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Probably? They already fucked off from Steam when EGS offered them money bags. None of their latest releases are available on Steam. We now know that the overwhelming majority of EGS exclusives failed to recoup the investment for Epic (so the devs end up making no additional income and often stop promoting the EGS version altogether once the Steam release happens lol) but in Ubisoft's case they still had uPlay to fall back on. So I think it's very likely that of all the companies that got in bed with Epic, Ubisoft are the ones that made out like bandits. I expect them to come crawling back to Steam eventually (EA finally did) but they can stay on the EGS for all I care. AC Valhalla is pretty much the only game I'd probably end up buying if they returned to Steam. And honestly, I've wanted a new Splinter Cell for years now but with everything surrounding Ubisoft over the past couple years I honestly couldn't give less of a shit right now. I don't trust the current Ubisoft to make a decent stealth game.

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Wow, that looks great.

Originally I was just going to have the old window removed, thing had a huge crack and was held together by hopes and dreams lol. Then I used that chance to give my room a makeover. Hidden because this wall has some rather NSFW posters lol. Left part on the first pic used to be a closet, moved that to a different room and turned that space into a shelf area, I do need to do something about light, half of the room is kinda dark lol. Also something about that empty wall behind my bed, I'm thinking more shelves, or some posters. This room has been through a lot of changes, most of them in the last year or so.

Halo Infinite This campaign has some issues that I could go into (the boss fights are terrible, all the main story missions feel samey, no big army-clashing set-piece battles, only one biome, etc etc), but the core is so so good none of that really matters. It's just so damn much fun to play, and moment-to-moment it feels like the Bungie games. I'm actually wanting to dive back in to the open world to do all the FOBs and stuff, and I never do that with open world games. This is a great game despite its flaws, and I very much look forward to what 343 can do to improve upon it. 4/5 *Edit - I'm going to try a letter grade system, since I feel like that makes more intuitive sense to me than numbers. Halo Infinite gets an A-.

Battletech Unless you're a hardcore fan and need to own/play/read anything and everything Battletech, I'd suggest skipping it. Enemy turns take forever, you can only deploy one lance of four mechs, while enemies will often have at least two lances plus a bunch of vehicles and/or base defence turrets, meaning you move one unit, wait an eternity while they move theirs, you move your second unit.... so on and so forth, takes even longer when you're given support units, which you can't control. I'd recommend, if you must play this game, to have a mobile game or something else to keep you occupied while you wait for your turn. Camera angles are pretty terrible during enemy turns, too many times I was just staring at some rocks while the sound of explosions, artillery and laser weapons played in the background. Some story missions force you to bring story characters instead of members of your mercenary outfit, in those missions not only do you need to keep these characters alive, but they'll also have the crappiest mechs ever, when they do have better mechs, they don't have any of the skills that would make them effective, so it's a matter of trying to keep them as far away from danger as possible, effectively leaving you one mech short. A story mission in particular was really disappointing Story was OK, being able to decide whether you're in it for the money, or for some greater cause was cool, the events that pop up here and there were fun, specially as you get more ship upgrades which opens more options like letting pilots fight it out in the training room as opposed to sending them to the brig for insubordination, stuff like that was neat. Time between financial reports felt too short, 30 days in XCOM is fine as it's 30 days of doing stuff, completing missions, shooting down UFOs, etc, however, in Battletech 30 days can go by in an instant, as travelling to certain destinations can take more than 20 days, meaning you'll really have to hunt for the highest paying, and most dangerous, contracts if you want to stay afloat, or just stay in a system with low-paying contracts, taking as many as you can. The best part were the mechs, there's plenty to choose from, and plenty of weapons to equip, with + and ++ variations that get special bonuses like extra damage, more stability damage, stuff like that, customising mechs with different parts and different paint schemes was the best part, shame about everything else lol. A way to make this more fun, if you don't mind fiddling around with some files, is to edit your starting lance, replacing the busted old mechs you get, with some of the unique mechs in the game, that's a fun twist. That and edit some of the hero mechs and their unique weapons, make them feel more like a proper mech.