I think the biggest thing is convenience. It’s a lot easier for the launcher to do some handshakes and check/update to current patch. Other way is client opening, client closing, patch applied, client opens yet again, that type of deal

Fallout 4. I think they did most things right with Survival mode and I’d consider it an entirely different game than the vanilla ‘fast travel and save anywhere’ experience, and it’d be fun to see an even more polished version with more focus on surviving in a world where NPCs are also trying to survive as opposed to more mechanics that don’t really broach that aspect such as settlement building. If they made a Fallout 5 that was a bit more challenging in that regard I’d probably consider it a masterpiece

I like watching the changes. The world and everything in it, including me, isn’t in stasis. People get old, I’m getting old, wild to look back at ‘young me’ or think of a close friend at a time when they were totally unfamiliar. My hometown is 10x larger and looks wildly different but I can still point out some unchanged spots when I go to visit.

I wish I could stop time and do whatever but I acknowledge that I was thrust into this with no say in any of it, so I just strive to be at peace with it I suppose

Any important document I have is named ‘yyyymmdd(number)(briefdescription)’. Sort by name or date, I don’t care

“Can you detect traps? This cobblestone loo-” click … FWOOOOSH

If a Halfling wants to abuse this to ‘hide inside an upside-down bucket’ I think the Halfling deserves to become a bucket