Wasteland 3 was originally set for May 19 and now that some platforms have access to a Beta, inXile Entertainment have said they're now going for an August 28 launch.
The main reason being of course the current Coronavirus situation, they said in an announcement on their official site that they're working from home like a lot of other companies which has impacted their work. However, they make it clear they're in a good position with Microsoft and Deep Silver supporting them well and they wish to ensure "a stellar product on day one".
A few platforms have access to the Beta and inXile say it has so far been "well received", so during this extra time they will go over all the feedback and continue "optimization, polishing and refinements, and making sure we have an awesome co-op experience".
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Features expected at release:
- A party-based roleplaying game, with a renewed focus on our trademark complex story reactivity and strategic combat.
- Adding a player vehicle, environmental dangers, and a revamped, more fluid action system, we are evolving on Wasteland 2's tactical turn-based combat and unique encounter design.
- Play solo or co-op with a friend in a story-driven experience where your choices will open up (or close off) mission opportunities, areas to explore, story arcs, and more.
- Your Ranger Base is a core part of the experience. As you help the local people and establish a reputation in Colorado, quests and narrative will force you to make decisions on how to lead.
- Set in the savage lands of frozen Colorado, where survival is difficult and a happy outcome is never guaranteed. Players will face difficult moral choices and make sacrifices that will change the game world.
- Wasteland 3 will feature a deep and engaging story utilizing a new dialog system, with all of it fully voiced.
Linux support is of course still confirmed for it as it was a platform advertised during the original Fig campaign. They re-confirmed this again later, and most recently to us on Twitter when querying the Wasteland Remaster which sadly is not on Linux but at least Wasteland 3 will be at release.
You can pre-order for £54.99/$59.99/€59.99, wishlist/follow or whatever else on GOG and Steam.
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Kimyrielle Apr 2, 2020
That's the first time I hear a company claiming that remote-work would somehow be less efficient than working in an office. lol!
I call bs on it, really. It's just the usual bad project management and unrealistic deadlines common to the games industry, except that now they go a convenient excuse for it.
I call bs on it, really. It's just the usual bad project management and unrealistic deadlines common to the games industry, except that now they go a convenient excuse for it.
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That's the first time I hear a company claiming that remote-work would somehow be less efficient than working in an office. lol!
You must be joking. I'm working in a big software development department and it is just... hard. The infrastructure is fine for 5% working from home. It is overwhelmed with 90% working from home. I took two weeks off because I couldn't bare it.
Also, it is helpful to look people in the eyes.
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Not too surprised by that. If I remember that right, you are in Germany?That's the first time I hear a company claiming that remote-work would somehow be less efficient than working in an office. lol!
You must be joking. I'm working in a big software development department and it is just... hard. The infrastructure is fine for 5% working from home. It is overwhelmed with 90% working from home.
Came from there.
Digital stone age, decades behind the modern world. Especially in work culture, home office is practically an offensive word. Not surprised in the slightest switching to home office has overwhelmed a software company there for more than a week or two.
Meanwhile, here (Finland, but really heard the same story from all around, software companies I mean), it was a week or two of adjustment, now things run just fine with the odd hiccup caused by stuff like kids being at home, etc.
Of course, extroverted people have bigger problems with that, requiring the company of others to charge their batteries and all that, but that's not really an issue of work culture.
Also, it is helpful to look people in the eyes.For what?
I find it bothersome if non-friend people do that to me.
Then again, I worked in an office for two years before I couldn't bear the endless useless discussions, meetings, boring banter, small talk, uninteresting life stories, etc. any more and became a work-from-home (mostly) freelancer.
It's funny really, with that decision I also suddenly became much happier and ill a lot less (from 3-5 times per year to maybe once, if that much).
Being around people made me sick before that became "a thing".
It's kind of a weird feeling, seeing how people around have their surroundings turned upside down while for you almost nothing has changed (except I can't see friends, cinema, etc. right now).
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Mohandevir Apr 2, 2020
Being a mechanical CAD designer and doing the hardware support for the company, we began a tansition to convert our workstations to mobile workstations, 2 years ago. Innitialy it was for home-working in case of kids' getting sick, when school is closed during snow-storms (Canada) or other family related stuff. At the moment we are really happy to have done the transition, because we are 100% operational.
A good VPN access, a good business and home internet connection and, in our case, Solidworks EPDM vault to work locally (limiting the need to top our uploading cap) and it's quite easy and efficient to work at home.
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A good VPN access, a good business and home internet connection and, in our case, Solidworks EPDM vault to work locally (limiting the need to top our uploading cap) and it's quite easy and efficient to work at home.
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Kimyrielle Apr 2, 2020
That's the first time I hear a company claiming that remote-work would somehow be less efficient than working in an office. lol!
You must be joking. I'm working in a big software development department and it is just... hard. The infrastructure is fine for 5% working from home. It is overwhelmed with 90% working from home. I took two weeks off because I couldn't bare it.
Also, it is helpful to look people in the eyes.
That's the stuff you usually hear from dinosaur managers who are mentally unable to trust their staff to get any work done unless being watched. If a tech company is set up in a way that only 5% of the staff can work remotely, I am wondering if you're working for Fred Flintstone, really. Or any other company still working like they did in the middle ages. Any tech company can do close to 100% of their work online. By definition. Digital work is the very nature of what they do, and everything digital can be done online. Some processes interacting with outside organizations might be exempt when THEY can't handle digital processes, but that's about it.
Otherwise, there is zero reason for a tech worker to ever go to an office, unless it's for socialization reasons. And in that case I would still argue that this can be done just as well in a pub, after work, so people don't have to pretend to be working while they're chatting. If a tech company tells me that they can't digitalize ALL their processes, they should consider hiring somebody that tells them how, really.
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Also, it is helpful to look people in the eyes.For what?
Maybe they like to occasionally glower at other developers while reading over their pull requests?
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Looking up their platforms, I see Playstation and Xbox listed. Which means physical copies need to be manufactured, and this is kind of a bad time for non-critical manufacturing. Plus, I would imagine with the increasing number of people losing work that's potential sales that might be going out the window, especially if they're looking at a release when the US is expected to be hitting much higher numbers than they are now.
The Last of Us 2 is doing the same thing, except they've put release on hold indefinitely until things calm down.
The Last of Us 2 is doing the same thing, except they've put release on hold indefinitely until things calm down.
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That's the first time I hear a company claiming that remote-work would somehow be less efficient than working in an office. lol!
Frankly, it's a mixed bag. (Also, Germany here as well.)
There's several things that play together here:
Children. With schools, kindergardens and kitas closed, a lot of parents now need to handle their children in addition to work.
Internet connection. Here in Germany, that's pretty bad in rural parts. And even many cities are not balanced for a significant portion of people working from home at the same time. From what I hear, the US is also quite bad there.
Everything that requires people to collaborate is slower remotely. That was also noticable when I worked together with people in another office 40km away vs. a colleague in the same room. With experience and as people get to know each other's working operandi better, this can be reduced, sure, but it's still different.
For me personally, I work in a company that has projects that produce hardware in small to mid-sized quantity for automative research. So we order parts, build them into prototypes, put a Linux onto it, write additional software for them. And then they get produced in small batches and have to be set-up or modified manually. That means there's steps were several people work together on one physical thing. Difficult to home-office.
Now, with a coworker being sick, I'm currently handling the Linux base part. And I get mostly get away with testing on a few devices I have here, and some devices for communal use accessible through the company VPN.
We also offer support to our customers, that sometimes means going there. (However, one is a certain big local car company with a relatively strong union culture, so they don't necessarily require people to just drop in willy-nilly.)
And on another personal, about half my company has people now working reduced hours, myself included (due to the federally mandated unemployment insurance, 60% of the loss in income is paid through that, so we can still pay our rent and eat, I'm fine). I find that, at the moment anyway, there's a lot of time lost in just working out if a certain task can be done now. Is it vital, can it be worked around, can it be done in the alotted reduced time a person has or do we need to ask a manager to temporarily increase these hours, etc.
Add to that the general loss of "productiveness" due to feeling insecure in this time, worrying about getting sick or loosing loved ones. I freely admit that I've always been a worrier and I've certainly taken a hit mentally.
It's just an all around weird time right now, we all need to find our feet first, and I don't think blaming delays on people being "lazy" or what-have-you is a good idea. I mean, it nearly never is, but currently even less so.
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That's the stuff you usually hear from dinosaur managers who are mentally unable...
Sorry, but honestly: If that's your custom way of communicating I understand if you tend to avoid to.
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You must be joking. I'm working in a big software development department and it is just... hard. The infrastructure is fine for 5% working from home. It is overwhelmed with 90% working from home.Not too surprised by that. If I remember that right, you are in Germany?
Came from there.
Digital stone age, decades behind the modern world. Especially in work culture, home office is practically an offensive word. Not surprised in the slightest switching to home office has overwhelmed a software company there for more than a week or two.
I don't know how many people are connected to the intranet I'm using, but it might easyily be tens of thousands. If you're able to bring up a net to cope with this in one or two weeks in a time where all those other companies are doing the same, drop us a note. I guess it's like buying lung supporting machines at the moment...
As said, home office is a custom practice in my company, but not as often. There's lots of reasons to it, one of which might be work culture, but others... We're also producing hardware in a multi 100 million Euros project secret for years, so you couldn't just take the software home, let alone the hardware. Many colleagues are using test hardware (not produced by us) costing tens of thousands of bucks you couldn't just take away either.
And there's reasons that are obvious to me, but doesn't seem obvious to others. You can tell things by looking at people, if they're moving their legs, where they are looking at, etc. pp. This gets lost at least with audio only conferences, some also in video. Every online communication has lag to it, which makes it the more uncomfortable to talk the more people attend. People unwillingly intercept each other due to that. And there's this "social" thing every social creature needs, not only after work.
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Some straight truths are very hard to deal with, aren't they?That's the stuff you usually hear from dinosaur managers who are mentally unable...
Sorry, but honestly: If that's your custom way of communicating I understand if you tend to avoid to.
Not everyone likes to communicate in sugarcoated words - some people prefer unfiltered directness and honesty.
e're also producing hardware in a multi 100 million Euros project secret for years, so you couldn't just take the software home, let alone the hardware. Many colleagues are using test hardware (not produced by us) costing tens of thousands of bucks you couldn't just take away either.Fair enough, but that just means to me that the company has to either sit it out or go into "slow motion" mode with only few people able to enter the offices at the same time, etc.
In such a scenario, mass home office is just not an option - doesn't sound to me like a case of "everyone doing home office overwhelming the company". More like "stay at home. Can't work right now at all".
And there's reasons that are obvious to me, but doesn't seem obvious to others. You can tell things by looking at people, if they're moving their legs, where they are looking at, etc. pp. This gets lost at least with audio only conferences, some also in video.None of which is even remotely relevant in software development.
What do I care what my colleage does with their legs or what they look at?
As long as they do their job and I can work with them, they could be watching "adult movies" all day long for all I care.
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Not everyone likes to communicate in sugarcoated words - some people prefer unfiltered directness and honesty.
Mind, there's a difference between "unfiltered directness and honesty" and speaking ignorance without thinking. A lot of people seem to confuse the latter for the former...
None of which is even remotely relevant in software development.
What do I care what my colleage does with their legs or what they look at?
As a software engineer I have to empathically disagree. You forget that software development is done by humans, with humans, for humans.
There's unfortunately a lot of toxic "code ninja" and "10x coder" mentality floating around, but no, programming is, like most things, a communal activity. And the less barriers there are between people working together, the easier and quicker it is.
If you're pair programming, it is pretty vital to see where people look at. If you're defining a shared interface between different groups of people, it's best to do it in person, together, in the same room around a whiteboard. If you're debugging a weirdly behaving data bus, you want a second pair of eyes on this or a second pair of hands to prod a wire for you, this is not something you can do easily over voice chat.
There's a lot of nuances that get lost the more indirect communication is. Heck, I'm as introverted as they come, I'm not the best with communication or "people-stuff", I have to constantly push myself deal with weird human behaviour, but even I see that.
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Kimyrielle Apr 4, 2020
That's the stuff you usually hear from dinosaur managers who are mentally unable...
Sorry, but honestly: If that's your custom way of communicating I understand if you tend to avoid to.
I am sorry if what I said offended you. Particularly since I nowhere implied that you're a dinosaur manager. Just that these words are what I am used to hear from dinosaur managers. I kinda have experience with that. When I was still employed, my line of work included migrating analog processes to digital ones. Go figure! As another poster said, it's just being honest and blunt.
It doesn't change my opinion, or the rest of my posting you chose not to react to. If your company would NOT be dinosaurs, "tens of thousands" of intranet users would mean exactly nothing. It's just a matter of putting up the needed infrastructure. Tens of thousands of concurrent users are actually laughable in 2020. If your company (big German tech company with tens of thousands of employees - let me take a wild guess? SAP?) isn't a collection of dinosaurs, you have to admit you were at least woefully unprepared to work in a modern fashion. You know, without wasting everybody's valuable lifetime and needlessly poisoning the environment by making everyone commute for two hours each way to an office to do the exact same things they can do at home.
Humans hate change. Right now it's being forced on them. If there is ANYTHING I find amusing about all of this, it's this.
Welcome to the 21st century!
PS: I am not sure if I like being associated with people who generally don't like to communicate. If I would be anti-social, why oh why would I even post here?
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Usually, it is the people calling someone ignorant that understand the least about anything and just try to put up some smokescreens to save appearances.Not everyone likes to communicate in sugarcoated words - some people prefer unfiltered directness and honesty.
Mind, there's a difference between "unfiltered directness and honesty" and speaking ignorance without thinking. A lot of people seem to confuse the latter for the former...
Better to not care about appearances to begin with, to not even fall into the trap.
Oh, please. What you wanna do next, hold hands?None of which is even remotely relevant in software development.
What do I care what my colleage does with their legs or what they look at?
As a software engineer I have to empathically disagree. You forget that software development is done by humans, with humans, for humans.
Maybe not the best idea at the moment.
There's unfortunately a lot of toxic "code ninja" and "10x coder" mentality floating around, but no, programming is, like most things, a communal activity. And the less barriers there are between people working together, the easier and quicker it is.And yet, most software development companies I heard of have switched to "home office for the most part" just fine, without any loss of productivity after the initial period of change.
Plus, mark my words, this change will have a lasting effect even once all the disease business is over.
At the same time, there are many people like me who haven't set foot in an office for ages (at least not on a regular basis) and have never been more productive - unshackled from all the efficiency-reducing "socialising" that comes with an office scenario.
If you're pair programming, it is pretty vital to see where people look at. If you're defining a shared interface between different groups of people, it's best to do it in person, together, in the same room around a whiteboard. If you're debugging a weirdly behaving data bus, you want a second pair of eyes on this or a second pair of hands to prod a wire for you, this is not something you can do easily over voice chat.Not that any of these are wrong, but they are all very special scenarios applied under very special circumstances that do not happen all too often for most people working in that sector.
And if you really believe there is no online replacement for "being around a whiteboard" or "pair programming" with other people, then I'd ask you if you are from Germany if I didn't already know the answer...
Digital isn't just voice or video chat.
Don't get me wrong. I am not blaming you, I escaped Germany - or rather its work and digital culture, the rest of Germany is pretty cool - and know that many people there, clever people, have really never heard of better alternatives. Not your fault is what I'm saying.
The vast majority of software development is done alone, hacking away at whatever software you are using, by anyone from designers to programmers. Well, if you want to get anything done, that is.
Obviously, losing some advantage for activities that you do rarely is worth gaining advantage for activities you do more often.
And, as it turns out, it is also way more healthy to not be on top of each other all the time.
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It doesn't change my opinion, or the rest of my posting you chose not to react to. If your company would NOT be dinosaurs, "tens of thousands" of intranet users would mean exactly nothing. It's just a matter of putting up the needed infrastructure.
I'm not a network guy, and I cannot judge how hard it actually is. My wild guess is you can't, either. But what I know for sure that things change with size. A matter of quantity does become a matter of quality sooner or later. And I know that there's a lack of supplies at the moment, not only in life support but also in computing and network power. Azure is scaling down non-vital businesses, YouTube, Netflix, you name it. So even if it would be easy under normal circumstances - we don't have those.
Tens of thousands of concurrent users are actually laughable in 2020. If your company (big German tech company with tens of thousands of employees - let me take a wild guess? SAP?) isn't a collection of dinosaurs, you have to admit you were at least woefully unprepared to work in a modern fashion. You know, without wasting everybody's valuable lifetime and needlessly poisoning the environment by making everyone commute for two hours each way to an office to do the exact same things they can do at home.
If I don't remember completely wrong on your politcal posts here, one thing you should easily agree with is that modern isn't always better or even good. Being in an office has it's pros and cons, I'm usually meeting both on a daily basis. Calling home office "modern" sure isn't an argument. I gave some pro office in an other post. I absolutely agree an your valuable lifetime (*sigh *) and environemnt arguments, though.
PS: I am not sure if I like being associated with people who generally don't like to communicate. If I would be anti-social, why oh why would I even post here?
Well, there's communication and communication. I'm introvert myself and online communication is easier for me.
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Kimyrielle Apr 4, 2020
It doesn't change my opinion, or the rest of my posting you chose not to react to. If your company would NOT be dinosaurs, "tens of thousands" of intranet users would mean exactly nothing. It's just a matter of putting up the needed infrastructure.
I'm not a network guy, and I cannot judge how hard it actually is. My wild guess is you can't, either. But what I know for sure that things change with size. A matter of quantity does become a matter of quality sooner or later. And I know that there's a lack of supplies at the moment, not only in life support but also in computing and network power. Azure is scaling down non-vital businesses, YouTube, Netflix, you name it. So even if it would be easy under normal circumstances - we don't have those.
Your guess is correct. Like you, I am a software person. I don't set up networks. Yet, I still comfortably stand by my statement that this load should not be an issue. Because there are networks around that handle loads like that and MUCH larger ones quite easily, so yours should be able too. Logically, your intranet has to handle the load no matter from where it originates, so it's really a function of being able to handle the bandwidth.
Tens of thousands of concurrent users are actually laughable in 2020. If your company (big German tech company with tens of thousands of employees - let me take a wild guess? SAP?) isn't a collection of dinosaurs, you have to admit you were at least woefully unprepared to work in a modern fashion. You know, without wasting everybody's valuable lifetime and needlessly poisoning the environment by making everyone commute for two hours each way to an office to do the exact same things they can do at home.
If I don't remember completely wrong on your politcal posts here, one thing you should easily agree with is that modern isn't always better or even good. Being in an office has it's pros and cons, I'm usually meeting both on a daily basis. Calling home office "modern" sure isn't an argument. I gave some pro office in an other post. I absolutely agree an your valuable lifetime (*sigh *) and environemnt arguments, though.
I nowhere claimed that remote work is a flat improvement over office work. I know that office work has its upsides and that easier communication is one of them. I also understand that people in Europe tend to have super-tiny homes that aren't really designed for setting up work spaces for several family members. I get that.
But the bottom line is that after weighing pros and cons, remote work is STILL laughably superior. It saves both the employer and the employee -massive- costs. For most people, remote work has shown to be overall more productive than working in an office, because it eliminates many of these unproductive meetings that are good for nothing but drinking coffee, and because people generally can concentrate better on their work at home than in a noisy cubicle farm and are happier for being in a familiar environment. The ONE thing that takes a bit more thought is communication. But it's 2020, and we have the tools for that. It's no biggie.
You correctly pointed out that not every change is progress. Our so-called modern work culture is built around people founding a family, then making dad commute two hours in one direction, mom commute two hours in the other direction, and the kids get raised by total strangers doing it for money and not because they love them. The total amount of work including the silly commute takes so much of our available time that all we then tend to do as family is eating mass-produced frozen food for dinner and watch TV, because we lack the energy to do anything else. If that's modern society, then I really want to have no part of it.
My daughter is about to grow out of the age I have to taxi her to school every day or check that she's doing her homework. I could go back to work. Given that everybody seems to look for software engineers, I suppose there is even demand for me. But honestly, if somebody would tell me that I have to commute to an office five days a week to do the same work I can do at home, I'd just laugh at them and walk away. I don't want to work for dinosaurs.
PS: I am not sure if I like being associated with people who generally don't like to communicate. If I would be anti-social, why oh why would I even post here?
Well, there's communication and communication. I'm introvert myself and online communication is easier for me.
I like both parts of communication. The personal and online sort of. I just don't want to drive for a total of three to four hours a day just to talk to 2 or 3 people in person for 20 minutes each, when I could do this ALMOST as effectively from home, save $100 a week in gas in the process, and spend said 3-4 hours a day with my family instead.
Honestly, office work-culture cannot die fast enough for me.
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Our so-called modern work culture is built around people founding a family, then making dad commute two hours in one direction, mom commute two hours in the other direction
No, that's just the broken US.
My commute is 20 minutes by bicycle or public transportation. We have 2- or 3- people offices, with doors and all.
Children also don't need to be taxied to school, they walk, bike or take public transportation.
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Kimyrielle Apr 4, 2020
Our so-called modern work culture is built around people founding a family, then making dad commute two hours in one direction, mom commute two hours in the other direction
No, that's just the broken US.
My commute is 20 minutes by bicycle or public transportation. We have 2- or 3- people offices, with doors and all.
Children also don't need to be taxied to school, they walk, bike or take public transportation.
I guess that's the upside of living in a society building tiny homes where you can't move around without bumping into some wall after a step or two. Density like that makes commuting shorter, I guess?
Yeah, our cities are nothing like that.
I'd still rather work from my decently large home and not commute at all. It's preferable over living in a tiny house AND have to commute.
Sometimes you can have the cake and eat it, I guess? :D
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