Mr. Kuzminov defected from Russia to Ukraine last summer, flying his Mi-8 military helicopter into Ukrainian territory and handing the aircraft along with a cache of secret documents to Ukrainian intelligence operatives. In doing so, he committed the one offense President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has said again and again he...
I’d say this is less on the ability of Russian assassin’s and more on this guy for reaching out to his girlfriend back in Russia.
In Spain, Mr. Kuzminov lived “an indiscreet life,” the senior Guardia Civil official said. He went to bars popular with Russian and Ukrainian clientele, burning through the money he had received from the Ukrainian state. He drove around Villajoyosa in a black Mercedes S-Class.
Exactly how the killers found him has not been established, though two senior Ukrainian officials said he had reached out to a former girlfriend, still in Russia, and invited her to come see him in Spain.
“This was a grave mistake,” one of the officials said.
I’m really disappointed on this one. The original star wars battlefront and battlefront 2 were some of my favorite games and I was looking for an excuse to go back and play the campaign, but with upgraded graphics
When I used to manage people (for a call center) I would do that but via text. I didn’t wanna catch anyone off guard with a phonecall where they agree to it without realizing they already had plans or something.
I also always tried to stress that this is optional, if there aren’t enough people, that’s on us, and we should have prepared better.
“Palworld is now one of only seven games that have seen over 1 million concurrent players on Steam – the others include: PUBG (3.2 mil), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (1.8 mil), Counter-Strike 2 (1.4 mil), Lost Ark (1.3 mil), Dota 2 (1.2 mil), and Cyberpunk 2077 (1 mil).”
I’ve got 14hrs played so far and I am enjoying it still. I am currently level 21 and have beaten the first story boss.
TL;DR Jack of all trades, master of none, but does a good job of mixing things together. 8.5/10 so far.
Palworld is kind of like fortnite imo: it didn’t invent the monster capturing, exploration, crafting, or building, but it is one of the first games to mix them and it doesn’t run like complete ass. The building is kind of basic, the exploration isn’t too in depth but there is always something going on( you can find fast travel beacons, area ‘boss’ monsters, story bosses, dungeons, and there are pokemon throughout all of this), the monsters have some variety but they all feel like a mix of different asset grabs, and the crafting is simple (BUT, you can use your monsters to craft for you and take care of your base).
I’d say individually each of these things are rated 7/10 or 8/10, but when you put them all together it’s pretty great. The crafting and the base building are there, but I just come back, build some things up, and then the monsters do all that for me while I go back to exploring. Last week I went through and beat Raft and Palworld is a breath of fresh air: I’m not spending hours grinding resources and crafting shit, instead I’m wandering around finding new monsters and locations and I come back and stuff is built. The crafting and resource finding isn’t the entire game but it’s a nice accessory. Similar to fortnites building + battle Royale, I didn’t think monster capturing + base building would be that fun, but they have done a great job of mixing the 2. I find myself looking for certain monsters so that I can have them do certain tasks at base, and that’s a win-win in a way.
The game is kind of janky in parts: I’ve had monsters fall through floors, some areas feel like they were ripped right out of other games (I swear some of the old, broken down churches look like they were stolen from elden ring), and the climbing mechanic isn’t fully polished, but unlike other early access games it runs pretty well so far performance wise. I’ve gotten so used to games like valheim, cyberpunk, and starfield where the game comes out and just runs like complete ass (30fps or less) for the first few weeks. Hell, we were playing Raft last week and our host told us to stop building the boat more b/c he was scared the game would crash. I’m not running Palworld like I ran CS:GO, but it feels like a steady 60fps+ at all times which is really great. As a counter to that though, hosting a dedicated server is okay at best so far. There is a memory leak that has the game go from taking 2-4gb of ram up to 8gb+. After 8gb gets used the computer I have hosting it tends to crash and then I have to manually turn it off and on again to get things going.
In the end, I know I’m going to get my money’s worth out of it (30+ hrs), maybe even double that(we’ll see) and I’m happy with that. I’m not expecting this to be the next Skyrim/baldurs gate/fallout, I don’t expect to play this for thousands of hours non-stop, and that’s fine b/c there is other stuff out there I’d like to play anyways. Similar to Valheim (I have 58.2hrs of playtime as of writing this), I expect to play through palworld, shelve it, and if there are any updates in the future I might come back to it.
I am very hype for the release of this one. It hasn’t been officially confirmed (besides some discord comments), but AI enemy changes may also be coming which would be great.
For those that haven’t played it before, H3VR ( is a VR shooter with some of the most detailed firearms in VR. It’s not as detailed as Escape from Tarkov (unless you download some mods), but a ton of firearms built into the game have full functionality, from guns where you can add grips, grenade launchers, sights, scopes, etc. to a fully functional stinger MANPADS. The attention to detail is impressive!
I have a disturbing amount of hours in this specific game mode for this game. Something about moving through the levels, eliminating enemies, and getting better guns is a ton of fun.
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Mr. Kuzminov defected from Russia to Ukraine last summer, flying his Mi-8 military helicopter into Ukrainian territory and handing the aircraft along with a cache of secret documents to Ukrainian intelligence operatives. In doing so, he committed the one offense President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has said again and again he...
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Palworld Becomes the 7th Game Ever to Reach 1 Million Concurrent Players on Steam (www.githyp.com)
“Palworld is now one of only seven games that have seen over 1 million concurrent players on Steam – the others include: PUBG (3.2 mil), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (1.8 mil), Counter-Strike 2 (1.4 mil), Lost Ark (1.3 mil), Dota 2 (1.2 mil), and Cyberpunk 2077 (1 mil).”
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