I’m so freaking happy for @Jon_Shafer. One of the genuinely nicest humans I’ve had the pleasure to meet. When I was at my darkest, he was literally on my doorstep with coffee and bagels and a hug. And it’s not like we are years-long close friends or anything. He’s just a good person.
My kid is home due to a snow day, I put on a tv show and am trying to hide away and learn how to play. First lesson is that the interface is too small and there isn’t an option to change it directly that I can find so changing the settings.xml in the settings folder in the game to downshift from 4k to 1080p.
edit - didn’t really help. The info popups are shockingly tiny.
That review would bother me if I had any respect for the writers at RPS. Then again, I suppose I should be happy they didn’t call the game an explore-em-up or something equally dopey and childish.
While I don’t share Fraser Brown’s tastes in general, his account in his review for PC Gamer speaks a lot to me, when he shares an experience that reminded me of my own disappointment playing Heroes of Might & Magic IV. I’ll wait a bit before buying this (and getting out of the Euro-zone by the probable time of the purchase means it probably will be less expensive than the current discount even at full price).
A handful of Steam reviews are up and they are mixed with even the recommended reviews stating that the AI is missing. Here is an example from a favorable review, “The environment provides the strongest foe, as the AI is very passive and easy to defeat with a strong economy. At the Gates is a truly unique 4X game that is a couple of minor improvements (interface, diplomacy, AI) away from being phenomenal.”
How minor of an improvement is including a functional AI? So at this point winning the game is accomplishing a strong economy and dealing with some bandit harassment, oui?
I am wondering if I still need to grab a new key… I have had the game in my Steam library for a few years now and just assumed it would update and I could play. I guess I will see…
There is no chance he tested this game on a 4k monitor, or had any players test it on a 4k monitor. You literally have to change your desktop resolution to 1080p if you want any chance of reading anything on the screen. You can’t play fullscreen 1080p without the game crashing. It even warns you in the settings.xml that fullscreen is likely to crash the game. So you’re stuck with borderless widescreen, which is awesome, but it won’t do borderless widescreen at anything less than, of course, your desktop resolution. That’s a minor pain in the ass that I just don’t expect to deal with in a game released in 2019.
At one point I thought their content was witty and funny; I guess I didn’t visit their site for awhile and I guess I had gotten older and no longer did …