Same for me. I don’t understand why, I should love it but I don’t.

Low skill users will use what comes installed on their machine, so installation quirks like that are not relevant for them. They don’t install Windows either.

And do you seriously think that someone with minimal modding knowledge can “fix” texture compression

Yes, better textures are consistently one of the first mods to come out for every game they have released since Fallout 3.

There’s a few single player focused ones released in the past decade. Deserts of Kharak comes to mind.

And yet Verdun, Tannenberg, and Isonzo are some of the most fun multiplayer FPS games around.

Original release date was actually announced as 2014 originally (during the 2012 Kickstarter), iirc.

Well I’m having plenty of fun with it, and I haven’t even installed 2.0. If it was a release from this year it would be my second favourite after Baldur’s Gate. So I strongly disagree with your dogshit assertion. If the DLC and 2.0 make it better then it’s for sure a redemption arc. And from the looks of OpenCritic, seems like a very universal feeling.

If everything was there from the get-go, how would there be a redemption arc? There would be nothing to redeem.

A redemption arc is when someone or something starts bad or reviled, and eventually comes to be seen through other eyes. Looks like that applies to CDPR and Cyberpunk to me.

He’s talking about noise, not thermals.

There’s a line in the sand with security and transparency on one side and ease-of-use and convenience on the other.

I disagree. You can do – and in fact have multiple options for – both.

Connect is proprietary, like Sync.

That’s exactly what happens. But you have to store the fetched data on your instance if you want to display it there.

That’s frequently the same thing.

How would you do it?

You can see those posts. You can see the posts of any community as long as your server federates with their server.