I have been sitting in matchmaking for over 3 hours at this point.
Looks like big streamers can access the game just fine, but I get spinning wheel that is occasionally punctuated with getting an error message and kicked out of the game.
The beta was like a week and a half ago, and matchmaking was crumbling under the small organized stress test. I KNEW that once the open internet hit the matchmaker the whole thing was going to implode.
Early waves had extremely high ICU/death rates because it killed off the most vulnerable.
That combined with vaccines reduced ICU/death rates, but they are still present. Infection rates have only ever been going up.
For POLITICALLY motivated reasons, not for public safety reasons, most areas have stopped collecting data, concealing infection, ICU, and death rates related the COVID, making it look like things have subsided, but we dont know, because we arent maintaining the reporting systems.
At present, I believe there are 3 new worry-some variants. They are EXTREMELY infectious, compared to earlier strains.
There is also a disturbing trend in the newer variants that they don’t go straight for the respiratory system. You get infected, it incubates in some focused area of your body, you get a little sick for a day or 2, it continues to fortify its presence in the body for a week or 2, and then you get slammed with the full blown covid symptoms for a few weeks.
That means the new strains are spreading without symptoms for a MUCH greater period of time, and the Long Covid effects of those strains are more severe.
Here is a good metaphor. If Ukraine just got bored of Russia’s invasion and decided that they were just going to return to their life as it was before Russia invaded, does that mean that the Russian invasion is over?
People just decided they were sick of masks and social distancing, and decided that it was over… but its not. Covid is now near endemic, and it is mutating at the alarming pace you would expect from Covid at endemic levels. Its only a matter of time until strains that REALLY go after the heart and the liver as well as the lungs surface, and when that happens, it will make Wave 1 of the pandemic look like child’s play.
It never went away. It’s always been here. You should still be behaving the same way you were behaving 2 years ago.
I dont disagree with you buddy.
She is deeply fucked in the head (and not only the head, as it lays).
The damage she has done is treasonous in my opinion.
But that’s par for the course in America. Both parties.
Fucking fuck, if only Bernie stayed independent…
I didn’t say she would apologize for the big stuff.
I’m saying she can apologize, she just won’t for the big stuff.
I’m personally more focused on her forcing abstinence only education while her son ruined a young girl’s life.
Hey. She can see her wrong behavior and apologize afterall…
Ya, there is zero local play. 100% drm.
You have to play on their servers.
You can ready up the second you get into an empty lobby, but I don’t see any way to just simply choose single player.
That means that if their matchmaking system is down, you don’t get to play. And funny enough, their matchmaking system was down all night last night.
My overall largest gripe though is that in PD2, I love how if you are accurate with headshots, helmets pop with a single tap and you can just mow through 30 cops in seconds. In PD3, its taking me 2 to 5 headshots after the first wave. On the easiest setting.
Just got access to the beta and I gotta say, I was hyped and now I’m not so sure.
I like the vaulting. The weapons feel a bit crisper.
The new skill system seems weird. The cops are now bullet sponges.
Beyond that, I don’t see a major difference. Certainly not enough for me to leave behind my 200 bucks worth of DLC in PD2.
What vacuum said.
We have reached the final frontier of pussies making machines to destroy their “enemies” machines… and unarmed civilians.
I guarantee you the US is not going to send these robots to Russia.
They are going to deploy them on impoverished people and on the boarders to murder immigrants.
And then inevitably into cities that are protesting Fascism.
The continued aggressive sheer will of the US government to take every cautionary tale ever written and make it reality.
Some people can’t handle popcorn ceiling. That’s just hard cottage cheese.
I can’t handle the kind of “3d Holographic” that was all the rage in the late 90s early 00s.
Did you get a “holo” from your Harry potter brand chocolate frogs?
Then run an index fingernail over that affront to decent human sensibilities and feel what I say.
If I could not respond that way to that stimulus, my life would be improved.
But guys, haven’t you heard? Covid is weak now and forever more! I couldnt possibly deprive the world of seeing the bottom half of my face, and lines were meant to be waited in crotch to crotch! /s
You just refuse to listen to reason.
You are the equivalent of someone so terrified of HIV that they decide that they are going to refuse to be afraid by fucking everyone they can raw dog, while proclaiming “live in fear you losers!”… until you reap the consequences of your idiocy.
Only difference is that this isn’t HIV, and the mutation you create is going to kill everyone.
You have already been told multiple times.
REPORTED deaths.
Most of the reporting systems were (prematurely) terminated because of ding dongs like you.
The virus doesn’t care about your feelings.
You are willfully ignoring the simple science of the fact.
Please, PLEASE get a handle on your emotions, and do some learning.
Seriously, stop proudly proclaiming how little you know about the topic.
It’s 2023, we don’t know what or how many mutations are going to occur over the next year, but we know we have made ourselves the perfect petei dishes to maximize the process.
Oh shit.
24 people and 22 didnt have anosmia.
Anecdotal, but news to me.
Thanks for sharing.
Get your head out of the sand.
I love how “BuT tHeN tHeY wIlL jUsT uSe KnIvEs” rhetoric gets abandoned and a whole new more sophisticated ability to negotiate shows up AFTER effective action is taken.