I’m not dismissing the criticism of BL3, I honestly don’t know what it is beyond my personal experience. I wasn’t a big fan of the antagonists or the weapon changes, but It didn’t ruin the game for me. I really didn’t know that the game was so widely disliked - I never even looked into it. It came out, I played it, lost interest, and moved on with my life.

So, BL3 wasn’t great. the pre-sequel was out of house and doesn’t really count. It was made in an entirely other culture. It’s not like there have been a lot of games since BL2.

I honestly don’t understand the hate.

I’d like to say that while the game feels great, the engine does not. I had to drop from 7680x2160 to 3840x1080 to make it playable on an RTX-3090. For context, I can play Star Citizen at full resolution just fine (7800X3D, X870 mobo and plenty of RAM.) I think it’s a UE5 issue. I also CTD a few minutes ago.

Gameplay wise it feels like an updated BL game. motion is vastly improved with double-jumping, climbing and dashing mechanics. I can’t say much about the guns or skills, since I’m currently only lvl 5, but the auto-gathering of ammo and the addition of a medkit mechanic (hit T to use the med gun on yourself which is itself a loot item) is a welcome improvement.

That’s about as much as I can say so far. I hate that it was $70, but we all knew that was going to be the new normal for AAA games.

Honestly from the reviews I’ve seen I don’t think I’d ever expect end game. More “you win… here’s the credits” and now I realize it’s been a long time since I’ve played a game that did that.

You got me wondering and apparently Home Assistant could work with the home depot bulbs. I’ll have to do a deep dive but honestly the Hue integrations with games and monitors is really what I was most interested in. That said anything that can do a bit more than individually changing the color of a bulb manually would be nice.

We’ve been doing that the whole time. CFL’s were rated in equivalent Watts as well, because that’s what people know. To this day I couldn’t tell you what the lumen rating of a 100w incandescent bulb put out, but I know the relative brightness from experience. Considering there are people who may have never actually owned an incandescent bulb it may be time to focus on that? Who knows. Also there’s still the selling point of “Our bulb uses 10% of what a “real” light bulb uses!”

Those are still ridiculously expensive. The Home Depot lights I have all cost like $5-7 a piece. Unfortunately the Hubspace app SUCKS and hasn’t been updated in the two years since I installed it. I’d toyed with the idea of upgrading to Hue, but it’s just not worth the investment.