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Dremor, commander of the Aurora Marauders (biggest French Army during Beta), creator of the Newbie Squad (weekly event that welcomed the french new player by forming some squad between vets and new player and going thumping, killing Chosen, etc.), and one of the leader of "#MFGA" (I was the one...

3DES is a reuse of the very old DES, by chaining it multiple times. But the algorithm itself is vulnerable to multiple attacks vector, especially a possible "known-plaintext" attack, with is a big problem for ssl, as there is a lot of known plaintext (http verbs, html tags, etc...), thus making...

I scanned the forum with Mozilla's SSL Observatory... Got a F, with a 15/100 score. https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze.html?host=forums.emberthegame.com Bad security configuration, a shared SSL certificate with some suspicious website (*.nxttgdvgoh.ml, kinkysexyadultshopping.xyz, among...

Yet another relevant Extra Credits video: More or less explain what I feels too. I would also add something obvious: the camera being behind us (unless some crazy game designer choose otherwise), we won't see our operator that much.

Good old wikipedia (and its source, I checked them) say otherwise : 1. Space Opera vs Science Fantasy Space opera: Source: Wikipedia Source: Oxford Dictionnaries Science Fantasy: Source: Wikipedia Sure, Starwars can look like a Space Opera (risk-taking space battle, chivalric romance...

No. Just No. This is the very difference between Science-Fiction and Science-Fantasy universes. Science-fiction need to be believable, but not Science-Fantasy. In a science fiction universe, you cannot use science like if it was magic. See the difference between Startrek and Starwars. The first...

Sure, but it isn't the same kind of gameplay. You can make anything fast. But there is multiple way to make a fast gameplay.

Sure, we are in a Science Fiction world, and technologies can looks like incredible in comparison with what we have today. Still, we are not in a Science Fantasy world, and things should still make a bit of technological sense, which, in my opinion, isn't achieved with the current design. Yes...

As some seems to want a tier system, and other a classless system. Each system have it's own good and bad points. But done right, an hybrid from the two could be a good idea. In my opinion, The Secret World progression system is a good example of such hybrid progression system. More info on...

Yes, OpenGL games are more expensive than DirectX ones, not because it is harder to code with it, but because there is less people that where trained to use it. But in our case, Unreal already have an OpenGL renderer, so it won't be a problem. And Linux fans are known for being hardcore ones...

Exactly. We shouldn't sacrifice the gameplay on the realism altar (French expression, not sure if it is similar in English).

Sure night vision would be great, sure their technology should be able to make a good night vision... But would it be wort it, gameplay wise? Having a very dark night, with only a flash-light, could provide some variation to the gameplay. At night, we wouldn't be able to see everything around...

I can help you if needed, I have already some knowledge on this (I package for openSUSE)