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Ah, the floor is full of accountants.

Limited government communism with Neo-Confederate characteristics

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShermanPosting/comments/13o5gzm/i_dislike_everything_about_maga_communism/

Huh, the popup can be avoided without hacking the Steam now.

First rule of software: You have no rights.

Although you could probably successfully sue them in Stockholm.  The EU is BIG on software rights.

(I just clicked "OK, I know I have no rights" and moved on with my life)

As you said there are some rules protecting consumers, but yes the system as a whole exploits non-publishers.

They did what? And it makes it unplayable why?

When I launch the game an unavoidable popup says I must agree to a new license and privacy policy before playing the game I legally licensed and installed months ago. Since I don't accept the new license, the game is unplayable without hacking the game or Steam launcher itself. They haven't made any changes to the game since about 2020-early 2021 and nothing in previous agreement said they could change the license.

As in, your cyclops is getting attacked by lots of stalkers, or you actually have stalkers that have somehow managed to get *inside* the cyclops?

If it's the former, turn off the engine and the lights. Critters can't actually "see" things in a normal sense; their aggro is based almost entirely off of sound and, in some cases, light. The cyclops generates a very small amount of noise when just idling, and generates more when moving (much more when going turbo), which can be enough to draw aggro from critters in a small radius around the sub. Turning off the engine will drop that noise down to 0, meaning that the only things that will try to take chunks out of it will be critters who blindly bump into the giant submarine that they didn't know was there (animals will automatically bite things that are directly in front of their face. This includes "tamed" creatures raised from eggs), and things that have already aggroed onto the sub (but they'll lose interest after a nibble or two).

This means that the most surefire way of getting out of a sticky situation with lots of aggro is to... Power down the sub and just stand still like a sitting duck. You'll take a few hits, but then everything will start ignoring you completely and wander off. This actually even allows you to sit in the danger zone of the abyss without the ghosts attacking you (but they'll still spawn, and you'll get thrashed the moment you try to boot it up again and leave).


If it's the latter, I... Really don't know what to say. Congratulations?

Two Stalkers spawned into my Cyclops. They don't aggro unless I approach the helm from outside. Sadly I could only remove them by piloting it away, which battered them to death.

 

Nena was a prophet.