[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

To be fair, it has probably been the most popular of the Star Wars shows with a lot of casual audiences getting Disney+ just for it.

Also based on the ending of S3, it might be a bit of a fresh start, as long as they do a minor bit of explanation on who Mando is and that Gorgu survived order 66 there's nothing too important they'll be missing

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Minato Aqua of hololive 2nd Generation will be graduating on August 28th. We thank her for all she has done for us until now and are grateful for the support of fans who have been with her during her activities with us.

A graduation live concert is scheduled for August 28th. Please await further details.

We will continue to provide full support until the time of graduation, and kindly ask for your unwavering support and encouragement for Minato Aqua. We wish her all the best in her future endeavors.

[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 146 points 3 weeks ago

Based.

Though I would 100% be fine with paying for Stardew DLC, the base game is worth so much more than its current price

[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 44 points 4 weeks ago

Thank fuck, hopefully if they do try another tv series or even a movie, they make it in the canon timeline and you know, actually good

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This is a summary of the long thread from Bathrobe Spartan which you can find here: https://x.com/BathrobeCast/status/1812578845108625769

343 kept losing people in 2023 & 2024. Lead to more outsourcing content. Contracts not being renewed. 50-60 people let go on top of the >100 laid off.

Some roles transferred to MS/Xbox Team instead of being internalized at 343.

343 still relying on contractors, staff are not pleased to see leadership has not learned from the production of Infinite.

Less than 280 employees as of May 2024, with 30% of them related to Game-Content-Production, the rest are business oriented roles & producers.

Not enough positions have been opened to fill the gap from what it was before 2023. ~32 permanent positions opened in 2023 & 2024. Not enough staff to be "Production Ready".

343's budget has been severely impacted and controlled. This is why recruiting took longer and pushed people to leave. Key roles couldn't be replaced in time to finish content left.

Halo Infinite didn't meet its commercial goals but made enough to justify finishing the content already contracted with external studios, but not enough to justify doing more than was started. Quote from an ex employee "No we made money, we made a lot of money. But when I walked into the test bay to test the latest build EVERY FUCKING DAY the guy running it said "why bother, they are gonna hate it anyway" that's demoralizing. I would love to tell you what we worked on, but I can't and won't, not just because of the NDA but because I'm being loyal to the company. I still want to work there. It does bother me people praise Pierre, like, who do you think mandated Forge Maps going forward..."

Partnered forge maps not being high quality is due to to 343 being tied to legal obligations to fulfil the contracts but not enough time left to polish.

As the product did not reach its commercial goal, projection implied it wasn't worth contracting new content outside cosmetics. Meaning no new sandbox additions.

During 2023 & 2024, many employees helped other Xbox studios on their products as most Infinite content was handled by contracted studios.

343 shifting to a new production method, separating "Leading development" and Production. Hiring lead positions to do the concept and pre-production in-house & handing off the production work to other studios, similar to Halo Wars 2. Recruiting less content-creating roles and more lead profiles to test, iterate and validate content and gameplay before working with external studios to go full production. 2 studios are currently partnered to work on 2 separate projects this way. Both still in pre-production. One is a bigger scale PvP oriented project. At least 2 years before any release.

Aim of this new production method is to help produce content for games at a reliable pace and more cost effective. Hopefully won't lead to reproducing what happened with Infinite.

Remaining 343 staff have echoed they feel like 343 Industries isn't as much "The Home of Halo" as it was promised to them. They hope this new method of production will be the best for the franchise.

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You can find it here if you want to read the full thing: https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/677821627

It basically says that "classic style gameplay" doesn't work for the franchise because of the lowering player numbers and "feedback from Reddit". That's already enough to claim it's bs.

"Anything Halo Infinite has done will be ignored and Halo 5 is the blueprint that Project Halo 7 (tentative title) will be built on." Mmm yes let's build a game based on H5, the one that was received so poorly it caused them to go back to classic styled.

All abilities from H5 will be back and includes double jump and wall running. Come on, you're just taking ideas from Titanfall.

This bit is the icing on the cake. "The goal of the campaign's story is to be "the true Halo 6" after the nonsense that was Halo Infinite." I find it hard to believe that someone would think that Infinite was more nonsense than 5.

Rest of it is just prometheans returning but nerfed and no banished but from the first point you can tell this is bs, I just felt like sharing it

[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

To be honest, as a huge Halo fan, I was surprised when seeing those studios closed that 343 wasn't one of them. The studio is just cursed, even a leadership change isn't going to save them.

Either make Halo games from all the studios under Microsoft or start a new one with people who are actual fans of the franchise

[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Seems kind of strange to announce this way I wonder if they're expecting a big leak to come out so they're getting ahead of it? Otherwise, why not just mention at the end of that June direct that you'll talk more about this in the coming months

[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

I would say Outer Wilds is very good. You have the ability to beat the game as soon as you start, but you don't have the knowledge to beat it.

Without spoiling it as it's a very spoiler sensitive game, you can spend as long as you want gathering all of the knowledge to beat the game, you aren't punished for taking your time. And all the knowledge you collect is stored in the games computer as long as you save so you can play for 22 minutes if you want, or multiple hours.

I beat the game over the course of a few weeks playing for various amounts of time. Recently played the DLC too and that went the same.

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1.6 ended up being a little larger in scope than originally planned. I'm done adding major new content to it now, though, and it's in a bug-fixing and polishing phase until it's ready for release. Thx for your patience. It'll be fun to see everyone play it!

He also replied to a user saying it will absolutely be releasing this year!

https://nitter.net/ConcernedApe/status/1750962107682857258

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A shame to see Millie go so soon, I loved her in the Christmas special. Hopefully everything is fine behind the scenes and it's not a repeat of season 1's production

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https://startrek.website/post/5873973

I'm guessing it's the very high quality image in the comments

[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Mando season 1 and 2 yes, 3rd season not so much. Andor was fantastic, Ahsoka was ok, Rogue One was fantastic. Clone Wars S7 wasn't technically Disney as it was mostly just finishing the animation with a few changes. I enjoyed Bad Batch, but it's no clone wars and Tales of the Jedi was very good.

Am surprised Rebels isn't on here, I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but I've been rewatching it with a friend and it's very enjoyable

[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Lmao they literally posted on Twitter "Our trailer has leaked so please watch the real thing on YouTube"

Sucks it was leaked just hours before the planned release but at least they handled it well.

Really hope this game will be good, not going in with high expectations as too many games have released in poor states recently but given how long this has been in development more, maybe it won't be a rushed mess and they've still got all of 2024 + some amount of 2025 to continue work.

[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My friend told me about this earlier and that's exactly what I thought. They knew this wouldn't be popular and would drop the value so they sold before the announcement, that's got to be insider trading

[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Assuming it's not him in the trailer, whoever is replacing him has done a really good job

[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Why go back to LCD after releasing an OLED for the Switch, surely it's better to make this one OLED rather than releasing it with LCD and then making an OLED later down the road

[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Can almost guarantee as soon as the admins see something close to being API related being created they'll remove it

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