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“Could you imagine paying $150 for content and then having it yanked away after 6 months” Says the Destiny player

Ubisoft must be looking at Tarkov and thinking " Damn, we could have charged more "

You missed something massive in the tarkov news aswell. In the new mode they added despite it being an offline mode it is completely online and cheaters can force their way into those lobbies and break the economy of the game in both online and offline play and offline play has ping limiters so you can be kicked from "offline matches" because your internet isn't fast enough.

20:50 I wrote the music for Pine, and as a longtime fan of the channel you made my day by mentioning our little game ❤😊

Bonus comedy on the Helldivers 2 tweet... that armor was already 250 sc, and the armor perk actually does actually give you +2 stim capacity. It wasn't a mockup. They didn't change anything for the tweet.

Battle State Games NEVER aplogized. Nikata said "I am sorry for how players feel" and "I am sorry for not foreseeing this reaction". NEVER did he say he was sorry to the players for scamming them out of $150 for Edge of Darkness Edition.

The SkillUp PC offered by the sponsor will presumably arrive the day after all hardware makers have announced their newest hardware.

Bethesda and INI file tweaking is the most iconic duo in gaming. If only Bethesda could figure out how to put those settings into the ingame settings menu....

"Indie Shoals-Like" is a one of my favorite lines from you ever

I think the worst thing about the Tarkov news, is how when people pointed out on their website that the PvE mode was going to be included for EoD edition, Tarkov updated the webpage to remove that message Absolutely scummy

"Just because you all want it to become a DLC it wouldn't mean it is one." Speech: 0

Just want to say I loved the “sands between” joke for another crabs treasure lol

I just want to give props to the editor for 3:24, popping a one-second shot of a BLOODBUG into the vid as Ralph mentioned game bugs. We see you

You missed some of that Tarkov story, Lvndmark was streaming while discussing the changes with the new edition and caught BSG editing previous promises on their website in real-time…

11:40 Yes, I can imagine a video game giving access to paid content for a few months and then archiving that content - it's called DESTINY 2!

Wait a Bethesda "next gen" update which underdelivers and breaks more than it fixes ? where have I seen this before *cough* *cough* Skyrim Anniversary Edition

Bit of an update on the Fallout 4 Steam Deck situation: Valve released a Proton hotfix that fixes the half frame rate issue on the Deck OLED (the issue never occurred on LCD models). Additionally, you can get the launcher (and thus the graphics options) back by adding "SteamDeck=0 %command%" (without the quotation marks) to the launch options.

Remember the words of Marques Brownlee : "Never buy a product based its future updates". Man, 150 $ for an early access game ? It's Star Citizen levels of bullshit.

these videos need chapters

Borderlands has an optional HD texture pack in the in game store for free, fallout is obviously way different but the fact that gearbox figured out how to do optional updates years ago and Bethesda STILL messes it up is insane lol

Escape From Tarkov has had an illegal mod for offline PVE mode for years. For Free. So ... yeah time to refresh interest in the mod. Thanks Nikita!

I want to call out Ralph for saying that Starfield will improve over time as Bethesda patches it, because it followed the news block about Bethesda patching and breaking Fallout 4. Are we talking about different Bethesdas?!

11:40 yes, it's called Destiny.

31:00 There was an 8-bit Sega Master System Sonic, but yes, it started with the 16 bit Genesis and went backwards to the SMS and Game Gear.

The Square Enix stuff is super sad but they 100% deserve everything they get with the NFT/blockchain nonsense they were peddling.

I'm happy that Manor Lords is doing so well. Its exactly the type of game I wish large studios would make. Dave the diver also falls into that category. Instead of trying to make one game that is the biggest block buster ever, make multiple smaller limited scope games that mix genres and cross pollinate ideas.

The helldivers bit is gonna age well for the next this week in gaming lol

Perfect listening to gaming news while at work.

Sonic was never an 8-bit game... Except for all the Master System and Game Gear titles that we all played growing up, right?

Thanks for covering Tarkov, there is more to it now but im glad you are helping us be ''un(heard)'''

You need to talk about Tango gameworks, Redfall's Arkane studio and more cuts in Bethesda in the next video

Sad about alone in the dark. I really enjoyed the reimagining

Started looking forward to this series everyweek. Thanks for the excellent journalism and entertaining content!

The Fallout update really should have been opt-in only. An optional download from the store page, perhaps.

Honestly, I love the fact that Everspace 2 is still getting love from the devs. When I played No Man's Sky, I always wanted a bit more from the spaceships, both in combat and utility. Everspace 2 does that really well. (And the in-game music is banging)

For XSX: The new grenade launchers in FO4 are literally invisible. Thanks, Todd. Very cool.

“Shoals-like”

Working on my day off but enjoying my weekly dose of Skill up. Thanks!

Love the energy which is coming from both the commentary and the editing. Keep it up!

For those interested in Everspace 2, it's on sale on Steam until the 6th of May.

I'd love to think the Sonic Google Play thing was just a cute example of a brand account being dumb and out-of-touch, but, as someone who works in marketing, I believe the fuck-up was the intentional decision of a social media manager. A Twitter account gets a lot more attention when engagement is stirred up, and hardly anyone would have cared to respond if accurate Sonic facts were posted. Even moreso if other corporate accounts with huge followings (i.e. the official Sonic account) were enticed to respond.

I always enjoy the whole Kit and the Caboodle. Thanks Shill up! 🙏🏼

Shill, love that your giveaway is for your own people in Australia and NZ! Supporting your community. Props

Can we get timestamps for these videos?

Just picked up Everspace 2 this last weekend (50% off everywhere still I think) and it's fantastic looter shooter with Descent/Freelancer vibes. Really glad they moved away from the roguelike style from the first game and the control is just spot on. Lots of cool RPG elements to play with too.

great segues, this is the type of long-form video i can watch all the way thru

So I’m one of those people who has gotten back into Fallout 4 after watching the TV series. I had been steering clear of the game for a while as it had become the most played game on my PC (that has since been overshadowed by Cyberpunk 2077, which probably says something about me and my tolerance for janky games.) outside of a few mods not working, I haven’t had the same issues others have had with the recent patch, but I have noticed something odd with it. In addition to the various fixes and “upgrades” the new patch is supposed to come with some new content including the addition of some new Enclave missions and encounters. Problem is that the content is tied to Creation Club for some reason. What that means is if you get the game on GOG which sells games without DRM and in the case of Fallout 4, no Creation Club. I decided to get the GOG version for my new play through of the game, even though I already have the game on Steam, because I was able to get it on there for cheaper (I think I spent about $10 AUD for it) and it might make it easier to get the Fallout London mod when it comes out (to my understanding the mod is going to be hosted on GOG, it doesn’t require that you have the GOG version for it, but it might make things a bit smoother.) I then found myself switching back to Steam for the game due the new content not working with the GOG version. Weird thing is it looks to me that the files for this new content is in the GOG version, they just don’t do anything due to them being tied to Creation Club for whatever reason. If the intent was for this content to be available to all versions, then maybe it should have been put in like DLC. There was a thought that maybe this was to get people to look at Creation Club and maybe spend some money there, but that would make sense if you had to go in there to download or activate the new content there. Seems to me that’s not necessary, it’s installed with the new patch, it just tied to Creation Club for no reason other than to create this stupid situation. Great work Bethesda.

Escape from Tarkov greed is truly “Unheard” of

Tried the everspace 2 demo and bought it immediately

the success of Manor Lords is even more impressive when you realize that only one person worked on the game, bravo

Thanks for the coverage! Great show as always.

1:23 "...every man and his mum" I'll have you know, my mum has been doing dailies and flying the Fallout 76 flag for years. She's nearly 60, I taught her well

The Fallout 4 next gen version works well on consoles. Not sure why they even released it on PC though.

Damn you Ralph. I've been eagerly anticipating Neva since it was announced, and here I was thinking you were going to tell me of a release date that I missed.

Small, subtle yet got me cackling : "Grieving Lumberjacks" XD

In Todd we trust.....to fuck things up.

Meanwhile Helldivers just keeps being a blast and fun. Do AAA studios remember games are supposed to be fun? Make games fun, not product.

Thanks for the updates as always Shill!

My week just got better

The tarkov news is unbelievable, but it’s not the first offender. I can think of 2 games that has done something similar, battlefield and destiny. Destiny took away expansions and said “pay me more” for the next expansions, and battlefield gave you priority in Que’s for premium members

Cheers for another week bub, Much love to you, Stew, Austin and Edmond Take care folks x

Another Thursday morning, another great video. Good work fellas 👍🏽

Damn. Can't believe it's still so far away. I just hope they are taking their time with it and not rushing it

"bar the xbox" seems like it gonna become a common saying

The Manor Lords story never fails to get a smile from me. Can't afford extraneous purchases (or gaming time) atm, but I've been excited about Manor Lords for years, so happy that it seems to have landed well.

my favorite parts of your videos are all of the neat games you introduce to me. Centum and INDIKA look right up my alley! Most excellent, thank you!

Just got my new laptop which needs to be replaced with updated WIFI7 card, and to install my own 2x M.2 drives. Perfect accompaniment. Thanks!

Have fallout 4 running in perfect 40fps on steam deck. When I heard about the update i immediately turned off wifi so it wouldn’t automatically update. I knew Bethesda would mess this up and I wasn’t about to ruin my experience.

Theae always come at my lunch break. Friggin love you Skill Up!!

loved Gris, gonna check Neva for sure.

Producer: "it cost us this much money to make this 60$ game" Me: sounds like a you problem, bruh.

i firmly believe starfield will never truly "fix" itself and address all of the problems people had with it. tons of it's core design traits are things people complained about other bethesda games for years and starfield just doubled down on them but against all odds, there will still be people saying things like "bro it's good now i swear" or "starfield was always good" like how fo76 got or cyberpunk (neither games were good at launch even if cyberpunk has improved greatly now)

New SkillUp weekly news video, new Batman Arkham VR game announced at the same time. Classic.

And once again, pretty big Starfield news drops straight after.

Don't really think a DLC can save Starfield, they would need to rework the entire game to make it less tedious and so lacking of soul. Especially after the new F4 patch disaster.

Fix one thing, break 4 things that worked fine. There's a reason we call them Bugthesda.

Thanks for the sonic tweet heads up, that shit was hilarious

Before Your Eyes had me sobbing. cant wait to do it again in Goodnight Universe

Bethesda outright gaslighting players and saying the XBox version is ‘working as intended’ is absolutely insane and for all the pitchfork mobs we’ve seen with games lately I am shocked no one cares about this. When lamenting that the XBox version not only runs at lower visual settings than the One X (to get 60 fps I’m sure), runs noticably worse than PS5 in Performance Mode, and is completely MISSING the ultra settings Quality Mode, people told me to ‘shut up, stop pixel counting, and play the game). This was clear as day when comparing them myself at launch and now that DF have confirmed this it is even crazier. I almost believed Bethesda and thought I was crazy. All of my saves are on XBox and I wanted to play the game at the new ultra visual settings. I don’t mind getting the plat on PS5 as I love the game, but the fact that it launched in this state on XBox’s own console from a now first party studio, these are glaring bugs and the patch is missing a major advertised feature, is unacceptable, and even moreso Bethesda gaslights players who pointed this out to boot. Nevermind the shitshow that is the PC version. People should not be defending this whatsoever. But this is what happens when we mix console wars into major bugs. The blanket defense force doesn’t want to hear it. And this happens far too often with both Sony and XBox fans alike. Bethesda needs to address and fix this asap. This is ridiculous.

totally forgot that Starfield exist. got me thinking "was it the bethesda failed game or the neverending crowdfunding game that has never been launched?" meh. kinda same

Re: Tarkov, you should also note that PvE was promised to be a fully-fledged feature when Edge of Darkness Edition was available in the early days. That feature was basically dropped and now they're trying to charge more for it.

the sand land tv show was kinda awesome. Its almost peak Toriyama when you think of it.

Shartfield

just in time

Gris was such a cool experience; I still want to replay it with my really nice headphones on. I just wish listed Neva to make sure it doesn't slip through the cracks,; I watch this show weekly so that isn't likely to happen.

Sonic was retroactively in 8-bit on the master system and you've never once pronounced "Gris" the correct way in either language it exists. I love you and the show and hope you're having a good week friend :)

Bugthesda finds a way.

1:08 "Bethesda man... Bethesda never changes." [continues to shit on Beth for the next 5 minutes] 6:10 "...there's every reason to expect that [Starfield] will improve substantially over the coming months and years" *pick one*

Really looking forward to the Promise Mascot Agency game, Paradise Killer is one the most fun games I've played recently, hope they get the same guy for the OST

“The sands between” Brillant!😂

21:45 Not calling it the "PlayStation 5 Plort" feels like it should be a crime.

Bethesda management needs to retire.

Chapters would be really nice.

Great episode as always! Loved that last story haha! 😂

Calling it "The Kinda Funny Show" when the name of the show is on the screen is endlessly hilarious to me

The mod situation for Fallout 4 on PC is ridiculous. The community always makes these games better. What a slap in the face.

WOW. No clue how I slept on Gris but it and Neva look like my kind of thing. I know what I’m doing this weekend.

Would love to hear you talk some more about what it's like living in Australia!

Hey man, Gris isn't pronounced with the "S" it's french for the word gray. It's Gri pronounced Gree