Embark are in a precarious situation with BurntPeanut using quite a lot that exploit.
On one hand they shouldn’t let someone expose to thousands of players exploits like that, on the other hand BurntPeanut has definitely helped in making the game more popular…
I personally think streamers have to abide to the same rules as anybody else so if they used the duplication glitch on stream they should probably get at least a temporary ban.
I guess we will see.
I think you just contradicted yourself.
I rest my case about generalization.
Also what does their audience has to do with the fact that you equate a Veritasium channel to a MrBeast channel ?
It’s weird because you started by saying you didn’t understand Youtubers and now you are comparing the audience of entirely different channel.
It’s fine you had a stereotypical conception of Youtubers, you dont need to change the subject.
No it’s DM from people that are not in your friend list. I often receive scam messages on Discord and only notice them months latter.
The simple fact that they will be hidden deep in the inbox IMO is important. If a teen doesn’t see messages from strangers they had no prior contact with that’s good in my book.
I think it’s much better than just letting these nasty DMs stay in the dark anyway.
At least a teen will have to go out of his way and ignore the warnings to get in contact with some freak.
Also what better solution do you suggest to implement ?
So teen-per-default means that adults can freely talk to teens, which should be prevented.
That’s not my understanding.
I get your point but by default if Discord thinks you are a teen it also implies all the limitations associated with that status. Which means some media will be blurred and some commands cannot be done.
An adult can keep his “teen default status” but he also keeps all the limitations associated with it. Which I suppose doesn’t mean they can “freely” talk to other accounts as you state.
Notably the DM that a groomer would send will end up in a special inbox for all teens or for that matter “default teen”.
Please read the Discord official post.
one to access teen spaces,
That account will be tagged as a teen account until proven otherwise. Therefore any message or DM he will receive will go to a special inbox with most likely warnings to consult it.
Please, again, I understand that the pitchforks are out for discord, I’m just asking you to take the time to read the official discord post from top to bottom.
There will still be unknowns until they release the update but your question is already answered by their official post.
Basically, as long as an account hasn’t done an age verification it’s assumed to be a teen. And that means all the limitations attached to that. So you can create 10 accounts if you want either :
You have proven you are an adult on that account you remove the limitations to what you can do but your messages towards teen accounts will most likely go to that special inbox they mention. No clue exactly how hidden and how much warning are attached to that inbox.
You have no proven your age and your account is limited like any other teens account. You won’t be able to see “sensitive media” whatever Discord means by that I dont know.
What I really wonder is what they will allow in term of interactions between the two groups in details. They are very vague on many aspects of it.
But multiplying your accounts on discord doesn’t look like a valid workaround to their system.
Yes. It will take months before the most egregious ones are fixed.
At least 4 patchs and I still can drop from any 19 meters and below height without taking fall damage.
I won’t go into details but it’s something that can be done mistakenly it’s not some super complicated exploit with a difficult setup.
And on the quick use items there is probably hundreds of exploits and bugs that remains to be discovered. I saw someone send a matriarch to space (it litteraly disappeared in the sky) with just a few basic items. That’s someone that can remove a major Arc boss on demand and for cheap.
That’s the thing, this game is very rich in utility items and that’s amazing but many interactions I think have never been tried out by their QC teams.
Players did the obvious : “Hey what happens if I put something on the remote flare ? Oh right.”
Most likely yes.
But still I wasn’t the only one at the swimming pool.
to understand the appeal of YouTubers.
Come on, are you really putting all the Youtubers in the same boat as MrBeast ?
Take a look at channels like :
They only share a platform with MrBeast but it’s not fair to compare them to that prominent idiot.
It’s akin to saying all books are bad because you didn’t like your last book…
I dont have O blood type but mosquitoes do love me.
I once was in the swimming pool floating on my back with just my nose out of the water.
I saw a mosquito land right on my nose and start to sting me.
So even when only the tip of my nose is vulnerable to mosquitoes, they are there to sting me within a minute.
People in my family appreciate to have me in forest walks because I act as a permanent decoy for them.
It’s them applying the same strat as in the US even though they are in Milan and the roads are twice as narrow.
I suppose they think there is so many cars it would be hard to know in which the couch fucker is. But still you are correct to say that convoy could be easily completely blocked. And in that case you could have an army to defend it it would be a very bad situation.
Please read the end of my message.
If you are a teen “by default” you will have all the restrictions of a teen until you prove you are an adult.
So an adult with ill intentions should either be :
Again it’s what the very vague statement of Discord says. We also have no clue how their “inference model for age classification” works either…
Any source for this ?
The official announcement is quite vague and since the feature isn’t out it’s hard to know how it will work exactly.
Also, I assume the biggest risk isn’t for teens to send nudes “unprompted” but to let adults contact them and ask for them.
This for example is very vague :
Age-gated Spaces – Only users who are age-assured as adults will be able to access age-restricted channels, servers, and app commands.
So if a teen can only interact with other teens on dedicated spaces it should make it harder for perverts to ask for stuff.
And if an adult tries to pretend to be a teen he will only see blurred content ?
I’m sure many will think I’m trying to defend Discord on this but I’m not. Again we dont really know how this update will work. I’m just trying to make sure we dont spread misinformation.
There will be plenty of time to criticize Discord when they push this update.
What I’m sure of is that discord was definitely a platform of choice for many bad people to hunt and groom teens.
Personally, it’s the fact that discord says they will delete my verification data :
Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.
In most cases ? Really ? Is that supposed to look trustworthy ?
Fixed an issue where crafting would sometimes get cancelled.
I hope that’s the bug where the notification for a successful craft cancels any other craft right after.
It was really annoying. Like you would craft a ferro, and if you crafted right after the ammo it would cancel it…
I’ve been forwarded this pretty neat summary of the current alternatives (Mastodon thread) :
Ah, you don’t have your safety glasses?
Yeah!
Do I get a free guitar 🎸?
Yes, i think the mission to damage players is really bad if you are a pacifist player. Also by damaging people you are breaking their gear which I think is kind of annoying.
I would suggest asking nicely to other players if you can shoot them for the challenge (only if you already are on friendly lobbies) and give them some heal afterwards. But to be honest creds are useless for me. I easily reach the soft cap of 800 creds and when I do I usually get a guitar or a hatch key so that I can start to collect creds again. I usually don’t do damage for the PvP damage and I sometimes do PvP myself so I can complete some of them.
Also to be fair with the devs, a system that can reliably detect who is the aggressor on an encounter is very difficult to design. People could be taunting other players on proximity chat. Sometimes players shoot Arcs close to you and can inadvertently create a conflict. Sometimes rats fail so hard they deal me no damage and I kill them. In that case the game will definitely think I’m the one that attacked. For such a system to work you would need to detect when someone is shooting at you (even if they missed) and flag them as the aggressor just for the concerned players but not the others. It gets incredibly difficult if you have to account with random solo players banding together.
So the system right now is really dumb, I think it just looks at the average damage you dealt on games and put players with the same score on your lobby.
But also I have to warn that this is not an accurate science (to quote the devs) even some pacifist will seize opportunities if they see you with some good stuff.
For instance, one guy in a super friendly lobby on locked gate heard me dying to a rocketeer and said in chat that he would defib me. He came close and straight up finish me. Technically he didn’t deal any damage to me but still betrayed me and took my loot.
And when I get a hullcracker in a raid I’m attacked more often.
Anyway, good luck topside :)
No. Recently I played a bit using a friends mumble server. And it’s a friend that is already privacy conscious. But these friends are not the norm. They are the exception.
Interesting to see Teamspeak evolved but still you have to pay to host a server so that’s a huge difference.
You have to play with the aggression based matchmaking of the game.
It’s been confirmed fully by devs and I guess it’s here to stay.
If you do something like 10 raids in a row without shooting or dealing even 1 damage to another raider you will get placed in super chill lobbies where it’s very uncommon to be shot at.
What is very frustrating but important to understand is that the game doesn’t care who shot first. So if someone rats you at extract and you shoot back, your “aggression rating” will increase. The next game you are likely to be placed again with more PvP players. Again if you shoot back, it will get worse. It’s a vicious circle toward more aggressive lobbies.
So my advice is simple, if you want chill lobbies, go to stella Montis for at least 7 to 10 raids and bring nothing in term of loadout. If someone shoots you, so be it. Run, flee hide, do whatever you can to avoid conflict. And if you die with nothing then it’s ok. For that I highly advise not going with a free loadout but with a dirt cheap basic loadout with just a ferro to kill Arcs. That way at the very least you can safe pocket stuff even when players or Arcs kill you.
I call these “expiatory raids”. I’m the punching bag of the server but eventually I will be with friendly raiders.
That aggression based matchmaking is particularly bad if you have an hybrid playstyle and play both PvP sessions and PvE sessions. Everytime you decide to change your play style towards other players it will take around 10 raids for the matchmaker to adjust.
I’m not religious but in this case :
If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also
That’s the recipe to getting to chill lobbies.
Fascinating! And also a bit sad for a french cheese consumer…