![]() The missing challange is what keeps it from being "4x of the year" for me. Mind you: It is still far more FUN then most other 4x, but it would be AWESOME if it was an actuall challange as well. I own most of the 4x games and MoO definitly has the worst AI right now. I strongly disagree that it is on paar with medium quality 4x games. I am lost for words how anyone could possibly defend that kind of "AI". Even their biggest fleets by turn 400ish can not kill a SINGLE titan. Or just fly by with a single titan and use a stellar converter to ruin their day. you can easily get enough votes to not need any other nation. Even if i try to not win the AI never catches up and at some point i just vote for myself in the senate and win by that. A very hard AI should not even remotly let me get ahead by a factor of 5-20 (!) in every category. If all the AI does is possibly slow your auto win down, then the AI is not good enough. No value of bonuses can make an AI a challange if it does not know how to win the game. So I encourage developers not only to try and make it more effective (their abilities as good players are a must for this) but also to give AI more bonuses, and test hardest difficulty on very, very strong players. I am not sure that developers use hi-tech AI technologies like expert systems or neuronets, but even if they do AI probaly would need to get bonuses to resist against good players. ![]() AI is generally a weak point of strategy games and usually buffed by hy bonuses to make it challenging. I disagree, now the AI is of medium quality with AI of other games. After that the other leaders go into "afraid" mode and do whatever i want them to. When the first AI attacks me i usually have 5 times their fleet size already and just take their planets. The Player just has to take more then 30 colonies and pretty much auto wins.Īlso since EA 2 the AI does not seem to declare war for fast expansion anymore. They stop expanding at around 30ish planets, even tho there is half a galaxy to be had still. AI does not even try to win the game right now. For now player should just be carefull not to trigger "he is colonising too fast" for nations with which he can not fight (with all of them) right now. Very often I do not see from nations reasonable attempts to win a game. I also not quite sure that AI now is generally up to winning the game, sometimes it looks like it more about simulating some nation leader which just lives on with thoughts that if someone else would be a winner then so be it. It would be more replayable, more surprising and a more remarkable game that way. That was really cool and would be great to have even on the highest difficulty, even if it means the game wouldn't be always "hard". One thing that really moved me while playing the new MoO, was how the tone of the game wanted to reduce war and suffering, while the opponents demanded equality if I expanded too fast, meaning I could facilitate a more peaceful galaxy by being considerate of others. Things like converting angry factions to compassionate ones would be cool and vice versa. Having an element of random behaviours with some factions wanting to be compassionate, while others are more nihilists, fully realizing the pursuit of all 5 win-conditions, instead of focusing on only conquest on the highest difficulty. That said, I'd prefer the highest difficulty to be more smarter, more fully realized, have more foresight and be more unpredictable than actually more unforgiving and more hateful. I'd really appreciate the hardest difficulty being "the way its really meant to be", while the lesser difficulties are reduced version of that, helping you train on those easier difficulties to take on the real, ultimate challenge of the highest difficulty. ![]() Thank you, I agree with that logic Severian.
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Force-click three finger and swipe up to go into fullscreen.Four-finger tap to quickly go back to previous app (map to command+tab).I mimic iPadOS' SlideOver feature using swipe right from left side of the trackpad and map it to a shortcut of Tuck (another great app highly recommended if you like to multitask).I mimic iPadOS' copy-paste gesture with the 3-finger pinch in and out.Double tap with four fingers to hide application (map with command+H) Force-click with four fingers to quit application (map with command+Q).Double tap with three fingers to bring up screenshot to OCR (using OwlOCR, free highly recommended alternative to TextSniper) Force-click with three fingers to trigger bring up screenshot region.You first have to map the shortcut "Show Start Page" with a keyboard shortcut, then map the trackpad gesture to the keyboard shortcut. I swipe down with two fingers from top of the trackpad to bring safari to start page.I use three-finger swipes to navigate tabs by mapping ctrl+tab(+shift).So you can do it like me which is double-click menu bar, set action to hide menu bar items to left, delay next action (I use 10s), then repeat the action to auto-hide it.įinally, these are how I use the gesture for my trackpad: Replacement for Bartender: BTT has an action for hiding the menu bar item to its left and there's a convenient trigger by double-clicking the menu bar.I also use keyboard shortcuts to launch specific folders in finder, apps, map to app-specific shortcuts, etc. I have a Galaxy buds and Bluetooth Speaker so I can use keyboard shortcut to toggle between each device. Powerful keyboard shortcuts: one notable feature is connecting to a bluetooth device.You can also use keyboard shortcuts and link it to window snapping (e.g. Window-snapping: you can replace "Magnets (paid)" or "Rectangle (free)" with the BTT's built-in snap areas in which you can control which area of the screen will trigger a snapping.It replaced "CopyLess 2" (which is amazing in its own right). It's quite customizable and feature-rich, and has everything I want in a clipboard manager. Clipboard manager: you can use keyboard shortcut (or any trigger) and choose the built-in BTT clipboard manager.First I'll talk about the use cases in addition to controlling the trackpad and mouse gestures because they're less known. ![]() Chilly Pepper! This plant will be freezing zombies in it's lane. In December, we'll be welcoming our newest plant to the lawn. We have two new plants joining the family over the course of this release. 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All replicas in the same CRDT database will constantly sync their state to provide as consistent a view of the dataset as possible, but keep in mind that CRDTs are also useful for ensuring high availability in case of network partitions. This situation, albeit normally brief, is the reason why CRDT data structures must hardcode conflict-resolution strategies. ![]() While eventually all replica nodes will converge to the same final state, in the short term a command sent to ReplicaEU may not have yet been propagated to ReplicaUS, for example. The second rule is sometimes referred to as the “observed remove” rule, meaning that you can delete only items that you were able to observe when the command was issued.Ī note on replication lag and consistency model Deleting works only on elements that the replica executing the command has already seen.In a Redis Enterprise CRDT-enabled database, sets operations work under a few additional rules, the two most important of which get applied when merging operations coming from different nodes: This approach offers significant advantages for geo-distributed applications and achieving data consistency. The downside is that the “ replication lag” is also experienced when writing to a value. This enables you to write genuinely geo-distributed applications. In a CRDT database, all replica nodes can independently apply changes to the “fruits” key. Running the same commands in a CRDT-enabled Redis Enterprise database would display the same behavior, but what’s happening behind the scenes is completely different. ![]() Here’s how it looks like when calling actual Redis commands: ![]() Redis Sets are similar to what your favorite programming language offers in the standard library, offering specialized operations to add and remove elements, check if an element is part of the set, and perform set intersection, union, and difference. Let’s look at a Redis data structure with a CRDT equivalent and the nuances that Active-Active geo-distributed replication adds. To ensure that conflicts never happen (there is no concept of conflict resolution) and cause problems in your applications, operations on CRDT data types have to respect a specific set of algebraic properties.ĬRDTs work in Redis Enterprise when you create a CRDT-enabled database because standard commands get swapped with an equivalent CRDT implementation. So how do you develop an Active-Active geo-distributed cluster? Introduction to Conflict -Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs)Ĭonflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) (aka convergent replicated data type or commutative replicated data type) are a family of replicated data types with a common set of properties that enable operations to always converge to a final state consistent among all replicas. For write-heavy applications, that’s not enough. Placing read replicas closer to your users is the right thing to enable real-time response. Active-Active Geo-Distribution allows you to place your Redis database cluster instances and data centers close to your users, no matter where they are.
The Protagonist of the game, Zack Fair, has received a brand-new voice actor along with a few other characters found only in Crisis Core Reunion.Most notably, many of the lesser dialogue moments in the storytelling of the game also contain fully-voiced sequences from the voice actors.The Voice Actor cast for Crisis Core FFVII Reunion is drastically changed from the original game on the PSP.Zack has received a brand-new voice actor, but moreover, fans of the recent Final Fantasy 7 Remake will be stoked to know that a few of its voice cast makes a return as they lend their voices to familiar faces such as Aerith Gainsborough and Cloud Strife. When it's time for FF7 Remake’s Tifa, changed from her original, to fight, Ayumi shifts her character’s voice to a slightly deeper, serious version emulating a capable martial arts fighter who’s willing to do anything to protect her friends.Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion’s Voice Cast is one of its biggest highlights aside from the gameplay and visual changes. She’s perfect at showing Tifa’s caring supportive side, often coming off as a strong protective figure ready to offer her optimism whenever the party is at its lowest. She carries her wealth of experience portraying Tifa over the years to Final Fantasy 7 Remake in order to bring her character to life in a way fans have always dreamed of. Toshiyuki was a perfect choice for casting in this role and it’s hard to picture anyone else playing Final Fantasy 7’s biggest threat so well.Īyumi Ito has been the voice of Tifa Lockhart since 2005’s Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Toshiyuki’s version of FF7 Remake's villain Sephiroth makes him sound threatening and unpredictable, coming off like a man in complete control, whereas Cloud is less a threat and more of a toy to be manipulated. He’s known for having a deep voice, and it fits perfectly with Sephiroth’s imposing character. His Japanese voice actor is none other than Toshiyuki Morikawa, famous for playing the demon sorcerer Naraku in the acclaimed anime series Inuyasha. His encounters with Sephiroth stand out as Cloud’s tone changes to match the intensity of the game’s main villain.įinal Fantasy 7 Remake’s main villain Sephiroth is only hinted at in the original Final Fantasy 7 for PS1, but the developers decided to add more scenes into the remake to give the character an ominous presence earlier in the story. Takahiro’s voice work brings sincerity to Cloud’s softer side while keeping him grounded as Final Fantasy 7’s decisive leader of the party. This can be a challenge to pull off properly, especially when you consider that FF7's Cloud ( who could be two Clouds in FF7 Rebirth) becomes more attached to the other party members as the game progresses. Related: Coolest Final Fantasy 7 Remake Weapons, RankedĬloud Strife, voiced by Takahiro Sakurai known for his work as Suzaku Kururugi in the anime Code Geass, manages to capture Cloud’s attempts to sound cool and stoic to impress the rest of Avalanche on their first mission. All options were given the same attention to their respective characters, but the Japanese voice actors for Cloud, Tifa, and Sephiroth in particular stand out from the pack by embodying their character’s personalities. While missing from Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s demo, the final version included dub voice options in Japanese, English, or French. ![]() Despite some cut Avalanche content, Final Fantasy 7 Remake delivered on most of its promises, created a generation of fans and split the game into a trilogy in order to properly tell the full story. When Final Fantasy 7 Remake launched, it received high praise for delivering something fans of the series had waited for since a tech demo using the opening sequence of the game was shown at Sony’s 2005 E3 press conference. ![]() With macOS 12.4, Apple chose to replace the flags with drab, monochromatic blocks containing a one- or two-character code to identify keyboards, which are nowhere near as visually distinct.Īpple has seemingly been on a war against color for years, most notably with respect to Finder window sidebar icons. 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