Mashi

  Considering the amount of garbage that's pumped out by the game industry, one can say that taste differs.  However, when you're building a game on a different premise to appeal to a wider audience you're better off not naming it as part of the series that exists.  See FO:T compared to FO1/2.  Not only do people expect something different in terms of gameplay but they also know that the story isn't as-so connected to the previous games.  The problem also exists, when you take core components of the game, rip them out and say "good enough" which is what's happened in this case.  On the other hand, adding things like the crafting system made up for it in many peoples eyes.    But to me it seems they decided that skimping on existing things within the game series would be a good design decision, many people appear to disagree with that.  A similar case happened between DA:O and DA2, where the entire game mechanics system was gutted to a simplified level and people went NOPE.   I'm getting pretty old, but the way gaming has been shoveling the "must appeal to everyone, instead of to existing fans" is really starting to remind me of what happened during the 1980's video game industry crash.  That was also precipitated by a large decline in major studios, something we've been seeing for the last 7-10 years as well, at the end of the day it was the small studios who self-published, or published through other companies that survived that one.

The last game I played that was this bad, was DA2 but even I gave DA2 a fair shake, same in this case.  And fanboys tried flooding metacritic in the same method, sadly I don't think there's going to be anything that could save the game at this point and Bethesda is going to have to accept while critics drooled all over themselves like usual, the vast majority of users think it's a mediocre game.  Even the rating on Steam is dropping from overwhelmingly positive to mostly positive.  Give it a few weeks and it'll likely be mixed.

Nails the FO world, fails on the FO story or even basic RPG elements of a FO game making it more along the lines of ME with a worse story.

  If the UPS is having a local fault because it's overheating(battery or components), then it won't give an audible signal it'll simply trip into a safe-state mode, or overheating protection mode for the battery.  That was a common problem on the APC-EPS350 models, it was fixed in a later hardware revision 1.1A.   There is a possibility that the PC is drawing more then the AC circuit itself can handle but it's not enough to trip the audible alarm too, in which case the UPS is making up the difference and depleting the UPS which then shuts down when it hit's zero.    My current cyberpower UPS does that, my old APC did it.  There was no audible alarm for it either, rather there was a distinct buzz when it kicked over into battery failover to pick up the voltage slack though, but it's super quiet on the new UPS.  In anycase it's something easy to test, hook it up without the UPS and see what happens.  Hook it up to another outlet and see what happens as well.  It could also be that the circuit in question is shared with another and that's causing problems.  My parents had that problem, if the PC was on upstairs and someone used the microwave it would trip the circuit.  The house was 150 years old, and all that though.

  Since both DLC's have been as cheap as $2 there's not much of a reason to not buy it.  But if I remember right Skymill said that SD+ is pretty modular so if someone wants to write it they can use the existing hooks and connect to the mod.

  Either one will work fine, I believe both have an automated option to remove non-permanent references from saves.  And both allow removal of scripts by name, I normally use the 1st one linked in the above post.  Personally try either one and use whichever one feels the most useful to you.

They stated that there would be no romances in the kickstarter.  Camping equipment is meant to make it so you 'can't' rest after every encounter and snowball through everything.  There was supposed to be a similar mechanic in the original BG/IWD games.  There's already mods to remove it though.   The voices are consistent.  It's similar to what was done back in ye olde infinity engine days, and this is something that a lot of people enjoyed.  If you didn't grow up with those games, it wouldn't be something you liked though.  They also went with said design because 2.5D is what people wanted.  Also if you can do better, feel free to do so.  I'm sure plenty of people would be happy to see your art work.

  In general, no it's  not worth it.  The gear and so on will be outpaced very quickly with designs you can buy.  Unless of course you're one of those people that just wants to collect things to collect them.    Vivienne is a mistress of someone, she's not married.  Anyway at nearly 150 hours in, the whole mmo grindy bit is what burned me out in the end.  That and the lack of a proper UI bar.  Let's give mages 15 abilities!  Sucker...you can only use 7 of them, because we'll slap an extra one in there that you'll probably use anyway.

  Yep this is the same problem I'm having.  Not sure if it's mod related, or I've broken something between my mod installs.

  Sometimes, I've found that after using the setstage ski_configmanagerinstance 1 option, zone transition or reloading a quick save will force it to install.

  Here's the thing though, area density is what determines how many platters are required in order to get to the desired size.  Meaning that if you want a 4TB drive, you're getting 4 platters currently.  This is pretty much true though out the industry.  With the current technology we have, we're reaching the physical limitations even with how close each individual track is.  We can't bend the laws of physics, so one of two things are going to happen.  Either there will be some kind of breakthrough as to how data is stored per track, or traditional HDD's are dead.  I'm leaning towards the second one myself, especially as nand continues to drop in price as manufacturing quality improves.   And you want to know why warranties changed?  That's simple, bottom line.  The drive market hit the very bottom, and the actual profitibility of the drive companies were becoming questionable.  The same thing happened turning the dotcom implosion, when there was a massive glut of hardware on the market.  Take a look how many companies died or were absorbed.  We went from 30+ HDD companies all making their own drives, to less than 10 companies in 5 years.