Used Claude to vibe code an Earth replacement
Early access available on the Epic Games Store
Graphics are nice, though. Very detailed.
Also, too much water.
- Levels 7-15 are filled with griefers
- There are no viable builds for levels 12-17, everything is awkward and unbalanced
- You’re assigned a team when you spawn, but you don’t even know the teams exist until level 12 or so, and once you learn what team you’re on, you can’t change teams
- You’re forced to play on hardcore mode and you’re only allowed one playthrough [disputed]
- There’s no pause, and if you logout it’s game over
- Game balance is shitty: P2W players exploit the rest, some players spawn with permabuffs in place, others spawn with permanerfs
- Nobody can see any other player’s HP or buffs, so a player playing on ezmode can pretend they’re just good at the game
- No official documentation, although certain clans claim they have the official documentation, these clans are frequently at war over whose documentation is correct
- Released 10 billion years ago, no updates since, no way to contact the devs
- Multiplayer only
- Player housing exists, but is absurdly expensive and requires constant grinding to maintain
- Cooking minigame can be fun, but you have to play it all the time, and it’s expensive to skip it. It’s also attached to a clean-up minigame which sucks.
- Most food in the game has long-term debuffs that are hard to clear
- You have to juggle all these meters: health, thirst, hunger, temperature, horniness, sleep, boredom, anxiety, etc. but the devs didn’t simply put them on a HUD, instead there are these frequently buggy out-of-band hints.
The last bullet is the best!
I was thinking of “My Summer Car”, where you have a “urine” meter that you have to manage.
- if you drink too much you piss yourself
- if you eat bad food you shit yourself
And a lot of cheaters
character design is totally unfair
tl;dr: safe to skip.
Too many microtransactions on top of a very high subscription.
Boring, frustrating, unrewarding but mandatory side quests (microtasks) required periodically. (Filing taxes, making insurance claims, disputing shitty fines given by mistake, waiting 30 min in enshittified store to wait for product to be unlocked by emoloyee, registering vehicles if needed)
OOF that AI slop imagery - like, it’s so bad now, you can see it from a mile away. how did ai image synthesis get worse over time? they let it eat it’s own garbage, that’s how - gigo is reinforcing all the bad ideas RAPIDLY.
look at those clouds - you know, the ones that look like a blackmetal band logo - everywhere. and the strange thing going on where the mountains of pakistan meet india - wtf is that supposed to be, continental quilting?
jfc
why do you need ai to generate a (bad) picture of earth?
Because the people that rely on it are not used to and are actually training themselves not to think. Need a picture? Generate it. They will give no consideration as to whether it’s the right tool or not. That’s what slop does to your brain…
Here’s another example of unnecessary AI slop that can’t get anything right. The real Dodgers uniform very glaringly doesn’t have pinstripes, like it does in this AI generated slop. It’s a pretty iconic uniform; it’s just white with blue lettering. Yet it couldn’t even get it right. Why do we have to keep pretending this shit is supposed to be the future.
right? two tenths of a second on a google image search, or, 1240w of gpu grunt in a data center in montana devouring 3 gallons of water only to be this fucking worthless… great decision that
Also it’s literally just a picture of earth. There are a thousand and one pictures of earth on the internet that look better.
There is zero reason to make this photo with AI. It’s more effort than just googling a photo.
There is zero reason to make this photo with AI.
that’s the whole point of the fetish
like, it’s so bad now, you can see it from
a mile awayspace!technically space isn’t a mile away.
the most widely cited boundary is the Kármán line, set at 100 km (62 miles) above mean sea level by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
you don’t even need to reach space to see how fuckin bad this ai slop is.
Couldn’t they find a picture of earth? I mean the Deep Space Climate Observatory takes a photo of a single side of the planet every hour or so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory
it’s not an availability thing methinks… it’s a fetish thing.
they really think that AI should provide everything. then they won’t even have to move, get out of bed etc., they can just become one with their friend the algo, and the slop will flow right to them.
The temporarily embarrassed millionaires will never have that dream fulfilled but they can finally become bed ridden masters of chips. What a waste.
What a waste.
truth
Spawn kills and friendly-fire enabled
You spend the majority of your logged-in time grinding for in-game currency.
They have started to patch the username issue though.
99.9% of people want to play co-op but 0.1% force everyone to play on competitive mode because of the resource advantage playing competitive against cooperative players captures.
99.9% of people want to play co-op
That has not been my experience.
Quite a few people insist they’re playing solo and act as though all the other players are NPCs
You also have a real problem of distance rendering, such that people outside your visual horizon seem to stop existing for much of the population.
The weird thing is if players simply worked together to fight back we could have co-op mode.
fairly certain it’s less than 90% that want to play co op
Ugh, the hidden fees too. Sign-up is free and you typically get your subscription sponsored by an older account until you finish the tutorial. After that it’s just microtransaction after microtransaction, and if you stop paying then your account gets deleted
There is a minigame in it that is literally the entire GTA 6, so that’s kinda cool.
also locked behind a paywall
Two, because you need to buy the equipment and then the minigame itself. Total rip.
