Elroy_Berdahl

Did Paradox do that or were HS not able to renew the Battletech licence?

Agreed on this, I love AskHistorians and even contributed a few times. I miss it a lot.

Ken M, is that you?

This is from Owlcat Games, not Creative Assembly.

Putin is killing people and the purpose of the window assassinations is meant to be clearly not an accident. The whole point is to send a message, not to try and fool people.

So it goes

I agree with you on the water front, I mean there are meant to be ~1000 planets so at least a few of them have to be water planets, right?

Obviously they're not going to let you land in the sea, but it'd be nice to see some large bodies of water on at least the goldilocks planets. We did see in the Direct some NPCs lounging on a beach, so I guess there will be at least some shoreline.

Honestly, I just hope there's more to the planets in general and that there's enough handcrafted stuff (or procedural but interesting POIs) that we've just not seen. The optimist in me hopes that they haven't shown a lot because they want people to find it themselves (they, and anyone who's managed to get their hands on it to preview it, keep saying it's a massive game so fingers crossed this is the case).

I believe the thinking behind the very early preload is so that the download servers aren't overwhelmed by the sheer number of people trying to download the game at the same time on release day. By having the preload over a few weeks it allows for a more spaced out period of time where people are downloading it, meaning less load on the servers.

I think you mean the swastika emblem on the Eagle on the Nuremburg stadium that the US blew up, but yes, I thought that too.

EDIT: Wasn't on an Eagle, was just a huge swastika.

Weird, I can still see it

There's also a skill tree/trait that allows you to kind control alien creatures/animals iirc

This is my thinking too. On a planet? Medium-long range. In a building or on a ship? SMG, pistols, shotguns. But, if it feels more fun to use a certain weapon regardless of the environment then I'll just do what seems the most entertaining.

Also we're forgetting about the space magic stuff that was shown in the Direct. Maybe a build for throwing people into the air and the picking them off like a duck shoot?