74: Fix A Lot of Early Sins

HammerCast

Early Access comes to bite ATLAS players. Fortnite players beware the Fork Knife. Games should probably stop dropping non-delta patches. Gearbox is bringing big things to PAX East.

WRUP

• Factorio
• Farming Simulator 19
• Apex Legends
• Overwatch
• Destiny 2 Forsaken
• WarGroove
  • Patch 1.2.0 brings some quality-of-life changes to WarGroove
• Mass Effect: Andromeda
  • Nvidia Ansel
• Tetris 99
• Fantasy AGE
• Star Trek Adventures

NOTES

• ATLAS' March Milestone to completely wipe the public servers in a full map reset
• Satisfactory Early Access starts March 19th
• Fortnite players are dying to the Fork Knife
• Anthem players say it's crashing their PlayStation 4s
  • Remembering the dev studios and franchises EA has killed over the years
• Apex Legends tops 50M players in first month
• Rawmen: Like Splatoon, but you're a naked man who throws soup
• Elite Dangerous isn't getting another major update until 2020
• GPU shipments are in decline as retailers can't move inventory
• Games need to stop wasting bandwidth with gigantic patches
• Gearbox is revealing something at PAX East, possibly Borderlands 3

MUSIC CREDITS

Music for this episode of HammerCast is Mega Hyper Ultrastorm by Kevin McLeod of incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.