Shitlisting Service Announcements

This is why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k238XpMMn38

A lot of people thought i was exaggerating or even kidding when i said their games today are being coded by interns. NOPE.

The sheer cluelessness and newbie ass-raging in the CODE COMMENTS alone is a brilliant insight into modern-day Valve that's been perpetually going down the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for years, which good ol' Gabe has been feverishly trying to deny:

https://i.imgur.com/RNpbEhc.png

No warning or anything.. Just, yknow. We don't want to spend money on developing that anymore, so see ya people who just bought Valve Index / other headset for Alyx while on a MAC anything!

Linux totally won't be next in X months/years..

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/05/04/valve-are-cutting-off-steamvr-support-for-macs

https://steamcommunity.com/games/250820/announcements/detail/2216278054495230718

Jesus ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ christ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Splg2TYqnbw

The dude being banned (and later unbanned, ???) is a notorious Valve impersonator & hacker that has been plaguing TF2 for half a decade if not more and deserves what's coming to them.

The conduct and given communication of the Steam Support employees however, is nothing short of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ disgraceful. A quite literal bawling child running on a power-high, bringing up their "TF2 FRIENDS" in a SUPPORT TICKET is the very definition of nepotism while they're also going out of their way to personally stalk people on other online platforms.

Think this is just an isolated case or maybe even faked? Nope. I've been having very similar, retarded interactions with whatever dumpster people get dragged out by Valve to serve as their moderative & administrative staff/volunteers for years:

https://i.imgur.com/TpPakf5.png

DO NOT PLAY THESE OR ANY OTHER SOURCE GAMES RIGHT NOW:

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/team-fortress-2-source-code-has-leaked-and-you-can-apparently-get-malware-by-playing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcsXVmwUPbw

This is in no way a surprise to me or anyone else that has objectively looked at Valve and their inability to create hardware.

Steam Machine / Steam Box? - Shelved.

Steam Link? - Discontinued & Abandoned.

Steam Controller? - In the process of going through it's 3-4th "redesign".

Now the Valve Index is going down the same route as it's "Made in China" threads begin to unravel..

https://everythingvalve.wordpress.com/

And it's not looking pretty:

https://i.imgur.com/NqPWBZJ.png

Of course, you have a small army of the pro-VR people spamming these reviews pointing out how trash the game is with "funny" votes amidst there being a convenient wave of positive "early access" reviews flooding the store page. Crazy stuff.

Just seeing some dude stream this with the insane spam-teleporting camera made me legitimately nauseus in 3 minutes flat.. And this is WITH Valve adding special spectator & viewer settings on and giving people instructions for them. Go over to Twitch right now and give it a watch for yourself:

https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Half-Life%3A%20Alyx

On-top of the game being just flat-out broken however, you got this HORRIBLE, never-ending narration on everything that happens between a fake Alyx (original voiceactor replaced with some baby-sounding twitch girl gamer - something the original was willing to pick back up again after a decade but wasn't even given a reason as to why she got replaced):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP6B2SVQ-qk

And a random old guy, voiced by some new zealand comedian constantly trying to crack obnoxious "jokes" that have NEVER VOICEACTED IN A GAME BEFORE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhys_Darby

The later parts of the game also turns into spoopy sneaky sections straight out from Amnesia: Dark Descent.

It's like the devs literally haven't played the other games in the franchise because this is not half life in any way, shape or form.

The system Valve made in order to have there be an actual incentive for users to manage their out of control shìtstorm store for them:

https://i.imgur.com/d53nUL6.png

This is so crazy, right? It's almost like the gaming journalist industry we had before that where you'd either be giving even the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ games 7/10 at lowest or get blacklisted by every single developer and publisher on the market..

Something i predicted would be the case 'way' before they even implemented this trash. And of course, Valve didn't listen:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/CuratorUpdateBeta/discussions/0/1479856439031362972/

Numerous glaring flaws persist from the first game that I've been very vocal about for a long time that the devs should put the grease in and actually fix before release is still heavily present. Here's a breakdown of these issues from one of the recent gameplay videos to contain everyone's hype about this title:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZbUvVD2qcs

1:09 - Single light cavalry units can rush through 5-6 units deep into a fat stacked shield wall due to the horse speed inertia mechanics remaining unchanged, basically making them just phase shift through units.

1:20 - All it takes is a handful of dudes on horses to make massive swoths of shield-bearing infantry to turn their backs to any possible archers or secondary cavalry waves while also being unable to effectively deal damage due to weapon swings snagging onto friendlies.. Even ranged dudes are sorta just standing there, looking at them.

1:52 - Guys in the back row trying to join the fight simply falling off the edge. Imagine this happening on a high-up bridge or cliff.

2:25 - Guys just.. Stuck in the ceiling. 10+ year old recycled AI & pathfinding code starting to unravel.

2:53 - Sword swing apparently hitting the ragdoll of the dead guy and bouncing off. Uh oh.

5:11 - Cavalry dude just perpetually stuck through the entire fight, staring at a wall while on a horse.

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It's really sad to see not only next to all serious AI related issues still being in from warband but also have new issues crop up after the 7-10+ years they've been making this sequel..

Oh yeah, and the main story &/ questline is literally just a fetch quest for a diaper on a pole.

https://i.imgur.com/TRyWh6q.png

With views no less from their current and former player base that apparently includes 30% of all humanity.

They could have sent me some fat stacks of cash or even in-game swag instead, but no. All i get are millions of views. Cheapos.

https://everythingvalve.wordpress.com/

People have been sharing this around a surprising amount, so i thought i'd break 2020 open, mostly leading off last year due to it still only being february.

In other news, the corona virus outbreak in China is causing production setbacks for the Valve VR headsets.. You know, the ones that costs 1212$.

I sure hope the folks buying into these things are getting their fancy plastic needs filled and hopefully not contracting any virological diseases in the process.

https://uploadvr.com/valve-index-coronavirus/