@karminiumsot said in Finding Mark: The Day of Reckoning:
It is a non-issue because it is easily avoidable. The issue we should be discussing is why does SoT not have a quick streamer mode, where turning it on hides player and ship names, disables invites, and prevent their stamp from being located. Not victim blaming either, I just said what he can do.
Do I think Rare can do more to surface those settings? Sure, I've said as much in other threads.
But, I don't necessarily believe that's what happened. Like I said, a server crash is typically a Marblebeard. While you can get a Hazelnutbeard right before it, a Hazelnutbeard tends to be more to do with session auth tokens... either when signing in or when the game periodically checks session tokens. This can happen when, say, when the auth servers are slammed due a large amount of players trying to sign in at once. If they had tried to rejoin, we'd know for sure, as that would have given a Marblebeard if the server had crashed.
It was a ddoss, it has been confirmed. Idk if I can say it in here but it was a server ddoss.
If it was a DDOS, then I'm more leaning towards them flooding the auth servers rather than crashing the game server.
The ne'er-do-wells who crash servers deliberately I think would be more looking for attention in that scenario, and I didn't see any other players come near the ship, so I'm less inclined to think that's what happened.
If you have information to the contrary, then pass that onto Rare (via a Support ticket). Otherwise, you're just helping their cause.
Ban alt accounts, ban players subbing in cheaters, and find an anti-cheat that can be effective to stop cheaters before they even begin.
No anti-cheat is 100% effective. They will only stop the cheats that are indentified and that's an on-going war. Like I said, other approaches are necessary in conjunction, if you want to "stop cheaters before they even begin".
They could absolutely add a different form of anti-cheat, but that will likely lead to the same calls for "more". EAC is also supported on SteamOS. Most other anti-cheats are not. So EAC's not going to stop players playing on SteamDeck or, in the future, SteamMachine.
Rare does not use AI and it was crumbling before the widespread use. Also, AI is useful when detecting faults within code. I disagree with using AI to solely run a game or to develop ideas, but using it to run code to see if it works is not a bad tool. It is like using PhotoMath to check your math homework.
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It's also really good at creating faults in code then then take a human twice as long to find and fix.
But we need to draw the distinction between Machine Learning AI (which has been around a lot longer) and GenAI/LLMs, which use neural rendering, predictive algorithms, and are prone to hallucinating. The fact that big companies co-opted the term "A.I." is unfortunate and has led to a lot of folk conflating the two.
But if you understand how investment works and the knock on effect, it's not about whether Rare themselves use A.I. though.
The game's problems are commonly thought to have started around 2022/2023. This is just when the pandemic bump was ending and, true, a lot of investment in the games industry started pulling out around then.
2023/2024 was the beginning of the current A.I. bubble (though the boom started in the 2010s), and big investors took their money out of gaming and put it into A.I., because it was seen as a large growth sector (even if that growth isn't real; see the huge amounts of debt these companies have, aside from Nvidia at the top of the pyramid).
Gaming, while still profitable, isn't making the same amounts of profit for the rich folks who want all the money in the world. It's a slow growth sector in comparison. This is why indies, who can find enough funding for lower risk ventures, are generally doing better right now than AAA games that heavily relied on large-scale investment.
So we need to understand this to understand the precarious situation Rare are in, when they're owned by one of the largest investors (and losers) in A.I. right now. Unless Microslop make a huge u-turn and invest in gaming again, instead of squeezing their developers, we're not likely to see a vast improvement at Rare.
What we can do is support them when they do well and try to give constructive feedback when they don't. Fill out the surveys and put your money where your mouth is.
I didn't buy the Spirit of the Blackwyche and I advised others to do the same. But, while I boycotted that set, I didn't boycott the Emporium. I bought the Plunder Pass because I still believe in supporting this game in the right ways, with understanding of the issues the industry is facing.
