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  The thing is though, now that you say that, I can't see it.
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  You're absolutely right. After we're playing, let's let's
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  talk about that first because. I was going to go in a totally
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  different direction. You can make as much money as
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  you need and work your way towards any ship in the game.
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  They they were trying to cash in off of that nostalgia and that
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  hype. Happy New Year.
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  All you good looking mother fathers hanging out there.
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  I see you. I feel you.
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  I hear you. You're with me here together in
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  this room, but I'm not alone. We're we're, we're not just the
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  two of us here. I know it's sad, but today we
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  have very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very blue Co
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  host Lord Anubis. Lord Anubis, thank you for
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  joining me and all of our guests on Open Comms Radio.
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  And with that intro, I'm sliding my seat like a couple inches
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  back. That was a little creepy.
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  That was too much. Nope, I just feel.
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  Fascinated. You're like touching them.
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  Literally I'm. Like I'm like I'm vibing.
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  Yeah, yeah, it's a little. Like I just, I just want to vibe
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  and play video games, feel me. I feel you.
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  So today is a special day. Why is that?
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  Well, it's like the end of the year.
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  The Pico ball is about to drop. The Pico Ball is about to drop.
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  Fireworks about to light up the skies.
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  Who is it? Fireworks.
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  There's a Drake ship exploding. No, nobody knows.
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  Nobody can tell. 2025 coming to an end.
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  It feels like just yesterday 2025 was coming to a start.
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  You catch me? You feel me?
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  Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
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  Yeah, see, it's not that weird. Wow.
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  But to think about where we were at the beginning of that year
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  and the hopes that we didn't think we're going to be
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  fulfilled. Well, where were we?
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  Do you even remember? Well, we didn't have Pyro, we
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  didn't have Nicks. You know, we, we didn't have,
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  I'd say half of the popular content we have now.
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  Worms. We didn't have any worms.
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  We did not have any worms, we just got worms.
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  Maybe we'll get lice next. No snacks.
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  Yeah. Yeah, a lot of good stuff.
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  A lot, a lot to cover this year. And so at this time of the year
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  on Open Comms Radio, you don't know because this is the first
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  time. But what we do is we do a year
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  end wrap up show. It's a brilliant idea.
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  I thought of it all by myself. I said, you know, all these
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  things happened during the year. What if we got together at the
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  end of the year and, and, and remembered those things and
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  recalled them and thought said like, oh, I love that.
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  Or oh, I didn't like that. So I'm calling it Opencoms radio
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  year end. Super superb all the time, but
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  only 2025 spectacular. Copyright.
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  TM Yeah, not soon now. So what we're going to do today
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  is we're going to bring on up our callers and our guests and
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  we're going to talk about what was the best of the year and
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  what was the worst of the year. Anubis, you know for you what
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  was the best. You know, I'd, I'd say the pace
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  of development, I, I know that, you know, it's, it's something
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  that, you know, we just expected to happen.
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  But I mean, it really did ramp up this year.
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  And just seeing the, the work that they're actually putting
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  into it and seeing it actually pay off this quickly, I think is
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  probably the best part. Because I knew this stuff was
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  going to be coming. I knew stuff like this was going
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  to happen. It's just a matter of when.
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  You felt in your bones. Yeah, right.
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  Right in the marrow, you know? So the, the pace, you know, I
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  think a lot of people can say in that the, the, the releases,
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  like, you know, they said one a month, 1 patch a month, and I'd
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  say every patch of the month has been pretty solid.
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  They were all pretty good. Oh yeah.
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  Oh yeah. I mean, probably the best
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  content put out so far. And with, you know, they added
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  game modes and the I'd say more areas to do your dailies, it's
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  really given the game a lot more life and the 700 player shards,
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  you know? Oh yeah, I mean, what were we at
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  the beginning of the year last year, A year ago we yeah, I feel
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  like yeah, because now we're regularly over 500.
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  Oh yeah, we didn't have that last year.
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  It was maybe, I don't know if someone else would be able to
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  tell us for certain, but I mean, it wasn't long ago we were at 50
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  player servers. So Oh yeah, maybe two years ago,
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  50 players. So they go from 50 to 500
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  regularly. More like 800 sometimes now too.
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  Yeah, and, and looking at the the early meshing tests where
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  800 is like, oh wow, we got 800 people in here.
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  But it was just, it was, it was you couldn't walk, you know, we
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  don't even notice. Yeah, well, I notice, I noticed
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  the the folks running around, you know, people are trying to
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  talk to me. I've had people try to chat me
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  up. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  People ask me if I'm vibing and stuff every once in a while.
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  Oh, yeah, yeah. You know you don't get that.
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  No, no, no. Well, people usually just throw
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  things at me. Yeah, you should change your
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  character's face. I didn't mean to talk to you
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  about that. Is it because I'm blue?
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  You know, it's just, it's not for everybody.
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  I mean, I'm OK with it. I like the way you look, but I
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  don't like, I don't like some other things that happened.
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  What what didn't you like? What was the worst, the worst of
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  the year? You know, it is it is quite a a
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  train to ride to this point and I'd say the worst was the the
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  pit. Well, the the exploits that have
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  come across, you know the game, I'd say the, you know, the worst
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  is still not being able to tamp down the gold selling.
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  I mean, you can get billions for like $10.
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  I mean, it's ridiculous and it's completely destroyed.
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  You know, a lot of the a lot of the reason to try to truly build
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  in the game at the moment. So I'm hoping that goes away.
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  I'm hoping they fix that. But that that is that actually
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  really was the worst besides the things like the other exploits
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  where you had you, you have being able to get through doors
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  with a package that they still haven't fixed, being able to
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  blow up a Perseus with a, you know, but they did fix that one,
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  but it was pretty bad for a while.
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  What do you mean blow up a Perseus?
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  With what? With a with an Aurora, if you
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  wanted to you could just hit it. That was that was there for like
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  a two days I feel. Was a little longer than that,
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  but. Really.
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  I don't remember. OK, OK, OK, OK.
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  OK. All right.
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  Well, we had some some people call on in, some people write in
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  about their best and the worst for 2025.
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  And this is our New Year's party here at Open Comms Radio.
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  So everybody get funky where your where your highest heels
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  paint your nails. Yeah, maybe you got some
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  feathers you've been wanting to, to, to put on.
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  This is this is your moment. This is your, your night here.
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  So what we're going to do is first Lord Nubis, I want to read
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  a couple of our Ask the Couch comments before we start
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  bringing people in about their best and their worst for 2025 in
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  our ask the Couch chat. So if you can't make the show,
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  you can always write in our little discord.
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  In the Ask the couch we had Wild Card.
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  Wild card said oddly the best thing in 2025 was in my opinion
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  the improved stability, ASD missions and new ships.
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  I think the worst was patch management.
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  Even though overall stability was better than previous years,
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  it still has a long way to go. And a wild card voice too.
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  Yeah, yeah. I don't know.
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  I don't know patch management. So I think what he's referring
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  to is, is the the bugs and stuff that popped up kind of you were
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  kind of echoing their Anubis. Oh, losing ships, losing items,
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  you know, having a having a download a hotfix and use a
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  hotfix channel and then download that and then Oh well, now it's
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  the main folder again. Let's go ahead and download
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  that. You know, I can see how that
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  that comes across. I would say specifically losing
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  things like an entire Polaris, which I've heard of people
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  having happen, even a Wicklow Polaris, which is insanely hard
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  to get, but losing that to a patch sucked.
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  It's actually hurt to see that like in chat.
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  See, that's vibing dude. That's feeling.
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  You feel him, he feels pain. It's an empathy thing.
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  Give me your pain, feel me your. Pain.
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  OK, we got one other comment there.
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  Can you see it, Anubis? From Raven Raven Fort OK.
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  One moment I can read it, Raven Fort said.
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  I would say being on schedule with the patch and completing
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  the objectives was a good change.
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  The worst flight blades and the whole thing around it.
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  And then I, I did the I did the the point up of OG to let people
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  know I agree with him about the flight blades.
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  I feel like we're going to get a lot of that as as as the worst
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  today. Real quick.
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  I'll say my best and worst were the same thing.
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  They were resource drive. Yeah.
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  Best thing in the game was resource drive.
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  Worst thing in the game? Resource drive for the whole
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  year. But that was probably just
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  because that's when I was most active there, you know?
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  Well, it had some great moments. I mean, honestly, and it really
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  gave people like, I think a lot of moments of random kindness,
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  which was really cool for as much as there was trolling.
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  Like, OK, yeah, there's trolling, but there was a lot of
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  people just, like, actually came together and helped each other
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  and just became a community. Yeah, that people are like
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  leaving the the Max behind and stuff the tractor beam Max.
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  So you'd go to the place and there'd be like two or three of
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  them there and then I'd be filling up people.
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  But it was also part of it I think was the the angst of like,
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  OK, it's working now and now there's a line.
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  So let's just get this line through so I can get my boxes
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  because, you know, it's working this time.
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  Who knows if it's going to work next time.
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  So I don't know how much of it was goodwill just to just to put
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  a damper on on your positivity. I don't know.
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  Altruism, even if it's not for the best intentions, still is
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  altruism for someone else. There you go, and on that, we
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  will introduce our first caller of the evening, someone you
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  know, someone you love, someone who knows all the secrets.
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  Cosmic Hobo. Thank you for joining us here on
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  Open Comms Radio. This week's question What's the
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  best and worst of 2025? The best I would say has been
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  yes, the stability. It has been a year of stability.
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  I I for one, love that A30K isn't just the end of the night
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  anymore because that's how it used to be.
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  It used to be you hit a 30K and you'd be just, you'd done for
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  the evening. It's like, OK, because whatever
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  mission you're on would be gone. Your ship might not even be
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  there and everyone else and it would take like 30 minutes to
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  come back. That was that was awful.
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  Like we talked about a lot of the, there's still of course
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  plenty of issues with instability and bugs and
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  everything, but the fact of the matter is that if a server
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  crashes, it's not just the end anymore.
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  Like I, I remember doing OverDrive and whenever the
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  server crashed because OverDrive was, I miss events like
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  OverDrive that were big events. Lot of people, we could do those
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  now, but then can you? Refresh my memory, hobo what?
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  What's the OverDrive? OverDrive was so it was a multi
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  stage event where you had these, just some of the missions they
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  made us do were very long. Like one of them involved a
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  bunker and you had to defend that bunker for multiple waves,
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  like 8 waves or something ridiculous.
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  And there was a timer. And if the server even just
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  hiccups, like just a slight hiccup in the server, the
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  mission would be lost. You'd have to start all over and
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  it would be like an hours of worth of work that you'd have to
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  go back and do again. Exhausting.
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  So that's, that's been the best part for me is that even when
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  the servers are just garbage, because we've all felt it, we've
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  all known it is that sometimes the servers are just garbage.
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  That's not necessarily the end of the night.
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  And unless, unless the login servers are bad, you just had to
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  deal with it and it's, and it's easier to deal with now than
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  before you. Even though it still sucks and
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  it's still stuff, rubber banding, player markers not
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  appearing, things like that, it's still a significantly more
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  stable game than it was a year ago.
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  So your best is just stability. General stability.
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  I agree with you. The worst part, though, is
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  probably, well, OK. The worst part was resource
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  drive. I hated resource drive.
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  Oh, OK, OK, OK, dive into. The How dare you challenge jar
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  jar? It was.
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  So. Grindy and it was so just
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  ridiculously. I know they wanted to make it a
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  pain in the ass to do multiple teams per SE, but like doing
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  just one was fucking exhausting. And then it just broke at the
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  end and made it vastly easier to complete.
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  Which kind of pissed me off a little bit because it was such a
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  pain in the ass. And I spent so long doing like 2
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  of of the teams 2/2 of the the corpse.
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  And then it broke and became vastly easier and took a
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  fraction of the time. And like it should have I I felt
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  like I wasted my time. Then I don't feel like any of
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  the other events necessary, even the ones that I would consider
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  like filler events, felt like a waste of time like resource
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  drive did and that that early those early parts.
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  But only because it broke so often.
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  It broke. That's why it's the worst.
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  If it didn't break it, it, yeah, it's my best and my worst, you
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  know, so. I I feel you about it.
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  Breaking and and and the grind because I was there for the
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  grind, dude. You know, you wake up in the
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  morning, drink a cup of coffee, you.
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  Yeah, dude, rising grind. I get it.
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  I I respect it. I I don't, I don't agree with
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  it, but I respect it. But hobo bar bar go up.
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  Bar go up and I'm a big fan of bar going up.
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  Don't. Don't let anyone tell you that
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  hobo don't like a bar going up. Hobo loves bars.
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  I love bars and that I love seeing them go up.
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  Like I like seeing that green. Like it's great.
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  Cool bar go up bar good. What about a red bar?
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  Red bar not so good, but. Blue bar and.
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  Some blue blue bars. Confusing.
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  Purple bar. Purple bar is.
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  I don't know what to do with purple bars, but red bars can be
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  opportunities. I thought we were vibing but
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  whatever. Sorry.
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  So yeah, my best would be just, I, I think that they've lived up
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  to general stability and playability despite all the
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  problems we still face. But then on the flip side of
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  that is we, they, they have limitations on the events that
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  they can do with it. Is that weird thing where they,
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  they, they focus so much on content this year for events
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  when their pools for said events feel more limited than they did
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  before charting, before mesh server meshing.
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  Because they, I mean, they have explicitly said CSG has
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  explicitly said they've lost a lot of their missions because of
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  the way that meshing works. And yet they still decided to
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  double down on events and content this year, which I those
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  two things kind of work against each other because the stability
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  part, yeah, we we saw that with resource drive with freight
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  elevators. Like I know some people said
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  freight elevators were like the worst thing this year and I get
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  it. But then they made those
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  important. For that specifically because of
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  resource drive. Yeah, that's like that.
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  That's that's such a like a, a a scar on on everyone's heart.
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  But fuck, I forgot. I was going to say Anubis helped
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  me. He's not even here. 75% of
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  players would not have interacted with freight
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  elevators until resource drive I don't think.
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  No, I see. I think that was one of the most
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  ridiculous things that they actually claimed.
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  I, I just don't, I don't believe that everybody had to deal with
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  an elevator of some sort, you know, and.
• 19:03
  Elevators, yeah, but the the planet side freight elevators,
• 19:06
  how many people use those in the regular base and regular basis?
• 19:09
  Only if you're running cargo. And it's, it's usually picking
• 19:13
  up like tiny things. I don't know any big cargo
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  runners are, are, are are out there doing stuff because like,
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  you know, they, they had those interstellar missions.
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  Yeah. But it's like, there's no reason
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  right here. Well, if if you were actually
• 19:31
  moving stuff, you know, if medical supplies and they needed
• 19:33
  them, you actually had to bring them there, that'd be like a
• 19:35
  really cool thing to do. Yeah.
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  But because it, it doesn't really matter, it doesn't affect
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  anything on the, you know, unlike the delivery side, you
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  know, you can, you drop off the medical supplies, but it's the
• 19:50
  destination isn't actually getting more medical supplies,
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  right? You're just getting money and
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  it's zeroing out. It's just like resetting or
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  whatever. That's like the other part of
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  that that that they need to hopefully we'll bring on in in
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  2026 there, but. Dynamic economy.
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  It's it's, we need it. We really need a dynamic
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  economy. Yeah, I think our next guest is
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  going to want to talk a lot about the economy.
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  But before we bring him up, Lord Anubis, I want to read just one
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  more from the Ask the Couch cause 'cause we got a few here.
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  And if you're just tuning in this this week is the last week
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  of the year and this will be the last week of Open Comms Season
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  1. I didn't know we were doing
• 20:35
  seasons, but we're. Seasons now.
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  I think I've decided, so this will be the last episode of Open
• 20:40
  Comp season 1 and we're doing, I had this great idea.
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  We're going to do this thing and we're going to review the whole
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  year. Nobody's ever done this before,
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  but we're going to take a look back at the year and see what
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  was the best and and what was the worst.
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  And so we asked our listeners to pop some things in here on the
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  Discord to leave some comments. We got one comment, Lord Anubis,
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  if you're ready to read it. One comment from Duke Lato LL.
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  Duke Lato LL Latol. Duke Latol, OH.
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  Duke Latol. Duke Latol like a Latol like a
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  like. Like a Latol booth?
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  Yeah. That's a Latol.
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  Oh, it's French. Oh, it's a French.
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  See, that's why I don't. Yeah, he's he's French Latol.
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  Leto, OH. You go and pay it the and.
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  It's. Not Duke.
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  Then it's Duke. Do it.
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  Yeah, it's. Two, it's two tolls, so.
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  Out of respect for him, Anubis, could you try to read it in his
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  native accent as Duke? Do Little.
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  What have you read? Little?
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  Little. They they famously, you know,
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  managed all the turnpikes in in in France.
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  OK, here we go. Well Bess has got to be
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  stability. It's good now.
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  It's possible to take it for granted, but for those of us
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  who've been around for a while, remember what a struggle it was
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  to play worst. I'd say the lack of delivery on
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  a couple things. Blades as a concept or in game
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  but they are very limited and they went straight to a pay to
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  win screw up. Engineering is in, but it
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  doesn't really affect gameplay at the moment.
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  And that's our comment from Dual Little.
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  Little. So our next guest we're going to
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  bring up here is someone you know, he's hosted this show
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  before. It is Duke Lato the Second.
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  Duke Lato the Second joining us here on Open Comms RADIO.
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  Duke, you are here on the couch live with Jar Jar Jabroni.
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  That's me, Lord Anubis. That's my Co host and cosmic
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  hobo who's sitting on the couch sweating sweating bullets and
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  and we're talking about what's the best and what's the worst of
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  2025. I hate you guys so much.
• 23:09
  Why that's you just got in here, that's what you're going to
• 23:13
  open. With, that's what.
• 23:14
  That's what we're opening with Duke Lado.
• 23:17
  The second don't I's. It's two I's, not L's.
• 23:21
  Oh, except for the stupid. Show's credits, which I believe
• 23:25
  still has it as. As the two.
• 23:27
  Intro. You're.
• 23:28
  The. Guy from the intro I'm the guy
• 23:31
  from the intro. I didn't.
• 23:32
  Know that was. You Yeah, same same guy,
• 23:35
  different spelling. 11 spelling. You know the proper way, if you
• 23:41
  will. 1 spelling how a moron would do it and also that don't
• 23:47
  talk. About people when they're not
• 23:48
  here. That French accent, let me tell
• 23:51
  you, that was perfect, right? I've been to Paris a few times
• 23:55
  and I I felt like I was, I was right back there.
• 23:59
  You've been to the to to the Paris Turnpike.
• 24:03
  Yeah, yeah, my, my, my family's ancient seat of power.
• 24:08
  The OR we collected the the tolls anyway.
• 24:13
  Do you? Do you just have like a like one
• 24:16
  of those little basket things that you throw the change in as
• 24:19
  the family Crest or I salute your.
• 24:26
  Family Duke, later the second best and worst of 2025.
• 24:30
  Well, you already wrote it down there.
• 24:32
  Well, I wrote, I, I wrote it, but I've got, I mean, I've got
• 24:35
  other things to say on it, but it basically my answer is that
• 24:38
  it sort of the same thing. The best thing and the worst
• 24:42
  thing was the stability. And I definitely, you know, you
• 24:47
  can tell that I've been playing the game for a long time and
• 24:50
  I'm, I've got a lot of abuse and PTSD that I'm working through
• 24:55
  because I, I missed the instability because it was kind
• 24:59
  of a symbol of all the shit that they were throwing together and
• 25:03
  the new things. And I, I knew going into this
• 25:06
  year that it was going to be the year of stability and there were
• 25:10
  going to be less features, but they were really less features.
• 25:16
  I mean, I'd like you guys were saying there was even less
• 25:18
  missions. We only just recently got back
• 25:21
  the simple investigation ones where you could just go out, you
• 25:24
  know, fly into a wreck in space and find them the the dead body.
• 25:28
  And those are like some of the most atmospheric and beginner
• 25:32
  friendly missions that they actually have.
• 25:35
  They really show off the 0G mechanics which.
• 25:38
  Yeah, it's and we. Need to show off.
• 25:40
  They're so cool like that. That's I love flying around in
• 25:43
  0G with. That and that like that's what's
• 25:45
  like you beginner friendly. I mean, not only are they simple
• 25:48
  missions, they're easy to complete, but they do show off
• 25:50
  so many of their systems. They create a lot of those, what
• 25:54
  they call it the Neil Armstrong moments, you know, but I also so
• 26:00
  like, like I said in that comment, you know, they they did
• 26:02
  introduce some things, but I think they shield away from
• 26:07
  rocking the boat, particularly with engineering, You know, they
• 26:11
  they like all right, we got it in, we got it working before the
• 26:13
  end of the year. Now let's just dial it back real
• 26:15
  quick so that it it doesn't actually change anything, which
• 26:19
  I get. I mean, especially end of the
• 26:21
  year patch. They wanted for, for once in the
• 26:25
  long development of this game, to give us something playable
• 26:29
  over the holidays. And they did.
• 26:31
  Yeah, we're all able to jump in and play, for the most part.
• 26:35
  Play what, though? Play I'm supposed to stop
• 26:39
  making. Multiplayers, what are you?
• 26:41
  Going to do right now. And that's my other thing,
• 26:43
  right, is everyone talks about the content.
• 26:45
  It was a year of content. I didn't like most of the
• 26:49
  content or, or I, I didn't like the way that it was utilized.
• 26:57
  So resource drive great for for a specific reason, the ASD
• 27:04
  facilities and stuff not great for.
• 27:07
  The same. Let let me explain the grind,
• 27:12
  OK, resource drive, cause any, you know, any MMO like this, I
• 27:17
  mean, it's going to have some grind, right?
• 27:19
  Like people want resources. People are collecting things,
• 27:22
  they, you know, selling things this and that it, it's good,
• 27:25
  it's good to have. But me personally, like the
• 27:29
  resource grind made sense because it was a grind.
• 27:32
  Like it was a, you know, system wide, like we need to collect
• 27:36
  this resource, OK, There's a reason to grind the ASD
• 27:40
  facilities. It's this beautiful, you know,
• 27:44
  atmospheric experience that we got to go through.
• 27:49
  And, you know, you fight your way through there and you read
• 27:52
  data pads and you're, you know, finding all these, all these
• 27:55
  secrets and stuff and you, you finish it and you're like, cool,
• 28:00
  that was really awesome. And then your buddies like, all
• 28:05
  right, let's go do it again to get more of that armor or let
• 28:09
  let's go do it again to get more, more worm.
• 28:11
  You know, we need more worm eyeballs or more.
• 28:13
  And it's like it, it kills the magic.
• 28:17
  It ruins, in my opinion, it ruins all that work that they
• 28:21
  put into it. And I've because I've done the
• 28:22
  grind with people a few times because people have wanted to go
• 28:25
  back in and and it can be fun, but it moves it from this is
• 28:30
  this is a beautiful crafted experience that I'm enjoying to
• 28:35
  now I'm doing I'm grinding in what has now become the the
• 28:42
  latest attraction at Disney World.
• 28:47
  You know, like, like I'm fucking floating down the Pirates of the
• 28:50
  Caribbean River shooting that. Pirates.
• 28:53
  And collecting their hooks for the 100th time.
• 28:56
  Exactly. That's that was my take on so
• 28:58
  that that's it. That's my the best is the
• 29:00
  stability. I mean, it's been said over and
• 29:02
  over. The worst was just the way the
• 29:06
  content was delivered. And it's also also all the
• 29:09
  content is basically on the ground.
• 29:13
  Although then I mean we had like some interest hunts and stuff
• 29:15
  like that, but they were pretty limited, nothing compared to the
• 29:20
  old, what you call it, the old Xeno threat battles that we used
• 29:27
  to have. I did love those.
• 29:30
  However, you know, if we look at things like the executive
• 29:35
  hangers and you're seeing a mix of space and ground combat and I
• 29:41
  and I think also the kind of tension that you needed, you
• 29:47
  know, in the game to make it worthwhile I.
• 29:50
  I. It was a home run.
• 29:53
  But it depends entirely on P versus P almost entirely.
• 29:58
  So I mean, like right now you can go do executive hangers.
• 30:02
  There's just, there's just no one around.
• 30:05
  I mean, I think we did like 3 or 4 in one night just one after
• 30:08
  another because it was like, eh, might as well just go get some
• 30:13
  ships. So again, you just, but it was
• 30:17
  there, but I I think that'll get better as the population sizes
• 30:20
  increase too, like you. Guys have like fewer locations
• 30:23
  like that. Those locations that they really
• 30:25
  want to have that PvP, there needs to be like one of them.
• 30:28
  Yep. You know you can't, you can't
• 30:31
  have multiple of them and that goes for all those those story
• 30:34
  based locations as well. You have the the ASD facilities,
• 30:37
  what you know there shouldn't be thousands of them.
• 30:39
  Yeah, why am I whether? Or not, you need to.
• 30:41
  Go to the facility. Look at a computer.
• 30:44
  Leave that facility and then fly to an absolutely identical one
• 30:49
  on another planet to do another part of the mission.
• 30:52
  Like and I get maybe, you know, maybe their dream was that was
• 30:55
  supposed to be instanced, right? That's what I think.
• 30:59
  I think the plan at least was for that content to be
• 31:02
  instanced, but it it just, it didn't happen so.
• 31:06
  Yeah, it's not, but I'm still bitter about it, understand.
• 31:12
  Well, it is that time of the year to to be bitter and air
• 31:15
  your grievances, but it's also that time of the year to engage
• 31:20
  with news, your local news specifically.
• 31:23
  And here at Open Comms Radio, we've wanted been wanting to,
• 31:27
  you know, advance and, and develop and, and, and provide a,
• 31:31
  a larger experience. So we have partnered up with
• 31:35
  Stanton's local news team, W KB U Local News Stanton.
• 31:44
  Do you know where your children are?
• 31:46
  They said. I have to say that anyway.
• 31:48
  So we're going to we're going to move right now to lead anchor
• 31:51
  from kW KB T Stanton News. You should write that down.
• 31:58
  Thomas Biggs. Thomas Biggs.
• 32:01
  How you doing over there, Mr. Biggs, Anubis.
• 32:11
  You're picking me. I'm stupid.
• 32:14
  We're talking about. No, this is not how the bit was
• 32:17
  supposed to go. We're supposed to make one of
• 32:19
  them do it anyways. Mr. Biggs.
• 32:23
  Thomas Biggs here. How are you today?
• 32:26
  How the hell are you? Hi, how you doing, Thomas Biggs,
• 32:29
  you got some headlines. I do, I do.
• 32:33
  OK so first, in breaking news, the Hearston Supreme Court has
• 32:39
  made it legal legal to block your regeneration if you can't
• 32:44
  afford it, which means that you will get scrubbed and UEE will
• 32:49
  not pay for your regeneration. Critics say it's a violation of
• 32:55
  human rights. And you know, proponents say,
• 32:59
  you know, hey, we got too many people anyways, so fuck them.
• 33:05
  Scary news out of Stanton. Now moving to weather.
• 33:10
  Weather reporting live from Damar Weatherman.
• 33:15
  Duck Lekirk. Duck Lekirk.
• 33:19
  How's the weather on Damar? I'm doing.
• 33:23
  How you doing, Tom? This is Duck.
• 33:27
  I'm here, Tom. Sorry if there's any static
• 33:29
  there. I'm here on Damar.
• 33:31
  The weather is sandy. There's sand under my boots,
• 33:35
  there's sand in my eyes. There's some sand down my pants.
• 33:41
  Tom. It's sandy here, and pretty much
• 33:45
  everywhere on this godforsaken sunburnt rock.
• 33:51
  Interesting fun times on Daymar. All right.
• 33:55
  Back to you, Tom. Thanks Jar Jar.
• 34:00
  Again, we are here out in Loreville to cover the latest
• 34:04
  developments with the Hearst and Supreme Court.
• 34:07
  But we did want to touch on another thing.
• 34:10
  We have just received notice that Open Comms Radio, one of
• 34:15
  the most popular radio stations in all of one particular channel
• 34:19
  on YouTube or or Twitch, has recently signed a deal with a
• 34:25
  new sponsor, Cruise Lux. Yes, the return of Cruise Lux
• 34:29
  has been expected by many ever since the tumultuous breakup
• 34:34
  occurred a couple months ago due to 1 visitor always talking
• 34:41
  about how they didn't have enough slam in their drinks.
• 34:44
  But the contracts have been signed, negotiations are all
• 34:48
  final, and they're back on the radio.
• 34:51
  So we look forward to hearing their new content and we look
• 34:56
  forward to hearing from you regarding your 2025 here on the
• 35:01
  Open Comms Year End spectacular. Well, thank you so much, Tom.
• 35:06
  And as we close out every news report, we have traffic with our
• 35:11
  good host, Cosmic traffic Man. Cosmic Traffic man.
• 35:15
  Well, how's traffic at Levski? Traffic at Levski is busy right
• 35:20
  now. There's a lot of people, a lot
• 35:21
  of traffic. Law ships a lot of Paris CI.
• 35:24
  Oh look, everyone goes right out of the hole.
• 35:27
  All right, all right, back to you.
• 35:28
  Open Comms Radio, So I hope that experience lifts everybody's
• 35:36
  souls. That's.
• 35:38
  Provides you guys with content. That traffic guy was like
• 35:42
  directly out of the the fifty 20s.
• 35:49
  Fuck you too, Duke. All right, all right, all right,
• 35:55
  back to the back to the regular program.
• 35:56
  I wasn't saying it was bad. I like that.
• 35:59
  It is the end of 2025 and what show would it be if we didn't
• 36:03
  have our most concurrent exclusive guest Wicket Wicket,
• 36:09
  Welcome to Open Comms Radio I. Don't think that's true anymore.
• 36:15
  Long time listener, occasional caller.
• 36:21
  We get what was the best and worst of 2025.
• 36:25
  Well, where to start? So many good things, so many bad
• 36:30
  things. I think my my, my best and my
• 36:34
  worst is the same thing. And that would be all the new
• 36:41
  additions and systems and play that star or that CIG brought to
• 36:50
  Star Citizen over the year. You know, we've got, we went
• 36:55
  from one system to three. We've got, we're able to
• 36:59
  traverse through a jump portal where we have rudimentary
• 37:05
  crafting, very, very rudimentary crafting.
• 37:08
  We have new mission styles, new mission types.
• 37:13
  We have new enemies that we got and the reason those those are
• 37:17
  obviously those are all good things because it, you know,
• 37:20
  gives you a whole new reason to join the the universe to the
• 37:23
  join the verse and and jump in and and and play the game.
• 37:27
  But for the most part, all those things were busted as fuck for
• 37:31
  the most part. So they were great additions,
• 37:34
  but when they worked, so you know, it was a double edged
• 37:39
  sword more or less. What was your top your top
• 37:43
  addition that didn't work? My top edition that didn't work
• 37:48
  was just the the overall jank that we got sometimes, you know,
• 37:52
  we're like everybody's having a great time and some weird niggly
• 37:58
  little bug. Whoa, whoa.
• 38:03
  Whoa. He's he's old.
• 38:05
  Let it pass. No.
• 38:10
  Continue it, it has nothing. To do with what you think it
• 38:14
  does, the etymology of it is completely different.
• 38:16
  It's just sounds. This just as a thing.
• 38:21
  Sure, Minder Wicked is a really decent and wonderful man and I
• 38:26
  am proud to know him and I am. Not saying that.
• 38:29
  I'm saying that seriously so. Anyway, anyway, let's move on.
• 38:34
  Anyway, you know English is the second language.
• 38:37
  Thank you. With your southern accent.
• 38:45
  That's because his first A language is French.
• 38:48
  Been here in the country longer than we've been alive.
• 38:52
  So the, you know, I, I was, I was happy to play Star Citizen a
• 38:59
  lot this year. Two big titles happened also
• 39:02
  this year that took me out of the the the verse for a long
• 39:06
  amount of time. One of those was doing awakening
• 39:10
  had a great time there, but that's kind of like run its
• 39:12
  course and the current my current passion is ashes of
• 39:17
  creation and I'm not going to go into a whole tangent again.
• 39:20
  I'll just mention it and let's let's be done with it.
• 39:23
  But. What are they paying you,
• 39:25
  Wicked? Nothing, nothing.
• 39:27
  I'm just I, I, I, you know, when I derive joy from something, I
• 39:31
  like to spread the joy. I'm kind of like Santa.
• 39:36
  Never mind, I'm not even. Going to I was going.
• 39:38
  To say a bunch of stupid shit, but I'm not even going to.
• 39:42
  Something about something about all those elves that you don't
• 39:45
  pay. Well, in in any event, the the
• 39:54
  the game itself at times was a joy to play, a joy to come back
• 40:00
  to after having long stints of being away from it, doing other
• 40:04
  things. And coming back and
• 40:06
  rediscovering the love of the space MMO SIM John, or whatever
• 40:11
  the hell this is supposed to be now rediscovering that and
• 40:15
  having a passion for it and playing with, you know,
• 40:18
  acquaintances and friends and guildmates.
• 40:20
  That was that was all great for the year.
• 40:24
  But you know, again, you always ran up against something that
• 40:28
  was broken, you know, like something despawned or this
• 40:31
  elevator wanted to kill you or numerous things.
• 40:36
  Another honorable mention for best thing and and at times
• 40:41
  worst thing. Well, I think it was more best
• 40:43
  thing is that whole hot fix with deployment that they did where
• 40:50
  you can jump on the hot fix but not lose progression.
• 40:55
  I think they should do more of that, you know, once it gets out
• 41:00
  of the PTU. I've never been a big big friend
• 41:04
  or and of the PTUI think they should just I mean it the the
• 41:09
  whole game is in development anyway and a lot of times even
• 41:12
  after they've done extensive testing in the PTU, it goes to
• 41:15
  the PU and we still have a big mess on our hands for an
• 41:18
  extended amount of time. Now it seems like that's
• 41:21
  lessened a lot in the in the last couple past cycles, but
• 41:25
  still most of the time it seems like the bugs that get uncovered
• 41:30
  once it goes to PU is because now it's being stress tested by
• 41:35
  a lot more users than would have normally happened in the PTU and
• 41:39
  therefore it uncovers a lot of issues that need to be resolved.
• 41:44
  And now I'm sorry to interject, but but do you feel that that
• 41:50
  is, I mean, we, we've seen PTU and it, and it can have some
• 41:57
  really drastic, you know, downsides to it as far as bugs.
• 42:03
  But do you, do you feel that the game is at a state right now
• 42:07
  where, you know, because I, I, you know, I, you know, we look
• 42:11
  at it and it really does feel like you're building a little
• 42:13
  bit of something, maybe not to the level that we want to be
• 42:16
  able to build, you know, a life in the game, but you know, all
• 42:19
  the stuff you've collected and all the, all the other things.
• 42:24
  Do you do you think if you if you merged the two and just had
• 42:27
  just a general PTU instead of APU, that it would give you the
• 42:31
  sense of stability that would allow you to keep coming back?
• 42:37
  I think it would uncover issues and bugs quicker.
• 42:43
  It would be a painful experience for more people, but on the
• 42:48
  other hand, we're already experiencing a lot of that pain.
• 42:51
  It may be worse without having a PTUI understand that argument
• 42:55
  that the PTU does smooth a lot of the extra, extra rough edges.
• 43:00
  And then once it goes to PU finally the the the last little
• 43:06
  bits that need smoothing over then are addressed because you
• 43:10
  know, once it hits the masses and their new systems get put
• 43:17
  under pressure, that's when the real big issues or small issues
• 43:23
  that become big pain points come to light.
• 43:28
  Overall, I see the value of the PTU.
• 43:32
  The problem is, like a lot of things the game is in in a lot
• 43:37
  of in a lot of aspects has become a lot more stable.
• 43:39
  But then you never know what you're going to get and MMO
• 43:43
  needs some level of progression. Yeah.
• 43:48
  And, you know, the, the, the one of the great things I've think
• 43:52
  so far is that there have not been any wipes.
• 43:55
  And of course, there are attractions of not having wipes
• 43:58
  because, you know, you have all this money in the economy, which
• 44:01
  we to be honest with you, there is no economy, you know, any
• 44:06
  economy that there is has been derived from users trading with
• 44:10
  users like, you know, special components when they took those
• 44:13
  out of the shops. That's about the only real
• 44:15
  economy that there is. Anything else is just smoke and
• 44:18
  mirrors. But we've generated our own
• 44:21
  economy and in the Red Scar Guild and by selling components
• 44:27
  that other people didn't want to take that make make the effort
• 44:30
  to acquire themselves, but they had the money to purchase them.
• 44:33
  Where that money came from, who knows, but they were paying
• 44:36
  millions. Yeah.
• 44:38
  Gave her some rando and chat. Right.
• 44:41
  I mean, that does happen. I've seen it.
• 44:45
  But overall, overall, I think it's been a great year.
• 44:48
  Looking at the financials, this has been the obviously something
• 44:54
  this year has attracted a lot more eyes and a lot more players
• 45:00
  to the to the project than in previous years.
• 45:03
  We are over 33% up for funding from player funding over last
• 45:11
  year. We're about, we hit 154,000,000.
• 45:15
  That's incredible. That's why that's wild.
• 45:18
  That's insane. And that's just for this year.
• 45:21
  And, and a big chunk of it, you know, happened to the big, the
• 45:25
  big cycle, the big sales cycles. Of course, a lot of new players
• 45:30
  have joined, a lot of new eyes have been put onto the onto the
• 45:36
  project and they have have experienced our citizen maybe
• 45:39
  for the first time. And then, you know, there's
• 45:42
  going to be people that realize, OK, this is a work in progress
• 45:46
  and yes, there's going to be pain points.
• 45:49
  And then there's other people that, and I, I get where they
• 45:52
  get this from. The marketing kind of plays on
• 45:55
  this fact that you can do all this thing, all these things,
• 45:58
  and they kind of sell it to the new users that are less informed
• 46:03
  of a complete package. And it's a game it's ready to
• 46:07
  play. And but when you get in here,
• 46:09
  you're immediately disappointed because there's so many like
• 46:13
  pain points that you have to progress through.
• 46:15
  And we as veterans of, of this, of this environment, we are all
• 46:20
  well versed in it, where we understand how that works.
• 46:24
  And we've, our skin is tough. We can handle it.
• 46:26
  We, we know how to get around a lot of the bugs and we know to
• 46:30
  expect things. But a new player, which is going
• 46:33
  to be the lifeblood of the game as it progresses, we have to
• 46:36
  have these new people getting into the game.
• 46:38
  We have to have these new eyes, these new players that have are
• 46:41
  totally new to it. Those are the people that you
• 46:44
  need to really impress because you want to keep them coming
• 46:46
  back. And somehow with with all the
• 46:49
  pain, with all the, with all the the expansion Blues, basically
• 46:54
  somehow 33.7% more funding year over year.
• 47:00
  That's incredible. So at some level CIG must be
• 47:04
  doing something right, or the people that drank the kool-aid
• 47:08
  are drinking more of it, a lot more of it.
• 47:11
  I don't know, maybe both? Well, if we if we step back, I
• 47:15
  mean let's look at one of the most profitable games out there,
• 47:17
  which is GTA Online in every year it's it's incremental, you
• 47:23
  know content it's this it's that it's it's shark cards.
• 47:29
  You know, they you know the, the updates are free, but people buy
• 47:33
  these shark cards all the time and so they what are the.
• 47:36
  Shark cards they. Are money, yeah, they're
• 47:41
  basically money by a yeah, It's a prepaid gift card that you're
• 47:45
  buying for yourself in game. So you get 1,000,000 or 10
• 47:51
  million. Yeah, in game currency with.
• 47:52
  It RM, It's RM. It's basically legal RM-2.
• 47:56
  Please no this. So this is flight blades to the
• 47:59
  Max. Kind of because you you buy, you
• 48:04
  buy things with it, you do buy vehicles with it.
• 48:10
  Yeah, I mean, it's the same as buying a ship, I suppose.
• 48:13
  Yeah, but I mean, if we look at the progression there, I mean,
• 48:17
  yeah, we have properties or whatever and, and, and we have
• 48:20
  but, but those are kind of like ships and we have vehicles and
• 48:24
  then those are like ships. You know, the experience that
• 48:28
  you're getting in Star Citizen already still exceeds what you
• 48:32
  get in GTA Online and. So.
• 48:37
  Well, you have much more to do as far as the types of play
• 48:43
  styles you have. Obviously you're in space, which
• 48:47
  is cool. You know, yeah, but yeah, I can
• 48:50
  buy a house and I can look at boobs.
• 48:53
  You can look at boobs, that is. That is true and maybe they
• 48:56
  should have boobs. Yeah, boobs are boobs are a big.
• 48:59
  Deal, there are boobs. I will argue OK.
• 49:01
  I was thinking this today. I was thinking about I was
• 49:06
  thinking about the about boobs today.
• 49:08
  Believe it or not, what? Yeah.
• 49:11
  Crazy. I was playing Cyberpunk and I
• 49:14
  just remember like Cyberpunk is like, I mean, it's, it's fine.
• 49:18
  It's, it's good enough, It's good.
• 49:20
  But like people keep, it's a single player game and people
• 49:23
  are still playing it. I don't know how many people are
• 49:25
  playing it right now, but there's always like 10s of
• 49:28
  thousands of people playing this game.
• 49:30
  That you. You.
• 49:31
  Wouldn't expect from a single player game.
• 49:33
  And I was like, oh, it's just because there's like boobs and
• 49:37
  like chicks you can romance and there's not many games that like
• 49:39
  offer that alongside, you know, hacking computers and shooting
• 49:45
  people. And I'm, I think, well, Mass
• 49:48
  Effect too, but Mass Effect also had a really like long longevity
• 49:54
  and a huge player. Base.
• 49:58
  No. Well, almost kind of.
• 50:01
  Not bear, not like, not like Cyberpunk, not like.
• 50:05
  That's fair. Yeah, that's fair.
• 50:08
  I mean, you can just hang out in like in a, in a gentlemen's club
• 50:11
  in both those games. And I'm thinking like, I bet
• 50:14
  there's so many people who just like do that.
• 50:16
  And if you think about like teenage boys and stuff.
• 50:19
  Right. Like, what are they 'cause I was
• 50:21
  thinking like, what are they spending their time doing in
• 50:23
  this game? There's not that much content.
• 50:26
  There aren't that many missions. The world isn't that immersive,
• 50:31
  really. In Age Boys and Star Citizen,
• 50:33
  this is a millennial game. What are you?
• 50:34
  Talking about I have AI have a comment from everyone in the
• 50:39
  forest. I have a comment from another
• 50:41
  universe yeah. So I, I met a guy in our Guild
• 50:47
  today in Ashes and turns out he's also a Star Citizen and
• 50:54
  he's, he's actually tuned into the broadcast today.
• 50:57
  So he just, he just wanted me to say we should point out that GTA
• 51:01
  Online is riddled with cheaters. Because of chart.
• 51:05
  Cards, so there. That is a detraction from that
• 51:09
  title. But yet it's the most profitable
• 51:13
  game out there as far as pound for pound, it it makes the most
• 51:17
  money. It has generated the most
• 51:19
  revenue out of any game and eclipses, you know, Star
• 51:22
  Citizen. But it offers less of an
• 51:25
  experience. And it's, well, I mean, yeah,
• 51:28
  the cheater is mainly on PC, but maybe with the RAM crisis, Star
• 51:34
  Citizen goes to console and be that solves a couple issues.
• 51:40
  Well, the RAM prices are crazy. Like when I built, we were, I
• 51:45
  was just talking to Murphy the other day.
• 51:47
  He was asking me about, you know, should he upgrade his
• 51:50
  memory? And I said, hell fucking no.
• 51:52
  Are you crazy? Are you a Rockefeller?
• 51:54
  Because when we built his system earlier this year, we we got him
• 51:58
  60-4 gigs of RAM in his in his. New Oh, he's fine.
• 52:01
  Yes, and and it's 2 the the because AM DS got a 9800 X 3D
• 52:08
  and because the way AMD is set up, you want to go with two
• 52:11
  sticks because the way the memory controller is you want to
• 52:14
  go with two sticks and you want to do 6000 megatransfers is like
• 52:19
  the sweet spot. And he has all that he has a,
• 52:21
  you know, 30 CL memory G skill. It's fine.
• 52:26
  It's but we looked up that memory when when we got it for
• 52:31
  his system to put in was $200. It's now over 1000.
• 52:36
  Yeah. Yeah, all for all for the same
• 52:40
  RAM, the I mean this. Yeah, it's crazy.
• 52:42
  The brand hasn't changed, it's just the price has changed.
• 52:45
  It's it's insane walking in Best Buy and seeing RAM.
• 52:49
  Just just hang in there. No $1000.
• 52:53
  Gold hanging on the wall. $10,000 of RAM. $20,000 of RAM.
• 52:59
  Oh, just hanging on a hook. Right there in front of you.
• 53:01
  Like holy crap. Well, look at man, look at man.
• 53:06
  Everything's getting more expensive, but our next guest is
• 53:09
  priceless. Our next caller in is.
• 53:12
  Awe been around? For quite a while.
• 53:14
  He was on our his first show with us I think last week or two
• 53:18
  weeks ago. It is crotch mullet, crotch
• 53:21
  Mcmullet. Welcome to Open Comms Radio,
• 53:24
  your star Susan Collins show. You're here live with myself.
• 53:27
  I'm Jar Jar Jabroni. You're here with Lord Anubis,
• 53:30
  Cosmic Hobo, Wicket and Duke Lado FL.
• 53:34
  Before you say a word. Mullet.
• 53:35
  Hello. I just want to say something
• 53:37
  before you say a word, Mullet. Hold on.
• 53:40
  Here we go. I heard that jar.
• 53:42
  Jar you say you are. Three more.
• 53:44
  Crotch Mcmullet. OK, go on.
• 53:49
  It's. Pretty low.
• 53:51
  I don't mind that one. It's good.
• 53:52
  It's good. But I, I wanted to add to you
• 53:55
  said what do people play in GTA and Red Dead?
• 53:58
  And I'm one of those people. But what kept me coming back is
• 54:03
  the same thing that Star Citizen has at the same time.
• 54:05
  It's like that. Like I would play it like a
• 54:07
  simulation. So even single player games,
• 54:10
  that would be a hunter, just kind of hunt my way and do that
• 54:13
  relaxing thing. Or.
• 54:16
  There's a lot of mods out there. That's a huge because even in
• 54:21
  GTA single or yeah, single player, you can become a, a gang
• 54:26
  leader, a gang Lord and just have your, you, you run a
• 54:30
  business pretty much. So there's a lot of like mods
• 54:32
  and stuff that you can do in the single player game.
• 54:35
  There's also lots of nudie mods. Yeah.
• 54:38
  Sure that there are boobs. Let's not overlook it.
• 54:41
  I'm just saying. All right, right.
• 54:43
  I haven't tried that yet to be honest.
• 54:45
  And I, and I, and I got to, I got to say, I got to think the
• 54:50
  the same draw that's right here, the same draw that while we're
• 54:54
  all here on OPA comms radio, make sure to subscribe by the
• 54:58
  way, if you haven't. And if you haven't and you're
• 55:02
  listening right now and we find out.
• 55:05
  Fucking we'll kill you. Oh my God, guys, no, please stop
• 55:09
  threatening What's? In game In game.
• 55:12
  And last like game episodes, people are like threatening, I
• 55:16
  think. I think it's the times 2025
• 55:18
  needs to end. We need to move into.
• 55:20
  A new era, a new phase. Age of Aquarius, I don't know
• 55:22
  what that means, but it just sounds better than what whatever
• 55:25
  is going on here. Listen guys, we have a guest
• 55:28
  show show Crotch Mcmullet, you have some respect.
• 55:31
  Crotch Mullet Best and worst of 2025.
• 55:36
  You asked me to answer this question and I was having a hard
• 55:39
  time. So I didn't play much.
• 55:42
  And that that was my thing this year.
• 55:45
  It was a personal choice. It wasn't the game itself.
• 55:47
  It was just it, it, it was personal, but I didn't play
• 55:50
  much. So like I had a hard time
• 55:52
  gauging what was the best and what was the worst because I
• 55:54
  came back feeling like a new player again.
• 55:56
  And it's funny that you're mentioning new players need to
• 55:59
  feel that thing. And I was like, I still feel it,
• 56:03
  but I was just a little lost because you guys are ahead of in
• 56:06
  knowledge at this point. But the best time is always
• 56:11
  this. It's it's the orc, it's the
• 56:13
  people, for real. That's what.
• 56:16
  Makes it for me. The worst is just wicked.
• 56:21
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 56:25
  Yeah. Very sorry.
• 56:26
  We all agree. That's so weird because I took a
• 56:29
  poll and I didn't even put wicked as one of the options
• 56:33
  people wrote it in Wicked. This.
• 56:38
  Is my life, you know, poor guy. The only love I get is the love
• 56:43
  of Haiti. And that lid is short where you
• 56:46
  have a stroke at the end. It's OK, I'll survive.
• 56:52
  So that slam you're drinking and Cruz likes?
• 56:55
  I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll come back with with truthisms that are
• 56:59
  actually true one day. I think we're all ganging up on
• 57:04
  you just because we miss you and you haven't been on.
• 57:08
  In a while you can play in a different every you know, No,
• 57:10
  you listen, Sir, coming on this show, you know, every few weeks,
• 57:15
  you know. Every quarter.
• 57:16
  I'm playing something else. I'm playing, and I feel like
• 57:19
  maybe you don't understand. This is a Star Citizen podcast.
• 57:23
  This is about a single A1 game. You can't just come in here
• 57:27
  playing all the all different kinds of of Mmos which stop
• 57:30
  playing. Games with us.
• 57:32
  Yeah, you don't stick with very long, OK.
• 57:35
  Yeah, he's he's with those Anubis.
• 57:39
  No, I mean, just you remember those couple months where he was
• 57:42
  like coming in like I have ascended beyond Star Citizen.
• 57:48
  I am, you know, the chosen one. I have prescience now.
• 57:53
  Wow. Yeah.
• 57:54
  And he kept. And then where's he now?
• 57:56
  Where's he now? Well, he in our hearts now.
• 58:00
  He's playing another game. But you know he'll.
• 58:01
  Get back, he'll get back. He'll be back.
• 58:04
  Yeah. And so, well, it has, it has
• 58:05
  been a year of actually some pretty good games.
• 58:07
  So we can actually go around and just ignore the confrontation.
• 58:12
  I I just urged. We can go around and say what?
• 58:15
  What else did you play this year?
• 58:19
  I'll start. I'll start.
• 58:20
  I played Metroid Prime, which was pretty I played like all the
• 58:28
  Metroid games this year thread Prime and now I'm playing Prime
• 58:31
  4 and it's been great. Bug free Nintendo, you know,
• 58:36
  perfect, perfect. You put that cartridge in and
• 58:39
  that's it. No updates needed.
• 58:41
  So that's what I was doing. Well, what else you've been
• 58:46
  playing? I always go back to Overwatch
• 58:48
  because it's a quick in and out for me, but for long term stuff
• 58:52
  when I would play I I went back to Rim World.
• 58:54
  I don't know if you guys played that ever.
• 58:56
  That's fun. I was going to say that for
• 58:58
  mine, I played a lot of Rim World too.
• 59:00
  There you go. Catch up the line.
• 59:06
  Duke, what'd you play this year? I've got a lot of things I
• 59:11
  always go back to a lot of like RT S, S and some FPS games for
• 59:16
  just a quick jump in, but the other one I spent the most time
• 59:20
  in this year was probably Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
• 59:26
  It's. An RPG really beautiful, like
• 59:30
  amazingly crafted medieval worlds.
• 59:34
  I don't even like RPGs but this one is just so immersive.
• 59:39
  So kind of like Star Citizen, it it doesn't hold your hand very
• 59:44
  challenging, very open as to how you complete the game and all of
• 59:49
  your all your choices really matter and there's there's lots
• 59:52
  of changes. So really good.
• 59:55
  Check it out all. Right, Wicked.
• 59:58
  What did you play this year? Played a lot of Path of Exile.
• 1:00:04
  Path of Exile too do an awakening and I've got over 200
• 1:00:11
  hours in the ashes of creation. Damn yo.
• 1:00:16
  And it's every game I played, even Star City was great.
• 1:00:22
  There's a lot of games I looked at and watched streams about.
• 1:00:26
  But IA lot of these games, they look great and they look fun,
• 1:00:30
  but it's like you have to learn a whole new system.
• 1:00:33
  And if I'm going to learn a new system, it's got to be another
• 1:00:36
  genre and a type of game that I really can get into, like the
• 1:00:39
  Dune Awakening, survival aspects of that game.
• 1:00:42
  They were great, But you know, it lost its flavor, it lost
• 1:00:46
  touch. I guess it, it, it was just the
• 1:00:49
  way the game is structured. There's no reason to keep coming
• 1:00:53
  back. Now.
• 1:00:53
  This Ashes game, it's in, it's in the, it's been a long term
• 1:00:56
  development, like over 10 years, like like Star Citizen.
• 1:01:00
  And there's so much potential here.
• 1:01:02
  And this gives me the the great feels of when I played arcade
• 1:01:08
  long ago and you know, I, I don't mind learning new systems
• 1:01:12
  if I see the payoff at the end of the day.
• 1:01:14
  So those have been my, my main titles and Path of Exile or Path
• 1:01:18
  of Exile, Path of Exile too, specifically, that's shaping up.
• 1:01:21
  If you're if you're into action RPGs, if you're into Diablo like
• 1:01:24
  games, it's going to be an amazing game once it's finally
• 1:01:29
  fully fleshed out. It's still in development, but
• 1:01:31
  it's playable now and it's awesome.
• 1:01:33
  It's free. That levelling echelon just
• 1:01:36
  turns me off. Path of Exile you get.
• 1:01:41
  Used to. Whatever you call it, the web,
• 1:01:43
  they're just endless. Of the Oh, you're talking about
• 1:01:46
  the the skill tree. There you go, that's the.
• 1:01:49
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's, it is. It is intimidating at first, but
• 1:01:53
  you start, as you play more, it becomes less intimidating.
• 1:01:57
  And there's so many people putting out content about that
• 1:02:02
  game that there's a lot of guides out there.
• 1:02:05
  And once you follow a couple of guides, you can tweak them to
• 1:02:10
  your own liking once you get wrap your head around how that
• 1:02:13
  how the skill tree works, how skills interact with each other,
• 1:02:16
  and just the game mechanics of the world.
• 1:02:20
  It. Becomes less daunting and it it
• 1:02:22
  doesn't take that long to get into it.
• 1:02:25
  But first of all, you have to be a fan of that solid game.
• 1:02:28
  You know, it does. It's it's it's fun to a point,
• 1:02:33
  but I get burned out all the time on that too.
• 1:02:35
  But I keep coming back all. Right.
• 1:02:37
  And Anubis, what? What else have you been playing
• 1:02:39
  this year? You know, honestly, nothing
• 1:02:42
  else. A lot of my year has been
• 1:02:47
  working on developing programming skills, you know,
• 1:02:53
  for ESP 32 and then, you know, then it moved into, you know,
• 1:02:58
  different things like my current job.
• 1:03:02
  Pick out this guy bettering himself.
• 1:03:04
  Yeah. Loser.
• 1:03:08
  Yeah, you know, plus, you know, a little bit of a hard year.
• 1:03:15
  I have finally, you know, now found consistent work after
• 1:03:21
  years of uncertainty and and hardship.
• 1:03:26
  So, you know, I will say that between trying to, you know,
• 1:03:33
  learn new skills and, and, and everything else, being able to
• 1:03:39
  come back to this game, become coming back to all of you, you
• 1:03:44
  know, and having people to talk to.
• 1:03:46
  And, you know, I mean, not that I don't have people to talk to
• 1:03:49
  in life, but it's a little different because, you know, you
• 1:03:52
  got to arrange things like that. You know, you got to meet up.
• 1:03:56
  I'm lucky enough to have people like that.
• 1:03:58
  But honestly, it's a lot different when you can just kind
• 1:04:02
  of just walk in every day. And not wear pants.
• 1:04:06
  And not wearing. Pants, yeah.
• 1:04:08
  Yeah, and and, and I announce that often.
• 1:04:10
  I say, hey, I'm not wearing pants and people go good for
• 1:04:15
  you. Cool.
• 1:04:16
  This is the part where you should play the the intro for.
• 1:04:18
  Cheers. Yeah.
• 1:05:23
  Because sometimes you do want to go where everybody knows your
• 1:05:27
  name. Everybody knows your name where
• 1:05:31
  everybody knows your name well. Speaking of, someone knows.
• 1:05:34
  Name we know. Oh, Captain, My Captain Murphy
• 1:05:39
  Jack, we're going to pull on up here to join us here on the call
• 1:05:42
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• 1:05:45
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• 1:05:57
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• 1:06:01
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• 1:06:04
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• 1:06:10
  On if you're, if you're, if you're a Star Citizen and you're
• 1:06:14
  you're a frequenter of the Robert Space industry website,
• 1:06:17
  go to the community hub, look up Jar Jar Jabroni and give some
• 1:06:21
  updates to this. Guy.
• 1:06:24
  And give updates to the shorts, give updates to some of the
• 1:06:29
  podcasts and some of the videos he produced.
• 1:06:31
  He's he's been putting a lot of time and effort into generating
• 1:06:35
  this content and show your appreciation if you care to.
• 1:06:39
  Bam Spectrum. What he really needs with some
• 1:06:43
  better guests. You know, I think if he had
• 1:06:44
  better material to work with, this would all be a lot easier
• 1:06:47
  for him. Yeah.
• 1:06:49
  Well, I don't know. He's he.
• 1:06:51
  He's posted some some bangers lately.
• 1:06:53
  Shorts featured. Despite what?
• 1:06:55
  Despite what we've given. Him.
• 1:06:58
  Yeah, Wicked's been the star of the last couple of shorts.
• 1:07:01
  So. But indeed.
• 1:07:03
  They were bangers. Unbelievable bangers dropping
• 1:07:07
  more bangers than a roof full of clumsy.
• 1:07:10
  Look, look, he's, he's learning new slang.
• 1:07:15
  So we we have in the chat could Doyle writes.
• 1:07:17
  The best thing for 2025 is the address.
• 1:07:20
  There you go of. Course, Yeah, he's.
• 1:07:22
  Of course it is. Mr. Gibbs short coming out that
• 1:07:27
  features the address. We did have a lot of fun on his
• 1:07:30
  address though. Oh yeah.
• 1:07:31
  I've had a great time this year on that.
• 1:07:33
  Yeah. Murphy, Jack.
• 1:07:35
  Welcome to Opencoms Radio. I'm Jar Jar Jabroni.
• 1:07:39
  You're on the couch with Wicket, Lord Anubis, Cosmic Hobo Duke,
• 1:07:44
  later the second crotch mullet, and we're all wondering what was
• 1:07:49
  the best and worst of 2025. Well, you know, you guys had a
• 1:07:55
  lot of really good bests, good worst.
• 1:08:00
  But I think the biggest thing we're, we're kind of overlooking
• 1:08:04
  'cause I feel like it's been a while, is this player cap on the
• 1:08:08
  servers. Can you imagine if we got Pyro
• 1:08:11
  and now Knicks and all that? We were still on 50 player
• 1:08:14
  servers. Yeah.
• 1:08:17
  I think that would be. Why would we even?
• 1:08:20
  It'd run really good, but I just think of all the content we've
• 1:08:25
  had from running into people, meeting people like I just real
• 1:08:31
  quick last night. Yeah, shooting people real quick
• 1:08:34
  last night. We went to a a Hathor site,
• 1:08:38
  scanned the whole, had pure Karenite in it.
• 1:08:40
  But there was this other crew there.
• 1:08:42
  There was, well three guys and we were able to, I was able to
• 1:08:46
  go board their ship and talk to them and we actually worked
• 1:08:51
  together on the whole. We took the pure Karenite and
• 1:08:53
  they took the other material. We provided cover for them while
• 1:08:57
  they mined up all the other stuff and we took the pure.
• 1:09:01
  So there's like all those opportunities of meeting people
• 1:09:08
  are so much easier when you have a lot more people on the server.
• 1:09:11
  I mean, how you going to do it? 50 people, right?
• 1:09:14
  Oh yeah, it'd be elite neighbors at that point.
• 1:09:18
  So that was like that. My biggest thing is stable 600
• 1:09:22
  player servers really brought it all together.
• 1:09:25
  And I mean as far as the worst of 2025, I mean a couple of
• 1:09:30
  those events. Were a little rough.
• 1:09:34
  Especially when they. Don't say resource drive.
• 1:09:36
  Don't is that the one with the dependent on the freight
• 1:09:39
  elevator and the freight elevators of growth?
• 1:09:40
  Saying it. Yeah, it was.
• 1:09:43
  That's my. Favorite event?
• 1:09:45
  Yeah, it was rough. That was rough.
• 1:09:46
  Fucked. If these guys, if the devs
• 1:09:49
  listen to you guys, I'm never going to get the game I want.
• 1:09:53
  But I do want to also echo what Raven said about the Flight
• 1:09:55
  Blade fiasco. I'm glad the community checked
• 1:09:58
  them on it. I'm not sure if they would have
• 1:10:02
  released them like they did if we didn't check them out at the
• 1:10:05
  same thing with the Argo Atlas, right?
• 1:10:09
  You know, we, the community got on them and they released them
• 1:10:12
  quicker, so that was good. But I think that's all I see for
• 1:10:17
  worse. It is nice to see that they
• 1:10:22
  respond to that stuff because that's like, OK, you know, I
• 1:10:26
  mean, who's making that decision?
• 1:10:27
  You know, whatever. I don't know.
• 1:10:29
  But it's nice to see that. Chris.
• 1:10:33
  Chris. It's all Chris's do it.
• 1:10:36
  It could be, I don't know. I I.
• 1:10:39
  Heard Jens Flores was promoted to that position to make the
• 1:10:42
  decision. He's a developer.
• 1:10:45
  What's he doing making these kinds of marketing and business
• 1:10:49
  decisions? They laid off other people.
• 1:10:52
  Yeah. That's how that works.
• 1:10:56
  That's how it happens. Oh, yeah.
• 1:11:00
  Murphy, Jack. Murphy, Jack.
• 1:11:01
  What are the games you play this year?
• 1:11:04
  Dune Awakening, that was probably the biggest that I did
• 1:11:08
  and still doing Overwatch with Mullah and everybody else every
• 1:11:12
  once in a while. The Sims Legacy Edition.
• 1:11:18
  Whoa, didn't expect that. Yes.
• 1:11:21
  Right, learning some secrets here.
• 1:11:24
  Oh, it was a blast from the past of the my childhood as I grew up
• 1:11:28
  playing that the very first Sims.
• 1:11:32
  How many Sims have you trapped in a pool?
• 1:11:37
  This year, back when I was a kid.
• 1:11:40
  This year. I haven't done any yet this
• 1:11:43
  year. Better question, how many Sims
• 1:11:46
  albums have you listened to? I did listen to a YouTube
• 1:11:53
  playlist that that music is very like, that's like a smell
• 1:11:58
  memory, you know? Yeah.
• 1:12:02
  And their language when they talk.
• 1:12:04
  It's pretty pretty neat. Can you give us an example?
• 1:12:10
  Oh, oh, you know when you put you on the spot like that?
• 1:12:15
  You can't, but I don't. Know you know.
• 1:12:19
  I'll just split it out randomly at some point.
• 1:12:22
  Yeah, there was a meme about that.
• 1:12:24
  It was like a country song, but if you had a stroke and you
• 1:12:28
  didn't understand anything, it was just kind of gibberish.
• 1:12:31
  I don't know if you saw that meme but that was a SIM song.
• 1:12:34
  That makes sense. I have a question, I don't know
• 1:12:40
  if this has ever been talked about but I was playing alone
• 1:12:43
  the other day and have you has anyone ever thought about like
• 1:12:48
  removing the animation getting your seat for your ship?
• 1:12:52
  Oh no. Can't do that.
• 1:12:54
  We don't talk so long. It used to be longer.
• 1:12:58
  I know, yeah, some ships are still too long, but some of them
• 1:13:01
  are right. Well, I mean, now they have
• 1:13:06
  ships that just like, throw you down your throat.
• 1:13:09
  Now it's really icky. I know where that comes from,
• 1:13:15
  and I think this has to do with the whole engineering thing and
• 1:13:19
  having to get out of your seat quickly.
• 1:13:20
  I think it's less about getting into your seat, but getting out
• 1:13:23
  of your seat because you're in a hurry, right?
• 1:13:26
  And then you just kind of like, do the regular stand up out of
• 1:13:30
  your seat. You should be like leaping out
• 1:13:33
  of your seat if the ship's on fire, you know?
• 1:13:37
  But I don't know. I don't know how they would.
• 1:13:41
  I would think how they would program that.
• 1:13:43
  How? How?
• 1:13:44
  You. Scroll your wheel.
• 1:13:45
  The. Whole be walking.
• 1:13:49
  OK, used to be an O an O shit button.
• 1:13:52
  Yeah. Cool.
• 1:13:55
  Yeah, let's just add more key binds to this game.
• 1:13:58
  There's not a. Great idea dude, I play with the
• 1:14:03
  fucking controller. That still baffles me.
• 1:14:08
  Ow. I play with a game pad and since
• 1:14:11
  they actually put in the VR now you can kind of navigate the
• 1:14:16
  menus almost I could go, I could do a whole hour on this.
• 1:14:21
  But like you know, on a controller you have the two
• 1:14:24
  sticks and then you have that D pad.
• 1:14:27
  And normally if you're in a game, you're going to try to
• 1:14:29
  control the menus with AD pad usually.
• 1:14:34
  But in some newer games like Cyberpunk or something, they
• 1:14:36
  kind of like mimic the mouse cursor and they just use, you
• 1:14:40
  can use one of your sticks to do it.
• 1:14:42
  Well, in Star Citizen, if you're using your GamePad, you can't
• 1:14:47
  navigate. You can kind of navigate menus
• 1:14:49
  with the D pad, but it's not consistent.
• 1:14:52
  And instead, if you try to use the sticks, it's it will move
• 1:14:56
  the mouse with the stick, but it'll also rotate around your
• 1:14:59
  character at the same time in your inventory.
• 1:15:02
  And there's, there's no way to to like change that.
• 1:15:05
  So they've, they just haven't given us the option to, to do
• 1:15:10
  it. And I think now that they have
• 1:15:12
  the VR and I'm curious if any of the VR players how they're like
• 1:15:16
  navigating these menus and stuff because it's obviously changed
• 1:15:20
  since that update, but I can't imagine it's it's user friendly
• 1:15:25
  for them. I mean, it was a spot launch.
• 1:15:30
  A soft VR launch? OK.
• 1:15:32
  And is anyone here using the VR? I tried before I got my new
• 1:15:38
  graphics card and I could see a pipe and it looked really cool
• 1:15:42
  but I I could not. I could not move or do anything
• 1:15:46
  because it was very. I'll try with my new GPU at some
• 1:15:51
  point. OK Oh, you got it.
• 1:15:54
  You you recently got a new GPUI? Did I went with?
• 1:15:58
  I went with Ranik to Micro Center.
• 1:16:01
  Oh dog. Which wasn't receiving is, Yeah,
• 1:16:06
  yeah, well, actually went to both.
• 1:16:09
  Dang yo the. 3D printer thing he wanted was not at the the
• 1:16:14
  Virginia 1 so we went up to the Maryland one.
• 1:16:17
  Oh, which which printer? I have no idea he has five.
• 1:16:24
  Yeah, I just recently got a new one.
• 1:16:27
  All right, well join us next week on Printers Printers
• 1:16:31
  episode Open printers.com/net. We have a new guest for us on
• 1:16:39
  the couch today. It is wild card.
• 1:16:41
  Wild card. Didn't we already read your
• 1:16:43
  comment? I don't know.
• 1:16:48
  We did are. You saying you weren't watching
• 1:16:50
  the show? Wild card.
• 1:16:53
  Wild card. Welcome to Open Comms Radio,
• 1:16:55
  your star assistant Colin show. Thank you for calling in today.
• 1:16:58
  You wrote that your best thing for in 2025 was the improved
• 1:17:03
  stability, the ASD missions and the new ships.
• 1:17:07
  You wrote that the worst was the patch management.
• 1:17:12
  Yes. You stand by what you said.
• 1:17:14
  I do. I do in a it was, as you know,
• 1:17:20
  it was a long year with a lot of patches and stuff and and a lot
• 1:17:24
  of good stuff. I mean, to be honest, but and
• 1:17:29
  for the most part, it was pretty stable.
• 1:17:33
  But you know, we see a lot of the same old bugs coming back,
• 1:17:37
  you know, and, and from that perspective where it's like if
• 1:17:44
  we already, you know, once, once they squash a bug, right, you
• 1:17:49
  know, it, it shouldn't be coming back in a future build, in my
• 1:17:53
  opinion, right? And the reason that it does is
• 1:17:57
  talk about patch management or at least branching of the
• 1:18:00
  patches, you know, And I don't feel that that that's something
• 1:18:04
  that they've historically done very well.
• 1:18:09
  Interesting. Is is that true though?
• 1:18:12
  Because I think the same bugs can appear for multiple reasons,
• 1:18:16
  right? So I don't, I don't want to give
• 1:18:19
  them like I, I don't, I don't think they're, I think they're
• 1:18:25
  aware of the fact that like, if they squash a bug, it could come
• 1:18:30
  back. I hope they're not just like
• 1:18:32
  putting out a a patch that's squashes all these bugs and
• 1:18:37
  stuff and then go and then like building off of a previous
• 1:18:41
  patch. So in the, I can only speak from
• 1:18:45
  the experience that I have, you know, and, and I'm sure that
• 1:18:48
  this is a much bigger development house than what I
• 1:18:51
  work with. But what we tend to see is, you
• 1:18:56
  know, you have all these branches of code, right?
• 1:18:58
  There's a, there's a, you know, almost infinite branches of code
• 1:19:04
  for the, the different, there's one core version of software.
• 1:19:07
  And then there's all these different branches.
• 1:19:09
  And the branches are for, we've worked on in different, by
• 1:19:13
  different development teams, right?
• 1:19:15
  And they're supposed to, you know, when they, when they
• 1:19:19
  release a release candidate, they're supposed to bring all
• 1:19:22
  those golden builds, you know, to the main build.
• 1:19:27
  And then that's your release candidate.
• 1:19:29
  Now, if there's, you know, there should be some testing, some
• 1:19:34
  quality control. If the bug has already been
• 1:19:36
  squashed, you have an issue. You know there's an issue,
• 1:19:39
  right? I can't imagine they're, you
• 1:19:42
  know, they wouldn't be able to catch that in in testing, right,
• 1:19:46
  in Q&A. Now you might argue, well, isn't
• 1:19:49
  that what live is? It's an alpha, right.
• 1:19:52
  So maybe that's our job is to Q&A this stuff.
• 1:19:57
  But from my perspective, you shouldn't be seeing the same
• 1:20:00
  bugs over and over again. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:20:06
  I agree with you. I mean I I it's it's annoying as
• 1:20:09
  shit and like the freight elevators are fixed now.
• 1:20:15
  Have they bugged since the end of the resource drive when they
• 1:20:19
  fixed them? Have they had experience with
• 1:20:23
  that? Yeah, they are right now.
• 1:20:24
  Well, not all of them, but the ones that the tech smuggler
• 1:20:28
  broke. That's.
• 1:20:30
  Because they don't have an inventory system there.
• 1:20:34
  And then which is funny because they did before, but the the
• 1:20:39
  ones that the worm and where's it?
• 1:20:43
  There's another one. I think the CZS too, right?
• 1:20:45
  The CZS are all broke. The.
• 1:20:49
  CZS were working last time I. Was working.
• 1:20:53
  OK. Well, it's it's.
• 1:20:54
  It's the worm and the the text smuggler.
• 1:20:58
  Yeah, you're tossing dice. You're rolling dice to see if
• 1:21:00
  things are working or not. It seems like.
• 1:21:03
  I mean, that's that's a lot of the reason why I don't.
• 1:21:05
  I don't pop in. I'll I'll see everyone's on.
• 1:21:09
  I kind of like try to catch the vibes like is shit work, It
• 1:21:12
  isn't not working because if it's not working, I'm out.
• 1:21:15
  And this was the year of stability.
• 1:21:16
  Now, that said, we it is much more stable than it was a year
• 1:21:20
  ago. And given all the new content
• 1:21:24
  that that's in the game, you know, we're we're looking
• 1:21:26
  forward to a possibly fantastic year ahead for Star Citizen.
• 1:21:34
  Now there's some barriers in that way.
• 1:21:35
  There's some some walls that are put up that I think everyone's
• 1:21:39
  kind of worried about. One of those is Squadron 42.
• 1:21:44
  Oh boy. We were told we were.
• 1:21:47
  We were promised, I don't know if you were a promise, We were
• 1:21:50
  told it's coming out 2026. They made a new trailer, 2026
• 1:21:55
  release date. We are one day away from 2026
• 1:21:58
  upon this recording and we've heard nothing.
• 1:22:01
  Now there are there are a couple ideas here and let me lay this
• 1:22:08
  out for everybody and you can react.
• 1:22:11
  A lot of games recently have been releasing extra content and
• 1:22:16
  sometimes even like games, full-fledged games without any
• 1:22:21
  marketing beforehand. And you could argue Squadron 42
• 1:22:26
  has already done so much marketing that it may not.
• 1:22:30
  They may make the decision that it's not reasonable to have a
• 1:22:34
  whole other marketing budget and months of buildup for a game,
• 1:22:39
  that they may just, you know, quote UN quote, shadow drop it.
• 1:22:42
  Yeah, No, they'll tell you the day or week before.
• 1:22:47
  And they'll just know you. Know that's right in A to your
• 1:22:52
  point though, they they were talking, they were comparing the
• 1:22:55
  launch of, you know, order 42 with GTA, you know, huge
• 1:23:01
  launches, right. So there's no way they're going
• 1:23:04
  to add or drop it. You know, they want that to be a
• 1:23:07
  big splash. Doesn't mean how much grief have
• 1:23:10
  they taken about not releasing anything over this long period
• 1:23:12
  of time. They're going to have to make a
• 1:23:14
  big deal about something that they release.
• 1:23:15
  If it goes to one O, it's going to be a huge thing.
• 1:23:20
  Plus you're generally though, well, generally you have a
• 1:23:23
  teaser out about a a year before you intend to release it more or
• 1:23:27
  less, right? You let people know this time
• 1:23:32
  next season, it's coming, right? We haven't gotten really any
• 1:23:36
  official tease or anything like that.
• 1:23:39
  I, I, I, I think Quadrant 42 could be the make or break for
• 1:23:46
  Star Citizen. I think the one thing it has
• 1:23:52
  going forward is it's, I mean, I know they want to put it on a
• 1:23:55
  console release, so it's going to have to compete with GTA6 at
• 1:24:04
  some point. Now GTA 6 was delayed again to
• 1:24:08
  this year to to the summer of of of 2026.
• 1:24:12
  So who knows if that's even going to if they're still going
• 1:24:14
  to release it. That's been delayed several
• 1:24:16
  Times Now, but they're supposed to come out in the summer.
• 1:24:20
  Any game that releases anywhere close to to the behemoth of GTA
• 1:24:26
  is is is is stupid to release anywhere close to them because
• 1:24:31
  all eyes will be on will be on GTA.
• 1:24:35
  So they have to make sure that they do not release the same
• 1:24:38
  month well, but I would say within two months of it.
• 1:24:42
  Isn't a caveat to that is that GTA isn't going to be on PC for
• 1:24:46
  at least a year past it's released?
• 1:24:48
  Yeah, but Robert, Chris Roberts always said that he wanted to
• 1:24:51
  make sure Squadron 42 is playable on console.
• 1:24:54
  Yeah, he. Did.
• 1:24:56
  Yeah. Well, well, let's think.
• 1:24:59
  I mean that that was maybe a little bit weird before, but now
• 1:25:05
  with the RAM crisis and everything like that, I mean
• 1:25:09
  constable is kind of your only profitable Ave. after a.
• 1:25:12
  Little while, I don't know if that's still the the goal, but
• 1:25:15
  obviously we know from playing Star Citizen that the the, the
• 1:25:21
  the the hardware requirements to have a good looking, good
• 1:25:25
  playing game right now because it's unoptimized are very high.
• 1:25:29
  Yeah. Although I would say that if,
• 1:25:35
  if, if Squadron 42 is going to release no later than December
• 1:25:41
  of 2026, let's let's give them that big buffer.
• 1:25:45
  They have the whole year to release it, right, Because they
• 1:25:48
  didn't give a firm date of anything.
• 1:25:50
  They just said the year 2026. So now they have 12 months to
• 1:25:52
  release it. If you don't start seeing a
• 1:25:54
  bunch of hype trailers and a bunch of marketing happening
• 1:25:58
  starting I'd say in February, latest March, it's not going to
• 1:26:03
  release this year because you want to build that hype.
• 1:26:06
  You want to start building that hype.
• 1:26:08
  If they were smart, the Gillian Anderson's, the Gary Oldman,
• 1:26:13
  Mark Hamill. What's the other dude?
• 1:26:17
  Reeves Roths or something, I forget.
• 1:26:20
  There's so many actors that played roles in in the making a
• 1:26:23
  Squadron 42. If they don't have them, if they
• 1:26:26
  don't have them on the hype train, Yeah, if they don't have
• 1:26:29
  these folks on the hype train pumping out support for this
• 1:26:34
  title this year, I don't think it's going to happen.
• 1:26:37
  They'd be stupid not to. They need to spend that money to
• 1:26:40
  that make it happen. They need to build excitement
• 1:26:42
  for this game like nothing else. And I think all that right, all
• 1:26:46
  that good graces of Squadron 42 releasing and having a mag, you
• 1:26:52
  know, a mag. A giant success, basically
• 1:26:56
  bigger than anything they could ever dream of.
• 1:26:59
  If that happens, it's going to be nothing but a boon for us
• 1:27:02
  and, and, and Star Citizen, because then there's going to be
• 1:27:05
  so many people that want to continue the journey, right?
• 1:27:08
  And not wait for chapter two or three of Squadron 42 that
• 1:27:11
  they've talked about. Who knows how long that's going
• 1:27:14
  to take to happen, But in the meantime, you can play the MMO
• 1:27:17
  Star Citizen, and that's where you need that new blood to come
• 1:27:21
  in and play this game that we all love and enjoy.
• 1:27:24
  So all of us can prey upon the bobs.
• 1:27:28
  Well, I wouldn't say that, but you know, you need, you need to
• 1:27:31
  help, you need to constantly have new blood in your game or
• 1:27:35
  the game just becomes stagnant and dies over time.
• 1:27:40
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, you look at a game of
• 1:27:44
  this scope, I mean, the Squadron 42 with that kind of star power,
• 1:27:49
  you're seeing it, you know, as a panel at Comic Con, you know,
• 1:27:52
  San Diego Comic Con. And I could see that, You know,
• 1:27:56
  hopefully they do do that. I mean, they have the budget for
• 1:27:59
  it. They can, and it deserves that.
• 1:28:02
  But Star Citizen is really the title, you know, because your
• 1:28:06
  average gamer doesn't know Squadron 42.
• 1:28:09
  They know, Star Citizen, they know.
• 1:28:11
  They don't know it yet, Star Citizen, right?
• 1:28:13
  But that, that's what gets point too.
• 1:28:15
  This is their chance to use all those actors who they already
• 1:28:18
  spent tons of money on. They've got to use this
• 1:28:21
  opportunity to get people playing the game.
• 1:28:25
  You know, if they're smart, they're going to be, they're,
• 1:28:28
  they're going to set up booths at Comic Con, they're going to
• 1:28:30
  set up booths at, at whatever conventions there are.
• 1:28:34
  They're going to put little playable demos in front of
• 1:28:37
  people. You know, if they can just play
• 1:28:38
  for 5-10 minutes and it has to be fucking flawless.
• 1:28:41
  So the word gets out that holy shit, this is like next damn
• 1:28:44
  level. Des Moines Library Con.
• 1:28:48
  If, if, if they, if they can do something like that and, and,
• 1:28:51
  and bring that to bring that level of excitement to the
• 1:28:54
  table. This is nothing but a good thing
• 1:28:57
  for us. If it doesn't happen or it gets
• 1:28:59
  a slow roll and it gets a slow head of steam, it's going to be
• 1:29:03
  a death knell to, to, to the Squadron 42.
• 1:29:07
  And it may be even to us because we're not going to get what
• 1:29:11
  we're wanting or we are going to get it and it's just going to
• 1:29:14
  take even that much longer. But if they get the hype out
• 1:29:17
  there, if, if the machine churns and that churn starts generating
• 1:29:21
  income and generating new eyes and new, new experiences for new
• 1:29:25
  players and the word gets out, you know, it just takes a couple
• 1:29:28
  of decent content creators on on the Internet to to, to find this
• 1:29:33
  title and, you know, blast it, you know, signal boost like
• 1:29:37
  crazy. And next thing you know, you
• 1:29:40
  know, you're going to have all this, all this new blood into
• 1:29:43
  the, into the, into the universe of Star Citizen.
• 1:29:48
  And that's only a good thing. It's going to, there's going to
• 1:29:50
  be some negatives along with it also, obviously.
• 1:29:52
  But overall, I think it's a net positive.
• 1:29:57
  Yeah. OK.
• 1:29:58
  So 2026 ahead of us, we're all, let's just, let's just put it
• 1:30:04
  out there. Do you think Squadron 42 will
• 1:30:08
  release in 2026? We'll go around.
• 1:30:12
  I'll start off. I'm going to say no.
• 1:30:14
  I'll be a negative Nancy about it.
• 1:30:15
  I don't think it will. Lord Anubis, what do you think?
• 1:30:20
  I think I have the correct answer which is yes.
• 1:30:24
  OK, wicked, what do you think? I think also yes, and I think it
• 1:30:32
  has to release this year. OK, hobo.
• 1:30:37
  I'll agree with Wicked. Yes, and it has to release this
• 1:30:40
  year. Lots of positivity.
• 1:30:42
  They don't have the gauntlet. Duke.
• 1:30:47
  I'm going to shirk the positivity and instead say that
• 1:30:51
  it has to release this year like it has to the you know, Chris is
• 1:30:56
  going to be in there chaining people to their desk if it's
• 1:31:00
  looking like it's not going to happen.
• 1:31:03
  Crotch mullet. Chris Roberts, the big bad in
• 1:31:06
  Squan Four or two. Yeah, he plays a vandal.
• 1:31:10
  He he has the vandal. He, he, it has to, I really do
• 1:31:14
  think. So Grimandi.
• 1:31:17
  I think so. See even they they didn't do
• 1:31:19
  citizen Khan and I, I have a feeling it just they just wanted
• 1:31:24
  to pull everyone waste less time.
• 1:31:28
  You guys are Manchester. Murphy.
• 1:31:35
  Well, I say no. There we.
• 1:31:39
  Go sensible person. Wow.
• 1:31:42
  Yeah, I, I, I just, I have a feeling and nothing against
• 1:31:47
  them. I just, I can, I, can I give a
• 1:31:51
  percentage? How about a percentage?
• 1:31:54
  I say. Say whatever you want.
• 1:31:55
  I'm at 60% no, 40% yes. Right now he's.
• 1:32:00
  Hedging his bets already. This is the right now.
• 1:32:03
  I know, I know why he's. The Guild leader.
• 1:32:05
  This is why he's the Guild. Leader.
• 1:32:06
  But. I'd actually take it 6040.
• 1:32:08
  That's not a. Bad.
• 1:32:10
  I'm not a strong no, but I'm leaning towards no.
• 1:32:15
  I'm leaning towards I, I, well, I just say I see it early spring
• 1:32:20
  2027. OK, yeah, I just.
• 1:32:28
  Hold on, we got one. More.
• 1:32:29
  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry.
• 1:32:31
  Sorry, I'm going to have to say I think it releases this year
• 1:32:34
  you. Mean.
• 1:32:37
  Tomorrow. Oh that would be damn OK.
• 1:32:43
  That's awesome. All right, Yeah.
• 1:32:46
  I'll take that bet. Yeah.
• 1:32:47
  Hey man, those those odds are going to be long, but the payoff
• 1:32:50
  is going to be big. They they, they got that ChatGPT
• 1:32:54
  super account that just like enables the entire the entire
• 1:32:59
  global AI for them. If I May 26, I think it's gonna
• 1:33:05
  happen late 2026. Is it possible for them to not
• 1:33:10
  release it in 2026 and still technically meet their promises?
• 1:33:17
  I. Mean early 2027.
• 1:33:19
  That's why, That's why I say that.
• 1:33:20
  But. Would that still meet their
• 1:33:22
  promises? What, like, what's the wordage
• 1:33:24
  that you're using to twist around and say what?
• 1:33:27
  What could Chris say and release then and be like, no, we, we did
• 1:33:31
  exactly what we said. The holidays it's.
• 1:33:34
  Not any really reasonable. OK, that's what I was just
• 1:33:38
  trying to think of it where there's some weasel words.
• 1:33:41
  Because they've said explicitly 2026 on more than one occasion.
• 1:33:45
  Yeah, but did they say release? I mean, maybe they maybe it's
• 1:33:48
  done, you know, the end of 262026, they could be like it's
• 1:33:52
  done. This is a feature complete
• 1:33:54
  argument. It's ready to be.
• 1:33:56
  It's ready to be released, but we're not going to release it
• 1:33:59
  yet. It's ready to be tested if you
• 1:34:02
  buy a ship. Well, they did have to redo the
• 1:34:05
  graphics for the game because it has been so long since they did
• 1:34:09
  the mocap that the engine had changed and the textures now
• 1:34:15
  could be updated and they did redo all of that.
• 1:34:21
  I I don't want to be negative, but who's excited for Squadron
• 1:34:25
  42? I am.
• 1:34:29
  That'd be cool. I want to fuel the lore of this.
• 1:34:34
  Universe. I've been playing in for like a
• 1:34:35
  decade and the best way to do that's a single player game.
• 1:34:39
  Like, we've seen bits and pieces of it, and you can read plenty
• 1:34:43
  here and there, but I want to feel the universe.
• 1:34:48
  I want to have like organizations, names and
• 1:34:52
  characters that I'm like, Oh yes, cool.
• 1:34:58
  I just want to make a sense. Of if I may.
• 1:35:01
  See if they properly implement controller support.
• 1:35:05
  I. I first.
• 1:35:06
  Started playing. Yeah, Robert's games Super Wing
• 1:35:10
  Commander one on the computer like a 360X2 a long time ago and
• 1:35:15
  I bought a Panasonic 3D O. It's because they were the Super
• 1:35:19
  Wing Commander on it in the 90s at some point.
• 1:35:24
  I don't even remember which year it was.
• 1:35:26
  And we were the other person with the 3D O.
• 1:35:28
  Yeah, and Wing Commander Armada and and Wing Commander the
• 1:35:37
  mercenary one. I mean, just every game that
• 1:35:39
  Chris Roberts has put out a Blade, Star Lancer, whatever.
• 1:35:42
  So I'm really looking forward to watching 42 personally, you
• 1:35:47
  know, and that was before I even knew there was going to be, I
• 1:35:51
  was never really excited about the, the, our citizen, the, the
• 1:35:58
  multiplayer game. I was always more concerned with
• 1:36:00
  the single player game. That was before, you know, I
• 1:36:04
  started playing Star Citizen and, you know, met a lot of
• 1:36:07
  these nice folks here and really started enjoying it.
• 1:36:10
  But as far as I'm concerned, that's that was one of my main
• 1:36:15
  reasons for even being here, yeah.
• 1:36:20
  OK, so we get Squadron 2026. It it comes out then we are, we
• 1:36:29
  are right on the precipice of Star Citizen releases.
• 1:36:34
  It's it's Christmas time, they released Squadron and Chris
• 1:36:37
  Roberts has a big announcement. It's well received.
• 1:36:40
  Everybody cheers and fucking nerds smashing soda cans on
• 1:36:45
  their heads. Everyone's stoked.
• 1:36:47
  And Chris Roberts says on our next project in 2027, Squadron
• 1:36:53
  42, Chapter 2. How do you?
• 1:36:58
  React goes wild. I'll be annoyed.
• 1:37:02
  I'd be annoyed. I would say that that would be
• 1:37:09
  suicide for the game project because again, Squadron 42, I
• 1:37:15
  will play for a week, maybe a month, right.
• 1:37:19
  But you know, our citizen is my 1015 year game.
• 1:37:26
  I could see it being that, you know, I mean, it's it's a
• 1:37:30
  forever game. It's the place where I get to
• 1:37:33
  see my friends. It's more than just a game.
• 1:37:36
  And that's where the money is. I hope they do continue to sell
• 1:37:41
  ships forever, you know, and then they release them a couple
• 1:37:44
  months later to buy with a UEC. OK, cool.
• 1:37:47
  But I do hope that they do keep, you know, the incentive to keep
• 1:37:51
  it funded, to keep it updated and to keep it live.
• 1:37:59
  Yeah. OK.
• 1:38:01
  Any any other takes on that? The next goal?
• 1:38:06
  Should be at 1.0. I.
• 1:38:07
  Think that should be need. To end.
• 1:38:12
  Yeah, if they announced that, I think a lot of people will be
• 1:38:14
  upset. I mean, it's, we've been being
• 1:38:16
  told for years now that development of Star Solution has
• 1:38:20
  held up because everyone's working on Squadron.
• 1:38:25
  And I think we're all sort of expecting, you know, to some
• 1:38:30
  extent the floodgates to open up for, for progress to be a little
• 1:38:35
  easier and a little more impactful once Squadron is done.
• 1:38:41
  And for them to announce we're, we're still going to keep just
• 1:38:45
  five people working on Star service in while everyone else
• 1:38:48
  works on, you know, Chapter 2. Now people will be pissed.
• 1:38:53
  I agree. Chapter 2 after Star Citizen
• 1:38:55
  goes to one point O awesome I I look forward to it, but not
• 1:38:59
  before. On one point O's release, I want
• 1:39:02
  Chris to come out and say well and crying, of course we did it,
• 1:39:07
  we did it now onwards and he's like Squadron 42 Chapter 2/20/20
• 1:39:16
  I don't know 8. No 20/30/20 Be honest.
• 1:39:22
  That's. David Beckham meme with with his
• 1:39:24
  wife. Be be honest.
• 1:39:27
  Yeah, be. Honest.
• 1:39:30
  OK, so. We.
• 1:39:33
  Have 2026. It is January now.
• 1:39:37
  After January, usually at the end of January, the beginning of
• 1:39:39
  February, they release Jared comes out and he says, oh, this
• 1:39:43
  is what we've planned this whole month in January, because
• 1:39:46
  January is the planning month. So they're going to announce
• 1:39:49
  what they foresee to us probably in the beginning of February,
• 1:39:54
  end of January. Anyone can take this.
• 1:39:58
  What is on that list of things for them to tackle in 2026?
• 1:40:06
  Crafting. Crafting.
• 1:40:08
  Well, we were supposed to get a crafting tech brief you before
• 1:40:12
  the end of the year, but. Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
• 1:40:16
  Let's look at the calendar. Knock, but there's still time.
• 1:40:21
  There's still time, maybe they could push one out tomorrow.
• 1:40:24
  But yeah, crafting. Yep, crafting Genesis.
• 1:40:29
  Dale Strom. Males.
• 1:40:32
  Strom, here's a is is is Castro and Squadron 42 doesn't have
• 1:40:39
  something to do with Squadron 42.
• 1:40:43
  I don't know. I don't.
• 1:40:44
  Think so. That's that military station
• 1:40:48
  that doesn't have any. Yeah.
• 1:40:49
  CASCOM, Castro, I don't believe it does, but Terra I think does.
• 1:40:56
  Terra. Can someone explain to me why
• 1:41:01
  they called a star system Terra? Did they just want to confuse
• 1:41:04
  everybody? Because it's like Earth Type 2,
• 1:41:07
  right? It's got like a second.
• 1:41:09
  Earth on it. The same reason that it could
• 1:41:11
  possibly in real life, because it's named by humans and humans
• 1:41:16
  it's Constantinople. Which is this realm?
• 1:41:21
  Earth to have those people that travel through the dirt.
• 1:41:26
  All right, well, that's that's about the end of the episode
• 1:41:29
  here. Wait.
• 1:41:30
  We're going to bring it down here.
• 1:41:31
  Wait. One more thing, Mr. Murphy, Jack
• 1:41:38
  is there. Since you have this open public
• 1:41:41
  forum, is there any announcements you care to make
• 1:41:44
  about Red Score I? Mean this is not a red score
• 1:41:49
  show. Yes, but he is a Red Score
• 1:41:52
  member. We're all Red Score members and
• 1:41:55
  I think the public forum a great time to announce the go on.
• 1:42:02
  You can take it from here. Yeah, he doesn't want to.
• 1:42:09
  He's buying a new ship. Go on.
• 1:42:13
  You're making me feel like I'm forgetting something.
• 1:42:16
  Oh, oh, oh, you're not. You're just avoiding it.
• 1:42:19
  You're avoiding it. Are you calling Murphy Jack a
• 1:42:22
  liar? Yeah.
• 1:42:25
  You calling me a liar? He he wants you to announce him.
• 1:42:28
  As the. No.
• 1:42:31
  It's. Got.
• 1:42:34
  To wait till 2026, that's all. I think I think I know what this
• 1:42:37
  is about. Unbelievable.
• 1:42:40
  That's all I believe with Unbelievable.
• 1:42:43
  Unbelievable. Does it start with G?
• 1:42:45
  Yes. Thank you.
• 1:42:47
  You start with what? GGG.
• 1:42:51
  Mm hmm. G.
• 1:42:55
  Officially changing it from an orb to a Guild.
• 1:42:57
  Yeah, there you go. Initially a Guild.
• 1:43:00
  We're a Guild. Bingo, that's.
• 1:43:02
  A That's a good place to end the year, so.
• 1:43:04
  It goes through 2026. Surprise.
• 1:43:08
  Damn. Everyone, I want to wish
• 1:43:10
  everybody a very, very happy and prosperous new year, very happy
• 1:43:13
  and prosperous. 2026. This has been open comms.
• 1:43:18
  We, we started in February of of 2025.
• 1:43:22
  So we're, we're up on a year now as the, you know, a full year
• 1:43:26
  we've we've gone from one subscriber to 150.
• 1:43:32
  So we are 150 times better and we've gone from having no guests
• 1:43:38
  to look at this room here. I'll get all these guests coming
• 1:43:41
  in and joining us and everyone here helps, makes the show well
• 1:43:46
  as as average in it as it can be, and everybody helps.
• 1:43:51
  We strive for. Me this and yeah and I, I love
• 1:43:57
  doing it and I love hanging out with you guys and this was just
• 1:43:59
  a a fun it was a spite show at this that's how it started
• 1:44:04
  because I I there was another show and they can't be waiting
• 1:44:08
  for an hour and a half and I was like, if I'm not going to keep
• 1:44:10
  people waiting for an hour and a half, that's so rude and so
• 1:44:13
  that's. How we started for 40 minutes.
• 1:44:16
  And you'll, you'll wait for maybe 20 minutes.
• 1:44:19
  We could, we could cut it down, but we have too many guests.
• 1:44:22
  What can I say? So I just want to thank you all
• 1:44:25
  for being here and, and, and thank you all for, for joining
• 1:44:27
  the show. And I don't, I don't say that
• 1:44:30
  stuff often, but I, I appreciate you all being here and, and,
• 1:44:35
  and, and I appreciate you all for listening as as well.
• 1:44:39
  Thank you for that. All right, OK.
• 1:44:43
  The end of Open COM season 1. Are we going to go around?
• 1:44:49
  We're going to go around. We're going to go around the
• 1:44:51
  last go round of 2025. Yeah.
• 1:44:56
  Wild card. Is there anything you'd like to
• 1:44:59
  say to CIG, Chris Roberts, or the people on the Internet?
• 1:45:03
  To Chris Robertson, Cigi would say hurry up.
• 1:45:08
  To everybody else, I would say. Go lose that bet.
• 1:45:14
  Yeah, it's, you know, 2026 right around the corner, man.
• 1:45:16
  Come on 25. We've got a few days left, so
• 1:45:21
  just come out and play. Let's have some fun.
• 1:45:25
  Very good. Murphy, Jack, Is there anything
• 1:45:27
  you'd like to say to Chris Roberts, CIG or the people on
• 1:45:29
  the Internet? CIG and Chris Roberts I I really
• 1:45:32
  want to see like a little more in game events centered around
• 1:45:38
  like Luminalia. You know, we get like resource
• 1:45:40
  drive and all this stuff, but what about a little bit more
• 1:45:43
  Luminalia? You know, maybe some
• 1:45:44
  decorations, maybe some NPC talk NPC wearing those fancy
• 1:45:50
  sweaters, you know, maybe you know, Stella, you got Stella
• 1:45:54
  Fortuna, you got the Halloween day of the Vara, right?
• 1:46:02
  Luminalia. Yep, Yep.
• 1:46:08
  Yeah, all right, all right. I like it.
• 1:46:11
  I like it. Crotch, mullet.
• 1:46:13
  Anything you want to say to CIG? Chris Roberts of the People on
• 1:46:15
  the Internet. I've been waiting all year to
• 1:46:17
  say this. Chris Roberts, I tell you this.
• 1:46:25
  OK. All right.
• 1:46:27
  You are. You fucking did it again.
• 1:46:31
  Oh. No, you know that.
• 1:46:32
  Like all the time. I wasn't looking at the monitor,
• 1:46:37
  so I didn't even see him pop off.
• 1:46:41
  OK, all right, all right. I see how it is.
• 1:46:43
  I see how it is wicked. Anything you want to say to CIG?
• 1:46:46
  Chris Roberts of the People on the Internet.
• 1:46:49
  Sandy Roberts, Chris Roberts, The versus power couple, please
• 1:46:55
  don't leave us hanging in 2026. Release your 42 and get on with
• 1:47:01
  making our forever game complete.
• 1:47:05
  The other thing I want to mention is mentioned a lot of
• 1:47:09
  things about what was great about 2025, and I neglected to
• 1:47:13
  mention one of the great things of 2025 was the birth of open
• 1:47:18
  comms. It's been a fun, fun time.
• 1:47:21
  I've enjoyed participating with you guys and look forward to
• 1:47:25
  next year. Have a great new year,
• 1:47:27
  everybody. Cosmic Hobo.
• 1:47:32
  Anything you want to say to CIG, Chris Roberts, or the people on
• 1:47:35
  the Internet? Please give us base building to
• 1:47:42
  like any capacity of it, like something base building that
• 1:47:45
  we've seen at Citizen Con last year.
• 1:47:52
  We need. Base building, we just, we need
• 1:47:55
  investments like that. All right, and Duke, you you
• 1:48:00
  can't say what hobo just said anything you want to say is CAG
• 1:48:04
  Chris Rapids people any net. Just, you know, keep working.
• 1:48:13
  I'm going to turn. I'm turning 41 next year and I
• 1:48:17
  don't want to be 42 before Squadron 42 comes out.
• 1:48:23
  That's what I'm saying. Wow.
• 1:48:24
  Nice. Swing.
• 1:48:28
  I was a lot younger when I started backing this game, just
• 1:48:31
  saying. Young and dumb.
• 1:48:34
  Young and dumb. Well, Lord Anubis, we did it.
• 1:48:39
  Yes, we did. We did it, we did it.
• 1:48:43
  This is this is the the end of Opal comms radio for 2025.
• 1:48:46
  Special shout out to Drake Tavington Tavros, my original Co
• 1:48:51
  host who comes in every weekend and watches the show still is
• 1:48:56
  with us in our hearts. And and special shout out to to
• 1:49:02
  everybody else, everybody here on the couch, everybody who gave
• 1:49:05
  some input. Anubis, you, you know how we do
• 1:49:08
  this. I do.
• 1:49:10
  And you know, Georgia, what do you have to say to Chris
• 1:49:17
  Roberts, CIG, or the people on the Internet?
• 1:49:26
  People on the Internet, don't lose hope.
• 1:49:29
  Get out there, walk around, walk a bit.
• 1:49:31
  People need to fucking walk more.
• 1:49:34
  OK. Fucking sitting in your car all
• 1:49:37
  the time. You just walk to the grocery
• 1:49:39
  store, get out there, write a sign, March on something that
• 1:49:45
  you support, you know, don't don't let the world pass you by
• 1:49:50
  this crazy shit going on. But most of us are, are pretty
• 1:49:53
  fine. Chris Roberts.
• 1:49:57
  Get it together, bro. Get just get it together, OK?
• 1:50:05
  We want topless dancers in game. Everyone's afraid to say it.
• 1:50:11
  Boobs. Play us out, Lord new of us.
• 1:50:14
  I will play you out, but I also want to just say one thing to
• 1:50:19
  the people. The Internet, if you're
• 1:50:23
  listening, yes. Keep having hope.
• 1:50:26
  Do the thing you love, even if it's cringe, you know?
• 1:50:31
  Even even if it's like you might be embarrassed if someone saw
• 1:50:34
  you. Honestly doesn't fucking matter.
• 1:50:36
  Do it in one life and when facing adversity, try to help
• 1:50:43
  people understand. Because that's the path to
• 1:50:45
  healing, and together we can make a better world for 2026 and
• 1:50:49
  beyond. Someone's going to get arrested
• 1:50:52
  tomorrow for exposing themselves in public, and they're going to
• 1:50:54
  tell they're going to. Do come on.
• 1:50:58
  Yes, yes, try to make sure. It's not.
• 1:51:03
  A felony or a misdemeanor, There you go.
• 1:51:07
  But do the nerdy thing. Trust me, embrace it.
• 1:51:10
  It'll change your fucking life from the bottom of my heart.
• 1:51:15
  Honestly, it will. But to play us out, I will do a
• 1:51:23
  12 part rendition of Danny Boy. I have a bagpipe here, Are you
• 1:51:30
  ready? Yeah, play us out.