Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
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I think that was their point. If not, it’s a good one. The argument could be made that the devs think that their experience, though lesser than BG3 in scale is equal to it in overall value, when you add in quality of writing, worldbuilding, game mechanics, etc.
I think that’s unlikely to actually play out in practice, but it’s perfectly consistent with what they’re saying here.
By analogy, I could buy a setting book like Paizo’s Lost Omens: Shining Kingdoms. Or I could buy an adventure like Claws of the Tyrant, and there’s no particular reason to expect the former must cost more than the latter.
They’re partly trying to put a good spin on it, but I really appreciate that most of this article is trying to be transparent and open about the fact that their game just isn’t the same scale as BG3.
I mean, based on the source, they’re still even on Twitter which is a lot more overtly fascist than WhatsApp. So…yeah…
Paradox are the publisher here, but not the developer.
Maybe, I’m not sure. I’m not familiar with Redemption, and this article is all I’ve got to go on for Dawnwalker too.
If it weren’t for the fact that it’s set in the mediaeval era, this sounds like it might have been more like the successor to Bloodlines that fans wanted than Bloodlines 2 is going to be.
And for this game it doesn’t matter, unless you’re doing multiple playthrough
But that’s the thing, they’ve put the most popular option behind the DLC paywall. And popular because it’s a good standard option. It’s not like the Nosferatu or Malkavians, which are popular as secondary options for a weirder later playthrough. That would be bad enough, as a day-one DLC, but doing it with the Toreador is so much worse.
I’ve never really been a Nintendo guy. Is Luigi very noticeably the post popular (or maybe at worst a very close top 2) racer in Mario Kart? I admit, I’d have guessed it was Mario.
I mean, because I already knew which two clans it was. If I had had to guess, it’d have been a tossup between Toreador and Ventrue for me.
Additionally these aren’t new clans they chose the most popular clan that most people chose for their first play through
That’s what gets me. Just looking at the original game and projecting it forward, if the Nosferatu or Malkavians were the ones locked behind a DLC, it would still be shitty, but it would at least make sense. They might be fan favourites, but even then they’re still clans that people usually recommend for a second playthrough, not a first. But the Toreador? Come on! That’s just extortion. Why not lock the Ventrue as well, while you’re at it?
Yeah that’s my feeling precisely. I have high hopes, but rock-bottom expectations, and with those expectations, the cost of the game and the shitty business practices with this day-one DLC are just not going to sell me on the game. I’m going to be waiting for reviews from dedicated fans who have had months to digest the game at the bare minimum, and for any inevitably-necessary patches (whether they come from the devs or from fans). This game and this developer and this price just have not earnt the trust necessary to buy the game at full price shortly after release, let alone pre-order it.
Oh, I see! I didn’t make the “investigator” connection!
Sorry, who are they? I can find a vampire named Fabien outside of VtM, and I can find one named Fennorian, but I can’t find anywhere that the two co-exist.
Eh, that date is close enough that I fully believe it.
What I don’t believe is that the quality of the game will be as high as fans were hoping for, way back in early 2019 when it was first officially announced (with a release date then claimed for 2020).
There’s a ~/.docker/config.json. In that there’re some auths, with keys https://index.docker.io/v1/, https://index.docker.io/v1/access-token, and https://index.docker.io/v1/refresh-token, and then there’s "currentContext": "rootless".
There’s ~/.docker/contexts/meta/[a long hex string]/meta.json, with {"Name":"rootless","Metadata":{"Description":"Rootless mode"},"Endpoints":{"docker":{"Host":"unix:///run/user/1000/docker.sock","SkipTLSVerify":false}}}.
The only file in /etc/docker is key.json.
I never set one up myself, and this 11 year-old thread implies that Raspbian doesn’t have one set up by default. It is a very old thread though, so could be wrong.
edit: this is more recent and also says Raspbian doesn’t have DNS caching by default
$ dig registry-1.docker.io
; <<>> DiG 9.18.33-1~deb12u2-Debian <<>> registry-1.docker.io
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50801
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;registry-1.docker.io. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
registry-1.docker.io. 33 IN A 54.210.249.78
registry-1.docker.io. 33 IN A 44.218.153.24
registry-1.docker.io. 33 IN A 107.20.112.188
registry-1.docker.io. 33 IN A 34.234.222.10
registry-1.docker.io. 33 IN A 34.195.83.243
registry-1.docker.io. 33 IN A 52.21.128.203
registry-1.docker.io. 33 IN A 52.0.248.137
registry-1.docker.io. 33 IN A 52.207.69.161
;; Query time: 47 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.20.1#53(192.168.20.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Tue Aug 12 22:27:45 AEST 2025
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 177
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by NetworkManager
search Home
nameserver 192.168.20.1
edit: oh, and in my router’s configuration:
I’m happy to keep it public if only for the off chance that if we find a solution it might some day help someone else with the same issue. The thread’ll fall down in the rankings naturally over time anyway so I wouldn’t worry about polluting anything for people not actively seeking it out.
I’m not 100% sure how to find the OS version, but uname -a outputs [...]6.12.25+rpt-rpi-v8[...]. /etc/os-release contains “Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)”. It should be whatever was latest as of a month or two ago when I installed the OS fresh.
Ludo? I haven’t played that since I was a tiny kid! I can’t say I remember much about how it’s played.