowgun went about as well as you'd expect facing down a screaming, furious tank with a stationary machine gun would go.
I usually main Hammer with HH as my secondary, but it's cool to have someone else getting into the Horn. Being designated head basher is a dangerous job, but I find it to be a lot of fun.
Yeah, not really a fan of the arena fights, I generally skip them
Yeah, I kinda shied away from trying the horn because I figured it'd be a multiplayer-tuned weapon, but it turns out they're really good at making monsters lie down and wait for the hurting to stop. And then there's echo wave, otherwise known as the song of my people, whose lyrics are as follows: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, and for an encore, fuck you!"
The first two weren't bad; first is sword and shield, second is dicing a chicken with dual blades. It's only the third that turned into a giant pain in the ass.
30XX is the spiritual successor to MegaMan X/ Zero, right?