You forgot that your starting area determines literally everything about your quality of life and average lifespan.
As well as the rare “born rich” perk that turns the difficulty of the game completely off and puts you into MC story mode where everyone else becomes an NPC.
You can change your username, just depends where you are.
Technically you can re-spec some of the more ingrained aspects of your character too but they come with heavy financial and social penalties.
Some even incur the “hunted” status in some servers, like changing “gender” or “religion.”
Honestly it’s a pretty bad game but they trick you into liking it by giving you access to things like “pets,” “cookies,” and “cosumable media”.
Ugghh, that’s the worst. I want to change servers! This one sux.
Who is taking 3 years to unlock voicechat?!?! 1.5 yrs is where it’s at
The world really opens up after the tutorial.
Opens up? It’s pretty much pure grind, level after level, unless you got very lucky with your class and skills, or got the “rich” trait at character creation.
Better go play a less bad game, like Diablo 4.
I tried to change my username. Twice! But the amount of time and paperwork and legal hoops to get it done was ridiculous. Plus, the state I was living in at the time required that I justify my change with a court appearance, and the judge would decide whether my reasoning was justified. And I had 30 days to complete the whole process from start to finish or all my paperwork would be invalidated and I’d have to start all over again. Most appointments I needed had to be scheduled over a month out already! Some required 4-6 weeks to process paperwork and get back to me.
Another state I tried it in required I make a formal, public declaration in a newspaper or on a TV broadcast or something. I couldn’t just change my username on legal records, I needed to document it publicly for the world to be involved in my business.
So I said “fuck that” and kept my current username. I just tell everyone to call me by my preferred username, as I’ve done all my life.
Another state I tried it in required I make a formal, public declaration in a newspaper or on a TV broadcast or something. I couldn’t just change my username on legal records, I needed to document it publicly for the world to be involved in my business.
To be fair, nobody actually reads the “newspaper of record.” It is generally not the big, famous paper for any given city, like one might assume.
Yeah, once you complete the tutorial, although it sometimes causes gameplay bugs later on.
- Levels 7-15 are filled with griefers
- There are no viable builds for levels 12-17, everything is awkward and unbalanced
- You’re assigned a team when you spawn, but you don’t even know the teams exist until level 12 or so, and once you learn what team you’re on, you can’t change teams
- You’re forced to play on hardcore mode and you’re only allowed one playthrough [disputed]
- There’s no pause, and if you logout it’s game over
- Game balance is shitty: P2W players exploit the rest, some players spawn with permabuffs in place, others spawn with permanerfs
- Nobody can see any other player’s HP or buffs, so a player playing on ezmode can pretend they’re just good at the game
- No official documentation, although certain clans claim they have the official documentation, these clans are frequently at war over whose documentation is correct
- Released 10 billion years ago, no updates since, no way to contact the devs
- Multiplayer only
- Player housing exists, but is absurdly expensive and requires constant grinding to maintain
- Cooking minigame can be fun, but you have to play it all the time, and it’s expensive to skip it. It’s also attached to a clean-up minigame which sucks.
- Most food in the game has long-term debuffs that are hard to clear
- You have to juggle all these meters: health, thirst, hunger, temperature, horniness, sleep, boredom, anxiety, etc. but the devs didn’t simply put them on a HUD, instead there are these frequently buggy out-of-band hints.
no documentation but plenty of youtube tutorials on what not to do. or how to do it very shittily.
- if you drink too much you piss yourself
- if you eat bad food you shit yourself
OOF that AI slop imagery - like, it’s so bad now, you can see it from a mile away. how did ai image synthesis get worse over time? they let it eat it’s own garbage, that’s how - gigo is reinforcing all the bad ideas RAPIDLY.
look at those clouds - you know, the ones that look like a blackmetal band logo - everywhere. and the strange thing going on where the mountains of pakistan meet india - wtf is that supposed to be, continental quilting?
jfc
Also it’s literally just a picture of earth. There are a thousand and one pictures of earth on the internet that look better.
There is zero reason to make this photo with AI. It’s more effort than just googling a photo.
There is zero reason to make this photo with AI.
that’s the whole point of the fetish
like, it’s so bad now, you can see it from
a mile awayspace!technically space isn’t a mile away.
the most widely cited boundary is the Kármán line, set at 100 km (62 miles) above mean sea level by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
you don’t even need to reach space to see how fuckin bad this ai slop is.
Couldn’t they find a picture of earth? I mean the Deep Space Climate Observatory takes a photo of a single side of the planet every hour or so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory
it’s not an availability thing methinks… it’s a fetish thing.
they really think that AI should provide everything. then they won’t even have to move, get out of bed etc., they can just become one with their friend the algo, and the slop will flow right to them.
The temporarily embarrassed millionaires will never have that dream fulfilled but they can finally become bed ridden masters of chips. What a waste.
What a waste.
truth
Used Claude to vibe code an Earth replacement
Early access available on the Epic Games Store
Too many microtransactions on top of a very high subscription.
- The last major patch was forever ago and it banned almost every player at the time.
- The dev(s) are super quiet. No one seems to have talked to them and those who claim to have talked with them have real “my uncle works for Nintendo” vibes so no one knows if anyone has ever talked with them.
- We don’t fully know how the physics engine works yet, and the dev(s) aren’t answering.
- There’s a thriving modder community but most servers hate modders and try to ban them. There isn’t a modder only server yet, but we’re getting closer as other servers keep forcing us out.
The last major patch was forever ago and it banned almost every player at the time.
On the contrary, there’s a huge wave of player classes are getting patched out right now, but it’s fucked-up because it’s mostly due to those classes being vulnerable to griefing by one other class, and that class is only more popular than ever.
And a lot of cheaters
Pay to win
Well, more like pay to live. Pay to play?
character design is totally unfair
Anyone got any hints for surviving the current “continual financial crisis” meta?
tl;dr: safe to skip.
There is a minigame in it that is literally the entire GTA 6, so that’s kinda cool.
You spend the majority of your logged-in time grinding for in-game currency.
