Commented 8 years ago2016-02-19 02:42:51 UTC
in journal: #8669Comment #61498
I guess we live in a world where you are no longer free to tell everyone your real experience in those reviews. Always getting the "censor"/"fake"/"delete" hammer ready to smash anytime and anywhere.
If The Core would become a paid mod then my status report erm... I mean review will be very demanding ^^
ARRANGEMENT also had years of silence and was classified as dead for some people too, but we were doing some stuff there and there.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-19 02:09:42 UTC
in journal: #8669Comment #61493
The whole thing about banning people on forums for poor reviews is very common with people and companies who make games and are trying to do something shifty. Sometimes they are just crappy games, and other times they're doing something blatantly illegal or misleading consumers. Occasionally it's just a dev with a huge ego who is unable to handle negative commentary of their work. In any case, it's usually not a good sign. Glad you were able to get your refund.
What is with this 'The Core' rubbish anyway? Everyone keeps talking about it but it's not even good enough to sell for ten bucks on Steam, so it must be even lower quality than this Prospekt mod.
I bet the people working on it are more interested in their custom voice acting and fancy trailers rather than working on the actual mod. Their ModDB is dead as well, they promised a Q&A video a whole year ago and there's still no video. Seems like yet another dead mod if you ask me.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-19 02:05:24 UTC
in journal: #8669Comment #61497
And "to put the cherry on the cake", the developer seems to hate everyone who disliked his mod. One streamer signed a NDA where he could test Prospekt before the game's release but he wasn't allowed to stream, talk, post stuff about it. He gave a review quite similar to mine to end up being banned from the Steam Community, full story here : http://imgur.com/a/ybBEC
Archie, I've been following The Core on ModDB for years and I haven't lost my habit of checking every month for any new stuff that I've might missed. You, Urby and other people involved with The Core are doing a perfect job and it will be a pleasure to play/review and even test the mod ^^
UPDATE : I managed to get the refund, I was close enough of not respecting the conditions.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-19 01:40:07 UTC
in journal: #8669Comment #61496
Someone said in his Steam review that if you copy/paste the maps and some specific assets from Prospekt to HL2, there will be no difference at all and I agree with that.
Another thing that I forgot to point out : in the game's credits, the author thank you for the money you spent on Prospekt for "another Source engine based game". I fear for the worst that we'll have a similar thingy but with Barney Calhoun instead.
UPDATE : Looks like ValveTime.net disliked the "mod" too.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-19 00:46:56 UTC
in journal: #8669Comment #61492
Good review. I'm not surprised it didn't end up to be very good, but I'm a bit disappointed. I hope that low-quality paid mods like this don't start wrecking the reputation of mods in general (free and paid).
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-18 23:32:58 UTC
in journal: #8669Comment #61500
The author saId he paid 50000 U.S. Dollars to be able to sell this map pack. I saw Phillips stream of this and nothing was too impressive. But honestly I don't think he will make back his 50k cash
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-18 23:21:47 UTC
in journal: #8669Comment #61501
I'm not sure why but I really hate Prospekt even though I didn't play it. Is it because everyone is talking about it even though it doesn't seem to add new stuff nor seems different from HL2? Is it because the modder spent two years developing it and thinks he thus has to be paid?
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-18 04:10:17 UTC
in journal: #8667Comment #62796
If you can stand to have it in your library, seems you could buy one of those complete trash games that are usually on sale for considerably less than a dollar.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-18 03:40:01 UTC
in journal: #8667Comment #62799
It says right there, only Steam credit and actual purchases. AKA only money being spent by me. While the 30-day minimum makes sense, I don't quite understand the one-year limit.
It's pretty curious though that the entirety of Steam games I got in over a year were gifts.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-17 23:17:55 UTC
in journal: #8667Comment #62795
It's somewhat unfair to blame the Steam system for this, instead you should be blaming criminals who buy stuff with stolen credit cards, and perhaps the credit card system in general for being so exploitable.
The 30 day delay was added because scammers were using stolen credit cards to buy Steam games, get the trading cards, and sell them off on the marketplace before the transaction is reported as fraudulent and they get a chargeback on the card.
Just hold onto your trading cards until you end up buying something, and then offload them all after that.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-17 06:30:18 UTC
in journal: #8665Comment #49669
"More on using it as a netbook, if you want to perhaps swap it with another OS for some sort of specialized usage, you may find yourself locked into the Windows that comes with it. Disabling secure boot is typically a painless process across these tablets, however the 32bit UEFI with no legacy boot option is very much unique to these tablets. Linux will not install without some hacking apart, and android-x86 is likely to have unstable or completely non-functional driver support for these tablets."
These are NOT like installing on a desktop computer. Not to mention even if you did somehow install something else on them, there are no non-windows 8+ drivers available for the hardware.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-16 10:53:19 UTC
in journal: #8665Comment #49660
If I was going to get a Windows tablet I'd put the money in to buy a Surface Pro. No cheaping out for me! I would want something that plays games with lower system requirements (e.g. PS2 emulator, indie games, 2D/isometric RPGs, text/menu driven games, etc), and I'd want something that can run Visual Studio! The i5/i7 Surface tablets are more than capable of that, but their price tag is on par with the likes of the Macbook Air and other slimline laptops.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-13 15:16:35 UTC
in journal: #8665Comment #49659
Haha damn dude that's quite a lot. You're not pissing over my journal at all, you are sharing your experience and that's definitely appreciated. The battery life is fine because i mainly grabbed this thing to keep on my desk at work so i can map on lunch breaks. I do want a new keyboard though. This one lacks basic buttons such as delete and esc.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-13 08:51:04 UTC
in journal: #8665Comment #49668
As much of a novelty item as a windows tablet is, the novelty wears off quickly.
As a tablet, Windows simply hasn't adapted well enough to make it worth using for anything other than the occasional game or web browsing. Navigating the desktop in 10 has been improved incredibly over Windows 8, mind you. The apps are incredibly scarce compared to Android, and there aren't many (tablet friendly) games comparable to say, Terraria (Which I absolutely loved) on android. There are also considerably more ported games on Android, such as DosBox Turbo (I would kill to have this on my windows tablet), Quake Touch, Half life (Xash3D), Max payne and soforth. Web browsing is also considerably more frustrating, with no official youtube app, chrome not really working all that great on low end devices, and the lack of ability to move the window up so you can see what you are typing. Awful. But if you can get past the negatives of the experience, the quad core intel Atom is perfectly capable of HD video playback and is generally a very smooth browsing experience in Edge. EDIT: I will give wintabs a big plus that Netflix works great on these tablets, if you don't use subtitles. (Subtitles break very frequently on the windows app)
As a notetaker, you're mainly looking at capacitive styluses, which are not fine enough to draw anything or use beyond simple textual note taking. (Don't be stupid like me and try to use it for math notes)
As a Netbook or portable gaming machine is where they really shine, if you don't mind lugging around a bluetooth keyboard+mouse or bulky but functional gamepad such as an IPEGA, you're looking at a library of games you simply cannot natively play on android without streaming. While the intel atom tablets are not powerhouses, they are certainly capable of playing older games and running software that is not memory intensive, such as half-life and Hammer.
However the biggest downfall of these cheaper tablets is the fact that while Windows has made incredible progress saving battery life on these underpowered devices, it simply cannot keep up with the very poor batteries that you get on these bargain price tablets. If you use your tablet frequently and want to use it as a miniature workstation, you're looking at either lugging around an extra high-capacity battery pack, or 4 hours of battery life. I myself have simply reserved my stream 7 for watching videos in bed or the very occasional web search for things while my computer is busy. Just to add into the frustration, intel atom audio drivers have an incredibly infuriating glitch where if you don't turn the volume down to minimum before putting the tablet to sleep, the tablet doesn't actually go to sleep and will drain your battery as though it were running.
More on using it as a netbook, if you want to perhaps swap it with another OS for some sort of specialized usage, you may find yourself locked into the Windows that comes with it. Disabling secure boot is typically a painless process across these tablets, however the 32bit UEFI with no legacy boot option is very much unique to these tablets. Linux will not install without some hacking apart, and android-x86 is likely to have unstable or completely non-functional driver support for these tablets.
So at this point, I really cannot find much justification for buying a windows tablet anymore, over a dual boot tablet or simply buying a small netbook. The windows platform has zero benefits over the android platform for a tablet form factor, and the benefits you DO get from using it as a mini netbook are filled with minor to incredibly frustrating issues that keep you from truly enjoying the experience.
Anyways, I don't mean to piss all over your journal with negativity, but I just want to share my experience lest somebody decides to impulse buy as we did without doing a little bit more research into things that may or may not ruin the experience for them. They're great little devices, but they need quite a bit of work before I could recommend them yet.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-11 20:11:20 UTC
in journal: #8665Comment #49658
Hah well the thing is you need to hold your finger in the center of the screen or you spin uncontrollably. I haven't tried mapping without a mouse but i'm afraid to TBH. I just went to sledge-editor.com to download, didn't check the store.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-10 23:58:36 UTC
in vault item: Tokyo ComplexComment #4317
I didn't manage to give it a go over the weekend as I didn't have CS:GO installed, but I did notice that the download link seems to link to the wrong map.
Happy birthday regardless!
If The Core would become a paid mod then my status report erm... I mean review will be very demanding ^^
ARRANGEMENT also had years of silence and was classified as dead for some people too, but we were doing some stuff there and there.
What is with this 'The Core' rubbish anyway? Everyone keeps talking about it but it's not even good enough to sell for ten bucks on Steam, so it must be even lower quality than this Prospekt mod.
I bet the people working on it are more interested in their custom voice acting and fancy trailers rather than working on the actual mod. Their ModDB is dead as well, they promised a Q&A video a whole year ago and there's still no video. Seems like yet another dead mod if you ask me.
Archie, I've been following The Core on ModDB for years and I haven't lost my habit of checking every month for any new stuff that I've might missed. You, Urby and other people involved with The Core are doing a perfect job and it will be a pleasure to play/review and even test the mod ^^
UPDATE : I managed to get the refund, I was close enough of not respecting the conditions.
Great review, I hope you're just as critical of The Core when it comes out! :]
Another thing that I forgot to point out : in the game's credits, the author thank you for the money you spent on Prospekt for "another Source engine based game". I fear for the worst that we'll have a similar thingy but with Barney Calhoun instead.
UPDATE : Looks like ValveTime.net disliked the "mod" too.
Happy birthday though!
Happy birthday!
ALERT( at_console, "Happy Birthday Dr. Orange !\n" );
(A good birthday I mean. Don't have a good hat. Unless you actually get a hat. In which case I DO wish you a good hat as well.)
I wonder if i have anything i can sell
It's pretty curious though that the entirety of Steam games I got in over a year were gifts.
The 30 day delay was added because scammers were using stolen credit cards to buy Steam games, get the trading cards, and sell them off on the marketplace before the transaction is reported as fraudulent and they get a chargeback on the card.
Just hold onto your trading cards until you end up buying something, and then offload them all after that.
These are NOT like installing on a desktop computer. Not to mention even if you did somehow install something else on them, there are no non-windows 8+ drivers available for the hardware.
FTFY
As a tablet, Windows simply hasn't adapted well enough to make it worth using for anything other than the occasional game or web browsing. Navigating the desktop in 10 has been improved incredibly over Windows 8, mind you.
The apps are incredibly scarce compared to Android, and there aren't many (tablet friendly) games comparable to say, Terraria (Which I absolutely loved) on android. There are also considerably more ported games on Android, such as DosBox Turbo (I would kill to have this on my windows tablet), Quake Touch, Half life (Xash3D), Max payne and soforth.
Web browsing is also considerably more frustrating, with no official youtube app, chrome not really working all that great on low end devices, and the lack of ability to move the window up so you can see what you are typing. Awful. But if you can get past the negatives of the experience, the quad core intel Atom is perfectly capable of HD video playback and is generally a very smooth browsing experience in Edge. EDIT: I will give wintabs a big plus that Netflix works great on these tablets, if you don't use subtitles. (Subtitles break very frequently on the windows app)
As a notetaker, you're mainly looking at capacitive styluses, which are not fine enough to draw anything or use beyond simple textual note taking. (Don't be stupid like me and try to use it for math notes)
As a Netbook or portable gaming machine is where they really shine, if you don't mind lugging around a bluetooth keyboard+mouse or bulky but functional gamepad such as an IPEGA, you're looking at a library of games you simply cannot natively play on android without streaming. While the intel atom tablets are not powerhouses, they are certainly capable of playing older games and running software that is not memory intensive, such as half-life and Hammer.
However the biggest downfall of these cheaper tablets is the fact that while Windows has made incredible progress saving battery life on these underpowered devices, it simply cannot keep up with the very poor batteries that you get on these bargain price tablets. If you use your tablet frequently and want to use it as a miniature workstation, you're looking at either lugging around an extra high-capacity battery pack, or 4 hours of battery life. I myself have simply reserved my stream 7 for watching videos in bed or the very occasional web search for things while my computer is busy.
Just to add into the frustration, intel atom audio drivers have an incredibly infuriating glitch where if you don't turn the volume down to minimum before putting the tablet to sleep, the tablet doesn't actually go to sleep and will drain your battery as though it were running.
More on using it as a netbook, if you want to perhaps swap it with another OS for some sort of specialized usage, you may find yourself locked into the Windows that comes with it. Disabling secure boot is typically a painless process across these tablets, however the 32bit UEFI with no legacy boot option is very much unique to these tablets. Linux will not install without some hacking apart, and android-x86 is likely to have unstable or completely non-functional driver support for these tablets.
So at this point, I really cannot find much justification for buying a windows tablet anymore, over a dual boot tablet or simply buying a small netbook. The windows platform has zero benefits over the android platform for a tablet form factor, and the benefits you DO get from using it as a mini netbook are filled with minor to incredibly frustrating issues that keep you from truly enjoying the experience.
Anyways, I don't mean to piss all over your journal with negativity, but I just want to share my experience lest somebody decides to impulse buy as we did without doing a little bit more research into things that may or may not ruin the experience for them.
They're great little devices, but they need quite a bit of work before I could recommend them yet.
How does mapping with your fingers feel? Also did you find Sledge in the Windows app store?